Written Answers of 8 April 1987

THE ARTS

  Patent Information
  Mr. Sims
  asked the Minister for the Arts whether he has any plans to review the dissemination of patent information.

  Mr. Luce
  An efficiency scrutiny is being undertaken jointly by the Department of Trade and Industry, the Office of Arts and Libraries and the British Library to review existing arrangements for the dissemination of patent information in the United Kingdom and for the exchange of British and overseas patent documentation.

  Libraries (Damage)
  Mr. Simon Hughes
  asked the Minister for the Arts if the British Library has completed its assessment of the damage to its collections inflicted by Miss Norma Hague and discovered in 1984.

  Mr. Luce
  [pursuant to his reply, 27 March 1987, c. 291]The British Library has completed its assessment. I understand that all the property for which there was conclusive evidence of theft by Miss Hague was subsequently recovered.

  Mr. Simon Hughes
  asked the Minister for the Arts if he will list the individual and total value of the damage inflicted by Miss Norma Hague on the collections of (a) the British Library, (b) the Birmingham public library and (c) the Liverpool public library, including in each case the token value mentioned as their share of the damage on the charge when Miss Hague pleaded guilty and was convicted in November 1984.

  Mr. Luce
  [pursuant to his reply, 27 March 1987, c. 291]Miss Norma Hague was convicted in 1984 of stealing property to an estimated value of £21,847 from these libraries. The individual values were £12,847 for Liverpool city libraries, £5,000 for the city of Birmingham public libraries, and £4,000 for the British Library. A considerable proportion of the stolen property was subsequently recovered. I understand that there is no conclusive evidence that further damage was inflicted by Miss Hague beyond the amounts with which she was charged.

SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND

  Zircon
  Mr. Dalyell
  asked the Solicitor-General for Scotland what is the amount of the additional costs falling on the Crown Office to date of inquiries in relation to the Zircon affair.

  The Solicitor-General for Scotland
  Almost all the additional costs falling on the Crown Office to date of the 220
  inquiries in question have been those caused by parliamentary interest in the matter. It is not, however, possible to quantify the costs involved.

  Scottish Law Commission
  Mr. Hirst
  asked the Solicitor-General for Scotland if he will make a statement on the work of the Scottish Law Commission.

  The Solicitor-General for Scotland
  In the period from 1980 to date the Scottish Law Commission has produced 27 reports on its law reform projects. Legislation has been passed or introduced to implement, wholly or partially, 21 of these reports. Two of these reports did not require legislation and the remaining reports are under consideration.

  Procurators Fiscal
  Mr. Bill Walker
  asked the Solicitor-General for Scotland if he will give details of plans to increase the work load of procurators fiscal.

  The Solicitor-General for Scotland
  The work load of procurators fiscal is dictated by the number of reports received from the police and other agencies and will vary from office to office. Case tracking computers have been installed in the two biggest offices, Glasgow and Edinburgh, which will deal more efficiently and effectively with the work load of these offices.

EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

  Science and Engineering Research Council
  Mr. Madden
  asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much has been awarded in grants by the Science and Engineering Research Council to (a) education institutions and (b) others in Yorkshire and Humberside in each year since 1979; how much the council will disburse in the current year; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Walden
  The information requested is as follows:

  SERC research grants to education institutions and others

  Financial year

  Amount £ million (Cash)

  1979–80

  43·3

  1980–81

  56·2

  1981–82

  62·3

  1982–83

  67·6

  1983–84

  70·4

  1984–85

  78·8

  1985–86

  87·0

  1986–87

  198·4

  1987–88

  2103·7

  1 Provisional outturn

  2 Estimates

  The Science and Engineering Research Council's total grant-in-aid from the science budget in 1987–88 is £350 million. SERC's overall allocation is determined by my right hon. Friend in the light of advice from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils. The SERC is primarily responsible for deciding priorities within its overall allocation.

  Mr. Greenway
  asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much grant has been paid to

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  the Science and Engineering Research Council in cash and real terms in each year since 1975; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Walden
  The information requested is as follows:

  Grant-in-aid to science and engineering research council

  £'000

  Cash terms

  Real terms (at 1986–87 prices)

  1975–76

  106,277

  294,610

  1976–77

  125,243

  306,735

  1977–78

  136,765

  294,088

  1978–79

  153,308

  297,871

  1979–80

  175,466

  291,731

  1980–81

  201,377

  282,229

  1981–82

  216,720

  276,463

  1982–83

  234,806

  279,337

  1983–84

  254,278

  289,505

  1984–85

  277,866

  303,383

  1985–86

  298,534

  307,490

  1986–87

  316,187

  316,187

  1987–88

  350,252

  335,169

  The amount of grant-in-aid allocated to the Science and Engineering Research Council is decided by my right hon. Friend on the advice of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils.

  Further Education (Examinations)
  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proportion of full-time students in non-advanced further education are pursuing GCSE or GCE-O, A-level courses.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  In November 1985, 25 per cent. of full-time and sandwich students in non-advanced further education were enrolled on GCE O and A-level courses.

  Financial Management Initiative
  Mr. Latham
  asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will make a statement on the effect on his Department of the financial management initiative.

  Mr. Kenneth Baker
  The financial managememt initiative covers a wide range of management reforms to improve management in central Government in support of the Government's commitment to improve value for money. In my Department it has given added impetus to work which had already begun and has also led to new initiatives.

  The introduction of the FMI has encouraged the further development of performance indicators and output measures for individual programmes and policies. It has also led to the creation of a financial information system covering the Department's running costs. These and other initiatives, such as a new coherent top management system

  Thousands

  Academic year beginning in

  1979

  1980

  1981

  1982

  1983

  1984

  1985

  Great Britain

  Home/full-time initial entrants

  University

  74·7

  76·4

  74·0

  71·6

  69·2

  70·5

  70·3

  All initial entrants

  142·0

  146·3

  155·9

  160·9

  160·7

  163·2

  164·6

  Home full-time students

  Higher education

  451·2

  465·5

  488·9

  504·9

  517·9

  524·9

  531·0

  610

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  and improved financial management training, have encouraged a greater awareness among managers at all levls of the need for good financial management, both in the Department's own spending and in the spending of those bodies for which it has responsibility within the Government.

  The effect can be seen over a range of the Department's work. Examples include the targets and performance indicators contained in the Department's chapter in the public expenditure White Paper (Cm.56), and the chapter on quality and efficiency in the recent White Paper on higher education (Cm.114). Control of the Department's own running costs has been delegated to four cost centre managers.

  School Building Projects
  Mr. Strang
  asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the total national financial provision for school building projects in the financial years 1986–87, 1987–88 and 1988–89.

  Mr. Dunn
  Information is not available in the form requested. The Government's expenditure plans have included the following provision for schools in England.

  £ million

  11986–87

  21987–88

  21988–89

  Central Government:

  Building grants to voluntary and special schools3

  46

  54

  50

  Local authority capital:

  Schools4

  217

  299

  290

  1 Cmnd. 9702.

  2 Cm. 56.

  3 Includes repairs-maintenance, purchase of sites and buildings and building work.

  4 Includes building work and purchase of sites, furniture and equipment. Provision is net of in-year receipts.

  Schools in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are the responsibilities of my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

  Higher Education
  Mr. Radice
  asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what has been the total number of home full-time and sandwich students in higher education in each year since 1979;

  (2) what has been the total full-time equivalent number of part-time students in higher education in each year since 1979;

  (3) what has been the total number of home full-time entrants to universities in each year since 1979.

  Mr. Kenneth Baker
  The information is shown in the following table :
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  Academic year beginning in

  1979

  1980

  1981

  1982

  1983

  1984

  1985

  FTE1 of part-time students Higher Education

  93·8

  2100·9

  2104·0

  2105·9

  2109·1

  2109·1

  114·0

  1 Conversion factors vary in the different sectors and for different levels of course. An illustrative average factor of 35 per cent. has been used for all part-time students.

  2 Including about 1,000 non-advanced full-time equivalents in Scotland. The figures are to be revised.

  Mr. Radice
  asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, on the basis of the revised projections of future higher education student numbers announced in the White Paper, "Higher Education: Meeting the Challenge", what he estimates average unit costs in 1986–87 prices will be in 1988–89 for the universities, for the polytechnics and local authority colleges and for the voluntary and grant-aided colleges.

  Mr. Kenneth Baker
  Unit costs in 1988–89 will depend on various decisions still to be taken by the institutions in recruiting students, by the Government in the annual public expenditure survey, and by local authorities and others in providing additional income. However, it is worth noting that against the 2·1 per cent. increase in student numbers between 1986–87 and 1988–89 adopted as the planning target in the recent White Paper, current plans for centrally provided or determined recurrent funding allow for an increase, at 1986–87 prices, over the same period of 6 per cent. for universities, 7 per cent. for local authority polytechnics and colleges, and 2 per cent. for voluntary and other grant-aided colleges.

  School Meals Supervisory Assistants
  Mr. Freeson
  asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what national agreements exist regarding the rates of pay to he paid to school meals supervisory assistants.

  Mr. Dunn
  I understand that the latest manual workers pay settlement was agreed by the National Joint Council of Local Authority Services (Manual Workers) in October 1986.

  Career Education and Guidance
  Mr. Lawler
  asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what improvements are being made in the provision of career education and guidance.

  Mr. Kenneth Baker
  Following from the White Paper "Working Together", I am pleased to say that my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Employment and Wales and myself today launched a new initiative designed to improve the effectiveness of the provision of career education and guidance. A copy of the booklet "Working Together for a Better Future" has been placed in the Library.

ENERGY

  Community Insulation Projects
  Mr. Maples
  asked the Secretary of State for Energy what arrangements will be made to the fuel community insulation projects in 1988; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Peter Walker
  At present the Department of Health and Social Security makes single payments to 224
  recipients of supplementary benefit for the cost of materials to draughtproof their homes. The work of draughtproofing is normally undertaken by community insulation projects, under the auspices of NEA, and carried out by long-term unemployed people on the Manpower Services Commission's community programme. There are now 384 of these projects, and over 300,000 homes have already been insulated under this programme, to which the Manpower Services Commission, DHSS, the DOE and my Department have all contributed.

  I have drawn hon. Members' attention to the success of this programme because in many of their constituencies it is helping the old to keep warm and providing the younger with worthwhile jobs, as well as improving the energy efficiency of the 300,000 homes.

  Present arrangements for single payments for draught-proofing will end in April 1988 as part of the social security reforms. The Government have, however, made clear their commitment to continue help with the cost of draughtproofing materials where it is needed. The Departments supporting this programme have therefore been considering how this can best be done.

  My right hon. Friends and I have now decided that in the long term the right solution will be to extend the home improvement grant scheme to include the cost of draughtproofing materials within a revised system. The new arrangements for the home improvement grant scheme will not, however, be in place before the social security changes.

  As an interim measure, therefore, the Government have decided that from April 1988 help with the cost of draughtproofing materials will be provided through the Manpower Services Commission. The commission will be well placed to undertake this task because of its responsibility for operating the community programme through which the actual work of draughtproofing is now done. It will operate a scheme in consultation with my Department and others with an interest.

  Eligibility for the scheme will be widened in April 1988 to include all households in receipt of income support, housing benefit or family credit. This means an increase in eligible households from under 3 million to about 7 million. A small contribution will be sought from householders benefiting from the scheme, but this will amount to no more than about 3 per cent. of the cost of the draughtproofing service provided.

  As a result of these decisions the future of the community insulation projects is now assured. We estimate that Government support for them in 1988–89 will be worth some £55 million to £60 million, of which £14·5 million will be for draughtproofing materials alone. This would represent an increase of 80 per cent. on 1986–87 and nearly 30 per cent. on 1987–88. Discussions will now be taking place with NEA and other organisations

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  involved in draughtproofing work in order to finalise the administrative arrangements which will come into force from April 1988.

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS

  Afghanistan
  Mr. David Atkinson
  asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on his discussions on Afghanistan during his recent visit to the Soviet Union.

  Mr. Eggar
  My right hon. and learned Friend made clear to Mr. Shevardnadze, as did my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to Mr. Gorbachev, that we would support a neutral and non-aligned Afghanistan, but that this could emerge only by early Soviet withdrawal and the creation of conditions enabling the Afghan people freely to decide their own future.

  Financial Management Initiative
  Mr. Latham
  asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make a statement on the effect on his Department of the financial management initiative.

  Mr. Eggar
  The FCO response to the financial management initiative involves a wide range of management reforms which have built on work already being done by the FCO to improve management and value for money. The precise effects of the financial management initiative cannot therefore be defined.

  Both the diplomatic and aid wings of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have introduced top management systems, which provide a structured framework for planning the strategic deployment of resources. All posts and departments in the diplomatic wing and all staff in the aid wing have an agreed set of objectives against which performance is regularly assessed.

  Computerised management information systems provide managers at all levels with information on the costs of their programmes. The aid wing has a long-established system of budgeting for programme expenditure. Further delegated budgeting has been introduced, notably overseas. Thirty per cent. of local expenditure is now controlled directly by posts and greater responsibility has been devolved to Overseas Development Administration's development divisions.

  These reforms have led to a clearer setting of priorities, more effective targeting of activities and greater awareness

  Experiments by primary purpose: Scotland

  Thousands

  1983

  1984

  1985

  Study of normal or abnormal body structure or function

  119·3

  115·6

  122·1

  To select, develop or study the use etc. of medical, dental and veterinary products

  54·4

  49·2

  42·0

  Development of transplant techniques

  0·4

  0·9

  1·3

  To select, develop or study the use, hazards or safety of:

  Plant pesticides (including fungicides)

  1·0

  0·5

  4·1

  Herbicides or substances modifying plant growth

  1—

  0–5

  1—

  Substances used in industry

  2·6

  1·3

  3·4

  Substances used in the household

  1—

  0·1

  0·1

  Cosmetics and toiletries

  0·9

  0·2

  0·9

  Food additives

  3·8

  0·4

  1·1

  Tobacco and its substitutes

  —

  —

  —

  Injurious plants or metazoan animals and their toxins

  1·8

  0·8

  0·5

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  of the financial implications of policy decisions. The results of these improvements are reflected in the specific output measures published in Cm. 56 and in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's success in meeting many of the additional demands on its services through efficiency savings without recourse to extra resources from central funds.

  Foreign Compensation (USSR)
  Mr. Knowles
  asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 11 March, Official Report, column 212, to the hon. Member for Teignbridge (Mr. Nicholls) if he will make a further statement on the response to the advertisement about the Foreign Compensation (USSR) (Registration and Determination of Claims) Order 1986.

  Mr. Eggar
  The closing date for claims in respect of bonds was 31 March 1987. As there was a last-minute rush to register claims for bonds by some major institutions which hold large numbers of them, it will be several weeks before accurate figures for the number of bonds received and their total face value is known. However, provisional estimates, and I would emphasise that these are only estimates, put the number of bonds received at half a million, with a face value of approximately £20 million. Up to the end of March some 3,300 requests for application forms in respect of other claims were received and dealt with by Foreign Compensation Commission. The closing date for these other claims is 30 June 1987.

HOME DEPARTMENT

  Animals (Experiments)
  Mr. McTaggart
  asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report the number of experiments on animals carried out in (a) Scotland and (b) the United Kingdom during the last three years which were of a non-medical nature.

  Mr. Douglas Hogg
  Information is not available in the precise form requested. However, information on the primary purpose of experiments on living animals in Great Britain started in the years 1983 to 1985, the latest year for which information is currently available, is given in table 15 of "Statistics of Experiments on Living Animals Great Britain, 1985" (Cmnd. 9839). Corresponding information for Scotland is given in the following table; corresponding information for Northern Ireland is not available.
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  1983

  1984

  1985

  General environmental pollutants

  1·9

  5·6

  6·7

  To demonstrate known facts (Certificate C)

  0·4

  0·3

  0·3

  For other purposes

  73·3

  72·3

  72·2

  For more than one purpose

  2·3

  6·0

  15·1

  TOTAL

  262·1

  254·2

  269·7

  1 Less than 50.

  Passport Application Forms
  Mr. Hawksley
  asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when post offices in The Wrekin constituency will be provided with passport application forms.

  Mr. Waddington
  This is part of a general problem. Shortages have arisen as a result of an exceptionally high level of demand for passports. Steps are being taken to increase the number of forms being printed and to restock any post offices in short supply as quickly as possible.

  AIDS
  Mr. Cohen
  asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimates are available to him as to the number of prisoners who are HIV positive.

  Mr. Mellor
  On 7 April the prison population of England and Wales included 44 inmates reported as having been identified as HIV antibody positive. There is no statistically reliable estimate of the number of unidentified cases.

  Police Manpower
  Mr. Cyril D. Townsend
  asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what increases in police and other manpower he has approved for the six metropolitan joint police authorities in 1987–88.

  Mr. Hurd
  The following increases are contained in the establishment schemes for the six authorities for 1987–88, which I have laid before Parliament today.

  Authority

  Additional Police Posts

  Additional Civilian Staff

  Merseyside

  —

  49 full-time

  Northumbria

  175

  5 full-time

  South

  33 full-time

  Yorkshire

  50

  2 part-time

  West Midlands

  —

  2427 full-time

  West Yorkshire

  50

  50 full-time

  Notes

  1 The increase of 75 police posts for Northumbria was announced on 18 December 1986. Thirty-five of the posts were with immediate effect and 40 with effect from 1 April 1987.

  2The increase in the number of civilians in the West Midlands police is expected to release 382 police officers to operational duties.

  Durham Prison
  Mr. McNamara
  asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many category A women prisoners there in Her Majesty's prison, Durham; how many strip searches have been made on category A prisoners in Her Majesty's prison, Durham in March, indicating (a) strip searches before and after consultation with legal advisers, (b) after visits and (c) after cell change, wing search and cell search.
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  Mr. Mellor
  Last month there were, until 25 March, four women category A prisoners in Durham prison. There have been three since that date. During the month strip searches were carried out on women prisoners in this category in the circumstances and the number of occasions shown:

  Number

  After legal visits

  Nil

  After other visits

  4

  At the time of cell changes and wing and cell searches

  11

  Total

  15

  Metropolitan Police (Raid)
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis as to how many police officers attended at 34 Carson road, Canning Town, E16, on the morning of 28 March, as to the purpose of the raid, as to how many occupants were in the flat, as to whether a warrant was presented and as to who was arrested and on what charge.

  Mr. Douglas Hogg
  I understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that five police officers entered 34 Carson road, Canning Town, E16 on the morning of 28 March 1987. Four uniformed officers arrived in response to a call for assistance from an officer who had arrested a man for road traffic offences. The man had assaulted the officer and then run to 34 Carson road. The only other person on the premises at the time was a woman alleged to be the man's girlfriend. No warrant was presented, nor was one necessary in the circumstances.

  The man was arrested and charged with driving while unfit through alcohol, driving with excess alcohol and two charges of assaulting a police officer with intent to resist arrest.

  Wheel Clamping
  Mr. Peter Bruinvels
  asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis as to the number of police engaged in wheel-clamping duties.

  Mr. Douglas Hogg
  A maximum of 14 police constables supervise wheel clamping units from Mondays to Fridays, while six constables are deployed on such duties on Saturdays. In addition, the inspector, sergeant and six constables at the Hyde Park car pound spend a proportion of their time on duties arising from wheel clamping as does the chief inspector in charge.

  Crime Statistics
  Mr. Wheeler
  asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has for changing the area analyses of the crime figures.

  Mr. Hurd
  I have no plans to change the area analyses of the recorded crime figures which are published annually by police force area in the Home Office "Statistical Bulletin" issued in March and later in the year in more detail in "Criminal Statistics". Separate figures for London boroughs will continue to be placed in the Library of the House each quarter. More detailed analyses of the figures may be prepared and published from time to time.

  Community Radio
  Mr. Heathcoat-Amory
  asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has yet had an opportunity to consider claims for compensation from applicants to the community radio experiment.

  Mr. Mellor
  We have received 35 claims for compensation from the final total of 270 applicants to the scheme. We have also considered the case for making a modest ex gratia payment to each applicant, in view of the cancellation of the experiment. However, we have decided that such payments from public funds would not be justified, in particular since it was made clear that applicants should not incur the expense of elaborate applications.

  Terrorism
  Mr. McLoughlin
  asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to review the prevention of terrorism legislation before the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1984 expires in March 1989.

  Mr. Hurd
  I have asked Viscount Colville of Culross, QC, who carried out the 1986 annual scrutiny of the operation of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1984 and will perform the same function in 1987, to carry out a general review of the Act. I am pleased to announce that Lord Colville has accepted my invitation. The terms of reference of his inquiry will be based on those given to Lord Shackleton and Lord Jellicoe when they reviewed the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts, 1974 and 1976, and will be as follows:"Accepting the continuing need for legislation against terrorism, to assess the operation of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1984, with particular regard to the effectiveness of the legislation and its effect on the liberties of the subject, and to report".
  Lord Colville's report will be published as a Command Paper.

  Any individual or organisation who wishes to submit written observations on matters relevant to Lord Colville's terms of reference should write to him, before 31 July at: Room 14, Hepburn House, Marsham Street, London SWIP 4HW.

PRIME MINISTER

  Press Releases
  Mr. Cohen
  asked the Prime Minister, pursuant to her reply of 17 March, Official Report, column 457, if she will list all press releases prepared with the aid of the new computer system in her Press Office since it was installed.

  The Prime Minister
  I have nothing to add to the reply that I gave to the hon. Gentleman on 17 March at columns 457–58.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

  Self-adhesive Envelopes
  Mr. Heddle
  asked the Lord Privy Seal what representations he has made to the suppliers of the House of Commons self-adhesive envelopes about the non-adhesiveness of those envelopes currently supplied to the Serjeant at Arms Department.

  Mr. Biffen
  A number of examples have been found in a batch of self seal envelopes code number 23(146)S where the adhesive on the top flap has been inadequate. HMSO was asked to pursue the matter with the manufacturer as soon as it came to light in February, and arrangements have recently been made for the remainder of the batch to be withdrawn from the Serjeant at Arms Stores. HMSO did check samples before delivery but has been asked to carry out a more extensive check in future.

  European Legislation
  Mr. David Atkinson
  asked the Lord Privy Seal when Her Majesty's Government expect to reply to the Second Special Report of Session 1985–86 from the Select Committee on European Legislation.

  Mr. Biffen
  The Government's response to the report is published today as a Command Paper (Cmnd. 123). Copies of the response have been placed in the Library.

WALES

  Financial Management Initiative
  Mr. Latham
  asked the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will make a statement on the effect on his Department of the financial management initiative.

  Mr. Nicholas Edwards
  The financial management initiative covers a range of reforms aimed at obtaining the best possible return for public expenditure. The principles have been incorported into, and are increasingly indistinguishable from, my Department's drive towards more responsive management.

  Budgeting is being extended; increasingly officials are accountable for the resources under their control and this has led to an improved awareness of costs and value for money. Every six months divisions report to me on the cost of their operations and progress towards agreed objectives; they also set targets for the period ahead. This informs me in the discussions which I have in the public expenditure cycle and has led generally to the better use and direction of resources. Some of the improvements can be seen in the tables of indicators of output incorporated

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  into Cm. 56. Examples of others are savings of 15 per cent. achieved by adopting new methods of distributing mail and up to 13 per cent. in respect of telephone call charges.

  I am taking steps to improve the quality of the information provided and wherever it is sensible and practicable to do so to achieve a more consistent approach across my multi-functional Department. Approximately 80 per cent. of the public expenditure which falls within my responsibility is made available to local authorities, district health authorities and other public bodies. I expect them also to apply the principles of the initiative. An example of better management contributing to improved value for money is the closer attention to energy efficiency measures by the National Health Service in Wales which aims to realise savings of 20 per cent. in the five-year period to 1988–89.

  Milk Outgoers Scheme
  Mr. Geraint Howells
  asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he has any proposals to change the present milk outgoers scheme; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Nicholas Edwards
  The first phase of the Milk (Community Outgoers Scheme) closed on 15 February 1987. We shall shortly be announcing details of a new national outgoers scheme under which the rate of compensation will be 27·49p per litre payable over seven years.

  Welsh Language
  Mr. Wigley
  asked the Secretary of State for Wales how many primary schoolchildren in each local education

  Percentage

  1977

  1978

  1979

  1980

  1981

  1982

  1983

  1984

  1985

  Clwyd

  5·7

  6·9

  6·1

  5·4

  5·6

  6·9

  7·8

  8·1

  8·3

  Dyfed

  8·8

  10·0

  11·4

  12·5

  12·3

  13·6

  14·2

  15·0

  17·4

  Gwent

  0·2

  0·4

  0·4

  0·7

  0·7

  0·9

  1·0

  1·1

  1·2

  Gwynedd

  17·4

  18·4

  19·8

  20·4

  22·1

  22·4

  26·6

  27·1

  31·9

  Mid Glamorgan

  3·9

  4·6

  5·4

  5·9

  6·3

  6·8

  7·3

  7·6

  8·2

  Powys

  6·3

  6·9

  4·4

  4·9

  7·1

  5·8

  7·1

  6·9

  6·5

  South Glamorgan

  1·0

  1·2

  1·3

  1·8

  3·0

  1·7

  1·5

  2·3

  2·6

  West Glamorgan

  2·8

  2·8

  3·2

  4·0

  4·9

  3·2

  3·4

  3·0

  3·2

  Mr. Wigley
  asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the secondary schools in each local education authority in Wales in which it is possible for pupils (a) to undertake most or all of their education through the medium of the Welsh language, and (b) to undertake part of their education through the medium of Welsh; and if he will indicate the schools in which no teaching, or very little teaching is done through the medium of Welsh.

  Mr. Wyn Roberts
  Information in the form requested is not readily available.

  The following provisional information for September 1986 indicates, however, those schools in which none of the teaching is undertaken through the medium of Welsh and those in which at least some of the teaching is undertaken through the medium of Welsh. For each school in the latter category the number of subjects offered through the medium of Welsh is given.

  SCHOOLS IN WHICH AT LEAST SOME OF THE TEACHING IS UNDERTAKEN THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF WELSH
  Clwyd

  Ysgol Uwchradd Maes Garmon3

  authority area in Wales (a) speak Welsh as their principal language/home language and (b) speak Welsh fluently as a second language.
  Mr. Roberts
  The information, which relates to pupils aged five and over in maintained primary schools, as at September 1985, is given in the following table:

  Number of pupils assessed as being fluent

  First language1

  Second language2

  Clwyd

  1,401

  2,367

  Dyfed

  4,783

  4,032

  Gwent

  17

  393

  Gwynedd

  6,638

  5,114

  Mid Glamorgan

  264

  3,307

  Powys

  454

  520

  South Glamorgan

  278

  700

  West Glamorgan

  685

  837

  1 Pupils whose home language is Welsh.

  2 Pupils whose home language is not Welsh.

  Mr. Wigley
  asked the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of primary school children in each local education authority area in Wales speak Welsh fluently as a second language; and what are the corresponding figures for each year since 1977.

  Mr. Wyn Roberts
  The percentages of pupils, aged 5 and over in maintained primary schools, who speak Welsh fluently as a second language are given in the following table. The figures, which relate to September of each year, exclude pupils whose principal language is Welsh.

  Ysgol Glan Clwyd4

  Brynhyfryd2

  Ysgol Morgan Llwyd4

  Dyfed

  Llandovery County High2

  Llandeilo County Secondary1

  Amman Valley Comprehensive1

  Ysgol y Preseli3

  Lampeter County Secondary Comprehensive2

  Aberaeron Comprehensive3

  Cardigan County Secondary1

  Ysgol Uwchradd Tregaron2

  Ysgol Gyfun Y Strade4

  Ysgol Gyfun Bro Myrddin3

  Ysgol Gyfun Ddwyieithog Teifi4

  Ysgol Gyfun Ddwyieithog2

  Fishguard Comprehensive1

  Gwynedd

  Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen5

  Ysgol Botwnnog4

  Ysgol Brynrefail4

  Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle4

  Ysgol Eifionydd3

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  Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones3

  Ysgol Uwchradd Caergybi1

  Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni3

  Ysgol David Hughes4

  Ysgol Uwchradd Bodedern5

  Ysgol y Gader3

  Ysgol y Moelwyn3

  Ysgol Uwchradd Tywyn1

  Ysgol Y Berwyn4

  Ysgol Ardudwy4

  Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy5

  Ysgol Friars2

  Ysgol Tryfan4

  Ysgol Y Creuddyn5

  Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen4

  Ysgol Glan y Mor4

  Mid Glamorgan

  Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen5

  Ysgol Gyfun Llanhari5

  Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni5

  Powys

  Caereinion High2

  Llanfyllin High3

  Llanidloes High1

  Ysgol Bro Ddyfi4

  Llandrindod High1

  Builth Wells High1

  Maesydderwen Comprehensive1

  Brecon High1

  South Glamorgan

  Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf5

  West Glamorgan

  Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera4

  Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr4

  1 Schools in which one to four subjects are taught through the medium of Welsh.

  2 Schools in which five to nine subjects are taught through the medium of Welsh.

  3 Schools in which 10 to 14 subjects are taught through the medium of Welsh.

  4 Schools in which 15 to 19 subjects are taught through the medium of Welsh.

  5 Schools in which 20 subjects and over are taught through the medium of Welsh.

  SCHOOLS IN WHICH NO TEACHING IS UNDERTAKEN THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF WELSH
  Clwyd

  Hawarden High

  Rhyl High

  Mold Alun

  Elfed High

  Holywell High

  St. David's High

  Prestatyn High

  The Maelor

  Castell Alun High

  Deeside High

  Flint High

  Connah's Quay High

  Ysgol Bryn Elian

  Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan

  Eirias High

  Denbigh High

  Ysgol Dinas Bran

  Ysgol-y-Grango

  Ysgol Bryn Alyn

  Darland

  St. David's

  Ysgol Bryn Offa

  Yate Sixth form College

  Ysgol Uwchradd Argoed

  Ysgol Rhiwabon

  The Groves High School

  St. Richard Gwyn High

  Blessed Edward Jones High

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  St. Joseph's RC High

  Dyfed

  Ysgol Gruffydd Jones

  Milford Haven CS

  Ysgol Dewi Sant

  Greenhill Comprehensive

  Milford Haven Grammar

  Pembroke Comprehensive

  Penglais Comprehensive

  Coedcae Comprehensive

  Graig Comprehensive

  Glan-y-Mor Comprehensive

  Bryngwyn Comprehensive

  Sir Thomas Picton Comprehensive

  Queen Elizabeth Mandunum Comprehensive

  Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn

  Gwendraeth Valley Comprehensive

  Whitland Grammar School

  Tasker Milward VC Comprehensive

  St. John Lloyd RC Comprehensive

  Queen Elizabeth Cambria Comprehensive

  Gwent

  Newport St. Julian's Comprehensive

  Newport Dyffryn Comprehensive

  Hartridge Comprehensive Newport

  Newport Bettws Comprehensive

  Liswerry Comprehensive Newport

  Newport Queens Comprehensive

  Brynmawr Comprehensive

  Bassaleg Comprehensive

  Newbridge Comprehensive

  Pontllanfraith Comprehensive

  Glynocoed Junior Comprehensive

  Blackwood Comprehensive

  Llantarnam Comprehensive

  Croesyceiliog Comprehensive

  Oakdale Comprehensive

  Glanyrafon Junior Comprehensive

  Cwmcarn Comprehensive

  Caerleon Comprehensive

  Monmouth Comprehensive

  Tredegar Comprehensive

  Fairwater Comprehensive

  King Henry VIII Comprehensive

  Chepstow Comprehensive

  Caldicot Comprehensive

  Ebbw Vale Senior Comprehensive

  Risca Comprehensive

  Abersychan Comprehensive

  Trevethin Comprehensive

  West Monmouth Comprehensive

  Nantyglo Comprehensive

  Abertillery Comprehensive

  St. Joseph's Comprehensive

  St. Alban's RC Comprehensive

  Gwynedd

  Ysgol John Bright

  Ysgol Aberconwy

  Loreto RC Middle School

  Mid Glamorgan

  Afon Taf High

  Pen-y-Dre High

  Cyfarthfa High

  Vaynor and Penderyn Comprehensive

  Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive

  Coedylan Comprehensive

  Hawthorn Comprehensive

  Mountain Ash County Comprehensive

  Blaengwawr Comprehensive

  Tonyrefail Comprehensive

  Cynffig Comprehensive

  St. Cenydd Comprehensive

  St. Ilan Comprehensive

  Bryntirion Comprehensive

  St. Martins Comprehensive

  Maesteg Comprehensive

  Heolddu Comprehensive

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  Ynysawdre Comprehensive

  Lewis Boys Comprehensive

  Pencoed Comprehensive

  Lewis Girls Comprehensive

  Brynteg Comprehensive

  Porthcawl Comprehensive

  Treorchy Comprehensive

  Ferndale Comprehensive

  Ogmore Comprehensive

  Porth County Comprehensive

  Rhymney Comprehensive

  Bedwas Comprehensive

  Tonypandy Comprehensive

  Y Pant Comprehensive

  Cymmer Comprehensive

  Aberdare Boys' Comprehensive

  Aberdare Girls' Comprehensive

  Bedwellty Comprehensive

  Bishop Hedley High

  Archbishop McGarth

  Cardinal Newman Catholic Comprehensive

  St. John Baptist Comprehensive

  Powys

  Newtown High

  Welshpool High

  John Beddoes County Secretary

  Gwernyfed High

  Crickhowell High

  South Glamorgan

  Rumney High

  Glyn Derw High

  Cardiff High

  Glan Ely High

  Willows High

  Fitzalan High

  Llanedeyrn High

  Cantonian High

  Whitchurch High

  Llanishen High

  Llanrumney High

  Hawardian High

  Cathays High

  Llanilltud Fawr Comprehensive

  Barry Boy's Comprehensive

  Bryn Hafren Comprehensive

  Stanwell Comprehensive

  St. Cyres Comprehensive

  Cowbridge Comprehensive

  Radyr Comprehensive

  St. Illtyds VA College

  Heathfield House High

  Archbishop Mostyn RC High

  The Bishop of Llandaff High

  St. Teilo's CIW High

  Bishop Hannon High

  Lady Mary RC High

  St. Cadoc's RC Comprehensive

  West Glamorgan

  Mynyddbach Comprehensive

  Penlan Boys Comprehensive

  Cefn Hengoed Comprehensive

  Olchfa Comprehensive

  Morriston Senior Comprehensive

  Llansamlet Junior Comprehensive

  Dynevor Comprehensive

  Pentrehafod Comprehensive

  Bishop Gore Comprehensive

  Cymer Afan Comprehensive

  Glan Afan

  Sandfields Comprehensive

  Dyffryn Comprehensive

  Penyrheol Comprehensive

  Gowerton Comprehensive

  Llangatwg Comprehensive

  Dwr y Felin Comprehensive

  Cwrt Sart Comprehensive

  Bishopston Comprehensive

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  Dillwyn Llewlyn Comprehensive

  Pontarddulais Comprehensive

  Bishop Vaughan Comprehensive

  St. Joseph's RC Comprehensive

  Cefn Saeson Comprehensive

  Cwmtawe Comprehensive

  Mr. Wigley
  asked the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of primary school children in each local authority area in Wales do not receive Welsh language lessons.

  Mr. Wyn Roberts
  The percentages of pupils who are not taught Welsh in maintained primary schools, as at September 1985, are given in the table:

  Percentage

  Clwyd

  3·8

  Dyfed

  19·1

  Gwent

  98·7

  Gwynedd

  1·0

  Mid Glamorgan

  13·4

  Powys

  19·8

  South Glamorgan

  54·9

  West Glamorgan

  38·0

  Regional Services (North Wales)
  Mr. Raffan
  asked the Secretary of State for Wales when he proposes to announce decisions on the recommendations of the review of regional services to north Wales; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Mark Robinson
  I am pleased to be able to announce the decisions which will take forward the review of regional services to north Wales. These have been set out in a Welsh health circular which has been issued today.

  The review constituted a thorough appraisal of the adequacy of regional services provided for patients in north Wales. It also covered those major regional services which are available elsewhere in Wales and those operated by authorities in England to which patients in north Wales have access.

  The recommendations of the review were the subject of wide consultation with health authorities and other interested bodies. The great majority of responses received supported the report's findings. As a consequence it is my right hon. Friend's intention to implement the report in the light of the comments received and in collaboration with the district and English regional health authorities concerned as quickly as possible. The following action is to be taken:
  burns and plastic surgery services are to be improved by additional out-patient sessions at Bangor and Wrexham funded by the Welsh Office;
  together with North Wales health authorities, the Welsh Office will examine options for providing additional facilities for cardiac services with Welsh Office funding;
  the medical oncology service in North Wales is to be designated as a regional service. Discussions with the relevant health authorities to that end will be initiated soon by the Department; in addition, to ensure that cancer treatment services are organised as effectively as possible I propose to fund a study of the provision of those services to include the feasibility of providing a satellite radiotherapy centre in North Wales;
  the Department is to initiate discussions with the relevant health authorities on the location in North Wales of a satellite artificial limb and appliance centre which will reduce significantly the need of disabled persons to make the journey to Merseyside;
  funds are to be made available to provide fast, comfortable ambulance transport for those patients who

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  have to travel the long distance from Gwynedd to the Artificial Limb and Appliance Centre and to the Radiotherapy Centre in Merseyside;
  the service to Wales of the Welsh Poisons Information Centre is to be improved and consideration is being given to its relocation in association with toxicological services;
  the Department will also be pursuing with the appropriate health authorities the implementation of a number of more detailed recommendations for improving district and regional services.

  These decisions should lay the foundation for a significant improvement in the coverage and quality of health care services available to people in north Wales.

  Welsh Development Agency
  Mr. Grist
  asked the Secretary of State for Wales when copies of the report of the review of the Welsh Development Agency will be made available.

  Mr. Nicholas Edwards
  Copies of the report have now been placed in the Library of the House.

  Appeals (Ministerial Adjudication)
  Mr. D. E. Thomas
  asked the Secretary of State for Wales in what circumstances he has the role of adjudicator in appeals against decisions made by local authorities and public bodies in Wales; and if he will list the powers under which he fulfils that role.

  Mr. Mark Robinson
  [pursuant to his reply, 18 March 1987, c. 516]: A list of the various appellate powers given to the Secretary of State for Wales against decisions made by local and public bodies in Wales are shown in the following tables :

  General Dental Services Regs 1973

  National Health Service

  Sch 1, Para 17

  Decision of Executive Council and Dental Estimates Board.

  NHS Regs 1974. SI 160

  Reg 12

  Refusal of Family Practitioner Committee to include doctor on Medical List etc.

  Reg 30(6)

  Decision of Rural Dispensng Committee that pharmaceutical services be provided.

  Reg 30G(1)

  Decision of Rural Dispensing Committee on pharmaceutical services application.

  Reg 3

  Refusal of Family Practitoner Committee of deputising services.

  Reg 3

  Refusal by F.P.C. on approval of consultation premises.

  Reg 3

  Conditions imposed by Medical Practices Committee.

  NHS Service Committees etc Regs 1974

  Reg 11

  Decision of F.P.C.

  Reg 21

  Decision of Dental Estimates Board.

  Reg 48

  Decision of tribunal constituted under s. 42 of NHS Act 1946.

  NHS Act 1977

  Section 33

  Refusal by Medical Practices Committee of application for inclusion in list to provide general medical services.

  Section 40

  Determination of a recognised committee re general ophthalmic services.

  Section 46

  Direction of a Tribunal that a practitioner's name be removed
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  from the list.

  Community Health Regulations 1985

  Reg 20

  Refusal of District Health Authority to disclose information.

  NHS General Ophthalmic Services Regs 1986

  Reg 5

  Decision of Ophthalmic Qualifications Committee that appellant is disqualified.

  Welsh Office Planning Procedure Paper 1975

  Proposals of District Health Authority re closure of Health Service buildings.

  Terms and Conditions of Service of Hospital Staff 1981 Para 190

  Termination of appointment.

  Agriculture and Land Drainage

  Agriculture Act 1967—

  Section 49

  Witholding of consent by a Rural Development Board to land transfer.

  Section 52

  Refusal of licence to plant trees.

  Land Drainage Act 1976—

  Section 68

  Refusal of Internal Drainage Board re exemption of rates.

  Section 84

  Resolution of water authority requiring contribution to expenses.

  Section 86

  Resolution specifying amounts in lieu of contribution.

  Environmental Protection

  Public Health Act 1936—

  Section 17

  Local authority declaration re adoption of sewers.

  Public Health (Drainage of Trade Premises) Act 1937—

  Section 3

  Local authority decision as to discharge of trade effluent.

  Coast Protection Act 1949—

  Section 7

  Determination of a coast protection authority.

  National Parks and Access to Countryside Act 1949—

  Section 29

  Draft maps etc prepared by surveying authorities.

  Clean Air Act 1968—

  Section 4

  Local authority decision re arrestment plant.

  Section 6

  Local authority decision not to approve chimney height.

  Control of Pollution Act 1974—

  Section 10

  Decision on licence for waste disposal.

  Section 39

  Decision on inland water protection.

  Section 43

  Water authority notices controlling discharges of trade effluent.

  Sections 64, 65 & 67

  Decision of local authority on noise pollution protection.

  Section 87

  Local Authority notice requiring air pollution information.

  Special Waste Regulations 1980—

  Regulation 9

  Refusal to give directions concerning special waste.

  Highways etc.

  Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Schedule 14

  Decision by Authority not to make Modification Order.

  Highways Act 1980

  Section 183

  Local highway authority refusal of licence to lay apparatus.

  Section 220

  Application of advance payments code.

  Section 233

  Application of private street works code.

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  Town and Country Planning

  Town and Country Planning Act 1971, Section 36

  Planning decision of local planning authority.

  Section 37

  Default of planning decision.

  Section 88

  Enforcement notice.

  Section 95(2)

  Established use certificate.

  Section 103

  Replacement of trees in a Tree Preservation Order.

  T.P.O. Regulations 1969, Paragraph 21, Article 25

  LPA's refusal to consent to cutting etc.

  Control of Advertisements Regulations 1984, Regulation 22 Refusal of consent for display of advertisement.

  Land Compensation Act 1961, Section 18

  Certificate of appropriate alternative development.

  Water

  Water Act 1945, Section 18

  Byelaws for preventing pollution of water of undertakers.

  Water Resources Act 1963

  Section 39

  Decision of water authority re licence.

  Section 40

  Failure of water authority to determine application for licence.

  Section 72

  Refusal of water authority's consent re control of discharges into underground strata.

  Section 78

  Conservation notice.

SOCIAL SERVICES

  Pensioners
  Mr. Higgins
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether all pensioners whose sole income is the full national insurance pension are entitled to some supplementary benefit; and how the figures for the national insurance pension for a single person and married couple compare with the minimum they would be entitled to have their incomes increased to by supplementary benefit.

  Mr. Major
  The amount of supplementary benefit payable, if any, is dependent upon the claimant's circumstances. Pensioners who have available capital in excess of £3,000 are not entitled to supplementary benefit. Unless they are entitled to special additions, pensioners in the following categories who are in receipt of standard rate basic retirement pension (in respect of couples, where their pensions are based on the contribution record of only one partner) would not be entitled to supplementary benefit:

  (a) Single person living as member of someone else's household.

  (b) Single resident in accommodation provided by a local authority under part III of the National Assistance Act 1948 (unless they have continuing housing requirements for example water rates).

  (c) Single person or both partners of a couple in hospital.

  (d) Exceptionally, a single woman householder aged under 65 or a married couple with very low net housing requirements (but they may be entitled to housing benefit supplement).

  The relevant rates of retirement pension and supplementary benefit are as follows.
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  Current rate £

  Rate from 6 April £

  Retirement pension

  On own insurance

  38·70

  39·50

  On spouse's insurance

  23·25

  23·75

  Supplementary pension

  Householder

  Single aged under 65

  137·90

  138·65

  Single aged 65 and over

  l 239·10

  1 239·85

  Couple3

  1 261·85

  1 263·05

  Non-householder

  Single

  434·25

  435·00

  Couple

  464·55

  465·90

  Boarder personal expenses5

  Single

  10·95

  11·15

  Couple

  21·90

  22·30

  Resident in Part III

  accommodation6

  Single

  38·70

  39·50

  Couple

  77·40

  79·00

  Hospital in-patient (personal expenses)7

  Single

  7·75

  7·90

  Couple (both in-patients)

  15·50

  15·80

  1 Housing requirements not covered by housing benefit (for example water rates) payable in addition.

  2 Figures include heating addition of £2·20 paid automatically to householders aged 65 and over, less £1 available scale margin.

  3 Where at least one of the couple is aged 65 or over.

  4 Figures include a housing addition of £3·90 (£4·05 from 6 April).

  5 Paid in addition to an amount for the board and lodging charge plus any meals not included in the charge (subject to certain limits).

  6 The rate for single persons coincides with the standard retirement pension rate. For married couples the figure is doubled.

  7 Continuing housing requirements paid in addition. Where only one of a couple are in hospital, the basic supplementary benefit is unchanged for eight weeks when it is reduced in line with the reduction in retirement pension.

  Child Abuse
  Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what further steps he is taking to seek to protect children from abuse.

  Mr. Newton
  The second stage of our training initiative to tackle child abuse will consist initially of four projects and cost £200,000 in 1987–88.

  The first of the four will involve the Open University in a two-year project to produce an introductory course on the problems of recognition and referral in cases of child abuse for professionals and others.

  The second is for a video and training pack on child sexual abuse for medical practitioners under the auspices of the Royal Society of Medicine.

  The other two projects will cover inter-disciplinary working: Professor Stevenson of Nottingham university will be developing training materials on the inter-agency aspects of case conferences; and the NSPCC will be developing training for social workers and health visitors who need to provide expert advice to colleagues in their own agencies.

  This programme complements other work already announced which the Department has in hand, including a new guide on inter-agency co-operation ("Working Together") and on the handling of child abuse ("Inquiries"); the preparation of practice guidance for social workers and health visitors; conferences organised

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  by the Social Services Inspectorate on child sexual abuse; and the preparation of new legislation as envisaged in the White Paper "The Law on Child and Family Services".

  I believe that the four projects, together with the first stage of our training initiative which my right hon. Friend announced last October and the work which the Department has on hand, will make a useful contribution to improving practice in this area of child care, which is of concern to us all.

  Mid Staffordshire (Hospital)
  Mr. Heddle
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the reasons for the delay in the construction of the new hospital planned to serve the Mid-Staffordshire parliamentary constituency and neighbouring constituencies.

  Mrs. Currie
  My hon. Friend will be aware that the West Midlands regional health authority is responsible for the management of individual building schemes contained in its operational capital programme. However, I understand that work on the new Lichfield/Tamworth district general hospital will commence in July 1989. The adjustment of the starting date arises from a review of the region's £870 million capital programme to ensure that the year-on-year expenditure remains within budget.

  Severe Weather Payments
  Mr. Ernie Ross
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many applications for severe weather payments have been made in Dundee since 1 January; and how many applications have been granted.

  Mr. Major
  Information concerning the number of applications made in Dundee for exceptionally cold weather payments is not available. However, for the period from 1 January 1987 to 10 March 1987, the latest date for which figures are available, the two Dundee local offices made approximately 8,000 £5 weekly payments.

  National No-smoking Day
  Mr. Greg Knight
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much public money paid directly or indirectly has been used in the national no-smoking day campaign.

  Mrs. Currie
  I refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes (Mr. Brown) on 18 December 1986, at column 702.

  NHS (Building Projects)
  Mr. Strang
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the total national financial provision for building projects for (a) National Health Service hospitals and (b) other National Health Service facilities in the financial years 1986–87, 1987–88 and 1988–89.

  Mrs. Currie
  Information is not available in the form requested. The table shows the provision for hospital and community health services capital and other National Health Service capital for 1986–87 and 1987–88 and planned provision for 1988–89. Allocations are not aligned to particular projects. Their deployment and the use of income generated locally from the sale of surplus land and buildings is a matter for individual spending authorities.
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  Capital Provision (£ million)

  1986–87

  1987–88

  1988–89 (plans)

  Hospital and community health services capital:

  gross

  894

  922

  952

  receipts

  141

  136

  140

  net

  753

  786

  812

  Other National Health Service capital:

  gross

  43

  37

  37

  receipts

  1

  1

  0

  net

  42

  36

  37

  Total National Health Service capital:

  gross

  937

  959

  989

  receipts

  142

  137

  140

  net

  795

  822

  849

  Note

  Capital receipts for 1986–87 and 1987–88 are taken from the published Supply Estimate and for 1988–89 are provisional.

  Mediparks
  Mr. Shersby
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make it his policy to encourage the development of mediparks making use of surplus land with a view to encouraging technological innovation.

  Mrs. Currie
  It is for the regional and district health authorities concerned to consider in the light of local circumstances any specific proposals which are put to them for the use of surplus National Health Service land, including development of mediparks.

  Referral Patterns
  Mr. Shersby
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will consult the Royal College of General Practitioners as to whether referral patterns can be changed to make maximum use of new hospital facilities provided in recent years.

  Mr. Newton
  General medical practitioners usually prefer to refer their patients to hospitals conveniently situated, but they may refer to any National Health Service hospital consultant able to accept them. Referral patterns and waiting lists are amongst the topics currently being discussed with the medical profession.

  Mr. Shersby
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are his proposals for reducing cross-boundary patient flows in the context of resource allocation policy.

  Mr. Newton
  Our policy is to distribute resources more fairly across the country so as to ensure equal opportunity of access to health care for people in equal need. We expect regions to follow the same principles in planning services and allocating resources across their districts.

  Patterns of patient flows across health authority boundaries will change and in many cases may reduce as this process continues, but the pace and extent of such changes will depend on local circumstances. District self-sufficiency is not an aim; patient flows will continue for specialist treatment, or where natural catchment areas of hospitals or other facilities do not exactly match health

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  authority boundaries. In addition, general medical practitioners remain free to refer patients to the hospital consultant of their choice.

  Mr. Shersby
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the estimated number of patients treated in hospitals in the London borough of Hillingdon referred by general medical practitioners in practice in the boroughs of Watford, Harrow and Ealing and in the counties of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire; and what additional financial resources are received by Hillingdon district health authority to take account of these cross-boundary flows.

  Mr. Newton
  Information about hospital referrals by general medical practitioners is not collated centrally.

  My hon. Friend may wish to contact the chairman of the Hillingdon district health authority for any information about the location of practices of general medical practitioners referring patients to hospitals in the district, and the chairman of the North West Thames regional health authority, which is responsible for resource allocation to individual districts. The general principle followed by regional health authorities is that district funding takes account of cross-boundary flows of patients.

  Mr. Shersby
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will consult the North West Thames regional health authority about the extent to which general medical practitioners in the boroughs of Ealing, Watford and Harrow and in the counties of Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire are encouraged to refer patients to consultants in the hospitals that have been newly provided in their boroughs and counties in recent years;

  (2) if he will make it his policy to seek to ensure that regional health authorities in the Thames regions consult their respective family practitioner committees with a view to achieving a change in referral patterns so that patients can take advantage of the facilities provided by the National Health Service in the boroughs and districts in which they are resident.

  Mr. Newton
  We encourage regional and district health authorities to consult family practitioner committees and local medical commitees with the aim of encouraging general medical practitioners to make the most appropriate referrals for their patients bearing in mind the needs of individual patients and the location and availability of appropriate services.

  Mr. Shersby
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will review the extent of the interim relief money recently allocated to Hillingdon district health authority to take account of cross-boundary flows.

  Mr. Newton
  Hillingdon district health authority has been awarded £450,000 from the £2·6 million allocated to North West Thames regional health authority. This allocation was from a special fund of £30 million over two years designed to assist regions with less than average growth.

  Decisions on how the £2·6 million should be distributed to districts were a matter for North West Thames regional health authority.

  Hillingdon District Health Authority (Finance)
  Mr. Shersby
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make it his policy to seek to accelerate
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  the rate at which patients from Ealing, Watford, Harrow, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire are treated at hospitals in their respective areas and to ensure that the movement of financial resources from Hillingdon is deferred until this has been achieved.

  Mr. Newton
  Strategic planning for the region as a whole, and resource allocation to district health authorities, is primarily a matter for the North West Thames regional health authority. Where new facilities are being developed and resources redeployed within or between regions, which may have effects on referral patterns, the extent and pace of change is also primarily a matter for the authorities concerned.

  Pathology
  Mr. Kennedy
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what plans there are to encourage health authorities to put pathology services out to competitive tendering; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Newton
  There are no present plans to encourage health authorities to put pathology services out to competitive tendering.

  Deaf-Blind People
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how much money his Department is making available for the purchase of Hasicom equipment for use by the deaf-blind.

  Mr. Major
  The Department has not provided funding, but the Department of Track and Industry helped to set up the Hasicom project by providing £85,000 towards equipment costs and £10,000 in consultancy fees. Local authorities, if they consider that there is a need for such equipment, have a duty to provide it under section 2 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970. 'The Manpower Services Commission can also loan equipment if it is considered that this will help a disabled person overcome problems in the workplace and work efficiently.

  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what information he has about the number of deaf-blind persons in England and Wales.

  Mr. Major
  The information available centrally relates to the numbers of persons registered with social services departments in England as being blind with an additional handicap. The information cannot be considered comprehensive because registration is voluntary, the registers may not reflect migration or deaths and additional handicaps may not be categorised. The latest information is given in the table. Figures for Wales are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

  Number of Persons Registered as Blind who are also Deaf or Hard of Hearing at 31 March 1986

  England

  Number

  Males

  Females

  Total

  Blind-Deaf without speech

  126

  153

  279

  Blind-Deaf with speech

  501

  868

  1,369

  Blind-Hard of hearing

  1,049

  1,952

  3,001

  Breast Cancer Screening
  Mr. Sims
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he has yet made an appointment to the chairmanship of the Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer Screening.

  Mr. Newton
  We have appointed professor Martin Vessey, professor of social and community medicine in the university of Oxford, as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer Screening. Other members will be appointed shortly.

  The role of the advisory committee will be to advise on the development of the breast cancer screening service, to monitor its effectiveness and its efficiency and to advise on research concerned with the provision of the service.

  Responsibility for ensuring that a call and recall service for breast cancer screening for all women in England in the 50 to 64 age group has been set up by the target date of 31 March 1990 will lie with the small team led by Sir Roy Griffiths, which, as my right hon. Friend announced on 1 April, will also be overseeing the implementation of the call and recall system for cervical cancer screening.

  AIDS
  Mr. Peter Bruinvels
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what guidance the chief medical officer at his Department has given on the professional position of doctors suffering from AIDS; what information he has as to the number of (a) general practitioners, (b) hospital doctors and (c) other doctors suffering from AIDS; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Newton
  [pursuant to his reply, 23 March 1987, c. 74]: Like any other sick person, doctors with AIDS would receive advice from their own medical practitioners on whether they were fit to continue at work. The expert advisory group on AIDS, which is chaired by the chief medical officer, is currently preparing guidance on whether any restrictions are needed on the employment of HIV-infected doctors. The current advice from the United States, where there is far greater experience of HIV infection, is that it is not necessary to recommend restrictions on the activity of health care workers who are infected with HIV. The Department does not have information on the occupation of patients with AIDS and is unable to provide the information requested.

  Death Grant
  Ms. Harman
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many death grant payments were made in the London borough of Southwark in each of the last three years and how many of those who received the payments will be eligible for the new means-tested death grant.

  Mr. Major
  [pursuant to his reply, 6 April 1987, c. 110]: Information is not available in the precise form requested. The London borough of Southwark is covered by the Department's offices in Peckham, Southwark, Brixton, Kennington Park and Lewisham, although their boundaries are not conterminous with the borough. The number of claims for death grant received in each of the five local offices during the last three years (April to April) were as follows:
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  1984–85

  198–86

  1986–87

  Peckham

  1,245

  1,331

  1,126

  Southwark

  723

  728

  649

  Brixton

  800

  926

  739

  Kennington Park

  598

  610

  495

  Lewisham

  1,198

  1,531

  1,224

  1 To 10 March 1987.

  It is not possible to predict how many people in the borough of Southwark will qualify for funeral payments from the social fund from April 1987.

  Ms. Harman
  asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what information he has as to what percentage of the residents of the London borough of Southwark will be eligible for the new means-tested death grant.

  Mr. Major
  [pursuant to his reply, 6 April 1987, c. 110]: Such a prediction depends, in part, on the number of people in the London borough of Southwark who receive supplementary benefit, or housing benefit, or family income supplement. Since all of this information is not available on the basis of local authority areas, no estimates of local levels of eligibility have been made.

NORTHERN IRELAND

  Financial Management Initiative
  Mr. Latham
  asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether he will make a statement on the effect on his Department of the financial management initiative.

  Mr. Scott
  The Northern Ireland Office has implemented a programme of work to improve the value for money obtained from the Department's expenditure. Line managers have been given greater responsibility for, and better information on, expenditure in their areas of responsibility. This includes a management information system under which managers set objectives and targets and identify output and performance measures. The redesign and computerisation of the Department's accounting and financial information systems has accompanied the delegation of responsibility for the management of expenditure to line managers, including scope to redeploy resources across programme and running cost budgets.

  The Northern Ireland Civil Service, in parallel with developments in the Home Civil Service, has also engaged in a programme to improve financial management and efficiency by a variety of means. These include the use of top management systems to bring together information on objectives, resources, and performance, the development of computerised financial information and accounting systems to assist in budgeting and control of departmental expenditure and in the progressive application of the cost centre concept, and new initiatives on training and personnel management.

  The practical effects of the FMI within my area of responsibility can be seen in two particular respects. First, there are real long-term benefits emerging in the form of enhanced managerial awareness of the need to define clear objectives for the use of resources, to use these to set challenging targets and to measure performance against targets through the use of relevant management information. Secondly, this work has already led to greater efficiency in a number of areas where progress can more readily be quantified. Examples include a projected 5 per

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  cent. decrease in energy consumption in Northern Ireland prisons, a reduction of£7·3 million in Northern Ireland electricity generating costs, a 5 per cent. reduction in unit costs per student at agricultural colleges, a Province-wide reduction in water leakage levels from 21 to 26 litres per property per hour to 13·19 litres by 1988–89, and the redeployment of £28 million in the Northern Ireland Health Service over the next five years to higher priority areas through better use of resources.

  Motor Vehicles (Offences)
  Mr. Proctor
  asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish in the Official Report figures for Northern Ireland corresponding to those published for England and Wales in "Offences Relating to Motor Vehicles England and Wales" issued by the Secretary of State for the Home Department; and if he will make a statememt.

  Mr. Scott
  [pursuant to his reply, 23 March 1987, c. 67]: Figures corresponding to those published in "Offences Relating to Motor Vehicles England and Wales" are not available for Northern Ireland. However, I have today placed in the Library, a copy of "A Commentary on Northern Ireland Crime Statistics 1985" published by the Northern Ireland Office, which give, amongst other data, information on motoring in Northern Ireland.

  Housing Executive
  Mr. Mallon
  asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what was the allocation of funds to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for capital works to existing dwellings as at 1 April 1986;

  (2) what was the outturn figure for capital works carted out to existing dwellings owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive as at 31 March 1987;

  (3) what was the funding allocation to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for capital works to existing dwellings in the south region as at 1 April 1986;

  (4) what was the outturn figure for capital works to existing dwellings in the south region of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive as at 31 March 1986;

  (5) what increased funding was requested by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for capital expenditure to existing dwellings at the last autumn review; and what increase was allocated;

  (6) what increased funding was requested by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for the south region at the last autumn review; and what increase was allocated.

  Mr. Needham
  [pursuant to his reply, 6 April 1987, c. 118–19]:The Housing Executive's budget for capital works existing dwellings approved by the Department of the Environment (NI) for 1986–87 was £64 million. Additional capital receipts, savings elsewhere within the Executive's budgets and the transfer of a surplus of £1·5 million from the co-ownership scheme led the Executive to seek a number of revisions to its approved budgets in the autumn, including an increase to £68 million in the budget for work to existing dwellings. I understand from the Housing Executive that, on the basis of provisional figures, outturn for capital works to existing dwellings in 1986–87 is estimated to have been £67·9 million.
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  The distribution of resources to its regions within agreed objectives and priorities is a matter for the Housing Executive and I shall arrange for the chairman to write to the hon. Member about the position in the south region.

  Mr. Seamus Mallon
  asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what was the period of the delay in a payment from the Masonic Housing Association to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for a housing development in Donaghadee, established by a local government audit; and if he will make a statement;

  (2) if the normal accounting procedures of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive were implemented in relation to a payment from the Masonic Housing Association in respect of a housing development in Donaghadee; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Needham
  [pursuant to his reply, 6 April 1987, c. 118–19]:A payment of £322,000 was made to the Masonic Housing Association (NI) Ltd. by the Department of the Environment (NI) on 23 March 1984 to allow the association to meet part of the cost of 20 dwellings constructed for it at Donaghadee by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, within a total contract of 40 dwellings.

  I understand from the chairman of the Housing Executive that a recoverable charge was not formally raised against the association at the time in accordance with normal procedures. Payment was not, therefore, demanded by the executive and made by the association until February 1987. I also understand that the Housing Executive's procedures have now been revised to ensure that similar delays will not recur.

  Mr. Seamus Mallon
  asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what was the approved budget of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive nursery at Dundonald between 1983 and 1985;

  (2) how great was the loss to public funds deriving from overspending of the approved budget during 1983 to 1985 at the Northern Ireland Housing Executive nursery at Dundonald;

  (3) by how much the approved budget of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive nursery at Dundonald for 1983 to 1985 was exceeded.

  Mr. Needham
  [pursuant to his reply, 6 April 1987, c. 118–19]: This is a matter for The chairman of the Housing Executive, who has informed me that the Housing Executive's financial systems did not entail the setting of a specific budget for the nursery. Financial provision for planting and general landscaping services which have been provided partly by the executive's own nursery but also by private contractors is made by each region within approved capital and revenue budgets; it would not be possible without disproportionate cost to identify the costs of services provided by the nursery, which is to close at the end of May.

AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD

  RSPCA (Complaint)
  Mr. John
  asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has yet received notification of any decision taken by the EEC Commission indicating its response to a complaint lodged by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in February 1985; and if he will make a statement.
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  Mr. Donald Thomson
  [pursuant to his reply, 7 April 1987]: I received such a communication late yesterday.

TRANSPORT

  Motorways (Barriers)
  Mr. Spearing
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport what steps he has taken since June of 1986 to have inspections made to the footings of motorway barriers; what defects or deficiencies have been found; what steps he intends to take as a result; what proportion of total motorway mileage has been covered by such inspections; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Peter Bottomley
  Detailed inspections are being made this year to a sample of concrete post-footings during major maintenance works to carriageways where lane closures are required that give access to safety fences. These inspections are designed to identify the likely extent of misshapen footings. Any such footings found are being replaced. These inspections are in addition to those being carried out under a new code of practice for routine maintenance introduced in 1985.

  Comprehensive information on mileages inspected, defects found and remedial action taken is not yet available. We estimate that detailed inspections this year will cover a sample of up to about 150 miles of motorway safety fences. Complete results of detailed inspections to footings will not be available until the end of this year.

  I refer the hon. Member to my reply of 25 March to my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, Acton (Sir G. Young) and my subsequent letter to him of 27 March, a copy of which is in the Library.

  Light Dues
  Mr. Austin Mitchell
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport whether his Department has initiated studies about the effect of light dues on the use of British ports.

  Mr. Michael Spicer
  The light dues regime has virtually no effect on the volume of trade at many ports, but my Department is studying the extent to which the regime leads to trans-shipment of liner container traffic, which is of special importance to some ports.

  Motorway Lane Closures
  Mr. Greg Knight
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the dates, times and places during which stretches of the M1 motorway between Derby (junction 25) and London have been reduced to single file traffic since January 1986.

  Mr. Peter Bottomley
  The information requested is not available. Where work involving single file running is planned, it is where possible carried out overnight or at other times when traffic volumes are at a minimum. We try to keep traffic disruption and delays to a minimum. Single lane running is only employed where there is no reasonable alternative.

  Motorways (Signs)
  Mr. Greg Knight
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport what was the cost of construction and erection of the "Keep Your Distance" signs on the MI motorway at junction 6A.
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  Mr. Peter Bottomley
  The two signs on M1 at junction 6A now used to display the message "Keep Your Distance" cost £50,000 to install. They were first used for traffic management purposes during the final stages of completion of M25.

  Mr. Greg Knight
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he has any plans to erect further "Keep Your Distance" signs on motorways.

  Mr. Peter Bottomley
  Further use of "Keep Your Distance" signs will depend on the outcome of the experiment currently being conducted at the southern end of the M1. This experiment at present consists of nine permanent display motorway signs and a pair of variable message signs near junction 6A. There is also a pair of variable message signs on the M25 at junction 18 which are normally devoted to this purpose.

  The southern end of the M1 was chosen for this experiment because of the very heavy traffic density. The effectiveness of the signs is being monitored by the various police forces which patrol the sections of the motorway on which they have been erected.

  Marine Surveying (Reorganisation)
  Mr. Stott
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish the report on the reorganisation of the marine surveying department.

  Mr. Michael Spicer
  I have placed in the Library a copy of the departmental notice describing the reorganisation of the Surveyor General's Organisation, which came into force on 1 April.

  Wheelchairs (Station Access)
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport when there will be a fully wheelchair-accessible station-to-station service after the existing contract has expired.

  Mr. David Mitchell
  Decisions on the future of the existing service beyond the present contract have not been taken. I understand that LRT intends to review the inter-station service in the light of experience once the wheelchair-accessible airbus service to Heathrow is in operation.

  London Underground
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport what are the estimated yearly savings on staff costs to London Regional Transport from the introduction of the Underground ticketing system.

  Mr. David Mitchell
  The current estimate from London Underground is that annual savings in staff costs of around £10 million will be achieved when the new Underground ticketing system is fully operational.

  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport what applications he has received from London Regional Transport for the purchase of replacement rolling stock for the Central Line of the Underground.

  Mr. David Mitchell
  None. The requirements for replacement rolling stock have yet to be fully defined, following technical trials of prototype trains later this year.

  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport what studies have been undertaken in the past

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  two years by London Regional Transport or consultants appointed by them on the extension of existing Underground lines; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. David Mitchell
  A number of enhancements to the Underground network are under consideration by the London passenger transport group. These include extensions to the Bakerloo, Jubilee East London, Metropolitan and Victoria lines.

  London Passenger Transport Group
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport when was the last meeting of the London Passenger Transport Group; and what was discussed at that meeting.

  Mr. David Mitchell
  The group met on 1 April, and discussed a range of matters concerning British Rail and London Regional Transport. These included joint ticketing, interchange improvements and rail planning issues.

  LRT (Strategy)
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport when the next statement of strategy will be produce by London Regional Transport; and what public consultation there will be.

  Mr. David Mitchell
  London Regional Transport is required by the London Regional Transport Act 1984 to prepare and publish every three years a statement of strategy after consultation with the railways board, the local authorities concerned, the passengers' committee, and such other persons as it may think fit. The next such statement is to be published by June 1988. The nature of any public consultation on the statement and precise timing are matters for LRT.

  Bus Deregulation (London)
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport what studies into the effects of deregulation of bus services in Greater London are currently being carried out (a) by his Department and (b) by outside consultants; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. David Mitchell
  My Department has commissioned no studies by consultants into the effects of deregulation in Greater London. The Department has a programme of monitoring deregulation outside London: the first report was published in January of this year.

  British Rail Stations (London)
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many British Rail stations there are in the Greater London area; how many are open only at peak times; how many are open only from Monday to Friday; how many are closed on Saturdays; and how many are closed on Sundays.

  Mr. David Mitchell
  I shall write to the hon. Member when I have the information.

  British Transport Police
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport, how many British Transport police were
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  employed in each of the years 1977 to 1987 on (a) London Regional Transport and (b) Southern region of British Rail.

  Mr. David Mitchell
  The British Transport police have provided the following figures:

  Year-end

  LRT

  BR Southern Region

  1977

  125

  n/a

  1978

  141

  n/a

  1979

  139

  n/a

  1980

  161

  n/a

  1981

  279

  n/a

  1982

  284

  193

  1983

  272

  191

  1984

  248

  196

  1985

  271

  205

  1986

  327

  206

  1987 (March)

  325

  214

  Note: Separate figures for BR Southern Region are not available for 1977 to 1981.

  Fishing Vessels (Loss Inquiries)
  Mr. Randall
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has for increasing the number of public inquiries held (a) when fishing vessels are lost or (b) when there are deaths at sea in connection with fishing vessles.

  Mr. Michael Spicer
  In deciding whether to order a formal investigation into a shipping casualty my right hon. Friend will take into account: the number of lives lost; the degree of public concern; the desirability for the cause to be more clearly established; the likelihood that there are lessons to be learnt; and the possible need for disciplinary action against the master or a member of the crew. The decision is made on the individual facts of each casualty and to project a trend would be inappropriate.

  Fishing Vessels (Accident Statistics)
  Mr. Randall
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many deaths there were on United Kingdom fishing vessels during the periods 1975 to 1980 and 1981 to 1985 arising from personal accidents.

  Mr. Michael Spicer
  The number of deaths on United Kingdom fishing vessels from personal accidents was 88 for the period 1975–80 and 50 for the period 1981–85. These figures include those recorded as "missing at sea" but exclude those resulting from casualties to vessels.

  Vessel Losses
  Mr. Randall
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport what change there has been in the number of vessels lost below 12 m in length during the periods 1975 to 1980 and 1981 to 1985.

  Mr. Michael Spicer
  The number of fishing vessels less than 12 m in length recorded in the Department's annual publication "Casualties to Vessels and Accidents to Men" as lost in the periods 1978–80 and 1981–85 are 40 and 102 respectively. (Until 1978 records list these casualties in terms of gross tonnage and not length and a ship of 20 gross tons has been taken to approximate to one of 12 m). During this period the number of ships at risk has increased by about 40 per cent.

  Car Imports (Type Approval)
  Mr. Gale asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he has concluded his review of the terms of the personal import exemption from the national type approval requirements for cars; and if he will make a statement.
  Mr. Peter Bottomley
  The Government have decided to make no change in the present arrangements. This will enable consumers to continue to have the widest choice about where to buy their cars.

  I advise people intending to buy abroad to confirm with the manufacturer or his agent that the car meets our safety and environmental standards. That will be most readily evident if it has been type approved for use in this country.

  Navigational Aids
  Mr. McQuarrie
  asked the Secretary of State for Transport what studies he has undertaken into future developments in navigational aids.

  Mr. Moore
  In April last year my right hon. Friend invited Dr. D. G. Kiely, a consultant electronics engineer, to undertake a study into developments in marine navigational aids in relation to users' long-term requirements. I have now received Dr. Kiely's report and I am arranging for its publication. Copies have been placed in the Library of the House. I am grateful to Dr. Kiely for undertaking this task and I am sure his conclusions and recommendations will command wide attention. I will be considering them most carefully and I would welcome views on them from all the interested parties.

ENVIRONMENT

  London Docklands Development Corporation
  Mr. Mikardo
  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment which borough councils have been consulted in respect of the master building agreement between the London Docklands Development Corporation and the developers of Canary wharf.

  Mr. John Patten
  I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) on 25 March at column 164.

  Housing
  Mr. Pike
  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those local authorities which have received ministerial visits from his Department in the last six months in connection with housing matters.

  Mr. John Patten
  There are 367 housing authorities in England. In the last six months, Ministers from the Department of the Environment have made visits to the following local authorities connected with housing matters.

  Bracknell

  Broxtowe

  Cambridge

  Daventry

  Havering

  Kensington and Chelsea

  Kettering

  Lewisham

  Manchester

  Nottingham

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  Pendle

  Redditch

  Rushcliffe

  Solihull

  South Tyneside

  Stratford

  Thamesdown

  Wandsworth

  Westminster

  Wolverhampton

  British Waterways
  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the level of Government funding to the British Waterways Board in each year since 1979; and what has been the percentage change in each year in constant prices.

  Mr. John Patten
  The table shows the British Waterways Board's external financing limit, which covers both grant and borrowing, for the years 1979–80–1987–88, together with its expression in 1986–87 prices and the annual and overall percentage changes on this constant price base.

  EFL (cash)

  EFL (1986–87 prices)

  Annual percentage change

  Overall percentage change

  £m

  £m

  1979–80

  25·7

  42·8

  —

  —

  1980–81

  30·0

  42·1

  -1·6

  —

  1981–82

  31·6

  40·4

  -4·0

  —

  1982–83

  39·3

  46·9

  + 16·1

  —

  1983–84

  40·8

  46·6

  -0·6

  —

  1984–85

  42·8

  46·8

  + 0·4

  —

  1985–86

  44·1

  45·4

  -3·0

  —

  1986–87

  45·0

  45·0

  -0·9

  —

  1987–88

  45·0

  43·1

  -4·2

  + 0·7

  Nuclear Waste
  Mr. Redmond
  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the full list from which he selected Bradwell, Elstow, Fullbeck and Killingholme as sites for testing for suitability for receiving low-level nuclear waste.

  Mr. Waldegrave
  I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave in reply to a question by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. Corbett) on 6 April at column 29.

  Sewerage and Water Supply Building Projects
  Mr. Strang
  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the total national financial provision for sewerage and water supply building projects in the financial years 1986–87, 1987–88 and 1988–89.

  Mr. John Patten
  The information requested was presented to Parliament in January 1987 by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the White Paper. "The Government's Expenditure Plans 1987–88 to 1989·90" Cm. 56-II.

  Households (Power Supplies)
  Mr. Ashley
  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has to how many households live in local authority accommodation which has only an electricity supply and no gas supply.
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  Mr. Tracey
  Based on information from the "Family Expenditure Survey", an estimated 1·65 million local authority and new town tenants in Great Britain had electricty in their homes but not a gas supply in 1985.

  Satellite Television (Antenna)
  Mr. Favell
  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received seeking an amendment to planning regulations to increase the permitted size of a satellite antenna to enable people in the north to install an antenna of sufficient size to receive satellite television without recourse to planning permission.

  Mr. Tracey
  From time to time we receive representations from different parts of the country seeking an increase in the size of satellite antennas which are permitted by the general development order. We consider that the present size limit of 90 cm for such antennas permitted by the GDO is appropriate given the possible environmental effect of an uncontrolled proliferation of larger dishes, but we shall continue to monitor the situation carefully.

  Hampstead Heath
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he intends to accept the proposal from the City of London to be given responsibility for Hampstead Heath; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Chope
  Decisions on the future ownership and management of Hampstead Heath will be taken only after

  Net current expenditure per head 1978–79 to 1985–86

  Expenditure per head 1978–79 £

  Expenditure per head 1985–86 £

  Percentage change in current expenditure (cash terms)

  Percentage change in current expenditure (real terms)

  Greater London CL

  36

  93

  158·3

  36·8

  City of London

  2,760

  12,122

  339·2

  132·4

  Camden

  162

  483

  198·1

  57·8

  Greenwich

  109

  279

  1560

  35·4

  Hackney

  138

  385

  179·0

  47·5

  Hammersmith and Futham

  152

  322

  111·8

  12·2

  Islington

  163

  340

  108·6

  10·4

  Kensington and Chelsea

  129

  251

  94·6

  2·9

  Lambeth

  148

  355

  139·9

  26·8

  Lewisham

  123

  266

  116·3

  14·2

  Southwark

  171

  411

  140·4

  27·2

  Tower Hamlets

  187

  403

  115·5

  14·2

  Wandsworth

  129

  235

  82·2

  -3·7

  Westminster

  162

  370

  128·4

  20·9

  Barking and Dagenham

  213

  379

  77·9

  -6·0

  Barnet

  194

  344

  77·3

  -6·3

  Bexley

  206

  350

  69·9

  -10·0

  Brent

  254

  587

  131·1

  22·3

  Bromley

  188

  320

  70·2

  -9·9

  Croydon

  193

  351

  81·9

  -3·8

  Ealing

  221

  414

  87·3

  -1·0

  Enfield

  190

  332

  74·7

  -7·5

  Haringey

  262

  606

  131·3

  22·4

  Harrow

  195

  351

  80·0

  -4·9

  Havering

  200

  355

  77·5

  -6·1

  Hillingdon

  233

  369

  65·5

  -12·6

  Hounslow

  213

  417

  95·8

  3·5

  Kingston-upon-Thames

  190

  338

  77·9

  -5·8

  Merton

  210

  324

  54·3

  -18·4

  Newham

  236

  589

  149·6

  32·1

  Redbridge

  182

  340

  86·8

  -1·2

  Richmond-upon-Thames

  185

  329

  77·8

  -6·0

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  the London residuary body has put forward recommendations following its current consultation on the four options.

  Local Authority Expenditure
  Mr. Knowles
  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what would be the cost to the taxpayer this year of increasing the proportion of local authority relevant expenditure in England met by Exchequer grant to 60 per cent.

  Mr. Chope
  If English local authorities were spending at the level consistent with that contained in the 1987–88 RSG Settlement approved by the House on 25 March, and 60 per cent. of this was met by Exchequer grant (the same level as in 1979), the cost to the taxpayer would be equivalent to the yield of about an additional 3·5p on the standard rate of income tax. It seems that actual relevant expenditure is likely to be somewhat higher, so the cost would probably be nearer 4p.

  If the taxpayer had been obliged to underwrite 60 per cent. of whatever local authorities had chosen to spend over the years since 1979, local authorities would probably have spent more, and the cost to the taxpayer in 1987–88 would be greater still.

  Sir George Young
  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give for each individual London local authority net current expenditure per head of population in 1978–79 and in 1985–86, and the percentage increases in net current expenditure per head of population between 1978–79 and 1985–86 in cash and in real terms.

  Mr. Chope
  This information is as follows:
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  Expenditure per head 1978–79 £

  Expenditure per head 1985–86 £

  Percentage change in current expenditure (cash terms)

  Percentage change in current expenditure (real terms)

  Sutton

  177

  321

  81·4

  -4·2

  Waltham Forest

  220

  466

  111·8

  12·0

  ILEA

  173

  380

  119·7

  16·2

  Rate Support Grant
  Mr. Gould
  asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, if he will now answer the question to which a holding reply was given on 21 January at column 590 concerning rate support grant.

  Mr. Chope
  [pursuant to his reply, 30 March 1987, c. 421]: The figures for 1987–88 requested at items (a) and (b) of the question have been placed in the Library. They include an adjustment for the costs of the teachers' pay settlement. The figures for 1978–79 have not been provided as grant was not paid on a comparable basis. The figures provided at (c) and (d) refer to 1981–82, the earliest year for which grant was paid on a comparable basis to 1987–88. The figures at (e) represent the percentage change in grant per head from 1981–82 to 1987–88 expressed as a percentage of the 1981–82 figures.

  Notes

  Rate Support Grant comprises Block Grant and Domestic Rate Relief Grant.
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  The figures for 1981–82 are final entitlements expressed in 1986 prices using the GDP deflator. In 1981–82 Metropolitan police and GLC entitlements were paid to the rating authorities in their areas.

  The figures for 1987–88 are based on estimates of authorities' entitlements to grant following the first supplementary report which is expected to be laid before the House after Easter. The estimates, which are provisional, are on the basis of the expenditure figures provided by local authorities on form BG14, adjusted where necessary to include estimates of the cost of the teachers' pay settlement. Figures for London boroughs include abolition-related LRES receipts.

  In addition to the adjustments requested, the 1987–88 figures for the London boroughs and the districts of Broxbourne, Elmbridge, Epping Forest, Epsom and Ewell, Hertsmere, Reigate and Banstead, Spelthorne and Welwyn Hatfield include a proportion of the Receiver for the Metropolitan police district's rate support grant. For Broxbourne, Elmbridge, Epping Forest, Hertsmere, Reigate and Banstead and Welwyn Hatfield this grant has been distributed on the basis of estimates of the population of the parts of each council's area which fall within the Metropolitan police area.

NATIONAL FINANCE

  Investment Income (Disaggregation)
  Sir Brandon Rhys Williams
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his estimate of the cost in 1987–88 of taking the investment income of husbands and wives separately, including occupational pensions.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  I regret the delay in answering this question. The revenue cost would depend on the detailed tax rules and on any consequential behavioural effects such as the transfer of assets between spouses. If the only changes to the tax rules were to allow the existing wife's earned income allowance against both the wife's investment income and category B state retirement pension and for the wife to have her own tax rate bands for these sources of income, the direct revenue cost (making no allowance for behavioural effects) would be about £500 million at 1987–88 levels of income. This figure is based on projections from information recorded on the survey of personal incomes, which does not have complete coverage of investment income taxed at source, and could therefore be an underestimate. An occupational pension arising from the wife's employment is treated as the wife's earned income under the current rules and qualifies for the wife's earned income allowance.

  Personal Equity Plans
  Mr. Bright
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what information he has about the size of the companies in which the managers of personal equity plan funds are concentrating their investments.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  It has been reported that, as I expected, most of the subscriptions to personal equity plans are invested in shares in the leading 100 British companies. It is, of course, for investors and plan managers to decide what shares are bought. The regulations for personal equity plans allow investment in shares of any United Kingdom company quoted on the stock exchange or dealt with on the unlisted securities market.

  Housing Costs
  Mr. Austin Mitchell
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the price of a three-bedroom semidetached house in terms of the number of years' average earnings for an adult male in London and in the south-east in 1957, 1967, 1987 and 1986 together with the annual interest payable after tax on the purchase price, assuming a 90 per cent. mortgage and maximum relief.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  Average prices of three-bedroom semi-detached houses are not available. The table gives average house prices for all properties bought with building socieity mortgages in 1977 and 1986: figures for the earlier years requested are not available. Because of the large number of commuters in the south-east, it is not possible to provide separate estimates for London and the rest of the south-east of house prices related to the earnings in each locality.
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  London and the South East

  Average house price1 £

  Ratio of house price to earnings2

  Annual net interest on 90 per cent. mortgage3£

  1977

  16,540

  3·85

  1,080

  1986

  50,375

  4·16

  4,213

  1Source: Department of Environment's survey of building society mortgages at completion stage.

  2 Average gross weekly pay of full time males on adult rates whose pay was not affected by absence, in April each year; source: New Earnings Survey.

  3 Assuming 11 per cent, interest rate in 1977 with tax relief at 34 per cent. and 11·5 per cent, interest rate in 1986 with tax relief at 29 per cent, on the first £30,000.

  Company Cars
  Mr. Austin Mitchell
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his best estimate of the value of petrol purchased by businesses for (a) their own use and (b) that of their employees in 1986–87; what was the value of the benefit paid to the directors and to higher-paid employees; how much of this was subject to the scale charge; and what is his estimate of the amount of revenue from income tax and national insurance contributions in 1987–88 due from assessments under the same charge.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  It is estimated that the value of petrol purchased by sectors other than the personal sector was about £2·4 billion in 1985, the latest year for which information is available. This estimate includes purchases by companies and the public sector but excludes unincorporated businesses. I regret that information about the use of petrol purchased is not available.

  The taxable value of any free fuel provided for the private use of a director or higher paid employee is determined by reference to a set of scale charges and does not depend on the amount of fuel provided. It is estimated that, in 1987–88, the taxable value of free fuel provided for private use will be £450 million leading to an income tax yield of around £160 million. The provision of free fuel for private use does not affect national insurance contributions.

  Maturity Loans and Home Income Plan Mortgages
  Mr. Cohen
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received seeking amendment of the law so that interest as well as capital on maturity loans and on home income plan mortgages can be rolled up during the lifetimes of the borrowers; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  My right hon. Friend has received representations about tax relief on the interest on loans to purchase life annuities taken out by elderly home owners and secured on their homes. Repayment arrangements on such loans, including any provision for rolling up interest, are matters for agreement between the lender and the borrower.

  Small Businesses
  Mr. Andrew MacKay
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how the need to obtain a European Community derogation for the proposed scheme of value added tax cash accounting for small businesses will affect the timing of legislation and whether he will make a statement.
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  Mr. Brooke
  As my right hon. Friend announced in his Budget Statement on 17 March, he proposes to introduce the facility of cash accounting for businesses with an annual turnover not exceeding £250,000 on 1 October 1987, and the Government's request for a derogation from the sixth VAT directive to permit this was notified to the European Commission on Budget day. The Finance Bill, published today, contains in clause 10 powers for the Commissioners of Customs and Excise to make detailed regulations to implement the cash accounting scheme. In order to ensure compliance with European Community law these regulations will not be made until the EC derogation has been approved. Later this month I shall be placing in the Library a draft of the regulations in time to assist the House in its detailed consideration of the Finance Bill provisions.

  Taxation
  Mrs. Roe
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list (a) the number of married women whose investment income was assessed to tax as that of their husbands' during the tax years 1982–83, 1983–84, and 1984–85, (b) the total gross income so assessed in each year and (c) the tax received thereon.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  [pursuant to his reply, 16 March 1987, c. 387]:The Surveys of Personal Income for the years specified indicate that about 1½ million married women

  Effect of Transferable Allowances1 at 1987–88 Income levels

  Paying less tax

  Paying more tax

  Total Income (lower limit) £ per week

  Numbers thousands

  Annual tax change £ million

  Numbers thousands

  Annual tax change £ million

  Annual tax change £ million

  Married Couples aged under 65—both earning

  Under 60

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  60–100

  30

  -5

  20

  —

  -5

  100–150

  90

  -15

  270

  + 70

  + 55

  150–200

  140

  -20

  530

  + 155

  + 135

  200–300

  250

  -35

  1,790

  + 580

  + 545

  300–400

  90

  -10

  1,460

  + 510

  + 500

  Over 400

  130

  -45

  1,070

  + 340

  + 295

  All

  730

  -130

  5,140

  + 1,655

  + 1,525

  Married Couples aged under 65—one earning

  Under 60

  —

  —

  10

  —

  —

  60–100

  210

  -35

  10

  + 5

  -30

  100–150

  620

  -170

  70

  + 15

  -155

  150–200

  910

  -255

  50

  + 10

  -245

  200–300

  1,550

  -440

  40

  + 10

  -430

  300–400

  500

  -145

  10

  —

  -145

  Over 400

  390

  -195

  10

  —

  -195

  All

  4,180

  -1,240

  200

  + 40

  -1,200

  Married Couples aged 65 and over

  Under 60

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  60–100

  140

  -10

  —

  —

  -10

  100–150

  440

  -120

  90

  + 20

  -100

  150–200

  200

  -60

  90

  + 20

  -40

  200–300

  140

  -50

  100

  + 10

  -40

  300–400

  50

  -20

  40

  + 5

  -15

  Over 400

  80

  -90

  50

  + 10

  -80

  All

  1,050

  -350

  370

  + 65

  -285

  All Groups

  5,960

  -1,720

  5,710

  + 1,760

  + 40

  1 At £2,425 for non-aged and with age allowances of £2,690 for aged 65–79 and £3,070 for aged 80 and over.

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  had investment income amounting to some £1¼ billion per annum on which the tax due would be about £500 million. This calculation treats the wife's investment income as the top slice of the couple's joint income. In practice, these figures underestimate the full amounts, because the surveys do not provide comprehensive coverage of investment income on which the liability to basic rate tax has been satisfied at source.

  Married Women (Taxation)
  Mr. Austin Mitchell
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing by personal category and range of income for elderly and for other taxpayers the gross and net cost to the Exchequer of separate taxation, without aggregation, of married women in the coming financial year on the assumption that each spouse has a transferable allowance equal to the single allowance and that the wife's earned income all6wance will be abolished; and how much of the loss would be in respect of higher rate tax on earned income and of standard rate and higher rate tax, respectively, on unearned income.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  [pursuant to his reply, 23 March 1987, c. 40]:The table shows the effects for married couples, at 1987–88 income levels, of transferable allowances at the levels for single persons proposed in the 1987 Budget. Further analyses could only be provided at disproportionate expense.

  Wife's Earned Income Allowance
  Mr. Austin Mitchell
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the numbers and estimated cost of the wife's earned income allowance in the next financial year by range of the wife's income and of the joint incomes of husband and wife.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  [pursuant to his reply, 23 March 1987, c. 40]:The latest estimates are given in the tables. They are based on a projection from the 1984–85 survey of personal incomes and are therefore provisional. They exclude wives who have no Inland Revenue tax record because their earnings are below the PAYE reporting limit.

  Numbers and cost of the wife's earned income allowance, 1987–88 by range of wife's income1

  Wife's income1 lower limit (£ pa)

  Number of earning wives2 '000s)

  Cost of wife's earned income allowance3(£ million)

  1

  960

  105

  1,000

  1,010

  385

  2,000

  1,150

  700

  3,000

  830

  550

  4,000

  590

  390

  5,000

  560

  385

  6,000

  600

  415

  7,000

  380

  265

  8,000

  280

  200

  9,000

  170

  135

  10,000

  300

  265

  12,000

  170

  165

  15,000

  70

  75

  20,000

  20

  30

  30,000

  10

  15

  All ranges

  7,100

  4,080

  1 Wife's total earned income.

  2All married women with earned income benefit from the wife's earned income allowance. The figures exclude those with earnings below the PAYE reporting limit and self-employed wives making a net loss.

  3 Including personal allowance claimed by wives with separate earnings election.

  Distribution of total income11987–88

  Numbers

  Tax units aged under 65

  Tax units aged over 65

  Range of total income Lower limit (£ pa)

  Single people ('000s)

  Married couples without wife's earned income ('000s)

  Married couples with wife's earned income ('000s)

  Single people ('000s)

  Married couples without wife's earned income ('000s)

  Married couples with wife's earned income ('000s)

  1,0002

  1,120

  170

  30

  30

  20

  5

  2,0002

  1,150

  260

  60

  460

  30

  10

  3,000

  900

  160

  70

  360

  120

  30

  4,000

  900

  190

  100

  220

  210

  110

  5,000

  1,070

  240

  140

  140

  220

  90

  6,000

  910

  280

  140

  100

  110

  80

  7,000

  810

  310

  170

  90

  90

  70

  8,000

  690

  380

  210

  60

  80

  60

  9,000

  560

  370

  280

  50

  40

  50

  10,000

  800

  820

  700

  60

  60

  70

  12,000

  500

  860

  1,230

  60

  40

  70

  15,000

  320

  570

  1,650

  40

  40

  70

  20,000

  100

  190

  710

  20

  20

  50

  25,000

  50

  100

  340

  10

  10

  10

  30,000

  40

  110

  380

  10

  20

  20

  50,000

  20

  50

  70

  5

  10

  10

  1 Total income for income tax purposes.

  2 Excluding those who have no Inland Revenue tax record because their earnings are below the PAYE reporting limit.

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  Numbers and cost of the wife's earned income allowance, 1987–88 by range of joint total income of husband and wife1

  Joint total income1 lower limit (£ pa)

  Number of earning wives2 ('000s)

  Cost of wife's earned income allowance3 (£ million)

  1

  20

  0

  1,000

  30

  0

  2,000

  70

  0

  3,000

  110

  0

  4,000

  200

  15

  5,000

  220

  55

  6,000

  220

  50

  7,000

  240

  110

  8,000

  280

  125

  9,000

  330

  160

  10,000

  770

  390

  12,000

  1,300

  725

  15,000

  1,720

  1,035

  20,000

  1,120

  830

  30,000

  470

  545

  All ranges

  7,100

  4,080

  1 Total income for income tax purposes

  2 All married women with earned income benefit from the wife's earned income allowance. The figures exclude those with earnings below the PAYE reporting limit and self-employed wives making a net loss.

  3 Including personal allowance claimed by wives with separate earnings election.

  Gross Incomes
  Mr. Austin Mitchell
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report his estimate of the distribution of gross incomes in the coming financial year by range of income in steps of £1,000 to £20,000 and £5,000 to £50,000 divided between elderly and other taxpayers and between single persons and one-earner and two-earner households.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  [pursuant to his reply, 25 March 1987, c. 216]:The latest available estimates are given in the table. They are based on a projection from the 1984–85 survey of personal incomes and are therefore provisional. In order to provide reliable estimates some of the requested income ranges have been combined.

  VAT Inputs Frauds
  Mr. Neil Hamilton
  asked the Chancellor of the Excequer if he is able to give the latest information with regard to the precise or estimated amounts of value added tax inputs frauds; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Brooke
  [pursuant to his reply, 6 April 1987, c.76]:Amounts of value added tax input frauds are not recorded separately from those for output tax, and the information could be provided only at disproportionate cost and effort.

  Central Office of Information (Survey Research)
  Mr. Gregory
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the sum expended on survey research by the Central Office of Information in each year since 1982.

  Mr. Brooke
  [pursuant to his reply, 6 April 1987, c. 76–7]: The amount spent by the Central Office of Information on all research in connection with the planning, execution and evaluation of Government publicity was:

  £

  1982–83

  408,000

  1983–84

  589,000

  1984–85

  591,000

  1985–86

  911,000

  1986–87

  1,924,000

  Manufacturing Industry
  Mr. Meacher
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the level of investment, capital consumption and net investment each year in manufacturing industry since 1970.

  Mr. MacGregor
  [pursuant to his reply, 3 April 1987, c. 629]:Figures of gross domestic fixed capital formation, capital consumption and net domestic fixed capital

  Gains (£ per week), net of indexation, from the main income tax proposals1 in all Budgets from 1979 to 1987, at 1987–88 income levels

  Multiples of Average Earnings2

  ½

  ¾

  1

  1½

  2

  5

  10

  Single Person (Non-aged)

  change in:—

  basic rate3

  4·03

  7·43

  10·84

  17·65

  20·65

  20·65

  20·65

  personal allowances

  2·35

  2·35

  2·35

  2·35

  3·56

  5·91

  5·91

  reduced rate band

  -2·46

  -2·46

  -2·46

  -2·46

  -2·46

  -2·46

  -2·46

  higher rates and thresholds

  —

  —

  —

  —

  2·62

  100·90

  362·30

  Total4

  3·91

  7·31

  10·73

  17·54

  25·21

  131·05

  392·45

  Married man (Non-aged)

  change in:—

  basic rate 3

  2·44

  5·85

  9·26

  16·08

  20·65

  20·65

  20·65

  personal allowances

  3·74

  3·74

  3·74

  3·74

  5·11

  9·42

  9·42

  reduced rate band

  -2·46

  -2·46

  -2·46

  -2·46

  -2·46

  -2·46

  -2·46

  higher rates and thresholds

  —

  —

  —

  —

  2·62

  100·90

  362·30

  Total 4

  3·72

  7·14

  10·54

  17·36

  25·92

  128·51

  389·90

  1 Excluding abolition of investment income surcharge.

  2 Full time adult males (all occupations) forecast earnings for 1987–88 £227·30 per week.

  3 Assuming changes to personal allowances, the reduced rate bands and the higher rate thresholds are made first.

  4 The sum of the component changes may vary by a penny from the total change given due to rounding.

  Gains (£ per week) from the main income tax proposals in the 1987 Budget

  Multiples of Average Earnings1

  ½

  ¾

  1

  1½

  2

  5

  10

  Single Person (Non-aged)

  Current Prices: change in

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  formation for manufacturing industries are given in the table. These figures do not include capital goods leased to manufacturers from financial lessors. Figures of capital consumption and net domestic fixed capital formation in 1986 are not yet available.

  Acquisition and consumption of fixed assets by manufacturing industries

  £ million

  Gross domestic fixed capital formation

  Capital consumption

  Net domestic fixed capital formation

  1970

  2,089

  1,188

  901

  1971

  2,102

  1,375

  727

  1972

  1,968

  1,534

  434

  1973

  2,356

  1,759

  597

  1974

  3,062

  2,170

  892

  1975

  3,458

  2,771

  687

  1976

  3,910

  3,369

  541

  1977

  4,730

  3,996

  734

  1978

  5,624

  4,591

  1,033

  1979

  6,515

  5,272

  1,243

  1980

  6,478

  6,241

  237

  1981

  5,318

  6,854

  -1,536

  1982

  5,480

  7,302

  -1,822

  1983

  5,854

  7,664

  -1,810

  1984

  7,341

  8,016

  -675

  1985

  7,950

  8,601

  -651

  1986

  8,334

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a. = not available.

  Personal Incomes (Budget Effects)
  Dr. McDonald
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide for 1987 the same information provided in his reply of 27 October 1986 to the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher), Official Report, columns 53–6.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  [pursuant to his reply, 25 March 1987, c. 216]: The information is in the tables.
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  Multiples of Average Earnings3

  ½

  ¾

  1

  1½

  2

  5

  10

  basic rate 2

  1·34

  2·47

  3·61

  5·88

  6·88

  6·88

  6·88

  personal allowances

  0·50

  0·50

  0·50

  0·50

  0·78

  1·04

  1·04

  higher rate thresholds

  —

  —

  —

  —

  1·67

  1·67

  1·67

  Total 3

  1·85

  2·98

  4·11

  6·38

  9·34

  9·59

  9·59

  Net of indexation: change in basic rate 2

  1·34

  2·47

  3·61

  5·88

  6·88

  6·88

  6·88

  personal allowances

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  higher rate thresholds

  —

  —

  —

  —

  -0·67

  4·71

  4·71

  Total 3

  1·34

  2·47

  3·61

  5·88

  6·21

  2·17

  2·17

  Married Man (Non-aged)

  Current Prices: change in

  basic rate 2

  0·81

  1·95

  3·08

  5·36

  6·88

  6·88

  6·88

  personal allowances

  0·78

  0·78

  0·78

  0·78

  1·08

  1·61

  1·61

  higher rate thresholds

  —

  —

  —

  —

  1·48

  1·67

  1·67

  Total 3

  1·59

  2·73

  3·86

  6·14

  9·44

  10·17

  10·17

  Net of indexation: change in

  basic rate 2

  0·81

  1·95

  3·08

  5·36

  6·88

  6·88

  6·88

  personal allowances

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  higher rate thresholds

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  -4·71

  -4·71

  Total 3

  0·81

  1·95

  3·08

  5·36

  6·88

  2·17

  2·17

  1 Full time adult males (all occupations) forecast earnings for 1987–88 £227·30 per week.

  2 Assuming changes to personal allowances and higher rate thresholds are made first.

  3 The sum of the changes may vary by a penny from the total given due to rounding.

  Unearned Income
  Mr. Austin Mitchell
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for those of working age the income distribution by tax category of those with an unearned income of more than £200 and £500 a year, respectively.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  [pursuant to his reply, 25 March 1987, c. 214]:Information for 1986–87 is given in the tables. The estimates are based on a projection from the 1984–85 "Survey of Personal Incomes" and are therefore provisional. Since the survey does not provide comprehensive coverage of investment income on which the liability to basic rate tax has been satisfied at source, the estimates for the ranges other than the higher income ranges are likely to be incomplete.

  Distribution of total income1, 1986–87 for single people and married couples under 65 with an investment income of more than £200 per annum

  Number of incomes ('000s)

  Total income1 lower limit (£ p.a.)

  Single people

  Married couples without wife's earned income

  Married couples with wife's earned income

  2,000

  290

  40

  30

  5,000

  110

  70

  50

  7,000

  160

  120

  110

  10,000

  60

  60

  90

  12,000

  80

  80

  160

  15,000

  80

  80

  370

  20,000

  60

  100

  370

  30,000

  20

  70

  190

  50,000

  10

  30

  50

  1 Gross income for income tax purposes.

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  Distribution of total income1, 1986–87 for single people and married couples under 65 with investment income of more than £500 per annum

  Number of incomes ('000s)

  Total income1 lower limit (£ p.a.)

  Single people

  Married couples without wife's earned income

  Married couples with wife's earned income

  2,000

  230

  30

  20

  5,000

  80

  30

  40

  7,000

  100

  80

  70

  10,000

  40

  30

  70

  12,000

  60

  50

  110

  15,000

  70

  60

  250

  20,000

  50

  80

  280

  30,000

  20

  60

  160

  50,000

  10

  30

  40

  1 Gross income for income tax purposes.

  Company Taxation
  Mr. Austin Mitchell
  asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for 1957–58, 1967–68, 1977–78 and the latest financial year for which figures are available the total amount of tax paid by companies and the components, including the amounts deducted by way of tax on dividends, selective employment tax, national insurance contributions and national insurance surcharges, together with a forecast for the outturn in the current financial year and a forecast for the next financial year on the basis of profits earned to date.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  [pursuant to his reply, 30 March 1987, c. 396]: No estimates are available for total taxes paid by companies. Figures for taxes on company incomes were published in Economic Trends annual supplement (January 1987); Table 168 contains annual figures back to 1955 and Tables 169 to 172 have quarterly figures back to 1960. Advance corporation tax paid on dividends is shown separately in these tables. Figures for capital taxes paid by companies are published in "National Income" Blue Book table 9.6 for 1975 onwards on a calendar year basis.
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  Latest estimates for 1986–87 and forecasts for 1987–88 for receipts of corporation tax and petroleum revenue tax, which together account for virtually all of taxes on income and capital paid by companies, were given in the "Financial Statement and Budget Report", table 6B.3.

  Official statistics for taxes on expenditure and national insurance contributions do not separately identify those taxes paid by companies.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY

  Trade Statistics
  Mr. Austin Mitchell
  asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each quarter since 1 January 1986 the percentage increase in (a) import unit values for finished manufactures, (b) output prices for United Kingdom manufactures and (c) the trade-weighted average reduction in the exchange rate.

  Mr. Alan Clark
  The information is as follows:

  (a) Imports of finished manufactured goods1

  Unit value indices

  1980 = 1002

  Percentage change over previous quarter

  1985

  Q4 142

  —

  1986

  Ql 147

  +3·5

  Q2 147

  +0·0

  Q3 150

  +2·0

  Q4 158

  +5·3

  1 Finished manufactured goods consist of sections 7 and 8 of the Standard International Trade Classification (Revision 2).

  2 OIS basis, not seasonally adjusted.

  (b) Output price indices1

  Home sales of manufactures1

  1980 = 100

  Percentage change over previous quarter

  1985

  Q4 141·4

  —

  1986

  Ql 143·4

  +1·4

  Q2 145·7

  +1·6

  Q3 146·3

  +0·4

  Q4 147·42

  +0·8

  1 Manufactures consist of divisions 2 to 4 of the 1980 Standard Industrial Classification.

  2 Provisional.

  (c) Sterling effective exchange index

  1975 = 100

  Percentage change over previous quarter

  1985

  Q4 79·9

  —

  1986

  Ql 75·1

  -6·0

  Q2 76·1

  +1·3

  Q3 71·9

  -5·5

  Q4 68·2

  -5·1

  Frogs' Legs
  Mr. Rooker
  asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what is the amount and volume of imported frogs' legs for the latest convenient period; if he will give figures for each country of origin; and what conditions are imposed by United Kingdom authorities on the methods of slaughter.

  Mr. Alan Clark
  This information is not available. Frogs' legs are not separately identified in the United Kingdom Overseas Trade Statistics..

  Blowpipe Missiles
  Mr. Cohen
  asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps his Department is taking to investigate the appearance of Blowpipe missiles in Afghanistan in contravention of end user certificates.

  Mr. Alan Clark
  It is not the practice to comment on individual defence equipment export matters.

  Butane Gas
  Mr. Cohen
  asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will take steps to make the sale of butane gas canisters to minors illegal; what information he has as to the extent of butane gas sniffing; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Pattie
  If the Government banned the sale of butane gas cannisters to minors, they would simply turn to other products which are just as harmful. Sniffing gas cannisters tends to be confined to hardened sniffers, but, like most solvent sniffing, it appears to be on the increase. The answer I believe lies in educating young people as to the folly of sniffing and parents and teachers to watch for the tell-tale signs, and by prohibiting the sales of sniffable products if the purchasers appear to be buying them to sniff.

  Satellites
  Mr. Cohen
  asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 16 March, Official Report, column 362, if he will list those (a) United Kingdom or (b) United Kingdom collaborative communication satellites which remain live in a technical sense; and what was the purpose of each such satellite.

  Mr. Pattie
  The only United Kingdom communications satellite that is still technically "live" is MoD's SKYNET IIB. This suffered a partial failure some years ago, with the result that its orbital position can no longer be controlled. However, it is still technically capable of relaying military telecommunications traffic between stations that happen to be within its field of view.

  The United Kingdom also has an interest in communications satellites developed by the European Space Agency. These were developed under collaborative arrangements and manufactured by the United Kingdom and other member nations. They comprise the orbital test satellite, (OTS 2), the European communications satellite, (ECS 1 and 2), and the maritime ECS, (Marecs B2). The ECS and Marecs satellites are developments of the original OTS technology demonstrator satellite, and have now been leased to the Eutelsat and Inmarsat organisations for operational use. Although currently "retired", OTS is still capable of carrying telecommunications traffic.

  Post Office
  Mr. Lawrence
  asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what response the Post Office has made to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission's report on the Post Office's procurement activities; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Pattie
  I have now received the initial response of the Post Office to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission's report published in October last year on the Post Office's procurement activities (Cmnd. 9912). I am placing copies of the Post Office's response in the Library of the House. The commission reached 52 conclusions and made 49 practical recommendations on various aspects of Post Office procurement, including purchasing in the Post Office's supply department and in its regions, stock management, procurement of particular produces and services and the financial arrangements and staffing of the Post Office's procurement function.

  The Post Office has accepted all but one of the commission's recommendations. Because many of these covered areas where the Post Office was making improvements or was planning to do so, it has been able to implement many of the commission's recommedations already. My Department has agreed a detailed timetable with the Post Office for implementation of the remaining recommendations and has also agreed that the Post Office will prepare progress reports in October 1987 and October 1988 on action taken and results achieved.

  One recommendation, which relates to arrangements for paying advertising agencies, was partially rejected by the Post Office. This matter is still under consideration in consultation with the commission.

  I am satisfied that the Post Offie is taking the commission's recommendations seriously and is making good progress on their implementation.

  I should like to take this opportunity to convey the Government's gratitude to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission for its thorough and valuable investigation.

  Business and Technical Advisory Services
  Mr. Andrew MacKay
  asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the future of his Department's business and technical advisory services.

  Mr. Butcher
  The Department's business and technical advisory services offer small and medium-size firms with up to 500 employees grants towards the costs of employing expert consultants to advise on projects to improve productivity, design, quality management and marketing.

  They were first introduced in 1977 to cover productivity projects. The Department built on the experience of this by introducing similar assistance for consultancy in design and quality management in 1983 and for marketing in September last year. These newer elements are aimed at improving the competitiveness of our products internationally. We are being urged by industry to do more to help improvements in these areas, particularly as regards marketing where response to the launch of the new BTAS element last year has been well over 1,000 applications so far in less than six months. We shall be increasing substantially the funds available for the marketing element in order to meet that demand.

  Our general policy on assistance schemes is to operate them only so long as is necessary for improvement and
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  momentum in a particular area to be generated and sustained by industry itself. After 10 years of running the productivity element of BTAS, we now feel that stage has been reached in respect of productivity.

  Consequently, the productivity element of BTAS will close at midnight tonight after which no new applications will be accepted. Commitments in relation to existing applications will however be honoured.

  In recent years BTAS productivity assistance has been working with the grain of other economic factors which have led to major productivity gains by United Kingdom industry. Since 1979 manufacturing productivity has increased by over 3½ per cent. a year, a considerable improvement on the average annual growth rate of ¾ per cent. between 1973 and 1979. And, whereas in the 1970s the United Kingdom was at the bottom of the international league table, since 1979 manufacturing productivity growth has been greater in the United Kingdom than in any other major industrial country.

  A full evaluation of the productivity element has been carried out by the Department's assessment unit. The main findings of the evaluation report, which will be published in due course, are that the productivity element of BTAS: had completed over 10,000 projects helping small and medium size firms up to September 1985 (the number to date is now nearer 17,000); has brought clear, quantifiable productivity benefits to a high proportion of the firms assisted; has encouraged more positive attitudes among small and medium size firms to using productivity consultants.

  The Department will therefore now concentrate BTAS assistance on helping small and medium-sized firms put more effort into design, quality management and marketing. These factors are particularly relevant to the United Kingdom's business and trade prospects at this time when world economic factors now see us favourably placed to exploit United Kingdom competitiveness in markets both at home and abroad.

  Assistance towards consultancy under other DTI schemes in the area of advanced manufacturing technology and the application of micro electronics will also continue to be available.

  Although this means there will no longer be BTAS grants towards the costs of consultancy projects on productivity, we are considering with PERA arrangements whereby advice on the selection and use of outside consultants for such projects can continue to be made available to small and medium-size firms who need it.

  We will also continue to promote awareness of the potential for productivity gains by publicising more widely some of the cases which have been so successful under BTAS.".

  Lloyd's (Committee of Inquiry)
  Mr. Bowen Wells
  asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what were the results of his discussions with Lloyd's on the consideration and implementation of the report of the committee of inquiry into regulatory matters at Lloyd's.

  Mr. Channon
  The Council of Lloyd's welcomed the report and accepted, on the day of publication, the changes recommended in the composition of the council; these have since been implemented. This new council will oversee the implementation of the remainder of the report, for which Lloyd's has since drawn up detailed plans. The chairman of the Council of Lloyd's. with whom I have had
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  discussions on these matters, has recently sent me me a memorandum setting out their approach to, and proposed timetable for, implementation. I have placed this memorandum in the Library.

  For their part, the Government accept the recommendation that Lloyd's should be exempted from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 in a similar way to other institutions, to enable it to seek information about spent convictions and is discussing the details with Lloyd's. Lloyd's has so far shown determination to act promptly and have made some progress. I shall expect this progress to continue, so that the substance of the report will be implemented speedily, as planned, over the next two years. The Government believe that full and complete implementation of the report should provide Names with broadly comparable protection to that given to investors under the Financial Services Act. I shall continue to follow most carefully progress in this important matter and to keep the House informed.

SCOTLAND

  Small Businesses
  4. Mr. MacKenzie asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what measures his Department is taking to assist small and medium-sized firms in Scotland.
  Mr. Lang
  The Government fully recognise the important role of small and medium sized firms, and have successfully brought about an economic environment favourable to enterprise. Small firms in Scotland benefit from a wide range of national and Scottish schemes of support. The Chancellor's recent Budget statement included further valuable measures to assist small firms.

  Clydesdale Works, Belleshill
  Mr. James Hamilton
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he will next meet the chairman of the British Steel Corporation to discuss the suggested merger between the Clydesdale works, Belleshill and a French company.

  Mr. Lang
  My right hon. and learned Friend and I met the chairman of the British Steel Corporation on 26 February. There are no plans for a further meeting in the immediate future but we shall continue to meet on a regular basis, to discuss matters affecting the steel industry in Scotland.

  Lochs and Rivers (Acidification)
  Sir Russell Johnston
  asked the Secretary State for Scotland if he will the list those lochs and rivers in Scotland that are showing signs of acidification.

  Mr. Ancram
  A great deal of monitoring and measurement of the acid status of lochs and rivers in Scotland is currently being carried out. The results of this work will appear in due course in various publications, in particular the report of the United Kingdom acid waters review group, which is expected in about 18 months' time. There would be no purpose in attempting to produce a list of acidified areas in Scotland before the publication of this report.

  Jordanhill College of Education
  Mr. Donald Stewart
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make it his policy to retain secondary teacher training in Gaelic at Jordanhill college of education.

  Mr. John MacKay
  Following consultations last year on the rationalisation of postgraduate secondary pre-service teacher training courses, I decided that for the academic sessions 1987–88 to 1989–90 Gaelic should be offered alternately by the Northern and Jordanhill colleges of education. Provision for that subject will accordingly require to be maintained by both colleges.

  Rents
  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what representations he has received about increasing the powers of rent officers to intervene in order to prevent excessive rents being charged by private landlords.

  Mr. Ancram
  My right hon. and learned Friend has received representations to this effect only from the hon. Member.

  Nurses
  Mr. Willie W. Hamilton
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the problems of recruitment, training, and wastage of nursing staff in the National Health Service in Scotland.

  Mr. John MacKay
  Since this Government came into office the whole-time equivalent number of qualified nurses has risen by 7,494. This represents an increase of nearly 28 per cent. over the 1979 total of 26,930, although part of the increase was necessitated by the reduction in working hours in 1980 from 40 to 37·5 per week.

  In this same period student nurse numbers have increased by 16 per cent. the increase being about 22 per cent. for general nursing and 30 per cent. for mental handicap. For mental health and maternity the number remained about the same.

  The number training to become enrolled nurses has fallen by about 62 per cent. between 1979 and 1985.

  Information on wastage is not readily available centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The Scottish Home and Health Department has commissioned a research study of career pathways for cohorts of nurses trained in Scotland over the past 30 years. This should be completed by the end of this year and will provide much useful information on career progression, wastage, return to work and future intentions.

  Woodilee Hospital
  Mr. Tom Clarke
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he next expects to meet representatives of the Greater Glasgow health board to discuss the problems of (a) Woodilee hospital and (b) other psychiatric hospitals; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. John MacKay
  Scottish Home and Health Department officials have already met once with representatives of the Greater Glasgow health board to discuss the problems of the main block of Woodilee
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  hospital and the Department is represented on the special technical working group which has been set up by the hoard to assess the cost of bringing the main block back into use. Once that working group has reported, the Department expects to have further discussions with the board about the available options.

  The Greater Glasgow health board is also considering a review of its strategy for psychiatric services generally and the Department will also be discussing this with the hoard in due course.

  Forestry
  Mr. John Mark Taylor
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he next intends to meet the chairman of the Forestry Commission to discuss broadleaf planting.

  Mr. John MacKay
  My right hon. and learned Friend has no plans to meet the chairman of the Forestry Commission to discuss this particular topic.

  Mr. Maclennan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he intends to alter existing practice in the determination of the suitability of land for afforestation.

  Mr. John MacKay
  The practices followed in determining whether land should be cleared for planting are kept under review. My right hon. and learned Friend hopes to make an announcement soon regarding the Government's conclusions arising from the Forestry Commission's review of the composition and procedures of its regional advisory committees, which have an important role in seeking to conciliate over disputed grant and felling applications, but has no other changes in mind at present.

  Mr. Ron Davies
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on his policy towards further afforestation in the flow country of Sutherland and Caithness.

  Mr. John MacKay
  Discussions are currently taking place between the Scottish Office, the Forestry Commission and the Nature Conservancy Council about how a reasonable balance between forestry and nature conservation can he achieved in the flow country of Caithness and Sutherland. All applications for planting grants arising in the districts of Caithness and Sutherland, whether within sites of special scientific interest or not, are the subject of consultation with the Nature Conservancy Council, as I announced in answer to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Corrie) on 17 February 1987 at column 541.

  Mr. Hardy
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he is taking to promote afforestation in lowland areas of England and to discourage planting in the flow areas of Scotland.

  Mr. John MacKay
  In addition to the Forestry Commission's present grant schemes, the afforestation of lowland areas in England will be encouraged by the measures announced by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on 9 February 1987 at columns 38–40. These include the proposed introduction of a farm woodland scheme and an increase in traditional forestry by the release of better quality land than hitherto.

  My right hon. and learned Friend is not taking steps to discourage planting in any part of Scotland, but the Commission grant aid planting only after consultations with other relevant land use interests.

  Housing Co-operatives
  Mr. Hugh Brown
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many housing co-operatives are funded by the Housing Corporation and at what annual cost; and if he has any proposals to increase the number of such cooperatives.

  Mr. Ancram
  The Housing Corporation has registered 20 housing co-operatives in Scotland, all of which are thereby eligible for funding. In 1986–87, in addition to one single co-operative funded at a cost of £0·43 million, the three associations (including two registered co-operatives) in the community ownership programme received £4 million. In the current year, projected expenditure is £0·85 million by two co-operatives and £4·5 million by the associations in the community ownership programme.

  The promotion, registration and allocation of funds to individual housing associations are matters for the Housing Corporation. Scottish Office officials are, however, discussing with local authorities, the Housing Corporation and other interests the best means available of meeting local housing aspirations, including proposals to establish further community co-operatives.

  Glasgow College of Technology
  23. Mr. McTaggart asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the reduction in funding for Glasgow college of technology for the year 1987–88.
  Mr. John MacKay
  The recurrent grant allocation for 1987–88 has been increased by some 6·5 per cent. against the initial allocation for 1986–87.

  Regional Parks
  24. Mrs. McCurley asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on regional parks in Scotland.
  Mr. Ancram
  The Countryside (Scotland) Act 1981 gives regional councils the power, by order, to designate land as regional parks. If there are unwithdrawn objections to an order the Secretary of State's confirmation is required.

  Two regional parks have so far been designated in Scotland. Designation orders have been made for two others at Loch Lomond and Clyde-Muirshiel, but objections have been submitted against both orders. In the former case it has been agreed to proceed by written submissions and a site inspection by an inquiry reporter, who will recommend to the Secretary of State whether or not the order should be confirmed. No decision on procedure has yet been reached in respect of the proposed Clyde-Muirshiel regional park.

  Labour Statistics
  Mr. David Marshall
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what are the total numbers and percentages of unemployed young males and young females in Scotland; what plans he has to reduce these figures; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Lang
  On 8 January 1987 (the latest date for which information is available) there were 90,236 unemployed male claimants and 52,203 unemployed female claimants
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  in Scotland under the age of 25. Because an accurate estimate of the total work force under the age of 25 is not available, unemployment rates by age groups cannot be given.

  Our primary objective is to create the conditions in which employment will flourish. The rate of inflation has been brought down, providing a more stable environment for business, and a wide range of measures to assist employment, training, improve incentives and increase flexibility has been introduced. Of the Government employment and training measures the new job training scheme, the extension of the YTS guarantee to all school leavers under 18, the expansion of places available under the enterprise allowance scheme and the introduction last year of the new workers scheme will all be of particular benefit to unemployed young people in Scotland.

  Inverclyde Initiative
  Dr. Godman
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received on the Inverclyde initiative; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Lang
  My right hon. and learned Friend has received no further representations on the Inverclyde initiative since his meeting with representatives of Inverclyde district council on 23 January, at which the hon. Member was present, except for the hon. Member's letter of 9 March, to which I replied on 3 April.

  Salmon
  28. Mr. Colvin asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has any plans to seek to increase the level of salmon stocks in Scotland's rivers and waterways.
  Mr. John MacKay
  The enhancement of salmon stocks in Scotland is a matter for district salmon fishery boards. My Department's marine and freshwater fisheries laboratories are currently involved in research into the methods by which stocks may be enhanced and the results of this work are made available to district salmon fishery boards, on request.

  The recently established salmon advisory committee has also been asked to examine and advise Ministers on matters relating to the conservation and development of salmon fisheries.

  Lung Cancer
  Mr. Martin
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether the incidence of lung cancer in Glasgow among (a) men and (b) women is increasing or decreasing; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. John MacKay
  The number of cases of lung cancer registered in Glasgow among men was 883 in 1975. The corresponding figure for 1984 (the latest year for which data are available) was 843, a slight decrease. However, equivalent figures for women were 268 in 1975 and 418 in 1984. The great majority of these cases—both in men and women — may be attributed to cigarette smoking and demonstrate how much harm results fom this habit.

  Rates
  Mr. O'Neill
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last met Convention of Scottish Local Authorities officials to discuss rates set for 1987–88.
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  Mr. Rifkind
  I discussed the rate support grant settlement for 1987–88 with representatives of the convention on 12 December last year. Local authorities have only recently set their rates for 1987–88. I will be meeting the convention again on 27 April.

  Manufacturing Industry
  Mr. Millan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the prospects for manufacturing industry in Scotland.

  Mr. Rifkind
  Scottish manufacturing industry will benefit from the growth expected in its United Kingdom and world markets. I expect overall manufacturing activity to resume growth after the disappointing fall last year, with some of the newer high technology industries doing particularly well, the continued dearth of orders in the shipbuilding industry remains a major concern.

  Torness Power Station
  Mr. Campbell
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what information he has as to the most recent date for the commissioning of the first unit at Torness generating station.

  Mr. Lang
  I am advided by the South of Scotland electricity board that it currently expects that fuel loading of the first unit at Torness will begin in mid-1987 to be followed by power raising before the end of 1987.

  Alternative Land Use
  Mr. Bill Walker
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will outline details of Government schemes designed to assist alternative crops and land use by farmers in Scotland.

  Mr. John MacKay
  I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given by my right hon. Friend to my hon. Friend the Member for Romsey and Waterside (Mr. Colvin) on 6 March. Further details of various schemes of assistance will be announced as soon as possible.

  Bail etc. (Scotland) Act 1980
  Mr. Pollock
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has any plans to amend the Bail etc. (Scotland) Act 1980.

  Mr. Rifkind
  No.

  Domestic Rates
  Sir Russell Johnston
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate how the current product of domestic rates in Scotland and in each of the regions in Scotland might be raised through community charge or local income tax with and without resource equalisation in the cases of (a) a single person on 75 per cent. and 100 per cent. of an average manual workers wage, (b) a married man on 75 per cent. and 100 per cent. of an average manual worker's wage, whose wife's earnings are an average for women in full-time employment, (c) a married man with earnings as in case (a) whose wife's earnings are the average for women in part-time employment, (d) a married man with earnings as in case (a) whose wife has no income, (e) a married couple, as

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  in case (d) living with a son or daughter over 8 years of age, whose income is the average for the 18 to 25 year age group in Scotland and (f) a married couple as in case (d) living with an unemployed son or daughter between 18 and 25 years of age, indicating how these calculations were made.

  (a) A single person on 75 per cent, and 100 per cent, of average earnings for a full-time male adult manual worker in Scotland

  Area

  Community charges

  Equalised local income tax

  Unequalised local income tax

  (£)

  75 per cent. (£)

  100 per cent. (£)

  75 per cent. (£)

  100 per cent. (£)

  Borders

  158

  181

  272

  130

  196

  Central

  187

  214

  323

  269

  405

  Dumfries and Galloway

  155

  176

  266

  164

  247

  Fife

  210

  244

  367

  181

  272

  Grampian

  157

  181

  272

  130

  196

  Highland

  153

  176

  266

  134

  203

  Lothian

  225

  260

  393

  315

  475

  Strathclyde

  229

  265

  399

  277

  418

  Tayside

  194

  223

  336

  273

  412

  Scotland

  207

  239

  361

  235

  355

  (b) A married man with earnings as in case (a), whose wife's earnings are the Scottish average for adult women in full-time employment

  Area

  Community charges

  Equalised local income tax

  Unequalised local income tax

  (£)

  75 per cent. (£)

  100 per cent. (£)

  75 per cent. (£)

  100 per cent. (£)

  Borders

  316

  298

  390

  215

  281

  Central

  374

  354

  463

  444

  581

  Dumfries and Galloway

  310

  291

  381

  270

  354

  Fife

  420

  402

  526

  298

  390

  Grampian

  314

  298

  390

  215

  281

  Highland

  306

  291

  381

  222

  290

  Lothian

  450

  430

  562

  520

  680

  Strathclyde

  458

  437

  571

  458

  599

  Tayside

  388

  368

  481

  451

  590

  Scotland

  414

  395

  517

  388

  508

  (c) A married man with earnings as in case (a) whose wife's earnings are the average for adult women in part-time employment

  Area

  Community charges

  Equalised local income tax

  Unequalised local income tax

  (£)

  75 per cent. (£)

  100 per cent. (£)

  75 per cent. (£)

  100 per cent. (£)

  Borders

  316

  147

  238

  106

  172

  Central

  374

  174

  283

  218

  355

  Dumfries and Galloway

  310

  143

  233

  133

  216

  Fife

  420

  198

  322

  147

  238

  Grampian

  314

  147

  238

  106

  172

  Highland

  306

  143

  233

  109

  177

  Lothian

  150

  211

  344

  256

  416

  Strathclyde

  458

  215

  349

  225

  366

  Tayside

  388

  181

  294

  222

  360

  Scotland

  414

  194

  316

  191

  311

  (d) A married man with earnings as in case (a) whose wife has no income.

  Area

  Community charges

  Equalised local income tax

  Unequalised local income tax

  £

  75 per cent. £

  100 per cent. £

  75 per cent. £

  100 per cent. £

  Borders

  316

  127

  219

  91

  158

  Central

  374

  150

  259

  189

  325

  Dumfries and Galloway

  310

  124

  213

  115

  198

  Fife

  420

  171

  295

  127

  219

  Grampian

  314

  127

  219

  91

  158

  Highland

  306

  124

  213

  94

  163

  280
  Mr. Ancram
  The estimated average local tax bills under the community charge system and under a local income tax system and without resource equalisation needed to replace domestic rates in 1985–86, are given for the specific cases requested.
  281

  Area

  Community charges

  Equalised local income tax

  Unequalised local income tax

  £

  75 per cent. £

  100 per cent. £

  75 per cent. £

  100 per cent. £

  Lothian

  450

  183

  315

  221

  381

  Strathclyde

  458

  186

  320

  195

  335

  Tayside

  388

  156

  269

  192

  330

  Scotland

  414

  168

  290

  165

  285

  (e) A married couple as in (d) living with a son or daughter over 18 years of age whose income is the average for full-time workers in the 18 to 24 year age group

  Area

  Community charges

  Equalised local income tax

  Unequalised local income tax

  £

  75 per cent. £

  100 per cent. £

  75 per cent. £

  100 per cent. £

  Borders

  474

  292

  384

  211

  277

  Central

  561

  346

  455

  435

  571

  Dumfries and Galloway

  465

  285

  375

  265

  348

  Fife

  630

  394

  518

  292

  384

  Grampian

  471

  292

  384

  211

  277

  Highland

  459

  285

  375

  217

  286

  Lothian

  675

  421

  553

  509

  669

  Strathclyde

  687

  428

  562

  448

  589

  Tayside

  582

  360

  473

  441

  580

  Scotland

  621

  387

  509

  380

  500

  (f) A married couple as in case (d) living with an unemployed son or daughter between 18 and 24 years of age.

  Area

  Community charges (rebated)

  Equalised local income lax

  Unequalised local income tax

  £

  75 per cent. £

  100 per cent. £

  75 per cent. £

  100 per cent. £

  Borders

  429

  127

  219

  91

  158

  Central

  488

  150

  259

  189

  325

  Dumfries and Galloway

  422

  124

  213

  115

  198

  Fife

  543

  171

  295

  127

  219

  Grampian

  430

  127

  219

  91

  158

  Highland

  419

  124

  213

  94

  163

  Lothian

  574

  183

  315

  221

  381

  Strathclyde

  584

  186

  320

  195

  335

  Tayside

  507

  156

  269

  192

  330

  Scotland

  536

  168

  290

  165

  285

  Notes:

  (1) The average community charges for 1985–86 used in the tables were published in the Official Report on 20 February 1986.

  (2) The underlying local income tax rates (with resource equalisation) have been estimated on the assumption that some form of resource equalisation would make the yield of 1p in the pound the same per adult in all areas.

  (3) Published information on taxable resources in local authority areas is only available up to 1982–83. The sample size is small and the regional pattern shows considerable variation from year to year. Estimates of local income tax rates without resource equalisation are therefore subject to some uncertainty. Those in the table have been produced by applying the pattern of unequalised tax rates calculated for 1982–83 to 1985–86 average earnings.

  (4) Estimates of average gross earnings have been taken from the 1985 "New Earnings Survey". The average figures for Scotland have been used in each case with the exception of average earnings for the 18 to 24 year age group, where only Great Britain figures were readily available.

  (5) In applying local income tax rates to cases (a) to (f) it is assumed that earnings are the only sources of income and that only personal tax allowances apply.

  (6) In case (f) it has been assumed that the unemployed son or daughter will be in receipt of unemployment benefit.

  Police
  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the total annual cost of the police service in Scotland, with a breakdown for each police force in (a) 1979 and (b) 1986 or the latest available year; and how much of that cost was met by (i) Her Majesty's Government and (ii) local authorities.

  Mr. Lang
  The cost of the police service in Scotland in 1979–80 was £153,813,000 and in 1985–86 it was 282
  £288,725,000. Central Government's share of the cost in these years comprised 50 per cent. police grant (from 1986–87 51 per cent., and 50 per cent. of the expenditure on common police services. The remainder of the expenditure was met by local authorities from general revenue comprising rate support grant and rates. A breakdown of expenditure for each police force in 1979–80 and 1985–86 is given in the table:

  283

  £000

  1979–80

  1985–86

  Force

  Local Authorities 1

  Central Government

  Total

  Local Authorities 1

  Central Government

  Total

  Central

  2,890

  2,798

  5,688

  5,564

  5,343

  10,907

  Dumfries & Galloway

  1,708

  1,799

  3,507

  3,397

  3,533

  6,930

  Fife

  3,765

  3,660

  7,425

  6,995

  6,734

  13,729

  Grampian

  5,497

  5,342

  10,839

  11,197

  10,801

  21,998

  Lothian & Borders

  12,878

  12,449

  25,327

  25,916

  25,104

  51,020

  Northern

  3,845

  3,765

  7,610

  7,134

  6,926

  14,060

  Strathclyde

  40,247

  39,091

  79,338

  72,673

  70,147

  142,820

  Tayside

  5,957

  5,793

  11,750

  11,351

  10,973

  22,324

  Central Government's share of Common Police Services

  —

  2,329

  2,329

  —

  4,937

  4,937

  £76,787

  £77,026

  £153,813

  £144,227

  £144,498

  £288,725

  1 Includes local authorities' share of common police services and other non-police grant earning expenditure.

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state, for Scotland, the number of police officers who were (a) charged with criminal offences and (b) convicted of criminal offences in (i) 1979 and (ii) 1986 or the latest available year, with a breakdown for each police force.

  Mr. Lang
  This information is not available centrally in the precise form requested, but the table has been

  1979

  1986

  Force

  Reports dealt with

  Number of reports resulting in convictions

  Reports dealt with

  Number of reports resulting in convictions

  Central Scotland

  33

  2

  25

  —

  Dumfries and Galloway

  —

  —

  8

  2

  Fife

  22

  6

  30

  3

  Grampian

  10

  2

  19

  4

  Lothian and Borders

  42

  17

  39

  14

  Northern

  36

  9

  19

  3

  Strathclyde

  139

  36

  102

  37

  Tayside

  58

  13

  79

  5

  SCOTLAND

  340

  85

  321

  68

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state, for Scotland, the number of complaints of criminal conduct by the police and the number of resultant (a) prosecutions and (b) successful prosecutions in (i) 1979 and (ii) 1986 or the latest available year, with a breakdown for each police force.

  Force

  Complaints, etc. referred to procurator fiscal

  Number of cases resulting in criminal proceedings

  Number of cases resulting in finding of guilt

  1979

  1986

  1979

  1986

  1979

  1986

  Central Scotland

  23

  27

  —

  1

  —

  —

  Dumfries and Galloway

  8

  9

  —

  —

  —

  —

  Fife

  11

  30

  —

  1

  —

  —

  Grampian

  12

  61

  1

  1

  1

  —

  Lothian and Borders

  145

  159

  3

  —

  1

  —

  Northern

  14

  17

  —

  3

  —

  1

  Strathclyde

  239

  422

  1

  15

  —

  6

  Tayside

  41

  66

  2

  3

  2

  1

  SCOTLAND

  493

  791

  7

  24

  4

  8

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  compiled from statistical returns by chief constables. It shows (a) the number of cases involving police officers dealt with by procurators fiscal in 1979 and 1986 following reports submitted by forces in respect of officers alleged to have committed offences either on or off duty, and (b) the number of these cases which resulted in convictions. The submission of a report to the procurator fiscal does not necessarily imply that the officer had been charged with a criminal offence.

  Mr. Lang
  In terms of the Police (Discipline) (Scotland) Regulations 1967, as amended, all reports or allegations from which it may reasonably be inferred that a police officer has committed a criminal offence must be referred to the procurator fiscal. The following table indicates the number of such cases dealt with in 1979 and 1986 which resulted in(a) criminal proceedings and (b) a finding of guilt.
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  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state, for Scotland, the total local authority expenditure on police as a percentage of all local authority expenditure in (a) 1979 and (b) 1986 or the latest available year, with a breakdown for each local authority.

  Mr. Lang
  The information is set out in the table :

  Expenditure on the police by regional and island authorities expressed as a percentage of their total expenditure on local authority services

  1979–80

  1985–86

  Central

  6·2

  7·8

  Dumfries and Galloway

  7·8

  9·1

  Fife

  7·5

  8·0

  Grampian

  7·0

  8·5

  Strathclyde

  9·0

  10·0

  Tayside

  9·2

  10·1

  Lothian and Borders

  9·5

  10·9

  Highland, Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland

  5·5

  6·5

  All Scotland

  8·4

  9·5

  Notes:

  (1) The figures given represent expenditure on the police as a percentage of expenditure by regional and island authorities on local authority services; expenditure by district authorities has not been taken into the calculation.

  (2) Expenditure on local authority services is taken as the sum of net current expenditure (excluding loan charges) and net capital

  Force

  1979 (Occasions)

  1986 (Operations)

  Issued

  Used

  Issued

  Used

  (a)

  (b)

  (a)

  (b)

  Central Scotland

  10

  —

  1

  3

  —

  3

  Dumfries and Galloway

  15

  —

  12

  1

  —

  1

  Fife

  5

  —

  9

  —

  —

  —

  Grampian

  12

  1

  11

  —

  —

  —

  Lothian and Borders

  65

  —

  18

  —

  —

  —

  Northern

  19

  —

  5

  —

  —

  —

  Strathclyde

  562

  1

  111

  4

  1

  4

  Tayside

  11

  —

  7

  —

  —

  —

  Scotland

  699

  2(c)

  174

  8

  1

  8

  (a) Refers to operations and use against persons known or believed to be armed.

  (b) Refers to operations and use for the destruction of animals.

  (c) On both occasions firearms were used for the destruction of animals.

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state, for Scotland, the ratio of police officers per head of population in (a) 1979, (b) 1986 or the latest available year with a breakdown for each police force.

  Mr. Lang
  The estimated population (as at 30 June) per police officer on authorised establishement as at 31 December in each year was as follows:

  Force

  1979

  1986

  Central Scotland

  539

  489

  Dumfries and Galloway

  469

  441

  Fife

  525

  470

  Grampian

  504

  504

  Lothian and Borders

  360

  353

  Northern

  437

  452

  Strathclyde

  350

  337

  Tayside

  419

  392

  Scotland

  390

  377

  286
  expenditure in accordance with public expenditure survey definitions.

  (3) Lothian and Borders regions are served by a joint police force; similarly Highland region and the three island authorities are served by a joint force.

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state, for Scotland, the number of occasions and the number of officers involved when police officers were authorised to carry firearms and the number of occasions when firearms were used (a) 1979 and (b) 1986 or the latest available year with a breakdown for each police force.

  Mr. Lang
  The information available is set out in the table. It should be noted that the basis on which the information was recorded was changed in 1984. Formerly, the total number of occasions on which firearms were issued was shown. This, however, was found to lead to inconsistencies of interpretation since, during any particular operation, a firearm could be issued to an individual officer on more than one occasion. From 1984, therefore, the records show separately the number of operations in which firearms were issued against(a) persons known or believed to be armed and (b) for the destruction of animals.

  Information as to the number of police officers involved on each occasion or in each operation is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state, for Scotland, the ratio of police per reported crime in (a) 1979, and (b) 1986 or the latest available year with a breakdown for each police force.

  Mr. Lang
  The number of reported crimes per police officer on authorised establishement as at 31 December in each year was as follows:

  Force

  1979

  1986

  Central Scotland

  27·4

  36·8

  Dumfries and Galloway

  15·9

  22·0

  Fife

  21·8

  32·6

  Grampian

  24·8

  37·6

  Lothian and Borders

  26·5

  33·4

  Northern

  14·7

  20·7

  Strathclyde

  28·0

  35·5

  Tayside

  25·2

  35·6

  Scotland

  26·1

  34·2

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether if he will state, for Scotland, the number of police

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  officers residing in council housing accommodation and in owner occupied accommodation and in other accommodation in (a) 1979 and (b) 1986 or the latest available year, with a breakdown of the figures for each police force.

  Force

  Police authority1 accommodation

  Owner occupied accommodation

  Other accommodation

  Total

  Central Scotland

  49

  432

  68

  549

  Dumfries and Galloway

  118

  167

  53

  338

  Fife

  195

  381

  149

  725

  Grampian

  307

  504

  184

  995

  Lothian and Borders

  200

  1,786

  456

  2,442

  Northern Constabulary

  305

  299

  6

  610

  Strathclyde

  1,044

  4,737

  988

  6,769

  Tayside

  182

  627

  191

  1,000

  Total

  2,400

  8,933

  2,095

  13,428

  1 Includes houses owned by police authority and those rented from local housing authority.

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state, for Scotland, the number of police officers resident within the communities for which they have primary policing responsibility in (a) 1979, (b) 1986 or the latest available year, with a breakdown of the figure for each police force in Scotland.

  Mr. Lang
  This information is not available.

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state, for each police force in Scotland, the number and location of manned police stations or sub-stations in (a) 1979 and (b) 1986 or the latest available year, with a breakdown of the figures for each police force in Scotland.

  1979 Establishment (Strength)1

  1986 Establishment (Strength)1

  Force

  Police

  Cadets

  2Civilians

  Police

  Cadets

  2Civilians

  Central Scotland

  505

  (509)

  34

  (23)

  148

  (135)

  556

  (549)

  34

  (9)

  153

  (142)

  Dumfries and Galloway

  305

  (311)

  18

  (15)

  95

  (84)

  333

  (338)

  18

  (7)

  111

  (101)

  Fife

  653

  (671)

  30

  (30)

  188

  (139)

  732

  (725)

  30

  (14)

  197

  (188)

  Grampian

  920

  (932)

  35

  (22)

  257

  (239)

  997

  (995)

  35

  (18)

  310

  (311)

  Lothian and Borders

  2,361

  (2,342)

  174

  (103)

  1,014

  (778)

  2,393

  (2,442)

  174

  (—)

  879

  (889)

  Northern

  591

  (603)

  28

  (22)

  240

  (264)

  609

  (610)

  28

  (1)

  310

  (292)

  Strathclyde

  6,977

  (6,905)

  459

  (339)

  2,235

  (1,809)

  6,954

  (6,769)

  459

  (—)

  1,936

  (1,699)

  Tayside

  962

  (941)

  39

  (33)

  271

  (250)

  1,001

  (1,000)

  39

  (—)

  304

  (300)

  SCOTLAND TOTAL

  13,274

  (13,214)

  817

  (587)

  4,448

  (3,698)

  13,575

  (13,428)

  817

  (49)

  4,200

  (3,922)

  1 Figures in brackets show the actual numbers in post.

  2 Including part-time staff.

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state the annual average salary and the average actual earnings and the average amount of rent or housing allowance received by police officers in Scotland in (a) 1979 and (b) 1986 or the latest available year.

  Mr. Lang
  The information requested, in so far as available, is as follows:

  1979–80 £

  1985–86 £

  Average annual salary

  1

  10,967

  Average annual earnings2

  6,176

  12,038

  Average rent allowance3

  1,276

  2,525

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  Mr. Lang
  The information as at 31 December 1986 is set out in the table:

  Mr. Lang
  I shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state, for Scotland, the authorised establishment and actual numbers of police officers and police cadets and civilian staff in (a) 1979 and (b) 1986 or the latest available year, with a breakdown for each police force.

  Mr. Lang
  The information, as at 31 December of each year, is as follows:

  1 Not available separately.

  2 Average annual earnings includes overtime payments.

  3 Average rent allowance is based on the number of officers in receipt of rent allowance as at 31 December 1979 and 1985; other officers occupied rent and rate free accommodation provided by police authorities.

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state for each police force in Scotland the location of manned police stations or sub-stations (a) closed down and (b) opened since 1979.

  Mr. Lang
  I shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.

  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state, for Scotland, the total number of

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  police officer-hours worked (i) in police stations or substations, (ii) in motor vehicles, (iii) on foot patrol and (iv) on other duties (a) in 1979 and (b) in 1986 or the latest available year; and whether he will give a breakdown for each Scottish police force area.

  Mr. Lang
  The information requested is not available.

  Crime Statistics
  Mr. Canavan
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will state, for Scotland, the total number of

  Police Force Area

  Crime/Offence Group

  Central

  Dumfries and Galloway

  Fife

  Grampian

  Lothian and Borders

  Northern

  Strathclyde

  Tayside

  Scotland

  1979: Recorded

  Non-sexual Crimes of Violence

  267

  70

  221

  484

  1,048

  234

  7,008

  693

  10,025

  Sexual Crimes of Violence

  49

  24

  69

  85

  218

  30

  727

  52

  1,254

  Other Crimes of Indecency

  122

  49

  186

  308

  531

  106

  1,892

  225

  3,419

  Crimes of Dishonesty

  10,326

  3,571

  11,011

  16,653

  52,636

  6,374

  151,073

  17,549

  269,193

  Fire-Raising, Vandalism etc

  2,845

  999

  2,417

  4,624

  7,635

  1,432

  31,261

  4,925

  56,138

  Other Crimes

  235

  122

  353

  667

  434

  535

  3,524

  781

  6,651

  Motor Vehicle Offences

  9,688

  11,306

  12,744

  16,203

  38,191

  12,299

  86,876

  16,649

  203,956

  1979: Cleared Up

  Non-sexual Crimes of Violence

  229

  62

  208

  396

  571

  227

  3,454

  558

  5,705

  Sexual Crimes of Violence

  26

  19

  42

  62

  67

  27

  266

  28

  537

  Other Crimes of Indecency

  81

  41

  108

  254

  255

  86

  1,129

  146

  2,100

  Crimes of Dishonesty

  3,952

  1,456

  4,651

  5,869

  15,402

  3,662

  36,862

  5,805

  77,659

  Fire-Raising, Vandalism etc

  694

  252

  826

  1,287

  1,560

  752

  4,841

  1,158

  11,370

  Other Crimes

  227

  122

  352

  662

  428

  535

  3,482

  777

  6,585

  Motor Vehicle Offences

  9,410

  11,306

  12,717

  16,203

  38,191

  12,184

  86,139

  16,644

  202,794

  1986: Recorded

  Non-sexual Crimes of Violence

  545

  258

  595

  910

  3,301

  295

  8,852

  949

  15,705

  Sexual Crimes of Violence

  75

  29

  79

  121

  236

  44

  628

  91

  1,303

  Other Crimes of Indecency

  200

  67

  215

  481

  657

  115

  2,020

  296

  4,051

  Crimes of Dishonesty

  14,728

  4,907

  16,967

  26,278

  60,627

  8,487

  185,150

  25,378

  342,522

  Fire-Raising, Vandalism etc

  4,180

  1,600

  4,586

  8,203

  10,581

  2,127

  40,832

  6,782

  78,891

  Other Crimes

  722

  460

  1,386

  1,473

  4,498

  1,553

  9,128

  2,145

  21,365

  Motor Vehicle Offences

  12,451

  10,857

  15,474

  27,068

  35,010

  15,688

  99,947

  21,592

  238,087

  1986 Cleared Up

  Non-sexual Crimes of Violence

  494

  229

  536

  710

  2,341

  284

  5,304

  806

  10,704

  Sexual Crimes of Violence

  67

  28

  57

  78

  139

  43

  316

  54

  782

  Other Crimes of Indecency

  145

  65

  139

  376

  480

  108

  1,311

  212

  2,836

  Crimes of Dishonesty

  6,847

  2,577

  6,473

  7,357

  20,483

  4,757

  46,944

  9,803

  105,241

  Fire-Raising, Vandalism etc

  1,458

  616

  1,305

  1,757

  2,583

  1,134

  7,211

  1,579

  17,643

  Other Crimes

  717

  459

  1,385

  1,452

  4,490

  1,553

  9,061

  2,143

  21,260

  Motor Vehicle Offences

  11,888

  10,598

  15,468

  24,417

  35,010

  15,623

  99,155

  21,590

  233,749

  Note: "Sexual Crimes of Violence" comprises rape, assault, assault with intent to rape and indecent assault. "Other Crimes of Indecency" includes the remaining crimes in Group 2 of the standard SHHD classification.

  Financial Management Initiative
  Mr. Latham
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will make a statement on the effect on his Department of the financial management initiative.

  Mr. Rifkind
  The FMI builds on work that was already in hand in the Scottish Office to improve management in the Department, and in related bodies, in accordance with the Government's commitment to improving value for money. Key elements of the arrangements introduced for delegated budget setting and control of departmental running costs and for the management of programme 290
  of known crimes and solved crimes in each of the following categories in (a) 1979 and (b) in 1986 or the latest available year, with a breakdown for each police force area : (i) non-sexual crimes of violence against the person, (ii) sexual crimes of violence against the person, (iii) other crimes involving indecency, (iv) crimes involving dishonesty, (v) vandalism, (vi) other crimes and (vii) road traffic offences.

  Mr. Lang
  The information is as follows:

  expenditure are described in chapter 2 of "Public Expenditure to 1989–90: A Commentary on the Scotland Programme" which was published on 18 February. Copies are available in the House of Commons Library.

  Some of the effects of the FMI are reflected in the targets and output performance measures described in the commentary including, for example, the tightening of staff: student ratios in colleges of Education, and improved effectiveness in fisheries protection activity. Other examples of efforts to ensure better value for money include the development of management information systems in the Scottish prison service, objective appraisal

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  of trunk road bypass schemes, and an extensive programme of financial management surveys covering a wide range of NDPBs.

  Police Surgeons
  Dr. Godman
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many police surgeons there are in each of the Scottish police forces; and of these how many are male.

  Mr. Lang
  I understand that the numbers of police surgeons presently employed or retained by each police authority are as follows :

  Force

  Male

  Female

  Total

  Central Scotland

  5

  —

  5

  Dumfries and Galloway

  1

  —

  1

  Fife

  6

  —

  6

  Grampian

  5

  —

  5

  Lothian and Borders

  9

  1

  10

  Northern1 2

  15

  2

  17

  Strathclyde2

  91

  6

  97

  Tayside

  24

  2

  26

  1 Other doctors are available on a payment for call-out basis.

  2 The breakdown by sex is approximate.

  As regards the position in Strathclyde police, I refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave him on 11 March at column 243.

  Zircon
  Mr. Dalyell
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what response he has sent to the National Union of Journalists letter of 17 February on the police raid on the British Broadcasting Corporation.

  Mr. Rifkind
  My private secretary replied on my behalf on 12 March.

  Green Pound
  Sir Hector Monro
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what discussions he has had with the National Farmers Union of Scotland concerning the devaluation of the green pound; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Rifkind
  I attended the union's annual general meeting dinner on 12 March with my hon. Friend the Minister with responsibility for Education, Agriculture and Fisheries who addressed the meeting on 13 March and responded to questions from the floor. On both occasions the union's views on the need for a green pound devaluation were made very clear.

  The Government are currently involved in this year's common agricultural policy price-fixing negotiations, which include the European Commission's proposals for green currency devaluations and a reform of the agrimonetary system. Our approach to these negotiations reflects our desire to see even-handed and fair treatment between member states of the Community and between individual producers, traders and consumers.

  Balmore Industrial Estate, Glasgow
  Mr. Craigen
  asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what follow-up discussions the Scottish Development Agency will he having with the estates department of Glasgow district council over the possibilities of conversion to, and construction of, small industrial units at the Balmore industrial estate, Glasgow.
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  Mr. Lang
  I shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.

DEFENCE

  Territorial Army
  Mr. Alton
  asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many Territorial Army units will go on annual exercises to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany in 1987; how many went in 1986; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Freeman
  During training year 1987–88 it is intended that 62 Territorial Army units will be deployed to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany for annual exercises. The corresponding figure for training year 1986–87 was 53.

  Mr. Alton
  asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the proposed reduction of man days for Territorial Army personnel and on the implications for Territorial Army training.

  Mr. Freeman
  Financial provision has been made for an average of 34 training days per man in the Territorial Army in 1987–88. In addition, provision has been made for 16 paid drill nights, that is, the financial equivalent of a further four training days per man. The minimum training requirement for TA volunteers wishing to qualify for their commanding officer's certificate of efficiency and for their bounty is 27 days for those in independent units and 19 days for specialist units.

  Publications
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Defence how much has been spent by his Department in each of the past five years on publications for (a) free distribution and (b) sale under £1.

  Mr. Stanley
  I shall answer shortly.

  Marconi, Portsmouth (Police Investigation)
  Mr. Deakins
  asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will call for a report front his Department's police on their investigation into Marconi at Portsmouth.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  No. Any such report would be made to the prosecuting authorities, if this were appropriate.

  Royal Engineers Diving Establishment (Trainees)
  Mr. Hancock
  asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish the results of the inquiry into the death in 1986 of a Royal Engineers diving establishment trainee on the mudflats at Horsea Island, Portsmouth.

  Mr. Freeman
  Whilst it is not the Department's policy to publish the findings of service boards of inquiry, I called for a full report on the incident to be prepared and submitted to me following the death of the young soldier last year. This report took into account the findings of the Army's own board of inquiry and the verdict of accidental death returned at the Portsmouth coroner's inquest. The report also detailed what follow-up action needed to be taken. I decided that certain changes should be made to the selection testing procedures for Army diver training.
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  Firstly, the "mud-run" element of the aptitude test—which I suspended immediately following the death of the soldier—would not be reintroduced. Secondly, the staff to student ratio is not to be more than one to five and all staff are to be briefed before each aptitude test of the dangers of dehydration. The staff are also to be briefed on the symptoms and treatment of heat illness. In addition, the local medical centre is to be informed when endurance training in dry suits is being carried out and a stand-by vehicle is to be available at the location where the tests take place. Finally, training in dry suits is now limited to 30 minutes with a minimum interval of two hours between normal physical training and training in dry suits. In deciding whether any changes should be made, I have taken into account the need for the tests to remain sufficiently demanding to ensure that only suitable candidates are selected for what is a hazardous profession while at the same time reducing as far as possible the risks to the individual. I believe these new rules, all of which are in force, will achieve this aim.

  Mr. Hancock
  asked the Secretary of State for Defence what medical supervision there is of training runs, in particular for Royal Engineers Diving Establishment trainees, whilst wearing diving suits.

  Mr. Freeman
  All Army diving supervisors at the Royal Engineers diving establishement are trained in first aid and diving-associated illness. At the HMS Vernon site there is a RN leading medical assistant who has specialist training in illness related to diving. In addition, the local medical centre at MHS Nelson provides 24-hour medical cover and is informed on each occasion when endurance training in dry suits is being undertaken by Royal Engineers diving establishment trainees. A standby vehicle is also available at the location on each occasion where endurance training is taking place. The facilities at the Royal Naval hospital Haslar, and in particular the Institute of Naval Medicine, are also available if required.

  Mr. Hancock
  asked the Secretary of State for Defence if runs on mudflats at (a) Horsea Island or (b) Whale Island in Portsmouth harbour are planned for the summer months for Royal Engineers diving establishment trainees.

  Mr. Freeman
  There are four Army diving training courses planned to take place at the Royal Engineers diving establishment between early May and late July. Some elements of the training may take place at either Horsea island or Whale island and my include training on mud. In addition, there are two diving aptitude tests planned to take place during this period. Such tests no longer include a run on mud. this element of testing was suspended and will not be introduced following the tragic death last year of a young soldier whilst undergoing aptitude testing.

  Marconi, Portsmouth (Mr. Sharif)
  Mr. Deakins
  asked the Secretary of State for Defence during what periods Mr. Sharif of London E17 worked at Marconi in Portsmouth while employed at Stanmore; if the cost of his transport to Portsmouth by car each week over a period of several months was paid for out of public funds; and if he will make a statement.
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  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  Mr. Sharif worked at Marconi Defence Systems at Browns lane, Portsmouth, for three days each week between January and March 1986. The cost of his transport was paid by the company.

  Publications
  Mr. Tony Banks
  asked the Secretary of State for Defence what has been the total cost of producing publications on aspects of Her Majesty's Government's defence policies in each of the past five years.

  Mr. Stanley
  I shall answer shortly.

  "Trident and the Alternatives"
  Dr. Owen
  asked the Secretary of State for Defence how much it cost his Department to produce the document "Trident and the Alternatives"; how many copies have been printed; what were their production costs; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Stanley
  [pursuant to his reply, 6 April 1987, c. 87]: My Department has so far printed 6,000 copies of Defence open government document 87/1 "Trident and the Alternatives". The cost of production, which includes the staff costs of production but not for the preparation of the document, was approximately £1,100.

  "20 Questions on Defence"
  Dr. Owen
  asked the Secretary of State for Defence how much it cost his Department to produce the leaflet, "20 Questions on Defence"; how many copies have been printed; what were their production costs; and how many copies have been issued to the public.

  Mr. Stanley
  [pursuant to his reply, 6 April 1987, c.87]: My Department, in conjunction with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has so far had printed 16,000 copies of the leaflet "20 Questions on Defence". The cost of production, which includes the staff costs of production but not the preparation of the document, was approximately £3,260. Of the 9,830 copies so far distributed, some 260 have gone directly to members of the general public in response to requests for information. The balance have been distributed to Ministers, peers, MPs, United Kingdom MEPs, interested groups, regular recipients of FCO defence and disarmament information material, and NATO and overseas posts. It is assumed that most of these have been, or will be, passed to the public.

EMPLOYMENT

  YTS
  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General what percentage of 16-year-old school leavers in Kirklees metropolitan borough council area embark on YTS courses broken down into (a) girls, (b) boys and (c) all.

  Mr. Trippier
  The Manpower Services Commission estimates that 62 per cent. of 16-year-old school leavers entered the YTS in Kirklees local education authority area in 1985–86. The equivalent figure for girls was 55 per cent. and boys 67 per cent.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General what percentage of 16-year-old (a) girls, (b) boys and (c) all school leavers attend YTS broken down by region or AMB area in each of the last four years.
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  Mr. Trippier
  Information is not currently available in the form requested. I shall write to the hon. Member when the information has been collected and collated.

  Mr. Sheerman asked the Paymaster General what percentage of 16-year-old (a) girls, (b) boys and (c) all school leavers entered YTS in the last four years.

  Mr. Trippier
  The table shows estimates by the Manpower Services Commission of the number of 16-year-old school leaver entrants to YTS in the years 1983–84, 1984–85 and 1985–86 expressed as a percentage of the number of 16-year-old school leavers. Figures for 1986–87 are not yet available.

  1983–84

  1984–85

  1985–86

  Boys

  51

  58

  58

  Girls

  43

  49

  49

  Total

  46

  53

  54

  Note: Not all school leavers enter the labour market directly. In 1985–86 it is estimated that around 20 per cent. of school leavers went on into further education. The figures therefore understate the proportion of 16-year-olds who leave full-time education and join YTS.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General what measures have been taken since 1985 to reduce the under-occupancy of youth training scheme places.

  Mr. Trippier
  Since the introduction of YTS in 1983 the MSC has established a well structured and organised planning process which is continually refined in the light of experience to achieve an appropriate mix of places and provision for each particular year.

  Flexibility of provision, however, is an essential feature of a demand-led scheme and is always needed to meet the guarantee to unemployed 16 and 17-year-olds, to provide a choice of places for young people and to cater for the needs of special groups.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General what representations he has received regarding the cost of meals for YTS trainees.

  Survey descriptions

  April 1983—October 1983 10 per cent, of those leavers notified to MSC by October 1983

  April 1983—March 1984 10 per cent, of leavers in 9 selected area offices

  April 1984—July 1984 10 per cent, of leavers in 9 selected area offices

  June 1984—March 1985 15 per cent national follow-up of YTS leavers

  In full-time work with the same employer

  4

  12

  22

  24

  In full-lime work with a different employer

  34

  37

  34

  31

  Part-time work

  1

  1

  1

  1

  Full-time course

  6

  1

  2

  3

  On another YTS

  29

  12

  3

  6

  Doing something else

  3

  3

  5

  3

  Unemployed

  24

  35

  34

  32

  Percentage early leavers

  84

  89

  60

  52

  Percentage response

  53

  53

  69

  63

  1 This question was not asked.

  2 Although no question was asked about part-time work, 1 per cent, of respondents noted their questionnaires to indicate that they were in part-time work.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will give, from the survey of youth training scheme providers last reported to the meeting of the Manpower Services Commission's youth training board the number and proportion of managing agents who deploy, per 100 trainees (a) fewer than three, (b) three to five, (c) six to eight, (d) nine to 11, (e) 12 to 14 and (f) more than 14
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  Mr. Trippier
  I have received two representations concerning meals for YTS trainees. The weekly training allowance payable to YTS trainees is intended to cover normal living expenses, including meals.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will give, from the survey of the YTS providers last reported to the Manpower Services Commission's youth training board, the number and proportion of trainees who are (a) one-year trainees only, (b) apprentices or other long-term trainees, and (c) employees; and how these figures have changed since 1985.

  Mr. Trippier
  The information is not available in the form requested. The most recent information is from the YTS providers survey conducted in January-February 1986. This survey showed that 9 per cent. (23,800) of trainees were apprentices or long-term trainees and 14 per cent. (37,000) were employees. Some young people were apprentices with employee status.

  Figures for 1985 are not available.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will gave the proportion of youth training scheme leavers going to the following destinations for each available month of the 15 per cent. leavers sample and for each of the previous sample (a) full-time work with the same employer, (b) full-time work with a different employer, (c) part-time work, (d) full-time college or training course, (e) back to school, (f) on another youth training scheme, (g) claimant unemployed and (h) other; and if he will show for each survey: (i) the proportion of respondents who had left the scheme early and (ii) the usable percentage response rate.

  Mr. Trippier
  The figures are not available in the form requested.

  The available results from the surveys of leavers between April 1983 and March 1985 are as follows:

  full-time equivalent staff in managing, administering and providing off-the-job training for their scheme; and how these figures have changed over the last two years.

  Mr. Trippier
  The information is not available in precisely the form requested. The most recent survey of YTS providers conducted in January-February 1986
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  shows that 44 per cent. (2,400) of scheme managing agents and sponsors had up to 10, 13 per cent. (700) had between 10 and 15 and 43 per cent. (2,400) had in excess of 15 full-time equivalent staff per 100 trainees engaged in management and off-the-job training.

  Comparable figures for earlier periods are not available.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will give, from the survey of youth training scheme providers last reported to the meeting of the Manpower Services Commission's youth training board, the number and proportion of managing agents and sponsors who require prospective trainees to have one or more O-levels; and how these figures have changed over the last two years.

  Mr. Trippier
  The most recent survey of YTS providers conducted in January-February 1986 showed that 18 per cent. (1,000) of schemes required trainees to have a minimum of one O-level pass.

  A similar survey conducted in June-August 1984 showed that 22 per cent. (1,300) of managing agents or sponsors required at least one O-level pass.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will give, from the survey of youth training scheme leavers last reported to the meeting of the youth training board, the number and proportion of work experience placements provided in each of the industrial categories used in the survey, and in each of the occupational training facilities, together with the comparable figures for two years ago.

  Mr. Trippier
  The following table shows results from the most recent survey of TYS providers conducted in January-February 1986 and the previous survey conducted in June-August 1984.

  Trainees receiving placements in:

  1984

  1986

  per cent

  Number

  per cent

  Number

  Standard Industrial Classification

  0. Agriculture, forestry, fishing

  2

  5,300

  2

  5,300

  1. Energy and Water

  0

  —

  2

  5,300

  2. Extraction, metals, minerals, chemicals

  4

  10,600

  1

  2,600

  3. Metal goods, engineering, vehicles

  12

  31,900

  7

  18,500

  4. Other manufacture

  6

  15,900

  7

  18,500

  5. Construction

  5

  13,300

  3

  7,900

  6. Distribution, hotel & catering, repairs

  40

  106,300

  23

  60,700

  7. Transport and Communication

  1

  2,600

  2

  5,300

  8. Banking, finance etc

  5

  13,200

  5

  13,300

  9. Other services

  22

  58,500

  48

  126,700

  Not stated

  3

  8,000

  0

  —

  Comparable data on occupational training families are not available from the two surveys. The table gives the proportion of workplaces covered by the 1986 providers survey with trainees in occupations classified by the training and occupations (YTS) classification. The figures sum to more than 100 per cent. as workplaces often have trainees in more than one occupation.

  Percentage

  Administration and clerical

  44

  Creative, education recreation

  13

  Health and community

  8

  298

  Percentage

  Personal service

  18

  Selling and storage

  28

  Construction

  7

  Electrical engineering

  8

  Mechanical engineering

  12

  Mining

  1—

  Motor vehicle repair

  12

  Non-metal processing

  4

  Catering and food

  13

  Agriculture, horticultre and forestry

  6

  Fishing

  1—

  Transport

  3

  Scientific

  1

  Printing

  3

  Clothing and textiles

  2

  Security services

  1—

  Other

  1—

  DK/NS

  1—

  1Less than 1 per cent.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General to what factors he attributes the current under-occupancy of youth training scheme places.

  Mr. Trippier
  Flexibility in the provision and take-up of YTS places will always be required if the scheme is to meet the needs of all those who are involved. The current level of occupancy is in line with the normal annual pattern of contracting and filling of places. There were over 320,000 young people in training on YTS at the end of February 1987.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will take steps to ensure that monitoring of youth training schemes is adequate to prevent managing agents getting into arrears with trainees' allowances.

  Mr. Trippier
  The Manpower Services Commission already has staff in its area offices whose purpose is to ensure good and correct practice in the spending of public money on YTS including the trainees' allowances.

  These staff carry out financial monitoring visits to managing agents to ensure that they operate sound financial systems and controls. In the course of these visits, managing agents' records are examined to ensure that allowances are being paid correctly and on time. Additionally, a selection of trainees are interviewed to verify that their allowances are being paid properly.

  The depth and frequency of monitoring is determined by the managing agents' past and present performance in fulfilling the terms of their contracts with the Manpower Services Commission.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will give, from the survey of youth training scheme leavers last reported to the meeting of the youth training board, the number and proportion of managing agents and sponsors who sub-contract (i) no, (ii) some and (iii) all work experience placements to other employers and providers together with the comparable figures for two years ago.

  Mr. Trippier
  This information is available from the survey of YTS providers conducted in January-February 1986 and June-August 1984. The table gives the proportion and number of YTS schemes in which none, some and all of the work experience placements are subcontracted.
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  1984

  1986

  No sub-contracting per cent.

  28

  35

  Number

  1,600

  1,900

  Some sub-contracting per cent.

  28

  35

  Number

  1,600

  1,900

  All work experience sub-contracted per cent.

  43

  30

  Number

  2,500

  1,700

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will give, from the survey of youth training scheme providers last reported to the meeting of the Manpower Services Commission's youth training board, the number and proportion of schemes that accept(a) all applicants, (b) more than three quarters of all applicants, (c) more than half of all applicants and (d) more than a quarter of all applicants, respectively, together with the comparable figures for two years ago.

  Mr. Trippier
  Information is not available in precisely the form requested. The table gives the proportion and number of schemes accepting trainees. This information is drawn from surveys of YTS providers conducted in January-February 1986 and June-August 1984.

  1984

  1986

  Schemes accepting

  Per cent.

  No.

  Per cent.

  No.

  All applicants

  34

  2,000

  34

  1,900

  More than 50 per cent, of applicants

  66

  3,800

  73

  4,000

  More than 20 per cent, of applicants

  83

  4,800

  90

  5,000

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General how many young people in training on the youth training scheme are estimated to be employees on current year schemes; how

  1 Accidents

  Annual Incidence Rate per 100.000 trainees

  Period

  Average number in training

  Fatalities

  Major Injuries

  Fatalities

  Major Injuries

  Table (a)

  1 January 1984 to 31 December 1984

  262,877

  24

  190

  1·5

  72·3

  1 January 1985 to 31 December 1985

  265,596

  34

  201

  1·5

  75·7

  Table (b)

  1 January 1986 to 31 December 1986

  304,103

  47

  305

  2·3

  100·3

  1 Manpower Services Commission accident figures for YTS are compiled on a similar basis to those prepared by the Health and Safety Executive on employed persons. However, Commission figures will include a number of accidents, in particular road traffic accidents during scheme time and accidents to trainees in educational establishments, which may not have been reportable to the executive had the individuals been employed.

  2 This figure includes two road traffic accidents.

  3 This figure includes one road traffic accident.

  4 This figure includes two road traffic accidents.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will publish, for each area office of the Manpower Services Commission, current accident figures for the youth training scheme in the following form (a) for the area for each of the last three available months, together with the figures for the previous year, (b) by travel-to-work area for the last available month, together with the figures for the previous year, (c) by parliamentary constituency for the last available month, together with the figures for the previous year and (d) by local authority for the last available month, together with the figures for the previous year.
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  these figures compare with the previous year and the year before that; and what the figures are for the two year scheme.

  Mr. Trippier
  The table shows the number of young people recorded by the Manpower Services Commission as employees starting on YTS in each of the years 1983–84, 1984–85 and 1985–86. No information is yet available on the number of employees starting on the two-year scheme.

  Number of young people starting as employees on YTS

  No.

  1983–84

  16,500

  1984–85

  22,500

  1985–86

  23,000

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will publish the 1986 incidence of major and fatal accidents to trainees on the youth training schemes, together with the figures for the two previous years and the figures thus far for 1987.

  Mr. Tippier
  The following tables set out the annual incidence rates per 100,000 trainees on YTS for fatal and major accidents. Table(a) gives figures for 1984 and 1985. Table (b) gives figures for 1986. It should be noted that the two tables cannot be directly compared in respect of major injuries. Up to 31 March 1986 major injuries 'were classified according to the severity criteria laid down in the Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1980. From 1 April 1986 major injuries are classified according to the severity criteria laid down in the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1985. This has had the effect of reclassifying some accidents from the minor category into the major category. Accident figures for the first quarter of 1987 are not yet available.

  Mr. Trippier
  Youth training scheme accident statistics are collected quarterly and relate to areas covered by Manpower Services Commission offices. Figures for October 1985 to December 1986 are given in the following tables. Comprehensive information is not available for travel-to-work areas, parliamentary constituencies or local authority districts and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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  Table 1

  YTS accidents 1 October to 31 December 19861

  Region and area

  Fatalities

  Major injuries2

  Minor injuries

  Scotland

  Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway

  —

  1

  8

  Central and Fife

  —

  3

  8

  Glasgow City

  —

  2

  7

  Grampian and Tayside

  1

  2

  10

  Highlands and Islands

  —

  2

  2

  Lanarkshire

  —

  2

  10

  Lothian/Borders

  —

  5

  9

  Renfrew, Dunbarton and Argyll

  —

  1

  3

  Northern

  Cleveland

  —

  —

  —

  Durham County

  —

  3

  38

  Newcastle

  —

  —

  26

  South Tyne

  —

  5

  25

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees

  —

  5

  19

  Humberside

  —

  3

  17

  Leeds/North Yorkshire

  —

  1

  —

  Sheffield/Rotherham

  —

  —

  6

  Wakefield, Barnsley, Doncaster

  31

  5

  15

  North West

  Cheshire

  —

  9

  15

  Cumbria

  —

  1

  2

  Greater Manchester Central

  —

  3

  2

  Greater Manchester East

  —

  1

  —

  Greater Manchester North

  —

  —

  16

  Lancashire

  —

  3

  36

  Merseyside Inner

  —

  3

  15

  Merseyside Outer

  —

  1

  23

  West Midlands

  Birmingham

  —

  7

  16

  Coventry

  —

  —

  —

  Dudley/Sandwell

  —

  2

  10

  Staffordshire

  —

  1

  7

  Telford/Shropshire

  —

  —

  8

  Hereford and Worcester

  Wolverhampton

  —

  1

  16

  East Midlands and Eastern

  Derbyshire

  —

  —

  —

  Leicestershire

  —

  2

  6

  Lincolnshire

  —

  —

  —

  Nottinghamshire

  —

  1

  6

  Bedfordshire/Cambridge

  —

  1

  2

  Norfolk/Suffolk

  —

  —

  —

  Wales

  Cardiff

  —

  2

  32

  Gwent

  —

  1

  12

  Swansea

  —

  1

  2

  Wrexham

  1

  2

  12

  South West

  Avon

  —

  3

  8

  Devon and Cornwall

  —

  1

  4

  Gloucester and Wiltshire

  1

  1

  15

  Taunton/Somerset/Dorset

  —

  3

  6

  South East

  Chatham Kent

  —

  —

  6

  Chelmsford

  —

  5

  9

  Fareham

  —

  —

  3

  High Wycombe

  —

  —

  1

  Horsham

  —

  2

  6

  Reading

  —

  2

  3

  London

  London North

  —

  —

  —

  London North East

  —

  1

  5

  London South East

  —

  —

  2

  302

  Region and area

  Fatalities

  Major injuries2

  Minor injuries

  London South and West

  —

  —

  —

  Totals

  4

  100

  509

  Table2

  YTS accidents 1 July to 30 September 19861

  Region and area

  Fatalities

  Major injuries2

  Minor injuries

  Scotland

  Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway

  —

  —

  6

  Central and Fife

  —

  1

  6

  Glasgow City

  —

  4

  6

  Grampian and Tayside

  —

  —

  3

  Highlands and Islands

  —

  —

  —

  Lanarkshire

  —

  1

  2

  Lothian/Borders

  —

  1

  4

  Renfrew, Dunbarton and Argyll

  —

  1

  —

  Northern

  Cleveland

  —

  2

  5

  Durham County

  —

  7

  18

  Newcastle

  —

  5

  16

  South Tyne

  —

  1

  14

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees

  —

  2

  12

  Humberside

  —

  —

  —

  Leeds/North Yorkshire

  —

  2

  3

  Sheffield/Rotherham

  —

  1

  6

  Wakefield, Barnsley, Doncaster

  —

  3

  4

  North West

  Cheshire

  —

  3

  12

  Cumbria

  —

  —

  —

  Greater Manchester Central

  —

  2

  3

  Greater Manchester East

  —

  1

  1

  Greater Manchester North

  —

  7

  14

  Lancashire

  —

  3

  9

  Merseyside Inner

  —

  2

  6

  Merseyside Outer

  —

  2

  14

  West Midlands

  Birmingham

  —

  —

  13

  Coventry

  —

  —

  2

  Dudley/Sandwell

  —

  1

  1

  Staffordshire

  —

  1

  4

  Telford/Shropshire

  —

  —

  5

  Hereford/Worcester

  Wolverhampton

  —

  1

  2

  East Midlands and Eastern

  Derbyshire

  —

  —

  1

  Leicestershire

  —

  1

  5

  Lincolnshire

  —

  —

  —

  Nottinghamshire

  —

  2

  7

  Bedfordshire/Cambridge

  —

  —

  3

  Norfolk/Suffolk

  —

  3

  1

  Wales

  Cardiff

  —

  3

  15

  Gwent

  —

  —

  —

  Swansea

  —

  4

  5

  Wrexham

  —

  —

  3

  South West

  Avon

  —

  1

  2

  Devon and Corwall

  —

  3

  4

  Gloucester and Wiltshire

  —

  —

  2

  Taunton/Somerset/Dorset

  —

  1

  8

  South East

  Chatham Kent

  —

  —

  2

  Chelmsford

  —

  —

  4

  303

  Region and area

  Fatalities

  Major injuries2

  Minor injuries

  Fareham

  —

  —

  —

  High Wycombe

  —

  —

  4

  Horsham

  —

  —

  —

  Reading

  —

  1

  3

  London

  London North

  —

  —

  —

  London North East

  —

  3

  5

  London South East

  —

  1

  1

  London South and West

  —

  —

  —

  Totals

  —

  77

  266

  Table 3

  YTS accidents 1 April to 30 June 19861

  Region and area

  Fatalities

  Major injuries2

  Minor injuries

  Scotland

  Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway

  —

  —

  10

  Central and Fife

  —

  3

  11

  Glasgow City

  —

  1

  5

  Grampian and Tayside

  —

  —

  7

  Highlands and Islands

  —

  1

  2

  Lanarkshire

  —

  5

  12

  Lothian/Borders

  —

  2

  5

  Renfrew. Dunbarton and Argyll

  —

  —

  7

  Northern

  Cleveland

  —

  1

  10

  Durham County

  —

  1

  19

  Newcastle

  —

  —

  15

  South Tyne

  —

  1

  15

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees

  —

  1

  11

  Humberside

  —

  —

  6

  Leeds/North Yorkshire

  —

  3

  6

  Sheffield/Rotherham

  —

  1

  9

  Wakefield, Barnsley, Doncaster

  —

  —

  15

  North West

  Cheshire

  —

  1

  8

  Cumbria

  —

  2

  4

  Greater Manchester Central

  —

  1

  2

  Greater Manchester East

  —

  2

  5

  Greater Manchester North

  —

  2

  12

  Lancashire

  —

  3

  10

  Merseyside Inner

  —

  1

  11

  Merscyside Outer

  —

  1

  13

  Midlands

  Birmingham

  —

  5

  4

  Coventry

  —

  1

  1

  Derby

  —

  4

  5

  Dudley/Sandwell

  —

  —

  5

  Leicestershire

  —

  —

  3

  Lincoln

  —

  1

  1

  Nottingham

  —

  2

  3

  Staffordshire

  —

  —

  5

  Telford/Shropshire

  —

  —

  4

  Hereford and Worcester

  Wolverhampton

  —

  —

  7

  Wales

  Cardiff

  —

  1

  12

  Gwent

  —

  —

  8

  Swansea

  —

  4

  10

  Wrexham

  1

  2

  19

  South- West

  Avon

  1

  2

  7

  Devon and Cornwall

  —

  —

  —

  Gloucester and Wiltshire

  —

  1

  8

  304

  Region and area

  Fatalities

  Major injuries2

  Minor injuries

  Taunton/Somerset/Dorset

  —

  —

  3

  South East

  Chatham Kent

  13

  1

  2

  Chelmsford

  —

  1

  3

  Fareham

  1

  5

  High Wycombe

  —

  —

  7

  Horsham

  —

  2

  4

  Ipswich

  —

  3

  7

  Luton

  —

  1

  5

  Reading

  —

  1

  3

  London

  London North

  —

  —

  1

  London North East

  —

  1

  —

  London South East

  —

  1

  1

  London South and West

  —

  —

  2

  Totals

  3

  68

  375

  Table 4

  YTS accidents 1 January to 31 March 19861

  Region and area

  Fatalities

  Major injuries2

  Minor injuries

  Scotland

  Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway

  —

  —

  11

  Central and Fife

  —

  2

  18

  Glasgow City

  —

  —

  7

  Grampian and Tayside

  —

  1

  5

  Highlands and Islands

  —

  —

  —

  Lanarkshire

  —

  3

  17

  Lothian/Borders

  —

  2

  3

  Renfrew, Dunbarton and Argyll

  —

  —

  7

  Northern

  Cleveland

  —

  1

  9

  Durham County

  —

  2

  21

  Newcastle

  —

  1

  19

  South Tyne

  —

  2

  11

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees

  —

  —

  10

  Humberside

  —

  —

  7

  Leeds/North Yorkshire

  —

  3

  14

  Sheffield/Rotherham

  —

  —

  14

  Wakefield, Barnsley, Doncaster

  —

  1

  16

  North West

  Cheshire

  —

  —

  2

  Cumbria

  —

  —

  9

  Greater Manchester Central

  —

  2

  8

  Greater Manchester East

  —

  1

  12

  Greater Manchester North

  —

  2

  14

  Lancashire

  —

  5

  15

  Merseyside Inner

  —

  1

  7

  Merseyside Outer

  —

  —

  16

  Midlands

  Birmingham

  —

  3

  11

  Coventry

  —

  1

  17

  Derby

  —

  2

  10

  Dudley/Sandwell

  —

  3

  2

  Leicestershire

  —

  1

  8

  Lincoln

  —

  —

  9

  Nottingham

  —

  —

  12

  Staffordshire

  —

  2

  7

  Telford/Shropshire/

  —

  3

  9

  Hereford and Worcester

  Wolverhampton/Walsall

  —

  —

  7

  Wales

  Cardiff

  —

  2

  16

  Gwent

  —

  —

  4

  Swansea

  —

  2

  12

  305

  Region and area

  Fatalities

  Major injuries2

  Minor injuries

  Wrexham

  —

  2

  11

  South West

  Avon

  —

  2

  9

  Devon and Corwall

  —

  —

  4

  Gloucester and Wiltshire

  —

  2

  7

  Taunton/Somerset/Dorset

  —

  1

  8

  South East

  Chatham Kent

  —

  —

  4

  Chelmsford

  —

  1

  8

  Fareham

  —

  —

  6

  High Wycombe

  —

  1

  3

  Horsham

  —

  —

  4

  Ipswich

  —

  1

  4

  Luton

  —

  —

  3

  Reading

  —

  —

  —

  London

  London North

  —

  —

  2

  London North East

  —

  1

  —

  London South East

  —

  —

  4

  London South and West

  —

  1

  1

  Totals

  —

  60

  474

  Table 1

  YTS accidents 1 October to 31 December 19851

  Regions and area

  Fatalities

  Major injuries2

  Minor injuries

  Scotland

  Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway

  —

  1

  7

  Central and Fife

  —

  1

  20

  Glasgow City

  —

  1

  15

  Grampian and Tayside

  —

  1

  9

  Highlands and Islands

  —

  1

  2

  Lanarkshire

  —

  4

  9

  Lothian/Borders

  —

  2

  8

  Renfrew, Dunbarton and Argyll

  —

  —

  10

  Northern

  Cleveland

  —

  2

  21

  Durham County

  —

  3

  31

  Newcastle

  —

  1

  22

  South Tyne

  —

  1

  16

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees

  —

  2

  14

  Humberside

  —

  4

  4

  Leeds/North Yorkshire

  —

  1

  23

  Sheffield/Rotherham

  —

  1

  8

  Wakefield, Barnsley, Doncaster

  —

  5

  12

  North West

  Cheshire

  —

  —

  15

  Cumbria

  —

  —

  2

  Greater Manchester Central

  —

  1

  6

  Greater Manchester East

  —

  4

  12

  Greater Manchester North

  —

  2

  12

  306

  Regions and area

  Fatalities

  Major injuries2

  Minor injuries

  Lancashire

  —

  2

  30

  Merseyside Inner

  —

  3

  12

  Merseyside Outer

  —

  —

  16

  Midlands

  Birmingham

  —

  —

  22

  Coventry

  —

  1

  11

  Derby

  —

  —

  15

  Dudley/Sandwell

  —

  —

  4

  Leicestershire

  —

  —

  14

  Lincoln

  —

  —

  8

  Nottingham

  —

  —

  12

  Staffordshire

  —

  4

  15

  Telford/Shropshire

  —

  —

  9

  Hereford and Worcester

  Wolverhampton/

  —

  —

  4

  Wales

  Cardiff

  —

  3

  19

  Gwent

  —

  1

  5

  Swansea

  —

  —

  8

  Wrexham

  —

  —

  9

  South West

  Avon

  —

  2

  7

  Devon and Cornwall

  —

  1

  7

  Gloucester and Wiltshire

  —

  —

  13

  Taunton/Somerset/Dorset

  —

  1

  6

  South East

  Chatham Kent

  —

  1

  5

  Chelmsford

  —

  —

  12

  Fareham

  —

  2

  4

  High Wycombe

  —

  2

  2

  Horsham

  —

  —

  10

  Ipswich

  —

  1

  5

  Luton

  —

  —

  2

  Reading

  —

  1

  3

  London

  London North

  —

  1

  1

  London North East

  —

  2

  2

  London South East

  —

  —

  5

  London South and West

  —

  1

  2

  Totals

  —

  67

  577

  1 Manpower Services Commission (MSC) accident figures for YTS are compiled on a similar basis to those prepared by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on employed persons. However, MSC figures will include a number of accidents, in particular road traffic accidents during scheme time and accidents to trainees in educational establishments, which may not have been reportable to the HSE had the individuals been employed.

  2 Up to 31 March 1986 major injuries were classified according to the severity criteria laid down in the Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1980. From 1 April 1986 major injuries were classified according to the severity criteria laid down in the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1985.

  3 These figures are road traffic accidents.

  YTS
  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will publish, for each Manpower Services Commision area office and for (a) 16-year-olds. (b) 17-year-olds and (c) 18-year-olds, the latest careers service estimates of the number and proportion expected to leave school and further education college, and the number and proportion

  Table 1: Results of the careers service exercise by MSC area office: December 1985

  Area

  Total eligible to leave school

  Number of school leavers

  School leavers as a proportion of numbers eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  School leavers in a full time iob outside YTS as a proportion of all school leavers Per cent.

  Number in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of those eligible to leave school Per cent.

  South East

  Chatham, Kent

  Age 16

  21,663

  10,832

  50·0

  4,874

  45·0

  22·5

  Age 17

  6,615

  2,051

  31·0

  1,231

  60·0

  18·6

  Age 18

  4,092

  1,269

  31·0

  1,142

  90·0

  27·9

  Chelmsford

  Age 16

  21,721

  12,918

  59·5

  6,692

  51·8

  30·8

  Age 17

  6,885

  2,650

  38·5

  1,969

  74·3

  28·6

  Age 18

  4,279

  1,840

  43·0

  1,767

  96·0

  41·3

  Fareham

  Age 16

  22,179

  12,050

  54·3

  5,151

  42·7

  23·2

  Age 17

  5,508

  1,859

  33·8

  1,147

  61·7

  20·8

  Age 18

  3,653

  1,552

  42·5

  1,386

  89·3

  37·9

  High Wycombe

  Age 16

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  Age 17

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  Age 18

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  Horsham

  Age 16

  27,797

  12,545

  45·1

  7,277

  58·0

  26·2

  Age 17

  11,620

  3,459

  29·8

  1,911

  55·2

  16·4

  Age 18

  7,290

  1,875

  25·7

  1,806

  96·3

  24·8

  Reading

  Age 16

  17,406

  8,996

  51·7

  4,810

  53·5

  27·6

  Age 17

  5,550

  1,543

  27·8

  906

  58·7

  16·3

  Age 18

  3,571

  862

  24·1

  804

  93·3

  22·5

  London

  London North

  Age 16

  17,239

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  Age 17

  8,366

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  Age 18

  4,905

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  London North East

  Age 16

  20,595

  11,627

  56·5

  5,484

  47·2

  26·6

  Age 17

  6,483

  2,562

  39·5

  1,308

  51·1

  20·2

  Age 18

  3,159

  1,338

  42·4

  897

  67·0

  28·4

  London South East

  Age 16

  22,282

  11,656

  52·3

  5,887

  50·5

  26·4

  Age 17

  7,623

  2,925

  38·4

  1,580

  54·0

  20·7

  Age 18

  3,904

  1,507

  38·6

  1,030

  68·3

  26·4

  London South and West

  Age 16

  21,411

  8,397

  39·2

  5,196

  61·9

  24·3

  Age 17

  8,056

  2,273

  28·2

  1,597

  70·3

  19·8

  Age 18

  4,624

  1,457

  31·5

  1,261

  86·5

  27·3

  South West

  Avon

  Age 16

  12,589

  7,379

  58·6

  2,642

  35·8

  21·0

  Age 17

  3,853

  1,079

  28·0

  647

  60·0

  16·8

  Age 18

  2,546

  738

  29·0

  610

  82·7

  24·0

  308
  expected to find work outside the youth training scheme by 31 December; and how these figures have changed from those available at the end of 1985.

  Mr. Trippier
  The figures supplied in the tables refer to the numbers of young people leaving school. Results are missing from a few Manpower Service Commission areas due to incomplete returns from some local education authorities. Information on the number of leavers from colleges of further education is not readily available.
  309

  Area

  Total eligible to leave school

  Number of school leavers

  School leavers as a proportion of numbers eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  School leavers in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of all school leavers Per cent.

  Number in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of those eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Devon and Cornwall

  Age 16

  19,673

  10,457

  53·2

  3,019

  28·9

  15·3

  Age 17

  4,372

  778

  17·8

  444

  57·1

  10·2

  Age 18

  3,095

  548

  17·7

  413

  75·4

  13·3

  Gloucester/Wiltshire

  Age 16

  15,106

  8,845

  58·6

  3,772

  42·6

  25·0

  Age 17

  3,377

  784

  23·2

  474

  60·5

  14·0

  Age 18

  2,685

  1,022

  38·1

  822

  80·4

  30·6

  Taunton/Somerset/Dorset

  Age 16

  14,264

  8,613

  60·4

  3,326

  38·6

  23·3

  Age 17

  3,577

  1,233

  34·5

  843

  68·4

  23·6

  Age 18

  2,595

  669

  25·8

  561

  83·9

  21·6

  West Midlands

  Birmingham

  Age 16

  19,543

  10,480

  53·6

  2,346

  22·4

  12·0

  Age 17

  5,022

  851

  16·9

  366

  43·0

  7·3

  Age 18

  3,128

  584

  18·7

  472

  80·8

  15·1

  Coventry/Warwick

  Age 16

  12,562

  6,874

  54·7

  1,834

  26·7

  14·6

  Age 17

  2,845

  834

  29·3

  283

  33·9

  9·9

  Age 18

  2,255

  616

  27·3

  400

  64·9

  17·7

  Dudley/Sandwell

  Age 16

  9,883

  6,378

  64·5

  1,053

  16·5

  10·7

  Age 17

  1,728

  558

  32·3

  147

  26·3

  8·5

  Age 18

  1,244

  453

  36·4

  176

  38·9

  14·1

  The Marches

  Age 16

  15,383

  8,300

  54·0

  2,361

  28·4

  15·3

  Age 17

  3,821

  958

  25·1

  328

  34·2

  8·6

  Age 18

  2,584

  545

  21·1

  357

  65·5

  13·8

  Staffordshire

  Age 16

  16,160

  10,471

  64·8

  1,471

  14·0

  9·1

  Age 17

  3,697

  782

  21·2

  278

  35·6

  7·5

  Age 18

  2,612

  1,216

  46·6

  727

  59·8

  27·8

  Wolverhampton

  Age 16

  9,040

  4,860

  53·8

  961

  19·8

  10·6

  Age 17

  2,134

  646

  30·3

  234

  36·2

  11·0

  Age 18

  1,436

  379

  26·4

  241

  63·6

  16·8

  East Midlands and Eastern

  Derby

  Age 16

  14,140

  8,004

  56·6

  1,946

  24·3

  13·8

  Age 17

  2,675

  320

  12·0

  160

  50·0

  6·0

  Age 18

  2,207

  530

  24·0

  441

  83·2

  20·0

  Leicestershire

  Age 16

  21,455

  12,074

  56·3

  5,653

  46·8

  76·3

  Age 17

  6,720

  2,076

  30·9

  1,400

  67·4

  20·8

  Age 18

  3,860

  1,211

  31·4

  1,034

  85·4

  26·8

  Lincoln

  Age 16

  8,198

  4,724

  57·6

  1,224

  25·9

  14·9

  Age 17

  1,900

  275

  14·5

  130

  47·3

  6·8

  Age 18

  1,320

  315

  23·9

  245

  77·8

  18·6

  Nottingham

  Age 16

  16,077

  9,325

  58·0

  2,733

  29·3

  17·0

  Age 17

  3,296

  824

  25·0

  396

  48·1

  12·0

  Age 18

  2,561

  691

  27·0

  512

  74·1

  20·0

  Luton

  Age 16

  15,149

  7,553

  49·9

  3,584

  47·5

  23·7

  Age 17

  4,783

  1,113

  23·3

  795

  71·4

  16·6

  310 311

  Area

  Total eligible to leave school

  Number of school leavers

  School leavers as a proportion of numbers eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  School leavers in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of all school leavers Per cent.

  Number in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of those eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Age 18

  2,835

  804

  28·4

  720

  89·6

  25·4

  Ipswich

  Age 16

  18,502

  11,064

  59·8

  4,142

  37·4

  22·4

  Age 17

  4,547

  1,121

  24·7

  620

  55·3

  13·6

  Age 18

  2,981

  1,384

  46·4

  767

  55·4

  25·7

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees

  Age 16

  16,676

  10,217

  61·5

  3,179

  31·1

  19·1

  Age 17

  4,670

  1,353

  29·0

  714

  52·8

  15·3

  Age 18

  2,893

  1,123

  38·8

  617

  54·9

  21·3

  Humberside

  Age 16

  14,006

  9,020

  64·4

  2,275

  25·2

  16·2

  Age 17

  3,546

  1,109

  31·3

  479

  43·2

  13·5

  Age 18

  2,500

  625

  25·0

  425

  68·0

  17·0

  Leeds/North Yorkshire

  Age 16

  20,190

  10,744

  53·2

  4,172

  38·8

  20·7

  Age 17

  6,140

  1,703

  27·7

  903

  53·0

  14·7

  Age 18

  3,984

  1,038

  26·1

  690

  66·5

  17·3

  Sheffield/Rotherham

  Age 16

  12,851

  8,019

  62·4

  1,103

  13·8

  8·6

  Age 17

  3,390

  797

  23·5

  201

  25·2

  5·9

  Age 18

  2,302

  628

  27·3

  388

  61·8

  16·9

  Wakefield/Barnsley, Doncaster

  Age 16

  13,709

  9,136

  66·7

  1,742

  19·1

  12·7

  Age 17

  2,682

  790

  29·5

  292

  37·0

  10·9

  Age 18

  1,602

  509

  31·8

  283

  55·6

  17·7

  North West

  Cheshire

  Age 16

  14,619

  8,038

  55·0

  1,770

  22·0

  12·1

  Age 17

  4,362

  918

  21·0

  337

  36·7

  7·7

  Age 18

  3,077

  563

  18·3

  362

  64·3

  11·8

  Cumbria

  Age 16

  7,582

  5,046

  66·6

  2,096

  41·5

  27·6

  Age 17

  1,831

  428

  23·4

  244

  57·0

  13·3

  Age 18

  1,298

  333

  25·6

  227

  68·2

  17·5

  Greater Manchester Central

  Age 16

  13,072

  7·524

  57·6

  1,862

  24·7

  14·2

  Age 17

  3,671

  653

  17·8

  281

  43·0

  7·7

  Age 18

  2,906

  841

  28·9

  520

  61·8

  17·9

  Greater Manchester East

  Age 16

  11,479

  6,575

  57·3

  1,799

  27·4

  15·7

  Age 17

  3,455

  734

  21·1

  455

  62·0

  13·2

  Age 18

  2,028

  705

  34·8

  607

  86·1

  30·0

  Greater Manchester North

  Age 16

  15,400

  9,337

  60·6

  1,955

  20·9

  12·7

  Age 17

  3,463

  823

  23·8

  318

  38·6

  9·2

  Age 18

  2,636

  605

  23·0

  256

  42·3

  9·7

  Lancashire

  Age 16

  21,034

  11,574

  55·0

  3,714

  32·1

  17·7

  Age 17

  2,983

  478

  16·0

  160

  33·5

  5·4

  Age 18

  2,420

  680

  28·1

  400

  58·9

  16·5

  Merseyside Inner

  Age 16

  12,274

  7,492

  61·0

  812

  10·8

  6·6

  Age 17

  3,218

  920

  28·6

  I88

  20·4

  5·8

  Age 18

  2,295

  954

  41·6

  285

  29·9

  12·4

  Merseyside Outer

  Age 16

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a

  312 313

  Area

  Total eligible to leave school

  Number of school leavers

  School leavers as a proportion of numbers eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  School leavers in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of all school leavers Per cent.

  Number in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of those eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Age 17

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  Age 18

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  Northern

  Cleveland

  Age 16

  9,562

  6,111

  63·9

  933

  15·3

  9·8

  Age 17

  2,667

  705

  26·4

  251

  35·6

  9·4

  Age 18

  2,211

  761

  34·3

  423

  55·6

  19·1

  Durham>

  Age 16

  9,329

  6,295

  67·5

  1,005

  16·0

  10·8

  Age 17

  1,981

  526

  26·6

  150

  28·5

  7·6

  Age 18

  1,418

  183

  12·9

  103

  56·3

  7·3

  North Tyne

  Age 16

  10,709

  6,642

  62·0

  1,499

  22·6

  14·0

  Age 17

  3,131

  999

  31·9

  405

  40·5

  12·9

  Age 18

  2,056

  730

  35·5

  509

  69·7

  24·8

  South Tyne

  Age 16

  10,243

  7,207

  70·4

  956

  13·3

  9·3

  Age 17

  2,089

  623

  29·8

  232

  37·2

  11·1

  Age 18

  1,364

  434

  31·8

  192

  44·2

  14·1

  Wales

  Cardiff

  Age 16

  14,463

  7,539

  52·1

  1,668

  22·1

  11·5

  Age 17

  4,882

  1,396

  28·6

  633

  45·3

  13·0

  Age 18

  3,228

  867

  26·9

  416

  48·0

  12·9

  Gwent

  Age 16

  6,989

  3,744

  53·6

  719

  19·2

  10·3

  Age 17

  1,944

  464

  23·9

  174

  37·5

  9·0

  Age 18

  1,140

  219

  19·2

  134

  61·2

  11·8

  Swansea

  Age 16

  10,563

  5,178

  49·0

  1,073

  20·7

  10·2

  Age 17

  3,487

  659

  18·9

  179

  27·2

  5·1

  Age 18

  2,300

  313

  13·6

  210

  67·1

  9·1

  Wrexham

  Age 16

  11,724

  5,997

  51·2

  1,488

  24·8

  12·7

  Age 17

  4,205

  1,310

  31·2

  633

  48·3

  15·1

  Age 18

  2,444

  536

  21·9

  410

  76·5

  16·8

  Scotland

  Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway

  Age 16

  10,595

  4,974

  46·5

  1,313

  26·4

  12·3

  Age 17

  2,644

  1,126

  42·6

  543

  48·2

  20·5

  Age 18

  933

  346

  37·1

  252

  72·8

  27·0

  Central and Fife

  Age 16

  13,265

  6,289

  47·4

  1,397

  22·2

  10·5

  Age 17

  2,694

  1,282

  47·6

  538

  42·0

  20·0

  Age 18

  1,074

  492

  45·8

  280

  56·9

  26·1

  Glasgow City

  Age 16

  13,158

  7,429

  56·5

  2,047

  27·6

  15·6

  Age 17

  2,192

  1,150

  52·5

  535

  46·5

  24·4

  Age 18

  824

  377

  45·8

  262

  69·5

  31·8

  Grampian and Tayside

  Age 16

  17,385

  6,257

  36·0

  2,476

  39·6

  14·2

  Age 17

  3,378

  924

  27·4

  472

  51·0

  14·0

  Age 18

  1,264

  243

  19·2

  151

  62·1

  11·9

  Highlands and Islands

  Age 16

  5,367

  2,349

  43·8

  897

  38·2

  16·7

  Age 17

  1,407

  559

  39·7

  301

  53·8

  21·4

  Age 18

  547

  218

  39·9

  139

  63·8

  25·4

  314 315

  Area

  Total eligible to leave school

  Number of school leavers

  School leavers as a proportion of numbers eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  School leavers in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of all school leavers Per cent.

  Number in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of those eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Lanarkshire

  Age 16

  11,826

  5,107

  43·2

  867

  17·0

  7·3

  Age 17

  2,340

  956

  40·9

  296

  31·0

  12·6

  Age 18

  893

  315

  35·3

  142

  45·1

  15·9

  Lothian/Borders

  Age 16

  15,442

  6,836

  44·3

  2,683

  39·2

  17·4

  Age 17

  3,072

  1,236

  40·2

  743

  60·1

  24·2

  Age 18

  1,136

  439

  38·6

  330

  75·2

  29·0

  Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll

  Age 16

  15,068

  5,763

  38·2

  1,173

  20·4

  7·8

  Age 17

  4,032

  1,643

  40·7

  694

  42·2

  17·2

  Age 18

  1,573

  588

  38·9

  368

  62·6

  24·3

  Notes:

  n/a = Results are not available or are incomplete.

  The figures are subject to error and should be treated as approximate.

  Table 2

  Results of the careers service exercise by MSC area office: December 1986

  Area

  Total eligible to leave school

  Number of school leavers

  School leavers as a proportion of numbers eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  School leavers in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of all school leavers Per cent.

  Number in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of those eligible to leave school Per cent.

  South East

  Chatham, Kent

  Age 16

  21,133

  10,814

  51·2

  4,330

  40·0

  20·5

  Age 17

  7,049

  2,185

  31·0

  1,311

  60·0

  18·6

  Age 18

  4,036

  1,399

  34·7

  1,259

  90·0

  31·2

  Chelmsford

  Age 16

  21,643

  13,215

  61·1

  6,339

  48·0

  29·3

  Age 17

  6,684

  1,845

  27·6

  1,225

  66·4

  18·3

  Age 18

  3,970

  1,386

  34·9

  1,333

  96·2

  33·6

  Fareham

  Age 16

  21,512

  11,024

  51·2

  4,816

  43·7

  22·4

  Age 17

  5,263

  1,505

  28·6

  1,002

  66·6

  19·0

  Age 18

  3,792

  1,070

  28·6

  888

  83·0

  23·7

  High Wycombe

  Age 16

  22,014

  10,694

  48·6

  6,445

  60·3

  29·3

  Age 17

  8,041

  1,846

  23·0

  1,293

  70·0

  16·1

  Age 18

  5,416

  1,316

  24·3

  1,197

  91·0

  22·1

  Horsham

  Age 16

  27,010

  12,531

  46·4

  7,425

  59·3

  27·5

  Age 17

  11,513

  3,362

  29·2

  1,999

  59·5

  17·4

  Age 18

  7,109

  1,700

  23·9

  1,628

  95·8

  22·9

  Reading

  Age 16

  17,087

  9,076

  53·1

  5,217

  57·5

  30·5

  Age 17

  5,961

  1,724

  28·9

  1,371

  77·2

  22·3

  Age 18

  3,799

  1,090

  28·7

  1,037

  95·1

  27·3

  South West

  Avon

  Age 16

  12,312

  7,404

  60·1

  2,554

  34·5

  20·7

  Age 17

  3,766

  1,214

  32·2

  829

  68·3

  22·0

  Age 18

  2,330

  739

  31·7

  665

  90·0

  28·5

  Devon and Cornwall

  Age 16

  18,726

  10,668

  57·0

  2,977

  27·9

  15·9

  Age 17

  4,436

  1,144

  25·8

  457

  39·9

  10·3

  Age 18

  2,761

  710

  25·7

  543

  76·5

  19·7

  316 317

  Area

  Total eligible to leave school

  Number of school leavers

  School leavers as a proportion of numbers eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  School leavers in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of all school leavers Per cent.

  Number in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of those eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Gloucester and Wiltshire

  Age 16

  14,444

  7,883

  54·6

  3,728

  47·3

  25·8

  Age 17

  3,538

  845

  23·9

  613

  72·5

  17·3

  Age 18

  2,281

  693

  30·4

  640

  92·3

  28·1

  Taunton, Somerset and Dorset

  Age 16

  13,541

  8.061

  59·5

  2,643

  32·8

  19·5

  Age 17

  3,144

  933

  29·7

  616

  66·0

  19·6

  Age 18

  2,470

  698

  28·3

  539

  77·2

  21·8

  West Midlands

  Birmingham

  Age 16

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 17

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 18

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Coventry/Warwick

  Age 16

  11,641

  6,870

  59·0

  1,838

  26·8

  15·8

  Age 17

  2,836

  863

  30·4

  304

  35·2

  10·7

  Age 18

  2,229

  641

  28·8

  321

  50·1

  14·4

  Dudley/Sandwcll

  Age 16

  9,724

  6,479

  66·6

  1,139

  17·6

  11·7

  Age 17

  1,640

  438

  26·7

  88

  20·1

  5·4

  Age 18

  1,190

  484

  40·7

  236

  48·8

  19·8

  The Marches

  Age 16

  14,901

  8,081

  54·2

  2,284

  28·3

  15·3

  Age 17

  4,267

  1,160

  27·2

  452

  39·0

  10·6

  Age 18

  2,514

  666

  26·5

  479

  71·9

  19·1

  Staffordshire

  Age 16

  15,856

  10,594

  66·8

  1,495

  14·1

  9·4

  Age 17

  3,600

  720

  20·0

  221

  30·7

  6·1

  Age 18

  2,454

  780

  31·8

  534

  68·5

  21·8

  Wolverhampton

  Age 16

  8,981

  5,957

  66·3

  1,192

  20·0

  13·3

  Age 17

  2,150

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 18

  1,316

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  East Midlands and Eastern

  Derby

  Age 16

  13,529

  7,493

  55·4

  1,928

  25·7

  14·3

  Age 17

  3,045

  453

  14·9

  257

  56·7

  8·4

  Age 18

  1,995

  5·28

  26·5

  402

  76·1

  20·2

  Leicestershire

  Age 16

  20,819

  11,079

  53·2

  4,940

  44·6

  23·7

  Age 17

  6,862

  1,872

  27·3

  1,059

  56·6

  15·4

  Age 18

  4,226

  1,149

  27·2

  953

  82·9

  22·6

  Lincoln

  Age 16

  8,006

  4,671

  58·3

  975

  20·9

  12·2

  Age 17

  1,852

  180

  10·3

  100

  55·6

  5·7

  Age 18

  1,400

  345

  24·6

  280

  81·2

  20·0

  Nottingham

  Age 16

  14,727

  8,831

  60·0

  2,239

  25·4

  15·2

  Age 17

  3,347

  1,793

  53·6

  933

  52·0

  27·9

  Age 18

  2,212

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Luton

  Age 16

  15,037

  8,025

  53·4

  4,163

  51·9

  27·7

  Age 17

  4,543

  1.257

  27·7

  657

  52·3

  14·5

  Age 18

  2,729

  923

  33·8

  806

  87·3

  29·5

  Ipswich

  Age 16

  18,287

  11,026

  60·3

  4,027

  36·5

  22·0

  318 319

  Area

  Total eligible to leave school

  Number of school leavers

  School leavers as a proportion of numbers eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  School leavers in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of all school leavers Per cent.

  Number in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of those eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Age 17

  4.609

  1,289

  28·0

  730

  56·6

  15·8

  Age 18

  2,796

  902

  32·3

  764

  84·7

  27·3

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Bradford. Calderdale and Kirklees

  Age 16

  16,764

  9,954

  59·4

  3,027

  30·4

  18·1

  Age 17

  4,974

  1,255

  25·2

  495

  39·4

  10·0

  Age 18

  3,294

  1,411

  42·8

  793

  56·2

  24·1

  Humberside

  Age 16

  13,645

  8,922

  65·4

  2,121

  23·8

  15·6

  Age 17

  3,637

  1,065

  29·3

  391

  36·7

  10·8

  Age 18

  2,500

  625

  25·0

  425

  68·0

  17·0

  Leeds/North Yorkshire

  Age 16

  19,464

  10,773

  55·3

  4,410

  40·9

  22·7

  Age 17

  6,023

  1,789

  29·7

  974

  54·4

  16·2

  Age 18

  3,668

  867

  23·6

  701

  80·9

  19·1

  Sheffield/Rotherham

  Age 16

  12,530

  8,455

  67·5

  1,163

  13·8

  9·3

  Age 17

  3,421

  900

  26·3

  144

  16·0

  4·2

  Age 18

  2,271

  796

  35·1

  401

  50·4

  17·7

  Wakefield/Barnsley/Doncaster

  Age 16

  13,684

  9,366

  68·4

  1,770

  18·9

  12·9

  Age 17

  2,582

  758

  29·4

  253

  33·4

  9·8

  Age 18

  1,685

  622

  36·9

  249

  40·0

  14·8

  North West

  Cheshire

  Age 16

  14,580

  8,098

  55·5

  1,676

  20·7

  11·5

  Age 17

  4,338

  1,014

  23·4

  374

  36·9

  56·3

  Age 18

  2,976

  564

  19·0

  400

  70·9

  13·4

  Cumbria

  Age 16

  7,264

  4,747

  65·3

  1,953

  41·1

  26·9

  Age 17

  1,706

  383

  22·5

  264

  68·9

  15·5

  Age 18

  1,406

  308

  21·9

  241

  78·2

  17·1

  Greater Manchester Central

  Age 16

  13,508

  7,768

  57·6

  1,941

  25·0

  14·3

  Age 17

  3,428

  592

  17·3

  201

  34·0

  5·9

  Age 18

  2,620

  704

  26·9

  448

  63·6

  7·7

  Greater Manchester East

  Age 16

  11,387

  6,999

  61·5

  1,732

  24·7

  15·2

  Age 17

  2,693

  777

  28·8

  451

  58·0

  16·7

  Age 18

  1,924

  262

  13·6

  194

  74·0

  10·1

  Greater Manchester North

  Age 16

  15,124

  9,144

  60·5

  2,183

  23·9

  14·4

  Age 17

  3,738

  786

  21·0

  304

  38·7

  8·1

  Age 18

  2,694

  637

  23·6

  377

  59·2

  14·0

  Lancashire

  Age 16

  20,346

  11,373

  55·9

  3,280

  28·9

  16·1

  Age 17

  2,922

  650

  22·2

  300

  46·2

  10·3

  Age 18

  2,634

  680

  25·8

  380

  55·9

  14·4

  Merseyside Inner

  Age 16

  12,158

  7,109

  58·5

  907

  12·8

  7·5

  Age 17

  3,652

  930

  25·5

  292

  31·4

  8·0

  Age 18

  2,321

  660

  28·4

  468

  70·9

  20·2

  Merseyside Outer

  Age 16

  10,965

  6,111

  55·7

  909

  14·9

  8·3

  Age 17

  2,713

  714

  26·3

  218

  30·5

  8·0

  Age 18

  1,749

  402

  23·0

  267

  66·4

  15·3

  320 321

  Area

  Total eligible to leave school

  Number of school leavers

  School leavers as a proportion of numbers eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  School leavers in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of all school leavers Per cent.

  Number in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of those eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Northern

  Cleveland

  Age 16

  8,920

  5,992

  67·2

  941

  15·7

  10·5

  Age 17

  2,768

  574

  20·7

  234

  40·8

  8·5

  Age 18

  2,092

  566

  27·1

  321

  56·7

  15·3

  Durham

  Age 16

  8,764

  5,646

  64·4

  890

  15·8

  10·2

  Age 17

  1,936

  522

  27·0

  135

  25·9

  7·0

  Age 18

  1,375

  165

  12·0

  96

  58·2

  7·0

  North Tyne

  Age 16

  10,429

  6,621

  63·5

  1,399

  21·1

  13·4

  Age 17

  3,212

  998

  31·1

  374

  37·5

  11·6

  Age 18

  2,070

  721

  34·9

  433

  60·1

  20·9

  South Tyne

  Age 16

  10,181

  7,380

  72·5

  1,119

  15·7

  11·0

  Age 17

  2,683

  794

  29·6

  282

  35·6

  10·5

  Age 18

  1,582

  596

  37·7

  262

  44·0

  16·6

  Wales

  Cardiff

  Age 16

  13,765

  7,035

  51·1

  1,413

  20·0

  10·3

  Age 17

  5,195

  1,397

  26·9

  583

  41·7

  11·2

  Age 18

  3,232

  713

  22·1

  526

  73·7

  16·3

  Gwent

  Age 16

  6,509

  3,514

  54·0

  682

  18·6

  10·5

  Age 17

  2,026

  615

  30·4

  163

  26·5

  8·1

  Age 18

  1,168

  239

  20·5

  158

  66·1

  13·5

  Swansea

  Age 16

  10,154

  5,021

  49·4

  864

  17·2

  85·1

  Age 17

  2,964

  770

  26·0

  296

  38·4

  10·0

  Age 18

  2,049

  393

  19·2

  262

  66·7

  12·8

  Wrexham

  Age 16

  11,241

  6,064

  53·9

  1,552

  25·6

  13·8

  Age 17

  3,609

  1,067

  29·6

  393

  36·8

  10·9

  Age 18

  2,140

  490

  22·9

  322

  65·7

  15·0

  Scotland

  Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway

  Age 16

  9,701

  4,657

  48·0

  851

  18·3

  8·8

  Age 17

  2,662

  1,170

  44·0

  437

  37·4

  16·4

  Age 18

  967

  356

  36·8

  217

  61·0

  36·8

  Central and Fife

  Age 16

  12,567

  6,119

  41·5

  1,213

  19·8

  9·7

  Age 17

  2,588

  1,177

  45·5

  493

  41·9

  19·0

  Age 18

  1,039

  431

  41·5

  258

  60·0

  24·8

  Glasgow

  Age 16

  12,375

  7,092

  57·3

  1,841

  26·0

  14·9

  Age 17

  2,090

  1,243

  59·5

  569

  45·8

  27·2

  Age 18

  805

  461

  57·3

  305

  66·2

  37·9

  Grampian and Tayside

  Age 16

  17,476

  5,902

  39·5

  2,072

  30·0

  11·9

  Age 17

  3,380

  931

  27·5

  445

  47·8

  13·2

  Age 18

  1,261

  256

  20·3

  188

  73·3

  15·0

  Highlands and Islands

  Age 16

  5,345

  2,294

  42·9

  729

  31·8

  13·6

  Age 17

  1,416

  547

  38·6

  269

  49·2

  19·0

  Age 18

  532

  198

  37·2

  123

  62·1

  23·1

  Lanarkshire

  Age 16

  12,064

  5,468

  45·3

  854

  15·6

  7·1

  Age 17

  2,274

  1,048

  46·1

  327

  31·2

  14·4

  322 323

  Area

  Total eligible to leave school

  Number of school leavers

  School leavers as a proportion of numbers eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  School leavers in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of all school leavers Per cent.

  Number in a full time job outside YTS as a proportion of those eligible to leave school Per cent.

  Age 18

  854

  368

  43·1

  166

  45·1

  19·1

  Lothian and Borders

  Age 16

  14,539

  6,584

  45·3

  2,527

  38·4

  17·4

  Age 17

  2,936

  1,254

  42·7

  781

  62·3

  26·6

  Age 18

  1,104

  453

  41·0

  367

  81·0

  33·2

  Renfrew, Dunbarton and Argyll

  Age 16

  14,046

  5,442

  38·7

  1,085

  19·9

  7·7

  Age 17

  3,819

  1,519

  39·8

  602

  11·1

  15·8

  Age 18

  1,445

  545

  37·7

  324

  59·4

  22·4

  Notes:

  n/a = Results are not available or are incomplete.

  There are currently no estimates for the London offices due to delays in obtaining returns.

  The figures are subject to error and should be treated as approximated.

  Table 3

  Results of the Careers Service Exercise by MSC Area Office: Change December 1985–86

  Change in the number eligible to leave school

  Change in the number of school leavers

  Change in the number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  South East

  Chatham, Kent

  Age 16

  -530

  -18

  -544

  Age 17

  413

  134

  80

  Age 18

  -56

  130

  117

  Chelmsford

  Age 16

  -78

  297

  -353

  Age 17

  -201

  -805

  -744

  Age 18

  -309

  -454

  -434

  Fareham

  Age 16

  -667

  -1,026

  -335

  Age 17

  -245

  -354

  -145

  Age 18

  89

  -482

  -498

  High Wycombe

  Age 16

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 17

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 18

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Horsham

  Age 16

  -787

  -14

  148

  Age 17

  -107

  -97

  88

  Age 18

  -181

  -175

  -178

  Reading

  Age 16

  -319

  80

  407

  Age 17

  411

  181

  425

  Age 18

  228

  228

  233

  London

  London North

  Age 16

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 17

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 18

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  London North East

  Age 16

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 17

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 18

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  324

  Change in the number eligible to leave school

  Change in the number of school leavers

  Change in the number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  London South East

  Age 16

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 17

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 18

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  London South and West

  Age 16

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 17

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 18

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  South West

  Avon

  Age 16

  -277

  25

  -88

  Age 17

  -87

  135

  182

  Age 18

  -216

  1

  55

  Devon and Cornwall

  Age 16

  -947

  211

  -42

  Age 17

  64

  366

  13

  Age 18

  -334

  162

  130

  Gloucester/Wiltshire

  Age 16

  -662

  -962

  -44

  Age 17

  161

  61

  139

  Age 18

  -404

  -329

  -182

  Taunton/Somerset/Dorset

  Age 16

  -723

  -552

  -683

  Age 17

  -433

  -300

  -227

  Age 18

  -125

  29

  -22

  West Midlands

  Birmingham

  Age 16

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 17

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 18

  n/a

  n/a

  n/a

  Coventry/Warwick

  Age 16

  -921

  -4

  4

  Age 17

  -9

  29

  21

  Age 18

  -26

  25

  -79

  Dudley/Sandwell

  Age 16

  -159

  101

  86

  Age 17

  -88

  -120

  -59

  325

  Change in the number eligible to leave school

  Change in the number of school leavers

  Change in the number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  Age 18

  -54

  31

  60

  The Marches

  Age 16

  -482

  -219

  -77

  Age 17

  446

  202

  124

  Age 18

  -70

  121

  122

  Staffordshire

  Age 16

  -304

  483

  24

  Age 17

  -97

  -62

  -57

  Age 18

  -158

  -436

  -193

  Wolverhampton

  Age 16

  -59

  1,097

  231

  Age 17

  16

  n/a

  n/a

  Age 18

  -120

  n/a

  n/a

  East Midlands and Eastern

  Derby

  Age 16

  -611

  -511

  -18

  Age 17

  370

  133

  97

  Age 18

  -212

  -2

  -39

  Leicestershire

  Age 16

  -636

  -995

  -713

  Age 17

  142

  -204

  -341

  Age 18

  366

  -67

  -81

  Lincoln

  Age 16

  -192

  -53

  -249

  Age 17

  -148

  -95

  -30

  Age 18

  80

  30

  35

  Nottingham

  Age 16

  -1,350

  -494

  -494

  Age 17

  51

  969

  537

  Age 18

  -349

  n/a

  n/a

  Luton

  Age 16

  -112

  472

  579

  Age 17

  -240

  144

  -138

  Age 18

  -106

  119

  86

  Ipswich

  Age 16

  -215

  -38

  -115

  Age 17

  62

  168

  110

  Age 18

  -185

  -482

  -3

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees

  Age 16

  138

  -263

  -152

  Age 17

  304

  -98

  -219

  Age 18

  401

  288

  176

  Humberside

  Age 16

  -361

  -98

  -154

  Age 17

  91

  -44

  -88

  Age 18

  0

  0

  0

  Leeds/North Yorkshire

  Age 16

  -726

  29

  -1,145

  Age 17

  -117

  86

  71

  Age 18

  -346

  -171

  11

  Sheffleld/Rotherham

  Age 16

  -321

  436

  60

  Age 17

  31

  100

  -57

  Age 18

  -31

  168

  13

  Wakefield/Barnsley/Doncaster

  Age 16

  -25

  230

  28

  Age 17

  -100

  -32

  -39

  326

  Change in the number eligible to leave school

  Change in the number of school leavers

  Change in the number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  Age 18

  83

  113

  -34

  North West

  Cheshire

  Age 16

  -39

  60

  -94

  Age 17

  -24

  96

  37

  Age 18

  -101

  1

  38

  Cumbria

  Age 16

  -318

  -299

  -143

  Age 17

  -125

  -45

  20

  Age 18

  108

  -25

  14

  Greater Manchester Central

  Age 16

  436

  244

  79

  Age 17

  -243

  -61

  -80

  Age 18

  -286

  -137

  -72

  Greater Manchester East

  Age 16

  -92

  424

  -67

  Age 17

  -762

  43

  -4

  Age 18

  -104

  -443

  -413

  Greater Manchester North

  Age 16

  -276

  -193

  228

  Age 17

  275

  -37

  -14

  Age 18

  58

  32

  121

  Lancashire

  Age 16

  -688

  -201

  -434

  Age 17

  -61

  172

  140

  Age 18

  214

  0

  -20

  Merseyside Inner

  Age 16

  -116

  -383

  95

  Age 17

  434

  10

  104

  Age 18

  26

  -294

  83

  Merseyside Outer

  Age 16

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  Age 17

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  Age 18

  n.a.

  n.a.

  n.a.

  Northern

  Cleveland

  Age 16

  -642

  -119

  8

  Age 17

  101

  -131

  -17

  Age 18

  1,881

  -195

  -102

  Durham

  Age 16

  -565

  -649

  -115

  Age 17

  -45

  -4

  -15

  Age 18

  -43

  -18

  -7

  North Tyne

  Age 16

  -280

  -21

  -100

  Age 17

  81

  -1

  -31

  Age 18

  14

  -9

  -76

  South Tyne

  Age 16

  -62

  173

  163

  Age 17

  594

  -49

  50

  Age 18

  728

  132

  129

  Wales

  Cardiff

  Age 16

  -698

  -504

  -255

  Age 17

  313

  -50

  -50

  Age 18

  4

  -154

  110

  Gwent

  Age 16

  -480

  -230

  -37

  327

  Change in the number eligible to leave school

  Change in the number of school leavers

  Change in the number of school leavers in a full time job outside YTS

  Age 17

  82

  151

  -11

  Age 18

  28

  20

  24

  Swansea

  Age 16

  -409

  -157

  -209

  Age 17

  -523

  111

  117

  Age 18

  -251

  80

  52

  Wrexham

  Age 16

  -483

  67

  64

  Age 17

  -596

  -243

  -240

  Age 18

  -304

  -46

  -88

  Scotland

  Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway

  Age 16

  -994

  -317

  -462

  Age 17

  18

  44

  -106

  Age 18

  34

  10

  -35

  Central and Fife

  Age 16

  -698

  -170

  -184

  Age 17

  -106

  -105

  -45

  Age 18

  -35

  -61

  -22

  Glasgow City

  Age 16

  -783

  -337

  -206

  Age 17

  -102

  93

  34

  Age 18

  -19

  84

  43

  Grampian and Tyneside

  Age 16

  91

  645

  -404

  Age 17

  2

  7

  -27

  Age 18

  -3

  13

  37

  Highlands and Islands

  Age 16

  -22

  -55

  -168

  Age 17

  9

  -12

  -32

  Age 18

  -15

  -20

  -16

  Lanarkshire

  Age 16

  188

  361

  -13

  Age 17

  -66

  92

  31

  Age 18

  -39

  53

  24

  Lothian/Borders

  Age 16

  -903

  -252

  -156

  Age 17

  -136

  18

  38

  Age 18

  -32

  14

  37

  Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll

  Age 16

  -1,022

  -321

  -88

  Age 17

  -213

  -124

  -92

  Age 18

  -68

  -43

  -44

  Notes:

  n/a = results are not available or are incomplete.

  The figures are subject to error and should he treated as
  approximate.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will give from the most recent survey of youth training scheme providers, the number and proportion of trainees who will spend (a) fewer than 13 weeks and (b) more than 13 weeks on off-the-job training; and hw these figures with those available at the end of 1985.

  Mr. Trippier
  The survey of YTS providers conducted in January-February 1986 shows that 2 per cent. (5,300) of trainees received off-the-job training of less than 13 weeks; 98 per cent. (259,000) received off-the-job training for 13 weeks or longer.
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  Figures for 1985 are not available.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General what are the current numbers of vacant places on the youth training schemes; and how this figure compares with that for the end of 1985.

  Mr. Trippier
  Manpower Services Commission records currently show some 327,900 YTS trainees in training at the end of February 1987 and 455,500 YTS contracted places. There are no exactly equivalent figures for earlier years. In December 1985 there were some 293,370 trainees in training and 384,700 places approved by area manpower boards; but not all approved places were subsequently contracted.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will give for 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, and the latest estimates on figures for 1986–87. the total sum expended on the youth training scheme and the total sum expended on grants made to managing agents broken down into the administration fee, the training allowance the trainee allowance and capital grants.

  Mr. Trippier
  The information requested is shown in the table:

  £ million

  1983–84 Outturn

  1984–85 Outturn

  1985–86 Outturn

  1986–87 Forecast

  Management Fee

  33·8

  33·1

  35·9

  52·0

  Other Grants1

  334·8

  713·5

  765·6

  770·2

  Capital Grants2

  1·2

  4·6

  3·3

  2·1

  Other Expenditure3

  10·7

  12·2

  13·4

  15·0

  Total YTS4 Expenditure

  380·5

  763·4

  818·2

  839·3

  1 Separate information is not available for the contribution towards the cost of training and the trainee allowance. "Other Grants" also includes expenditure on excess travel and lodging allowances and vacated places.

  2 Capital grants funding ceased in August 1986.

  3 "Other Expenditure" includes research and development, accredited centres and miscellaneous minor items.

  4 Excludes MSC administration costs.

  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General if he will list the total expenditure in 1986–87 prices of the Manpower Services Commission in each year since 1974, together with the percentage change in real terms over each previous year.

  Mr. Trippier
  The following table gives estimates of total expenditure by the Manpower Services Commission in each year since 1974 at 1986–87 prices.

  Financial year

  Total Manpower Services Commission expenditure at 1986–87 prices £ million

  Percentage change over previous year

  1974–75

  392

  1975–76

  768

  95·9

  1976–77

  1,063

  38·4

  1977–78

  1,175

  10·5

  1978–79

  1,247

  6·1

  1979–80

  1,209

  -3·0

  1980–81

  1,222

  1·1

  1981–82

  1,421

  16·3

  1982–83

  1,573

  10·7

  1983–84

  2,023

  28·6

  1984–85

  2,250

  11·2

  1985–86

  2.444

  8·6

  1986–87 (forecast)

  3,059

  25·2

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  Notes:

  (1) Includes Manpower Services Commission expenditure on behalf of the Department of Employment.

  (2) Cash figures adjusted to 1986–87 price levels have been calculated by taking account of each year's general inflation as measured by the GDP deflator at market prices. It has been assumed that the average level of the GDP deflator in 1986–87 will be equal to the mid-1986–87 value.

  Construction Industry (Sikh Workers)
  Mr. Rooker
  asked the Paymaster General if representatives of the Sikh community were consulted on the proposed new guidance note on managing health and safety in construction.

  Mr. Trippier
  No. However, the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has published a consultative document on proposed regulations making the wearing of head protection compulsory in construction work. This has attracted a number of representations from the Sikh community whose views will be considered carefully by the HSC and Ministers.

  Mr. Rooker
  asked the Paymaster General what has been the incidence of head injuries to construction workers wearing turbans in each of the past five years.

  Mr. Trippier
  The Health and Safety Executive has no records of any fatal injuries of this kind, but information on the wearing of turbans is not systematically included in its accident records.

  Labour Statistics
  Mr. Sheerman
  asked the Paymaster General what was the number and percentage rate of unemployment among 16 and 17-year-olds (a) nationally (b) by ethnic origin, (c) by region and (d) by sex at the latest available date and for September, January and June in each of the past five years.

  Mr. Lee
  [pursuant to his reply, 7 April 1987, c. 151–52]: Following is the available information. The tables show numbers of unemployed aged under 18 years in the regions, together with the appropriate numbers and rates of unemployment in the United Kingdom analysed by sex. Figures are given for January, July and October of each year since 1982 (not available for June or September). The rates of unemployment for 1982 relate to unemployed registrants expressed as a percentage of employees in employment plus the unemployed. Rates for later years are expressed as a percentage of the working population. The working population excludes young people receiving YTS training without a contract of employment. Rates of unemployment by age are not calculated below national level.

  Statistics of unemployment by ethnic origin are collected in the "Labour Force Survey", but the figures requested are not available except at disproportionate cost. The last available information based on the monthly unemployment count relates to unemployed registrants in Great Britain as at February 1982, and this is available in the Library.
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  United Kingdom

  Unemployed claimants aged under 18 years

  Male

  Female

  Number

  Percentage of working population

  Number

  Percentage of working population

  January 1987

  92,436

  21·4

  69,805

  16·5

  October 1986

  106,409

  24·6

  80,111

  18·9

  July 1986

  97,414

  22·5

  73,420

  17·3

  January 1986

  107,609

  24·9

  79,147

  18·7

  October 1985

  121,972

  28·2

  89,223

  21·1

  July 1985

  102,574

  23·7

  75,036

  17·7

  January 1985

  113,852

  26·3

  83,826

  19·8

  October 1984

  134,033

  30·5

  99,930

  24·0

  July 1984

  94,726

  21·5

  69,420

  16·7

  January 1984

  115,861

  26·3

  88,432

  21·2

  October 1983

  142,676

  31·5

  108,494

  26·4

  July 1983

  118,519

  26·1

  79,612

  19·4

  January 1983

  123,769

  27·3

  97,976

  23·8

  Number

  Percentage of employees and unemployed

  Number

  Percentage of employees and unemployed

  October 1982

  141,863

  29·1

  111,031

  24·9

  Unemployed registrants aged under 18 years

  October 1982

  152,275

  30·6

  121,738

  26·7

  July 1982

  203,916

  36·4

  166,587

  32·7

  January 1982

  128,487

  25·1

  101,583

  21·9

  Unemployed registrants aged under 18 years

  January '82

  July '82

  October '82

  South East

  51,285

  81,890

  69,588

  Greater London

  23,451

  31,092

  33,180

  East Anglia

  5,994

  10,095

  6,780

  South West

  12,457

  23,879

  14,258

  West Midlands

  24,263

  39,143

  29,643

  East Midlands

  12,454

  26,990

  15,965

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  22,755

  40,088

  28,915

  North West

  29,735

  48,540

  34,719

  Northern

  16,319

  28,118

  18,904

  Wales

  12,145

  17,257

  13,596

  Scotland

  33,138

  42,300

  30,608

  Northern Ireland

  9,525

  12,203

  11,037

  Unemployed claimants aged under 18 years

  October 1982

  January 1983

  July 1983

  October 1983

  South East

  58,601

  49,113

  41,126

  55,554

  Greater London

  26,591

  22,276

  19,225

  26,035

  East Anglia

  6,655

  5,822

  4,833

  6,658

  South West

  13,787

  12,230

  9,790

  14,059

  West Midlands

  28,277

  23,341

  20,247

  27,122

  East Midlands

  14,306

  12,590

  10,846

  13,895

  Yorks and Humberside

  27,675

  22,660

  19,358

  26,169

  North West

  31,783

  27,879

  26,203

  33,951

  Northern

  18,549

  15,649

  13,999

  19,235

  Wales

  13,815

  11,859

  10,198

  14,376

  Scotland

  30,446

  34,334

  26,262

  32,309

  Northern Ireland

  9,000

  6,268

  5,407

  7,841

  Unemployed claimants aged under 18 years

  January 1984

  July 1984

  October 1984

  January 1985

  South East

  44,292

  35,406

  49,607

  41,253

  Greater London

  20,716

  16,782

  22,807

  18,968

  East Anglia

  5,318

  4,037

  5,646

  4,984

  South West

  11,488

  8,609

  13,419

  11,228

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  January 1984

  July 1984

  October 1984

  January 1985

  West Midlands

  20,491

  17,129

  24,995

  19,975

  East Midlands

  11,570

  9,929

  14,152

  12,044

  Yorks and Humberside

  19,558

  17,042

  25,876

  20,259

  North West

  26,791

  22,816

  31,783

  26,170

  Northern

  14,259

  12,012

  17,976

  13,939

  Wales

  10,725

  8,441

  13,665

  10,788

  Scotland

  33,693

  23,544

  30,228

  31,992

  Northern Ireland

  6,102

  5,180

  6,614

  5,045

  Unemployed claimants aged under 18 years

  July 1985

  October 1985

  January 1986

  July 1986

  South East

  34,450

  41,491

  36,682

  31,046

  Greater London

  16,001

  19,279

  16,647

  14,151

  East Anglia

  4,376

  5,254

  5,100

  4,244

  South West

  9,061

  11,720

  10,647

  8,885

  West Midlands

  18,619

  22,744

  19,144

  17,924

  East Midlands

  11,818

  12,771

  11,250

  11,603

  Yorks and Humberside

  20,141

  24,305

  19,997

  21,681

  North West

  26,195

  29,698

  24,872

  24,460

  Northern

  15,785

  16,530

  13,242

  13,401

  Wales

  8,932

  12,879

  10,456

  8,197

  Scotland

  23,961

  27,908

  30,425

  24,903

  Northern Ireland

  4,269

  5,895

  4,941

  4,490

  Unemployed claimants aged under 18 years

  October 1986

  January 1987

  South East

  34,329

  29,557

  Greater London

  15,697

  13,374

  East Anglia

  4,498

  4,200

  South West

  9,954

  8,919

  West Midlands

  20,406

  16,684

  East Midlands

  11,511

  10,143

  Yorks and Humberside

  22,573

  18,312

  North West

  25,900

  21,627

  Northern

  13,374

  10,642

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  October 1986

  January 1987

  Wales

  10,667

  8,593

  Scotland

  27,368

  28,868

  Northern Ireland

  5,940

  4,696

  Notes:

  (1) Unemployment figures from January 1982 to October 1982 relate to unemployed registrants at jobcentres; from October 1982 onwards they relate to claimants at benefit offices. Figures for October 1982 are given on both bases.

  (2) Figures are not directly comparable due to changes in the method of the compilation of the count.

  (3) The working population estimates used to calculate Unemployed rates by age exclude many YTS participants who have no contract of employment. Percentage rates for those aged under 18 which include all those on YTS in the United kingdom working population are:

  Per cent.

  1983

  January

  25·0

  July

  21·2

  October

  28·3

  1984

  January

  19·8

  July

  15·9

  October

  22·6

  1985

  January

  19·1

  July

  17·2

  October

  20·4

  1986

  January

  18·1

  July

  16·5

  October

  18·0

  1987

  January

  15·7

  (4) Greater London is included in the south east region.

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