§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will make it her policy that answers to parliamentary questions that are referred to the chief executive of the Student Loans Company to answer are published in theOfficial Report; and if she will make a statement. [31492]
§ Mr. ForthArrangements for publishing chief executive letters responding to parliamentary questions in theOfficial Report apply only to the next steps agencies and Defence agencies. The Student Loans Company is a non-departmental public body—NDPB. There is no approval by the House authorities for broadening the scope of the Official Report to include letters from chief executives of NDPBs. Copies of replies from NDPB chief executives are, however, placed in the House of Commons Library.