To ask the Attorney-General if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the reports published by the Law Commission for each year since 1979, indicating whether any recommendations in each report have been implemented.
Appendix 3 to the "Law Commission's Twenty-fourth Annual Report for 1989" (Law Com. No. 190), published on 28 February 1990, contains a complete list of all the commission's reports, including those published since 1979 to date. The right-hand column of appendix 3 shows the extent to which the recommendations in each report have been implemented by legislation.
To ask the Attorney-General if he will publish in the Official Report the costs incurred by the Law Commission for each year since 1979.
The figures for the cost of the Law Commission prior to November 1982 could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.The Law Commission has published a table showing the cost of the commission in each annual report since its 18th annual report for 1982–83. The figures are as follows:
£ | |
1982–1983 | 1,819,600 |
1983–1984 | 1,889,800 |
1984–1985 | 1,886,200 |
1985–1986 | 1,986,600 |
1986–1987 | 2,062,300 |
1987–1988 | 2,034,600 |
1988 | 2,123,500 |
1989 | 2,248,200 |
Notes:
1. The first six of these figures relate to the period from 1st November in one year to 31st October in the following year. The figures for 1988 and 1989 are for the calendar years.
2. Each of these figures includes an element for the cost incurred by the Lord Chancellor's Department in the administration of the Law Commission.
3. These figures do not include the salary of the chairman of the Law Commission who, as a High Court judge, is paid directly out of the Consolidated Fund.
4. The cost for 1984–85 is the amended figure given in the annual report for 1985–86, and excludes the pensions of former Law Commissioners. They are also excluded from the figures for subsequent years. They are however included in the figures for 1982–83 and 1983–84.