Written Answers of 12 June 1991

EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

  University Pay
  Mr. McLeish
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett) of 15 April,Official Report, column 50, on expenditure on university pay, if he will break down the figure for other staff between (a) manual and ancillary workers, (b) clerical and certain related administrative staff and (c) technical staff, and express each as a percentage of the total universities general recurrent expenditure in the United Kingdom.

  Mr. Alan Howarth
  The available information is as follows:

  1985–86

  1986–87

  1987–88

  1988–89

  Secretarial and Clerical (£m)

  185·3

  189·0

  190·2

  194·2

  Per cent·

  7·3

  7·3

  7·2

  7·2

  Technical (£m)

  218·4

  216·6

  210·3

  205·5

  Per cent·

  8·6

  8·4

  8·0

  7·6

  Other staff (£m)

  126·6

  126·3

  122·1

  121·9

  Per cent·

  5·0

  4·9

  4·6

  4·5

  Notes:

  Expenditure is at 1990–91 prices, derived using GDP deflator assumptions based on the university academic year.

  Percentages are of United Kingdom universities' total recurrent expenditure from general funds.

  Student Accommodation
  Mr. Livsey
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, if he will indicate the number of students resident in college accommodation in each university; and what percentage of the total they represented in 1990 in(a) Wales and (b) England.

  Mr. Alan Howarth
  Information on the number of students resident in college accommodation in each university is contained in "University Statistics—Volume 3—Finance". The latest available information is for 1988–89. A copy of this publication is available in the Library.

  School Buildings
  Mr. Fatchett
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will set out, at 1990 prices, the level of capital spending on school buildings for the latest available year for(a) Berkshire, (b) Essex, (c) Hereford and Worcester, (d) Nottinghamshire and (e) Somerset.

  Mr. Fallon
  The information requested, which has become available only since my earlier reply of 4 June, is as follows:
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  1990–91 prices

  Local education authority

  £ million

  Berkshire

  121·8

  Essex

  128·3

  Hereford and Worcester

  28·4

  Nottinghamshire

  19·2

  Somerset

  25·8

  1 1989–90 prices.

  1 1988–89 prices.

  Welsh Language
  Mr. Wigley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has as to how much is spent(a) by the University of Wales as a whole and (b) by each constituent college on Welsh medium teaching; what percentage of overall expenditure this accounts for; and if he will also publish figures for each year since 1980.

  Mr. Alan Howarth
  This information is not collected centrally.

  Grant-maintained Schools
  Mr. Fatchett
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the names, location and local education authority of(a) each grant-maintained school and (b) each school which is balloting on, or awaiting a decision about, grant-maintained status, grouping the schools by education authority and by standard region.

  Mr. Eggar
  The information requested is as follows:

  (a) Operating and approved grant-maintained schools by region and local education authority

  Greater London

  Hendon School, Hendon

  Barnet

  Queen Elizabeth's GM School for Boys, Barnet

  Barnet

  Claremont High School, Kenton

  Brent

  Bullers Wood School for Girls, Chislehurst

  Bromley

  London Oratory School, Hammersmith

  Hammersmith

  Bishopshalt School, Hillingdon

  Hillingdon

  Haydon School, Pinner

  Hillingdon

  Queensmead School, South Ruislip

  Hillingdon

  Vyncrs School, Ickenham

  Hillingdon

  Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Kensington

  Kensington

  Stratford School, Forest Gate

  Newham

  London Nautical School, Blackfriars

  Southwark

  Nonsuch High School for Girls, Cheam

  Sutton

  Wilsons School, Wallington

  Sutton

  South East

  Reading School

  Berkshire

  Southlands School, Reading

  Berkshire

  St. Bartholomew's School, Newbury

  Berkshire

  Beaconsfield High School, Beaconsfield

  Buckinghamshire

  Bridgewater Hall School, Milton Keynes

  Buckinghamshire

  Brindley Hall School, Milton Keynes

  Buckinghamshire

  Hardley Secondary School, Fawley

  Hampshire

  Burgate School, Fordingbridge

  Hampshire

  The GS For Girls Wilmington, Nr. Dartford

  Kent

  The Cornwallis School, Linton

  Kent

  The Maplesden Noakes School, Maidstone

  Kent

  Wilmington Grammar School for Boys, Dartford

  Kent

  St. George's CE School, Gravesend

  Kent

  Guildford County School

  Surrey

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  South West

  Beechen Cliff School, Bath

  Avon

  Oldfield School, Bath

  Avon

  Colyton Grammar School, Colyford

  Devon

  Bournemouth Grammar School

  Dorset

  Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis

  Dorset

  Ribston Hall High School, Gloucester

  Gloucestershire

  Stroud High School

  Gloucestershire

  Marling School, Stroud

  Gloucestershire

  Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham

  Gloucestershire

  Sexey's School, Bruton

  Somerset

  St. Augustine RC School, Trowbridge

  Wiltshire

  East Anglia

  Queensbury School, Dunstable

  Bedfordshire

  Chalvedon School, Basildon

  Essex

  Westcliff High School for Boys, Westcliff

  Essex

  Rickmansworth School

  Hertfordshire

  Watford Boys Grammar School

  Hertfordshire

  Francis Bacon School, St. Albans

  Hertfordshire

  Caistor School, Caistor

  Lincolnshire

  Queen Elizabeth's GM Grammar School, Alford

  Lincolnshire

  Skegness Grammar School, Skegness

  Lincolnshire

  The Kings School Grantham, Grantham

  Lincolnshire

  Carre's Grammar School, Sleaford

  Lincolnshire

  St. George's School, Sleaford

  Lincolnshire

  King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth

  Lincolnshire

  Wymondham College, Morley

  Norfolk

  Midlands

  Baverstock Grant-Maintained School, Kings Heath

  Birmingham

  Small Heath School, Small Heath

  Birmingham

  Handsworth Grammar School for Boys

  Birmingham

  Great Barr School, Great Barr

  Birmingham

  Ecclesbourne School, Duffield

  Derbyshire

  Netherthorpe School, Stavely

  Derbyshire

  Old Swinford Hospital, Stourbridge

  Dudley

  Long Field High School, Melton Mowbray

  Leicestershire

  Kingswood School, Corby

  Northamptonshire

  Kingsley Park Middle School

  Northamptonshire

  Southfield School for Girls, Kettering

  Northamptonshire

  Manor High School, Wednesbury

  Sandwell

  Adams' Grammar School, Newport

  Shropshire

  Wolverhampton High School for Girls

  Wolverhampton

  Moseley Park School, Wolverhampton

  Wolverhampton

  Newbold Grange High School, Rugby

  Warwickshire

  North West

  St. James' CE School, Farnworth

  Bolton

  Bankfleld High School, Widnes

  Cheshire

  Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School, Rossendale

  Lancashire

  Lancaster Royal Grammar School

  Lancashire

  Lancaster Girls Grammar School

  Lancashire

  Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Clitheroe

  Lancashire

  St. Francis Xavier's College, Woolton

  Liverpool

  Audenshaw High School, Manchester

  Tameside

  Northern

  Bingley Grammar School, Bingley

  Bradford

  Crossley Heath School, Halifax

  Calderdale

  North Halifax High School, Illingworth

  Calderdale

  Kirkbie Kendal School, Kendal

  Cumbria

  Heckmondwike Grammar School, Heckmondwike

  Kirklees

  Castle Hall Grant-Maintained School, Mirfield

  Kirklees

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  (b) Schools by region and local education authority which: have applied for grant-maintained status; or, are committed to apply following a ballot in favour of seeking grant-maintained status; or, are committed to ballot on grant-maintained status.

  Greater London

  St. Paul's CE Primary School, Barnet

  Barnet

  Copland Community School, Wembley

  Brent

  William Gladstone School, Parkside

  Brent

  Cator Park School, Beckingham

  Bromley

  Crofton Junior School, Orpington

  Bromley

  Newstead Wood School, Orpington

  Bromley

  Beaverwood School for Girls, Chisleshurst

  Bromley

  Coopers School, Chislehurst

  Bromley

  Langley Park Boys School, Bromley

  Bromley

  Ravens Wood School, Bromley

  Bromley

  Kelsey Park School, Bromley

  Bromley

  Hayes School, Hayes

  Bromley

  Riddlesdown High School, Purley

  Croydon

  Drayton Manor High School, Hanwell

  Ealing

  Northolt High School, Northolt

  Ealing

  Wood End First School, Northolt

  Ealing

  Ellen Wilkinson School, Acton

  Ealing

  Wood End Middle School, Northolt

  Ealing

  Greenford High School, Greenford

  Ealing

  Walford High School, Ealing

  Ealing

  Brentside High School, Hanwell

  Ealing

  Harwood School, Fulham

  Hammersmith

  Nower Hill High School, Pinner

  Harrow

  Barnhill Comprehensive School, Hayes

  Hillingdon

  Greenway Comprehensive School, Uxbridge

  Hillingdon

  Townmead School, West Drayton

  Hillingdon

  Northwood School, Northwood

  Hillingdon

  Hayes Manor School, Hayes

  Hillingdon

  Mellow Lane School, Hayes End

  Hillingdon

  La Retraite School, Lambeth

  Lambeth

  Turnham Junior School, Lewisham

  Lewisham

  John Fisher School, Purley

  Sutton

  Raines Foundation School

  Tower Hamlets

  Highams Park School

  Waltham Forest

  Graveney School, Tooting

  Wandsworth

  Burntwood School for Girls, Wandsworth

  Wandsworth

  Ethelburga JMI School, Wandsworth

  Wandsworth

  South East

  Langley Grammar School, Slough

  Berkshire

  Deanefield School, Reading

  Berkshire

  Brookmead First and Middle School, Ivinghoe

  Buckinghamshire

  Arnewood School, New Milton

  Hampshire

  Ringwood Comprehensive School, ringwood

  Hampshire

  Swanscombe High School, Swanscombe

  Kent

  Thamesview School, Gravesend

  Kent

  Homewood School, Tenterden

  Kent

  Cliffe Woods Middle School, Rochester

  Kent

  Dartford Grammar School, West Hill

  Kent

  Southlands Comprehensive School, New Romney

  Kent

  Appledore CE Primary School, Ashford

  Kent

  Aylsford School, Aylsford

  Kent

  Oakwood Park Grammar School, Maidstone

  Kent

  Edenbridge Middle School, Edenbridge

  Kent

  Dartford Grammar School for Girls, Dartford

  Kent

  Wrotham School, Wrotham

  Kent

  Cliffe Woods Primary School, Rochester

  Kent

  Sheppey School, Sheerness

  Kent

  Senacre High School, Maidstone

  Kent

  The Skinner's School, Tunbridge Wells

  Kent

  Simon Langton Boys' Grammar School, Canterbury

  Kent

  Snodland CE Primary School, Snodland

  Kent

  Oldborough Manor High, Maidstone

  Kent

  Brockhill Park School, Saltwood

  Kent

  Cranbrook School, Cranbrook

  Kent

  St. Peter's Primary School, Tonbridge

  Kent

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  Rainham Mark Grammar School, Gillingham

  Kent

  St. John the Baptist School, Woking

  Surrey

  de Stafford School, Caterham

  Surrey

  Send C of E First School, Send

  Surrey

  Collingwood School, Camberley

  Surrey

  Manor County First School Byfleet

  Surrey

  Glyn School, Epsom

  Surrey

  Hawkedale First School, Sunbury-on-Thames

  Surrey

  Gordon's School, Woking

  Surrey

  Heathside Secondary School, Weybridge

  Surrey

  Stoneleigh First School, Ewell

  Surrey

  Ashley County First School, Walton-on-Thames

  Surrey

  South Holm wood CE First School, South Holmwood

  Surrey

  Epsom and Ewell High School, Epsom

  Surrey

  South West

  Desborough Comprehensive School, Maidenhead

  Berkshire

  Boyton County Primary School, Boyton

  Cornwall

  Foster's Boys Grammar School, Yeovil

  Dorset

  Lord Digby's Girls Grammar School, Sherborne

  Dorset

  Budmouth School, Weymouth

  Dorset

  Parkstone Grammar School, Poole

  Dorset

  The Crypt School, Gloucester

  Gloucestershire

  Neroche Primary School, Ilminster

  Somerset

  East Anglia

  St. Helen's Primary School, Bluntisham

  Cambridgeshire

  Gamlingay Village College, Gamlingay

  Cambridgeshire

  Newborough Primary School, Newborough

  Cambridgeshire

  The Plume School, Maldon

  Essex

  The Park School, Rayleigh

  Essex

  Elmbridge School, Ongar

  Essex

  King John School, Benfleet

  Essex

  The Philip Morant School, Colchester

  Essex

  Elmwood County Primary School, South Woodham Ferrers

  Essex

  Watford Girls' Grammar School

  Hertfordshire

  Parmiters School, Watford

  Hertfordshire

  St. Mary's RC Primary School, Royston

  Hertfordshire

  Christ Church CE JMI School, Chorleywood

  Hertfordshire

  Monksmead First School, Borehamwood

  Hertfordshire

  Nascot Wood School, Watford

  Hertfordshire

  Magdalen CE/Meth Primary School, Wainfleet

  Lincolnshire

  Bourne Primary School, Bourne

  Lincolnshire

  Yarborough High School, Lincoln

  Lincolnshire

  Christ's Hospital School, Lincoln

  Lincolnshire

  Castle Hills School, Gainsborough

  Lincolnshire

  William Alvey Junior School, Sleaford

  Lincolnshire

  North Rauceby School, North Rauceby

  Lincolnshire

  Gartree School, Tattershall

  Lincolnshire

  Redgate Middle School, Hustanton

  Norfolk

  Heacham Middle School, King's Lynn

  Norfolk

  Norwich Road First School, Thetford

  Norfolk

  Loddon Middle School, Loddon

  Norfolk

  The Admiral's Middle School, Thetford

  Norfolk

  Dereham Church First School, Dereham

  Norfolk

  Downham Market High School, Downham Market

  Norfolk

  Gresham Primary School, Gresham

  Norfolk

  Midlands

  Sir Wilfred Martineau School, Birmingham

  Birmingham

  Silverhill Primary School, Mickleover

  Derbyshire

  Borrow Wood Junior School, Spondon

  Derbyshire

  Bishop Stopford School, Kettering

  Northamptonshire

  Bliss Charity Primary School, Neither Heyford

  Northamptonshire

  Moulton Primary School, Moulton

  Northamptonshire

  King John Middle School, Mansfield

  Northamptonshire

  High Oakham Middle School, Mansfield

  Nottinghamshire

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  Windmill Ridge School, Mansfield

  Nottinghamshire

  Ravensdale Middle School, Mansfield

  Nottinghamshire

  Ellerdine Primary School, Cold Hatton

  Shropshire

  The Down Primary School, Bridgnorth

  Shropshire

  Hatchford Junior and Infant School, Chelmsly Wood

  Solihull

  Tudor Grange School, Solihull

  Solihull

  St. Thomas More RC High School, Stoke

  Staffordshire

  Belmont Primary School, Stoke

  Staffordshire

  Exhall School, Ash Green

  Warwickshire

  Hartshill School, Nuneaton

  Warwickshire

  Rokeby Middle School, Rugby

  Warwickshire

  Darlaston Community School, Wednesbury

  Walsall

  North- West

  Kettleshulme C of E Primary School, Kettleshulme

  Cheshire

  Arley Primary School, Northwich

  Cheshire

  Newton C of E School, Newton

  Lancashire

  Ormskirk Grammar School, Ormskirk

  Lancashire

  Crossgates Primary School, Rochdale

  Rochdale

  Northern

  Wortley CE J and I School, Wortley

  Barnsley

  Salterlee J and I School, Halifax

  Calderdale

  Hassall Green Methodist Primary School, Sandbach

  Cheshire

  Bowness-on-Solway Primary School, Bowness-on-Solway

  Cumbria

  Eden School, Carlisle

  Cumbria

  Queen Elizabeth School, Penrith

  Cumbria

  St. Aidan's School, Carlisle

  Cumbria

  King James I Comprehensive School, Bishop Auckland

  Durham

  Wold Newton Primary School, Wold Newton

  Humberside

  Woolley CE First School, Woolley

  Wakefield

  Romanby County Primary School

  North Yorkshire

  Teachers' Pay
  Mr. Fatchett
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what procedure he expects to use in order to determine the teachers' pay increases for 1992–93; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Eggar
  Subject to parliamentary approval of the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions (No. 2) Bill, my right hon. and learned Friend hopes to be in a position to ask the School Teachers' Review Body to recommend a settlement for 1992–93.

  University Funding
  Mr. Dunnachie
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will reconsider his recent decision not to meet employers and employees of British universities to discuss funding; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Alan Howarth
  No. For the second year running, there has been an increase of some 10 per cent. in public funding for universities. My right hon. and learned Friend has made clear that it is now for the employers to reach a pay settlement within the aggregate resources at their disposal.

  Cash Limits (Science)
  Mr. Bowis
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has any changes to announce to cash limits on his Department's Science Vote for 1991–92.
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  Mr. Kenneth Clarke
  Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimates, the cash limit for class XI, vote 5, science will be amended. The cash limit change is as follows:

  Class and vote

  Current cash limit £

  Change £

  Revised cash limit £

  XI.5

  920,455,000

  7,000,000

  927,455,000

  The additional funds will provide for the following additional allocations to the research councils in 1991–92.

  £ million

  Agricultural and Food Research Council

  1·05

  Economic and Social Research Council

  0·10

  Medical Research Council

  1·50

  Natural Environment Research Council

  1·15

  Science and Engineering Research Council

  3·20

HOME DEPARTMENT

  Prisoners
  Mr. Terry Davis
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the governor of Sudbury prison became aware of the mistake involving a release date for a prisoner who is going to be released on 8 August instead of 8 April; and what action was taken by the governor as a result of becoming aware of this mistake.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  The governor of Sudbury became aware of the mistake involving the release date of this prisoner on 5 April 1991 and the prisoner in question was granted home leave on compassionate grounds from 8–11 April 1991. The governor has improved the procedures for informing prisoners at Sudbury of the date approved for their release on parole.

  Mr. Terry Davis
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps have been taken to apologise to a prisoner at Sudbury prison for the notification of a release date of 8 April instead of 8 August.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  On discovery of the mistake regarding his release date, the governor apologised to the prisoner concerned for the distress which had been caused.

  Mr. Terry Davis
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many mistakes involving release dates for prisoners at Sudbury prison are known to have been made during the last 12 months.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  One.

  Charities
  Mr. Andrew Bowden
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will propose amendment to European Community draft directive COM (90) 314 FINAL-SYN 87 to protect the interests of charities.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  In discussion with their European Community partners, the Government are seeking to ensure that the directive makes proper allowance for the needs of charities and other data users.

  Mr. Andrew Bowden
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has had 538
  from charities concerning the potential impact on their fund-raising activities of EC draft directive COM (90) 314 FINAL-SYN 87.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  We have received six representations from or on behalf of organisations with charitable status about the impact of the draft directive on their fund-raising activities.

  Adoption
  Mr. Thurnham
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what instructions he issues to police forces in England and Wales on the procedures for prompt checking of prospective adopters of children from overseas in order to comply with entry clearance procedures; and if he will make a statement;

  (2) if he will revise his instructions to police forces on the procedure for checking prospective adopters of children from overseas for entry clearance in order to shorten the procedure.

  Mr. Peter Lloyd
  Guidance to police forces about checking those applying to work with or to care for children is contained in Home Office circular 102/88. We have no present plans to revise it.

  Police, Leicestershire
  Mr. Vaz
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the number of police officers in Leicestershire for each year since 1979, including 1991–92; and when he plans to make a decision on the number of police officers for 1992–93.

  Mr. Peter Lloyd
  The table sets out the establishment and strength details for the Leicestershire constabulary for each year since 1979.

  As at31 December

  Establishment

  Strength

  1979

  1,706

  1,701

  1980

  1,727

  1,720

  1981

  1,727

  1,728

  1982

  1,733

  1,725

  1983

  1,733

  1,736

  1984

  1,733

  1,703

  1985

  1,733

  1,750

  1986

  1,733

  1,716

  1987

  1,733

  1,762

  1988

  1,733

  1,747

  1989

  1,760

  1,748

  1990

  1,813

  1,784

  11991

  1,827

  —

  1 with effect from 1 October 1991

  The Leicestershire police authority has applied for an additional 27 police posts for 1991–93. Its application will be carefully considered, with advice from HM inspector of constabulary, together with applications from other police authorities. My right hon. Friend aims to announce his decision in late autumn.

  Overseas Students
  Mr. Cox
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions have taken place between the Department of Education and Science and his Department to ensure that overseas students at present studying at the South West London college, Tooting,
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  London are treated with understanding in cases of applications for visa extension to complete their studies due to transfer of their studies to other London colleges; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Peter Lloyd
  No discussions have taken place. All students who are able to satisfy the requirements of the immigration rules will be given an extension to complete their studies.

  Rape
  Ms. Richardson
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many rapes were reported in the last year for which figures are available; and how many resulted in(a) a charge, (b) a prosecution and (c) a conviction.

  Mr. John Patten
  The provisional number of offences of rape recorded by the police in 1990 is published in table 2 of "Home Office Statistical Bulletin 4/91". The number of persons found guilty of rape in 1989 is published in table S4. 1(a) of "Criminal statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary tables, 1989 Vol. 4". Corresponding information for 1990 is not yet available. A detailed analysis of offences of rape was published in "Home Office Statistical Bulletin 4/89, Statistics of offences of rape 1977–87". Information on reporting and recording of sexual offences is published in table A.2 of "The 1988 British Crime Survey" (Home Office research study 111) and on rape in table 2 of "Concerns about rape" (Home Office research study 106). Copies of all these publications are available in the Library.

  Policing Costs
  Mr. Leighton
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the cost in the last three financial years of policing major national sporting events and demonstrations in the metropolitan police area not covered by the national and imperial services grant or its successor.

  Mr. Peter Lloyd
  The additional 1 per cent. specific grant paid in recognition of the national duties performaned by the Metropolitan police is not hypothecated to specific functions, and therefore the infonnation requested is not available.

  Crime, Northumberland
  Mr. Henderson
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will call for a report from the chief constable of Northumbria as to how many house burglaries were reported to the Northumbrian police in 1990, or the latest year for which figures are available in(a) Northumbria and (b) Newcastle as a whole and, of these, how many led to (i) prosecution and (ii) conviction;

  (2) if he will call for a report from the chief constable of Northumbria as to how many car thefts were reported to the Northumbrian police in 1990, or the latest year for which figures are available in (a) Northumbria as a whole and (b) Newcastle and, of these, how many led to (i) prosecution and (ii) conviction;

  (3) if he will call for a report from the chief constable of Northumbria as to how many cars were reported to the Northumbrian police as damaged through break-ins in
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  1990, or the latest year for which figures are available, in (a) Northumbria as a whole and (b) Newcastle; and how many reports led to (i) prosecution and (ii) conviction.

  Mr. John Patten
  The available information for 1990 on notifiable offences recorded in the Northumbria police force area is in the Library. Information on cars damaged during break-ins is not available centrally. The available information on prosecutions and convictions in Northumbria is contained in the chief constable's annual report which is also available in the Library.

  Extradition (Irish Republic)
  Mr. Trimble
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the persons who have been extradited for political offences since 1980(a) from Great Britain to the Republic of Ireland and (b) from the Republic of Ireland to Great Britain, giving the year in which the extradition occurred and indicating the outcome in each case.

  Mr. John Patten
  None. The Backing of Warrants (Republic of Ireland) Act 1965 and the reciprocal Irish legislation preclude extradition for political offences.

  Animal Experimentation
  Mr. Martlew
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will ban the export of all animals for experimentation;

  (2) if he will list the countries to which the exportation of animals for experimentation is not allowed.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  No such bans exist, nor do the Government have any plans to introduce such restrictions.

  Mr. Martlew
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many dogs were exported from the United Kingdom for experimentation in each year since 1985.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  The Home Office does not collect such statistics.

  Ashwell Prison
  Mr. Latham
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will identify the reasons for the delay between the carrying out of the inspection of Ashwell prison in September 1990, and the delivery of the report to him until December 1990, and then published with his statement on June 6; and what action he intends to take to speed up this process in future.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  Arrangements for preparing reports on his inspections of prison establishments are a matter for Her Majesty's chief inspector of prisons. Arrangements for advising Ministers on the recommendations in each report are the responsibility of the prison service. The chief inspector presented his report on Her Majesty's prison Ashwell to my right hon. Friend on 21 December 1990. The inspectorate was notified of our response to the report on 3 May 1991 so that it could arrange for printing and distribution. In between those dates officials of the prison service were considering the main recommendations of the report and its wider implications.

  We have already issued instructions to ensure that when a report from the chief inspector is submitted it is dealt

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  with expeditiously by the prison service. My right hon. Friend also regularly reviews with the chief inspector the work of his office.

  Mr. Latham
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make a statement on his intentions regarding recommendation 5·4 of Her Majesty's chief inspector of prisons regarding Ashwell prison; and whether he will list the recommendations addressed to the governor which have already been implemented or will shortly be so.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  The complement of the physical education department at Ashwell prison has been reviewed and an additional post will be considered with other bids when trained staff become available.

  The inspector's recommendations 5·7, 5·8, 5·11 and 5·19 to the governor have been implemented. Recommendation 5·16 was not accepted since current meal times at Ashwell are considered to be reasonable and later times would not make the best use of staff. Recommendation 5·13 has been accepted by the governor: reallocation of medical, psychiatric and psychological resources is being considered at headquarters. The governor expects to complete his review of the remaining seven recommendations shortly.

  Immigration Service (Interpreters)
  Mr. Corbyn
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what policy and vetting is adopted in respect of the employment of interpreters by the immigration service; how many there are; what languages are covered; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Peter Lloyd
  The recruitment of interpreters for permanent pensionable employment with the Home Office is conducted by the Civil Service Commission which runs an open competition when a vacancy arises. Currently the immigration service has eight such employees, who in the main, speak languages of the Indian sub-continent. In addition, casual, fee-paid interpreting services are used by the immigration service as required. Applicants for fee-paid work are interviewed and assessed for suitability by a chief immigration officer or more senior officer. Other checks may be made if necessary. An interpreter employed for the first time is required to give a written undertaking that he will translate faithfully and to the best of his ability. Interpreters are instructed to give a direct translation of questions put and answers given.

  Passport Thefts
  Mr. Madden
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the theft of passports from Wells, Somerset in recent years; if any

  Banks and building societies Sterling lending to the M4 private sector Percentage growth

  (a)

  (b)

  (c)

  Over 12 months

  Over 6 months annualised (seasonally adjusted)

  Real terms

  Current prices

  Real terms

  1983 January

  —

  16·6

  9·7

  1983 February

  —

  16·8

  9·5

  1983 March

  —

  16·4

  9·9

  1983 April

  —

  15·1

  9·6

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  persons have been prosecuted in relation to this matter; whether the serial numbers of the stolen passports were notified to all United Kingdom ports and to appropriate international agencies; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Peter Lloyd
  In Great Britain Post Office Counters Ltd. issue British visitors passports (BVPs) on behalf of the United Kingdom Passport Agency. In March 1988 a quantity of BVPs was stolen from a modified sub post office in Wells. This theft formed part of a conspiracy to burgle for which seven persons appeared before Cardiff crown court on 16 April 1990; they admitted the offence and were sentenced between two and six years' imprisonment. The serial numbers of the stolen BVPs were notified by the then Passport Department to the immigration service and the police and to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for routine circulation abroad.

  Mr. Madden
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action has been taken to recover passports stolen from Wells, Somerset; whether any person has been detained within the United Kingdom or abroad travelling on a passport stolen from Wells; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Peter Lloyd
  Investigation of the British visitors passports stolen in Wells in 1988 was a matter for the Post Office investigation branch and the Somerset and Avon police. I understand that a number of persons detained in western European countries for various offences were found to be in possession of British visitors passports from the series reported stolen. In one of these cases investigations are continuing into possible immigration offences.

NATIONAL FINANCE

  Bank and Building Society Lending
  Mr. Lawson
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing, for each month from January 1977 to the present,(a) the annual rate of growth of bank and building society lending in real terms, using the retail prices index excluding mortgage interest payments as the deflator, (b) the annual rate of growth of bank and building society lending over the previous six months, seasonally adjusted and (c) the annual rate of growth of bank and building society lending, in real terms, over the previous six months, seasonally adjusted, using the retail prices index excluding mortage interest payments as the deflator.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  The available information is as follows (figures for earlier periods are not readily available):
  543

  (a)

  (b)

  (c)

  Over 12 months

  Over 6 months annualized (seasonally adjusted)

  Real terms

  Current prices

  Real terms

  1983 May

  15·5

  10·5

  1983 June

  13·2

  15·5

  10·6

  1983 July

  11·4

  16·0

  10·8

  1983 August

  10·5

  14·9

  9·4

  1983 September

  10·4

  16·9

  11·0

  1983 October

  10·3

  16·6

  11·1

  1983 November

  10·3

  15·8

  10·5

  1983 December

  10·4

  16·1

  10·7

  1984 January

  11·5

  17·3

  12·2

  1984 February

  11·4

  18·0

  12·9

  1984 March

  11·8

  17·4

  12·1

  1984 April

  12·0

  18·3

  12·8

  1984 May

  11·5

  18·1

  12·6

  1984 June

  11·6

  17·8

  12·3

  1984 July

  12·4

  17·5

  12·4

  1984 August

  12·9

  17·1

  12·3

  1984 September

  12·8

  17·8

  13·4

  1984 October

  13·0

  17·6

  12·8

  1984 November

  13·5

  18·4

  13·7

  1984 December

  13·4

  18·3

  13·8

  1985 January

  12·9

  18·9

  13·7

  1985 February

  12·4

  18·0

  12·9

  1985 March

  12·5

  19·0

  13·1

  1985 April

  12·2

  19·0

  13·0

  1985 May

  12·2

  18·7

  12·7

  1985 June

  12·3

  18·3

  12·3

  1985 July

  12·4

  17·1

  11·3

  1985 August

  12·3

  17·8

  11·9

  1985 September

  11·3

  16·1

  10·0

  1985 October

  11·7

  16·0

  10·3

  1985 November

  11·4

  15·5

  9·7

  1985 December

  11·4

  15·5

  9·9

  1986 January

  10·8

  15·1

  9·7

  1986 February

  11·8

  16·6

  11·2

  1986 March

  12·1

  17·3

  12·8

  1986 April

  12·8

  16·9

  13·2

  1986 May

  12·8

  17·7

  14·0

  1986 June

  13·4

  18·7

  14·8

  1986 July

  14·1

  19·9

  16·1

  1986 August

  14·6

  19·7

  15·8

  1986 September

  14·2

  18·4

  14·5

  1986 October

  15·0

  20·3

  16·4

  1986 November

  15·7

  21·1

  17·2

  1986 December

  16·2

  21·2

  17·2

  1987 January

  16·3

  20·5

  16·3

  1987 February

  15·5

  19·7

  15·4

  1987 March

  14·7

  19·9

  15·5

  1987 April

  15·4

  18·8

  14·6

  1987 May

  15·2

  17·9

  13·6

  1987 June

  15·2

  17·6

  13·6

  1987 July

  15·4

  18·6

  14·4

  1987 August

  14·7

  18·0

  13·8

  1987 September

  16·0

  19·8

  15·7

  1987 October

  14·8

  19·7

  15·2

  1987 November

  14·3

  20·3

  15·6

  1987 December

  14·5

  20·7

  16·0

  1988 January

  15·8

  21·5

  17·2

  1988 February

  15·8

  22·2

  18·0

  1988 March

  16·5

  22·2

  17·8

  1988 April

  17·0

  24·3

  19·3

  1988 May

  17·1

  24·5

  19·2

  1988 June

  17·4

  25·5

  19·9

  1988 July

  17·7

  26·2

  20·2

  1988 August

  18·2

  26·4

  20·4

  1988 September

  18·2

  26·3

  20·1

  1988 October

  18·6

  25·4

  19·3

  1988 November

  18·5

  25·1

  19·0

  1988 December

  18·5

  24·2

  18·2

  544 545

  (a)

  (b)

  (c)

  Over 12 months

  Over 6 months annualized (seasonally adjusted)

  Real terms

  Current prices

  Real terms

  1989 January

  18·0

  23·1

  16·7

  1989 February

  17·6

  22·7

  16·1

  1989 March

  17·6

  22·5

  15·8

  1989 April

  16·6

  21·8

  15·0

  1989 May

  16·3

  21·6

  14·7

  1989 June

  15·7

  21·2

  14·4

  1989 July

  14·9

  20·8

  14·2

  1989 August

  15·3

  21·6

  15·1

  1989 September

  15·4

  21·9

  15·2

  1989 October

  14·4

  21·1

  14·1

  1989 November

  14·0

  20·3

  13·4

  1989 December

  14·3

  21·4

  14·5

  1990 January

  13·5

  20·4

  13·5

  1990 February

  13·7

  19·8

  12·8

  1990 March

  13·3

  19·2

  12·2

  1990 April

  10·9

  18·3

  9·6

  1990 May

  10·3

  18·3

  9·4

  1990 June

  9·7

  16·3

  7·5

  1990 July

  8·7

  15·3

  6·5

  1990 August

  7·1

  14·0

  4·5

  1990 September

  5·7

  12·4

  2·7

  1990 October

  5·4

  12·8

  3·0

  1990 November

  5·7

  12·7

  3·2

  1990 December

  4·4

  11·5

  2·3

  1991 January

  4·2

  11·2

  2·5

  1991 February

  3·5

  10·9

  2·1

  1991 March

  2·4

  9·7

  1·2

  1991 April

  3·7

  8·7

  1·8

  Banks and building societies lending to the M4 private sector:

  (a) 12 month growth rate in real terms

  (b) 6 month growth rate (sa)

  (c) 6 month growth rate (sa) in real terms

  Small Businesses
  Mr. Wallace
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in the course of his consideration of the banks' lending policies to small businesses, he intends to meet the chairmen of the leading Scottish banks; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  I am holding meetings to discuss this issue with the chairmen of the four largest United Kingdom banks, and with the chairman of the British Bankers Association. The more detailed inquiries which my officials are conducting together with the Bank of England involve a wider range of banks, including the leading Scottish banks.

  Ferry Fares
  Mr. Barry Field
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy at any meeting of the Council of Ministers of Finance to resist any moves to require VAT to be imposed on ferry fares.

  Mrs. Gillian Shephard
  The Government have made it clear that the United Kingdom is opposed to any move which would restrict our ability to use existing zero rates.

  Civil Service Pensions
  Mr. Morgan
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what was the average weekly civil service pension paid in 1990;
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  (2) what is his most up-to-date estimate of the number of civil service pensioners;

  (3) what is his most up to date estimatee of the number of civil service pensioners in receipt of annual civil service pensions of (a) up to £1,000 per annum, (b) £1,001 to £2,000 per annum, (c) £2,001 to £3,000 per annum, (d) £3,001 to £4,000 per annum, (e) £4,001 to £5,000 per annum, (f) £5,001 to £6,000 per annum, (g) £6,001 to £7,000 per annum, (h) £7,001 to £10,000 per annum, (i) £10,001 to £15,000 per annum and (j) £15,001 and above.

  Mrs. Gillian Shephard
  The average weekly civil service pension paid in 1990 was £25·70. The number of civil service pensioners as at 31 May 1991 was 509,634 of whom 46,408 were in receipt of weekly paid pensions. It is estimated that the number of civil service pensions, within the indicated bands as at 31 March 1991, were as follows:

  Number

  (a) up to £1,000 per annum

  151,217

  (b) £1,001 to £2,000 per annum

  125,550

  (c) £2,001 to £3,000 per annum

  66,881

  (d) £3,001 to £4,000 per annum

  43,366

  (e) £4,001 to £5,000 per annum

  27,802

  (f) £5,001 to £6,000 per annum

  23,216

  (g) £6,001 to £7,000 per annum

  18,047

  (h) £7,001 to £10,000 per annum

  32,252

  (i) £10,001 to £15,000 per annum

  15,720

  (j) £15,001 per annum and above

  5,537

  Veterinary Services
  Sir John Farr
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the total of receipts of value added tax levied on accounts for veterinary services and medicines, in each of the last three available years.

  Mrs. Gillian Shephard
  I regret that the information is not available.

  Alcohol Duties
  Sir George Gardiner
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will set out the detailed provisional outturns in 1990–91 by both volume and excise revenue for(a) still wines not exceeding 15 per cent. alcohol, (b) still wines exceeding 15 per cent. alcohol, (c) sparkling wines, (d) beer, (e) cider and perry, (f) made-wines and (g) spirits; and if he will give his similarly detailed latest forecasts for 1991–92.

  Mrs. Gillian Shephard
  The following provisional information is available. Forecasts of volumes are not available for 1991–92.

  Taxes and benefits as percentages of income by quintile groups of households 11977–88

  1977

  1979

  1981

  1983

  1985

  1987

  1988

  (a) Retired households

  Cash benefits as percentages of gross income:

  Bottom quintile group

  90

  93

  91

  90

  85

  88

  87

  2nd quintile group

  90

  91

  88

  88

  86

  86

  85

  3rd quintile group

  86

  87

  83

  82

  81

  78

  81

  4th quintile group

  74

  74

  72

  69

  66

  60

  57

  Top quintile group

  34

  37

  34

  31

  28

  22

  24

  Average over all households

  65

  67

  64

  61

  58

  52

  53

  Income tax, NIC and domestic rates as percentages of gross income:

  Bottom quintile group

  13

  11

  11

  12

  16

  15

  18

  2nd quintile group

  8

  8

  9

  9

  10

  12

  12

  3rd quintile group

  9

  8

  10

  9

  11

  12

  13

  4th quintile group

  11

  10

  11

  11

  13

  14

  14

  Top quintile group

  22

  20

  20

  22

  22

  23

  21

  Average over all households

  15

  13

  14

  15

  16

  17

  17

  Indirect taxes as percentages of disposable income:

  Bottom quintile group

  19

  19

  21

  26

  28

  27

  27

  2nd quintile group

  16

  16

  19

  21

  19

  20

  21

  3rd quintile group

  15

  16

  17

  20

  17

  18

  18

  4th quintile group

  15

  17

  18

  20

  20

  21

  21

  Top quintile group

  17

  16

  19

  18

  17

  19

  18

  Average over all households

  16

  17

  19

  20

  19

  20

  20

  Benefits in kind as percentages of final income:

  Bottom quintile group

  36

  34

  36

  36

  37

  39

  44

  2nd quintile group

  32

  33

  34

  32

  31

  33

  34

  3rd quintile group

  30

  33

  32

  29

  28

  29

  32

  4th quintile group

  28

  28

  28

  26

  25

  25

  25

  Top quintile group

  15

  16

  16

  15

  13

  12

  13

  Average over all households

  26

  27

  27

  25

  24

  24

  25

  (b) Non-retired households

  Cash benefits as percentages of gross income:

  Bottom quintile group

  26

  29

  35

  47

  53

  53

  49

  2nd quintile group

  11

  12

  14

  17

  17

  18

  15

  3rd quintile group

  7

  8

  8

  10

  9

  8

  7

  4th quintile group

  4

  5

  5

  6

  5

  4

  3

  Top quintile group

  2

  2

  2

  2

  2

  2

  2

  Average over all households

  7

  8

  9

  11

  11

  10

  8

  548

  1990–91 outturns

  1991–92 forecast1

  Clearances (thousand hectolitres)

  Revenue (£ billion)

  Revenue(£ billion)

  (a) Still wine below 15 per cent.2

  5,920

  0·6

  0·9

  (b) Still wine above 15 per cent.2

  380

  0·1

  (c) Sparkling wine

  360

  0·1

  (f) Made wine

  680

  0·1

  (d) Beer

  62,540

  2·2

  2·3

  (e) Cider and perry

  3 3,690

  0·1

  0·1

  (g) Spirits

  4990

  1·7

  1·9

  1 Chancellor's 1991–92 Budget Statement forecasts.

  2 Wine of fresh grape.

  3 Estimated.

  4 Pure spirit alcohol.

  Taxes and Benefits
  Mr. Allen
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish tables on the same basis as at table P, page 119 of Economic Trends March 1991, No. 449, showing figures separately for (a) retired and (b) non-retired households.

  Mr. Maples
  [holding answer 11 June 1991]: The information is as follows:
  549

  1977

  1979

  1981

  1983

  1985

  1987

  1988

  Income tax, NIC and domestic rates as percentages of gross income:

  Bottom quintile group

  22

  17

  17

  16

  14

  14

  17

  2nd quintile group

  23

  20

  20

  21

  20

  19

  19

  3rd quintile group

  24

  21

  23

  23

  22

  21

  21

  4th quintile group

  24

  22

  24

  25

  24

  23

  22

  Top quintile group

  24

  23

  24

  25

  25

  24

  22

  Average over all households

  24

  21

  23

  23

  22

  22

  21

  Indirect taxes as percentages of disposable income:

  Bottom quintile group

  26

  24

  28

  28

  27

  28

  31

  2nd quintile group

  22

  23

  24

  25

  25

  25

  25

  3rd quintile group

  21

  22

  23

  24

  23

  22

  23

  4th quintile group

  20

  21

  22

  23

  22

  20

  21

  Top quintile group

  17

  19

  19

  19

  18

  16

  15

  Average over all households

  20

  21

  22

  23

  22

  20

  21

  Benefits in kind as percentages of final income:

  Bottom quintile group

  40

  38

  42

  42

  39

  43

  43

  2nd quintile group

  27

  25

  27

  27

  25

  25

  26

  3rd quintile group

  21

  19

  20

  21

  18

  18

  18

  4th quintile group

  15

  13

  15

  14

  12

  12

  11

  Top quintile group

  8

  8

  7

  9

  7

  5

  5

  Average over all households

  19

  18

  19

  19

  17

  16

  16

  1 Ranked by equivalised disposable income for retired and non-retired households respectively.

  Source: CSO, from Family Expenditure Surveys.

  Financial Statistics
  Mr. Lawson
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing, for each month from January 1977 inclusive,(a) the average three-month inter-bank rate, (b) the average three-month inter-bank rate in real terms, using the retail prices index excluding

  3 month inter-bank rate (average over month)

  Bank and building societies lending to M4 private sector (Percentage annual growth)

  Current prices

  Real terms

  1978 January

  6·26

  -3·87

  —

  February

  6·87

  -3·04

  —

  March

  6·82

  -2.80

  —

  April

  7·62

  -1·09

  —

  May

  9·30

  0·93

  —

  June

  10·04

  1·91

  —

  July

  10·18

  2·05

  —

  August

  9·45

  1·21

  —

  September

  9·37

  1·38

  —

  October

  10·57

  2·73

  —

  November

  12·07

  3·95

  —

  December

  12·35

  4·07

  —

  1979 January

  12·70

  3·85

  —

  February

  13·32

  4·09

  —

  March

  12·06

  2·99

  —

  April

  11·69

  2·40

  —

  May

  11·82

  2·38

  —

  June

  13·12

  2·72

  —

  July

  13·98

  -0·68

  —

  August

  14·12

  -0·82

  —

  September

  14·17

  -1·22

  —

  September

  14·17

  -1·22

  —

  October

  14·12

  -1·94

  —

  November

  16·24

  -0·45

  —

  December

  16·81

  0·16

  —

  1980 January

  17·16

  -0·19

  —

  February

  17·77

  0·00

  —

  March

  18·11

  -0·39

  —

  April

  17·64

  -2·47

  —

  May

  17·05

  -3·13

  —

  June

  16·77

  -2·80

  —

  July

  15·88

  -0·02

  —

  550
  mortgage interest payments as the deflator and (c) the percentage growth in bank and building society lending over the same month in the previous year.

  Mr. Norman Lamont
  [holding answer 10 June 1991]: The available information is as follows (figures for earlier periods are not readily available):
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  3 month inter-bank rate (average over month)

  Bank and building societies lending to M4 private sector (Percentage annual growth)

  Current prices

  Real terms

  August

  16·53

  1·24

  —

  September

  16·00

  0·90

  —

  October

  15·98

  1·46

  —

  November

  15·84

  1·44

  —

  December

  14·73

  0·55

  —

  1981 January

  14·28

  1·23

  —

  February

  13·04

  0·41

  —

  March

  12·65

  -0·06

  —

  April

  12·33

  -0·10

  —

  May

  12·40

  0·06

  —

  June

  12·66

  0·80

  —

  July

  13·79

  2·16

  —

  August

  14·18

  1·86

  —

  September

  14·78

  2·60

  —

  October

  16·33

  3·65

  —

  November

  15·06

  2·60

  —

  December

  15·44

  3·13

  —

  1982 January

  15·13

  3·07

  —

  February

  14·48

  3·49

  —

  March

  13·57

  3·34

  —

  April

  13·77

  4·31

  —

  May

  13·35

  3·87

  —

  June

  13·00

  3·85

  —

  July

  12·37

  3·67

  —

  August

  11·11

  3·32

  —

  September

  10·89

  3·40

  —

  October

  9·79

  2·68

  —

  November

  9·39

  2·48

  —

  December

  10·62

  3·77

  —

  1983 January

  11·21

  4·60

  —

  February

  11·34

  4·35

  —

  March

  10·98

  4·81

  —

  April

  10·26

  5·00

  —

  May

  10·26

  5·53

  —

  June

  9·94

  5·23

  18·9

  July

  9·89

  4·95

  17·2

  August

  9·87

  4·56

  16·7

  September

  9·69

  4·16

  16·9

  October

  9·38

  4·25

  16·3

  November

  9·30

  4·32

  16·2

  December

  9·42

  4·34

  16·5

  1984 January

  9·45

  4·72

  17·2

  February

  9·38

  4·68

  17·2

  March

  8·95

  4·04

  17·3

  April

  8·88

  3·81

  17·7

  May

  9·40

  4·31

  17·1

  June

  9·45

  4·37

  17·3

  July

  11·51

  6·71

  17·7

  August

  11·07

  6·54

  17·9

  September

  10·83

  6·68

  17·4

  October

  10·67

  6·17

  18·0

  November

  9·93

  5·59

  18·4

  December

  9·82

  5·63

  17·9

  1985 January

  11·68

  6·82

  18·0

  February

  13·76

  8·83

  17·5

  March

  13·63

  8·01

  18·3

  April

  12·76

  7·06

  18·2

  May

  12·66

  6·98

  18·2

  June

  12·44

  6·78

  18·1

  July

  12·04

  6·50

  18·1

  August

  11·50

  5·89

  18·1

  September

  11·55

  5·73

  17·4

  October

  11·55

  6·08

  17·4

  November

  11·57

  6·00

  17·2

  December

  11·76

  6·31

  17·0

  1986 January

  12·83

  7·57

  16·2

  February

  12·65

  7·42

  17·3

  March

  11·72

  7·45

  16·4

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  3 month inter-bank rate (average over month)

  Bank and building societies lending to M4 private sector

  Current prices

  Real terms

  (Percentage annual growth)

  April

  10·48

  6·99

  16·3

  May

  10·22

  6·75

  16·3

  June

  9·78

  6·21

  17·1

  July

  9·96

  6·50

  17·6

  August

  9·84

  6·27

  18·3

  September

  10·12

  6·45

  17·9

  October

  11·04

  7·46

  18·6

  November

  11·17

  7·59

  19·4

  December

  11·36

  7·67

  20·1

  1987 January

  11·05

  7·16

  20·4

  February

  10·86

  6·88

  19·7

  March

  9·97

  5·93

  19·2

  April

  9·80

  5·91

  19·6

  May

  8·82

  4·87

  19·5

  June

  8·90

  5·17

  19·3

  July

  9·21

  5·35

  19·6

  August

  10·04

  6·17

  18·8

  September

  10·16

  6·41

  20·1

  October

  9·98

  5·81

  19·3

  November

  8·95

  4·73

  18·9

  December

  8·77

  4·57

  19·0

  1988 January

  8·97

  5·08

  20·1

  February

  9·27

  5·48

  20·0

  March

  8·89

  4·92

  21·1

  April

  8·30

  3·91

  22·1

  May

  8·03

  3·46

  22·5

  June

  8·93

  4·04

  23·1

  July

  10·55

  5·27

  23·8

  August

  11·39

  6·10

  24·3

  September

  12·15

  6·64

  24·5

  October

  12·04

  6·56

  24·9

  November

  12·31

  6·83

  24·8

  December

  13·13

  7·62

  24·8

  1989 January

  13·14

  7·25

  24·6

  February

  13·02

  6·95

  24·3

  March

  13·05

  6·91

  24·3

  April

  13·13

  6·78

  23·4

  May

  13·14

  6·72

  23·2

  June

  14·15

  7·80

  22·4

  July

  13·92

  7·68

  21·5

  August

  13·85

  7·73

  21·8

  September

  14·02

  7·73

  22·0

  October

  15·02

  8·42

  21·3

  November

  15·11

  8·53

  20·8

  December

  15·12

  8·55

  21·2

  1990 January

  15·16

  8·52

  20·4

  February

  15·11

  8·40

  20·7

  March

  15·29

  8·51

  20·4

  April

  15·21

  6·74

  19·6

  May

  15·15

  6·48

  19·2

  June

  14·97

  6·24

  18·9

  July

  14·95

  6·13

  17·8

  August

  15·00

  5·42

  16·8

  September

  14·91

  4·97

  15·8

  October

  14·03

  4·15

  15·5

  November

  13·64

  4·07

  15·5

  December

  13·80

  4·40

  13·9

  1991 January

  13·97

  5·01

  13·2

  February

  13·25

  4·32

  12·4

  March

  12·40

  3·66

  11·1

  April

  11·95

  4·85

  10·7

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PRIME MINISTER

  Mr. Roger Windsor
  Mr. Galloway
  To ask the Prime Minister whether Mr. Roger Windsor, formerly chief executive of the National Union of Mineworkers, has ever been employed by Her Majesty's Government.

  The Prime Minister
  No.

  Engagements
  Mr. Harry Greenway
  To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for 12 June.

  The Prime Minister
  This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House I shall have further meetings later today.

CHURCH COMMISSIONERS

  Redundant Churches Fund
  Mr. Frank Field
  To ask the right honourable Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, what are the financial implications for the redundant churches fund in respect of the Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure of the change after the circulation of the draft measure of the word "obtain" to "seek" in respect of the views of the Diocesan Advisory Committee in clause 15(i) of the Measure.

  Mr. Michael Alison (Second Church Estates Commissioner, representing the Church Commissioners)
  There are no implications for the redundant churches fund.

CIVIL SERVICE

  Video Recordings
  Mr. Redmond
  To ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will list the titles of the video recordings purchased by his office during the financial years 1990–91 and 1991–92 to date.

  Mr. Renton
  This information is not held centrally.

HEALTH

  Health Authorities (Management Costs)
  Mr. Redmond
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what were the management costs of health authorities in the 1980–81 accounts and in each subsequent year to 31 March, detailing by authority in each region.

  Mr. Dorrell
  No comprehensive information specifically on the management costs of health authorities is held centrally. However, a table showing the expenditure on headquarters administration as reported in the annual accounts of each regional and district health authority in England for the years since the establishment of district health authorities on 1 April 1982, has been placed in the Library. Figures for each special health authority for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals, which cannot be attributed to particular regions, are also included for completeness.
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  Regions are managed in an integrated way and it would be misleading to interpret regional health authority (RHA) data in isolation from the districts they manage. In particular, the division of functions between the RHA and districts and between districts varies from region to region. Consequently the region totals provide a more valid picture.

  Maternity Units
  Ms. Richardson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the average length of stay in a maternity hospital in each district health authority.

  Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
  The estimated average length of stay of a maternity delivery patient in England in the year 1989–90 was five days. Information on post-natal average length of stay at district health authority level is available in the health service indicator package, a copy of which is available in the Library.

  TUC Health Services Committee
  Mr. Wells
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health when in the last 12 months he has met the Trade Union Congress health services committee; and which trades unions were represented at those meetings.

  Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
  I met the health services committee of the TUC on 5 March and my right hon. and learned Friend the then Secretary of State met the committee on 19 July 1990. The following trades unions were represented:

  Confederation of Health Service Employees

  GMB

  Health Visitors Association

  Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association

  MSF

  National and Local Government Officers Association

  National Union of Public Employees

  Prison Officers Association

  Society of Radiographers

  Transport and General Workers Union.

  Cot Deaths
  Mr. Paice
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to publish the report of the independent expert group set up in March 1990 to investigate whether the emission of toxic gases from fungal growth on cot mattresses could be a cause of cot deaths; and if he will make a statement.

  Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
  The report is published today by HMSO and copies have been placed in the Library. The independent expert working group concluded that the hypothesis that toxic gases evolved from chemicals in cot mattresses are a cause of sudden infant death syndrome is not supported by experimental evidence.

  The group recommended that, despite the absence or evidence to implicate toxic materials used as fillers or fire retardants in cot furnishings, as a matter of prudence, the need for such additives should be reconsidered. If antimony trioxide is used as the fire retardant, only material with the lowest possible levels of arsenic contaminant should be used.

  The Department of Trade and Industry will keep under review the use of potentially toxic materials in cot furnishings.

  As an incidental finding to the work to investigate the hypothesis the expert working group noted that cot

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  mattresses used by healthy babies and those used by babies who had died from sudden infant death syndrome were contaminated by a number of micro-organisms including some which were potentially pathogenic. There were differences in both the types and the level of contamination. They were unable to draw conclusions from these incidental findings. They recommended that specific investigation of the significance of the findings of microbial contamination take place.

  The chief medical officer has asked a group of experts to advise him on research to determine the significance of the microbiological contamination.

  I am most grateful to the independent expert group and its chairman, Professor Paul Turner, for producing such a comprehensive and carefully considered report. They were supported in this by some very detailed analytical research from both the International Mycological Institute at Kew and the Laboratory of the Government Chemist.

  NHS Expenditure
  Mr. Madel
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health by how much expenditure on the national health service has increased in south Bedfordshire in real and cash terms since May 1979; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Dorrell
  The South Bedfordshire health authority was established on 1 April 1982. The annual accounts of the authority record total revenue expenditure of £30·80 million (cash) for 1982–83 and £57·03 million (cash) for 1989–90 (the latest year available). Those figures represent increases of 85·2 per cent. in cash terms and 28·3 per cent. in real terms (measured at 1989–90 prices).

  Prior to 1 April 1982 the authority's predecessor health district formed part of the larger Bedfordshire area health authority. For Bedfordshire as a whole the annual accounts of the relevant health authorities record total revenue expenditure of £32·30 million (cash) for 1978–79 and £104·64 million (cash) for 1989–90. Those figures represent increases of 224 per cent. in cash terms and 38·5 per cent. in real terms (measured at 1989–90 prices).

  National Association of Young People in Care
  Mr. Rooker
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many meetings Ministers have held or had arranged with representatives of the National Association of Young People in Care in the past two years; and what was the subject of such meetings;

  (2) if he will make a statement on the support his Department has been making available to the National Association of Young People in Care over the last five years;

  (3) when he expects to make a decision on the current application for core funding grant aid in respect of the National Association of Young Children in Care.

  Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
  I will be meeting representatives of the National Association of Young Children in Care (NAYPIC) later this week, when current issues in residential care and the future funding of the association will be amongst the topics to be discussed. No other ministerial meetings have been held with NAYPIC during the past two years although the association has been in regular contact with officials.

  A grant of £82,000 was awarded to NAYPIC for the period 1 January 1987–31 March 1988, and one of £64,000 per annum for the two years 1988–89 and 1989–90. Because
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  of difficulties within the association, payment of grant was suspended at the end of December 1988. While the grant was reinstated in August 1989 no further payments were made because of renewed problems within the association.

  A final decision about NAYPIC's current application for funding will be made shortly.

  Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
  Mr. Dalyell
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research is funded by his Department into polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their carcinogenic consequences.

  Mr. Dorrell
  Funding of research on biomedical aspects of the effects of environmental pollution on health lies within the remit of the Medical Research Council and the Department keeps the results of research in this area under review.

  The small area health statistics unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which is jointly funded by this and other Government Departments, has been asked to investigate cancer and mortality rates around industrial installations such as cooking works and incinerators both of which are known to emit polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

  The Department is also funding work at the Laboratory of the Government Chemist which includes an investigation of the PAHs present in cigarette smoke.

  Junior Hospital Doctors
  Mrs. Peacock
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to reduce the hours worked by junior hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Waldegrave
  We are issuing today further guidance to health authorities, health boards and NHS trusts on reducing the hours of duty of hospital doctors and dentists in training. A copy has been placed in the Library. At the heart of the guidance is an agreement between the health departments and the medical profession setting, for the first time, explicit controls on the contractual hours of duty of doctors in training, including controls on the maximum periods of continuous duty and minimum periods of off duty time, for each of the working arrangements (full shifts, partial shifts and on-call rotas). The agreement also sets a clear timetable for change.

  The agreement is accompanied by guidance to assist authorities, boards and trusts, with the help of task forces, and, in Scotland, local implementation groups, to achieve reductions in hours while maintaining clinical standards and educational opportunities. This includes guidance on changing patterns of work for hospital doctors in training, including illustrations of shift patterns which meet the hours criteria; guidance on making the best use of nursing and midwifery staff and technical, clerical, administrative and other staff to help to reduce the hours of work of doctors in training while delivering improved patient care; good practice guidance on living and working conditions for doctors in training; guidance from the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee on the role of consultants in providing emergency cover throughout the 24-hour period and on the need to move to a more team-based method of working; and guidance from the conference of medical royal colleges and individual colleges and faculties on the educational and training implications of reducing hours.
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  In addition the Government have made funds available for additional medical staff to help authorities, boards and trusts to reduce hours.

  The ministerial group on junior doctors' hours, its supporting technical group and parallel groups in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will continue to monitor progress in reducing hours and I look forward to seeing real advances made on this front.

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS

  Jammu and Kashmir
  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will now refer the situation in Jammu and Kashmir to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  We expressed concern about the situation in Kashmir at the United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva on 27 February, in a joint European Community statement.

  Minority Group Rights
  Mrs. Clwyd
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what international treaties and conventions exist providing for the protection of the rights of minority groups, as opposed to the rights of individuals.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  There are no multilateral United Nations or Council of Europe treaties and conventions which protect minority groups as such. Individuals belonging to minorities are given particular mention in article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

  Vietnamese Refugees
  Mrs. Clwyd
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the progress of voluntary repatriation of Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong; what resources have been provided by Her Majesty's Government for the care and screening of asylum-seekers; and what discussions he has had with the Governments of Thailand and Malaysia concerning treatment of Vietnamese boat people.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  As of 6 June 1991, 7,088 Vietnamese migrants had volunteered to return to Vietnam from Hong Kong. Just under 500 volunteers were awaiting repatriation, less than 1 per cent. of the total camp population. Since 1989, Her Majesty's Government have spent £34·891 million either directly or via UNHCR on the care and screening of Vietnamese asylum seekers.

  On discussion with the Malaysian and Thai Governments, I refer the hon. Member to the recent joint declaration of the EC/ASEAN ministerial meeting held in Luxembourg on 30–31 May 1991, copies of which have been placed in the Library of the House.

  Mrs. Clwyd
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong have been resettled in(a) the United Kingdom, (b) Hong Kong, outside the detention centres, (c) other EC countries, (d) other Commonwealth countries and (e) the United States of America.
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  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  In the period 1979–1990 a total of 13,703 refugees were resettled in the United Kingdom; 126 in Hong Kong; 6,988 in other EC countries; 32,240 in other Commonwealth countries and 63,650 in the United States of America.

  Eastern Europe
  Mr. Tony Lloyd
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of the United Kingdom financial assistance under the PHARE—Poland Hungary Aid for Reconstruction of the Economy—programme is being made directly to eastern European countries so that they can select and buy in their own preferred specialists and advisers to help them on social issues, including development of trade union organisations.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  Commitment of all the PHARE programme funds for central and eastern European countries is determined by the European Commission a nd the Management Committee of Member States; no funds are made available to central and east European Governments to use at their discretion. The development of trade union organisations is not one of the PHARE programme's priorities.

  Kurdish People
  Mr. Corbyn
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions have been held with the Government of Turkey concerning the treatment of Kurdish people in Turkey.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  British Ministers and officials regularly raise human rights issues with the Turkish Government. As to Kurdish people in Turkey, we look to the Turkish Government, as to other Governments where substantial groups of Kurdish origin live, to respect the international treaties to which they are a party.

  Mr. Corbyn
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions have been held with the Kurdish Front of Iraq about the negotiations it is holding with the Government of Iraq.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  We remain in close contact with the Kurdish leadership and have the opportunity to discuss with them a range of subjects, including progress in their discussions with the central authorities in Baghdad, on a regular basis.

  Baltic States
  Mrs. Margaret Ewing
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on how many occasions in each of the last five years Her Majesty's consul in Moscow has visited(a) Estonia, (b) Latvia and (c) Lithuania.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  Her Majesty's consul in Moscow has made no official visits to these republics in recent years. He has, however, made private visits.

  Working visits have been made to all three of the Baltic states by other embassy officers, all of whom have been prepared to handle consular matters.

  Mrs. Margaret Ewing
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what initiatives are
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  currently being taken or considered which would make available the expertise and skills of industry in the United Kingdom to the Governments of the Baltic republics in order to assist them in diversifying their own economies; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  British expertise and skills are being made available to the Baltic states through the know-how fund for the Soviet Union, which began disbursing in April. One of the projects already approved under the know-how fund is in the Baltic states and other projects there are under consideration.

  Mecca Tunnel Disaster
  Mr. Rooker
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if, pursuant to his answer of 12 March,Official Report, column 437, he will make a statement about progress made by the Saudi Arabian Government in tracing British citizens missing since the tunnel disaster at Mecca on 2 July 1990.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  The British embassy in Riyadh continues to press the Saudi Arabian authorities vigorously for news of progress towards the identification of the three missing British nationals from among the unidentified victims of the tunnel disaster of 2 July 1990.

  I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as the embassy has received a response.

  Cayman Islands
  Mr Anthony Coombs
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when the review of the constitution of the Cayman Islands will be published.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  The Commissioners' report has been published as a Command Paper. Copies are available in the Library of the House. The report will be released for public debate in the Cayman Islands by the governor.

  South Africa
  Mr. Hannam
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations he has received from the ANC on sporting links with South Africa; and what response he has made.

  Mr. Hurd
  The ANC has recently sought the British Government's support for the readmission of South Africa to the International Cricket Council. In reply we have welcomed the formation this month of one non-racial United Cricket Board of South Africa. I have explained to the ANC that the Government do not control sport in this country, but that I was sure that the ICC would wish to take account of this development. Under the United Cricket Board, cricket in South Africa will comply with the terms of the Gleneagles agreement and should resume its place in international sport. I hope that very soon South Africa will be re-admitted to international cricket. As other sports become non racial, the same will apply to them.

  Food Aid (Soviet Union)
  Mrs. Clwyd
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what types of food the 250 million ecu of EC food aid to the Soviet Union will consist of; how many tonnes it represents; what is its value in 562
  pounds sterling; from which EC budget it will be paid; and to which budget of Her Majesty's Government it will be attributed.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  [holding answer 10 June 1991]: The 250 million ecu EC food aid for the Soviet Union is expected to comprise two tranches:

  i) 50,000 tonnes whole milk powder

  10,000 tonnes baby food

  15,000 tonnes canned beef

  5,000 tonnes canned pork

  ii) tomato paste (worth 5 mecu)

  beef (worth 10 mecu)

  pasta (worth 8 mecu)

  whole milk powder (worth 12 mecu)

  The second tranche is likely to be worth 35 million ecu but the tonnage this represents remains to be established. At a conversion rate of 1 ecu = £0·7, the total food aid package will total some £175 million and will be funded from the 1990 European agriculture guarantee and guidance fund guarantee section surplus under the 1991 budget. The United Kingdom contribution is not attributed to any Government Department.

  Sierra Leone
  Mrs. Clwyd
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what requests Her Majesty's Government have received from Sierra Leone for assistance in dealing with invading forces and refugees in the east of the country; and if he will make a statement.

  Mrs. Chalker
  Following discussions with the Government of Sierra Leone we are supplying a quantity of non-lethal defence equipment to the Sierra Leone army.

  There has been no recent request from the Sierra Leone Government for help in dealing with refugees or displaced persons. We have, however, already made a significant contribution to refugee relief operations in the region, arising from the conflict in Liberia. A further £1 million has recently been allocated to United Nations agencies for this purpose.

  Somalia
  Mr. Corbyn
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions have been held with the Government of Somalia concerning the plight of refugees; and if he will make a statement.

  Mrs. Chalker
  Since the fall of the Barre regime in January 1991, there has been no nationally accepted government in Somalia. We are in constant contact with British aid agencies and the United Nations. We have provided food aid and £1·25 million relief to help Somalia refugees in Ethiopia and Kenya.

ENERGY

  Electricity Privatisation
  Mr. Morgan
  To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will meet the chairman of the International Stock Exchange to discuss delayed payments of fees and commissions to stockholders employed in the privatisation of the electricity supply industry.

  Mr. Heathcoat-Amory
  We have no present plans to do so.
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  Mr. Beith
  To ask the Secretary of State for Energy (1) what costs were incurred by his Department in connection with the sale of the electricity distribution companies; and how much value added tax was incurred on those costs;

  (2) what costs the electricity distribution companies incurred as principal in connection with their privatisation; on what costs incurred in this connection the electricity distribution companies recovered VAT; and how much VAT was recovered.

  Mr. Heathcoat-Amory
  Electricity privatisation costs incurred by my Department in 1987–88 were £0·8 million, in 1988–89 £5·5 million, in 1989–90 £12·4 million, and in 1990–91 are estimated at £256·5 million. As many of the costs were jointly incurred on the privatisation of the distribution and generating companies, allocation of the costs to the two categories would not be meaningful. VAT paid so far is estimated at £14·6 million.

  The costs incurred by the electricity distribution companies in connection with their privatisation are a commercial matter for the companies concerned.

  Non-fossil Fuel Obligation
  Mr. Simon Coombs
  To ask the Secretary of State for Energy when he expects to announce details of the second tranche of the non-fossil fuel obligation.

  Mr. Heathcoat-Amory
  We propose to make the second Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation Order for renewable sources of electricity generating capacity in the autumn of this year. Proposals for the 1991 renewables order are set out in "Renewable Energy Bulletin No. 4", a copy of which is in the Library of the House.

  Kuwait Oil Fires
  Mr. Dalyell
  To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what follow-up there has been to his visit to the Kuwait oil fires.

  Mr. Wakeham
  I have nothing to add to the answers given to the hon. Member on 3 June 1991 at columns 10–11.

SOCIAL SECURITY

  Benefits
  Mr. William Powell
  To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish for each local authority in Northamptonshire the number of people presently receiving housing benefit and income support together with housing benefits; and what are the costs involved.

  Miss Widdecombe
  Initial estimates of housing benefit expenditure for 1991–92 from the Northamptonshire local authorities are in the table. The estimates do not distinguish between income support and non-income support cases.

  Northamptonshire local authorities: Initial estimates of housing benefit expenditure—1991–92

  £ million

  Corby

  4·3

  Daventry

  2·7

  East Northampton

  2·8

  Kettering

  4·6

  Northampton

  14·2

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  £ million

  South Northants

  2·5

  Wellingborough

  4·4

  A count of the number of people receiving housing benefit on 31 May 1991 is to be taken by local authorities shortly. The results will be available by the late summer.

  Strategic Planning Guide
  Mr. Meacher
  To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security on what date the strategic planning guide will be delivered to staff who are drawing up strategic plans for their area; and if he will send a copy to the hon. Member for Oldham, West.

  Miss Widdecombe
  The information requested is a matter for Mr. Michael Bichard, the chief executive of the Benefits Agency. He will write to the hon. Member with such information as is available and copies will be placed in the Library and the Public Information Office.

  Attendance Allowance
  Mr. Alfred Morris
  To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) for each year since 1986 what is the average time taken for processing an application for(a) attendance allowance and (b) the higher rate of attendance allowance;

  (2) whether the independent living fund is unable to process an application for assistance without the applicant first receiving confirmation of eligibility for the higher rate of attendance allowance; in how many cases the delay in processing the higher rate of attendance allowance claims has led to the blocking of hospital beds in spinal units; what steps he will take to ensure that attendance allowance claims are speeded up; and if he will consider introducing an additional question on the attendance allowance claim form to identify those people who have applied to the independent living fund.

  Mr. Scott
  The administration of attendance allowance is a matter for Mr. Michael Bichard, the chief executive of the Benefits Agency. He will write to the hon. Member with such information as is available and copies will be placed in the Library and the Public Information Office.

  Social Fund
  Mr. Corbyn
  To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what monitoring is undertaken by his Department of the expenditure of the social fund in local offices.

  Mr. Scott
  The administration of the social fund is a matter for Mr. Michael Bichard, the chief executive of the Benefits Agency. He will write to the hon. Member and copies will be placed in the Library and the Public Information Office.

  Injury Compensation Claims
  Mr. McLeish
  To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will establish an inquiry into the handling of the claim for injury compensation and related claims from Mr. Cameron, 87 Davis drive, Glenrothes, Fife; for how long the claims have been outstanding; and if he will make a statement.
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  Mr. Scott
  The administration of industrial injuries disablement benefit is a matter for Mr. Michael Bichard, the chief executive of the Benefits Agency. He will write to the hon. Member and copies will be placed in the Library and the Public Information Office.

TRANSPORT

  Unleaded Petrol
  Mr. Barry Field
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what studies he has undertaken as to the effect on the price of a gallon or litre of unleaded petrol of the abolition of vehicle excise duty and its transfer to petroleum spirit; and if he will set out the likely retail price based on average pump prices for the last quarter.

  Mr. Chope
  On the basis of that proposition the estimated increase in unleaded petrol would be 33·2 p a gallon (7·3 p a litre). The pump price (average last quarter) might be about 222 p a gallon (48·7 p a litre). The figures for the last quarter do not include the recent budget duty changes.

  InterCity Services
  Mr. Pawsey
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what level of punctuality was achieved by InterCity in 1981, 1986 and 1991.

  Mr. Freeman
  British Rail's five business sectors were not introduced until 1982 so InterCity punctuality figures for 1981 are not available. The level of punctuality achieved by InterCity in both 1986–87 and 1990–91 is as follows:Trains running on time or within 10 minutes: 85 per cent.

  Rail Fares (VAT)
  Mr. Snape
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is his estimate of the annual effect on British Rail revenue and traffic volume of the imposition on rail fares of VAT at the rate of 4 per cent. and at the rate of 9 per cent.

  Mr. Freeman
  We estimate that the loss of gross revenue to British Rail would be in the approximate ranges of £50 to £90 million per annum for an imposition of 4 per cent. and £100 million to £200 million for 9 per cent. Reductions in passenger traffic of up to about 3 per cent. and 7 per cent. respectively would be likely. It is not possible to be precise, since the impact depends upon passenger response and the extent to which in the case of the grant-aided railway, higher VAT might be matched by increased grant.

  Bus Services, Greater London
  Mr. Spearing
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library copies of each of the responses he has received to his proposals for de-regulation and privatisation of bus services in Greater London.

  Mr. Freeman
  We have received over 200 responses to the consultation paper "A Bus Strategy for London", many of which are lengthy and detailed documents. I do not see a case for bearing the cost of placing in the Library 566
  copies of all these documents. I shall, however, arrange for a list of respondents to be placed in the Library. An announcement on the Government's conclusions, following the consultation exercise will be made in due course.

  Trailers
  Mrs. Dunwoody
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, (1) pursuant to his reply of 5 June,Official Report, column 227, if he will detail the investigations that are currently taking place into variable sensing units to be fitted to trailers built before 1982;

  (2) how many deaths have been reported in the last 12 months in accidents where one of the vehicles was a trailer with a variable sensing unit built prior to 1982.

  Mr. Chope
  We are investigating the accident and fatality statistics for trailers manufactured before 1982.

  We have no detailed statistics for the last 12 months but police reports for 1988 indicate that there were 570 fatal accidents involving heavy goods vehicles in England and Wales.

  To date 490 of these reports have been examined in detail revealing that there were three fatalities involving pre-1982 trailers which were not fitted with variable sensing units.

  Discussions are taking place with the major vehicle and equipment manufacturers as well as vehicle operators.

  Railway Stations
  Mr. Hoyle
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has to privatise railway stations.

  Mr. Freeman
  None, except as part of the privatisation of British Rail.

  Navigator Systems
  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what representations he has received about his decision to replace the Decca navigator system with Loran C.

  Mr. McLoughlin
  Since my right hon. Friend the then Secretary of State for Transport announced in April of last year his decision in principle, and subject to certain conditions, to replace the Decca navigator system with Loran C as the standard marine radionavigation system to be provided in United Kingdom waters into the next century, a number of representations have been received.

  The fishing industry, the Master Mariners Association and others have argued against the adoption of Loran C chiefly because of the extra expense and inconvenience to which the proposed change would put the users of radionavigational systems at a time when increased reliance is likely to be placed on satellite systems. The electronics engineering industry have expressed concern because of their view that a high percentage of Loran C equipment would be imported from Japan and from the United States of America and that the market for Decca receivers in Europe would be lost.

  The general lighthouse authorities have expressed their support for Loran C because they consider it to be a more effective system and have the potential to provide near global coverage. The Royal Yachting Association has expressed its support for Loran C as a single system which would be available throughout Europe and in many other parts of the world. The General Council of British

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  Shipping and the Lights Advisory Committee regard Loran C as having a higher technical performance but support whichever system would be the cheaper for payers of light dues.

  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library full information relating to the Loran C proposal.

  Mr. McLoughlin
  The proposals for a north-West European Loran C system were set out in the Department of Transport's consultative document of June 1989, entitled "The future of marine radionavigation in United Kingdom waters", a copy of which was placed in the Library at that time. Subsequent changes to the proposed station configurations and technical parameters have been relatively minor. The costs which would fall to be met by the United Kingdom are now estimated to be £8·5 million for investment and £0·6 million a year running costs, both at 1990–91 prices.

  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library all information relating to the submission from Racal Decca to continue to operate Decca, including the cost and the proposals to refurbish and upgrade existing equipment.

  Mr. McLoughlin
  The proposals which Racal Marine put forward in 1988 for the automation and continued operation of the Decca navigator chains in the United Kingdom have been superceded by further proposals put to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on 30 April this year. Negotiations are continuing and it would not be appropriate at this stage to place details in the Library.

  Motorway Speed Limits
  Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of(a) the number of users of British roads who used roads in France in the past year and (b) the number of users of French roads who used roads in the United Kingdom in the past year; and if he will consider an adjustment in motorway speed limits to bring the United Kingdom into line with France.

  Mr. Chope
  During 1990 approximately 5 million British registered vehicles travelled to France and 1·5 million French registered vehicles travelled to Britain. I am looking at all speed limits, including that on motorways. The motorway speed limit for cars in France is amongst the highest in the European Community; the rate of motorway fatalities is 9·1 per 100 million vehicle kilometres in France whereas in the United Kingdom it is 6·3 per 100 million vehicle kilometres.

  A38
  Mr. Robert Hicks
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects to announce his Department's options for the A38 trunk road improvement between Saltash and Trerulefoot; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Chope
  The Department's consultants are making good progress with their investigations into possible options for the improvement of the A38 between Saltash and Trerulefoot.
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  I still hope that we shall be able to consult the public on the more favourable options towards the end of next year. The difficult topography and the environmentally sensitive countryside militates against more rapid progress.

  Red Routes
  Mr. Corbyn
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what meetings he has held with representatives of the people of Haringey and Islington concerning the operation of red routes; what meetings he plans to have; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Chope
  Ministers and officials have met hon. Members, borough councillors, delegations of local business people, and groups representing local interests about the pilot red route scheme. Officials have also attended a number of public meetings in both boroughs. Requests for further meetings will be considered on their merits.

  Marine Rescue
  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many occasions in the last six months the International Maritime Organisation requirements have been breached by a failure to maintain the minimum staffing level of two fully trained regular officers and one auxiliary at any marine rescue co-ordination centre or sub-centre in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. McLoughlin
  The International Maritime Organisation requires contracting Governments to provide adequate search and rescue services for persons in distress around their coasts. At no time during the last six months has the United Kingdom failed to meet these requirements.

  Underused Land
  Mr. Steen
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will set out the location of each site and its acreage of the unused and underused land held by his Department.

  Mr. McLoughlin
  Each of the Department's highway regions is responsible for compiling an annual register of unused and underused land in its area at 31 March.

  Under the Government's code of practice, the register is available at the 9 regional offices for inspection by the public from 30 June onwards. The information is being collated centrally and I shall place the returns in the Library when they are available at the end of the month.

  Road Accidents, Paisley
  Mrs. Irene Adams
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many pedestrians in each standard age cohort were fatally injured in road accidents for each year since 1980 in the constituency of Paisley, North.

  Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
  I have been asked to reply.

  Information is not readily available for Paisley, North constituency and instead the requested information is given for Renfrew district in the following table.
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  Pedestrians fatally injured in road accidents in Renfrew district by age group for years 1980 to 1990

  Age group

  1980

  1981

  1982

  1983

  1984

  1985

  1986

  1987

  1988

  1989

  11990

  Under five

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  1

  1

  —

  2

  2

  5–9

  3

  1

  2

  1

  —

  1

  3

  1

  1

  —

  —

  10–14

  —

  1

  —

  1

  2

  —

  —

  —

  —

  3

  —

  15–19

  —

  1

  2

  1

  —

  —

  1

  —

  1

  —

  1

  20–24

  —

  —

  —

  —

  1

  —

  1

  1

  —

  1

  1

  25–29

  —

  —

  1

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  —

  1

  30–39

  1

  —

  2

  2

  —

  2

  1

  1

  —

  1

  —

  40–49

  —

  2

  —

  3

  1

  1

  2

  1

  1

  —

  —

  50–59

  1

  3

  —

  3

  —

  —

  1

  —

  2

  —

  2

  60 and over

  8

  2

  4

  5

  5

  2

  5

  5

  1

  4

  2

  All ages

  13

  10

  11

  16

  9

  6

  15

  10

  6

  11

  9

  1 Provisional.

OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT

  Ethiopia
  Mrs. Clwyd
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what applications the Overseas Development Administration has received for internal purchase of grain in Tigray and Eritrea; on what grounds these applications have been accepted or rejected; and if he will make a statement.

  Mrs. Chalker
  Where internal purchase of grain offers a cost effective and timely means of providing food to those in need I am willing to consider funding proposals from British voluntary agencies. I would also need to be sure that the distribution can be adequately monitored and accountability for the public funds involved would be fully assured. We have received proposals from Oxfam and CAFOD—Catholic Fund for Overseas Development.

  These agencies have agreed to review their proposals to take account of the effects of recent developments in Ethiopia on the relief operation, including the internal purchase scheme. I await their revised applications.

  Kedung Ombo Dam, Java
  Mrs. Clwyd
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what action the United Kingdom executive director at the World bank is taking to ensure adequate compensation is paid to those people displaced by the Kedung Ombo dam in central Java; what estimates he has of the number of people still living in the dam area; and whether Her Majesty's Government were represented at the opening of the dam on 18 May.

  Mrs. Chalker
  Compensation is essentially a matter between those concerned and the Government of Indonesia. Reliable estimates of numbers are difficult to come by, but I understand that some 5,000 families have accepted compensation and moved, and that 500–600 families remain in the green belt around the Kendung Ombo dam area. Her Majesty's Government were not represented at the opening of the dam.

  Narmada Dam, India
  Mrs. Clwyd
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what information he has concerning the size of opposition to the displacement of people and flooding of land as part of the World bank Narmada dam project in India;

  (2) if he will make it his policy to instruct the United Kingdom's World bank executive director to support the proposal of local non-governmental organisations to
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  institute an independent commission to investigate the Narmada dam project in India and to halt construction pending its findings;

  (3) if he is satisfied that the environmental and social conditions drawn up by the World bank and the Government of India for the Narmada dam project will be met by the 30 June deadline; and whether he will make it his policy to refuse to extend United Kingdom support for the project if the deadline is not met.

  Mrs. Chalker
  I am not in a position to gauge the size of the opposition to the Sardar Sarovar dam project. At our suggestion and that of other donors the World Bank and the Indian authorities have agreed to appoint an independent team to assess the resettlement and environment aspects. So far as I am aware, the Indian authorities do not intend to halt construction during this review, if it goes ahead.

  The deadline of 30 June applies to a related water delivery and drainage project, the future of which is under review by the World bank.

  Motorway Speed Limits
  Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent discussions he has had with chief constables and others about the current level of speed limits on motorways.

  Mr. Chope
  I will answer this question shortly.

WALES

  Pain Relief
  Mr. Wigley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many pain relief consultants there are within national health service hospitals in Wales.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  Currently there are two consultants in Wales in the specialty of palliative medicine. Pain relief work is also carried out by many anaesthetists, but information on the amount of time devoted to pain relief by those consultants is not available centrally. However, the majority of district general hospitals in Wales have a specialist interested in the relief of chronic pain.

  Mr. Wigley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will facilitate the establishment of a pain relief clinic in Gwynedd; and what discussions he has had with the Gwynedd health authority on this matter.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  A pain relief clinic is already available at Ysbyty Gwynedd.
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  Mr. Wigley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what statistics relating to pain relief are collected by the Welsh Office from national health service hospitals in Wales; what proposals he has to improve the available analysis of such statistics; and if he will ensure that the activity of pain clinics is incorporated in hospital activity analysis in Wales.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  The Welsh Office collects quarterly information relating to hospital bed use and out-patient activity by specialty. This information is published annually in "Hospital Bed Use Statistics", copies of which are in the Library of the House. Between January 1979 and March 1989 information relating to pain relief was collected and published as above. For the financial year 1989–90 pain relief work undertaken by palliative medicine consultants and anaesthetists was not separately identifiable from their other work. Since 1 April 1990, however, data on pain relief work done under both specialties have been collected as a separate category and will be included in published data for 1990–91 later this year.

  The hospital activity analysis system relates only to patients admitted to hospital and as such does not include the activity of out-patient pain clinics.

  Mr. Wigley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what equipment is available in NHS hospitals in Wales for the relief of pain, including self-administered pain relief equipment; and what plans he has for extending such availability.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  This information is not available centrally. It is for local health authority managements to determine the availability of equipment in the light of local needs and circumstances, having regard to available resources.

  Community Charge
  Mr. Barry Jones
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his estimate of the total amount of community charge unpaid in Wales since its inception.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  Local authorities in Wales would receive some £414 million if all 1990–91 community charge bills were paid in full. Latest estimates suggest that they will receive around £389 milion of this, representing 94 per cent. of the full amount due. It is for local authorities to seek full payment of outstanding amounts in order to protect the interests of charge payers generally.

  Treatment Centres
  Mr. Morgan
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how long he is proposing to extend or renew the present contract for the elective orthopaedics treatment centre at the Prince of Wales Orthopaedic hospital, Rhydlafar, Cardiff.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  The existing treatment centres have annual contracts.

  Decisions on future funding will be taken in the light of experience during 1991–92, but it is not intended that central funding should continue indefinitely.

  Mr. Morgan
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what evaluation he has carried out of the impact on waiting lists for elective surgery of the three present treatment centres at Bridgend, Bangor and Rhydlafar; and if he will place copies of such evaluations in the Library.
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  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  It is intended to undertake a wider evaluation of the treatment centre initiative during 1991. The existing centres have been broadly successful in meeting their contractual targets and are proving an effective complementary method of delivering speedier health care for Welsh patients.

  Mr. Morgan
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what length of contract is proposed for the second ophthalmology treatment centre for Wales.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  The established treatment centres are managed on annual contracts. Decisions on the future funding of the existing centres will be taken in the light of experience during 1991–92. The contract for the proposed new centre at Bridgend will make allowance for referral patterns to become established, but it is not intended that central funding should continue indefinitely.

  "Local Strategies for Health"
  Mr. Wigley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will now publish a review of achievement of the strategic objectives specified by the Welsh Office in the circular "Local Strategies for Health", and associated publications on the strategic intent and direction for the NHS in Wales; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  Our approach to health strategy has been acknowledged by the World Health Organisation and others as putting Wales at the forefront of the drive for better health not only in the United Kingdom but in Europe.

  District health authorities and family health services authorities are currently working with community health councils, local government and voluntary groups to prepare local strategies for health aimed at achieving our long-term goal of making Wales one of the healthiest nations in Europe. The first set of local strategies will be submitted to the Department for approval in December.

  When the local strategies are available and we have drawn on them to develop a management strategy for Wales as a whole, we will be in a position to monitor progress against the ambitious targets set both locally and nationally.

  M4 Flyover
  Mr. Anderson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what steps he proposes to take in co-operation with West Glamorgan county council to protect pedestrians from objects falling from the Ynysforgan flyover of the M4 motorway.

  Sir Wyn Roberts
  Design work is currently under way on alterations to the Ynysforgan flyover parapets where the motorway passes over the footbridge. Parapet heights will be increased and a mesh infill provided over a length of 30m in the vicinity of the footbridge.

  Local Government Finance
  Mr. Anderson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he proposes to reimburse Swansea city council for the £50,000 spent and thrown away on sending out new poll tax bills following the Government's change in policy.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  The Department is in consultation with the Council of Welsh Districts on reimbursement arrangements.

  Acute Hospital Beds
  Mr. Livsey
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the number of acute hospital beds available in Wales for each of the years 1979 to 1990.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  Information on the number of acute hospital beds is given in the following table. In order to give the full picture on trends I have added the figures from 1974–79:

  Average daily available acute beds: Wales1

  Number

  1974

  10,880

  1975

  10,552

  1976

  10,378

  1977

  10,425

  1978

  10,274

  1979

  10,133

  1980

  10,075

  1981

  9,971

  1982

  9,949

  1983

  9,992

  1984

  9,836

  1985

  9,810

  1986

  9,640

  1987

  9,557

  1988

  9,472

  1989–902

  9,049

  1 Excludes geriatrics, younger disabled, obstetrics, GP maternity, mental illness, mental handicap, adolescent psychiatry, mental illness children, psychogeriatric and elderly mentally infirm.

  2 Data from 1 April 1989 are readily available only on a financial year basis.

  Children in Care
  Mr. Denzil Davies
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what information he has of how many children were in care in the area of the Llanelli borough council at the latest available date.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  Information is held centrally only on the numbers of children in care by county area. There were 275 children in care in Dyfed on 31 March 1990.

  Mr. Denzil Davies
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many children were in local authority care in Wales at the latest available date.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  There were 3,278 children in local authority care in Wales on 31 March 1990.

  Mr. Denzil Davies
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many children in local authority care in Wales at the latest available date were in(a) residential care and (b) under the care of foster parents.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  There were 585 children in local authority care in residential accommodation on 31 March 1990. Of these, 569 were in local authority community homes and the remaining 16 in registered voluntary homes and hostels.

  There were 1,994 children in local authority care with foster parents on 31 March 1990.

  Mr. Denzil Davies
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many children were in care in(a) Dyfed, (b) West Glamorgan and (c) Mid-Glamorgan at the latest available date.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  There were 275 children in care in Dyfed, 365 in West Glamorgan and 757 in Mid Glamorgan on 31 March 1990.
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  Mr. Denzil Davies
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the total cost of fostering children in Wales in the last three available years.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  Expenditure by local authorities on boarded-out children in care in Wales since 1987–88 is given in the following table:

  Net current expenditure £ million1

  1987–88

  1988–89

  1989–90

  5·4

  5·9

  6·8

  1 Expenditure on employees and running expenses net of sales, fees, charges and other local income, but gross of relevant specific grants.

  Right to Buy
  Mr. Wigley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish figures showing the percentage of housing stock sold under right-to-buy schemes by each district authority in Wales in total since 1980.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  The information requested is given in the following table:

  Total right-to-buy sales as a percentage of local authority stock at 1981

  per cent.

  Aberconwy

  42

  Alyn and Deeside

  26

  Arfon

  23

  Blaenau Gwent

  20

  Brecknock

  37

  Cardiff

  30

  Carmarthen1

  5

  Ceredigion

  35

  Colwyn2

  0

  Cynon Valley

  23

  Delyn

  21

  Dinefwr

  29

  Dwyfor

  23

  Glyndwr

  32

  Islwyn

  41

  Llanelli

  36

  Lliw Valley

  31

  Meirionnydd

  32

  Merthyr Tydfil

  26

  Monmouth

  31

  Montgomeryshire

  33

  Neath

  32

  Newport

  26

  Ogwr

  35

  Port Talbot

  39

  Preseli Pembrokeshire

  31

  Radnorshire

  37

  Rhondda

  14

  Rhuddlan

  29

  Rhymney Valley

  29

  South Pembrokeshire

  23

  Swansea

  20

  Taff Ely

  39

  Torfaen

  37

  Vale of Glamorgan

  31

  Wrexham Maelor

  20

  Ynys Mon

  25

  WALES

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  1Many of the disposals of dwellings by Carmarthen District Council, are made voluntarily rather than under the Right-to-Buy scheme.

  2All of the disposals of the dwellings by Colwyn District Council are made voluntarily rather than under the Right-to-Buy scheme.

  Source: Local authority returns, 1981 Census of Population.

  Population Movements
  Mr. Wigley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish figures showing(a) the number of young people moving from Wales to England, (b) the number of young people moving from England to Wales and (c) the net outflow for the year between September 1989 and 1990.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  Data from the national health service central register, which relates to movements of persons on national health service doctors' lists, give an indication of the number of young people moving between Wales and England. This information is given in the following table:

  National health service central register moves of young people from Wales to England and England to Wales for year ended September 1990

  Age

  From Wales to England (a)

  From England to Wales (b)

  Net outflow from Wales (c)

  0–15

  6,500

  7,800

  -1,300

  16–24

  14,600

  13,300

  +1,300

  Numbers of farmers and workers employed in agriculture—June 1980

  Whole-time

  Part-time

  All workers (excluding salaried managers)

  County

  Principal farmers

  Other partners

  Total

  Principal farmers

  Other partners

  Total

  Total farmers and directors

  Male

  Female

  Total

  Salaried managers

  Clwyd

  2,664

  631

  3,295

  630

  317

  947

  4,245

  2,768

  707

  3,475

  86

  Dyfed

  7,657

  1,664

  9,321

  1,677

  810

  2,487

  11,808

  5,769

  1,890

  7,659

  66

  Gwent

  1,429

  282

  1,711

  390

  220

  610

  2,321

  1,310

  407

  1,717

  28

  Gwynedd

  3,046

  621

  3,667

  845

  369

  1,214

  4,881

  2,189

  382

  2,571

  61

  Mid Glamorgan

  604

  121

  725

  175

  93

  268

  993

  719

  121

  840

  4

  Powys

  4,014

  1,016

  5,030

  654

  407

  1,061

  6,091

  2,841

  472

  3,313

  29

  South Glamorgan

  369

  98

  467

  67

  46

  113

  580

  506

  138

  644

  17

  West Glamorgan

  519

  137

  656

  186

  68

  254

  910

  512

  113

  625

  9

  Wales

  20,302

  4,570

  24,872

  4,624

  2,330

  6,954

  31,826

  16,614

  4,230

  20,844

  300

  Note: Figures exclude minor holdings not included in the June census.

  Source: June Agricultural Census 1980.

  Adoption
  Mr. Denzil Davies
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of the children adopted in Wales in the last three available years were 10 years of age and over.

  Number of adoption orders1

  Number of children adopted aged 10 years or over

  Percentage of children adopted aged 10 years or over

  1987

  442

  116

  26·2

  19882

  463

  141

  30·4

  19893

  436

  128

  29·4

  Source: OPCS

  1 Period January to December

  2 Five adoption orders did not specify the age of the child and have therefore been omitted from these figures.

  3 One adoption order did not specify the age of the child and has therefore been omitted from these figures.

  Mr. Denzil Davies
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many adoption orders were made in Wales in each of the last three available years.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  The number of adoption orders made in Wales in each of the last three available years is given in the following table:
  576
  Source: OPCS.

  Note: These figures, which are rounded to the nearest 100, relate to re-registrations for year ended December 1990. This is to make an allowance for an average of three months between a person moving and subsequent re-registration.

  Welsh Language
  Mr. Wigley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the latest available estimates of the number of Welsh language learners currently residing in Wales.

  Sir Wyn Roberts
  This information is not collected centrally.

  Farm Employment
  Dr. David Clark
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many farmers, partners, directors and farmworkers were employed by county in Wales in June 1980.

  Mr. David Hunt
  Figures from the agricultural census for June 1980 are given in the following table:

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  The information is given in the following table:

  Number of adoption orders1

  Year

  1987

  442

  1988

  468

  1989

  437

  Source: OPCS

  1 Period January to December

  577
  Mr. Denzil Davies
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) what percentage of the children adopted in Wales in each of the last three available years were legitimate children;

  (2) what percentage of the adoptions in Wales in the last three available years were made without parental agreement.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  This information is not available centrally.

  Cancer
  Dr. Kim Howells
  To ask the Secretary Wales if he will sponsor an investigation into of cancer, by type, by location and by age sufferer, in the district of Taff Ely.

  The current annual average daily traffic flows on the sections of A470 between Coryton and Abercynon are estimated as follows:

  Section

  Cars

  Light goods

  Heavy goods

  Buses

  Total

  Coryton—Ynys Bridge

  36,600

  4,300

  3,900

  400

  45,200

  Ynys Bridge—Nantgarw

  37,400

  4,450

  3,600

  300

  45,750

  Nantgarw—Upper Boat

  33,000

  3,400

  2,750

  350

  39,500

  Upper Boat—Glyntaff

  37,300

  3,150

  2,200

  300

  42,950

  Glyntaff—Bridge St.

  28,800

  3,250

  2,200

  300

  34,550

  Bridge St. —Abercynon

  22,750

  2,400

  2,350

  500

  27,900

  Projections for the year to 2005 are:

  (a) on Low Growth estimates

  Coryton—Ynys Bridge

  48,150

  5,700

  4,700

  400

  58,950

  Ynys Bridge—Nantgarw

  49,200

  5,900

  4,350

  300

  59,750

  Nantgarw—Upper Boat

  43,400

  4,500

  3,300

  350

  51,550

  Upper Boat—Glyntaff

  49,100

  4,200

  2,650

  300

  56,250

  Glyntaff—Bridge St.

  37,900

  4,300

  2,650

  300

  45,150

  Bridge St.—Abercynon

  29,900

  3,200

  2,850

  500

  36,450

  (b) on High Growth estimates

  Coryton—Ynys Bridge

  55,800

  6,850

  5,550

  400

  68,500

  Ynys Bridge—Nantgarw

  57,000

  7,100

  5,100

  300

  69,500

  Nantgarw—Upper Boat

  50,300

  5,400

  3,900

  350

  59,950

  Upper Boat—Glyntaff

  56,900

  5,000

  3,100

  300

  65,300

  Glyntaff—Bridge St.

  43,900

  5,200

  3,100

  300

  52,500

  Bridge St.—Abercynon

  34,700

  3,800

  3.350

  500

  42,350

  Pontypridd-Cardiff Railway
  Dr. Kim Howells
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his estimate of the average numbers of passengers carried by British Rail daily on the Pontypridd to Cardiff branch of its network in(a) 1988, (b) 1989, (c) 1990 and (d)

  Sir Wyn Roberts: This is a matter for British Rail.

  Urban Programme

  Financial year

  Name of premises

  Work assisted

  Allocation £

  1980–81

  Blaenavon Workmen's Institute

  Renovation Work

  4,500

  1981–82

  Congress Theatre, Torfaen

  Provision of Toilets

  5,750

  Blackwood Little Theatre

  Roof Repairs

  8,000

  1984–85

  Afan Arts Centre Port Talbot

  Re-roofing and Refurbishment

  30,000

  Rhymney Valley Museum

  Work of Galleries

  40,000

  Blackwood Miners Welfare Association Hall

  Renovation Work

  11,000

  1986–87

  Blackwood Little Theatre

  Refurbishment Phase I

  25,000

  1988–91

  Parc and Dare Hall, Treorchy

  Upgrading of front facade, entrance and foyer; facilities for disabled; construction of raked floor in auditorium and improvements to stage

  500.000

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  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  The latest available figures published in "Cancer Registration in Wales: 1974–1984" indicate that the standardised cancer registration rate for all malignancies in Taff Ely is below the Wales average. I therefore see no reason for the Welsh Office to undertake such an investigation.

  A470
  Dr. Kim Howells
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give the latest existing and projected estimates of traffic flow along the A470 by vehicle type.

  Sir Wyn Roberts
  The information requested is given in the following tables:

  Arts Buildings
  Dr. Kim Howells
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give details of those buildings used for the arts in Wales which have been built, renovated or improved with Government funds since 1979.

  Sir Wyn Roberts
  Information on funding allocated for these purposes by the Welsh Office is given in the following tables.

  Specific Grants
  St. David's Hall, Cardiff—£000,000 in 1978–79, £500,000 in 1979–80 and £200,000 in 1980–81 towards the cost of building the Hall.
  Welsh National Opera—£150,000 in 1981–82 towards cost of constructing new rehearsal facilities:
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  Financial year

  Name of premises

  Work assisted

  Allocation £

  1988–91

  Blaenavon Institute (opened 1894)

  Structural conservation work inside and out. New foyer, staircase, replacement seating, installation of theatrical equipment

  800,000

  1989–91

  Blackwood Institute

  Major structural internal and external work carried out; acquisition of building

  635,000

  1989–91

  Pontypridd Municipal Hall

  Visual arts gallery and cinema, external refurbishment and landscaping work outside building

  200,000

  1989–90

  Rhydycar Leisure Centre

  The installation of retractable seating for major events instead of hiring seating at considerable cost

  135,000

  1989–92

  Blaengarw Workman's Hall (built 1894)

  Major structural work carried out on the enveloping of the building and internal work; also the installation of central heating system

  853,000

  1989–92

  Coliseum Theatre Trecynon (built 1938)

  Extend orchestra pit and refurbish building; purchase of building from Charitable Trust

  548,000

  1989–92

  Ystradgynlais Miners' Welfare Hall

  Development of Hall into Arts and Social Centre

  657,000

  Revenue allocation for manager and part-time staff to manage and develop use of facilities

  1991–92

  Lyric Theatre Carmarthen

  Improvement of facilities

  120,000

  Projects of regional or national importance

  Financial year

  Project

  Supplementary credit approval

  1990–91

  Llangollen International Eisteddfod Site. New Pavilion

  £433,000

  1991–92

  Llangollen International Eisteddfod Site. New Pavilion

  £1,390,000

  Information about funds disbursed by centrally funded agencies is not held centrally. I will write to the hon. Member with this information.

  The total allocation to the National Museum of Wales for all capital works at its branches was:

  Financial year

  Amount £

  1979–80

  1,087,000

  1980–81

  786,000

  1981–82

  619,000

  1982–83

  799,000

  1983–84

  657,000

  1984–85

  711,000

  1985–86

  995,000

  1986–87

  924,000

  1987–88

  2,123,000

  1988–89

  3,630,000

  1989–90

  6,499,000

  1990–91

  7,820,000

  Housing Standards
  Dr. Kim Howells
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his estimate of the number of houses, by district, in Mid Glamorgan which are below minimum required standards; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  The numbers of unfit dwellings in the districts of Mid Glamorgan as estimated by the 1986 Welsh house condition survey are given in the following table:
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  District

  Total number of unfit dwellings

  Cynon Valley

  4,400

  Merthyr Tydfil

  2,500

  Ogwr

  3,900

  Rhondda

  4,900

  Rhymney Valley

  2,100

  Taff Ely

  2,700

  Source: 1986 Welsh House Condition Survey.

  Special Diets
  Dr. Kim Howells
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many people in Wales, by county, are registered as needing special diets because of physical or mental disabilities; how many of them are eligible for the new lower care component of the disability living allowance; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  This information is not held centrally.

  Eligibility for disabled living allowance is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security.

  Public Transport Expenditure
  Dr. Kim Howells
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many applications since 1985 his Office has received for section 56 grants under the Transport Act 1968; how many of these applications have been provided, wholly or in part; and if he will name in each case the project concerned, the level of support provided and the date on which the grant application was approved.

  Sir Wyn Roberts
  The Department has received no applications under this provision.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY

  Import Restrictions
  Mr. Mullin
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what are the quotas on imports from(a) Thailand and (b) Vietnam for (i) bed linens, (ii) yarn

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  fabric, (iii) sewing thread, (iv) curtains, (v) shirts, (vi) porcelain tableware, (vii) matches, (viii) footwear, (ix) gloves, (x) headgear and (xi) trousers.

  Mr. Sainsbury
  Restrictions on the imports of yarns, sewing threads, fabrics, shirts, gloves and trousers originating in Thailand under the EC-Thailand MFA bilateral agreement are shown in table 1.

  The import to the United Kingdom of bedlinen, curtains, porcelain tableware, matches, footwear, and headgear originating in Thailand is not restricted by quota.

  Restrictions on the import of goods originating in Vietnam are set out in table 2.

  Table 1

  Product

  United Kingdom quota level (1991)

  Synthetic spun yarns (MFA category 22) (includes some sewing threads)

  425 tonnes

  Cotton fabrics (MFA category 2)

  1,108 tonnes

  Fabrics of synthetic spun yarns (MFA category 3)

  2,226 tonnes

  T-shirts, knitted shirts etc. (MFA category 4)

  5,539,000 pieces

  Men's and boy's woven shirts (MFA category 8)

  251,000 pieces

  Woven trousers (MFA category 6)

  395,000 pieces

  Knitted gloves (MFA category 10)

  2,726,000 pairs

  Table 2

  Product

  Quota level (notes) (1991)

  Tableware of porcelain, china or pottery; ornaments or statuettes

  £23,100

  Bedlinen, tablelinen, curtains, synthetic yarn and woven fabrics of synthetic yarn (MFA categories 20, 23, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40)

  7 tonnes1

  Shirts

  Import bane2

  Matches

  Import ban

  Footwear

  Import ban3

  Gloves

  Import ban

  Headgear

  Import ban4

  Trousers

  Import ban5

  1 Certain of these goods of flax, ramie, hemp or silk are unrestricted. Goods of this description of textile categories other than those listed are subject to an import ban.

  2 Shirts of ramie or of silk are unrestricted.

  3 Certain casual footwear (eg espadrilles) is unrestricted.

  4 Certain headgear (eg straw hats and the like) is unrestricted.

  5 Certain trousers for industrial wear are unrestricted.

  Note: Full details of import licensing requirements are set out in the Open General Import Licence dated 4th December 1987.

  Kuwait (Contracts)
  Mr. Wallace
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his oral answer to the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell), 5 June,Official Report, column 264, if he will state, so far as is known to his Department, the number of companies which have won contracts in Kuwait, and the number and value of contracts won by companies employing fewer than 20 people.

  Mr. Sainsbury
  I am aware of 52 companies which have won contracts in Kuwait with a total of at least £190 million. One of these companies has fewer than 20 employees and has won a contract worth £500,000.

  It is not possible to determine how many companies with fewer than 20 employees will benefit from sub-contracts.

  Baltic States
  Mrs. Margaret Ewing
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what further initiatives are currently being taken by his Department to promote bilateral trade between the United Kingdom and the Baltic republics; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Sainsbury
  Overseas trade services staff in the United Kingdom and Moscow provide a range of export promotion services for the Soviet Union, including the Baltic republics.

  Mrs. Margaret Ewing
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what is the record of export promotion by the British embassy in Moscow in relation to each of the Baltic republics over each of the last five years: and if he will place in the Library a list of companies in the United Kingdom who are exporting to any one or more of the Baltic states, with details of the goods involved and the gross value of the trade.

  Mr. Sainsbury
  Overseas trade services staff in Moscow are undertaking a series of visits to regions of the Soviet Union with commercial potential for British companies, including the Baltic republics.

  The names of companies involved in trade to the Baltic republics, their products and their value is a matter of commercial confidentiality.

  Overseas trade statistics are compiled on a country basis and cannot be broken down by republic.

  Rechar
  Mr. Beith
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what benefit he expects for coalfield areas to derive from the EC Rechar scheme.

  Mr. Leigh
  The 11 United Kingdom Rechar programmes, submitted in July 1990 and currently awaiting approval by the European Commission, seek some £109 million in EC support for a wide range of infrastructure and small firms measures based on the Commission guidelines published in the Official Journal of 27 January 1990. The actual projects to be supported will be decided once the programmes are approved.

ENVIRONMENT

  Greenhouse Gases
  Mr. Corbyn
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what action is being taken to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases in Britain.

  Mr. Trippier
  The White Paper on the Environment. "This Common Inheritance", which was published last September describes Britain's strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sets out the first tranche of measures to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

  Planning Consent
  Dr. Michael Clark
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has any plans to introduce legislation to allow councils to penalise those who build properties or extensions without planning consent.
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  Mr. Yeo
  Yes, Sir. My right hon. Friend has introduced provisions in the Planning and Compensation Bill which greatly strengthen and improve local planning authorities' power to deal with breaches of planning control.

  Local Government Finance
  Mr. Wilson
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what recent discussions he has had on the timescale for phasing out the poll tax.

  Mr. Portillo
  We have said that we plan to replace the community charge with the council tax with effect from 1 April 1993.

  Mr. Meale
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what consideration he has given to the abolition of the poll tax 20 per cent. contribution rule; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Portillo
  We have recently proposed a new council tax to take effect in 1993. It will be possible for people on low incomes to receive 100 per cent. rebates on the council tax. However, we have not proposed any change to the benefit rules for the remaining period of the community charge.

  Mr. Pawsey
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has to make further adjustments to standard spending assessment mechanisms.

  Mr. Portillo
  The standard spending assessments are based on detailed research. They have been subject to extensive review over the last two years. Stability is an important consideration in this area to enable sensible forward planning by authorities. The Government have no proposals for any major changes, although data from the 1991 census will be incorporated into the SSAs as soon as possible after they become available.

  Councillors' Allowances
  Mr. Patchett
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has to carry out consultations with local authority organisations on the councillors' allowances scheme; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Key
  My Department has worked closely with the local authority associations in drawing up the new system of members' allowances which took effect from 1 April this year. The new system will be reviewed after a year's operation in consultation with the associations.

  Broader issues are being considered in the review of local government.

  Housing
  Mr. Colin Shepherd
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress he is making with respect to the encouragement of the further provision of affordable housing in non-metropolitan district council areas.

  Sir George Young
  Development of low-cost housing for rent or shared ownership sale is rising substantially as a result of increases in public expenditure through the Housing Corporation to over £2 billion by 1993–94. We have also reviewed the way resources are allocated to ensure the houses are built where they are most needed,584
  and introduced special programmes to help rural areas. The fall in house prices and reductions in interest rates have eased access to housing for first-time buyers, and deregulation of private rents has helped make more houses available for rent.

  Mr. Bellingham
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many local authorities have carried out a large-scale voluntary transfer of some or all of their housing to a new landlord.

  Sir George Young
  Sixteen local authorities have so far transferred their housing stock to new, approved landlords, following a ballot of tenants. These transfers have involved 76,000 homes, have generated £647 million in receipts and have enabled local authorities to repay £400 million worth of debt. Altogether the transfers have attracted over £1 billion of private sector investment in social housing.

  Mr. Tracey
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what action he is taking to ensure that local authorities bring back empty council properties into use as soon as possible.

  Sir George Young
  We have taken a number of steps to reduce the number of empty local authority properties. In particular, under the £300 million homelessness initiative more than 5,300 empty local authority properties in London and the South East will be brought back into use; £1,076 million of credit approvals will be made available this year towards the renovation of local authority stock and the housing revenue account subsidy rules have been changed to give authorities a better incentive to bring empty properties back into use.

  Vacant Land
  Mr. Steen
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many acres of public vacant and derelict land he estimates as accumulating since he stopped updating the central register of vacant public land.

  Mr. Yeo
  Because of the incomplete response by owners and changes in the minimum size of site there is no basis for making such an estimate. We are proposing steps to improve the response as my hon. Friend was told on 7 May at column 401.

  Roads
  Mr. Dickens
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps are taken to ensure that the allocation of resources to local government is adequate to ensure that local authority roads are kept in an acceptable state of repair.

  Mr. Key
  Local authority standard spending assessments include, where appropriate, adequate provision for highway maintenance.

  Greenwich Social Services
  Mr. Peter Bottomley
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what determines the standard spending assessment on social services for Greenwich borough council.

  Mr. Portillo
  The method of allocating the standard spending assessment for social services is set out in the
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  Revenue Support Grant Distribution Report (England) as amended by the Revenue Support Grant (Amendment) Report (England) which was approved by the House in January this year. The same method is used for Greenwich as for all other social services authorities in England.

  Dog Licensing
  Mr. Grocott
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has had any recent discussions with the RSPCA about dog licensing.

  Mr. Baldry
  My officials have regular discussions with the Joint Advisory Committee on Pets in Society, which includes RSPCA representatives, on matters relating to responsible dog ownership and to the implementation of the package of dog control measures contained in the Environmental Protection Act 1990. We will introduce the dog control measures next year. They include a duty on local authorities to enforce the requirement that dogs wear a collar and identification tag when in a public place and to ensure that stray dogs are collected up. We believe that the measures will encourage responsible ownership and directly address the main problems caused by dogs; whereas a national dog licensing or registration scheme would be bureaucratic, expensive to operate and ineffective.

  Uncollected Rents
  Mr. John Marshall
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the total amount of uncollected council housing rents at the last count.

  Mr. Yeo
  At the end of March 1990 English local authorities were owed an estimated £360 million in rent arrears.

  Figures for the position in March 1991 are not yet available.

  Hadrian's Wall
  Mr. Amos
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the steps taken to preserve Hadrian's wall.

  Mr. Yeo
  Hadrian's wall is a scheduled ancient monument. As such, it is protected by the need to obtain the consent of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for any works within the scheduled area, in addition to any planning permission required.

  Wind Farms
  Mr. Speller
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many planning permissions for wind farms have been approved in England and in Wales during the two most recent years for which figures are available.

  Mr. Yeo
  This information is not held centrally.

  Releases of Radioactivity
  Mr. Benn
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many times the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority released radioactivity to the environment since 1961 at levels that would have been subject to prosecution under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960, prior to Crown immunity being withdrawn.
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  Mr. Trippier
  The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has never been subject to Crown immunity under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 (RSA 60) for the disposal of radioactive waste. Disposals from UKAEA premises are closely regulated by means of certificates of authorisation issued under RSA 60 by HMIP and where appropriate jointly with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, backed up by inspection of premises.

  The only prosecution by HMIP under RSA 60 against UKAEA was on 5 June 1991 when the authority pleaded guilty to two breaches of conditions in its certificate of authorisation. We are not aware of any other releases of radioactivity which would have rendered the authority liable to prosecution.

  Pollution Registers
  Mr. Benn
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will set out those areas of corporate information on pollution that will be excluded from deposition in the local register on grounds of commercial confidentiality.

  Mr. Trippier
  It is not possible to define exhaustively the areas of information which should be excluded on grounds of commercial confidentiality. Under section 22 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the onus is on the operator to prove to the enforcing authority that disclosure of information would prejudice to an unreasonable degree their commercial interests—and every case will have to be considered on its merits.

  Estate Action
  Mr. Fraser
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what approvals he intends to give for estate action funds for the refurbishment of the St. Martin's estate, Tulse Hill, London SW2.

  Mr. Yeo
  The Department did not offer estate action support for 1991–92 to Lambeth council towards the cost of its proposed work on the St. Martin's estate as the application failed to satisfy the objectives of the programme. No other application is being considered. The Department would be willing to consider a new bid for this estate in a future year, but approval would depend on the quality of the proposed scheme in competition with other bids received.

  Mr. Knapman
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the budget for the estate action programme in the current year.

  Sir George Young
  The estate action budget for 1991–92 is £268 million.

  National Rivers Authority
  Mr. Colvin
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what figure he has included in his budget for granting aid to the National Rivers Authority for(a) the current financial year, (b) 1992–93 and (c) 1993–94.

  Mr. Baldry
  Grant-in-aid for the current year is £106·5 million. Planned provision for 1992–93 and 1993–94 of £96·9 million and £96 million respectively, as published in the Department's annual report 1991 (Cm. 1508), is subject to the Government's public expenditure decisions which will be announced later this year.

  Building (Heating)
  Mr. Dunnachie
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what consideration has been given by his Department to the recommendation of the Technical Services Agency, that the law requiring the heating of buildings to a minimum of 16 deg. C should be extended to set a similar minimum temperature for housing; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Yeo
  The standard of fitness for human habitation (section 604 of the Housing Act 1985 as amended by schedule 9 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989) requires that a dwelling-house shall have adequate provision for heating. Circular 6/90 advises that in deciding whether a dwelling-house is or is not unfit, an authority should consider whether the dwelling-house has provision for heating capable of generally maintaining the living room at a temperature of 18 deg. C or more and the other main rooms at a minimum of 16 deg. C.

  Community Charge
  Mr. McMaster
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing the amount of community charge payable by each eligible adult in a household of one, two, three, four or five adults where one, two or no adults have been exempted due to severe mental handicap in 1991–92 after the community charge reduction scheme has been applied, for each level of assumed rates in £50 bands from £150 to £500, in £100 bands from £500 to £1,500, £1,750 and £2,000, where in each case the community charge is set at each £10 increment between £140 and £600.

  Mr. Key
  I have today placed in the Library tables showing the information requested. The tables relate to the number of adults in a property who are not exempt from the community charge.

  If there are people in a property who are exempt from the community charge for any reason, these people are disregarded in the calculation of the community charge reduction available to other occupants.

  Waste Recycling
  Mr. Burns
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what measures his Department is taking to encourage recycling by local authorities.

  Mr. Baldry
  The Environmental Protection Act 1990 requires all waste collection authorities to prepare recycling plans. We have issued guidance on how to draw up the plans for consultation. We have also distributed £12 million of supplementary credit approvals for 1991–92 to enable local authorities to invest in recycling. This will add significantly to measures already in place to encourage recycling.

  Homelessness
  Mr. Fearn
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he plans to introduce new initiatives to reduce the number of homeless people in Britain.

  Sir George Young
  All those accepted as homeless by local authorities are provided with accommodation. For the relatively small numbers who are literally homeless, we 588
  have allocated £96 million over three years to central London; and we are considering the possibility of extending the initiative to other parts of the country.

  Derelict Land
  Mr. Andy Stewart
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has completed his review of derelict land policy; and if he will make a statement.

  Sir George Young
  I have today arranged for copies of a derelict land grant advice note setting out the Government's new priorities and objectives for derelict land grant (DLG) to be deposited in the Library of the House of Commons.

  The new policies set out in the advice note represent the culmination of the Review of Derelict Land Policy which has been carried out by the Department following the announcement by my hon. Friend the Minister for the Environment and Countryside to the House on 20 July 1988. There have been extensive consultations with local authorities and other interested bodies.

  The national priorities and objectives of DLG have been redefined to enable support to be given to the reclamation of sites for both development and environmental improvement. Priority will be given to the treatment of sites which are causing major environmental damage, particularly those which are badly contaminated. We have also enhanced the grant regime available to the private and voluntary sectors.

  These changes go hand in hand with the 23 per cent. increase in resources for DLG in 1991–92 which I announced in a reply to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Stockport (Mr. Favell) on 7 February 1991 at column 226. The Government's aim is to broaden the scope of DLG as a nation wide grant for the reclamation of derelict land and to make the grant regime more flexible and attractive. This will speed up the rate at which derelict land is reclaimed and returned to an appropriate use for the benefit of the local community.

  In urban areas priority will be given to recycling land for development where there is a proven demand for investment from the private sector but reclamation for environmental improvement will also be welcomed in order to improve the attractiveness of an area as a place for investment or in which to live or work. This will include, for example, promoting nature or historic conservation and community forests.

  In rural areas, emphasis will be placed on reclamation in areas of particularly high scenic quality and on schemes to foster development having regard to local planning policies.

  Local authorities will be encouraged to develop reclamation strategies in consultation with local interests involved in reclamation. The number of rolling programmes of reclamation which allow local authorities to plan their reclamation strategies for several years ahead will be increased.

  A more attractive grant regime for the private sector and for voluntary bodies has also been introduced. A wider range of costs will be eligible for grant and voluntary bodies will be able to apply directly to the Department for grants to clear up neglected or unsightly land. Non-local authority DLG will also be re-introduced into the 57 urban programme areas.

  Energy Efficiency
  Mr. Dobson
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give for each available year from 1978 the energy consumption, broken down by fuel, or the buildings occupied by his Department, expressing the figures in(a) cash terms, (b) 1990–91 money terms and (c) units of consumption for electricity in kilowatt hours, gas in therms, liquid fuel in litres and solid fuel in tonnes; and if he will give the square footage of accommodation to which these figures relate.

  Mr. Heseltine
  [holding answer 3 June 1991]: Information on my Department's energy consumption prior to 1989–90 is not readily available. In 1989–90 energy expenditure, excluding the Property Services Agency, was as follows (expenditure in 1990–91 money terms shown in brackets):

  £

  £

  Electricity

  1,593,562

  (1,717,063)

  Gas

  831,377

  (895,809)

  Oil

  362,696

  (390,805)

  Solid Fuel

  4,003

  (4,313)

  Consumption relating to these was as follows

  Kilowatt hours

  34,000,000

  Therms

  2,600,000

  Litres

  3,300,000

  Tonnes

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  The latest estimate of expenditure for 1990–91 which now includes Property Holdings is as follows (Property Holdings in Brackets):

  £

  £

  Electricity

  1,866,340

  (390,000)

  Gas

  766,932

  (66,000)

  Oil

  427,949

  (0)

  Solid Fuel

  1,500

  (0)

  Consumption relating to these was as follows:

  Kilowatt hours

  31,105,667

  (6,500,000)

  Therms

  2,095,442

  (180,500)

  Litres

  3,229,804

  (0)

  The area of accommodation relating to the 1990–91 figures is 1,303,197 square feet. This excludes specialised property such as the royal parks and palaces which are included in the expenditure and consumption figures but to which the concept of floor area is inappropriate.

EMPLOYMENT

  Disabled People
  Mr. Colvin
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, if he will make a statement on the number of disabled people who have been assisted in finding employment by his Department in each of the last 15 years?

  Mr. Jackson
  Information is not available in the precise form requested. However the Employment Service keeps information on the placings of people with disabilities into employment. I have asked Mike Fogden, chief executive of the Employment Service executive agency, to write to my hon. Friend on this operational matter.

  Radway Green Ordnance Factory
  Mrs. Dunwoody
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many redundancies have been declared at the Radway Green ordnance factory in the last year.

  Mr. Forth
  Information given to the Department under the redundancy handling provisions of the Employment Protection Act 1975 is provided in confidence and remains confidential until made public by the company concerned.

  Child Care
  Mr. Cox
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what discussions he has had with the Confederation of British Industry to encourage companies to develop child care provision within their organisation to assist women at work; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Jackson
  The CBI is represented on the advisory committee on women's employment which I chair. Child care has been discussed on a number of occasions. I welcome all steps by the CBI and other employers' organisations to encourage the adoption of flexible working arrangements and help with child care to assist working parents.

  Labour Statistics
  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of unemployed claimants in each constituency in the west midlands in April 1990 and April 1991; what was the percentage change in each case; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Jackson
  The information requested can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the House of Commons Library. Unemployment in the west midlands remains 30 per cent. below what it was at the time of the last general election.

  Disabled Trainees
  Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his answer of 9 May,Official Report, column 586, if he will list the action taken by his Department to ensure that there is no discrimination against trainees with disabilities; and if he plans to introduce further legislative protection for trainees who suffer unjustifiable discrimination on the grounds of disability.

  Mr. Jackson
  There is a range of measures to enable people with disabilities to benefit from Government training programmes. For example young people with disabilities remain eligible for a guaranteed place on youth training beyond 18 if their availability for YT has been delayed by the effects of their disability or health problem.

  From April 1991 people with disabilities regardless of the length of time they had been unemployed, were included in the Government's aim group that offers a place on either ET, EAS at a job club or on the job interview guarantee programme.

  People with disabilities can be supplied with appropriate facilities and support to enable them to join youth training and employment training and to pursue suitable training. This covers such items as adaptations to premises, special aids and equipment.
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  Training and enterprise councils are required to set out in their corporate and business plans how they intend to meet the training needs of people with disabilities. These plans form the basis of their contract with this Department.

  We have no plans to introduce further legislative protection for trainees.

  Training and Enterprise Councils
  Mr. Leighton
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what Business and Technician Education Council courses are financed through the TECs.

  Mr. Jackson
  TECs receive part of their funding from the Department of Employment for the achievement of NVQs and other equivalent qualifications acceptable to my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment. There are at present 222 BTEC qualifications so designated.

  Careers Service
  Mr. Alfred Morris
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the organisations from which he received a response to his Department's consultative paper on the future of the careers service; and, of these, how many commented specifically on the future of careers advice for young people with disabilities.

  Mr. Jackson
  Many organisations responded to my Department's consultation on the future of the careers service announced in the White Paper "Education and Training for the 21st Century" (Cm. 1536). Those with an interest in providing services for people with disabilities were well represented in the responses. It is my intention to ensure that, however provision is organised, a high quality of careers service will be safeguarded everywhere.

  Woodlee Employment Rehabilitation Centre
  Mr. Alfred Morris
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the future of the provision by Woodlee employment rehabilitation centre in Egham of residential assessment and rehabilitation for people with disabilities.

  Mr. Jackson
  The Secretary of State announced on 16 April, in reply to a question from the hon. Member for Wyre (Mr. Mans)Official Report, columns 157–59, that employment services for people with disabilities are to be improved and developed.

  New local employment service teams will be established over the next 12 to 18 months to provide more professional advice, assessment and help in finding and keeping work for people with disabilities.

  Greater use will be made of the voluntary sector and others to provide employment rehabilitation, including residential facilities, and nine employment service regional centres of excellence will be established over, approximately, the next five years.

  Operational responsibility for the development of employment services for people with disabilities, including the future of the Egham employment rehabilitation centre, rests with the chief executive of the Employment Service executive agency, Mike Fogden, to whom I have referred the right hon. Gentleman's question for a more detailed reply.

  Industrial Tribunals
  Mr. Corbyn
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many(a) members and (b) chairs of industrial tribunals are black; what ethnic monitoring policy is in operation in respect of industrial tribunals; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Forth
  It is estimated that 51 lay members and 2 chairmen of the industrial tribunals are from the ethnic minorities. The number of lay members is monitored by asking applicants to give details of their ethnic origin. The monitoring of chairmen is a matter for the Lord Chancellor.

  Job Clubs
  Mr. Chris Smith
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what instructions have been issued to managers of job clubs in connection with visits by hon. Members and parliamentary spokesmen.

  Mr. Howard
  As an executive agency, the employment service is being encouraged to promote contact between hon. Members and their local ES offices.

  In the case of proposed visits by parliamentary spokesmen to local offices or to ES programmes such as job clubs, officials are required to notify such requests to my office. I am keen that parliamentary spokesmen should have an opportunity to see ES operations at first hand and I have written to the hon. Member to explain the position.

NORTHERN IRELAND

  Student Numbers
  Mr. McGrady
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what were the student numbers in the bachelor of education degree, honours, in each year since 1988 in(a) Stranmillis college of education and (b) St. Mary's college of education, Belfast;

  (2) what were the student numbers in the bachelor of education degree, general, in each year since 1988 in (a) Stranmillis college of education and (b) St. Mary's college of education, Belfast;

  (3) what were the student numbers in the diploma in the advanced study of education in each year since 1988 in (a) Stranmillis college of education and (b) St. Mary's college of education, Belfast;

  (4) what were the student numbers in the post-graduate diploma in education in each year since 1988 in (a) Stranmillis college of education and (b) St. Mary's college of education, Belfast and (c) Queen's university of Belfast.

  Dr. Mawhinney
  The numbers were:

  1988–89

  1989–90

  1990–91

  (a) Stranmillis college

  BEd (Honours)

  499

  597

  637

  BEd (General)1

  98

  46

  —

  DASE2

  69

  70

  58

  PGCE3

  67

  63

  55

  PGCE (Hons) Psychology

  3

  6

  6

  (b) St. Mary's college

  BEd (Honours)

  512

  587

  629

  BEd (General)1

  111

  46

  —

  DASE2

  78

  99

  94

  PGCE

  65

  64

  58

  593

  1988–89

  1989–90

  1990–91

  Queen's university PGCE3

  119

  125

  146

  1 1987–88 was the last year of entry to the three-year general degree course. Since 1988–89 all BEd entrants have followed a four-year honours course.

  2 DASE figures represent the full-time equivalent student loan.

  3 The diploma in education was replaced by the postgraduate certificate in education in 1976.

  Education (Finance)
  Mr. McGrady
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the budgetary allocation to Stranmillis college of education and St. Mary's college of education in each year since 1988.

  Dr. Mawhinney
  The budgets for approved recurrent expenditure in the last three financial years were:

  Stranmillis college

  St. Mary's college

  1988–89

  3,544

  3,345

  1989–90

  3,836

  3,709

  1990–91

  4,117

  4,032

  The figures represent gross expenditure, part of which is funded from tuition fee income.

  Private Residential and Nursing Homes
  Mr. McGrady
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many private residential and nursing homes are currently registered in the Eastern and Southern health and social services boards; and if he will list them.

  Mr. Hanley
  At 31 December 1990, the latest date for which information is held centrally, the numbers of nursing homes registered by the Eastern and Southern health and social services boards were 66 and 29, respectively.

  At 31 March 1991, the latest date for which information is held centrally, the numbers of homes for persons in need, registered by the Eastern and Southern health and social services boards were 105 and 23, respectively.

  As the list requested is very lengthy, I have arranged for a copy to be sent to the hon. Gentleman and for copies to be placed in the Library.

  Eye Surgery
  Mr. McGrady
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what measures will be taken to reduce the waiting list for cataract operations at the Royal Victoria hospital, Belfast;

  (2) what additional resources will be allocated to eye surgery at the Royal Victoria hospital, Belfast.

  Mr. Hanley
  Additional funds of some £440,000 have been allocated to ophthalmology at the Royal Victoria hospital over the past two years. The funds allocated thus far have enabled an extra 600 procedures to be carried out during 1990–91, the great majority of which have been for cataracts. I hope to announce in the near future further additional funding for 1991–92 which should enable an additional 1,200 procedures to be carried out during 1991–92.
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  Better management of waiting lists also helps to reduce both their length and the waiting time. The Department therefore supports the initiatives by the clinical resource efficiency support team, a group of clinicians formed to promote clinical efficiency. The team has produced a guidance booklet on waiting list management. As a result, boards have been asked to draw up programmes of management action focusing in particular on those specialties which have the greatest problems.

  Social Services Committee
  Mr. A. Cecil Walker
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he will announce the composition of the new Social Services Committee which replaces the district committees disbanded on 1 April.

  Mr. Hanley
  The chairmen of the four councils were announced on 4 April and I hope to be able to announce the membership within the next few weeks.

  Eye Surgery
  Mr. McGrady
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cataract operations were carried out at the Royal Victoria hospital, Belfast in each year since 1 April 1985.

  Mr. Hanley
  Information is based on calendar years from 1985 to 1988 and on the financial year for 1989–90. The numbers are:

  Year

  Cataract operations

  1985

  959

  1986

  957

  1987

  1,329

  1988

  1,595

  1989–90

  1,552

  Advance Factories
  Mr. John D. Taylor
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at what locations there are unoccupied advance factories.

  Mr. Needham
  There are unoccupied advance factories at Antrim (technology park), Armagh, Ballymena, Bangor, Belfast (Adelaide), Craigavon, Londonderry (Springtown), Newtownards and Strabane.

  Ryan Park, Castlereagh
  Mr. John D. Taylor
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland for what reasons the Northern Ireland Housing Executive removed the play equipment from the play area at the rear of Ryan park in the borough of Castlereagh; and what proposals there are to provide play equipment for the children of this residential area.

  Mr. Needham
  I am advised by the chief executive of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive that the Housing Executive has not removed any play equipment from the play area at the rear of Ryan park.

  The Department of Environment has been unable to establish who removed it. However, I understand that Castlereagh borough council is now considering the provision of new play equipment for the children of the area.

  Extradition (Irish Republic)
  Mr. Trimble
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the persons who have been extradited for political offences since 1980(a) from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland and (b) from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland, giving the year in which the extradition occurred and indicating the outcome of the case.

  Dr. Mawhinney
  None. The legislation effecting extradition between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland precludes extradition for a political offence.

  Fair Employment
  Mr. John D. Taylor
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland including staff transferred from the former Fair Employment Agency, how many members of the Fair Employment Commission staff have been appointed since Mr. Harry Goodman was appointed chief executive of the commission; how many of these staff members are Roman Catholics; and if he will make a statement about Mr. Goodman's previous experience of industry and personnel management prior to his appointment as chief executive of the Commission.

  Mr. Needham
  Thirty one members of the Fair Employment Commission staff have been appointed since Mr. Harry Goodman was appointed chief executive of the commission, of whom 18 are Protestant and 13 are Roman Catholic.

  Mr. Harry Goodman's career began in the Northern Ireland civil service. Prior to leaving the NICS in 1978, he had been a senior manpower adviser on personnel and industrial relations matters, work which necessitated extensive contact with both sides of industry at the highest levels of both management and trade unions.

  On leaving the civil service, Mr. Goodman became assistant chief executive and chief officer (advisory services) of the Labour Relations Agency where his work included the development of a range of advisory services to industry on industrial relations and employment and personnel matters, as well as the management of finance and personnel within the organisation. He also had responsibility for the conciliation services associated with individual complaints.

  Mr. Goodman is an economics graduate of Queen's university Belfast and a fellow of the Institute of Personnel Management.

  Mr. Trimble
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will state the number of persons whose perceived religious affiliation was Protestant and Roman Catholic and(a) operational staff and (b) other staff of (i) the Fair Employment Agency at the time of its dissolution, (ii) the Fair Employment Commission at the time of its creation and (iii) the Fair Employment Commission at the present time.

  Mr. Needham
  As the Fair Employment Agency became the Fair Employment Commission on 1 January 1990, the number of staff at the time of the agency's dissolution is the same as the number of commission staff at the time of its creation.

  The commission has declared its intention to make monitoring information available on a yearly basis. To make such information available more frequently and
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  covering shorter periods could infringe the confidentiality requirements of the Fair Employment Acts by disclosing the religious beliefs of identifiable individuals. Accordingly, details are provided in relation to support and operational staff as at 1 January 1991.

  1 January 1990

  Protestant

  Roman Catholic

  Operational staff

  1

  15

  Support staff

  7

  4

  1 January 1991

  Protestant

  Roman Catholic

  Operational staff

  18

  19

  Support staff

  12

  8

  Further Education
  Mr. Stott
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what plans he has to remove further education in Northern Ireland from education and library board control;

  (2) if he will make a statement on his conclusions for the future of further education subsequent to the consultative document "Signposts for the 90s"

  Dr. Mawhinney
  My right hon. and noble Friend the Paymaster General recently announced the conclusions that the Government have reached about the future of further education in Northern Ireland. These took account of the responses received to the consultative document "Signposts for the 90s". In particular, my right hon. and noble Friend announced proposed new arrangements designed to achieve the Government's aim of a better planned and co-ordinated system of further education in the Province. The Government are satisfied that this aim can be achieved without disturbing the existing statutory position of the further education colleges and the education and library boards.

  Mr. Stott
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will specify the number of lecturing posts in each college of further education which have been transferred from youth training programme funding to mainstream further education funding since April 1991.

  Dr. Mawhinney
  Following the introduction of the block funding arrangements for the youth training programme (YTP) on 1 April 1990, the Department of Education was advised that, in a number of further education colleges, some full-time teaching posts which had been funded from YTP resources in previous years were now deployed mainly on mainstream (non-YTP) courses. The number of posts, and the colleges involved are:

  Name of College

  Number of posts

  Institute of Further and Higher Education—Belfast

  College of technology

  4

  College of busines studies

  3

  Rupert Stanley college

  3

  Antrim

  3

  Ballymena

  1

  Coleraine

  2

  Magherafelt

  3

  Newtownabbey

  5

  Fermanagh

  4

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  Name of College

  Number of posts

  Limavady

  3

  North West college

  6

  Omagh

  2

  Down

  9

  Lisburn

  2

  Newcastle

  5

  North Down and Ards college

  8

  Mr. Stott
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will specify how much has been allocated by each education and library board to further education out of his recent announcement to allow boards to spend £2·7 million to help to prevent teacher redundancies and to specify the mechanism by which boards allocated this money to colleges.

  Dr. Mawhinney
  Of the total sum of £2·7 million allocated by the Department, £1·3 million was earmarked for primary schools. Boards then decided how the remaining £1·4 million should be allocated to their post-primary schools and further education colleges.

  The amounts allocated by boards to further education colleges were as follows:

  Education and library board

  £

  Belfast

  70,000

  Western

  50,000

  North-Eastern

  80,000

  South-Eastern

  Nil

  Southern

  40,000

  Boards allocated these sums to colleges by application of the formula set out in their FE delegation schemes or on the basis of greatest need.

  Mr. Stott
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will specify the amount of the unit of resource being applied by each education and library board to fund a full-time equivalent student in further education.

  Dr. Mawhinney
  I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.

  Mr. Stott
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the relative value of the unit of resource for further education to the level of funding for an A-level student in each grammar school in each board area.

  Dr. Mawhinney
  I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.

SCOTLAND

  Staffing Levels
  Mr. Maxton
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the whole time equivalent number of (i) medical staff, (ii) hospital doctors, (iii) general practitioners, (iv) community doctors and (v) nursing and midwifery staff employed in the Scottish health service in each year since 1974, inclusive.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  The information requested for each year from 1974 to 1989 is contained in editions of Scottish Health Statistics, copies of which are available in the House of Commons Library.
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  Figures for 1990 are shown in the following table:

  Staff in post at 30 September 1990, whole-time equivalents

  Wte

  Wtu

  Medical staff

  9,918·0

  Comprising hospital doctors

  5,746·3

  Community doctors

  428·7

  General medical practitioners

  13,743·0

  General dental practitioners

  1,694·0

  Nursing and midwifery

  63,687·2

  1 Provisional, including assistants and trainees.

  Council Housing
  Mrs. Irene Adams
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many council houses there are; and how many council(a) houses and (b) flats have been sold in (i) Scotland and (ii) Renfrew district since May 1979.

  Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
  Information on local authority housing stock was published in table 14 of Statistical Bulletin HSU No. 17. Copies were sent to all Members representing Scottish constituencies and are available in the House Library.

  Information on the number of council houses and flats sold to sitting tenants between April 1979 and December 1990 is set out in the table.

  Total

  Houses

  Flats

  Scotland

  1159,020

  116,334

  42,267

  Renfrew

  7,064

  4,204

  2,860

  (1) Includes sales where dwelling type is not known.

  Mortgage Repossessions
  Mrs. Irene Adams
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many mortgage repossessions there have been in(a) Strathclyde region and (b) Renfrew district during each of the past 12 months for which records are available; and what were the annual figures for each of the past 12 months.

  Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
  This information is not available in the form requested. The Council of Mortgage Lenders publishes statistics in their regular newsletters on various aspects of mortgage lending by building societies but this is on a Great Britain basis and no corresponding information is available for Scotland only. No information about other mortgage lenders is held centrally.

  Road Safety
  Mr. David Marshall
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to improve road safety in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.

  Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
  The Scottish Office is committed to playing its full part towards achievement of the Government's target of reducing road accident casualties by one-third by the year 2000. The Scottish Office will work closely with local roads authorities to draw up the road safety plans recommended in the Local Authority Association's "Code of Good Practice" endorsed by COSLA in 1989. It will initiate appropriate engineering works and standards, publicity, education and enforcement measures and legislative changes to improve road safety in Scotland.

  In addition to a very substantial ongoing investment on the road network in Scotland, the Scottish Office has set up

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  an accident investigation and prevention (AIP) unit with its own budget to finance safety schemes on trunk roads. A rolling programme has been prepared by the local authority agents, whose accident remedial unit's viability and establishment has been largely underwritten by the volume of trunk road work, thus allowing expanded expenditure on local roads.

  The Scottish road safety campaign, which is largely funded by the Scottish Office, has an ongoing programme providing publicity and education materials in Scotland to raise public awareness of the importance of road safety. This is in addition to the Department of Transport's national campaigns.

  Sexual Offences
  Mr. David Marshall
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many reported cases of rape there were in Scotland in 1989 and 1990; how many men were prosecuted for rape in each of these years; how many were convicted; what were the sentences; and how many had previously served a sentence for the same offence.

  Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
  In 1989 and 1990, 328 and 326 cases respectively of rape were recorded by the police in Scotland. In 1989, 89 men were proceeded against, 50 of whom had a charge of rape proved against them. Of these 50, 39 were imprisoned, seven were sent to a young offenders' institution, two were admonished, one was fined and in one case no order was made.

  In 1989, three men successfully prosecuted for rape were recorded as having previously served a sentence for this crime. Court disposal figures for 1990 are not yet available.

  Mental Handicap
  Sir David Steel
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will amend the current community charge legislation so as to exempt from any liability those with a mental health handicap who live in accommodation of the Ark housing association and other special housing associations.

  Mr. Lang
  I have no plans to make any changes to the existing community charge arrangements. However, I have previously made it clear that I would be prepared to do so if particular circumstances showed that changes were necessary.

  Sir David Steel
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will exempt those with a mental handicap who live in property of the Ark housing association and other special housing associations from liability to all or part of the proposed council tax.

  Mr. Lang
  We shall be considering the responses to the consultation paper on our council tax proposals before reaching final decisions on issues of this kind.

  Student Accommodation
  Mr. Livsey
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many students were resident in college accommodation at each university in Scotland in 1990; and what was the proportion of the total number of students in such accommodation.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  The information requested is given in the table:
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  Session 1989–90

  University

  Number of students in university-owned residence

  Percentage of total full-time students

  Aberdeen

  2,808

  46·0

  Dundee

  1,494

  39·7

  Edinburgh

  4,270

  39·3

  Glasgow

  2,682

  23·3

  Heriot-Watt

  1,026

  23·3

  St. Andrews

  2,448

  62·1

  Stirling

  2,086

  61·1

  Strathclyde

  1,520

  18·2

  All Scotland

  18,328

  35·0

  Primary School Testing
  Mr. Robertson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many representations have been made to him by school boards or parent-teacher associations which have been in favour of compulsory primary school testing.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  To date, about 1,300 representatives including those from school boards and parent teacher associations have been received, covering a complete spectrum of views on testing.

  Dogs
  Mr. Geraint Howells
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his estimate of the number of dogs in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Allan Stewart
  I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Springburn (Mr. Martin) on 5 June 1991 at column 262.

  Farm Employment
  Dr. David Clark
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many farmers, partners, directors and farmworkers were employed by region in Scotland in June 1980.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  The number of farmers, spouses doing farm work and farmworkers employed on main holdings in June 1980, by local authority region, is shown in the following table. Partners and directors are not separately enumerated in the June census but are included either as farmers or farmworkers.

  Region

  Number of farmers

  Number of spouses doing farm work

  Number of farmworkers

  Borders

  1,143

  309

  3,513

  Central

  738

  265

  1,322

  Dumfries and Galloway

  2,352

  806

  5,176

  Fife

  755

  225

  2,623

  Grampian

  4,826

  1,290

  7,549

  Highland

  2,997

  938

  2,734

  Lothian

  805

  253

  2,802

  Strathclyde

  4,393

  1,989

  7,316

  Tayside

  2,025

  532

  6,212

  Islands

  3,027

  1,265

  1,355

  Scotland

  23,061

  7,872

  40,602

  Note:

  The coverage of main holdings has changed since June 1980. In 1986 some 6,000 holdings were transferred from the main to the minor holdings list. At that time these holdings returned 3,480 farmers, 1,071 spouses and 463 farm workers.

  Education
  Mr. Worthington
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland which organisations representing parents the Minister of State is willing to meet to discuss educational matters.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  I am happy of course to receive the views of parents on educational matters at any time, whether or not they are members of an organisation.

  House Repairs and Maintenance
  Mr. Sillars
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the number of private sector houses in Glasgow over each of the past five years, and the total amount of grant for repairs and maintenance in each year, and express that total as divided by the number of private sector houses.

  Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
  [holding answer 22 May 1991] : The available information is set out in the table. Grant is not payable for ongoing works of maintenance.

  Private sector dwellings1

  Amount of repair grant paid£2

  (a)

  (b)

  (b)÷(a)

  1986

  119,172

  24,143,865

  203

  1987

  122,176

  24,116,945

  197

  1988

  125,401

  23,575,413

  188

  1989

  128,093

  30,197,296

  236

  1990

  n/a

  18,690,760

  n/a

  1 Source: Valuation roll. Includes housing association dwellings.

  2 Source: Returns from Glasgow district council.

  n/a not available.

  New Towns (Employment)
  Mr. Norman Hogg
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many jobs were created, and how many jobs were lost, in each of the Scottish new towns in 1990.

  Mr. Allan Stewart
  [holding answer 6 June 1991]: This information is not available for the 1990 calendar year. The development corporations' estimates for the 1990–91 financial year are as follows:

  New town

  Number of jobs created

  Number of jobs lost

  Net loss or gain

  Cumbernauld

  872

  189

  +683

  East Kilbride

  864

  378

  +486

  Glenrothes

  1,571

  2,296

  -725

  Irvine

  1,091

  746

  +345

  Livingston

  3,864

  3,462

  +402

  Total

  8,262

  7,071

  +1,191

AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD

  Common Agricultural Policy
  Mr. Ralph Howell
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to his answer of 26 March,Official Report, column 375, if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the amount spent on agricultural support in the United Kingdom under the common agricultural policy and by national grants and subsidies in both actual and real terms for 1960–61 and for each year from 1973–74 to 1990–91.
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  Mr. Curry
  Separate figures for expenditure under the Common Agricultural Policy and on national grants and subsidies are not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

  Sir Peter Emery
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the positive steps taken by his Ministry to move the emphasis from quantitative to qualitative support in agriculture policy in the EC.

  Mr. Curry
  The Government have supported a number of changes to the common agricultural policy designed to make Community agriculture more market orientated. Such changes should encourage farmers to respond to consumer demand and to rely less on artificial outlets such as intervention.

  Sheep Dip
  Mr. Speller
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will meet constituents of the hon. Member for Devon, North who suffer from the effects of using organophosphorous sheep dip compounds.

  Mr. Maclean
  I met representatives from the Pesticides Exposure Group of Sufferers (PEGS) on 23 October 1990. I can see little advantage in having a further meeting at this time.

  Mr. Speller
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many complaints he has received about the physical side effects of organophosphorous sheep dip compounds; if he will refuse future licences for these compounds; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Maclean
  I have received 63 reports since 1985 of suspected adverse reactions concerning the physical side effects to humans of organophosphorous sheep dips. Twelve of these reports relate to products no longer licensed. In addition I have recently received 18 brief reports from the National Poisons Centre which my officials are currently investigating. I am not yet able to say whether these reports include duplicates of those mentioned above.

  These 63 reports should be set in the context of more than 1 million dippings since 1985.

  All suspected adverse reaction reports are investigated. Future licence applications for such compounds will continue to be determined in accordance with the Medicines Act criteria of safety, quality and efficacy. Existing organophosphorous sheep dip products are currently being reviewed to see whether they meet up-to-date standards. Any products which fail to do so will have to be withdrawn from the market. The review will be completed later this year.

  Pigs
  Mr. Ron Davies
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will place in the Library copies of representations he has received concerning his proposed regulations on sow stalls and tethers; and when he expects these regulations to become effective.

  Mr. Maclean
  Those consulted on the draft Welfare of Pigs Regulations 1991 were not warned that their responses might be made public and I do not therefore propose to make them available.

  If Parliament approves the proposed regulations this month, they will make it illegal to use new close

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  confinement systems for pigs from 1 October this year and will phase out existing installations of this kind by the end of 1998.

  Mr. Ron Davies
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the evidence of blue ear disease among pigs in the United Kingdom.

  Mr. Maclean
  Symptoms not immediately attributable to any specific disease have occurred on eleven premises in Humberside. Blue-eared pig disease, which has occurred in a number of other Community countries, cannot be ruled out as the cause. Movement restrictions have been imposed on the areas surrounding the holdings concerned and investigations are continuing.

  Meat Inspection Charges
  Mr. Ron Davies
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what representations he has received concerning the practices of meat inspection charges being passed directly to producers.

  Mr. Maclean
  We are aware of the concerns expressed by livestock producers about the passing back of an element of the meat inspection charges. The purpose of meat inspection and residue sampling at slaughterhouses is, of course, to protect the final consumer. We are also aware that the Director General of Fair Trading is considering this issue and this Department stands ready to provide any inspection he may require.

  Dogs
  Mr. Ron Davies
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, further to his answer to the hon. Member for Caerphilly of 3 June,Official Report, what information he holds concerning the details of dogs imported into the United Kingdom.

  Mr. Maclean
  Prospective importers of dogs into this country are required to supply details of their animal such as breed, age and sex in order that the Department can issue an import licence. This information is used to check that a dog arriving in the United Kingdom is covered by an import licence. Subsequently the information is not

  Distribution of farmers and workers by county June 1980 census (England)

  Principal farmers or partners

  Other partners or directors

  Spouses of farmers/ partners or directors

  All other workers

  Total

  Avon

  1,890

  604

  584

  4,129

  7,207

  Bedfordshire

  1,118

  620

  467

  3,177

  5,382

  Berkshire

  735

  268

  220

  2,353

  3,576

  Buckinghamshire

  1,653

  620

  528

  3,477

  6,278

  Cambridgeshire

  3,497

  1,576

  1,182

  10,859

  17,114

  Cheshire

  3,848

  1,289

  1,336

  5,915

  12,388

  Cleveland

  430

  168

  122

  703

  1,423

  Cornwall

  6,243

  1,807

  2,263

  6,461

  16,774

  Cumbria

  5,698

  2,269

  2,103

  5,313

  15,383

  Derbyshire

  3,420

  1,194

  1,105

  3,796

  9,515

  Devon

  9,834

  2,722

  3,708

  10,390

  26,654

  Dorset

  2,501

  891

  938

  5,243

  9,573

  Durham

  2,002

  783

  722

  2,386

  5,893

  East Sussex

  1,864

  616

  635

  3,973

  7,088

  Essex

  3,154

  1,487

  1,084

  10,131

  15,856

  Gloucestershire

  2,652

  1,018

  877

  5,233

  9,780

  Greater London (East)

  130

  57

  42

  493

  722

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  required and it could only be retrieved at disproportionate cost. The numbers of import licences issued for dogs during the last five years are:

  Number

  1986

  4,738

  1987

  5,249

  1988

  5,132

  1989

  5,915

  1990

  5,999

  Sugar
  Mrs. Mahon
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the 1991–92 farm prices as they affect sugar production and prices.

  Mr. Curry
  In the 1991–92 price settlement, EC support prices for sugar beet and white sugar were frozen at 1990–91 levels in ECU terms. A green pound devaluation will result in a 2·04 per cent. increase in these prices in the United Kingdom.

  Green Pound Devaluation
  Mrs. Mahon
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessment he has made of the impact on consumers arising from the recent green pound devaluation.

  Mr. Curry
  It is estimated that when the effects have fully worked through the devaluations will increase the food price index by approximately 0·25 per cent. and the retail price index by less than 0·05 per cent.

  Farm Employment
  Dr. David Clark
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many farmers, partners, directors and farmworkers were employed by county in England in June 1980.

  Mr. Gummer
  The information requested is given in the table. Data are taken from the June 1980 agricultural census and hence exclude estimates for minor holdings not in the annual census.
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  Principal farmers or partners

  Other partners or directors

  Spouses of farmers/ partners or directors

  All other workers

  Total

  Greater London (South-East)

  281

  95

  92

  995

  1,463

  Greater Manchester

  1,393

  514

  510

  1,862

  4,279

  Hampshire

  2,478

  959

  818

  8,412

  12,667

  Hereford and Worcester

  5,787

  2,204

  1,915

  11,672

  21,578

  Hertfordshire

  1,112

  489

  322

  3,544

  5,467

  Humberside

  3,189

  1,682

  894

  8,890

  14,655

  Isle of Wight

  423

  116

  135

  1,054

  1,728

  Isles of Scilly

  61

  18

  30

  109

  218

  Kent

  3,690

  1,464

  1,231

  16,448

  22,833

  Lancashire

  5,399

  1,951

  2,095

  7,011

  16,456

  Leicestershire

  2,507

  1,011

  728

  4,026

  8.272

  Lincolnshire

  5,451

  2,626

  1,882

  17,901

  27,860

  Merseyside

  470

  219

  178

  1,109

  1,976

  Norfolk

  4,620

  1,786

  1,451

  17,761

  25,618

  North Yorkshire (Beverley)

  3,114

  1,256

  1,114

  5,546

  11,030

  North Yorkshire (North Allerton)

  4,636

  2,080

  1,438

  6,907

  15,061

  Northamptonshire

  1,674

  731

  496

  3,238

  6,139

  Northumberland

  2,024

  907

  709

  3,822

  7,462

  Nottinghamshire

  1,804

  799

  464

  4,408

  7,475

  Oxfordshire

  1,801

  751

  536

  4,701

  7,789

  Shropshire

  4,350

  1,635

  1,478

  6,788

  14,251

  Somerset

  4,812

  1,639

  1,767

  7,307

  15,525

  South Yorkshire

  1,251

  518

  373

  1,954

  4,096

  Staffordshire

  3,939

  1,336

  1,316

  5,304

  11,895

  Suffolk

  3,190

  1,428

  1,040

  10,476

  16,134

  Surrey

  1,354

  440

  475

  4,845

  7,114

  Tyne and Wear

  284

  116

  77

  580

  1,057

  Warwickshire

  2,041

  770

  653

  3,838

  7,402

  West Midlands

  461

  162

  156

  854

  1,633

  West Sussex

  1,628

  709

  681

  8,102

  11,120

  West Yorkshire

  2,519

  882

  751

  3,116

  7,268

  Wiltshire

  2,549

  981

  717

  6,019

  10,266

  Source: Agricultural census June 1980 (excludes minor holdings).

  Milk Marketing Board
  Mr. Martlew
  To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what plans he has for the future of the Milk Marketing Board.

  Mr. Curry
  The Government's approach has been to encourage the dairy industry to come forward with proposals for more open and competitive milk marketing arrangements. We welcomed the milk marketing board's decision to submit plans for transforming itself to co-operative status. The next step is for the board to bring the dairy trade into its discussions and there will need to be an opportunity for wider consultation with all interests affected before decisions are taken. The Government are ready to facilitate change provided it commands industry support and is compatible with competition law.

DEFENCE

  JP233 Weapons
  Sir Eldon Griffiths
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he has completed his evaluation of the effectiveness of the JP233s delivered by the RAF in the Gulf war; if this weapon is still being produced; and if any have been sold to other nations.

  Mr. Alan Clark
  We are continuing to study all aspects of the Gulf campaign. Production of the JP233 has now ceased. It is not our normal practice to comment on whether particular items of defence equipment have been sold abroad.

  Gulf War
  Sir Eldon Griffiths
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects to complete the lessons of the Gulf weapons and tactics used by Her Majesty's Forces in the recent war.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  Detailed analysis of the campaign and the conclusions to be drawn from it is continuing, and will not be complete for some time.

  Sir Eldon Griffiths
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he is now able to state how many of the seven Tornado aircraft lost in the Gulf war were shot down by enemy action; and how many crashed after flying into the ground without being hit by hostile fire.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  Of the six Tornados lost in action during the Gulf conflict, it now seems likely that two aircraft were lost to anti-aircraft fire and a third to a surface-to-air missile at medium level, but detailed investigations are continuing.

  Boxer System
  Sir Eldon Griffiths
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence why the Royal Air Force needs a new advance communications network; how many towers are to be built as part of the Boxer system, and where; how much these new arrangements will cost; what discussions he had with British Telecom and Mercury with a view to their providing such a network for leasing by the Royal Air Force; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Alan Clark
  The Royal Air Force's existing communications system within the United Kingdom,
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  which relies almost entirely on commercially-rented facilities, lacks sufficient capacity for high-speed digital data transfer. The Boxer network which will replace it, will include a total of 212 microwave link towers, using existing towers wherever possible. For security reasons locations cannot be disclosed. The estimated cost of the project is £230 million. The option of continuing to rely on commercially-rented facilities has been considered but rejected on cost grounds.

  Married Quarters, Hampshire
  Sir David Price
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the sufficiency of availability of married quarters for the various units due to be withdrawn from BAOR under the new NATO arrangements; and what assessment he has made of the effect upon housing requirements in Hampshire.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  The future requirement for married quarters in the United Kingdom is currently being reviewed as part of the "Options for Change" studies.

  Low Flying
  Mr. Flynn
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the avoidance areas for low-flying military aircraft over Wales.

  Mr. Kenneth Carlisle
  As set out in the Government's reply to the Defence Committee's report on low flying last year (HC 659/90), it remains our policy not to release such information.

  Mr. Flynn
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when the corridor for low-flying aircraft running north from the Severn estuary to the Black mountains was narrowed in the past 10 years; and what were the reasons for the change.

  Mr. Kenneth Carlisle
  I am not aware of any such corridor. The structure of the current United Kingdom low flying system is designed to make the widest possible area available for low flying training so as to minimise the level of disturbance to those on the ground.

  Mr. Flynn
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if file will define the boundaries of the transit areas for low-flying aircraft over Wales now and those which existed prior to 1985.

  Mr. Kenneth Carlisle
  I will write to the hon. Member.

  Rapid Reaction Force
  Mr. Flynn
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what United Kingdom nuclear weapons will be allocated in support of the new allied command in Europe rapid reaction force; and what additional costs will result to the armed forces budget as a result of the NATO Ministers' meeting on 28 May.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  We do not comment on nuclear weapon deployments. The costs of the force structure

  County

  Local authority

  Location

  Description

  Hectares

  Avon

  Bristol City Council

  Bristol

  Vale lane—Quarry

  1·619

  Bedfordshire

  North Bedfordshire BC

  Cardington

  RAF Cardington

  11·938

  Berkshire

  Windsor and Maidenhead DC

  Slough

  ARE Ditton Park

  30·351

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  emerging from the "Options for Change" study and from consultations with NATO are being further refined and the Government's spending plans for defence will be set out in the Autumn Statement following this year's public expenditure discussions.

  Challenger Tank
  Mr. Hayward
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will ask General Dynamics to detail those aspects of its tender for the Challenger tank replacement which cover senior executives' emoluments.

  Mr Alan Clark
  No.

  Helicopter Flights, Northern Ireland
  Mr. Mallon
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the average daily number of helicopter flights to and from Army installations at(a) Crossmaglen, (b) Bessbrook, (c) Forkhill, (d) Drummuckavall, (e) Crievekeeran and (f) Glassdrummond in each month since 1 January 1988.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  It is not the practice to provide operational details of this kind.

  General Dynamics
  Mr. Hayward
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those contracts valued at over £10 million for which General Dynamics is currently tendering as prime contractor.

  Mr. Alan Clark
  Involving my Department, one only —the contract for a main battle tank to replace the Chieftain.

  Contract Tendering
  Mr. Hayward
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make it his policy to ask companies tendering For contracts for information in relation to senior executives' emoluments.

  Mr. Alan Clark
  Our existing arrangements with industry are adequate in this regard.

  Vacant Land
  Mr. Steen
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will set out in the Official Report the location of each site and its acreage of the unused and underused land held by his Department.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  The MOD register of unused and underused land in England is presently being updated. A list of sites included in the register as at 31 March 1990 is set out below. Many of these sites have now been sold or are in the process of disposal. I will provide the hon. Member with a revised list when available. Similar information for land held in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is not held centrally and could be provided only at a disproportionate cost.
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  County

  Local authority

  Location

  Description

  Hectares

  Cambridgeshire

  Huntingdon

  Huntingdon

  RAF Brampton

  0·727

  Cambridgeshire

  Peterborough City Council

  Peterborough

  Saville Road

  0·499

  Cambridgeshire

  South Cambridgeshire DC

  Duxford

  Land adjoining M.Q's

  2·509

  Cheshire

  Macclesfleld BC

  Wilmslow

  Dean Row

  21·600

  Cheshire

  Warrington BC

  Stockton Heath

  103–115 Greenfields Avenue

  0·360

  Cornwall

  Caradon DC

  Saltash

  Land and Buildings

  1·044

  Cornwall

  Carrick DC

  Swanvale

  Oil Fuel depot

  3·400

  Cumbria

  Carlisle City

  Crindledyke

  Development land

  0·473

  Cumbria

  Carlisle City

  Longtown

  CAD—Site B

  0·500

  Cumbria

  Copeland BC

  Millom

  Hycemoor Way

  2·790

  Cumbria

  Copeland BC

  Whitehaven

  Eskmeals house

  2·800

  Cumbria

  Copeland BC

  Whitehaven

  Hycemoor Way

  2·860

  Derbyshire

  South Derbyshire DC

  Hilton

  CVD

  109·265

  Devon

  Plymouth City Council

  Mount Wise

  Land and Buildings

  2·010

  Devon

  Plymouth City Council

  Radford Woods

  Oil Fuel Depot

  11·730

  Devon

  Plymouth City Council

  Turnchapel

  Oil Fuel Depot

  5·110

  Devon

  South Hams DC

  Dartmouth

  Land—College Way

  1·340

  Devon

  South Hams DC

  Plymouth

  Renney Lentney Training Camp

  23·876

  Devon

  Torbay BC

  Brixham

  Oil Fuel Depot

  3·680

  Devon

  West Devon BC

  Harrowbeer

  Stores Depot

  3·800

  Dorset

  East Dorset DC

  Wimborne

  West Moore—Petrol

  1·619

  Dorset

  Weymouth and Portland BC

  Portland

  Folly Pier, The Grove

  13·000

  Dorset

  Weymouth and Portland BC

  Portland

  The Grove Reservoir

  4·000

  Durham

  Derwentside DC

  Consett

  Watling Street

  0·720

  Essex

  Braintree DC

  Braintree

  Land at RAF Ridgewell

  2·302

  Essex

  Colchester BC

  Colchester

  Bounstead Road

  0·510

  Greater London

  Barnet

  Hendon

  East Camp

  15·192

  Greater London

  Barnet

  Hendon

  HQ's

  0·405

  Greater London

  Barnet

  Hendon

  RAF Hendon

  0·405

  Greater London

  Barnet

  Whetstone

  Postal Buildings

  0·809

  Greater London

  Greenwich

  Woolwich

  Arsenal East

  32·375

  Greater London

  Greenwich

  Woolwich

  Cambridge House

  0·529

  Greater London

  Greenwich

  Woolwich

  Connaught Barracks

  2·428

  Greater London

  Greenwich

  Woolwich

  Roberts House

  0·480

  Greater London

  Hillingdon

  Harefield

  Harefield House

  4·047

  Greater London

  Hounslow

  Hounslow

  Beavers Lane Camp

  3·209

  Greater London

  Richmond·Upon-Thames

  Teddington

  ARE Queen"s Road

  0·821

  Hampshire

  Basingstoke & Deane BC

  Bramley

  Campbell Road

  14·810

  Hampshire

  Basingstoke & Deane BC

  Bramley

  Land at Coopers Lane

  0·210

  Hampshire

  East Hampshire DC

  Bramshott

  Land—Hammer Lane

  2·280

  Hampshire

  East Hampshire DC

  East Meon

  HMS Mercury

  12·830

  Hampshire

  Eastleigh BC

  West end

  RN Victualing Depot

  4·800

  Hampshire

  Fareham BC

  HMS Daedalus

  Land

  8·020

  Hampshire

  Fareham BC

  Hillhead

  RNE Seafield Park

  5·800

  Hampshire

  Fareham BC

  Lee·on·Solent

  Land at HMS Daedalus

  0·599

  Hampshire

  Fareham BC

  Titchfield

  Land adjacent HQ's

  0·510

  Hampshire

  Gosport BC

  Gosport

  Land—Fort Road

  2·274

  Hampshire

  Gosport BC

  Gosport

  Land—Haslar Road

  2·926

  Hampshire

  Gosport BC

  Gosport

  Priddy's Hard

  40·469

  Hampshire

  Gosport BC

  Rowner

  Caravan Site

  2·630

  Hampshire

  Gosport BC

  Rowner

  Red House Site

  3·743

  Hampshire

  Gosport BC

  Rowner III South

  Flats & Houses

  4·452

  Hampshire

  New Forest DC

  Calshot

  Land & Houses

  2·210

  Hampshire

  Portsmouth City Council

  Gunwharf

  HMS Nelson

  3·775

  Hampshire

  Portsmouth City Council

  Southsea

  RM Eastney

  14·600

  Hampshire

  Rushmoor BC

  Aldershot

  Willems Park

  8·069

  Hampshire

  Rushmoor BC

  Farnborough

  RAF Sports Ground

  4·856

  Hampshire

  Rushmoor BC

  Farnborough

  RAF Borough

  1·635

  Hampshire

  Winchester City Council

  Winchester

  Bar End Playing Fields

  4·110

  Hampshire

  Winchester City Council

  Winchester

  Peninsula Barracks

  6·070

  Hereford and

  Malvern Hills DC

  Malvern

  The Lills, Blackmore Park

  2·990

  Worcester

  Hereford and

  Malvern Hills DC

  Malvern Wells

  Wood Farm Camp

  9·000

  Worcester

  Hereford and

  Wyre Forest DC

  Kidderminster

  Land—Drakelow Lane

  4·500

  Worcester

  Hertfordshire

  Hertsmere BC

  Bushey

  Ford Close

  0·899

  Hertfordshire

  Three Rivers DC

  Leavesden

  Private Airfield

  96·315

  Hertfordshire

  Watford BC

  Leavesden

  Private Airfield

  10·522

  Humberside

  Beverley DC

  Leconfield

  Lissett and Carnaby Close

  2·480

  Humberside

  East Yorkshire DC

  Driffield

  Alamein Barracks

  5·140

  Humberside

  East Yorkshire DC

  Great Driffield

  Auchinleck Close

  6·268

  Kent

  Dover DC

  Deal

  Cold Blow Sports Ground

  8·181

  Kent

  Dover DC

  Dover

  Land—Broadlees Bottom

  8·370

  Lancashire

  Preston BC

  Preston

  Greaveston—Oil Depot

  3·600

  Lancashire

  Preston BC

  Preston Docks

  Former Oil Depot

  3·400

  610 611

  County

  Local authority

  Location

  Description

  Hectares

  Lancashire

  West Lancashire DC

  Burscough

  Land—OSU Burscough

  2·104

  Leicestershire

  Charnwood BC

  Burton-on-the- Wolds

  Souters Lane

  1·914

  Leicestershire

  Rutland DC

  North Luffenham

  Private Airfield

  0·437

  Lincolnshire

  East Lindsey DC

  North Coates

  Private Airfield

  11·331

  Lincolnshire

  West Lindsey DC

  Binbrook

  RAF HQ's

  23·876

  Lincolnshire

  West Lindsey DC

  Binbrook

  RAF Technical areas

  31·970

  Lincolnshire

  West Lindsey DC

  Hemswell

  Gibraltar and Passey Roads

  1·054

  Norfolk

  Breckland DC

  Watton

  RAF Watton

  2·921

  Northumberland

  Castle Morpeth BC

  Saltwick

  Tranwell Airfield

  2·428

  Nottinghamshire

  Broxstowe DC

  Beston

  Chilwell

  38·020

  Nottinghamshire

  Rushcliffe BC

  Ruddington

  Ruddington

  110·480

  North Yorkshire

  Harrogate BC

  Dishforth

  Pt. OS 2046

  4·570

  North Yorkshire

  Harrogate BC

  Dishforth

  Pt. OS 3246

  3·743

  North Yorkshire

  Harrogate BC

  York

  Accomb Portal Road

  0·613

  North Yorkshire

  Richmondshire DC

  Catterick

  Land—Catterick Road

  4·589

  North Yorkshire

  Richmondshire DC

  Catterick

  Richmond Road

  1·280

  North Yorkshire

  York City

  York

  Acomb Askham Lane

  2·400

  Oxfordshire

  Cherwell DC

  Bicester

  B Site

  38·040

  Oxfordshire

  Cherwell DC

  Bicester

  Langford Park Farm

  4·010

  Oxfordshire

  Cherwell DC

  Bicester

  Mellor Gate

  1·530

  Shropshire

  Shrewsbury and Atcham BC

  Shrewsbury

  Shelton Road

  5·463

  Somerset

  Taunton Deane BC

  Taunton

  Jellalabad Bks

  2·023

  Somerset

  West Somerset DC

  Watchet

  Land

  15·400

  Staffordshire

  East Staffordshire DC

  Fauld

  former RAF Site

  5·600

  Staffordshire

  Stafford BC

  Stafford

  Elsworthy Close

  1·412

  Staffordshire

  Stafford BC

  Stafford

  Naafi Site

  2·371

  Suffolk

  Ipswich BC

  Ipswich

  Yarmouth Road

  1·000

  Surrey

  Guildford BC

  Guildford

  Stoughton Barracks

  7·284

  Surrey

  Guildford BC

  Peasmarsh

  Artington Cold store

  4·048

  Warwickshire

  Warwick DC

  Hampton on the Hill

  1 to 10 Montgomery Ave

  1·500

  Wiltshire

  Kennet DC

  Everleigh

  Everleigh Manor

  12·760

  Wiltshire

  Kennet DC

  North Tidworth

  Land—Ludgershall Road

  ·215

  Wiltshire

  Kennet DC

  North Ludgershall

  Crawlboys Road

  23·195

  Wiltshire

  Kennet DC

  Tidworth

  Mathew Circular Estate

  6·475

  Wiltshire

  Kennet DC

  West Chisenbury

  Thatched Barn

  ·255

  Wiltshire

  Salisbury DC

  Amesbury

  Boscombe Down HQ's

  5·991

  Total Hectares

  1022·777

  Total Acres

  2527·333

  Batus Range Accident
  Mr. John Browne
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether metal detectors were used as part of the range clearance or safety measures before Grenadier guardsmen Adrian Hicks, John Ray and Sean Povey were ordered to dig a trench in an impact area of the Batus live firing range in Canada on 7 July 1989.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  Metal detectors are not used as part of the range clearance measures at the Batus training area. The range covers some 2,630 sq km (1,000 sq mi) and it would be impractical to use detectors to sweep the area.

  Mr. John Browne
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will place in the Library a copy of the findings and of the summary findings of the board of 612
  inquiry into the Batus range accident of 7 July 1989 involving Grenadier guardsmen Adrian Hicks, John Ray and Sean Povey.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  I will arrange for a summary of the findings of the board of inquiry into this incident to be placed in the Library of the House.

  Mr. John Browne
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement outlining the reasons for his conclusion that no blame attached to anyone for the detonation of an unexploded shell that caused grievous injuries to Grenadier guardsmen Adrian Hicks, John Ray and Sean Povey.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  Legal advice was that it was not reasonably foreseeable that there should be a buried live munition at the spot where the trench was being dug and there was no blame attributable.

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