§ Mr. Philip Hollandasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the cost to his Department of providing secretariat and executive support services for each non-departmental public body to which he appoints members other than civil servants.
§ Mr. MayhewThe latest available information in respect of my Department is contained in part 3, pages 144–147 of the "Report on Non-Departmental Public Bodies" (Cmnd. 7797). The total administrative cost—including costs incurred by the MSC and HSC—in relation to all the bodies mentioned in the report is £15.564 million. A subsequent saving in support services of £273,085 has since been estimated as a result of the abolition of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos and the Royal Commission on the distribution508W incomes and wealth, and a reduction in the number of wages councils from 41 to 34 and of district manpower committees from 125 to 88.