§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list, for the last 12 months, the titles of papers published by the chief executive of each executive agency for which he is responsible.
§ Mr. HowardThe papers published by my executive agencies are the responsibility of their chief executives. I have asked Mr. Roger Courtney to arrange for a reply to be given for the Building Research Establishment; Professor David Rhind for the Ordnance Survey; Mr. Stephen Crow for the Planning Inspectorate; Mr. Marcus Buck for the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre; and Mr. Roger Powell for the Buying Agency.
Letter from Roger Courtney to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 29 October 1992:
The Secretary of State has asked me to respond to your question on papers that I have published within the last twelve months.
I have presented two papers at conferences in the past twelve months:
"Technical Information to the Construction Industry: The Oxygen of Research' (International Building Information Congress, Stuttgart, October 1991)
'Buildings and the Environment' (Keynote Address: CIB 92 World Building Congress, May 1992) which have yet to appear in print.
During the course of a year, BRE staff publish many papers in scientific, technical and professional journals and the Establishment produces many publications crystallising the results of its work in advice to industry. These are listed in the enclosed copy of the BRE Annual Review.
Letter from David Rhind to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 27 October 1992:
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question about papers published by Chief Executives.
Since taking up the Chief Executive post at Ordnance Survey in January this year I have published the following papers:
The information infrastructure of Geographical Information Systems. Proceedings 5th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, 1–19, International Geographical Union.
Geographical Information Systems and topographic mapping. Proceedings First Australian Conference on Mapping and Charting, Australian Institute of Cartographers.
Ordnance Survey and the historical record of the British Landscape. Paper given to the 'Future History of our Landscape' meeting in the Royal Society, October 16th 1992.
Reinventing the map. Geographical Magazine, November 1992, pp 30–32.
Geographical data as a commodity. GIS Europe, Vol. 1, No. 8, October 1992, pp 24–26.
I shall be pleased to provide further details if required.
Letter from Stephen Crow to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 29 October 1992:
In reply to your Parliamentary Questions, I am asked on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Environment to list both the titles of papers published by the Planning Inspectorate since it became an agency and the fact finding visits made by myself in the last 12 months; and to indicate the findings resulting from those visits. The Planning Inspectorate became an Executive Agency only on 1 April this year, and so a full 12 months have not yet elapsed.
The only Inspectorate paper published since 1 April is entitled "Good Practice at Planning Inquiries". It was 114W published on 7 September 1992 as an Annex to Department of the Environment Circular 24/92 (Welsh Office Circular 447/92).
Since April I have made one fact finding visit, to Edinburgh and nearby, where I was shown some interesting examples of urban regeneration, and where I was able to discuss, with my opposite numbers in Scotland and Ireland, matters of mutual concern. The visit and meeting resulted in useful comparison of professional and managerial practice.
Letter from Marcus Buck to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 27 October 1992:
I am responding to your question regarding the titles of papers published by Agency Chief Executives in the Department of the Environment.
During the last twelve months The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre has published two documents—its updated Framework Document in January and the Annual Report 1991–2 in June.
If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.
Letter from Roger H. Powell to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 2 November 1992:
I have been asked to reply direct to your parliamentary question regarding papers published by myself since taking office.
The only published document to date has been TBA's Annual Report for 1991.