§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to respond to the second report of Session 1999–2000 from the Home Affairs Committee on controls over firearms (HC 95). [130327]
§ Mr. Charles Clarke[pursuant to his reply, 24 July 2000, c. 449W]: The Home Affairs Committee Report raises a number of complex issues which the Government are carefully considering with a view to publishing a response by way of a Command Paper over the summer.