§ Mr. Spearingasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish in respect of each person holding office on the boards of regional water authorities within England and Wales their status as non-executive, executive, full-time or part-time members, respectively, together with the salary payable to each member.
§ Mr. WaldegraveI refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave him on 26 October — [Vol. 47, c.117–21.] and 29 November— [Vol. 49, c. 455.] One further non-executive member has since been appointed to Southern water authority. He is Mr. M. A. C. Drummond, a farmer and company director — Newtown Oyster Fishery — and a countryside commissioner. The only full-time water authority members are the executives. The chairmen and remaining members are part-time.
Chairmen and executives' salaries are as follows:
§ Mr. WaldegraveI understand that work being done in several universities on the use of computers in relation to electoral arrangements has recently been shown to the local government Boundary Commission for England. It is for the commission themselves to settle its own procedures.