§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Lord President of the Council how many departmental Select Committee reports there have been since the inception of the system; and how many have been debated on the Floor on a substantive motion.
§ Mr. MacGregorI refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him on 13 June 1989, col.357, which gave information for the period from 1979 until then. Since that time 196 reports and 90 special reports have been published by the departmentally related Select Committees. None has been debated on substantive motions; but several have been debated in other ways, including debates on estimate days and other occasions when reports were cited on the Order Paper as relevant to proceedings in the House.