HC Deb 09 July 1990 vol 176 c17W
Mr. Salmond

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the membership of the public interest panel of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee; and what public interest groups are represented on the public interest panel.

Mr. Trippier

Attendance at the public interest panel of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC) is by invitation. The following organisations were invited to send representatives to the meeting of the panel in February 1990:

  • Environment Council
  • Caithness Against Nuclear Dumping
  • Institute of British Geographers
  • National Federation of Women's Institutes
  • Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment
  • Institution of Environmental Health Officers
  • Society for Radiological Protection
  • Institution of Water and Environmental Management
  • Nuclear Free Zones—Scotland
  • Institute of Biology
  • Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Drigg and District Action Group
  • National Society for Clean Air
  • Institution of Geologists
  • Scotland Against Nuclear Dumping
  • Ecological Affairs Committee (for British Ecological Society)
  • Institution of Civil Engineers
  • Institute of Waste Management
  • Institute of Physics
  • Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland
  • Council for the Protection of Rural England
  • Council for the Protection of Rural Wales
  • Dounreay Action Group
  • Friends of the Earth Ltd.
  • Friends of the Earth—West Cumbria
  • Green Alliance
  • Highland Anti-Nuclear Group
  • Institute for European Environmental Policy

Mr. Salmond

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what vacancies are current or forthcoming on the public interest panel of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee; if meetings of the public interest panel are open to the public; and if there is funding available to facilitate public attendance at these meetings.

Mr. Trippier

The public interest panel has no fixed membership. The chairman invites representatives of environmental organisations to attend, according to the topics on the agenda. The meetings are not open to the public.