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Mr. Kilfoyle : To ask the President of the Board of Trade who are the members currently appointed to the Export Guarantees Advisory Council.
Mr. Needham : The information requested is as follows :
R. T. Fox, Esq, CBE (Chairman)
A. G. Gormly, Esq, CBE (Deputy Chairman)
Sir Robert Davidson
B. P. Dewe Mathews, Esq
T. M. Evans, Esq, CBE
Sir Frank Lampl
G. W. Lynch, Esq
J. W. Melbourn, Esq, CBE
D. B. Newlands, Esq
C. R. Smallwood, Esq
Sir Derek Thomas, KCMG
Viscount Weir
Mr. Kilfoyle : To ask the President of the Board of Trade who are the members currently appointed to the Advisory Council on Research and Development.
Mr. Eggar : ACORD has been dissolved. I announced this to the House at the same time as the membership of the new energy advisory panel on 27 October 1993, Official Report, columns 645-47.
Mr. Kilfoyle : To ask the President of the Board of Trade who are the members currently appointed to the Insolvency Practitioners Tribunal.
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Mr. Neil Hamilton : The chairmen and members currently appointed to the Insolvency Practitioners Tribunal are as follows :
Chairmen :
J. M. BowersRetired solicitorJ. P. BrooksRetired QCN. A. HaltonLegal counsel, ESSOW. S. JamesRegistrar in bankruptcyJ. H. VallatBarrister and solicitor
Members :
M. ClarkRetired inspector generalG. B. DuffinRetired accountantJ. W. DysonN/KP. W. FarmeryBarristerA. D. GwytherRetired inspector generalM. G. M. HainesChartered accountantE. G. HarperRetired inspector generalMrs. B. Kalisch-BrodkinSolicitorE. W.
McDowellRetired accountantE. P. MorrisConsultant on information systemsB. PhillipsRetired accountantM. PriorSolicitorJ. A. SimmondsRegistrar in bankruptcyD. G. SliddersRetired accountantMrs. E. M. StantonN/KEI Walker- ArnottSolicitorI. G. WattChartered accountantG. A. WeissChartered accountantMrs. Moira BlackChartered accountant
Mr. Kilfoyle : To ask the President of the Board of Trade who are the members currently appointed to the Policyholders Protection Board.
Mr. Neil Hamilton : The current members of the Policyholders Protection Board are :
Member
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Sir Roger Neville-Chairman |Group chief executive of the Sun
| Alliance group
Mr. Richard Gamble |Group chief executive of Royal
| Insurance
Mr. Michael Willett |Chairman of Britannic Assurance plc
Mr. Roy Adkins |A member of the Insolvency Steering
| Board
Ms Helena Wiesner |An independent consumer affairs
| consultant
Mr. Kilfoyle : To ask the President of the Board of Trade who are the members currently appointed to the Advisory Committee on Arbitration Law.
Mr. Neil Hamilton : The members currently appointed to the Advisory Committee on Arbitration Law are :
The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Steyn-- Chairman
Martin Hunter, Esq.-- Vice-Chairman
A W. S. Bunch. Esq.
S. C. Boyd, Esq, QC
Dr. K. G. Chrystie
Lord Dervaird
J. B. Garrett, Esq.
Professor R. M. Goode, CBE, QC, FBA
Mrs. P. Kirby-Johnson
R. A. MacCrindle, Esq, QC
A. L. Marriott, Esq.
K. S. Rokison, Esq, QC
D. A. G. Sarre, Esq.
J. H. M. Sims, Esq.
Professor D. R. Thomas
Professor John Uff, QC
V. V. Veeder, Esq, QC
Mr. Kilfoyle : To ask the President of the Board of Trade who are the members currently appointed to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.
Mr. Neil Hamilton : The current members of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission are :
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ChairmanGraeme Odgers
Deputy Chairmen
Peter Dean, CBE
Dan Goyder
Hans Liesner, CB
Other members
Alan Armstrong
Ian Barter
Professor Michael Beesley, CBE
Catherine M. Blight
Patrick Brenan
John S. Bridgeman
Roger Davies
Professor Sam Eilon
James Evans
Alexander Ferry, MBE
Nicholas Finney, OBE
Sir Archibald Forster
Sir Ronald Halstead, CBE
Patricia Hodgson
Michael Hoffman
David Jenkins, MBE
Leonard Kingshott
Graham Mather
Nigel Matthews
Professor Stanley Metcalfe, CBE
Professor Patrick Minford
John Montgomery, JP
Dr. Derek Morris
Professor John Pickering
Leslie Priestley
M. Richard Prosser
Ann Robinson
James Roe
Lynda Rouse
David Thomson
Clare Tritton, QC
Professor Geoffrey Whittington
Mr. Kilfoyle : To ask the President of the Board of Trade who are the members currently appointed to the electricity consumers committee for each region.
Mr. Eggar : Under the Electricity Act 1989 the Director General of Electricity Supply must consult the Secretary of State on the appointment of chairmen to the regional electricity consumers committees. A list of chairmen was published in the Office of Electricity Regulation's annual report of 1992, which has been presented to Parliament in pursuance of section 50 of the Act. Other members of the committees are appointed by the director general in consultation with the individual chairmen. I have asked the director general to send the hon. Member a list of all current consumer committee members.
Mr. Kilfoyle : To ask the President of the Board of Trade who are the members currently appointed to the advisory panel on deregulation.
Mr. Neil Hamilton : The eight members of the advisory panel on deregulation are :
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Chairman
Sir Nigel Mobbs, DL |Slough Estates plc
Members
Stephen Moss |Grosvenor Securities Ltd.
Richard Ellis |TSB Bank plc
Dan Wright |Albion Automotive Ltd.
John Hoare, BSc, FCA |J. R. Hoare and Co.
Tim Brooks |In Shops plc
Alan Hudson |Hudson Administration
Lewis Goodman |Norwest Consultants Ltd.
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Ms Lynne Jones : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what assessment he has made as to the effect of the GATT on employment.
Mr. Needham : Studies by the OECD, the World bank and a number of other independent bodies have forecast substantial gains in world income as a result of the completion of the Uruguay round. I am therefore confident that the success of the round will bring significant increases in United Kingdom output and employment over the next decade, as well as boosting business confidence in the short term.
Coal Authority
Mr. Waterson : To ask the President of the Board of Trade when he plans to make available documents relating to the Coal Authority and the proposed licensing regime for the privatised coal industry.
Mr. Eggar : The Coal Industry Bill provides for the establishment of a new public sector body, the Coal Authority, to carry out a number of functions, including the licensing of coal mining. I am today making available to the House copies of an explanatory note describing how it is envisaged that the Coal Authority will carry out those functions, and draft model licensing documents. We shall also be using those documents as the basis for a consultation exercise.
The proposed regime has been carefully designed to provide a flexible and impartial means of access to coal reserves in a way that facilitates the development of the industry, promotes competition and gives proper protection to third parties.
Renewable Energy Sources
Mrs. Ewing : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what is the current annual level of expenditure by his Department into investigation of potential renewable energy sources in (a) wind power, (b) off-shore wave power, (c) on-shore wave power and (d) solar power ; and if he will list the current expenditure patterns by (i) EU countries and (ii) European Free Trade Area countries.
Mr. Eggar : The annual level of research and development expenditure on these programmes over the previous three financial years--1990-91, 1991- 92 and 1992-93--has averaged £6,630,000 for wind power, £189,000 for shoreline wave power, plus £206,000 for wave power more generally, including off-shore wave power, and £2,260,000 for solar power. My Department does not maintain records on the current expenditure patterns of either EU or EFTA countries.
Aluminium Imports
Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the President of the Board of Trade (1) what is his policy towards imports into the EC of aluminium from Russia ;
(2) if it is his policy to (a) extend and/or (b) increase EC quotas for aluminium from Russia ;
(3) what assessment he has made of whether Russia is dumping aluminium in the EC.
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