To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how many vacancies in public appointments there were in each county in 2002; [106231](2) how many public appointments there were in each county in 2002. [106232]

This information is not held centrally. Individual Ministers, supported by their Departments are responsible for making their own appointments. For my own Department during 2002, six new appointments and 21 re-appointments were made to non-departmental public bodies for which the Cabinet Office was responsible. All were made to boards of public bodies whose headquarters are in London.