HC Deb 02 February 2000 vol 343 cc615-6W
Mr. Sheerman

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many of the regional development board local appointees have resigned since their appointments. [107945]

Ms Beverley Hughes

Of the 102 board members appointed when the Regional Development Agencies were established on 1 April 1999, three board members since have resigned, one each from the South West, West Midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber regions.