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Mr. Clinton Davis
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the grounds on which he has been persuaded not to introduce legislation to enable costs to be awarded to a defendant in criminal cases where a summons or charge relating to an indictable offence has been withdrawn as opposed to dismissed.
Mr. Carlisle
I wrote to the hon. Member on this subject on 11th November.