§ Mr. Dykesasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish a list of all bodies to which he appoints members other than civil servants, distinguishing between full-time and part-time, salaried, fee-paid and unpaid appointments, indicating for each category of appointment the number of such appointees.
§ Mr. John SilkinThe information is as follows:
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Body Salaried Fee-Paid Unpaid Food Hygiene Advisory Council — — 16 Food Standards Committee — 9 — Forestry Commission: Reference Committee Panels — — 35 Harbour Commissioners — — 11 Herring Industry Advisory Council of the Herring Industry Board — — 32 Herring Industry Board 3 — — Hill Farming Advisory Committee for England, Wales and Northern Ireland — — 19 Hill Farming Advisory Committee's Sub-Committee for Wales — — 11 Home Grown Cereals Authority 23 — — Hops Marketing Board 2* — — Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce 1 — — Land Settlement Association Ltd: Executive Committee — — 10 Marks Hall Estate (Thomas Phillips Price Trust) — — 5 Meat and Livestock Commission 10 — — Meat and Livestock Commission's Consumers Committee 1 — 6 Medicines Commission — 19 — Medicines Commission: British Pharmacopoeia Commision — 17 — Milk and Dairies Tribunals — 8 16 Milk Marketing Board 3* — — National Food Survey Committee — — 5 National Institute of Agricultural Botany: Council of — — 5 National Seed Development Organisation Ltd.: Governing Body 8 — — National Water Council 2 — — New Forest Verderers — — 1 Pesticides: Scientific Sub-Committee — 3 — Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal — 25 — Plant Variety Rights Advisory Panels — 54 — Potato Marketing Board 4* — — Poultry Diseases Panel — — 7 Reading Cattle Breeding Centre: Advisory Committee — — 14 Regional Panels — — 115 Research and Development Joint Consultative Organisation for: Advisory Boards— Animals — 1 17 Arable Crops and Forage — 1 15 Engineering and Buildings — 1 12 Food Science and Technology — 1 15 Horticulture — 1 16 Royal Veterinary College: Council of — — 1 Scientific Panel — — 7 Sea Fisheries Committees — — 112 Sugar Beet Research and Education Committee — — 6 Tate and Lyle Customer Safeguards Committee — — 7 Torry Advisory Committee — — 5 United Kingdom Seeds Executive 6 — — Veterinary Products Committee — 18 — Water Authorities — — 30 White Fish Authority 6 — — White Fish Authority Committee for Scotland and Northern Ireland 6 — — White Fish Industry Advisory Council — — 52 Wool Marketing Board—British — 3 — * Not paid from public funds. In some cases I make the appointments jointly with other Ministers: all are part-time appointments.