Public Bodies (Chairmen) (Hansard, 25 February 2002)

§ Mr. Forth

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the appointments made by his Department since 1 May 1997 of chairmen of(a) non-departmental public bodies, (b) commissions, (c) inquiries, (d) agencies and (e) task forces; and if he will list their (i) term of office, (ii) salary and (iii) known political affiliation (A) past and (B) present. [33891]

NDPB chairman appointments in MOD since 1 May 1997
Name of body	Chairman	Date of appointment	Appointment ends	Salary
Advisory Committee on Conscientious Objectors	His Honour Judge Rogers¹	27 October 1997	23 October 1999	£178 per day
Advisory Group on Medical Countermeasures	Name withheld²	1 February 1998	No date³	£265 per day
Animal Welfare Advisory Committee	Dr. Robert Hubrecht	13 July 2000	April 2002	£250 per day
Armed Forces Pay Review Body	Right hon. Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde	1 April 1999	31 March 2002	Nil
Dartmoor Steering Group	Mr. James Woollcombe	18 December 2000	17 December 2003	Nil
Defence Nuclear Safety Committee	Dr. Sam Harbison CB	1 January 2000	1 January 2005	£315 per day
Defence Scientific Advisory Council	Professor Anthony Ledwith	11 August 2000	31 March 2003	£315 per day
Independent Board of Visitors to the Military Corrective Training Centre	Mr. R Jacklin	1 January 1998 and 4 April 2001	1 June 2006	Nil
National Army Museum	General Sir John Waters GCB CBE JP	1 July 1997 and 30 March 2001	30 March 2002	Nil
National Employers Liaison Committee	Mr. John Bridgeman CBE TD DL	1 December 1997	1 December 2002	Nil
Nuclear Research Advisory Council	Dr. Derek Robinson	1 October 2001	1 October 2006	£315 per day
Oil and Pipelines Agency	Dr. John Hastie	8 July 1999	7 July 2002	£9,800 per year
Review Board for Government Contracts	Sir Peter Webster	17 March 1999	30 September 2001	£10,990 per year
RAF Museum⁴	AM Ian McFayden	4 May 1999 (elected Chair September 1999)	February 2001	Nil
	ACM Sir Richard Johns	7 December 2000 (elected Chair February 2001)	6 December 2003	Nil
Royal Marines Museum	Lieutenant General Sir Henry Beverley	1 May 1997	1 May 2003	Nil
Royal Military College of Science Advisory Council	Mr. Peter Gershon	9 October 2000	8 October 2005	£110 per day
Royal Naval Museum	Vice Admiral Sir Barry Wilson KCB	15 March 1999 and 9 January 2002	15 March 2003	Nil
Royal Navy Submarine Museum	Vice Admiral Sir Roy Newman	1 August 1999	1 August 2004	Nil
War Pensions Committees—Northern Ireland	Major Gordon Dodds MBE	1 January 2001	31 December 2003	Nil
War Pensions Committees—West of Scotland	Mr. Derek Evans	1 January 2001	31 December 2003	Nil
War Pensions Committees—East of Scotland	Mr. Arthur Oliver	1 January 2001	31 December 2003	Nil
War Pensions Committees—Yorkshire and Humberside	Mrs. Jane Gummer MBE JP DL LLB	1 January 2001	31 December 2003	Nil
War Pensions Committees—North West England	Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Overton	1 January 2001	31 December 2003	Nil
War Pensions Committees—East Midlands	Mrs. Irene Shiels	1 January 2001	31 December 2003	Nil
War Pensions Committees—West Midlands	Mr. Anthony Hartley-Woolley	1 January 2001	31 December 2003	Nil
War Pensions Committees—Eastern England	Lieutenant Colonel Ray Holland OBE	1 January 2001	31 December 2003	Nil
War Pensions Committees—South East England	Ms Penny Melville-Brown	1 January 2001	31 December 2003	Nil
War Pensions Committees—London	Air Commodore Jack Hargreaves	1 January 2001	31 December 2003	Nil
War Pensions Committees—South West England	Major Tim Tyler	1 January 2001	31 December 2003	Nil
¹ Appointed by the Lord Chancellor
² Name withheld under Exemption 12 (privacy of an individual) of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.
³ The AGMC was not an NDPB at the date of this appointment, and there was no specific term of office stated. Now that AGMC was classified as an NDPB, all members' terms of office will be reviewed formally to specify appropriate length of service.
⁴ Ministers appoint Trustees to the Board of the RAF Museum, which then elects a Chair from among its members.

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