§ Mr. CohenTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to decide its mandate for the conventional arms reduction talks; and what proposals Her Majesty's Government have made to their North Atlantic Treaty Organisation counterparts on the contents of the mandate.
§ Mr. MellorThe NATO allies tabled a mandate for the conventional stability talks in Vienna on 27 July last year.
74Wsums paid out by local officers of his Department in single payments between 11 April and 11 July in 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987 in (a) Scotland, (b) Strathclyde region and (c) Greenock and Port Glasgow; and what was the average amount of single payment in each of those years.
§ Mr. PortilloSingle payments of supplementary benefit were made in the form of grants and not loans. Information is not available for the exact dates requested and records for 1983–84 are no longer held. The figures given in the table represent the average value of each single payment made in three of the Department's four-week statistical periods in each year running from May to July.