§ Mrs. BeckettTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister, pursuant to his answer of 22 November,Official Report, column 136, if he will list the salaries of the staff in the deregulation unit in 1994–95 and 1995–96. [4066]
§ Mr. FreemanDetails of the deregulation unit's staffing by grade are given in an organogram, form C, which is included as part of the unit's management information system for Ministers—MINIS—for 1994–95 and 1995–96 published by the Department of Trade and Industry, copies of which are in the House Libraries. Details of the salaries for the various grades are listed in the civil service management code which is also available in the House Libraries.
§ Mrs. BeckettTo ask the Deputy Prime Minister what estimate the deregulation task force has made of the number of regulations and enforcement measures upon which it has made recommendations which were introduced since 1979; and what information his office has received on this matter. [4069]
§ Mr. FreemanThe deregulation task force made 52 recommendations in its first annual report, of which the Government have accepted 46 in whole or in part. Many of the recommendations were of a general nature or related to an area of regulation rather than to specific regulations or enforcement measures. The task force has not sought to estimate how many of its more specific recommendations concerned regulations or enforcement measures introduced after 1979 as its aim has been to assist the Government in removing unnecessary burdens on business and the voluntary sector regardless of when they were introduced.