HC Deb 02 December 1988 vol 142 cc416-7W
Mr. Ron Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the number of planning appeal decisions in Wales which were(a) allowed, (b) dismissed, (c) withdrawn and (d) undetermined for each of the last five years; and if he will express the numbers allowed and dismissed as a percentage of those determined.

Mr. Peter Walker

Planning decisions by local authorities for each of the last five financial years are as follows (the information is not available for applications withdrawn and undetermined):

Year Allowed Per cent. Dismissed Per cent. Withdrawn Undetermined at year end
1985–861 312 44.5 388 55.4 175 541
1986–871 326 41.2 465 58.8 189 591
1987–881 281 32.4 587 67.6 179 610
1 The basis for the recorded statistics was changed from the calendar year to the financial year from 1 April 1985.

Mr. Ron Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the number of planning appeal decisions which were(a) allowed, (b) dismissed, (c) withdrawn and (d) undetermined in each of the Welsh national parks in each of the last five years; and if he will express the numbers allowed and dismissed as a percentage of those determined.

Mr. Peter Walker

This information is not available.

Health board Staff in post (whole-time equivalents) A B C D E F G H I
Argyll and Clyde 4,354 1,542 73 399 576 649 299 629 96 91
Ayrshire and Arran 3,078 881 70 335 433 530 285 434 56 54
Borders 1,019 329 12 115 82 199 102 135 28 17
Dumfries and Galloway 1,652 466 34 156 288 317 97 211 50 33
Fife 3,132 894 38 410 571 608 107 389 97 18
Forth Valley 3,135 1,133 124 158 553 568 119 391 67 22
Grampian 5,197 1,517 80 681 1,058 741 269 652 119 80
Greater Glasgow 12,444 3,731 262 1,129 2,238 2,141 1,234 1,157 404 148
Highland 2,097 518 15 104 288 544 218 317 46 47
Lanarkshire 4,713 1,195 53 682 634 1,027 225 698 151 48
Lothian 8,152 2,239 214 446 1,502 1,892 311 1,170 220 158
Orkney 171 35 2 57 11 19 3 40 2 2
Shetland 201 43 2 42 13 32 14 44 10 1
Tayside 5,075 1,535 67 686 585 1,099 338 542 165 58
Western Isles 259 55 — 28 21 58 30 61 3 3
Totals 54,679 16,113 1,046 5,428 8,853 10,424 3,651 6,870 1,514 780

All figures rounded to nearest whole number.

Mr. Galbraith

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if there will be additional money to fund successful nurse regrading appeals.

Mr. Michael Forsyth

Additional funding has been made available to meet in full the cost of the nurses' pay award this year, including regrading. Health boards will be expected to meet their commitments from within the total resources made available to them.