HC Deb 20 March 1995 vol 257 cc15-6W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he or his Ministers have had with the Attorney-General, the Lord Chancellor and the Transport Secretary on reforms to the legal process of inquiry and potential prosecution following transport accidents leading to injury or death.

Mr. Nicholas Baker

[holding answer 15 March 1995]: Discussions between Ministers are confidential. However, a Home Office-led interdepartmental group of officials was established in November 1990 to consider the relationship between coroners' inquests and public inquiries into disasters. Its membership included officials from the Lord Chancellor's Department and the Department of Transport.