asked the Lord Privy Seal how many reports of Select Committees, excluding the Public Accounts Committee, have been issued since 1979; how many have been debated, naming the titles; and if he will make a statement.

The number of reports, other than special reports, of Select Committees, excluding the Public Accounts Committee, the Committee and Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and the Committee on European Legislation etc., published since 1979 is 359. In addition the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments has made 115 reports, the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments 194, and the Select Committee on European Legislation, and its predecessor, the Select Committee on European Secondary Legislation, 189.Select Committee reports debated on motion in the House and referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to debate in the House from October 1979 to April 1985 are listed in the appendix to the first report of the Liaison Committee on The Select Committee System, HC No. 363.In addition, the following Select Committee reports, excluding those from the Public Accounts Committee, have been debated in the House or referred to on the Order Paper as being relevant to debate since April:

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will list the Select Committee reports, excepting those of the Public Accounts Committee, whose recommendations have been accepted in full by Her Majesty's Government since 1979.

Select Committee reports usually contain a number of recommendations, though that is not their only purpose. Many such recommendations have been accepted in full, but to analyse all reports, the Government replies to them and subsequent actions in the way requested would occasion undue expense.

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will give the annual figures of staff, full-time and part-time, serving the Select Committees since 1979 and the annual cost of manning these committees.

The number of staff serving each Select Committee since 1979 is as follows, but in many cases Committee work comprises less than half the duties of the staff concerned:the cost attributable to manning these Committees in each of these years could not be estimated without undue expense.

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the places visited,