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Draft Legislative Programme

Asked if the Draft Legislative Programme would come in the form of a Written Statement to the House, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) told the assembled press that that was the anticipation.

Asked what the highlights might be, the PMS replied that when Mr Brown became Prime Minister he made it clear that in future, rather than the Government’s legislative programme being announced without any prior consultation, there would be an opportunity for people to be able to comment and respond to the Government’s draft proposals.

Last July, the Government published its draft legislative proposals and a draft list of bills for the next session. Because Mr Brown only became the Prime Minister at the end of June, there was not as much time as we would have liked to consult properly, so we said at the time that in future years we would expect the draft proposals to come out at an earlier stage in the year and that’s what we would be doing on Wednesday.

Asked if the idea was that if the consultation came back with people saying it was a bad idea, it would not be in the Queen’s Speech, the PMS said that that was always something that had to be taken into account in any consultation.

Asked if the discussions on the programme had already taken place, or would it be discussed at tomorrow’s Cabinet, the PMS replied that he thought that there would be a further opportunity for the Cabinet to sign it off tomorrow, but they had had two lengthy sessions on this already so far.

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