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Geoffrey Hoon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office, told Joan Humble (Lab, Blackpool North and Fleetwood) that 4.1 per cent of the magistrates who responded to a recent survey were from an ethnic mintority.
Railway Complaints
Glenda Jackson, Transport Minister, said told Lindsay Hoyle (Lab, Chorley), that there had been a 94 per cent increase in the number of railway passenger complaints in the first three months of 1998 compared with the same period in 1997.
Injuries from cattle
Angela Eagle, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Environment, Transport and the Regions, told Tom Levitt (Lab, High Peak), that there were no plans to make any changes in law following a court case in which a walker sued a farmer after being injured by cattle.
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