HC Deb 23 January 1990 vol 165 cc607-8W
Dr. Thomas

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list(a) the organisations to which he has the right to make appointments and (b) the appointments to public bodies and other organisations made by him and his predecessor since 1979.

Mr. Peter Walker

(a) The organisations to which I have the sole responsibility for making one or a majority of ministerial appointments are listed in the table:

  • Agricultural Advisory Panel for Wales
  • Agricultural Dwelling House Advisory Committee Panel of Chairmen—Wales
  • Agricultural Valuation Committee (Wales)
  • Agricultural Wages Committee
  • All Wales Advisory Panel on the Development of Services for People with Mental Handicaps
  • Ancient Monuments Board for Wales
  • Cardiff Bay Development Corporation
  • Committee on Opportunities for Volunteering
  • Committee for the Welsh Scheme for the Development of Health and Social Research
  • Community Health Councils
  • Court and Council of the National Library of Wales
  • Court and Council of the National Museum of Wales
  • Curriculum Council for Wales
  • Development Board for Rural Wales
  • District Health Authorities
  • Family Practitioner Committees
  • Forestry Commission Reference Committee Panel—Wales
  • Health Policy Board
  • Health Promotion Authority for Wales
  • Historic Buildings Council for Wales
  • Housing for Wales
  • Land Authority for Wales
  • Library and Information Services Council (Wales)
  • Local Government Boundary Commission
  • National Parks Committees
  • Place Names Advisory Committee
  • Rent Assessment Panel
  • Saundersfoot Harbour Commission
  • South Wales Sea Fisheries Committee
  • Sports Council for Wales
  • Standing Working Group of the Wales Advisory Body for Local Authority Higher Education
  • Teamcare Valleys Steering Group
  • Training Enterprise and Education Advisory Group
  • Urban Investment Appraisal Panel
  • Wales Tourist Board
  • Welsh Committee for Post Graduate Pharmaceutical Education
  • Welsh Committee on Drugs Misuse
  • Welsh Development Agency
  • Welsh Health Common Services Authority
  • Welsh Industrial Development Advisory Board
  • Welsh Language Board
  • Welsh National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting

The following organisations are those for which I have sole responsibility for a minority of ministerial appointments:

  • Council of University Colleges, Lampeter
  • Court and Council of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
  • Court and Council of the University of Wales, Bangor
  • Court of the University College, Swansea
  • Parliamentary Boundary Commission

(b) This information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.