§ Mr. Phillip Hollandasked the Minister for the Civil Service if she will list in the Official Report those bodies marked with an asterisk in "Non-Departmental Public Bodies: Facts and Figures 1980" that are not to be abolished.
§ Mr. HayhoeFollowing are the bodies marked with an asterisk in "Non-Departmental Public Bodies: Facts and Figures 1980" where the Government's decision does not involve the simple abolition of the body or the network or group of bodies.
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Department Body Action Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food White Fish Authority. To be amalgamated to form Sea Fish Industry Authority. Herring Industry Board. Ministry of Defence Independent Board of Visitors for Military Corrective Training Centre. Amalgamated in July 1980. Independent Board of Visitors for Royal Naval Detention Quarters. Department of Employment Disablement Advisory Committees. Reduced from 220 to 88; to be renamed Committees for the Employment of Disabled People. District Manpower Committees. Reduced from 125 to 88. Wages Councils. Reduced from 41 to 33. Department of the Environment Advisory Committee on the Protection of Birds for England and Wales. Responsibilities to be transferred to the Nature Conservancy Council. Scientific Authority for Animals Responsibilities transferred to the Nature Conservancy Council on 10 March 1981. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Overseas Development Administration) Technical Education and Training Organisation for Overseas Countries. Has ceased to exist as a separate entity; staff transferred to British Council. Department of Health and Social Security Supplementary Benefits Commisssion. Abolished and replaced by the Social Security Advisory Committee. National Insurance Advisory Committee. Advisory Committee on Irradiation of Food. To be reconstituted. Central Health Services Council. Following abolition, 5 sub-groups continue to exist. Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Departments Northern Ireland Consumer Council. To be amalgamated. Northern Ireland Transport Users' Committee. Northern Ireland Electricity Consumers' Council. Lagan Valley Regional Park Committee Now a sub-committee of the Ulster Countryside Commission. Northern Ireland Schools Curriculum Committee To be replaced by the Northern Ireland Council for Educational Development. Northern Ireland Committee for Educational Technology. Scottish Office Scottish Horticultural Research Institute. Amalgamated to form Scottish Crop Research Institute. Scottish Society for Research in Plant Breeding. In addition, decisions had been taken by 1 December 1980 involving the following bodies—not asterisked in "Facts and Figures"—where amalgamation or reconstitution will lead to a reduction in the overall number of bodies. Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Departments Northern Ireland Training Council. To be amalgamated to form the Manpower Advisory Council Youth Careers Guidance Council. Youth Opportunities Programme Monitoring Committee. Nature Reserve Committee. To be amalgamated. Wild Birds Advisory Committee. Training Schools Management Boards (NI) (4) To be reduced to one board. Department of Health and Social Security, Scottish Office and Welsh Office Central Midwives Board. To be reconstituted, along with the Central Midwives Board (Scotland), General Nursing Council for Scotland and NI Council for Nurses and Midwives to form a United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting (and four National Boards). General Nursing Council. Central Council for Education and Training of Health Visitors. Panel of Assessors for District Nurse Training. Joint Board of Clinical Nursing Studies. Welsh Nurse Training Committee. The Department of Trade's Consumer Protection Advisory Committee was given an asterisk in error; the committee is to be retained.