HC Deb 27 February 1978 vol 945 cc26-8W
Mr. Anthony Grant

asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if he will set out in the Official Report the names of the members of the Consumer Council, the remuneration they have received by way of salary, fees or expenses from public funds, what other public offices they hold and the date of expiry of their appointments.

Mr. John Fraser

The information is as follows:

vious Administration, of which he was a member, so precipitately abandoned.

It would be impracticable either to list the numerous recommendations which my right hon. Friend has received from the National Consumer Council since its inception or to detail his responses to them. I would attempt to provide a more helpful answer should the hon. Member have a specific area of consumer policy in mind.

Mr. Anthony Grant

asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection if he will set out in the Official Report details of the activities of the Consumer Council which are not covered by other consumer organisations.

Mr. John Fraser

In all its work, the National Consumer Council is concerned not to duplicate unnecessarily the work of other consumer organisations. Its objective is to fulfil its role, foreseen in the White Paper on the National Consumers Agency (Cmnd 5726), as an independent national consumer body able to provide a balanced and authoritative view when decisions affecting the consumer are taken. In this, I believe that it has been remarkably successful.

Mr. Anthony Grant

asked the Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection what is the cost to public funds of the Consumer Council since its formation to the latest convenient date.

Mr. John Fraser

The National Consumer Council has received £1,171,900

STABEX TRANSFERS TO ACP STATES IN 1976
Recipient ACP State Product Million units of account
Benin Cotton 2.750
Palm oil .766
Cameroon Cocoa butter .464
Central African Empire Sawn wood .550
Comoros Copra .287
Fiji Copra oil 1.450
Guinea Bissau Groundnuts 4.442
Palm nuts .627
Madagascar Sisal 1.763
Cloves 1.140
Niger Groundnut oil 6.756
Groundnut oilcake .153
Uganda Tea 1.400
Cotton 2.250
Western Samoa Copra 1.332
Timber .350
Sierra Leone Iron ore 3.977
Tanzania Sisal 5.165
Tonga Copra .832
Bananas .720
Total 37.174
STABEX TRANSFERS TO DEPENDENCIES IN 1976
Recipient Dependency Product Million units of account
Gilbert Islands Copra .286
New Hebrides Copra .327
Solomon Islands Copra 1.274
Afars and Issas Hides and skins .265
Total 2.152

from public funds since its formation in 1975 to the end of January 1978.