Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any officials of her Department, British officials acting on behalf of the Government, or British diplomats in the US requested that the US Senate Committee on Intelligence redact any part of its report on the US Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program that potentially could compromise UK national security interests.

The US authorities provided our Security and Intelligence Agencies with limited sight of some sections of the executive summary prior to its publication.

Our Agencies highlighted a small number of issues in the proposed text where changes would be necessary solely to protect UK national security and intelligence operations. None of these redactions related to allegations of UK
involvement in detainee mistreatment.

I am advised that we did not lobby, at any level, to have information removed or redacted in relation to UK involvement in rendition or mistreatment of detainees. The UK government did not receive a copy of the report before publication