§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Employment what were, for the latest available 12-month period, the total financial costs, including administration, of the Advisory Committee on Safety of Nuclear Installations, the amount disbursed by that body, the number of persons, including secretaries, involved with the body, the amount of payment for, respectively, members of the body by way of salary or equivalent, expenses of members and secretarial salaries and expenses; and what were the figures in all the above categories in each of the past five years, respectively.
§ Mr. MayhewThere is no separate advisory committee on the safety of nuclear installations for Scotland. The following information relates to the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations whose remit relates to Great Britain.
The members of the committee are unsalaried although they are paid expenses; these amounted to some £5,300 in 1978–79. The committee does not itself disburse monies and no records of the costs of the Health and Safety Executive staff time directly attributable to servicing the committee are kept.