HC Deb 07 July 1976 vol 914 cc584-5W
Mr. Arthur Lewis

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science why it would be disproportionately expensive to give the total number of peers of the realm who hold full and part-time appointments made by his Department.

Mr. Mulley

I am responsible for appointments to over 130 public bodies and committees and my Department's records do not distinguish peers of the realm from other appointees. To extract the information required has involved a systematic search in various branches of the Department at considerable cost. Some 20 peers have been appointed by me or my predecessors, some to more than one body, as indicated below:

Name, Appointment and Salary per annum

  • Lord Feather. Victoria and Albert Museum Advisory Council. unpaid.
  • Lord Hood. Victoria and Albert Museum Advisory Council. unpaid.
  • Earl of Perth. Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art. unpaid.
  • Viscount Eccles. Chairman, British Library Board. £5,115.
  • Lord Adeane. British Library Board. £1,000.
  • Lord Gibson. Chairman, Arts Council of Great Britain. unpaid.
  • Lord Balfour of Burleigh. Arts Council of Great Britain. unpaid.
  • Viscount Esher. Arts Council of Great Britain. unpaid.
  • Lord Feather. Arts Council of Great Britain. unpaid.
  • Lord Lloyd. British Film Institute. unpaid.
  • Lord Lloyd. National Film School. unpaid.
  • Lord O'Brien. National Theatre Board. unpaid.
  • Earl of Halsbury. Court of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. unpaid.
  • Lord Stamp. Governing Board of Imperial College. unpaid.
  • Lord Alexander. National Advisory Council for Education in Industry and Commerce. unpaid.
  • Duke of Northumberland. Chairman (part-time) Medical Research Council. £1,000.
  • Earl of Halsbury. Medical Research Council. £750.
  • Lord Kilbrandon. Social Science Research Council. £750.
  • Earl Selbourne. Agricultural Research Council. £750.
  • Viscount Trenchard. Agricultural Research Council £750.
  • Lord Nugent. Governing Body of the Animal Virus Research Institute (ARC), unpaid.
  • Lord Amhurst. Governing Body of the Animal Virus Research Institute (ARC).
  • unpaid.

If travelling and subsistence allowances are claimed, these are paid at standard Civil Service rates.