Home Affairs - Memoranda of Evidence

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Here you can browse the Memoranda of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 28 July 1998.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  The Home Affairs Committee's examination of the Annual Reports for 1998 of the Home Office[1] and Lord Chancellor's Department[2] has taken the form of a series of questions in writing to each Department. The Committee's questions and the Department's replies are reproduced in full in this volume, as a memorandum from each Department. A list of topics covered in each memorandum is set out below.

Memoranda submitted by:

1.  HOME OFFICE

Overall spending limits
Criminal law and system
Criminal Cases Review Commission
Diversion of vulnerable groups from crime
Victims and compensation
International co-operation
Prisons
Police
Fire Services
Police and Fire Service pensions
Applications for citizenship
Passport Agency
Resource accounting
Home Office administration


2.  LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT

Overall spending trends
LCD headquarters
Efficiency savings
Reform of civil justice
Legal aid
Rights of audience
Magistrates' Courts
The Court Service
Resource accounting
LCD administration

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1   Home Office Annual Report 1998: the Government's Expenditure Plans 1998-99 for the Home Office and the Charity Commission. Cm 3908. Back


2   The Lord Chancellor's & Law Officers' Departmental Report: the Government's Expenditure Plans 1998-99, Cm 3909. Back

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Prepared 15 September 1998