Disability Rights Commission

HC Deb 08 February 2000 vol 344 cc84-5W

Mr. Darvill

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what guidance he has given the Disability Rights Commission on discharging its functions. [109354]

Ms Hodge

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has written to Bert Massie, the Chair of the Disability Rights Commission, to offer broad guidance on how we see the body discharging its functions and priorities and the tasks to which the Government attaches particular importance in its first year of operation. We will look to the Commission to ensure that its first set of strategic priorities, and subsequently, its first corporate plan, reflect the guidance in the letter. A copy of the letter has been placed in the Library.