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Uganda

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development whether he has received representations from (a) the authorities in Uganda and (b) his Department's in-country programme office in Kampala regarding termination of the Uganda Forest Sector Policy and Strategy Project. [205903]

Hilary Benn: On 13 December, DFID Uganda received a letter from Uganda's Minister of State for the Environment presenting his concerns about the implications of the completion of DFID's support for Uganda's forestry sector. DFID Uganda is in discussion with the Minister about his concerns. The final phase of DFID's Uganda Forest Sector Policy and Strategy Project began in 2001, and was scheduled to end in June 2003. Since then, DFID has granted the project two extensions to accommodate the slow pace of reform in the forestry sector. At the time of the last extension in June 2004, we agreed with the Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment that our support would formally end on 31 December 2004. The sector is well supported by other development partners.
 
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ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS

Agency Staff

Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the membership is of the (a) Joint Nature Conservation Committee, (b) Advisory Committee on Business and Environment, (c) Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment, (d) Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances, (e) Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment, (f) Agricultural Dwelling House Advisory Committee, (g) Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales and (h) Agricultural Wages Committees for England; what the (i) cost of salaries and expenses to members and (ii) running cost of each body was in the last year for which figures are available; and how many staff are employed to service each body. [203811]

Alun Michael: The appointees to each of these bodies and the figures that are available are listed, subject to the qualifications as follows.

(i) Membership is accurate as at 31 March 2004

(ii) The total cost of salaries and expenses paid to members and the running costs for each committee are included with Defra's accounts but a re not separately identifiable. I have included the remuneration levels, as at 31 March 2004 and the total sponsorship cost to the department (which would include remuneration and expenses of members, administrative costs, research funding and any other cost to the department directly related to the sponsorship of the body) for the last financial year.

(iii) Departmental staff service these bodies alongside a range of other duties but it is not possible to identify their numbers separately.

(iv) The Advisory Committee on Business and Environment is no longer in existence.

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

(Chair vacant)

Dr. Lucinda Blakiston-Houston

Prof. Robert Dodgshon

Mr. John Lloyd Jones, OBE

Sir Martin Doughty

Dr. Mike Moser

Dr. John Faulkner

Dr. John Markland, CBE

Mr. Michael Scott

Sir Ewen Cameron, DL

Prof. Peter Doyle

Prof. Richard John Pentreath

Prof. David Ingram, OBE

Appointed members receive £8,536 per annum

Defra expenditure on sponsorship—£40,284

Advisory Committee on Consumer Products and the Environment

Dr. Alan P. Knight (Chair)

Ms Julia P. Hailes

Mrs. Alison Austin QBE

Mr. Mark A. Barthel

Dr. Frans Berkhout

Mrs. Jane Bickerstaffe

Mr. Tim T. S. Brown

Mr. Anthony W Burton

Mr. Pooran Desai

 
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Dr. Charlotte Grezo

Mr. John D. Lawrence

Mr. William S. Mccartney

Ms Teresa M. K. Smallbone

Dr. Phil Stubbs

Mr. Francis J. Sullivan

Ms Fiona Weir

Chair and members are unpaid

Defra expenditure on sponsorship—£46,000

Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances

Prof. Jane Plant CBE (Chair)

Dr. Stuart Dobson

Dr. Gev Eduljee

Dr. Paul Harrison

Prof. Roy Harrison QBE

Prof. Gabrielle Hawksworth

Ms Gwynne Lyons

Dr. Lorraine Maltby

Prof. James Readman

Prof. David Williams QBE

Chair receives £193 per day and members receive £149 per day

Defra expenditure on sponsorship—£16,114

Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment

Prof. Christopher J. Pollock (Chair)

Prof. Jules N. Pretty

Prof. Jim Dunwell

Prof. Mark J. Bailey

Prof. Jeffrey Stuart Bale

Mr. Edward John Cross

Dr. Susan E. Hartley

Dr. Penelope Hirsch

Dr. Philip Eric Hulme

Prof. Keith Lindsey

Mr. Jim Orson

Dr. Mark Rees

Dr. Jonathan Paul Stoye

Chair receives £198 per meeting, members receive £153 per meeting

Defra expenditure on sponsorship—£95,000

Agricultural Dwelling House Advisory Committee

Mrs. Pauline Allwood

Mr. George A. Timothy Astbury

Miss Patricia Norah Aston

Mr. Christopher J. Barker

Mr. George R. Bartaby

Mrs. Margaret Beeny

Mr. Barry Capon

Mr. Allan Gerald Corless

Mr. James Darlington

Mr. William John Dyke

Mr. Peter Parley

Mr. Alan Felstead

Mr. Michael Filer

Ms Jeanette Irene Firrell

Mrs. Simonie Fowler

Miss Constance Ethel Fozzard

Mr. Michael J. Harrison

Mr. Michael A. Harrowven

 
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Mr. Andrew Brian Humphries

Mr. Keith Johnson

Mr. Trevor Jones

Mr. Edward Thomas Kirby

Mr. P. J. Longhurst

Mr. Keith Arundel McDougall

Mr. G. Miller

Mr. Andrew Milner

Mrs. Margaret Newbury

Mr. Edward Orgill

Mr. Harold Pollins

Mr. J. Richardson

Mrs. Gillian Noelle Rostron

Mr. Peter Edward Sanders

Mr. Desmond M. Saunders

Mr. Peter G. Scates

Mr. John C. Sinkins

Mrs. E. Slade

Mr. D. W. A. Stevens

Miss Rosemary Prudence Thorne

Mrs. D. Thornton

When chosen to hear a case members are paid £114 per day

Defra expenditure on sponsorship—£110,145 ¹

Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales

Mr. John Derek Evans (Chair)

Dr. Hugh Billot

Prof. Gillian Morris

Chair receives £242 per day, members receive £150 per day

Defra expenditure on sponsorship—£6,000

Agricultural Wages Committees

Dr. Wilbye Belfield

Mr. David Hill

Mr. David Anthony Howard

Mr. Keith Johnson

Mrs. Gwendoline Lavender

Mr. James Robert Leishman

Mr. Alan Pendlebury

Mr.Harold Pollins

Mr. Ian Potter

Mr. Ian Hughes Colin Powell

Mr. Derek Ridout

Canon Frank Scuffham

Mr. John C. Sinkins

Mr.Richard Tinn

Mr. Roger Bailey Weaver

When chosen to hear a case members receive £114 per day

Defra expenditure on sponsorship—£110,145 ¹

¹ The sponsorship costs for the Agricultural Wages Committees and Agricultural Dwelling House Advisory Committees are combined due to the fact that the same Defra division is responsible for them.

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