§ Sir Phillip Hollandasked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will list in the Official Report the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible and which have been abolished, or whose abolition has been announced, since the publication of "Public Bodies 1983";
(2) if he will list in the Official Report the non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible that have been introduced or announced too late to be included in the list published in "Public Bodies 1983".
§ Mr. PattieThere has been no change in the number of non-departmental public bodies sponsored by the Ministry of Defence since the compilation of "Public Bodies 1983".