Committees (Hansard, 26 October 1994)

§ Mr. Harvey
To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish a table showing the number of meetings held, the secretarial and advisory arrangements, the budgeted and actual expenditure and the subjects of any reports and submissions produced by the Advisory Committee for Arbitration Law in each of the last three years.

§ Mr. Heseltine
The departmental advisory committee on arbitration law has met in full once a year in each of the last three years. The Committee has no dedicated secretarial or advisory staff nor does it have an allocated budget or expenditure functions. Secretarial support is provided by staff in my Department. My Department in co-operation with the committee published a consultation document on a draft Arbitration Bill in February 1994. No other submissions have been published in the last three years.

§ Mr. Harvey
To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish a table showing the number of meetings held, the secretarial and advisory arrangements, the budgeted and actual expenditure and the subjects of any reports and submissions produced by the Aviation committee in each of the last three years.

§ Mr. Charles Wardle
The Aviation committee will meet four times this year and met three times in each of the past two years. Secretarial and administration functions are provided by the Department and cost approximately £30,000 per annum. There is no separate budget. The advisory arrangements are that the committee may communicate its advice during meetings to officials, who attend throughout, or in writing or by making presentations to Ministers. The subjects of such advice were as follows1992: The Control Technology Programme The National Strategic Technology Acquisition Plan (NSTAP) 1993: NSTAP: Report to the Select Committee on Trade and Industry Science, Technology and Engineering White Paper: relationship with NSTAP 652W 1994: Technology Co-ordinators: Implementation of NSTAP An Industry Strategy The Hercules Replacement

§ Mr. Harvey
To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish a table showing the number of meetings held, the secretarial and advisory arrangements, the budgeted and actual expenditure and the subjects of any reports and submissions produced by the Standing Advisory Committee on Industrial Property in each of the last three years.

§ Mr. Ian Taylor
The secretariat of the Standing Advisory Committee on Industrial Property is provided by the Intellectual Property Policy Directorate—IPPD—of the Patent Office. Expenditure on this task is not budgeted separately from IPPD's other policy work. The committee's advice is sought by correspondence and at meetings. The meetings held in the last three years are as follows:

Financial Year Number of Meetings

1991–92 3

1992–93 3

1993–94 4

Financial Year	Number of Meetings
1991–92	3
1992–93	3
1993–94	4