UK: Committee to monitor MI5
01 November 1996
The Sub-Committee on Security Service Priorities and Performance has been established to monitor the activities of MI5. It will include officials from the Treasury, Home Office, Foreign Office, Department of Social Security, the Northern Ireland Office and the Department of Trade and Industry. The committee was set up after a secret review by a former permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence (1988-92), Sir Michael Quinlan. Quinlan has been Director of the Ditchley Foundation since 1992.
Guardian 15.11.96.