98 departments,  Offices  of  Parliament,  Crown  entities,  public  organisations  or State enterprises.    375.  It is recommended that the Law Commission Act be amended to allow a similar procedure in respect to Law Commission Reports.    376.  It  is  neither  competent  nor  appropriate  to  make  such  a  change  by  Standing Orders, since the Law Commission is not established under the Standing Orders but by statute.  Furthermore, given the nature of Law Commission Reports, their length  and  complexity,  it  is  thought  that  the  period  for  the  Government’s response should be longer than three months; it should be six months.    377.  It is appreciated that there are resource implications in this recommendation.  It will  require  Departments  whose  activities  impinge  upon  the  area  of  a  Law Commission Report to report to their Ministers and for Reports to be prepared for Ministers and ultimately for Cabinet.  The interested Departments should be familiar  with  the  work  the  Commission  has  been  doing  and  they  also  should have been contributing to it.  So the burden should not be great.    378.  It is suggested, however, that the comparatively small amount of public money that would be required for these endeavours is outweighed by the fact that large amounts of public money have already been spent on Law Commission Reports that have not even been considered by the Government.    379.  The  change  recommended  here  is  the  only  amendment  to  the  statute  that  is recommended in this evaluation.  Such a change will ensure that Reports are not left languishing for years unaddressed.  That practice has had a sapping effect upon  the  morale  of  both  Law  Commissioners  and  their  staff.    It  has  cast something  of  a  blight  over  the  whole  of  the  Commission’s  activities  and  this blight needs to be removed.    380.  Again, Chief Parliamentary Counsel provided thoughtful and compelling advice in his written statement about what the Government must do to meet its side of the obligations that the continuing existence of a Law Commission impose upon it.  He said:    There  has  to  be  a  stronger  government  commitment  to  implementing  the  Law Commission’s recommendations and to providing policy and drafting resources.