§ Mr. Allan Robertsasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many youths under the age of 21 years were charged in the last year in Bootle, on Merseyside and nationally, respectively, with obstructing the pavement.
§ Mr. MayhewThe information available centrally, which is approximate, relates to offences of obstruction under the Highways Act 1980, other than those caused by vehicles. It shows two persons aged 10 and under 21 so proceeded against in 1981 in the petty sessional division
£000 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 £ £ £ £ £ (a) ODA Aid Administration 2 3 3 66 61 (b) COI Services 59 46 47 62 79 (c) HMSO Allied Service 50 45 57 — — Totals 111 94 107 128 140 Notes:
(i) Lines (a) and (c) above are approximations: it would involve disproportionate effort to separate HMSO's total charges to ODA between those items concerned with publicity and those concerned with administrative printing and supplies.
(ii) Repayment for HMSO services was introduced from 1980–81. The costs were transferred to the Aid Administration Vote from that year.
(iii) These figures exclude ODA's staff and general costs and expenditure through the Development Education Fund.