HC Deb 06 February 2002 vol 379 cc1025-6W
Mr. George Howarth

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many staff from the Statutory Publications Office are located outside London. [32572]

Ms Rosie Winterton

There are no staff from the Statutory Publications Office located outside London. All staff of the Statutory Publications Office are located within the Lord Chancellor's Department headquarters in Selborne House in central London.

Mr. George Howarth

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many staff are employed(a) whole-time and (b) part-time in the Statutory Publications Office. [32571]

Ms Rosie Winterton

The total number of(a) whole-time staff employed by the Statutory Publications Office is 25. The total number of (b) part-time staff employed by the Statutory Publications Office is two.

Mr. George Howarth

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many publications were processed by the Statutory Publications Office in each year since 1992. [32570]

Ms Rosie Winterton

Responsibility for all hard copy publications previously processed by the Statutory Publications Office was, with one exception, transferred on 1 April 1997 to Her Majesty's Stationery Office within the Cabinet Office. The exception related to the publication "Statutes in Force" (SIF) which contained the revised text of all in-force UK Acts and Measures. All revision work on SIF was suspended in September 1993 when the work had been revised to 1 February 1991. Work in relation to the issue of newly enacted Acts for inclusion in SIF continued until the end of 1999. Except as mentioned above, during the period mentioned in the question, the Statutory Publications Office has been concerned solely with the development of the Statute Law Database, a historical database of in-force statute law which represents the electronic successor to SIF.