HC Deb 27 July 1999 vol 336 cc219-20W
40. Mrs. Laing

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will make a statement on the Lord Chancellor's role as an intermediary between Government and the judiciary. [91640]

Mr. Vaz

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave today to the hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. St. Aubyn),Official Report, column 116, and also to the Lord Chancellor's speech to the Third Worldwide Common Law Judiciary Conference on 5 July 1999, in which he restated the role of his office. I have placed a copy of his speech in the Library.