Today's Westminster Hall debate, initiated by John Baron MP, was ultimately depressing because Foreign Office minister Kim Howells retreated into the government's line at the Hutton Inquiry, that John Williams draft of the dossier was not part of the process of drafting the dossier, was produced on Williams' own initiative, was redundant and did not influence Joint Intelligence Committee chairman John Scarlett's draft, which followed it.

So much evidence on this site shows this to be untrue, as does the Information Commissioner's decision (that the Foreign Office should release the draft) which states that the draft was prepared as:

part of the drafting process which was considered by the Hutton Inquiry. The document at issue here is described by the FCO as a preliminary document used in the production of a draft dossier concerning Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. It was requested by the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee to provide an expert’s view of how the information in the draft might be presented in a published document.

Dr Howells stated that:

The sequence is important, and we need to get it absolutely right.

but then proceeded to mangle the sequence. He claimed that the draft

was already redundant, because Sir John Scarlett had in the meantime been asked by the Prime Minister to produce a dossier.

But Scarlett was put in charge of the dossier on 5 September and the Williams draft is dated 9 September.

Howells referred to conspiracy theorists, I don't know who he could mean.

But he did categorically deny that the Williams draft makes reference to the 45 minutes claim, which means that it was "not in the original draft", as alleged, unless you pretend that the Williams draft was not the original draft.