HC Deb 09 March 1998 vol 308 cc10-1W
Ms Roseanna Cunningham

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the bodies within the responsibility of his Department currently required by legislation to lay a report before Parliament. [33553]

Angela Eagle

All the Department's executive non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and nationalised industries publish annual reports and accounts. All but three of these bodies were established by means of primary legislation, and for all those bodies, the legislation lays a requirement on the Secretary of State, rather than the body itself, to lay the annual reports before Parliament. The relevant bodies are:

  • Executive NDPBs
  • Audit Commission for Local Authorities in England and Wales
  • Commission for the New Towns
  • Countryside Commission
  • English Nature (Nature Conservancy Council for England)
  • English Partnerships (Urban Regeneration Agency)
  • Environment Agency
  • General Lighthouse Authorities:
  • Northern Lighthouse Board
  • Trinity House
  • Health and Safety Commission
  • Health and Safety Executive
  • Housing Action Trusts:
  • Castle Vale, Birmingham
  • Liverpool
  • North Hull
  • Stonebridge, Brent
  • Tower Hamlets
  • Waltham Forest
  • Housing Corporation
  • Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Local Government Commission for England
  • Local Government Residuary Body (England)
  • London Pensions Fund Authority
  • London Regional Passengers' Committee
  • Rural Development Commission
  • Traffic Director for London
  • Urban Development Corporations:
  • Birmingham Heartlands
  • Black Country
  • London Docklands
  • Merseyside
  • Plymouth
  • Trafford Park
  • Teesside
  • Tyne and Wear
  • Nationalised Industries
  • British Rail
  • British Waterways Board
  • Civil Aviation Authority
  • London Transport