Whether it will list all board members of non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) and Executive agencies who have registered membership of t…

The Executive publishes details of the declared political activity of all current regulated ministerial appointments on its public appointments website at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/government/publicbodies.
This is a “real time” website that is updated by the Executive on an on-going basis. At 31 December 2004, 95 (13.8%) of the 686 current appointees are shown to have declared that they had been politically active on behalf of the Labour party and 24 (3.5%) on behalf of the Liberal Democrat party in the five years preceding their appointments.
The information in relation to regulated NDPBs is not available in the form requested by the member. The political activity information on regulated NDPB board members that is required to be collected and collated by the Executive on behalf of the Commissioner for Public Appointments is broken down by NDPB category only.
Information about the political membership of the board members of Executive Agencies is not held by the Executive as these appointments are not regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland’s Code of Practice.
I refer the member to the answers given to questions S1W-20118, S1W-24411 and S1W-25468 (answered on 26 March 2002, 17 April 2002 and 30 April 2002respectively) which explain why annual data from 1999 to March 2001 is notavailable.
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament/webapp/wa.search.
The number of regulated NDPB board members who have declared political activity on behalf of the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties from 1 April 2001 is as follows:
Period
| Appointments made in Period (Including Reappointments)
| No. of Appointees Declaring Political Activity on Behalf of the Labour party
| No. of Appointees Declaring Political Activity on Behalf of the Lib Dem Party

1 April 2001 to 31 March 2002
| 273
| 8 Executive NDPBs
6 Advisory NDPBs
29 NHS Bodies
(16% of all new appointments)
| 1 Executive NDPB
1 Advisory NDPB
5 NHS Bodies
(3% of all new appointments)

1 April 2002 to 31 March 2003
| 253
| 22 Executive NDPBs
8 NHS Bodies
(12% of all new appointments)
| 10 Executive NDPBs
(4% of all new appointments)

1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004
| 220
| 8 Executive NDPBs
6 Advisory NDPBs
5 NHS Bodies
1 Public Corporation
(9% of all new appointments)
| 1 Advisory NDPB
1 NHS Body
(0.9% of all new appointments)


Details of the political activity of all regulated NDPB appointments made in the period 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005 will be published in the new Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland’s Annual Report.