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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Paymaster General – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 February 1980.

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Photo of Mr Angus Maude Mr Angus Maude , Stratford-on-Avon 12:00, 11 February 1980

I am not a public relations adviser to the Government. My job—which previous Governments have also recognised is a necessary task—is to see that the Government information services do not operate merely in the interests of getting the facts of Government policy over to the public, but that they provide an adequate service of information to the press and the media.