Rules and Regulations

HC Deb 16 March 1994 vol 239 cc731-2W

Mr. Steen

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many rules and regulations his Department has passed in each of the last three years.

Mr. Lang

The numbers of statutory instruments, including orders, schemes, rules, and regulations but excluding instruments made jointly with other Departments, made by my Department in the years 1991, 1992 and 1993 are:

Table 1
Current expenditure by education authorities on repair and maintenance of school buildings
£ million at 1992–93 prices
	1978–79	1984–85	1989–90	1990–91	1991–92	1992–93
Borders	0.825	0.941	1.233	1.215	1.226	1.240
Central	4.081	4.374	4.065	4.105	4.471	4.400
Dumfries and Galloway	0.850	2.216	2.889	1.966	2.875	2.851
Fife	4.679	5.878	5.845	6.359	4.889	5.697
Grampian	6.396	9.848	8.012	8.439	11.655	15.726
Highland	2.303	3.074	4.394	4.443	4.012	3.302
Lothian	12.949	11.477	8.182	7.420	7.309	11.964
Strathclyde	58.646	51.011	49.342	43.382	43.785	44.180
Tayside	4.351	5.895	5.705	6.066	6.844	7.433
Orkney	0.186	0.256	0.265	0.204	0.220	0.278
Shetland	0.325	0.502	0.574	0.966	1.322	1.711
Western Isles	0.797	0.500	0.927	1.166	1.196	1.001

Table 2
Capital expenditure by education authorities on school buildings
£ million at 1992–93 prices
	1978–79	1984–85	1989–90	1990–91	1991–92	1992–93
Borders	0.767	1.423	1.898	3.491	3.612	2.718
Central	9.757	1.688	5.956	5.175	3.984	5.877
Dumfries and Galloway	2.906	3.702	2.158	1.527	3.251	3.787
Fife	6.604	4.489	6.938	9.539	4.432	5.104
Grampian	19.942	9.046	4.671	6.413	7.624	6.725
Highland	8.243	1.273	4.656	3.437	3.818	5.119
Lothian	25.029	9.258	13.802	10.425	8.709	18.011
Strathclyde	64.691	31.117	31.590	25.984	31.037	29.226
Tayside	6.407	3.294	4.200	3.467	3.980	5.458
Orkney	1.159	1.953	1.181	1.422	0.431	1.154
Shetland	4.923	2.850	0.863	0.922	1.490	4.001
Western Isles	1.131	1.502	1.890	2.512	2.990	2.499

Notes:

1. The figures in table 1 have been compiled from local authority financial returns and in table 2 from capital payment returns submitted by local authorities to the Scottish Office. Both sets of figures have been adjusted to 1992–93 prices using the GDP deflator.

2. Generally capital expenditure (table 2) is less in later years compared with 1978–79. This reflects a substantial and progressive decline in school pupil numbers which has reduced the requirement for new school building.

	Number
1991	307
1992	381
1993	346

Not all such instruments will have contained substantive regulatory provisions; information as to which instruments contained such provisions is not held centrally.