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» Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Asked if the Prime Minister had asked for the Cabinet Secretary to review the paperwork on BP and Libya, the PMS said that around the time of the Prime Minister’s trip to the US there had been a lot of discussion about Megrahi’s release and in that context the Prime Minister asked the Cabinet Secretary to review the papers, and the Cabinet Secretary was in the process of doing so.

Put that the government seemed to be looking into whether or not Megrahi’s release was connected to BP getting oil-drilling contracts in Libya, the PMS said that the process reflected the nature of the questions that had been put to the government. The Foreign Secretary had put out a statement and the previous Foreign Secretary had done the same, based on a review of the documents. In order to be clear about this, and because of the recent questions and interest in this case, the Prime Minister had asked the Cabinet Secretary to review those documents again. A lot of the documents were already in the public domain, but if there were additional documents that the Cabinet Secretary thought should be published then we would do so.

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