Select Committee Recommendations

HC Deb 24 May 1993 vol 225 cc361-2W

Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many Select Committee recommendations have been made about his Department since April 1989; and how many have been accepted.

Mr. John M. Taylor

Of those Select Committee reports which have been wholly or significantly addressed to my Department, the 21st report of the Committee of Public Accounts for the Session 1991–92, on expenditure on criminal legal aid, made eight conclusions and recommendations, which were in general accepted. The third report of the Home Affairs Select Committee—HASC—for the Session 1992–93, on domestic violence, made 42 recommendations some of which were wholly or in part directed at the Lord Chancellor's Department. The fifth report of that Committee, "Legal Aid: The Lord Chancellor's Proposals", made 10 recommendations. The Government have not yet responded to either of the HASC reports.