HC Deb 02 February 1989 vol 146 cc331-3W
Mr. Harry Greenway

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he proposes to introduce Report the total number of women graduates in veterinary medicine in each British college in each of the past five years, showing this figure also as a percentage of the total number of graduates;

(2) if he will list in the Official Report the total number of graduates in veterinary medicine at each veterinary college in Britain in each of the past five years.

Mr. Jackson

The available information is shown in the following table. Information prior to 1986 is not readily available.

veterinary medicine who (a) found employment in Britain and (b) found employment outwith Britain in each of the past five years.

Mr. Jackson

The available information is as follows:

additional facilities for additional voluntary contributions within the teachers' superannuation scheme; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

The prudential pension fund services have been appointed to provide a new additional voluntary contributions (AVC) scheme for teachers who are members of the teachers' superannuation scheme for England and Wales. They have also been appointed to provide these facilities for members of the teachers' scheme in Scotland.

The AVC scheme will offer a flexible, money-purchase alternative to the existing provision for buying-in added years. Members will be able to choose to invest their contributions in a with-profits or a unit-linked fund, or on cash deposit at building society rates of interest, or to apply them to the purchase of additional life insurance cover, or in any combination of these investments. Members will also be free to vary their contributions, and their allocation between investments, at any time.

We intend to lay regulations before Parliament shortly to give effect to the new scheme, and to seek approval for it under section 592 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 so that teachers' contributions are allowable as a deduction from income before assessment to tax. Subject to these requirements, the scheme will come into operation on 1 April 1989, enabling members to secure tax relief on single premium payments in the 1988–89 tax year.