§ Mr. Gordon PrenticeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many times in each month of the current year he has met personally the heads of the agencies which report to him to discuss the work of those agencies. [39851]
§ Mr. GummerIn the current year I have met the head of the Building Research Establishment once, the head of the Planning Inspectorate twice and the head of the Security Facilities Executive once. I have not met the heads of the two other next steps agencies for which my Department is responsible in the current year—the Buying Agency and the QE II Conference Centre.