HC Deb 14 March 1989 vol 149 cc160-2W
Mr. Gordon Brown

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the advisory committees coming under his Department and concerned in some way with public health which are covered by the Official Secrets Act whose members are required to sign the Official Secrets Act.

Mr. Freeman

[holding answer 24 February 1989]: Not all members of the following committees, which are concerned with various aspects of public health, will have signed the Official Secrets Act declaration, but the provisions of section 2 of that Act would apply in respect of sensitive official information entrusted to them on a confidential basis:

  • Academic Forum
  • Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee
  • Advisory Committee for Medical Manpower Planning
  • Advisory Committee on Assessment of Laboratory Standards
  • Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances
  • Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer Screening
  • Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens
  • Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards
  • Advisory Committee on Ethics of Gene Modification Therapy in Humans
  • Advisory Committee on NHS Drugs
  • Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes
  • AIDS Services Working Group
  • British Pharmacopeia Commission (BPC)
  • BPC—Committee A. Medicinal Chemicals
  • BPC—Committee B. Medicinal Chemicals
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  • BPC—Committee C. General Chemicals
  • BPC—Committee D. Steroids
  • BPC—Committee E. Antibiotics
  • BPC—Committee F. Pharmacy
  • BPC—Committee G. Crude Drugs and Galenicals
  • BPC—Committee H. Biological Materials
  • BPC—Committee J. Immunologicals
  • BPC—Committee K. Blood Products
  • BPC—Committee L. Surgical Dressings
  • BPC—Committee M. Nomenclature
  • BPC—Sub Committee N. Medicines and Doses (Veterinary) Building and Engineering Research and Development Committee
  • Building Legislation Working Group
  • Building Notes Consultative Group
  • Cardiology Liaison Committee
  • Central Manpower Committee
  • Chief Scientists Organisation (CSO)—Childcare Research Liaison Group
  • CSO—Physical Disablement Research Liaison Group
  • CSO—Procurement Directorate Research Liaison Group
  • Committee for Monitoring Agreements on Tobacco Advertising
  • Committee on Carcinogenicity of chemicals in food, consumer products and the environment
  • Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials
  • Committee on Gynaecological Cytology
  • Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy (COMA)
  • COMA—Committee on Recommended Daily Amounts of Nutrients
  • COMA—Contamination of Air, Soil and Water
  • COMA—Panel on Child Nutrition
  • COMA—Panel on Sugar
  • COMA—Radiation in the Environment
  • COMA—Sub Committee on Nutritional Surveillance
  • Committee on Mutagenicity of chemicals in food, consumer products and the environment.
  • Committee on Research into Behavioural Aspects of Smoking and Health
  • Committee on the Review of Medicines
  • Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM)
  • CSM—Sub Committee on Adverse Reactions to Vaccines and Immunisations
  • CSM—Sub Committee on Biologicals
  • CSM—Sub Committee on Chemistry Pharmacy Standards
  • CSM—Sub Committee on Safety, Efficacy and Adverse Reactions
  • Committee on Toxicity of chemicals in food, consumer products and the environment
  • Dental Advisory Committee
  • Dental Auxiliaries Committee
  • Dental Estimates Board
  • Dental Formulary Sub Committee
  • Dental Rates Study Group
  • Elderly Research Liaison Group
  • Expert Advisory Group on AIDS
  • Health Advisory Service
  • Hospital Engineering Technical Support Group
  • Hospital Infection Working Group
  • Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health
  • Information Advisory Group
  • Joint Monitoring Group for "Achieving a Balance"
  • Joint Planning Advisory Committee
  • Legionnaires Disease: Code of Practice Working Party
  • Maternal Mortality Committee
  • Medical Advisory Committee
  • Medical Practices Committee
  • Medicines Commission
  • Mental Handicap Research Liaison Group
  • Microbiology Advisory Committee
  • National Biological Standards Board UK
  • National Development Team for People with a Mental Handicap
  • National Fire Policy Advisory Group
  • Neurosciences Liaison Committee
  • Ongoing Review Panel on Diet and Cardiovascular Disease
  • Panel on Leprosy Opinion
  • Panel on Novel Foods
  • Physical Disablement Research Liaison Group
  • Prescription Pricing Authority
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  • Radiological Advisory Committee
  • Rural Dispensing Committee
  • Standing Committee on Postgraduate Medical Education
  • Standing Dental Advisory Committee
  • Standing Medical Advisory Committee
  • Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee
  • Standing Panel on Hazards from Microbial Contamination of Food
  • Standing Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee
  • Standing Sub-Committee on Cancer
  • Supra Regional Services Advisory Group
  • Training Allowance Advisory Committee
  • Transplant Advisory Panel
  • UK Transplant Management Committee
  • Working Party on Continuing Education of GPs

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