§ Mr. David HeathTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the quangos within his Department's responsibility which he has to date announced his intention(a) to abolish and (b) to make subject to a significant element of democratic accountability. [9681]
§ Angela EagleThe Assessment Panel for Construction Research—an advisory non-departmental public body—was wound up on 14 July 1997.
786WI refer the hon. Member to the answer which my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, gave to my hon. Friend the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mr. Bradley) on 24 July 1997, Official Report, column 693, on the extension of democratic accountability to quangos.