Lord Bruce of Doningtonasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the figure relating to European Community legislation in the three years ending 31 December 1994 as given in the supplementary 118WA question of Lord Bruce of Donington on 25 January (H.L. Deb., cols. 1124–6) was exactly in accordance with the data provided by the ODA and contained in a letter to Lord Bruce from Baroness Chalker of Wallasey of 28 December 1995.
§ Lord CheshamI can confirm that the figures quoted by the noble Lord were correct as a total of Commission legislation over the three years 1992–94, excluding recommendations, acts of day to day management and purely informative documents. The noble Lord, however, referred in his question and his supplementary question to legislation agreed in the Council of Ministers. The figures for council legislation were given by my noble friend Earl Howe in answer to the noble Lord's Question on 17 January 1995(Official Report, col. WA37) and by my noble friend Baroness Chalker of Wallasey in answer to a Question by the noble Lord, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, on 16 October 1995 (Official Report, col. WA83).