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Photo of David Lammy David Lammy Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Constitutional Affairs) 5:15, 20 January 2004

The hon. and learned Member for Harborough asks how that helps the argument. Unfortunately, he was not here this morning, although he had a good reason for being unable to attend. However, he will be aware that hon. Members are suggesting that a high percentage of cases—a third—are now not to be subject to judicial review. It was important to describe the context of what the Government are doing and how many cases pertain to that, and I shall go on to do that. I see that hon. Members are not rising to suggest that the figure is a third, or 66 per cent., as we heard from the ILPA. A much lower number of cases find their way up.