Lockerbie bomber 'central to deal'

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Number 10 has denied claims that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, currently serving life in a Scottish jail for the 1988 outrage, is included in the memorandum struck last month.

First Minister Alex Salmond said he wanted an answer "forthwith" to a letter he had written protesting to the Prime Minister about the deal.

Mr Salmond suggested the arrangement could lead to the transfer of Megrahi and complained that Scotland was not consulted in advance.

The Herald newspaper quotes sources close to the agreement made on May 29 that the Lockerbie bomber was the "whole point" of the talks in Libya.

Its source said: "Megrahi was the whole point of the talks as far as the Libyans are concerned.

"It was made perfectly clear to the British officials involved in the talks that the whole aim for them was to get Megrahi back."

Responding to the claim, a spokesman for the First Minister said: "The more information emerges, the clearer it becomes that bringing this matter to the attention of Parliament and the public was the right and responsible thing to do.

"We believe that the Prime Minister must answer the substantive questions from the First Minister in very earliest course."

Downing Street maintained its position that the arrangement did not specifically refer to Megrahi.