§ Mrs. MaddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what percentage of public appointments made by his Department were held by women at the most recent date for which figures are available.
1148Wand the Control of Pollution Act 1974 for certain waste-related offences in England and Wales in 1991, 1992 and 1993.
It should, however, be noted that the statistics of court proceedings are based on returns made by the police to the Home Office and although these include offences where there has been no police involvement, such as those prosecutions instigated by Government Departments, local authorities—in this case probably waste regulation authorities—and private organisations and individuals, the reporting of these types of offence is known to be incomplete.
§ Sir Paul BeresfordInformation on public appointments to non-departmental public bodies and nationalised industries for which the Secretary of State for the Environment is responsible is contained in"Public Bodies 1993", published by HMSO, a copy of which is 1149W available in the House of Commons Library. This gives the percentage of all such appointments, for which this Department is responsible, held by women, as 22 per cent., at 1 September 1993. Similar information for 1994, to be published in "Public Bodies 1994", is currently being collected.
The information in "Public Bodies" includes the Commons Commissioners and valuation tribunals, for which the Secretary of State for the Environment is responsible but to which appointments are made by the Lord Chancellor and local authorities, respectively.