§ Mr. CashTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list those bodies currently with agency status within his Department under the next steps initiative; and whether he has identified any further candidates for agency status under the initiative within his Department.
§ Mr. LilleyThe nine excutive agencies within the DTI are Companies House, the Insolvency Service, the Laboratory of the Government Chemist, the National Engineering Laboratory, the National Physical Laboratory, the National Weights and Measures Laboratory, Patent Office, Radiocommunications Agency and Warren Spring Laboratory.
I continue to consider the possibility of establishing further agencies in the DTI but I have not at the moment identified any candidates.
For ECGD, I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave on 19 July 1990, Official Report column 677.