Deputies:

In answering this question, I am interpreting the term "working groups" as groups which are working towards completion of particular projects or tasks rather than those which meet on a continual or ongoing basis to provide strategic direction. This is the same interpretation I took when I answered an identical question tabled by the Deputy on 31 March 2010. Using this interpretation, there are no working groups chaired by my Department. However, my Department does, of course, chair, and is represented on, a wide variety of other types of groups, including those that support the work of Cabinet committees and the implementation of the programme for Government or other Government policy initiatives.

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