§ Mr. Craigenasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is satisfied that the current costs of published statutory instruments are not prohibitive for the bodies which need to purchase statutory instrument papers to ensure that they are in compliance with the law.
§ Mr. HayhoeStatutory Instruments are priced solely to recover the full costs of printing, publishing, distributing and selling them. Some 70 per cent. of them cost less than £1.