HC Deb 06 March 1991 vol 187 cc201-2W
Sir John Wheeler

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to which posts in public bodies he appoints individuals where the posts are(a) part-time and (b) remunerated by more than £50,000 per annum.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The most recent information available for part-time public appointments for which the diplomatic and aid wings of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are responsible is as follows:

Public body Number of appointments
Imperial War Museum (Board of Trustees) 2
British Council Board 2
Imperial College of Science and Technology (Governing Body) 1
Great Britain China Centre 1
Great Britain East Europe Centre 1
Great Britain USSR Association 1
Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission 10
Public body Number of appointments
Universities China Committee 1
School of Oriental and African Studies (Governing Body) 3
Advisory Board to the Wilson Chair of International Politics, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth 1
Irish Pensions Appeal Tribunal 2
Commonwealth Institute:
Chairman of the Scottish Committee 1
Commonwealth Institute:
Board of Governors 12
Sightsavers 2
Commonwealth Foundation 1
Diplomatic Service Appeal Boards 8
Wilton Park Academic Council 17
Commonwealth Institute:
Chairman of the Board of Governors 1
Lloyd Foundation 1
Advisory Committee on Economic and Social Resources Overseas 18
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission 15
Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases 6
Overseas Service Pension Scheme 4
Indian Family Pension Scheme 8
Institute of Development Studies 21
Commonwealth Development Corporation 8
Crown Agents 7
Advisory Committee for the Purchase of Wine 2

No part-time appointments are remunerated at more than £50,000 a year. This figure applies to only one full-time appointment—the managing director of the Crown Agents, who in 1989 received a salary of £63,000.

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