HL Deb 25 November 1987 vol 490 c726WA
Lord Wigoder

asked the Leader of the House:

How many Statements made in the House of Commons have been repeated in the House of Lords since the beginning of the current Session, and how many of them have been reported in the parliamentary columns of The Times.

The Lord President of the Council (Viscount Whitelaw)

So far this Session 16 Statements made in another place have been repeated in the House of Lords. The proceedings in this House have been reported in the parliamentary columns ofThe Times on two of those occasions: 9th July (remarks of Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone on a Statement on child abuse cases in Cleveland) and 16th July (remarks of Lord Young of Graffham repeating a Statement on the merger of British Airways and British Caledonian).