§ Mr. KilfoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport (I) if he will list his Department's advisory non-departmental public bodies which are required to produce annual reports;
(2) if he will list his Department's advisory non-departmental public bodies which are required to publish their advice to Government;
(3) if he will list those of his Department's advisory non-departmental public bodies which the Government are required to consult before legislation proposals; and in respect of which bodies the Government must publish their response to advice supplied by them;
(4) which of the advisory non-departmental public bodies sponsored by his Department are required to lay their annual reports before Parliament; and if he will list them;
(5) which of the advisory non-departmental public bodies sponsored by his Department have a statutory basis; and if he will list them;
(6) if he will list the advisory bodies which he has set up in his Department since the publication of "Public Bodies 1993".
§ Mr. NorrisThe Department of Transport has two active advisory non-departmental public bodies, the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee and the Street Works Advisory Committee. Both committees are required to make annual reports to the Secretary of State. Neither is required to lay them before Parliament. There is no requirement for the Government to consult them on legislation proposals and they are not required to publish their advice. The DPTAC has a statutory basis under the Transport Act 1985. The SWAC is a non-statutory body.