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Magistrates (Poll Tax Briefing)

Volume 201: debated on Monday 16 December 1991

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To ask the Attorney-General, pursuant to his answer of 10 December, Official Report, column 361, what was the date of the Coventry justices' seminar; how many magistrates attended; how many magistrates who did not attend have subsequently sat on poll tax cases; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the note referred to.

The Coventry justices' seminar was held on 19 June 1991; 123 magistrates attended. The number of magistrates who did not attend but subsequently sat on community charge cases could not be obtained without disproportionate expense. Notes passed between a justices' clerk and his justices are confidential and I do not have a copy.