By Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent
The former Home Office security minister Lord West - in an interview with Sky News - has categorically denied lobbying a US intelligence committee to edit its report on CIA torture.
Britain has been dragged deeper into the row over US torture allegations after the Government admitted it did ask for changes in a Senate report on the CIA's behaviour.
Details of 24 meetings since 2009 between UK politicians and diplomats and members of the committee were released following a Freedom of Information Act request.
Home Secretary Theresa May, Labour former minister Lord West and the UK's ambassador to Washington held meetings with the US politicians while they were working on their inquiry.
Lord West - the security minister in the last Labour Government - held talks with the Senate committee, but told Sky News that it was regarding a different matter - cyber security.
The Home Office declined to comment on Mrs May's meeting with the committee in July 2011.
In an abrupt U-turn by No 10, officials admitted changes had been asked for, 24 hours after denying Britain had asked for passages to be removed.
At Thursday's No 10 briefing, David Cameron's Deputy Spokeswoman confirmed British intelligence agencies discussed redactions with their US counterparts.
"My understanding is no redactions were sought to remove any suggestion that there was UK involvement in any alleged torture or rendition," she said.
And then she admitted: "There was a conversation with the agencies and their US counterparts on the executive summary.
"Any redactions sought there were done on national security grounds in a way we would have done with any other report."
And yet on Wednesday, the day the CIA report was published, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman, when asked what redactions had been sought, repeatedly said: "None whatsoever, to my knowledge."
The admission comes after the head of the CIA John Brennan described the techniques used to extract information as "abhorrent".
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