HC Deb 25 July 1997 vol 298 c775W
Mr. David Heath

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if she will list the quangos within her Department's responsibility which she has to date announced her intention(a) to abolish and (b) to make subject to a significant element of democratic accountability. [9672]

Mr. Keith Bradley

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister, to my hon. Friend the Member for West Lancashire (Mr. Pickthall) on 18 June,Official Report, column 174.

I also refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him today by my right hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.