asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will give the number and length of reports issued by each Select Committee for each year since 1981.
The information is as follows:
Committee and year
| Total number of reports
| Total number of printed pages
|
Agriculture
| ||
| 1981 | 5 | 63 |
| 1982 | 3 | 64 |
| 1983 | 1 | 42 |
| 1984 | 5 | 41 |
| 1985 | 8 | 62 |
| 1986 | 2 | 21 |
| 1987 | 1 | 5 |
Armed Forces Bill
| ||
| 1981 | 1 | 7 |
| 1986 | 1 | 11 |
Channel Tunnel Bill
| ||
| 1986 | 1 | 45 |
Defence
| ||
| 1981 | 5 | 49 |
| 1982 | 4 | 116 |
| 1983 | 4 | 62 |
| 1984 | 3 | 88 |
| 1985 | 9 | 102 |
| 1986 | 4 | 156 |
Education, Science and Arts
| ||
| 1981 | 4 | 15 |
| 1982 | 8 | 301 |
| 1983 | 3 | 192 |
| 1984 | 2 | 38 |
| 1985 | 1 | 30 |
| 1986 | 3 | 284 |
| 1987 | 1 | 14 |
Employment
| ||
| 1981 | 7 | 91 |
| 1982 | 10 | 33 |
| 1983 | 1 | 3 |
| 1984 | 4 | 19 |
| 1985 | 7 | 30 |
| 1986 | 4 | 37 |
| 1987 | 1 | 15 |
Energy
| ||
| 1981 | 3 | 96 |
| 1982 | 8 | 123 |
| 1983 | 2 | 42 |
| 1984 | 16 | 150 |
| 1985 | 5 | 98 |
| 1986 | 7 | 60 |
| 1987 | 3 | 76 |
Environment
| ||
| 1981 | 2 | 75 |
| 1982 | 3 | 105 |
| 1983 | 4 | 45 |
| 1984 | 9 | 127 |
| 1985 | 7 | 86 |
| 1986 | 8 | 277 |
| 1987 | 2 | 57 |
European Legislation
| ||
| 1981 | 35 | 597 |
| 1982 | 29 | 507 |
| 1983 | 24 | 578 |
| 1984 | 30 | 823 |
| 1985 | 31 | 749 |
| 1986 | 31 | 743 |
| 19871 | 12 | 209 |
Foreign Affairs
| ||
| 1981 | 7 | 266 |
| 1982 | 6 | 183 |
| 1983 | 6 | 67 |
| 1984 | 6 | 219 |
| 1985 | 7 | 215 |
| 1986 | 6 | 217 |
Committee and year
| Total number of reports
| Total number of printed pages
|
| 1987 | 1 | 51 |
Home Affairs
| ||
| 1981 | 5 | 191 |
| 1982 | 3 | 87 |
| 1983 | 3 | 90 |
| 1984 | 1 | 143 |
| 1985 | 5 | 90 |
| 1986 | 4 | 73 |
| 1987 | 2 | 20 |
House of Commons (Services)
| ||
| 1981 | 2 | 12 |
| 1982 | 3 | 7 |
| 1983 | 2 | 18 |
| 1984 | 3 | 72 |
| 1985 | 4 | 26 |
| 1986 | 2 | 9 |
| 1987 | 1 | 7 |
Liaison
| ||
| 1982 | 1 | 124 |
| 1985 | 1 | 64 |
| 1986 | 1 | 4 |
Member's Interests
| ||
| 1984 | 3 | 5 |
| 1985 | 1 | 7 |
| 1986 | 3 | 7 |
Members' Salaries
| ||
| 1981 | 1 | 2 |
| 1982 | 1 | 10 |
Norfolk and Suffolk Broads Bill
| ||
| 1987 | 1 | 3 |
Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
| ||
| 1981 | 2 | 29 |
| 1982 | 3 | 29 |
| 1983 | 1 | 3 |
| 1984 | 7 | 60 |
| 1985 | 2 | 30 |
| 1986 | 3 | 36 |
| 1987 | 2 | 9 |
Privileges
| ||
| 1981 | 1 | 3 |
| 1982 | 1 | 1 |
| 1983 | 1 | 2 |
| 1984 | 1 | 4 |
| 1985 | 2 | 19 |
| 1986 | 1 | 5 |
Procedure (Supply)
| ||
| 1981 | 1 | 28 |
Procedure (Finance)
| ||
| 1983 | 1 | 49 |
Procedure
| ||
| 1984 | 1 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 | 35 |
| 1986 | 2 | 8 |
| 1987 | 1 | 7 |
Public Accounts
| ||
| 1981 | 22 | 200 |
| 1982 | 27 | 190 |
| 1983 | 19 | 152 |
| 1984 | 31 | 239 |
| 1985 | 39 | 380 |
Committee and year
| Total number of reports
| Total number of printed pages
|
| 1986 | 48 | 419 |
| 1987 | 8 | 31 |
Scottish Affairs
| ||
| 1981 | 6 | 108 |
| 1982 | 4 | 95 |
| 1983 | 2 | 21 |
| 1984 | 3 | 76 |
| 1985 | 4 | 91 |
| 1986 | 5 | 43 |
| 1987 | 1 | 34 |
Social Services
| ||
| 1981 | 4 | 136 |
| 1982 | 3 | 161 |
| 1983 | 2 | 15 |
| 1984 | 4 | 265 |
| 1985 | 8 | 300 |
| 1986 | 7 | 140 |
| 1987 | 1 | 47 |
Sound Broadcasting
| ||
| 1982 | 1 | 23 |
| 1983 | 1 | 4 |
| 1987 | 2 | 4 |
Standing Orders
| ||
| 1986 | 1 | 1 |
Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee)
| ||
| 1981 | 34 | 110 |
| 1982 | 34 | 98 |
| 1983 | 25 | 81 |
| 1984 | 33 | 102 |
| 1985 | 35 | 103 |
| 1986 | 34 | 99 |
| 1987 | 10 | 29 |
Statutory Instruments (Select Committee)
| ||
| 1981 | 26 | 54 |
| 1982 | 24 | 50 |
| 1983 | 15 | 32 |
| 1984 | 3 | 8 |
| 1985 | 4 | 12 |
| 1986 | 6 | 15 |
| 1987 | 2 | 5 |
Trade and Industry
| ||
| 1981 | 7 | 121 |
| 1982 | 12 | 125 |
| 1983 | 6 | 103 |
| 1984 | 9 | 111 |
| 1985 | 8 | 154 |
| 1986 | 5 | 68 |
| 1987 | 3 | 20 |
Transport
| ||
| 1981 | 6 | 135 |
| 1982 | 6 | 224 |
| 1983 | 6 | 101 |
| 1984 | 4 | 150 |
| 1985 | 7 | 237 |
| 1986 | 6 | 121 |
| 1987 | 1 | 7 |
Treasury and Civil Service
| ||
| 1981 | 9 | 212 |
| 1982 | 8 | 124 |
| 1983 | 7 | 175 |
| 1984 | 15 | 185 |
| 1985 | 13 | 140 |
| 1986 | 9 | 88 |
Committee and year
| Total number of reports
| Total number of printed pages
|
| 1987 | 4 | 65 |
Welsh Affairs
| ||
| 1981 | 1 | 102 |
| 1982 | 1 | 26 |
| 1983 | 1 | 117 |
| 1984 | 1 | 29 |
| 1985 | 1 | 240 |
| 1986 | 1 | 27 |
| 1987 | 1 | 71 |
1 Up to and including 17th Report. | ||
Notes:
1. In addition, the Joint Committee on Consolidation, Ac, Bills published 17 reports in 1981, four reports in 1982, six reports in 1933, 11 reports in 1984, five reports in 1985 and five reports in 1986. It has published one report in 1987. All these reports were under one page in length.
2. The reply includes both reports and special reports.
3. "Number of pages" refers to the number of pages of text of ihe report plus any annexes.
4. Since November 1986 reports have been printed in A4 size pages. Earlier reports were printed in royal octavo.