HC Deb 25 January 1994 vol 236 cc201-2W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish a full list of all organisations to whom his Department sent, and from whom it has received responses, regarding the consultation letter on draft regulations pertaining to the Merchant Shipping Act 1993, together with the addresses of each such organisation.

Mr. Norris

[holding answer 18 January 1994]: My Department issued over 200 copies of the consultation papers to trade associations, trading companies, trade unions, academic institutions and central and local government departments, and we received 34 responses —11 from trade associations, 13 from trading companies, one from trade unions, two from academic institutions and seven from central and local government departments. It is not our practice to identify those organisations or individuals who respond to consultation exercises.