Dr. Tony WrightTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development which of the advisory non-departmental public bodies sponsored by her Department publish(a) the minutes of meetings, (b) the agendas of meetings and documents for those meetings and (c) a register of members' interests; and whether in each case this is under a statutory requirement. [69832]
§ Clare Short[holding answer 10 February 1999]The Development Awareness Working Group publishes the agenda, documents for, and minutes of its meetings and maintains a register of members' interests. There are no statutory requirements for it to do so.
There are no statutory requirements for the publication of documents or maintenance of a register of members' interests, and this is not done, in respect of:
- The Overseas Services Pensions Scheme Advisory Board
- The Indian Family Pensions Funds Body of Commissioners
- The Know How Fund Advisory Board
- The Advisory Committee on Overseas Economic and Social Research.