HC Deb 26 June 2000 vol 352 c397W
Mr. Paterson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will estimate the extra administrative expenditure resulting from the Human Rights Act 1998. [127619]

Mr. Straw

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State in his reply to the hon. Member for New Forest, West (Mr. Swayne) on 23 May 2000,Official Report, column 401W.