HC Deb 30 November 1999 vol 340 cc108-9W
Mr. Hawkins

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) for what reason no regulatory impact study of the financial and other effects of the Representation of the People Bill has been issued by his Department in advance of the publication of the Bill; [100673]

(2) when his Department intends to issue a regulatory impact study of the financial and other effects of the Representation of the People Bill; [100674]

Mr. Greenway

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate he has made of the cost to(a) business and (b) other organisations of proposals in the Representation of the People Bill to limit the commercial availability of the electoral register; and for what reason no regulatory impact statement has been produced. [100399]

Mr. Mike O'Brien

A regulatory impact statement relating to the Representation of the People Bill was placed in the Library on 18 November to coincide with the Bill's introduction.