HC Deb 23 February 1990 vol 167 cc963-4W
Mr. Malcolm Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make it his policy to reduce the maximum exposure of workers to radiation to 10 mSv a year.

Mr. Nicholls

[holding answer 21 February 1990]: No. On 5 February 1990 the Health and Safety Commission published a consultative document inviting comments on

Mr. Nicholls

[holding answer 12 February 1990]: The following table shows planned expenditure and outturn expenditures on employment training and the programmes subsumed by employment training1 for each of the years 1985–86 to 1992–93 in both cash and real terms, for Great Britain.

Cash prices Constant prices2
Planned Outturn Planned Outturn
£ million £ million £ million £ million
1985–86 909 867 1,061 1,012
1986–87 1,205 1,255 1,361 1,417
1987–88 1,479 1,328 1,586 1,424
1988–89 1,361 1,290 1,361 1,290
1989–90 1,230 31,112 1,150 31,039
1990–91 1,210 n/a 1,077 n/a
1991–92 1,180 n/a 1,057 n/a
1992–93 1,200 n/a 1,002 n/a
1 Programmes subsumed by employment training were: community programme, job training scheme, new job training scheme, residential training for the disabled, voluntary projects programme, wider opportunities training programme.
2 Cash prices adjusted to 1988–89 price levels by excluding the effect of general inflation as measured by the gross domestic product deflator.
3 Forecast.

Mr. McLeish

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total number of employment training trainees in(a) employer/work-based schemes and (b) project-based schemes for each quarter between December 1988 and December 1989 and for each of the standard regions, Scotland, Wales and Great Britain.

Mr. Nicholls

[holding answer 12 February 1990]: Information is not available in the precise form requested. Information is available only for the eight Training Agency regions in England and for Scotland and Wales and is given in the following table.

additional guidance on dose limitation. This proposed that decisions on whether doses are as low as reasonably practicable should take account of the latest revisions of estimated risk from exposure to ionising radiations and additional action where a worker's annual dose exceeded 15 mSv on average. My right hon. and learned Friend is awaiting further advice from the Health and Safety Commission as to any additional measures that may now be seen as necessary.