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Liverpool John Lennon Airport
Mrs. Ellman: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she was consulted on Royal Mail's proposal to withdraw air freight operations from Liverpool John Lennon airport; and if she will make a statement. [131476]
Mr. Timms [holding answer 14 October 2003]: DTI Ministers and officials meet representatives from the Royal Mail on a regular basis to discuss a wide range of issues, including the company's transport review.
Decisions about the future structure of the company's air freight operations is a matter for the Royal Mail Board. I understand that while the company has proposed the closure of its operations at John Lennon airport, the Communication Workers Union has asked
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to put forward alternative proposals that could mean the retention of this site. Royal Mail has agreed to consider their proposals before any final decision is made.
National Grid
Mr. Tynan: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether (a) the continental gas interconnector, (b) the beach terminals, (c) the compressor stations, (d) the National Transmission System and (e) the national control centre in Hinckley rely on power from the National Grid to operate. [132436]
Mr. Timms: Yes, but all have back-up arrangements in place.
Post Office Closures
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what consultations she has had with the Post Office about (a) the closures of Crown post offices and (b) the consequences of closing the Crown Post Office at Brondesbury. [132725]
Mr. Timms: Decisions on closures of individual post offices are an operational matter for Post Office Ltd., but all such proposals are subject to public consultation under the Code of Practice agreed between Post Office Ltd. and Postwatch. Post Office Ltd's decision to close Brondesbury Crown post office has been taken in the context of its programme to restructure the urban post office network and the need to address the substantial losses made by the Crown office part of the network. I understand from Post Office Ltd. that there are three alternative offices between half and three-quarters of a mile from Brondesbury.
Power Stations
Mr. Tynan: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many gas-fired power stations are classified as (a) shipper nominated interruptible, (b) Transco nominated interruptible and (c) network sensitive loads. [132435]
Mr. Timms: There are 19 interruptible Combined Cycle Gas Turbine stations (CCGTs) in England and Wales. Transco has rights of interruption over all of these CCGTs. The shippers' contractual arrangements are not fully known, but it is thought that in the great majority of cases, they do have interruption rights. Even if they do not, the stations may still be self-interrupted in order to arbitrage between the gas and electricity markets. One of these CCGTs is a Network Sensitive Load, which means that its position within one of the Transco Networks makes it more likely to be interrupted for reasons of local capacity constraints. Another CCGT is in a network sensitive position from an electricity perspective. Based on National Grid Transco's latest information and experience of this station switching fuels when interrupted in the past, there is a high degree of confidence in the station's alternative fuel capability.
Science Research Councils
Mr. Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the members of each science research council. [132495]
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Ms Hewitt: The following are the names of all members of the seven Research Councils.
Members of the Seven Research Councils
- Dr. Peter Ringrose—Council Chair
Professor Julia Goodfellow—Chief Executive
Dr. D. Brightman—Self-employed Farm Manager
Professor H. Dalton—Chief Scientific Officer, DEFRA
Dr. M. A. Darnbrough—Head of Bioscience Unit at DTI
Professor R. B. Freedman—Head of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick
Professor C. A. Gilligan—Professor of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Mr. J. S. Graham—Head of Rural Affairs Department, Scottish Executive
Professor K. Gull—Professor of Pathology, University of Oxford
Professor D. Kell—Professor of Chemistry, UMIST
Professor TBL Kirkwood—Professor of Gerontology, University of Newcastle
Professor A. A. Nash—Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Edinburgh
Dr. J. M. Padfield—Retired (ex Pharmaceutical Industry)
Dr. A. Penman—Head of Laboratory, Unilever Research and Development
DR. C. I. Ragan—Executive Director, Neuroscience Research Europe, Lilly Research Laboratories
Professor C. A. Tickle—Professor of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
- Sir Graeme Davies—Vice Chancellor, University of London
Prof John Wood—Chief Executive CCLRC
Dr. Derek Chadwick—Director of the Novartis Foundation
Prof Mike Cruise—Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham
Prof Graham Davies—Head of the School of Engineering, University of Birmingham
Mr. Stephen Dexter—Grant Thornton
Prof John Durell—Head of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester
Prof Julia Goodfellow—Chief Executive BBSRC
Mr. Peter Gregson—Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Southampton
Prof Ian Halliday—Chief Executive PPARC
Dr. Richard Henderson—MR.C Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
Ms Anne Kensall—Business Adviser
Prof John Lawton—Chief Executive NERC
Prof John O'Reilly—Chief Executive EPSRC
Mr. Philip Ruffles—Rolls-Royce plc
Prof David Williams—Head of Clinical Engineering, University of Liverpool
- Professor Dame Julia Higgins—Council Chair
Professor John O'Reilly—Chief Executive
Professor John S. Archer, Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heriot-Watt University
Professor John Chapman, Head of Physics and Astronomy Department, Glasgow University
Professor Ann Dowling—Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
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Professor Susan Gibson—Department of Chemistry, King's College London
Dr. David Grant—Vice-Chancellor Cardiff University
Dr. Peter Grindrod—Chair of Numbercraft Ltd.
Mr. David Hughes—Director of Innovation, DTI
Dr. J. Kennedy—Director Ove Arup and Partners
Ms Beatrice Leigh—GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals
Mr. John Loughhead—Alstom plc
Professor Sir Keith O'Nions—Chief Scientific Adviser, Ministry of Defence
Dr. Andrew Rickman—Booker Technology plc
Dr. Martyn Thomas—MTAL (Consultant)
- Frances Cairncross—Chair
Professor Ian Diamond—Chief Executive
Professor Alan Alexander—Chair, Scottish Water
Professor Patricia Broadfoot—Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol
Professor Andrew Chesher—Department of Economics, University College of London
Ms Helen Dent—Chief Executive, Family Welfare Association
Professor Fiona Devine—Department of Sociology, University of Manchester
Professor Hadyn Ellis—Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cardiff
Mr. Paul Johnson—Chief Economist, Department for Education and Skills
Mr. Adair Turner—Vice Chairman, Merrill Lynch (Europe)
Professor Robin Wensley—Warwick Business School, Warwick University
Professor Steve Wilks—Department of Politics, University of Exeter
Professor Sir Alan Wilson—Vice Chancellor, University of Leeds
Mr. Andrew Winckler—Partner and Chairman, Financial Services Regulatory Practice, Ernst and Young
- Sir Anthony Cleaver—Council Chair
Professor Colin Blakemore—Chief Executive
Dr. David Armstrong—Department of General Practice, Kings College London
Dr. Mac Armstrong—Chief Medical Officer, Scottish Executive Health Dept.
Sir William Castell—Chief Executive, Amersham plc
Professor Kay Davies—Head of Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Professor Richard Denton—Professor of Biochemistry, University of Bristol
Dr. Peter Fellner—Chief Executive Officer, Celltech Group plc
Mr. Derek Flint—Retired (ex Financial Services Industry)
Dr. Ruth Hall—Chief Medical Officer, Welsh Assembly
Professor Ian McLennan—Director of MR.C Centre for Immune Regulation University of Birmingham
Professor Alan North—Professor of Molecular Physiology at the University of Sheffield
Professor Sir John Pattison—Director of Research, Analysis and Information, Department of Health
Professor Genevra Richardson—Professor of Public Law, Queen Mary College, University of London
Professor Nancy Rothwell—MR.C Research Professor, University of Manchester
Professor John Savill—Professor of Medicine, University of Edinburgh
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NERC
Mr. Rob Margetts—Chairman
Professor John Lawton—Chief Executive
Professor Malcolm Anderson—Professor of Physical Geography, and Assistant Director, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol
Mr. Chris Andrews—Former Chairman and Managing Director of Rhodia Ltd.
Professor John Beddington—Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College
Professor Valerie Brown—Research Professor in Agro-Ecology, and Director of the Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, University of Reading
Professor Howard Dalton—Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA), Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Professor Trevor Davies—School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Professor Michael Depledge—Head of Science for the Environment Agency
Professor Anne Glover—Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen
Dr. Colin Hicks—Director General of the British National Space Centre, and Director-Space in the Department of Trade and Industry
Mr. Edwin Jenner—Formerly of AstraZeneca plc
Mrs. Karen Morgan—Deputy Chairman of WaterAid, Chairman of the University of the West of England, and a Director of Wessex Water
Mrs. Sara Parkin—Programme Director at Forum for the Future
Professor Judith Petts—Head of School, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Birmingham
Professor David Roberts—Distinguished Adviser at BP Exploration
Professor David Read—Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield
- Mr. Peter Warry—Chair
Professor Ian Halliday—Chief Executive
Professor George Efstathiou—University of Cambridge
Professor Brian Foster—University of Bristol
Dr. George Gray—retired
Mr. David Hendon—Department of Trade and Industry
Professor John Inkson—University of Exeter
Professor Dewi Lewis—Amersham plc
Professor Keith Mason—Mullard Space Science Laboratory
Professor Chris Sachrajda—University of Southampton
Professor Anneila Sargent—California Institute of Technology
Mrs. Judith Scott—British Computer Society
Mr. David Steeds
Ms Hewitt: Details of Research Council members' financial and commercial links with industry are available from each Council's Register of Members' Interests available from their website: Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council, www.bbsrc.ac.uk; Council of
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the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils, www.cclrc.ac.uk; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, www.epsrc.ac.uk; Economic and Social Research Council, www.esrc.ac.uk; Natural Environment Research Council, www.nerc.ac.uk; Medical Research Council, www.mrc.ac.uk; Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, www.pparc.ac.uk. For the convenience of Members I am placing paper copies in the Libraries of the House. A full list of Research Council members was given in my answer to my right hon. Friends Question No. 132495.
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