HC Deb 24 November 1977 vol 939 cc840-1W
Mr. Dykes

asked 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 Silkin

The information is as follows:

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.