§ Ms HodgeTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the members of the selection committee who appointed the chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and, for each, the outside interests which they declared. [3706]
§ Mr. KirkhopeThe Criminal Appeal Act 1965 provides for the members of the Criminal Cases Review Commission to be appointed by Her Majesty on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. The panel which advised on the selection of the chairman of the commission consisted of Mr. Richard Wilson, permanent under-secretary of state at the Home Office; Mr. David Burr, a civil service commissioner; Professor Sir John Smith, former assessor to Sir John May's inquiry into the convictions arising from the 1974 Guildford and Woolwich bombings; and Sir David Yardley, former chairman of the Commission for Local Administration in England. None of the members of the panel declared an outside interest.