HC Deb 04 February 1999 vol 324 c715W
Mrs. Dunwoody

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will publish the Derwent report on the re-organisation of the Coastguard Service and the Marine Surveyors the incorporation into the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. [68055]

Ms Glenda Jackson

The study referred to was carried out by officials and looked into the synergies between the Coastguard Agency, the Marine Safety Agency and their policy and financial sponsorship divisions in the parent Department. The output from the study was policy advice to Ministers in a previous Administration. In line with the normal convention such advice is not released.