HC Deb 20 October 1976 vol 917 cc446-8W
Mr. Knox

asked the Attorney-General (1) if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the bodies, both official and nonofficial, to which he has the right to make unpaid appointments and indicate for each body the number of such appointments;

(2) if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the bodies, both official and non-official to which the Lord Chancellor has the right to make unpaid appointments and indicate for each body the number of such appointments;

(3) if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the bodies, both official and non-official to which the Solicitor-General has the right to make unpaid appointments and indicate for each body the number of such appointments.

The Attorney-General

There are no bodies to which the Solicitor-General or I make unpaid appointments.

The Lord Chancellor appoints to the bodies listed below the number of unpaid members indicated. In the cases marked with an asterisk the number appointed by the Lord Chancellor is limited by statute; the figures given for the remaining bodies are those appointed by the Lord Chancellor now in post.

Rule Committees
County Court Rule Committee 11
Crown Court Rule Committee 9
Magistrates Courts Rule Committee 10
Matrimonial Causes Rule Committee 9
Supreme Court Rule Committee 8
*Rule Committee under the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963 2
Advisory Bodies
250 Advisory Committees on Justices of the Peace in England and Wales (excluding Lancashire) 1909
8 Advisory Committees on Justices of the Peace in Northern Ireland 69
Advisory Committee on Juvenile Court Panels in Northern Ireland 12
78 Advisory Committees on General Commissioners of Income Tax 651
Advisory Committee on Training of Magistrates 16
Advisory Council on Public Records 13
Legal Aid Advisory Committee 11
16 Circuit Advisory Committees 204
Law Reform Committee 11
Statute Law Committee 25
The Ecclesiastical Committee (The Lords Members) 15

Other Bodies
* Governing Body of Rugby School 1
*Governing Body of Charterhouse School 1
*Governing Body of Harrow School 1
*Board of Governors of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich 1