Select Committee (Recommendations)

HC Deb 09 March 1989 vol 148 cc606-7W

Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Select Committee recommendations have been made about, and how many accepted, by his Department since June 1987.

Mr. Hurd

In the five departmental Select Committee reports completed since June 1987, to which the Government have responded, 56 recommendations were made, of which 44 have been accepted in whole or in part by the Government, or noted, where no further action by Government was sought.