Mr. John David Taylorasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the answer of 19 July, Official Report, column 267, whether he receives an annual report of the compensation fund of the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the means whereby he monitors the control and administration of the fund.
§ Mr. ButlerThe Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 does not require the Law Society to furnish my right hon. Friend with an annual report. Neither does it provide for a monitoring role in respect of the control and administration of the fund, but, in part IV and schedule 2, it prescribes the manner in which the Law Society is required to maintain and administer the fund. The Law Society's annual report, which is circulated to all of its members, contains an audited balance sheet relating to the fund and a statement of the source and application of the fund.