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Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he will announce new air quality standards for ground level ozone, benzene and carbon monoxide.
Mr. Yeo : Reports by the expert panel on air quality standards recommending standards for ozone and benzene will be published shortly. The panel is still considering recommendations on carbon monoxide.
Radon Gas
Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is his estimate of the number of deaths from radon each year in the United Kingdom ; what proportion of the United Kingdom housing stock has been surveyed for radon ; what proportion of the housing stock has had remedial action taken ; and whether data held by his Department on households where radon levels have been found to exceed the action level will be made available to environmental health departments so that remedial action can be encouraged.
Mr. Yeo : The Department of the Environment has been advised by the National Radiological Protection Board--NRPB--that an estimated 2,000 cases of lung cancer per annum may be attributable to the presence of radon in houses. It is the Government's policy to encourage measurements in radon- affected areas which are designated by the NRPB. We estimate that in those areas some 150,000 dwellings have been measured so far, which represents approximately 11 per cent. of the local housing stock. Regular reports of survey findings are provided to environmental health officers for the local authorities concerned. Reliable estimates of the number of households where remedial action has been taken are not available.
Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what estimate has been made by his Department of the likely increase in annual carbon dioxide emissions from the additional heating and lighting of shops, and additional traffic generated from increased levels of Sunday trading.
Mr. Yeo : My Department has not undertaken a formal review on the impact on the environment resulting from the proposed change in Sunday trading laws, but estimates suggest that any increase in annual CO emissions is likely to be negligible. The expectation is that there will not be a significant effect on overall traffic levels, taking the week as a whole.
Biodiversity
Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if the United Kingdom biodiversity action plan will accord with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources guidelines for the preparation of biodiversity plans.
Mr. Yeo : We aim to publish the United Kingdom biodiversity action plan after the House returns in the new year. The plan will explain our strategy for conserving wildlife and habitats. Account has been taken of the IUCN guidelines for the preparation of biodiversity plans.
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Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make the conservation of biodiversity an integral part of all Government policy and action.
Mr. Yeo : We aim to publish the United Kingdom biodiversity action plan after the House returns in the new year. The plan will explain our strategy for conserving wildlife and habitats including the role of Government policy.
Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the part to be played by the biodiversity action plan in helping to protect sites of special scientific interest and other important wildlife sites from neglect and destruction.
Mr. Yeo : We aim to publish the United Kingdom biodiversity action plan after the House returns in the new year. The plan will explain our strategy for conserving wildlife and habitats including protected areas.
Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those bodies that he has consulted in the last two months with regard to the preparation of the United Kingdom biodiversity action plan.
Mr. Yeo : We have consulted widely during the preparation of the plan. We received more than 1,000 pages of text from some 300 organisations on framework and content, and many of the views and ideas expressed have been incorporated as appropriate in parts of the plan. A two-day seminar organised by the Department of the Environment and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, held at the Royal Geographical Society in May, also assisted this process. A number of individuals and organisations outside Government have contributed to and commented on parts of the plan document. During the past two months, effort has concentrated on final drafting, design and printing rather than consultation.
Passenger Transport
Mr. Nigel Evans : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what consideration he has given to funding local passenger transport executives by precept ;
(2) what representations he has received from local passenger transport executives on being funded by a precept.
Mr. Baldry : Passenger transport executives--PTEs--and passenger transport authorities--PTAs--are funded by levies issued by PTAs to constituent local authorities. One PTE and a number of PTAs have made representations that they should, instead, be funded by a precept. But it is the Government's view that the present arrangements are appropriate.
Press Officers
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many press officers his Department has employed in each year since 1983.
Mr. Gummer : There are currently 16 press officers employed by the Department of the Environment's information directorate.
Figures for prior years on the composition of the information directorate as a whole are published each year
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within the management information system for Ministers--MINIS--dating back to 1979 and are available in the Library.Tenants Incentive Scheme
Dr. Lynne Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the tenants' incentive scheme in helping those who would otherwise not have been able to afford it to buy their own home.
Sir George Young : My Department has commissioned independent research into the effectiveness of the tenants incentive scheme by the Harris Research Centre. I expect to receive the report early in the new year.
Aggregates
Mr. Morley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) how many tonnes of aggregate dredged from British coastal waters was exported in each of the last five years ;
(2) how many licences have been issued for aggregate dredging in British coastal waters in each of the last five years ;
(3) how many tonnes of aggregate were dredged from British coastal waters in each of the last five years.
Mr. Baldry : The Crown Estate licences the extraction of sand and gravel from British coastal waters and collects statistics relating to those licences. The Crown Estate has provided my Department with the following information.
Year<1> |Total amount dredged|Amount exported |Number of licences
|issued
|(tonnes)<2> |(tonnes)
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1988 |25,807,914 |2,379,391 |8
1989 |28,038,429 |2,528,839 |6
1990 |25,281,728 |3,817,947 |Nil
1991 |20,343,856 |4,613,982 |8
1992 |20,559,002 |6,317,232 |Nil
<1> Figures for 1993 not available yet.
<2> Includes beach nourishment and contract fill.
Mr. Morley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what environmental safeguards exist for the dredging of aggregate in British coastal waters.
Mr. Baldry : The decision to grant a licence for the extraction of marine sand and gravel rests with the Crown Estate after consultation with those whose interests may be affected by the proposed dredging. My Department is responsible for co-ordinating these consultations and formulating the Government view. Each proposal is considered on its merits and careful consideration is given to all potential environmental impacts before deciding whether or not to grant a favourable Government view. On the basis of a favourable Government view, the Crown Estate will decide whether to issue a licence to dredge and will lay down appropriate conditions to protect marine and coastal interests.
Water-efficient Homes
Mrs. Helen Jackson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment which statutory provisions ensure the building of water- efficient homes in (a) the public and (b) the private sector.
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Mr. Yeo : Water fittings installed in a property must comply with the water byelaws. The byelaws set out requirements for the prevention of waste and contamination of water and regulate plumbing materials and installations. Water companies are responsible for their enforcement.
Mentally Ill Homeless People
Ms Jowell : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the amount of capital funds available from his Department through the Housing Corporation for the provision of housing and care support for homeless mentally ill persons in London ; and what steps he is taking or ensure that these funds are used to provide appropriate accommodation for these people.
Sir George Young : The Housing Corporation is making available up to £11.5 million of capital funding this year for the provision of housing accommodation in support of the Department of Health initiatives for homeless mentally ill people in London. These funds will be used by the Housing Corporation to support those housing association schemes which, in liaison with the authorities concerned, they judge will be most effective in providing for this client group.
Travellers
Mr. Pike : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received regarding problems created by gipsies/travellers during the last 12 months from (a) local authorities and (b) other sources other than those received as part of his consultative exercise.
Mr. Baldry : My Department has received some 670 letters from local authorities, hon. Members and members of the public during the past 12 months, excluding formal responses to the consultation paper issued by the Department in August last year.
Mr. Pike : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what was the cost to local authorities of dealing with problems of gipsies/travellers in the last 12 months for which figures are available ;
(2) what information he has of the number of attempts in the last 12 months to move gipsies/travellers ; and whether any breakdown of the land ownership can be given in such cases.
Mr. Baldry : The information requested is not held centrally.
Mr. Pike : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many gipsies/travellers there are currently in England ; how many are on official sites ; how many on unofficial sites on (a) private land and (b) public land ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Baldry : The latest biannual count of gipsy caravans, collected from information provided by district and borough councils, found 12, 810 gipsy caravans in England on 21 July 1993. A total of 8,408 caravans were on authorised sites, of which 2,976 were on private land and 5,432 on council land ; 4,402 caravans were in unauthorised encampments, but the local authority returns do not distinguish whether the land was in public or private ownership.
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Living over the Shops Initiatives
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list for each local authority (a) the address, (b) the date it was approved by his officials, (c) the overall scheme cost, (d) the level of subsidy, (e) the date of completion, (f) the date of withdrawal and (g) the letting date for each completed property for which a supplementary credit approval has been agreed by his Department under the living over the shops initiatives since the inception of the scheme.
Sir George Young : Not all the information requested is held by the Department. However, I have arranged for the information which is readily available to be placed in the Library.
Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant
Mr. Alan W. Williams : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what form of social cost-benefit analysis he has undertaken in order to justify the radioactive discharges and creation of nuclear waste resulting from the operation of THORP ; if he will release this ; and what other methods he has used to make the justification.
Mr. Yeo : I refer the hon. Member to the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment on 15 December, Official Report, column 1094. Copies of the decision document which sets out in detail how the decisions were reached are in the House Library.
Parish Reviews
Mr. Rendel : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what effect the Local Government Act 1992 has had on the validity of circular 121/77.
Mr. Baldry : Under the provisions of section 13 of the Local Government Act 1992, the Local Government Commission is given powers, at the direction of the Secretary of State for the Environment, to undertake parish reviews. These powers replace those the Local Government Act 1972 conferred on district councils and the Local Government Boundary Commission, on which Department of the Environment circular 121/77 gives guidance. Circular 121/77 continues to reflect established policy.
Mr. Rendel : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will instruct the commission for local government reorganisation to cease referring to circular 121.77 in investigations and reports.
Mr. Baldry : No. Department of the Environment circular 121/77 on parish reviews continues to reflect current policy.
Council Tax
Mr. Beith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the recommended maximum waiting times for hearing an appeal at a council tax tribunal.
Mr. Baldry : Valuation tribunals are independent judicial bodies, and it would not be appropriate for my
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right hon. Friend to make recommendations of this kind. However, the tribunals are very conscious of the need to process appeals as expeditiously as is consistent with a full and fair consideration of the merits of each case.Housing Action Trusts
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the total numbers of chairpersons and non-executive board members of (a) housing action trusts and (b) urban development corporations.
Sir George Young : Currently, the established housing action trusts have in total 55 board members, including chairmen ; the urban development corporations have 135 board members, including chairmen.
Correspondence
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what proportion of correspondence received by (a) his Department and (b) each of his Department's agencies receives (i) an acknowledgement within five days and (ii) a substantive reply within 15 days.
Mr. Gummer : My Department aims to reply to letters within 15 days, and to send an acknowledgement if a full reply cannot be given within this time. Some 1.5 million letters are received annually at the Department's headquarters. Work is now under way to ensure the systematic monitoring of performance in replying.
Urban Regeneration Agency
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the cost to public funds of the change of name of the Urban Regeneration Agency to English Partnerships ; and if he will make a statement on the reason for the change.
Mr. Baldry : The name English Partnerships reflects the fact that the agency will operate in the whole of England and in partnership with the public, private and voluntary sectors. The adoption of this operating name did not entail any increase in its preparatory costs.
Public Meetings
Mr. Straw : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what requirements are imposed on housing action trusts, housing associations and urban development corporations, to hold meetings in public of the main governing body, any committees, and any sub-committees ; and what rights of access the public have to agendas, minutes, and reports of such bodies, committees and sub-committees.
Mr. Gummer : No requirements are imposed on housing action trusts or urban development corporations. However, as a matter of policy and in the light of citizens charter commitments, most housing action trust board, committee and sub-committee meetings are open to the public. Agendas, reports and minutes are available to the public on request. Most urban development corporations admit the public to discussions on land use planning matters unless they are commercially confidential issues. Similarly, the proceedings of some meetings of housing action trusts may not be open to the public, for example where personnel matters, audit and commercially confidential matters are discussed.
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The Housing Corporation has the statutory responsibility to fund and supervise registered housing associations. As part of its supervisory role, the corporation requires associations to provide a wide range of information on a regular basis covering the performance and management of associations. These returns are available to members of the public and may be viewed at the corporation's headquarters.Blue-collar Services
Mr. Faber : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how he intends to modify the arrangements for retendering of blue-collar services following his decision to accelerate the programme for reviewing the structure of English counties and districts.
Mr. Baldry : My Department's announcement to the House on 29 March 1993, Official Report, column 56, that shire counties and districts being reorganised following review by the Local Government Commission would not be required to continue compulsory competitive tendering--CCT--for manual services during the reorganisation period, was widely welcomed by local authorities. The acceleration of the commission's review programme requires some modification to these arrangements.
Our objective is that authorities should, wherever possible, continue to subject services to the pressures of competition which can bring so many benefits. However, we would not wish to see new authorities tied to inappropriate arrangement made by their predecessors.
I therefore intend that, for all high-value, long-term contracts, the exemption already announced should remain unchanged. This will commence when Parliament approves changes in an area and end 18 months after the new authority coring for this work is a matter of routine practice, and new authorities would not be hampered by continuing with arrangements made by their predecessors for a short period. I therefore intend that the exemption will not apply where the period over which work is to be carried out is less than 12 months or the value of that work is less than £200,000 per annum. My officials have today written to the secretaries of the Association of County Councils and Association of District Councils giving further details of these modifications and those my right hon. Friend the Minister for Housing, Inner Cities and Construction and I announced on 15 December for white-collar and housing management services, Official Report, columns 733-35 . I will place a copy of the letter in the Library.
Housing Resources
Mrs. Angela Knight : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he intends to make an announcement about the distribution of housing resources for 1994-95.
Sir George Young : I am today announcing a number of decisions about the provision of resources for housing in 1994-95.
Local housing authorities will today receive their housing investment programme--HIP--allocations for 1994-95. They total some £1.5 billion. Within that, £1,038 million are general purpose allocations, or housing "annual capital guidelines". As last year, these have been
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calculated 40 per cent. on the basis of a statistical assessment of local housing needs, and 60 per cent. on a discretionary basis related to published criteria. The primary criterion has been the efficiency and effectiveness of local authorities in making use of capital resources to meet housing needs.This year, for the first time, in addition to their bids for resources, local authorities have also been required to submit a separate housing strategy statement. Our aim is that these strategy statements should become important documents in their own right, setting out a planned framework for housing programmes looking at least three years ahead. They should present an all-embracing picture of the housing needs and resources of each area, covering not only the plans of the local authority, but also the contribution to be made by the private sector.
In general, the picture emerging from the bids and strategy statements this year is one of continuing improvements in performance by local authorities, both in the management of their own stock and in their enabling role. Housing strategies are now better researched and the analysis of local problems and opportunities is conducted on a sounder basis. Local authorities are acting in a more corporate manner, drawing on all the available sources of funding and using their enabling powers to meet needs in fields such as community care. Further efforts have also been made to involve private housing interests, tenants and residents in the development of housing strategies. Authorities are also making increased use of the private sector to assist them in meeting the needs of those accepted as homeless. My announcement of both the housing investment programme and approved development programme resources today also demonstrates how the housing programmes of local authorities and housing associations are being brought closer together.
Under the competitive HIP process, we have again been able to direct resources to a greater degree to local authorities who are best able to make use of them. I am glad to be able to publish today the names of the authorities that were judged the best performers in each region under the HIP process. All other authorities will have the assessment of their performance conveyed to them by the Department's regional offices. I am encouraged by the progress which many authorities have made this year, and hope that all authorities will continue to work for further improvements during 1994-95. A further £288 million has been allocated for private sector renewal and housing defects in the form of "specified capital grant", to assist councils with their expenditure in these areas. As with the annual capital guideline allocations, 40 per cent. of these resources has been distributed on a statistical assessment of local needs, and 60 per cent. on a discretionary basis.
I am depositing tables in the Library of the House showing each authority's annual capital guideline and specified capital allocations. I am also depositing a list of the names of the authorities in each region who have been assessed as the best performers.
From 1 April 1994, estate action will be part of the single regeneration budget. Within the budget, £306 million will be available in 1994-95 for estate action schemes already under way. A further £67 million will be available for new schemes which will be approved under current estate action guidelines. Local authorities are today being notified of the outcome of their bids for resources for new schemes next year, as well as of the resources being
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provided for continuing schemes. I am placing a list of the new schemes in the Library together with tables showing the latest position on the distribution of resources between authorities for continuation schemes.Turning to the housing revenue account subsidy determination for 1994-95, I can today announce the main results of our consultation exercise.
I intend to confirm the proprosals to increase management and maintenance allowances by 4 per cent. overall and to continue to distribute the increase through a system of targets reflecting authorities' relative need to spend.
For rent guidelines, I am confirming the proposal for an average increase of 7.5 per cent. This will result in an average increase in guideline rents of £2.20 per week over those which apply this year, with a range of between £1.50 and £2.90 for individual councils, bringing the national average guideline rent to £31.60. Responsibility for setting actual rents remains with individual local authorities. Housing benefit will normally meet the whole of any rent increase for tenants receiving it.
The Housing Corporation's approved development programme for 1994-95 represents its fourth largest budget since housing association grant--HAG-- was introduced in 1974. Overall, gross capital expenditure will amount to over £1.5 billion in 1994-95. Some £600 million is available for new schemes to start next year, of which £400 million will be for new homes for sale or rent.
The Housing Corporation is confident that this programme will enable housing associations to provide some 58,000 new homes in 1994-95, bringing the total over the three years from 1992-93 to 1994-95 to 178,000. This more than fully meets our manifesto commitment to provide 153,000 homes over this period, and compares extremely well with the 70,300 new homes provided over the preceding three years, 1989-90 to 1991-92.
The Housing Corporation estimates that, because of reductions in procurement and borrowing costs and increases in efficiency, coupled with the growing proportion of the programme targeted at tenants incentive scheme grants and other cost-effective home ownership initiatives, it should still achieve the estimate it made a year ago of at least 154,000 completions over the three years 1993-94 to 1995-96.
The Housing Corporation has discussed priorities with local authorities before reaching decisions on new allocations to housing associations active in each area. These have been targeted on the basis of a statistical assessment of needs, an assessment of the enabling performance of the authority itself, and the value for money of bids. In this context, anticipated local authority contributions of discounted land or local authority HAG have increased by 15 per cent. over 1993-94. This, together with increased competition for resources and the reduction in grant rates, has led to an average HAG cost per unit which is 13 per cent. lower within the rented programme than the equivalent figure for 1993-94.
A key aim of the 1994-95 approved development programme is to make the most productive use of the existing housing stock : funding for the tenants incentive scheme has been increased and do-it-yourself shared ownership will continue to be targeted principally at local authority and housing association tenants, thus freeing up more existing tenancies for new lettings ; the mini-HAG programme for short-life housing has been increased to its highest ever level ; within the mixed and publicly funded
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rented programme, 19 per cent. of 1994-95 allocations are for rehabilitation which represents an increase on the last few years ; and the major repairs and miscellaneous works programme has been allocated £75 million, which represents the second highest figure ever.Planning Application Fees
Mr. Merchant : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects the level of planning application fees to increase ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Curry : Fees for planning applications will increase by 15 per cent. from 13 January 1994 and a further 15 per cent. from 3 January 1995. These increases represent another important step towards applicants meeting the full costs incurred by local planning authorities in determining planning applications. Fees remain a very small proportion of overall development costs, and we believe it is right that applicants, rather than the community, should pay for this service. Amending regulations, approved by both Houses, have now been made.
For the future, it is our intention to bring forward legislation, when parliamentary time is available, to allow local planning authorities to set their own fees. A consultation paper will be issued in due course. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland proposes similar arrangement for planning application fees north of the border.
Meanwhile, I have decided that the results of research carried out for my Department by Price Waterhouse on local planning authorities' costs in determining planning applications should be published. A copy has been placed in the Library of the House. The researchers found that some authorities do not have the procedures in place to establish the costs of processing applications. I expect that by the end of the financial year 1995-96, all authorities should be able to identify these costs as a prerequisite to setting their own fees.
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Urban Development Corporations
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the latest valuation of land held by each of the urban development corporations.
Mr. Baldry [holding answer 14 December 1993] : The urban development corporations are required to include in their annual accounts and publish in their annual report, the value of their development assets, which comprise both land and buildings at the lower of cost or net realisable value. At 31 March 1993, these were as follows :
|£ million
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London Docklands |39.109
Central Manchester |2.886
Trafford Park |19.250
Leeds |7.507
Sheffield |13.756
Merseyside |27.855
Bristol |13.787
Black Country |47.265
Birmingham Heartlands |0.281
Teesside |31.387
Tyne and Wear |33.866
Public Bodies
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing in 1992-93 prices, the gross public spending for each year since 1990-91 and the projected expenditure for each year to 1995-96 for each executive non-departmental public body--NDPB--sponsored by his Department, as listed in "Public Bodies 1992".
Mr. Gummer [holding answer 15 December 1993] : The table shows, for all 32 executive NDPBs currently sponsored by my Department, gross expenditure outturn for past years, estimates for 1993-94 and NDPBs' provisional plans for future years, in 1992-93 prices. NDPBs' most recent plans available to the Department are those submitted in summer 1993.
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Gross expenditure by non-departmental public bodies
£ million, 1992-93 prices
Non-departmental |1990-91 Outturn |1991-92 Outturn |1992-93 Outturn |1993-94 Estimates|1994-95 Plans |1995-96 Plans
public bodies
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Audit Commission |51.33 |63.75 |74.30 |76.12 |N/a |N/a
British Board of Agrement |4.19 |3.93 |3.60 |3.58 |4.38 |4.49
Commission for the new towns (including
former Development Corporations) |239.50 |197.77 |166.90 |83.39 |82.88 |73.60
Countryside Commission |27.16 |30.74 |42.90 |42.81 |43.11 |39.60
English Nature |0.20 |31.67 |39.60 |37.38 |N/a |N/a
Housing Action Trusts
Castle Vale |- |- |- |1.94 |12.11 |16.16
Liverpool |- |- |0.20 |18.40 |18.16 |22.44
North Hull |- |10.25 |17.40 |28.28 |25.79 |17.95
Tower Hamlets |- |- |- |8.23 |9.22 |10.77
Waltham Forest |- |0.31 |14.60 |26.92 |35.76 |29.98
Housing Corporation |1,462.67 |1,894.05 |2,529.00 |1,948.62 |1,620.29 |1,533.10
Joint Nature Conservation Committee |0.88 |4.14 |5.20 |4.75 |N/a |N/a
Letchworth Garden City Corporation |2.43 |1.97 |6.20 |6.49 |0.00 |0.00
Local Government Commission |- |- |2.10 |5.04 |7.73 |1.35
London Pensions Fund Authority |12.72 |11.31 |9.53 |9.42 |9.00 |8.60
London Residuary Body |239.77 |124.20 |76.50 |3.39 |0.00 |0.00
National Rivers Authority |407.01 |437.60 |433.20 |430.01 |425.74 |411.55
Rural Development Commission |38.49 |32.76 |35.33 |37.09 |40.25 |N/a
United Kingdom Ecolabelling Board |- |- |0.40 |1.16 |0.93 |0.90
UDCs
Birmingham Heartlands |- |- |5.40 |9.59 |9.31 |9.34
Black Country |37.53 |50.72 |63.00 |58.21 |49.35 |33.21
Bristol |15.79 |17.80 |25.60 |23.63 |21.32 |3.32
Central Manchester |16.12 |16.56 |12.50 |16.08 |11.55 |9.69
Leeds |15.79 |16.56 |9.00 |8.33 |5.03 |0.00
London Docklands |368.26 |279.45 |188.60 |142.18 |84.27 |71.36
Merseyside |30.91 |35.71 |41.00 |32.06 |29.80 |28.18
Plymouth |- |- |- |10.17 |6.05 |7.90
Sheffield |21.08 |15.42 |14.10 |18.50 |19.93 |11.49
Teesside |56.52 |60.24 |69.10 |49.30 |45.82 |33.84
Trafford Park |29.58 |31.88 |33.90 |35.93 |28.40 |29.26
Tyne and Wear |51.55 |50.92 |50.80 |54.62 |48.89 |40.84
Urban Regeneration Agency-English Partnerships |- |- |- |33.12 |232.80 |269.28
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Totals |3,129.48 |3,419.71 |3,969.96 |3,264.74 |2,927.87 |2,718.20
Public Bodies
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those responsible for making appointments of (a) chairs and (b) members of the boards to each of the executive non-departmental public bodies sponsored by his Department.
Mr. Gummer [holding answer 15 December 1993] : Appointments to the Rural Development Commission are made by Her Majesty the Queen. I am responsible for all appointments to the Department's other executive non- departmental public bodies except the following where responsibility is shared :
Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Seven of the 11 voting members are provided by English Nature, the Scottish and Welsh county councils and the Countryside Commission. Letchworth Garden City Corporation
One each of the six members is appointed by Hertfordshire county council and North Hertfordshire district council respectively. National Rivers Authority
Two of the 14 members are appointed by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and one by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
United Kingdom Eco Labelling Board
All members appointed jointly with my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade.
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