HC Deb 23 January 1989 vol 145 cc405-7W
Mr. Nigel Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what is the percentage change in equivalent housing support grant for Edinburgh for each year from 1978 to 1989–90;

(2) what is the percentage change in equivalent housing support grant for Edinburgh for each year from 1978 to 1989–90 adjusted for inflation;

(3) what is the percentage change in equivalent housing support grant for Scotland for each year from 1978 to 1989–90;

(4) what is the equivalent housing support grant figure for Edinburgh for each year from 1978 to 1989–90;

(5) what is the equivalent housing support grant for Scotland for each year from 1978 to 1989–90;

(6) what is the equivalent housing support grant for Scotland for each year from 1978 to 1989–90, adjusted for inflation;

(7) what is the equivalent housing support grant for Edinburgh for each year from 1978 to 1989–90, adjusted for inflation;

(8) what is the percentage change in equivalent housing support grant for Scotland for each year from 1978 to 1989 –90, adjusted for inflation.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The information is shown in the following table:

Commission to each of its conservancies on procedures to be followed on the sale of Forestry Commission land and plantations.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

The then Secretary of State for Scotland, the right hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Younger), wrote to the chairman of the Forestry Commission on 28 May 1981 stating that the Commissioners would be responsible for selecting areas for disposal and setting out the main considerations which Forestry Ministers would wish them to take into account in the selection process; the letter was reproduced as appendix V to the commission's 1981–82 annual report. On 8 November 1984, the Secretary of State announced changes to the Forestry Commission's disposals objectives in a written reply in the House (Official Report, columns 6–7); this announcement was reproduced in the commission's 1984–85 annual report at appendix V.

Instructions have been given to each of the commission's conservancies which embody the above, as well as a statement on the commission's policy and practice on disposals which was published as appendix VI to its 1984–85 annual report.

Copies of the Forestry Commission's annual reports are held in the Library of the House.