HC Deb 09 December 1986 vol 107 cc125-6W
Sir Philip Holland

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will list in the Official Report all advisory committees to which he makes appointments and which have not been listed in the annual "Public Bodies" publication of the Management and Personnel Office; and which have been abolished since the beginning of 1982;

(2) if he will list in the Official Report all advisory committees to which he makes appointments which are not listed in the annual "Public Bodies" and publication issued by the Management and Personnel Office of the Cabinet Office.

Mrs. Currie

The advisory committees to which the Secretary of State makes appointments which have not been named in the annual publication "Public Bodies" of the Management and Personnel Office are listed in table 1. Those committees not named in "Public Bodies" which have been abolished since 1 January 1982 are listed in table 2. These lists represent committees (other than committees of officials) set up to advise my right hon. Friend or the Department which have a life span of less than one year, or which meet only very infrequently.

Table 1. Advisory committees not listed in "Public Bodies"

  1. 1. Advisory Committee on Gene Modification Therapy
  2. 2. Advisory Group on Boarding Out Regulations and Guidance
  3. 3. Advisory Group on Personal Pensions
  4. 4. Community Medicine Inquiry
  5. 5. Dental Advisory Committee
  6. 6. Intermediate Treatment Fund
  7. 7. Leprosy Opinion Panel
  8. 8. Manpower Advisory Committee (Community Medicine)
  9. 9. Maternal Mortality Committee
  10. 10. Microbiology Advisory Committee
  11. 11. Regional Secure Units Working Group
  12. 12. Technical Development Team for Demountable Storage
  13. 13. Transplant Advisory Panel
  14. 14. Working Groups for Pathology Laboratory Equipment
  15. 15. Working Group on the Safety of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  16. 16. Working Party on Containers and Closures for Sterile Fluids

Table 2. Advisory committees not listed in "Public Bodies" and abolished since 1 January 1982

  1. 1. Advisory Committee on Medical Manpower Planning
  2. 2. Community Nursing Review
  3. 3. Dental Equipment and Materials Advisory Group
  4. 4. DHSS Medical Working Group on Drug Dependence
  5. 5. Ethylene Oxide Working Group
  6. 6. Fire and Safety of New Residential Accommodation for the Elderly: Planning and Design Group
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  7. 7. Medical Supplies Working Party Microbiology Panel: Sub-committee on Disinfection and Sterilisation by Low Temperature Steam and Formaldehyde
  8. 8. National Voluntary Organisation on Alcohol Misuse: Steering Group
  9. 9. National Health Service Management Inquiry
  10. 10. Pre-registration House Officers Working Group
  11. 11. Project Control Study Group
  12. 12. Review of Audit in the National Health Service
  13. 13. Social Security Inquiries 1984
  14. 14. Steering Group on the Training of Contact Tracers
  15. 15. Study Group on Medical Manpower Information
  16. 16. Working Group on Services for Epilepsy
  17. 17. Working Group on Acceptance Testing of Electrical Equipment in the National Health Service.