HC Deb 28 February 2000 vol 345 cc111-2W
Mr. Walter

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place in the Library copies of the correspondence between himself and the Committee on Standards in Public Life relating to the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill since the first reading of the Bill. [111919]

Mr. Straw

Yes. I wrote to the noble Lord, Lord Neill, on 22 December 1999 and 17 January 2000, and he replied to the second of my letters on 4 February 2000. Copies of the three letters have been placed in the Library.