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01 July 1997

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The Labour government announced its appointments to the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, the body which is supposed to provide parliamentary oversight of the activities of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, at the beginning of August. Surprisingly, the previous chair of the Committee, former Conservative secretary of state for defence, Tom King, kept his post - apparently because Tony Blair considered that there were no Labour MPs "suitable for the task".

The other members of the nine person Committee are: Lady Ramsay (former MI6 officer and Labour peer), Dale Campbell-Savours (Labour MP), Yvette Cooper (former journalist and Labour MP), Alan Beith (Liberal Democrat deputy leader), Michael Mates (former Conservative Northern Ireland minister), Kevin Barron (Labour MP), Barry Jones (Labour MP), Allan Rogers (Labour MP).

Guardian 2.8.97.

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