HC Deb 20 May 1994 vol 243 cc579-80W
Mr. Berry

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security at what times he or his office, and the Minister for Disabled People or his office, were informed of the text of the reply from the Lord President of the Council to the question tabled by the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris) for answer on 6 May in regard to the number of amendments to the Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill drafted by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel.

Mr. Lilley

Details of such exchanges between Departments are not normally divulged.

Mr. Berry

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what calculations Her Majesty's Government made of the expenditure implications of the Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill when the money resolution for the Bill was tabled; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Scott

The money resolution was not dependent upon quantification of the impact of the Bill. It was necessary to enable consideration in Committee of those provisions, identified in italics in the Bill as first printed, which give rise to public expenditure.