§ Lord Simon of Glaisdaleasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether, further to their Answer of 15th July (col. 600), they will detail all the successive operations involving any public expenditure which lead to the production of a phrase in an Act of Parliament.
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Arts (The Earl of Gowrie)The precise details will vary from one piece of legislation to another, but there are usually three main stages. In the first, the requirement for a particular provision emerges during interdepartmental consultation either at the formative stage of new legislative proposals or at the stage when the sponsoring department circulates draft instructions for the draftsmen. In the second, the parliamentary counsel inserts the appropriate wording in the draft Bill which, in the final stage, proceeds through Parliament to become an Act.