To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department whether a review of the Public Trust Office's Framework Document has been carried out. [35139]

The Public Trust Office's Framework Document has now been reviewed. As the interval between agency reviews has been extended from three to five years since the Public Trust Office attained agency status, the new Document is designed to cover the interim period until the Public Trust Office's first Quinquennial Review, to be completed by the end of 1999. Copies of the revised Framework Document have been placed in the Library of both Houses of Parliament.