HC Deb 27 November 2001 vol 375 cc849-50W
Mr. Andrew Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list those public bodies (1) which are the responsibility of her Department and which are not listed in Public Bodies 2000; [17586]

(2) to which her Department appoints members and which are not listed in Public Bodies 2000. [17585]

Mr. Morley

Public Bodies 2000 sets out information on non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs), certain public corporations (including nationalised industries) and NHS bodies. There are four types of NDPB: executive NDPBs; advisory NDPBs; tribunal NDPBs; and boards of visitors to penal establishments. The next edition will be published around the end of the year. Information about task forces, annual reports and ad hoc advisory groups is set out in an annual report, published by the Cabinet Office and this publication may be accessed via the Cabinet Office's website http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/caboff/pb00/pb00.htm.

Copies of the annual report on task forces and similar bodies have also been placed in the Library of the House and the annual report is being made available on the Cabinet Office's website.

Public bodies now the responsibility of my Department, which are not listed in Public Bodies 2000 are as follows:

Public Corporations British Waterways Board

Executive NDPBs

  • Countryside Agency
  • English Nature
  • Environment Agency
  • Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • National Forest Company

Advisory NDPBs

  • Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment
  • Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment
  • Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances
  • Advisory Committee on Packaging
  • Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment
  • Airborne Particles Expert Group
  • Committee on Products and Processes for Use in Public Water Supply
  • Darwin Advisory Committee
  • Expert Group on Cryptosporidium in Water Supplies
  • Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards
  • Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB
  • Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council
  • National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution
  • Pesticide Residues Committee
  • Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee
    • 850W
  • Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
  • Sustainable Development Commission
  • Sustainable Development Education Panel
  • Veterinary Residues Committee
  • Water Regulations Advisory Committee
  • Zoos Forum

Tribunal NDPBs

  • Commons Commissioners.

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