To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give details of those matters in which he has altered, or prevented the implementation of, decisions of the executive council of the Isle of Man or legislation that has been passed by the Court of Tynwald, over the past five years.

My right hon. and learned Friend has no power to alter the decisions of the executive council of the Isle of Man or to amend legislation passed by the Court of Tynwald. As the Privy Counsellor with particular responsibility for islands matters, he advises the Queen in Council as to the grant of Royal Assent to Isle of Man laws; and the framing of island legislation is often the subject of consultation with the United Kingdom Government.No Manx legislation has been refused Royal Assent in the past five years.