HC Deb 02 February 1981 vol 998 cc27-9W
Mr. Philip Holland

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report all the official bodies to which he makes appointments other than civil servants, including those bodies in categories excluded from the "Report on Non-Departmental Public Bodies", Cmnd. 7797; and if he will indicate in each case whether he proposes to discontinue them in 1981.

Mr. Patrick Jenkin

Following is the information requested:

List of bodies currently in the categories included in the Report on Non-Departmental Public Bodies:

Executive or Advisory Bodies

  • Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee.
  • Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances.
  • Advisory Committee on Child Psychotherapists Grading and Appointments.
  • Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens.
  • Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards.
  • Advisory Committee on Irradiation of Food.
  • Advisory Committee on Top Grade Clinical Psychologists
  • Posts.
  • Advisory Committee on Top Grade Scientists Posts.
  • Advisory Committee on Vocational Training Allowances.
  • Advisory Group on Hepatitis.
  • Attendance Allowance Board.
  • Breast Cancer Screening Trials Working Group.
  • British Pharmacopoeia Commission.
  • Central Advisory Committee on Rural Practice Payments.
  • Central Advisory Committee on War Pensions.
  • Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work.
  • Central Joint Committee on the Rural Dispensing Standstill.
  • Central Midwives Board (England and Wales).
  • Child Health Computing Committee.
  • Children's Joint Committee.
  • Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials.
  • Committee on Gynaecological Cytology.
  • Committee of Management of the School for Dental Therapists Ltd.
  • Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy.
  • Committee on Radiation from Radioactive Medical
  • Products.
  • Committee on Restrictions against Disabled People.
  • Committee on the Review of Medicines.
  • Committee on Safety of Medicines.
  • Co-ordinating Committee on Medical Aspects of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment.
  • Council for Education and Training of Health Visitors.
  • Council for Postgraduate Medical Education in England and Wales.
  • Dental Rates Study Group.
  • Development Team for the Mentally Handicapped.
  • Family Fund.
  • Food Hygience Advisory Council.
  • General Nursing Council.
  • General Practice Finance Corporation.
    • 28
  • Health Education Council.
  • Health Services Human Growth Hormone Committee.
  • Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health.
  • Independent Advisory Committee on the Howie Code.
  • Industrial Injuries Advisory Council.
  • Informal Working Group on Effective Prescribing.
  • Intermediate Treatment Fund.
  • Joint Board of Clinical Nursing Studies.
  • Joint Committee on the Medical Aspects of Water Quality.
  • Joint Inducements Payments Committee.
  • London Advisory Group.
  • London Health Planning Consortium.
  • Medical Practices Committee.
  • Medicines Commission.
  • National Biological Standards Board.
  • National Health Service Computer Policy Committee.
  • National Health Service National Staff Committees (5).
  • National Health Service Purchasing Advisory Groups (30).
  • National Radiological Protection Board.
  • National Radiological Protection Board Advisory Committee.
  • National Training Council for the National Health Service.
  • Occupational Pensions Board.
  • Panel of Assessors for District Nurse Training.
  • Postgraduate Training Allowance Advisory Committee.
  • Public Health Laboratory Service Board (England and Wales).
  • Radiological Advisory Committee.
  • Scientific and Technical Committee for the Central Blood Laboratories.
  • Social Security Advisory Committee.
  • Standing Group on National Health Service Planning.
  • Steering Group on Health Services Information.
  • Supplementary Benefit Appeal Tribunals Advisory Group.
  • Training Council for Orthoptists.
  • UK Central Council for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting.
  • UK Transplant Management Committee.
  • War Pensions Committees (81).
  • Working Group on Rickets.
  • Working Party on Laser Safety.

Tribunals

  • The Adjudicator.
  • Medical Appeals Tribunals.
  • Medical Boards.
  • Mental Health Review Tribunals.
  • National Health Service Tribunal.
  • National Insurance Local Tribunals.
  • Pneumoconiosis Medical Panels.
  • Supplementary Benefit Appeal Tribunals.
  • Staff Appeals (NHS Reorganisation) Tribunals.
  • Vaccine Damage Tribunals.

In addition to the above bodies, as a result of the abolition of the Central Health Services Council and the Laboratory Developments Advisory Group, eleven former professional sub-groups have become independent non-departmental bodies themselves.

II. Of the bodies in the above list, the following have been indentified for abolition, merger with another body or being made independent of Government before 31 December 1981:

  • Adjudicator.
  • Training Council for Orthotists.
  • Standing Group on NHS Planning.
  • National Radiological Protection Board Advisory Committee.
  • Advisory Committee on Child Psycho-Therapists.
  • Advisory Committee on Top Grade Scientists Posts.
  • Advisory Committee on Top Grade Clinical Psychologists Posts.
  • Advisory Committee on Irradiation of Foods.
  • NHS Computer Policy Committee.
  • Food Hygiene Advisory Council.
  • Central Joint Committee on the Rural Dispensing Standstill.
  • London Advisory Group.
  • London Health Planning Consortium.
  • Committee on Restrictions Against Disabled People.✶
  • ✶ Expected to report by 1981.

In addition the following bodies have been identified for abolition etc. after 31 December 1981:

Child Health Computing Committee.Steering Group on Health Services Information.

Staff Appeals (NHS Reorganisation) Tribunals.

Furthermore, five nursing bodies (the General Nursing Council, the Council for Education and Training of Health Visitors, the Central Midwives Board, the Panel of Assessors for District Nurse Training and the Joint Board for Clinical Nursing Studies) will be replaced by the new United Kingdom Central Council and National Boards under the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979.

III. List of official bodies in categories excluded from the Report on Non-Departmental Public Bodies (paragraph 26, page 85):

  • Regional Health Authorities (14).
  • Area Health Authorities (90).
  • Boards of Governors of the Post Graduate Hospitals (12).
  • Dental Estimates Board.
  • Health Service Supply Council.
  • Prescription Pricing Authority.

I am at present considering regional health authorities' proposals for the date on which area health authorities should be replaced by district authorities. The majority of regions propose handover in April 1982. The future of the boards of governors of postgraduate hospitals is also under consideration.