§ Mr. BeithTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the persons appointed as schools adjudicators, indicating in each case whether they have served as members of local education authorities and to which political group in the authority they belonged. [105642]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe list of adjudicators appointed is as follows:
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- Sir Peter Newsam
- Dr. Alan Billings
- June Brown
- John Clark
- Andrew Collier CBE
- Peter Downes OBE
- John Evans
- Gordon Hainsworth
- Ann Holt
- Louise Kidd
- Robert Lanwarne
- Peter Neafsey
- Professor David Newton
- Dr. Hilary Nicolle
- Anthony Webster
- Robin Squire (resigned).
No adjudicator has been a member of a local education authority within the last five years. We do not hold full information on membership before that period.
§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the names of the adjudicators he has appointed under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 and their political affiliation. [106565]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 24 January 2000]: The list of adjudicators appointed is as follows:
- Sir Peter Newsam
- Dr. Alan Billings
- June Brown
- John Clark
- Andrew Collier CBE
- Peter Downes OBE
- John Evans
- Gordon Hainsworth
- Ann Holt
- Louise Kidd
- Robert Lanwarne
- Peter Neafsey
- Professor David Newton
- Dr. Hilary Nicolle
- Anthony Webster
- Robin Squire (resigned).
We hold no information about the present political affiliation of adjudicators. As a matter of public record, Peter Downes declared at the time of his application that he had undertaken significant political activity in the last five years as a member of the Liberal Democrats and an elected member of Huntingdonshire District Council. No other adjudicator at present in post declared an engagement in significant political activities during the previous five years.