Mr. Tom Considine:

It wouldn't surprise me, if it was out of line with what the general view of the Department was. One of the things I used to do as Secretary General was to read all the replies to PQs, every single one of them, to make sure that they weren't representing the views of the Department differently to what the Minister and the Department had decided. And we, no organisation I think would actually send out material which didn't accord with its central beliefs.