§ Mr. Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if he will set out in the Official Report the names of the members of the Consumer Council, the remuneration they have received by way of salary, fees or expenses from public funds, what other public offices they hold and the date of expiry of their appointments.
§ Mr. John FraserThe information is as follows:
vious Administration, of which he was a member, so precipitately abandoned.
It would be impracticable either to list the numerous recommendations which my right hon. Friend has received from the National Consumer Council since its inception or to detail his responses to them. I would attempt to provide a more helpful answer should the hon. Member have a specific area of consumer policy in mind.
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§ Mr. Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if he will set out in the Official Report details of the activities of the Consumer Council which are not covered by other consumer organisations.
§ Mr. John FraserIn all its work, the National Consumer Council is concerned not to duplicate unnecessarily the work of other consumer organisations. Its objective is to fulfil its role, foreseen in the White Paper on the National Consumers Agency (Cmnd 5726), as an independent national consumer body able to provide a balanced and authoritative view when decisions affecting the consumer are taken. In this, I believe that it has been remarkably successful.
§ Mr. Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what is the cost to public funds of the Consumer Council since its formation to the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. John FraserThe National Consumer Council has received £1,171,900
STABEX TRANSFERS TO ACP STATES IN 1976 Recipient ACP State Product Million units of account Benin … … … Cotton … … … 2.750 Palm oil … … … .766 Cameroon … … … Cocoa butter … … … .464 Central African Empire … … … Sawn wood … … … .550 Comoros … … … Copra … … … .287 Fiji … … … Copra oil … … … 1.450 Guinea Bissau … … … Groundnuts … … … 4.442 Palm nuts … … … .627 Madagascar … … … Sisal … … … 1.763 Cloves … … … 1.140 Niger … … … Groundnut oil … … … 6.756 Groundnut oilcake … … … .153 Uganda … … … Tea … … … 1.400 Cotton … … … 2.250 Western Samoa … … … Copra … … … 1.332 Timber … … … .350 Sierra Leone … … … Iron ore … … … 3.977 Tanzania … … … Sisal … … … 5.165 Tonga … … … Copra … … … .832 Bananas … … … .720 Total … … … 37.174 28W
STABEX TRANSFERS TO DEPENDENCIES IN 1976 Recipient Dependency Product Million units of account Gilbert Islands … … … … Copra … … … … .286 New Hebrides … … … … Copra … … … … .327 Solomon Islands … … … … Copra … … … … 1.274 Afars and Issas … … … … Hides and skins … … … … .265 Total … … … … 2.152 from public funds since its formation in 1975 to the end of January 1978.