SECTION D2

SUBJECT INDEX TO GREEN PAPERS AND CONSULTATION DOCUMENTS

The following is a list of Green Papers (a term used to cover all consultation documents, discussion papers, and other items which set out proposals which are at a formative or uncomplicated stage and are issued to solicit comment) received by the Public Information Office in the 1995-96 Session. The non-appearance of an item in this list cannot be taken as evidence that such a title does not exist. Most items are published or 'made available' by individual Government departments or agencies, from whom copies should be sought. (Some also appear in the Chadwyck Healey Catalogue of British Official Publications, not published by The Stationery Office (TSO). The few that are TSO published items have a Command Paper number or other reference attached. Details of the consultation period and issuing office address may be found in the edition of the Weekly Information Bulletin next following the date of receipt.

ADOPTION (SCOTLAND) - Proposals for inter-country adoption. Scottish Office. [20.5]

AGRICULTURE - Proposal to establish a potato industry development council for Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Scottish Office; Welsh Office. [19.7]

AIR QUALITY - UK National Air Quality Strategy. Department of the Environment. [2.8]

AIR TRANSPORT - Proposals for raising the limit on air traffic movements at Stansted. Department of Transport. [12.12]

ANIMALS (SCOTLAND) - Tagging of wild deer carcasses from Scotland. Scottish Office. [8.7.]

ANIMAL HEALTH - Proposals to remove statutory controls on rabbit viral haemorrhagic disease. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. [12.3]

ANIMAL WELFARE - Proposals for a mature beef assurance scheme. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. [3.5]

ANIMAL WELFARE - Animal Welfare in Transit Second Consultation. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. [28.8]

ARBITRATION - Commencement of the Arbitration Act 1996. Department of Trade and Industry. [9.8]

BROADCASTING - Regulation of conditional access services for digital television. Department of Trade & Industry. [16.1]

BROADCASTING - Regulation of conditional access services for digital television: detailed implementation proposals. Department of Trade and Industry. [26.6.]

BUSINESS TENANCIES - Proposed amendment to Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. Department of the Environment. [5.7]

CHARITIES (SCOTLAND) - Accounting by Charities in Scotland. Scottish Office. [1.8]

CHILD ABDUCTION - Child Abduction. Lord Chancellor's Department. [18.9]

CHILD CARE - Work and Family: Ideas and Options for Child Care. Department of Education and Employment. [28.8]

CHILDREN (SCOTLAND) - Children (Scotland) Act 1995, implementation plan: first phase of consultation. Scottish Office. [23.5]

COASTS (SCOTLAND) - Scotland's coasts. Scottish Office. [14.6]

COMMUNITY CARE - Direct payments. Department of Health. [15.1]

COMPANY LAW - Feasibility investigation of joint and several liability by the Common Law Team of the Law Commission.

TSO. [14.2]

COMPANY LAW - Shareholder communications at the annual general meeting. Department of Trade & Industry. [16.4]

COMPANY LAW - Company Accounts (Disclosure of Directors' Emoluments) Regulations 1996. Department of Trade and Industry. [25.1]

COMPANY LAW - Proposal for a 13th directive on company law concerning takeover bids. Department of Trade & Industry. [4.4]

COMPANY LAW - Shareholders and capital information on companies annual returns and returns of allotments. Department of Trade & Industry. [18.6]

COMPANY LAW - Tackling late payment: stating payment practice in the Director's report. Department of Trade & Industry. [27.6]

COMPANY LAW - accounting simplifications: re - arrangements to Companies Act schedule on small company accounts. Department of Trade and Industry. [22.7]

COMPANY LAW - Disclosure of Directors' Shareholdings: Proposal for an Order under the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994. Department of Trade and Industry. [21.8]

COMPANY LAW - Small Company Accounts: Possible Standard Format. Department of Trade and Industry. [3.10]

COMPANY LAW - Functions of the Registrar of Companies. Department of Trade and Industry. [19.8]

COMPETITION - Tackling cartels and the abuse of market power: implementing the Governments' policy for competition law reform. Department of Trade & Industry. [27.3]

COMPETITION LAW - Tackling Cartels and the Abuse of Market Power, a Draft Bill - an Explanatory Document. Department of Trade and Industry. [13.8]

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY - Constructing Quality. Department of the Environment. [21.11]

CONSUMER CREDIT - Operation of the central register of convictions. Office of Fair Trading. [20.12]

CONSUMER SAFETY - Draft regulations to remake the Pencils & Graphic Instruments (Safety) Regulations 1974 and the Pencils and Graphic Instruments (Safety) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1975. Department of Trade & Industry. [18.12]

CONSUMER SAFETY-Proposals to revoke regulations for prams, pushchairs and carry-cot stands. Department of Trade & Industry. [22.5]

CONTRACTS - Unfair Contract Terms, Issue No. 2. Office of Fair Trading. [2.10]

CORPORATION TAX - Controlled foreign companies legislation. Inland Revenue. [28.11]

COUNTRYSIDE - Vehicles on Byways. Department of Transport. [1.8]

COURT PROCEEDINGS - Liability of Judicial Officers and Others for Costs in Court Proceedings. Lord Chancellor's Department. [3.9]

CRIME - Sentencing and supervision of sex offenders. TSO. Cm 3304 [17.6]

CRIME - Mentally disordered offenders. Home Office. [3.5]

CRIME (SCOTLAND) - Making the punishment fit the crime. Government's proposals to change the law in Scotland governing the early release of prisoners. Scottish Office. [15.1]

CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS - Evidence in criminal proceedings: previous misconduct of a defendant Law Commission Consultation paper No. 141. TSO. [9.7]

CROFTING (SCOTLAND) - Crofting trusts: disposal of the Secretary of State's crofting estates. Scottish Office. [5.2]

DATA PROTECTION (EC) - Implementation of a new EC directive on data protection. Home Office. [22.3]

DISABLED PERSONS - Disability Discrimination Act 1995, a consultation on the employment code of practice, guidance on definition of disability and related regulations. Department for Education and Employment, and Department of Social Security. [15.12]

DOGS - Dogs (Fouling of Land) Act 1996: proposed implementation. Department of the Environment. [17.7]

DRIVING TESTS - Proposals to introduce tighter checks for driving test candidates. Driving Standards Agency. [26.3]

EDUCATION - Proposal for a new statutory framework on detention. Department for Education and Employment. [1.5]

EDUCATION - Principles and options for a new funding and allocations methodology for initial teacher training. Department for Education and Employment. [24.11]

EDUCATION - Lifetime learning. Department for Education & Employment. [5.12]

EDUCATION - Draft criteria for initial teacher training (key stages 2 & 3). Department for Education and Employment. [12.1]

EDUCATION - Baseline Assessment Draft Proposals. School Curriculum and Assessment Authority. [1.9]

ELECTIONS (NORTHERN IRELAND) - Designation of parties for the forthcoming election in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland Office. [1.4]

ELECTRICITY - Proposed acquisition of South Wales Electricity Co by Welsh Water plc. Office of Electricity Regulation. [5.12]

ELECTRICITY - Proposals to amend the Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) (No. 2) Order 1995. Department of Trade and Industry. [12.12]

ELECTRICITY - Transmission Price Control Review of the National Grid Company, Fourth Consultation. Office of Electricity Regulation. [24.9]

EMPLOYMENT - Resolving employment rights disputes. Department of Trade and Industry. [17.7]

ENVIRONMENT - Draft guidance on sustainable development for the Environment Agency. Department of the Environment. [11.12]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - Council Directive 92/43/EEC: conservation of natural habitats and wild fauna: Lambourn and Kennel floodplains. Department of the Environment. [7.6]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - Draft waste management paper 26D, landfill monitoring. Department of the Environment. [15.1]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - EC nitrate directive (91/676/EEC): proposed measures to apply in nitrate vulnerable zones and draft regulations transposing the directive in England and Wales. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. [30.11]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - European marine sites in England & Wales: a guide to the Conservation (Natural Habitats & c.) Regulations 1994 and to the preparation and application of management schemes. Department of the Environment. [14.3]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION-Reducing national emissions of sulphur dioxide. Department of the Environment. [27.6]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (SCOTLAND) - Draft regulations: Fresh Waters (Quality to Support Fish Life) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 and the Shellfish Waters (Quality for Shellfish) (Scotland) Regulations 1996. Scottish Office. [21.12]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (SCOTLAND) - EC nitrate directive (911676/EC): proposed measures to apply in nitrate vulnerable zones and draft regulations transposing the directive in Scotland. Scottish Office. [24.1]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (SCOTLAND) - Revised code of practice on litter and refuse. Scottish Office. [28.2]

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (SCOTLAND) - Scotland's coast. Scottish Office. [20.3]

EXPORT CONTROLS - Strategic Export Controls. TSO Cm 3349. Department of Trade and Industry. [26.7]

FIREWORKS - Control of the Availability of Fireworks. Department of Trade and Industry. [5.8]

FISH - Draft Commission Decision Establishing Methods of Official Control of Visible Parasites in Fish and Fishery Products Intended for Human Consumption. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. [6.8]

FISHING INDUSTRY - 1996 UK fishing vessel decommissioning scheme. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. [15.3]

FISHING INDUSTRY- Fish producers organisations. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. [2.4]

FOOD - Future direction of the strawberry sector research and development. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. [1.3]

FOOD (SCOTLAND) - Draft Commission Directive - List of Food Additives for use in Flavourings (III/5798/96). Scottish Office. [9.10]

FOOD (SCOTLAND) - Plastic Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1996. Scottish Office. [23.8]

FOOD (SCOTLAND) - Amendments to Council Directive 88/344/EEC on Extraction Solvents used in the Production of Foodstuffs and Food Ingredients. Scottish Office. [18.9]

FOOD (SCOTLAND) - Reporting Survey Results. Scottish Office. [2.9]

FOOD LABELLING (SCOTLAND) - Revision of the "Use By" Guidance Notes. Scottish Office. [24.9]

FOOD SAFETY (SCOTLAND) - Draft EC Commission proposal to set limits for lead and cadmium in food. Scottish Office. [9.11]

FOOD SAFETY (SCOTLAND) - Proposal for a directive amending European Parliament and Council Directive 94/35/EC on

sweeteners for use in foodstuffs. Scottish Office. [29.11

]

FOOD SAFETY (SCOTLAND) - Review of the Food Premises (Registration) Regulations 1991. Scottish Office. [7.6]

FOOD SAFETY (SCOTLAND) - Review of EC vertical food compositional directives. Scottish Office. [12.7]

FUNERALS - Pre-Paid Funerals. Department of Trade and Industry. [30.7]

GAMBLING - Gambling, Competitions and Prize Draws. Office of Fair Trading. [2.10]

GAMING - Casinos and bingo clubs. Home Office. [27.2]

GOVERNMENT AUDITING - Spending public money: governance and audit issues. TSO. Cm 3179 [7.3]

HEALTH - Burdens of Disease. Department of Health. [2.10]

HEALTH AND SAFETY - The proposed removal of outdated textile and anthrax prevention health and safety legislation. Health and Safety Executive. [22.1]

HERITAGE - Protecting our heritage: the built heritage of England and Wales. Department of National Heritage. [22.5]

HERITAGE (SCOTLAND) - Protecting the built heritage. Cm 3267. TSO. [22.5]

HERITAGE (SCOTLAND) - Arrangements for housing the Stone of Destiny in Scotland. Scottish Office. [16.7]

HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS (SCOTLAND) - Convention of Highlands and Islands. Scottish Office. [4.7]

HOUSING - Group Repair. Department of the Environment. [9.8]

HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS - Proposed rural exemptions from the purchase grant scheme for housing association tenants. Supplement to paper issued on 12 March 1996 (Detailed papers for 15 counties or areas of England available). Department of the Environment. [9.5]

HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS - Proposed rural exemptions from the purchase grant scheme for housing association tenants. Supplement to papers issued on 12 March 1996 and 9 May 1996. (Detailed papers for further 15 counties or areas of England available). Department of the Environment. [27.6]

HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS - Tax Relief Grant. Department of the Environment. [23.8]

HOUSING SUBSIDIES - HRA Subsidy: Rent Rebate Subsidy Limitation 1997-98 and Draft HRA Subsidy Determination 1997-98: Capital Charges. Department of the Environment. [12.9]

IMMIGRATION - Proposals for the prevention of illegal working in the United Kingdom. Home Office. [12.12]

INSOLVENCY - EC convention on insolvency proceedings. Department of Trade & Industry. [21.2]

INSURANCE - Proposal for an EC Directive on the Supplementary Supervision of Insurance Undertakings in an Insurance Group ("The Insurance Groups Directive"). Department of Trade and Industry. [21.8]

INVESTMENT SERVICES - Draft proposed regulations for the implementation of the EC Investment Services and Capital Adequacy Directives. HM Treasury. [24.11]

LAW COMMISSION - Consent in Criminal Law. Law Commission Consultation Paper No. 139. TSO. [12.2]

LAW COMMISSION - Damages for personal injury: non-pecuniary loss. Law Commission Consultation Paper No. 140. TSO. [8.1]

LICENSING (SCOTLAND) - Licensing (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1996 Draft Guidance for Consultation. Scottish Office. [28.8]

LOCAL AUTHORITIES - Leaseholders of local authorities, housing action trusts, urban development corporations, registered housing associations and other registered social landlords: further proposals to reduce charges for repairs and improvements. Department of the Environment. [14.6]

LOCAL AUTHORITIES - Housing revenue account (HRA) item 8 and subsidy determination 1997-98. Department of the Environment. [21.6]

LOCAL AUTHORITIES - Compulsive competitive tendering: changes to the framework for professional services and housing management. Department of the Environment. [21.5]

LOCAL AUTHORITIES - Local Authorities and Community Alarm Schemes. Department of the Environment. [16.10]

LOCAL GOVERNMENT - Future of the local government pension scheme in England and Wales. Department of the Environment. [15.12]

LOCAL GOVERNMENT - Contracting out of local authority council tax, community charge and national non-domestic rates functions. Department of the Environment. [9.4]

LOCAL GOVERNMENT - Housing revenue account and housing revenue account subsidy: proposed item 8 and subsidy

determinations for 1996197. Department of the Environment. [21.11

]

LOCAL GOVERNMENT-Revenue support grant for 1996/97 and related matters. Department of the Environment. [30.11]

LOCAL GOVERNMENT - Draft circular: Local Government Act 1992, Town and Country Planning Act 1990: local government change and the planning system. Department of the Environment. [20.12]

LOCAL GOVERNMENT - Allocation of housing accommodation by local authorities: consultation paper linked to the Housing Bill. Department of the Environment. [21.11]

LOCAL GOVERNMENT - Capital challenge, challenge funding of local authority capital expenditure. Department of the Environment. [25.1]

LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE - draft regulations on the Private Finance Initiative and local authority capital finance system. department of the Environment. [8.12]

LONG-TERM CARE - A new partnership for care in old age. TSO. Cm 3242. [7.5]

MEDICAL EDUCATION - Funding Post-graduate Medical and Dental Education. Department of Health. [1.8]

NOISE (ENGLAND AND WALES) - Noise Act 1996 - Draft Circular. Department of the Environment and Welsh Office. [23.9]

PENSIONS - Treatment of Pension Rights on Divorce. TSO. Cm 3345. Department of Social Security. [30.7]

PLANNING - Draft circular on planning and affordable housing. Department of the Environment. [23.2]

PLANNING - Draft revision of Mineral Planning guidance note 7: reclamation of mineral workings. Department of the Environment. [15.12]

PLANNING - Draft revision to DOE Circular 1 6/91 - planning obligation. Department of the Environment. [18.12]

PLANNING - Planning and telecommunications. Department of Environment. [3.4]

PLANNING - Strategic planning guidance for the River Thames. Department of the Environment. [25.6]

PLANNING - Interdepartmental Working Group on Blight. Department of the environment. [5.6]

PLANNING - Planning policy guidance note 1 (revised): general policy and principles. Department of the Environment. [9.7]

PLANNING - Draft revision of Mineral Planning guidance note 7: reclamation of mineral workings. Department of the Environment. [15.12]

PLANNING - Planning Policy Guidance Note 7 (revised): the Countryside - Environmental Quality and Economic Development. Department of the Environment. [31.7]

PLANNING - Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987: Proposal for a New Business Use Class. Department of the Environment. [31.7]

PLANNING (SCOTLAND) - Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972, section 50 agreements, draft circular. Scottish Office. [10.11]

PLANNING (SCOTLAND) - Draft National Planning Policy Guideline for skiing developments. Scottish Office. [19.2]

PLANNING (SCOTLAND) - Review of the Town and Country Planning System in Scotland. Scottish Office. [7.6]

PLANNING (SCOTLAND) - Structure planning policy: land for housing. Scottish office. [17.7]

PLANNING (SCOTLAND) - Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972. Scottish Office. [16.7]

PLANNING (SCOTLAND) -Review of the Town and Country Planning system in Scotland: proposed changes to the Town and Country Planning (Use Clauses) (Scotland) Order 1989. Scottish Office. [18.6]

PLANNING (SCOTLAND) - Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992: Permitted Development Rights for Underground Sewerage Works. Scottish Office. [8.10]

POLICE - Police Scientific Development Branch, executive agency status, prior options study. Home Office. [23.11]

PUBLIC BODIES (SCOTLAND) - Open and accountable: public bodies in Scotland. Scottish Office. [16.7]

RAILWAYS - Railtrack's Network Management Statement. Office of the Rail Regulator. [4.9]

RAILWAYS - Accurate and Impartial Retailing. Office of the Rail Regulator. [1.8]

RAILWAYS - Guidance on Insurance against Third Party Liability. Office of the Rail Regulator. [22.8]

RATING - Rate relief for village shops. Department of the Environment. [8.5]

RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENTS - Prior option reviews of Central Science Laboratory, Horticultural research International, Directorate of Fisheries Research, ADAS Research and Development and Veterinary Laboratory Agency. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and food. [23.11]

RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENTS (SCOTLAND) - Prior option reviews of the Scottish Crop Research Institute, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, Fisheries research Services. Scottish Office. [23.11]

RURAL AREAS (SCOTLAND) - Review of the Scottish Rural Partnership Fund. Scottish Office. [30.9]

SCHOOLS - Common Funding Formula for 1997-98 for GM Schools - Primary and Secondary Schools Totals. Department for Education and Employment. [25.7]

SEAT BELTS - Seat Belts in Minibuses and Coaches used to Carry Children. Department of Transport. [23.8]

SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS.- Proposals to ensure further protection in CREST. HM Treasury. [26.3]

SOCIAL SECURITY - Income-related Benefits and Job Seeker's Allowance (Personal Allowances for Children and Young Persons) (Amendment) Regulations 1996. Social Security Advisory Committee. [4.7]

SOCIAL WORK (SCOTLAND) - see ADOPTION (SCOTLAND)

SPACE - UK Space policy. British National Space Centre. [6.12]

SPORT - British Academy for Sport. Sports Council. [5.12]

SPORT - Planning application procedure. Statutory consultees, the Sports Council. Department of the Environment. [15.1]

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - Indicators of sustainable development for the United Kingdom. TSO. [12.3]

TAX - Tax Law Rewrite, the Way Forward. Inland Revenue. [23.7]

TAXATION - Pre-transaction rulings. Inland Revenue. [9.11]

TAXATION - Employee travel and subsistence. Inland Revenue. [13.5]

TAXATION - PAYE settlement agreements. Inland Revenue. [12.3]

TAXATION - Self assessment: consultation on new tax return for trustees and personal representatives. Inland Revenue. [5.2]

TAXATION - Draft clauses from the 1995196 Finance Bill - deregulatory changes to taxation of corporate and government debt. Inland Revenue. [29.11]

TAXATION - The VAT bad debt relief scheme. HM Customs & Excise. [1.4]

TRANSPORT- Transport, the way forward: the Government's response to the transport debate. TSO. Cm 3234. [25.4]

TRANSPORT - Draft Merchant Shipping and Maintenance Security Bill (Oil Pollution). Department of Transport. [27.6]

VAT - Time Limits on Repayment of VAT, Unjust Enrichment and Statutory Interest: Draft Finance Bill Clauses.

HM Customs and Excise. [7.8]

VETERINARY MEDICINE - VM Symbol for Veterinary Medicines. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. [25.7]

WASTE - Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging Waste) Regulations. Department of the Environment. [11.7]

WASTE MANAGEMENT - Landfill Restoration and Post Closure Management. Draft Waste Management Paper 26E. Environment Agency. [17.9]

WATER - Control of Pollution (Silage, Slurry and Agricultural Fuel Oil) Regulations 1991. Department of the Environment. [7.6]

WATER - Increasing customer choice. Department of the Environment. [1.4]

WATER - Water Pollution: Control of Pollution Regulations, Further Consultation and Draft Regulations. Department of the Environment. [23.8]

WATERWAYS - Proposed changes to the legislation governing the licensing of pleasure boats on inland waterways. Department of the Environment. [23.7]

WILD DEER (SCOTLAND) - Tagging of Wild Deer Carcasses from Scotland. Scottish Office. [1.8]

WOODLANDS - Farm Woodland Premium Scheme. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Scottish Office; Welsh Office. [22.8]