§ Ms LynneTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on what occasions since April 1992 Ministers from her Department have(a) requested parliamentary counsel to assist in preparing amendments to private Members' Bills on behalf of other private Members and (b) authorised officials to instruct parliamentary counsel to prepare amendments which were subsequently passed to private Members.
§ Mr. JackParliamentary counsel drafts not on behalf of private Members but on the instructions of Departments acting on the authority of Ministers. In any event, no amendments have been drafted by parliamentary counsel on instructions from this Department and subsequently passed to private Members in respect of any private Members' Bills since April 1992.