§ Mr. GunnellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the previous water authority or company experience of each of the 1994 appointees to the regional customer services committees of Ofwat.
§ Mr. AtkinsThe Water Industry Act 1991 requires the Director General of Water Services, in appointing persons to be members of customer service committees, to have regard to the desirability of the persons appointed being persons who have experience of, and have shown capacity in, some matter relevant to—(i) the function of a water or sewerage undertaker; or (ii) the carrying out of those functions in relation to any area by a company which the director has allocated, or is proposing to allocate, to that committee; and the desirability of—(i) the committee including one or more persons with experience of work among, and the special needs of, disabled persons; and (ii) persons appointed including disabled persons.
Copies of the Ofwat news releases announcing the new appointments made in 1994, including a short biography of the appointees, are in the Library.
§ Mr. GunnellTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the current membership of each of the regional customer services committees of Ofwat, indicating which of those members were newly appointed in 1994.
§ Mr. AtkinsThe chairmen and members of Ofwat's 10 customer service committees—CSCs—are listed in the director general's annual reports, copies of which are in the Library; the next report is expected to be published in June. I have today placed in the Library, a list of CSC members, excluding the chairmen, as at 31 March 1994. In 1994, so far, there has been one new appointment, that of Mr. Subhash Thakrar to Ofwat's Thames CSC. In addition, two new chairmen have been appointed in 1994, Mr. Eric Wilson to the Yorkshire CSC, and Dr. Roger Corbett to the Eastern CSC. Copies of the relevant Ofwat news releases relating to these appointments are also in the Library.