§ Mr. DismoreTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will list the Law Commission reports and their date of publication in respect of which(a)no Government response has yet been published and (b)no legislation where the need for legislation has been accepted in principle, has been published, in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. [46876]
§ Mr. WillsLists for(a)and (b)are set out in the tables. At any one time, the Law Commissioner will be engaged on between 20 and 30 projects of law reform at different stages of completion. In 1999 the Lord Chancellor established a ministerial committee on the work of the Law Commission. Its remit is to develop and co-ordinate the Government's interest in law reform. The committee looks at the effective use of the resource represented by the Law Commission; the process for referring projects to the commission; how the implementation of Law Commission recommendations may be streamlined; and considers what actions might be taken on unimplemented reports. However, it is for individual Departments to decide whether to accept the reports they receive and when to propose legislation.