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Pension Fund Deficits
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will make a statement on government liability for deficits in the pension funds of (a) Rolls Royce and (b) BAE Systems. [124905]
Jacqui Smith: The Government assumed ultimate responsibility for any outstanding liabilities of British Aerospace, which vested in its successor company on 1 January 1981 in preparation for privatisation. The Government would only become responsible for such liabilities, including those for pension fund deficits, in the event of a voluntary winding up of BAE Systems plc or an order to wind up the company by the court under the Insolvency Act.
The Government has no liability for deficits in the pension funds of Rolls-Royce.
Post Offices
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many post offices in Leicester she has visited since 2001; and how many of those subsequently closed. [125273]
Mr. Timms: In her ministerial capacity, my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, has visited one post office in Leicester since 2001. In her constituency capacity, she visits post offices as part of her normal engagements. Post office closures are an operational matter for Post Office Ltd and we do not keep data showing if post offices visited by Ministers have subsequently closed.
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Public Appointments
Keith Vaz: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the appointees to the (a) National Consumer Council, (b) Hearing Aid Council, (c) Gas Consumer Council, (d) Post Office Users Council for Scotland, (e) Post Office Users Council for Northern Ireland, (f) Post Office Users Council for Wales, (g) English Advisory Committee on Telecommunications, (h) Scottish Advisory Committee on Telecommunications, (i) Northern Ireland Committee on Telecommunications, (j) Economic and Social Research Council, (k) Medical Research Council, (l) Natural Environmental Research Council, (m) Advisory Committee on Coal Research, (n) Energy Advisory Panel, (o) Measurement Advisory Committee, (p) Overseas Project Board, (q) London & Southeast Industrial Development Board, (r) Northwest Industrial Development Board (s) Southwest Industrial Development Board and (t) Eastern Region Industrial Development Board; and which of the appointees to each body are from ethnic minorities. [122992]
Ms Hewitt: The membership of the bodies listed is as follows. An asterisk indicates appointees who have declared that they are from the black or minority ethnic communities:
- National Consumer Council
- Deirdre Mutton—Chair
- Robert Chilton—Vice Chair
- Graeme Millar
- Viv Sugar
- Stephen Costello
- Mark Boleat
- Andrew Dilnot
- Dianne Hayter
- Sir Christopher Kelly
- Stephen Locke
- Julie Mellor
- Julia Unwin
- Hearing Aid Council
- John Raine—Chair
- Anthony Corcoran
- Christine Pearce
- Deepak Prasher*
- Victoria Skeels
- Jonathan Ormerod
- Maurice Hawthorne
- Mark Georgevic
- Margaret Hughes
- Denise Yates
- Huw Thomas
- John Irwin
- Peter Ormerod
- Energywatch
- Ann Robinson—Chair
- Allan Asher—Chief Executive
- Andrew Horsier
- Bob Wilkinson
- John Hanlon
- Les Roberts
- Neil Menzies
- Sharon Darcy
- Tim Cole
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- Postwatch
- National Council Appointees:
- Peter Carr—Chair
- Moi Ali*
- Dr. Diane Bailey
- Ann Foster
- Clara Arokiasamy*
- Council appointees who are also regional chairs
- Dr. Tom Begg QBE JP—Scotland
- John Stringer OBE—Northern Ireland
- Eifion Pritchard QPM—Wales
- Judith Donovan CBE—Northern England
- Kay Dixon—Greater London
- Dr. Charles Winstanley—East of England
- Richard Wand—Midlands
- Dr. David Bland OBE—South East England
- Charles Howeson—South and West
- English advisory committee on telecommunications
- Moira Black CBE—Chair
- Peter Collins
- Siva Lingham-Moodley*
- Robert Little
- Brian Love
- Barbara McClennan
- Brian McNally
- Peter Sayers
- James Woodward-Nutt
- Scottish advisory committee on telecommunications
- Jeremy Mitchell—Chair
- Christopher Griffith
- Mark Hagger
- Kenneth Murray
- Wendy Reynolds
- Alastair Robertson
- Barry Stevens
- Northern Ireland advisory committee on telecommunications
- Courtenay Thompson—Chair
- John Campbell
- Brian St. John Collins
- Moore Kennedy
- Ian McPherson
- Seamus Magee
- Jean McVitty
- Economic and Social Research Council
- Frances Cairncross—Chair
- Professor Ian Diamond—Chief Executive
- Professor Patricia Broadfoot
- Professor Andrew Chesher
- Ms Bronwyn Curtis
- Professor Haydn Ellis
- Mr. Stuart Etherington
- Mr. Paul Johnson
- Ms Eileen MacKay
- Ms Marianne Neville-Rolfe
- Professor Robin Wensley
- Professor Steve Wilks
- Professor Sir Alan Wilson
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- Medical Research Council
- Sir Anthony Cleaver—Chair
- Professor Sir George Radda—Chief Executive
- Dr. E. Mac Armstrong
- Sir William Castell
- Professor Kay Davies
- Professor R M Denton
- Dr. Peter Fellner
- Professor Ray Fitzpatrick
- Derek Flint
- Dr. Ruth Hall
- Professor Ian MacLennan
- Professor Alan North
- Professor Sir John Pattison
- Professor Genevra Richardson
- Professor Nancy Rothwell
- Professor John Savill
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Rob Margetts—Chair
- Professor John Lawton—Chief Executive
- Professor Malcolm Anderson
- Chris Andrews
- Professor John Beddington
- Professor Valerie Brown
- Pamela Castle
- Professor Howard Dalton
- Professor Trevor Davies
- Professor Anne Glover
- Richard Hardman
- Dr. Colin Hicks
- Edwin Tenner
- Mrs Karen Morgan
- Professor Judith Petts
- Professor David Read
- Advisory Committee on Cleaner Coal Technologies
- Peter Cooper
- Mike Evans
- Dr. Mike Parley
- Ken Ferguson
- Dr. Chris Green
- John Griffiths
- Professor John McMullan
- Nick Otter
- Brian Ricketts
- Paul Setchfield
- Professor Jim Williamson
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- Energy Advisory Panel
- Sir John Collins—Chair
- Dr. Christopher Anastasi
- Peter Lehmann CBE
- Professor John Chesshire OBE
- Dr. Catherine Mitchell
- Tony Cooper
- Hugh Mortimer
- Dr. Nigel Evans
- David Green MBE
- Peter Nicholls
- Dr. Dieter Helm
- Mike Parker OBE
- Dr. Paul Jefferiss
- Professor Kenneth Vowles OBE
- Professor Alexander Kemp
- Dr. Anthony White
- Measurement Advisory Committee
- Dr. Colin Gaskell CBE Chair
- Dr. Penny Allisy-Roberts QBE
- Mr. Mike Buckley
- Dr. Peter Cowley
- Prof Les Ebdon
- Dr. David Ellix
- Prof Ken Grattan
- Mr. David Holmwood
- Dr. Alan Johnson
- Dr. Roger Jones
- Mr. John Latham
- Mr. Steve Lower
- Dr. Julia King
- Dr. John Tyrer
- Mr. Richard Freeman
- Dr. Janet Townsend
- London and South East Industrial Development Board
- John McCready—Chair
- Thomas Cohen
- Peter Croucher
- Praful Davda*
- Bryan Davies
- Gurbinder Gill*
- Jim Hicks
- Wendy Hyde
- Mei Sim Lai*
- Helen Sasson
- Robert Stiles
- Indeer Jeet Sodhi*
- Graeme Wyles
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- North West Industrial Development Board
- Lorraine Clinton—Chair
- John Dixon
- John Alcock
- Raymond Armstrong
- John Cackett
- David McCall
- Duncan Mcllan
- Kirit Pathak QBE*
- George Verghese*
- Eva Wisemark
- Dr. Marcus Wood
- South West Industrial Development Board
- Ian Lowe—Chair
- Dr. Susan Astbury
- Ruth Bagley
- Dr. Richard Brown
- Alan Courts
- John Crownshaw
- Ian Douglas
- Neville Gibson
- Alan Hayman
- Richard Morgan
- Rama Nand-Lal
- Victoria Pickering
- Nigel Randall
- Brian Sherwin
- Terence Slater
- Barbara Speirs
- Eastern Region Industrial Development Board
- Elaine Oddie—Chair
- David Baggott
- Alan Davies
- Robert Downing
- Martin Gould
- Keith Hamilton
- Terence Hill
- Shaz Khan OBE*
- Hugh Lawson
- Laurence Russen
- Mike Smith
- Notes:
- 1. The Gas Consumer Council has been replaced by the Gas and Electricity Consumer Council (better known as Energywatch)
- 2. Postwatch (also known as the Consumer Council for Postal Services) took the place of the Post Office Users Council for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales and also the Post Office Users National Council.
- 3. We have no trace of the Advisory Committee on Coal Research—we have however attached details of the membership of the Advisory Committee on Cleaner Coal Technologies.
- 4. We have no trace of the Overseas Project Board.
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