Written Answers of 12 February 1992

ENVIRONMENT

  Golf Courses
  Mr. Mills
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will introduce regulations or issue advice to local councils, restricting the proliferation of golf courses on green belt in environmentally sensitive areas.

  Mr. Yeo
  Advice on golf courses is contained in planning policy guidance notes 17 and 7 published in September 1991 and January 1992 respectively. These supplement the longstanding advice on development in green belts in planning policy guidance note 2. Golf courses should be located and designed to ensure harmony with the surrounding countryside and to conserve the natural environment. Local planning authorities should take special care when considering applications in green belts.

  Data Information Systems
  Mr. Cohen
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what data information systems his Department has(a) agreed and (b) been consulted about with a view to taking part in; what are the criteria for inclusion in such systems; whether they will be linked to (i) the police national computer and (ii) other computer systems; what data protection provisions apply to them; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Heseltine
  The information asked for is not readily available. However, my Department has a number of computer links with other organisations. None of these is with the police national computer; nor are there any plans for such links. More than 100 systems hold personal information and are registered under the Data Protection Act.

  Council Tax (Information)
  Mr. Cohen
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has to ensure that council tax information, intended to be made public, cannot be combined with personalised information held in other publicly held information; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Key
  The only council tax information to be publicly available will be the valuation list. This will contain only property information, such as the address and valuation band. It will contain no personal information, and will not be available for sale.

  Barkby Thorpe
  Mr. Vaz
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects to receive the inspectors report into the Barkby Thorpe, Leicester inquiry.
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  Mr. Yeo
  The inspector is preparing his report and will submit it to the Secretary of State as soon as possible. I shall ensure that the hon. Member receives a copy of the Secretary of State's decision when it is available.

  Poll Tax
  Mr. Allen
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what has been the cumulative poll tax charge for a person living in Nottinghamshire since its inception; and what is his estimate of the approximate cost per head of its collection.

  Mr. Key
  The aggregate of the headline community charges for 1990–91 and 1991–92 for Nottingham is £685. The cumulative cost per chargepayer charged to revenue account of preparation for and collection of the charge in 1989–90 to 1991–92 in Nottingham is estimated to be £28·20.

  Housing Associations
  Mr. Hague
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how much has been spent by housing associations in Darlington since 1979; and how many units of housing this has provided.

  Mr. Yeo
  The distribution of resources to housing associations among local authority areas is a matter for the Housing Corporation. I have therefore asked the corporation to reply direct to my hon. Friend with the information he has requested. A copy of the reply will be placed in the Library of the House.

  Ozone Layer
  Sir Michael McNair-Wilson
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will seek a meeting of the Montreal protocol signatories to discuss the latest reports about the depletion of the ozone layer; what consideration he has given to an earlier phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons because of their known effect on the layer; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Livsey
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what additional action he is taking to prevent further depletion of the ozone layer.

  Mr. Trippier
  I refer my hon. Friend and the hon. Member to the answer I gave yesterday, to my hon. Friend the Member for Bury, South (Mr. Sumberg) [Official Report column 430].

  Victoria and Albert Museum
  Mr. Madden
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received from the trustees of the Victoria and Albert museum concerning the financing of the proposed Victoria and Albert of the North in Bradford; what views have been expressed by the trustees over the availability of £8 million from the European regional development fund; when he intends to take a final decision on the application for city grant for the project; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Key
  My Department has received representations on behalf of the Victoria and Albert museum about the possibility of a grant from the European regional development fund for the proposed Victoria and Albert of
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  the North at Listers Mill. There are a number of major requirements which would need to be met before such a project could be regarded as viable and eligible for ERDF support. These include the means of funding the £13 million non-grant capital cost of the scheme and the projected annual revenue deficit, the practicality of undertaking the works within the Bradford ERDF programme time scale and resources, and meeting public expenditure requirements.

  A city grant application for redevelopment of another part of the Listers Mill complex has also been submitted and is under consideration. A conditional grant offer of £10 million was made last year to give the parties time to assemble a credible development package.

  Housing (Bradford)
  Mr. Madden
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will approve additional financial allocations to Bradford council to build homes for rent and to repair and improve council housing stock; and if he will increase improvement grant to improve private property in the district.

  Mr. Yeo
  Local authorities' housing investment programme—HIP—allocations for 1992–93 were announced on 16 December. Part of these resources, the housing annual capital guideline—is directed at meeting general needs in the authority, including the repair and improvement of its own stock. Our policy is well established that the building of new social housing is mainly the responsibility of housing associations, with local authorities assuming an enabling role.

  Authorities' HIP allocations also contain a guideline figure for resources for private sector renewal. Authorities may claim in excess of this figure, and are entitled to receive appropriate Exchequer contributions on the full sum. In addition, £30 million has been held back for 1992–93 to assist the authorities experiencing heavy demand for expenditure on mandatory grants, and Bradford will have an opportunity to bid for these resources in due course.

  Crawley Borough Council
  Mr. Soames
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what action he has decided to take in relation to Crawley borough council under part I of the Local Government Act 1988.

  Mr. Key
  My right hon. Friend has given careful consideration to the responses that Crawley borough council has made to the notices under section 13 of the Local Government Act 1988 served on the authority on 29 July 1991 in relation to its failure to meet the specified financial objective in carrying out other catering work in 1989–90; on 9 October 1991 in relation to its failure to meet specified financial objective in carrying out vehicle maintenance work in 1990–91; and on 9 October 1991 in relation to its failure to meet the specified financial objective in carrying out refuse collection work 1990–91. He has decided to take no further action in relation to the authority's performance of other catering work. In relation to the its performance of the two other activities, he has today given the authority directions under section 14 of the 1988 Act, with the effect of requiring the authority to complete a retendering exercise for vehicle maintenance work by 1 October 1992, and to seek his 508
  consent by 1 July 1992 to any decision to reassign the work to the direct service organisation; and of requiring the authority to complete a retendering exercise for refuse collection work by 1 February 1993,and to seek his consent by 1 November 1992 to any decision to reassign the work to the direct service organisation.

  Somerset Levels
  Mr. David Nicholson
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the agreement to safeguard the nature conservation interest of Glasson Moss, Wedholme Flow, Thorne and Hatfield Moors and Shapwick Heath and Westhay Moor in the Somerset levels by Fisons plc and English Nature.

  Mr. Heseltine
  Peat has been extracted from most of these sites under planning permissions given in the 1940s and 1950s, and could legitimately have continued well into the next century. The agreement provides for all of Fisons' freehold interests in these sites to be handed over at no cost to English Nature for management of the nature conservation interest. These include some of the most valuable peat sites in England.

  Of the 8,000 acres involved, the 2,800 acres on which vegetation exists will be managed immediately by English Nature for nature conservation purposes and Fisons will assist them by blocking off drains and other measures to secure the hydrological integrity of the areas. Where lowland peatbog sites have already been affected by modern working, there is no conservation reason to prevent further extraction provided conditions for the eventual rehabilitation of the sites are met. It is for this reason that English Nature has agreed that peat extraction under licence from them may continue at most of the other sites—but on condition that this will only take place in ways that minimise the further effects on undisturbed peat and allow restoration when extraction ceases.

  As peat extraction is completed, leaving behind an average depth of a half metre of peat to aid regeneration, these areas will gradually be transferred to English Nature management, and Fisons will assist with restoration for conservation after-use. In addition current research funded by Fisons into peatland regeneration will continue. This will complement research undertaken by my own Department into this subject.

  This agreement is a considerable achievement. Taken together with the acquisition by the Nature Conservancy Council of the Fenns Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses, it demonstrates the positive steps being taken to conserve the major lowland peat bog sites in England.

  Peat Extraction
  Mrs. Ann Taylor
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he was consulted over the arrangement to extract peat from Glassan Moss, Wedholme Flow, Thame and Hatfield Moors, and Somerset Levels by Fisons plc and English Nature; and when he first knew of the arrangement.

  Mr. Heseltine
  [holding answer 6 February 1992]: I have been aware for some considerable time of the confidential negotiations between English Nature and Fisons plc. The final agreement, by which Glasson Moss, Wedholme Flow, Thorne and Hatfield Moors, and Shapwick Heath and Westhay Moor in the Somerset Levels would be handed over by Fisons at no cost to English Nature, was

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  reached over the Christmas period. The chairman and chief executive of English Nature briefed the Minister for the Environment and Countryside on 7 January.

TRANSPORT

  Merchant Vessels
  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will detail the procedure for Government procurement of civilian merchant vessels.

  Mr. McLoughlin
  Merchant shipping is normally procured for Government use by chartering on the commercial market through either the Government freight market representative on the Baltic Exchange, the Government freight agent, or other specialist ship brokers.

  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will name the broker responsible for chartering merchant vessels for the Government.

  Mr. McLoughlin
  Merchant vessels are chartered through the Government freight market representative on the Baltic Exchange, presently Mr. Richard Bilton. The Ministry of Defence also charters vessels through the Government freight agent—Hogg Robinson (GFA) Ltd. —and through other specialist ship brokers.

  Government Assistance for Training Scheme
  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will give details of the number of Merchant Navy officers who have upgraded their qualification under the Government assistance for training scheme for each of the years since it started.

  Mr. McLoughlin
  The number of Merchant Navy officers who have upgraded their qualification under the GAFT scheme within each financial year since it started are given in the table.

  Financial year

  Merchant Navy Officers

  1988–89

  385

  1989–90

  448

  1990–91

  491

  1991–92

  1500

  1 Estimated

  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will give details of the numbers of seafarers, recruited under the Government assistance for training scheme, trained on foreign flag vessels, including the flags of the Crown and dependent territories, specifying which flag, for each year since the scheme was started.

  Mr. McLoughlin
  The number of seafarers recruited under the GAFT scheme within each financial year since it started are given in the table.

  Financial year

  Officer Cadets

  1988–89

  227

  1989–90

  413

  1990–91

  521

  1991–92

  1500

  1 Estimated

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  Funding is provided to individuals who are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and who are eligible on nationality grounds to serve as master or chief engineer on a United Kingdom ship. While the Department assesses each trainees record on approved courses no central register is maintained of the ships on which they are employed.

  Coastguard Service
  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many reviews of the coastguard service have been undertaken in the last 20 years.

  Mr. McLoughlin
  Within the last 20 years there have been seven independent and three internal reviews of Her Majesty's coastguard covering all aspects of the organisation and including management, staffing-requirements, pay and grading-and resources.

  London Transport
  Mr. Cohen
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will indicate the salaries of(a) the chairman and (b) board members of London Transport for 1990–91 and 1991–92.

  Mr. Freeman
  The annual salaries of the chairman and board members of London Transport for 1990–91 and 1991–92 are as follows:

  1990–91 £

  1991–92 £

  Chairman

  Mr. C. Wilfrid Newton

  100,000

  106,000

  Full-time Members

  Mr. John Telford Beasley

  75,000

  79,875

  Mr. Anthony Sheppeck

  74,000

  76,150

  Part-time Members

  Sir Neil Shields

  22,000

  28,000

  Mr. Oscar Roith

  11,000

  29,290

  Dr. Stephen Glaister

  8,250

  9,960

  Mr. Roy Thomas

  8,250

  8,790

  Mrs. Helen Robinson

  8,250

  8,790

  Mr. Keith Brown

  8,250

  8,790

  Mr. David Thompson

  6,725

  8,790

  Sir Alan Bailey

  6,725

  8,790

  Mr. J. Keith Davies

  6,725

  8,790

  Increases in salaries for 1991–92 include provision for increased time commitment by a number of board members.

  Roads, Leicester
  Sir John Farr
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether the tender secured by Travers Morgan to act as advisers on the proposed route of the Leicester eastern bypass was open to public competition.

  Mr. Chope
  Travers Morgan was appointed in the normal way, following a competition with other suitable consulting engineers drawn from the Department's approved list.

  Sir John Farr
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects to bring into use the already completed dual carriageway section of the eastern district distributor road north of Goodwood road in Leicester.
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  Mr. Chope
  The eastern district distributor road is a local road for which Leicestershire county council, as the highway authority, is responsible.

  Sir John Farr
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if, before proceeding with the scheme to provide a Leicester eastern bypass, the views of the county council were sought.

  Mr. Chope
  No. If a viable scheme is identified the county council, and others, will have the opportunity to comment on the proposals at public consultation stage, before any final decision is taken to proceed with the project.

  Sir John Farr
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish details of the contract with Travers Morgan to act as advisers on the route of a Leicester eastern bypass.

  Mr. Chope
  Travers Morgan was commissioned under the Department's standard terms of engagement for highway consultancy commissions. As the contract document contains commercially sensitive information on fees and staff packages proposed by the firm and accepted by the Department, it is not the Department's policy to publish this information.

  Sir John Farr
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) when he expects the eastern district distributor road with the link to Oadby on the A6 to be completed;

  (2) what is the daily traffic flow both ways on the eastern district distributor road in Leicester where it enters the borough at Oadby on the A6;

  (3) if houses built by the city council on the Goodwood road part of the distributor road network in Leicester are to be demolished to enable dual carriageway construction to be completed;

  (4) what is the present traffic flow on the distributor road network in Leicester; and by how much he estimates this will increase with the demolition of the houses in Goodwood road.

  Mr. Chope
  These are not matters for my Department. The eastern district distributor is a local road for which Leicestershire county council, as the highway authority, is responsible.

  Sir John Farr
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will terminate the arrangement made by his Department to appoint Travers Morgan as consultants for a Leicester eastern bypass.

  Mr. Chope
  No.

  Sir John Farr
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what account was taken of the work Travers Morgan had already performed for the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Manchester, in planning a business park and industrial estate and road network at the adjacent Stretton Magna when the tender for the Leicester eastern bypass was secured by them.

  Mr. Chope
  None. A condition of Travers Morgan's appointment for the Leicester eastern bypass commission was that it relinquished any further involvement in the Stretton Magna project. This it has done.

  Sir John Farr
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make it his policy not to proceed with 512
  any consideration of a Leicester eastern bypass until the eastern district distributor road network has been completed at Oadby and a traffic pattern has emerged.

  Mr. Chope
  No. The two roads would serve different functions. The Leicester eastern bypass would cater for long-distance trunk road traffic and provide continuity of the trunk road network around the city of Leicester; the county council's distributor road is to serve local traffic needs and improve the distribution of traffic within the city.

  Sir John Farr
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment was made of the views of the Harborough district council before proceeding with a Leicester eastern bypass.

  Mr. Chope
  None. If our preliminary investigations identify a viable scheme, Harborough district council will have the opportunity to comment on the scheme at public consultation stage and before any final decision is taken to proceed with the project.

  British Rail (Wheelchairs)
  Mr. Peter Bottomley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he last approved new British Rail rolling stock that was inaccessible to wheelchair users.

  Mr. Freeman
  There is currently no statutory requirement for the Secretary of State to approve new British Rail rolling stock. Powers are being sought in the Transport and Works Bill currently before the House. Modern rolling stock approved by HM railway inspectorate under voluntary arrangements with British Rail, since 1989, is accessible to wheelchair users.

  New Roads
  Sir John Farr
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make it his policy not to enter into schemes to design and build new roads without prior consultation with the hon. Members and borough and district councils involved.

  Mr. Chope
  Hon. Members and borough and district councils will have the opportunity to comment on schemes after viable options have been identified, at public consultation stage.

  Departmental Achievements (North Yorkshire)
  Mr. Gregory
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the expenditure and achievements of his Department in north Yorkshire during 1991; and what was the comparable position between June 1979 and May 1980.

  Mr. Chope
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: The expenditure by my Department on road construction and maintenance in North Yorkshire for the financial year 1991–92 to date is £22 million.

  Progress on the national road programme in North Yorkshire in 1991 has included the opening of the Al Gatenby lane junction and the A65 Draughton bypass.

  The transport supplementary grant allocated to North Yorkshire in 1991–92 was £6·1 million. The annual capital guideline for roads and parking was £6·6 million. Supplementary credit approvals of £2·7 million included provision for the urban traffic control system in York.
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  Information on other transport expenditure and achievements, and comparable figures for the period between June 1979 and May 1980, are not available in the form requested.

  Exeter Bypass
  Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop
  To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he now expects to receive the report from Acer Consultants on the proposal to bypass Exeter to the north and west.

  Mr. Chope
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: Later this month.

DEFENCE

  Service Pensions
  Mr. Viggers
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the amount of retired pay receivable by a lieutenant-colonel promoted from the ranks retiring respectively(a) before and (b) after 1 April 1988.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  For a late-entry lieutenant colonel with 34 years reckonable service the amounts of retired pay are as follows:

  Date of retirement

  Original award £ per annum

  Current retired pay £ per annum

  31 March 1988

  11,105

  14,033

  1 April 1988

  14,185

  17,925

  Since 1 April 1988 late-entrant lieutenant-colonels have been paid on the officers main scale as opposed to the lower rates previously in issue. They also qualify for increased pension entitlements. There are no plans to change pension entitlements retrospectively.

  Mr. Viggers
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will take steps to increase the retired pay of majors and lieutenant-colonels promoted from the ranks who retired before 1 April 1988 so that they are more in line with the retired pay of those who retired after that date.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  The retired pay of majors promoted through the ranks is calculated on the same basis irrespective of the date of retirement. There are no plans for retrospective changes to the pension entitlement of late-entry lieutenant-colonels.

  Tugs
  Mr. Home Robertson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 28 January,Official Report, column 526, to the hon. Member for Beverley (Mr. Cran) which tugs are to be replaced by the two new tugs ordered; whether any further tugs will be required oil the full entry into service of Vanguard class submarines; what is their nominal bollard pull; and if a decision has been made on their names.

  Mr. Kenneth Carlisle
  The names for the new tugs are Impetus and Impulse, and the nominal bollard pull is 36 tonnes. These tugs will not replace specific existing tugs. The size and composition of the marine services vessels changes with the overall size and deployment of the fleet and the need to replace older vessels as they come to the end of their economic lives.

  AOR1RFA Fort Victoria
  Mr. Rogers
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects the AOR1RFA Fort Victoria, being built at Harland and Wolff, to be delivered to the Royal Navy.

  Mr. Kenneth Carlisle
  On the basis of the shipbuilder's latest programme for completion, we expect to take delivery of the ship by the end of the year.

  Defence Research Agency
  Mr. Cartwright
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many quality assurance staff he expects to be relocated at Defence Research Agency sites at(a) Fort Halstead, (b) Chertsey, (c) Farnborough and (d) Pyestock; and how many are likely to face redundancy.

  Mr. Kenneth Carlisle
  Many of the technical and scientific staff are expected to move with their tasks. Approximately 150 quality assurance technical posts are planned to be relocated at Fort Halstead and a further 200 technical posts in total to Farnborough, Pyestock and Chertsey. The distribution of posts between the latter sites is not yet finalised. In addition, a number of non-technical posts in support of quality assurance activities will be required at the above locations. We will do our best to minimise redundancies but, regrettably, it is not possible to guarantee that there will be none. The trade unions are being consulted in the normal way.

  Purple Warrior Exercises
  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the vessels, including details of country of registration, used in the Purple Warrior exercises.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  The last tri-service exercise which required the charter of commercial shipping was Purple Warrior in November 1987. The ships that took part were as follows:

  Name

  Flag

  Dana Regina

  Danish

  Tor Scandinavia

  Danish

  Hamburg

  Bahamas

  Norrona

  Faroe Islands

  Viking Viscount

  British

  Mercandian Atlantic

  Danish

  St. Magnus

  FRG

  Gabriela Wehr

  FRG

  Mercandian Diplomat

  Danish

  Condock 1

  FRG

  Condock 3

  FRG

  Royal Fleet Auxiliary
  Mr. Robert G. Hughes
  To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement about the future command of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

  Mr. Archie Hamilton
  The command of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary is to be simplified. The commander in chief, fleet, will in future exercise full command of the RFA in peace as well as war, making him responsible for ensuring that the RFA maintains the high levels of operational performance required to operate effectively in the front line in close support of warships. He will be supported by a senior RFA officer and a staff of RFA and other civilian personnel.
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  The RFA will remain a civilian organisation and these changes will not affect the conditions of service of RFA personnel. RFA vessels will continue to wear the blue ensign and will be manned by Merchant Navy officers and ratings. Responsibility for such issues as pay, conditions of service, recruitment and initial training will remain with the chief of fleet support and be discharged on his behalf by the director general of supplies and transport (naval).

  It is planned to implement these changes by April 1993 and there will be full consultation with the trade unions involved. The new command arrangements will ensure that the RFA continues to make the vital contribution to our overall defence effort of which its personnel are rightly proud.

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS

  United Nations Peace Keeping
  Sir Russell Johnston
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when the United Kingdom will make the payment currently owed to the United Nations for special peace-keeping activities.

  Mr. Lennox-Boyd
  The United Kingdom makes its assessed payments for any United Nations peacekeeping operations within 30 days of receiving the request from the United Nations. The only exceptions are for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and the United Nations
  Disengagement Observer Force where we offset part of our assessed payment against the logistic support we provide. The adjustment for this does not take place until the end of a mandate period.

  President de Klerk
  Mr. Robert Hughes
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the recent meeting with President de Klerk and the Minister of State at the Foreign Office.

  Mrs. Chalker
  I had a useful and constructive meeting with President de Klerk on 20 January. The President explained his proposals for a new constitution and transitional arrangements and he emphasised South Africa's urgent need for economic development. I emphasised our support for the CODESA process and for economic growth in South Africa.

SOCIAL SECURITY

  Back Payments
  Mr. Wallace
  To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many(a) claims have been received and (b) payments made in respect of claims for back payments

  Table 1—Single Person

  Weekly Retirement Pension (RP)

  Gross Average Weekly Earnings (GAWE)

  Net Average Weekly Earnings (NAWE)

  RP as Percentage of GAWE

  RP as percentage of NAWE

  November 1968

  4·50

  23·25

  17·10

  19·4

  26·3

  November 1978

  19·50

  87·40

  60·30

  22·3

  32·3

  November 1979

  23·30

  103·60

  73·20

  22·5

  31·8

  November 1980

  27·15

  118·60

  82·90

  22·9

  32·8

  November 1981

  29·60

  129·50

  88·50

  22·9

  33·4

  November 1982

  32·85

  138·40

  93·80

  23·7

  35·0

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  under the additional requirement provisions for supplementary benefit at (i) the Lerwick and (ii) Kirkwall benefit agency offices in the last 12 months.

  Miss Widdecombe
  The administration of income support 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.

  Pensioners
  Sir Ian Gilmour
  To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 2 December,Official Report, column 51, if he will republish the figures of pensioner incomes, distinguishing for married couples between the incomes of husbands and wives.

  Miss Widdecombe
  The figures required on gross incomes net of retirement pensions and supplementary benefit/income support for husbands over state pension age, their wives and single people over state pension age are in the table.

  Thousands

  Husbands

  Wives

  Singles

  Up to £5

  220

  1,250

  650

  £5—£10

  180

  230

  350

  £10—£15

  220

  180

  370

  £15—£20

  190

  130

  430

  £20—£30

  330

  170

  950

  £30—£40

  230

  110

  400

  £40—£50

  150

  110

  230

  £50—£60

  70

  50

  150

  £60—£70

  100

  40

  120

  £70—£80

  90

  10

  130

  £80—£90

  60

  40

  110

  £90—£100

  60

  10

  70

  £100—£110

  70

  30

  60

  £110—£130

  100

  30

  120

  £130—£150

  80

  10

  60

  £150—£200

  130

  50

  100

  £200 and over

  220

  50

  130

  Note: All housing benefit paid to couples has been allocated to the husband.

  Source: Family Expenditure Survey 1988.

  Sir Ian Gilmour
  To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish figures showing the value of the state basic pension for a single person—category A—and a married couple—category A plus category B—as percentages of(a) gross average earnings and (b) average earnings net of income tax and national insurance contribution in 1968, 1978 and each year thereafter.

  Miss Widdecombe
  The information requested is in the tables.
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  Weekly Retirement Pension (RP)

  Gross Average Weekly Earnings (GAWE)

  Net Average Weekly Earnings (NAWE)

  RP as percentage of GAWE

  RP as percentage of NAWE

  November 1983

  34·05

  147·70

  100·40

  23·1

  33·9

  November 1984

  35·80

  159·60

  108·90

  22·4

  32·9

  November 1985

  38·30

  168·70

  115·60

  22·7

  33·1

  July 1986

  38·70

  176·70

  122·60

  21·9

  31·6

  April 1987

  39·50

  185·50

  131·30

  21·3

  30·1

  April 1988

  41·15

  200·60

  144·90

  20·5

  28·4

  April 1989

  43·60

  217·80

  157·20

  20·0

  27·7

  April 1990

  46·90

  237·20

  174·20

  19·8

  26·9

  April 1991

  52·00

  253·10

  186·50

  20·5

  27·9

  Notes: Gross Average Weekly Earnings (GAWE) and Net Average Weekly Earnings (NAWE) are for male manual workers. All dates are uprating dates except 1968 when there was no uprating.

  Table 2—Married couple

  Weekly retirement pension (RP) £

  Gross average weekly earnings (GAWE) £

  Net average weekly earnings (NAWE) £

  RP as percentage GAWE

  RP as percentage NAWE

  November 1968

  7·30

  23·25q

  18·05

  31·4

  40·4

  November 1978

  31·20

  87·40

  63·80

  35·7

  48·9

  November 1979

  37·30

  103·60

  77·00

  36·0

  48·4

  November 1980

  43·45

  118·60

  87·40

  36·6

  49·7

  November 1981

  47·35

  129·50

  93·00

  36·6

  50·9

  November 1982

  52·55

  138·40

  98·90

  38·0

  53·1

  November 1983

  54·50

  147·70

  106·20

  36·9

  51·3

  November 1984

  57·30

  159·60

  115·50

  35·9

  49·6

  November 1985

  61·30

  168·70

  122·80

  36·3

  49·9

  July 1986

  61·95

  176·70

  129·90

  35·1

  47·7

  April 1987

  63·25

  185·50

  138·40

  34·1

  45·7

  April 1988

  65·90

  200·60

  152·10

  32·9

  43·3

  April 1989

  69·80

  217·80

  164·80

  32·0

  42·4

  April 1990

  75·10

  237·20

  182·50

  31·7

  41·2

  April 1991

  83·25

  253·10

  194·80

  32·9

  42·7

  Notes:

  Gross average weekly earnings (GAWE) and net average weekly earnings (NAWE) are for male manual workers. All dates are uprating dates except 1968 when there was no uprating.

  Unemployed Pensioners
  Sir Ian Gilmour
  To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many and what percentage of unemployed people aged over 55 years are disqualified from national insurance unemployment benefit, or have their national insurance benefit abated, because they are in receipt of occupational or personal pensions.

  Mr. Jack
  About 15,600, or 8·6 per cent. of unemployed claimants aged 55 or over are affected.

  Source: "Half Yearly Analysis of Unemployed Claimants" (UBS3) May 1991—grossed up from 5 per cent. sample.

  Sir Ian Gilmour
  To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make provision available to unemployed people aged 55 years or over whose occupational pension is committed to the payment of mortgage interest or other debts, and whose capital is above the limits for income support.

  Mr. Jack
  The Government are committed to the policy of helping unemployed people meet their mortgage interest payments through income support where their circumstances qualify them for this benefit. However, we currently have no plans to extend this form of help by means of other social security benefits.

  Pensions
  Mr. Nellist
  To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood) on 3 February,Official Report, column 96, on raising state pensions, what would be the cost separated between employer and employee on average earnings for the changes proposed.

  Miss Widdecombe
  The combined weekly cost in extra national insurance contributions of the proposed changes to a man on average earnings and his employer would be(a) £6 and (b) £5·50. This estimate assumes an equal split between employer and employee.

HOME DEPARTMENT

  Terrorism
  Mr. Bermingham
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons have been detained under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts for each of the last 10 years.

  Mr. Kenneth Baker
  The information requested is given in the table. The figures include those detained in both Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
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  Number of persons detained under the Prevention of Terrorism legislation detained in connection with Northern Irish terrorism

  Number of persons detained under the Prevention of Terrorism legislation detained in connection with international terrorism1

  1982

  1,048

  —

  1983

  1,366

  —

  1984

  1,067

  44

  1985

  1,137

  73

  1986

  1,456

  55

  1987

  1,643

  41

  1988

  1,887

  16

  1989

  17,46

  18

  1990

  1,718

  24

  1991

  21,702

  32

  Total

  14,770

  303

  1 The power to detain persons in connection with international terrorism came into effect on 22 March 1984 with the introduction of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1984.

  2 Provisional figure.

  Mr. Bermingham
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many persons who emanated(a) from the Republic of Ireland and (b) Northern Ireland have been detained under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts for each of the last 10 years;

  (2) for each of the last five years, how many persons who emanated from the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland have been detained under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts on more than one occasion.

  Mr. Kenneth Baker
  The information is not available in the form requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

  Mr. Bermingham
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons who emanated from(a) the Republic of Ireland and (b) Northern Ireland were charged with offences following detention under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts for each of the last 10 years.

  Mr. Kenneth Baker
  Statistics on those detained under the prevention of terrorism legislation are not kept in the form requested. The total numbers of people detained under the legislation and subsequently charged with offences are given in the table.

  Persons detained in connection with Northern Ireland terrorism and subsequently charged with offences 1Total

  Persons detained in connection with international terrorism and subsequently charged with offences Total

  1982

  22

  —

  1983

  31

  —

  1984

  23

  28

  1985

  38

  15

  1986

  31

  5

  1987

  17

  8

  1988

  18

  3

  1989

  18

  3

  1990

  25

  3

  1991

  7

  —

  1 The figures given relate to those detained on the mainland of Great Britain only. Details of those detained under the legislation in Northern Ireland and subsequently charged with offences are not kept in the form requested. However, 3,983 such people were charged with offences during the period 29 November 1984 to 30 September 1991.
  2 The power to detain persons in connection with international
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  terrorism came into effect on 22 March 1984 with the introduction of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1984.

  Mr. Bermingham
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons who emanated from(a) Northern Ireland and (b) the Republic of Ireland have been excluded from Great Britain following detention under the terms of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts.

  Mr. Kenneth Baker
  The information available is given in the table.

  Total

  Number of people removed to Northern Ireland

  Number of

  people removed to the Republic of Ireland

  1982

  11

  10

  1

  1983

  13

  12

  1

  1984

  1

  1

  —

  1985

  2

  2

  —

  1986

  7

  7

  —

  1987

  15

  14

  1

  1988

  16

  11

  5

  1989

  9

  9

  —

  1990

  15

  12

  3

  1991

  10

  7

  3

  The figures given show the number of people removed to Northern Ireland or to the Republic of Ireland in each year. In addition, 11 exclusion orders were made in Northern Ireland during this period. Nine of the orders excluded people from the whole of the United Kingdom and two excluded people from Northern Ireland only.

  Mr. Bermingham
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons who have emanated from Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland have been detained under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts in the Metropolitan police area for each of the last three years.

  Mr. Kenneth Baker
  The information is not available in the form requested. However, the total number of people detained under the prevention of terrorism legislation in the Metropolitan police district in each of the last three years is as follows:
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  Year

  Number

  1989

  30

  1990

  76

  1991

  57

  Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme
  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the dates on which the lower limit for eligibility for compensation under the criminal injuries compensation scheme has been raised since 1979, with the new limit in each case, expressed in cash terms and at 1991 prices.

  Mr. John Patten
  The information requested is as follows:

  Date new minimum award introduced

  Minimum award £

  Equivalent value at 1991 prices (£) (using GDP deflator)

  April 1981

  250

  448

  February 1983

  400

  669

  November 1986

  550

  768

  February 1990

  750

  871

  January 1992

  1,000

  —

  Prison Suicides
  Miss Lestor
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young men under 25 years have committed suicide while on remand in prison in the last year.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  Eleven unsentenced male prisoners under the age of 25 years died as a result of an act of deliberate self-harm in 1991. Of these, two were convicted but awaiting sentence. Verdicts of suicide were recorded at all six of the inquests that have so far been held into these deaths.

  Wolds Remand Centre
  Mr. Sheerman
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to visit the site of the new Wolds remand centre.

  Mr. Kenneth Baker
  I plan to visit Wolds remand prison later this month.

  Leeds Prison
  Mr. Sheerman
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he next intends to visit Her Majesty's prison, Leeds.

  Mr. Kenneth Baker
  I hope to include Leeds in my programme of future visits to prisons, but I have no firm arrangements for a visit at the moment.

  Heroin
  Mr. Sheerman
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what review he has undertaken of the standard of security arrangements maintained by the United Kingdom companies presently supplying pharmaceutical heroin—diamorphine—to the national health service.

  Mr. John Patten
  Companies that supply diamorphine are subject to stringent security requirements which are kept under regular review.
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  Mr. Sheerman
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consultations he has had with air travel authorities about security problems arising from regular commercial shipment of heroin via United Kingdom airports.

  Mr. John Patten
  The transit of controlled drugs through United Kingdom airports has not hitherto given rise to any significant security problems. The arrangements for such movements are however kept under continuing review.

  Mr. Sheerman
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has had with the International Narcotics Control Board on the proposals to allow commercial importation of heroin—diamorphine—to the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. John Patten
  My Department has consulted the International Narcotics Control Board and is taking its views into account.

  Pit Bull Terriers
  Dame Janet Fookes
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many pit bull terriers have been registered in accordance with the provisions of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991; how many have been destroyed by their owners in preference to being registered; and how many he estimates remain unregistered.

  Mrs. Rumbold
  More than 8,000 notifications have been made in respect of all specially controlled dogs, including pit bull terriers. Some 400 claims for compensation have been made by owners who have had their dogs destroyed. Other owners have chosen to have their dogs destroyed but have not claimed compensation. By 11 February 3,200 certificates of exemption had been issued and some 1,100 applications are being processed.

  The "Index of Exempted Dogs" is writing again to the remaining owners who have not yet obtained a certificate of exemption to remind them of their legal obligations.

  Drinking and Driving
  Mr. Sheerman
  To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much money was spent in each year from 1980 to 1991 on campaigns to stop drinking and driving.

  Mr. Chope
  I have been asked to reply.

  The expenditure by my Department on campaigns to stop drinking is recorded in financial years and between 1980–81 and 1990–91 the expenditure was as follows:

  £000

  1980–81

  1,589

  1981–82

  1,134

  1982–83

  1,183

  1983–84

  911

  1984–85

  818

  1985–86

  1,380

  1986–87

  2,296

  1987–88

  2,677

  1988–89

  2,130

  1989–90

  2,040

  1990–91

  2,011

PRIME MINISTER

  Russia
  Mr. Flynn
  To ask the Prime Minister what information he has on Russia's plans to continue its nuclear warhead testing programme to maintain the safety and reliability of its nuclear weapon deterrent.

  The Prime Minister
  President Yeltsin's statement of 29 January confirmed that Russia will adhere to the one-year moratorium on testing announced in October 1991. President Yeltsin also called for other nuclear powers to refrain from testing. The United Kingdom has to carry out nuclear tests from time to time to maintain the effectiveness and safety of our nuclear deterrent.

NATIONAL FINANCE

  Gross Domestic Product
  Mr. Morgan
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the British gross domestic product per head expressed as a proportion of the European Community average in 1980, 1985 and 1990, including only those countries which were members of the Community in 1980.

  Mr. Mellor
  Figures published by the OECD in "National Accounts 1969–1990" suggest that United Kingdom gross domestic product per head expressed as a percentage of the average for the EC excluding Greece, Portugal and Spain are as follows:

  Percentage

  1980

  90

  1985

  93

  1990

  94

  These figures are based on data of GDP at current prices and current purchasing power parities. Figures are provisional and the final set to be issued later in the year will include new information for several countries including the United Kingdom.

  Data Information Systems
  Mr. Cohen
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what data information systems his Department has(a) agreed and (b) been consulted about with a view to taking part in; what are the criteria for inclusion in such systems; whether they will be linked to (i) the police national computer and (ii) other computer systems; what data protection provisions apply to them; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Maples
  The central Treasury has two major applications which both accept and transmit electronic data. The financial information system takes in and then confirms with Departments their planned and current expenditure. The Treasury economic service accepts financial and economic data from both governmental—for example, Central Statistical Office—and commercial sources—for example, the Financial Times, Reuters, and so on.

  Computer centre Chessington interchanges information with other Government Departments and associated bodies in connection with pay, personnel and financial
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  accounting computer systems. No Treasury data information systems are linked to the PNC; nor is there any intention that they should be.

  The administration of all Treasury data information systems complies with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1984.

  Universities Tax
  Mr. Beith
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations the Inland Revenue has received from universities about tax treatment of consultancy earnings, holiday lettings and conference facilities; and what response has been given.

  Mr. Maude
  The Inland Revenue has recently had discussions about the tax treatment of these activities with the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom, at the committee's request.

  The Inland Revenue has explained that universities are entitled to the same tax exemptions as other charities. Trading profits are exempt only where the trade is exercised in the course of the actual carrying out of a primary purpose of the charity, or where the work in connection with the trade is mainly carried out by beneficiaries of the charity. Profits from other trading activities are likely to be taxable, in the same way as for other traders. The outcome in each case will depend on its own particular facts.

  The Inland Revenue is seeking further information to assist in determining whether any particular activities give rise to taxable profits.

  Taxation (HGV Telephones)
  Mr. Madden
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent representations he has received concerning the taxation of telephones in heavy goods vehicles; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Maude
  My right hon. Friend has received a few representations on the taxation of the benefit of private use of employer provided telephones in heavy goods vehicles.

  "Official Report"
  Mr. Straw
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing the price charged for the daily Official Report of parliamentary debates in 1970, 1974, 1979, 1983, 1987 and 1992, and with a constant price index where 1970 = 100.

  Mr. Maples
  [holding answer 10 February 1992]: The information requested is as follows:

  Year

  Actual Price in February

  Price Expressed in 1970 terms

  1970

  2s 3d

  2s 3d

  1974

  20p

  14p

  1979

  40p

  14p

  1983

  £1·00

  22p

  1987

  £2·95

  53p

  1992

  £7·50

  £1·04

  For many years the prices of parliamentary debates were heavily subsidised. In 1983, when the annual subsidy stood at £6 million, the Government decided progressively to reduce the level of subsidy required, by a combination

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  of price increases and improved methods of production. I was able to announce last November that the latest price increases, together with plans to enable the reports of proceedings to be "machine-read" by the HMSO presses, should permit the final elimination of the revenue subsidy—1 November 1991, Official Report, column 3.

  Mortgage Repossessions
  Mr. Allen
  To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what mortgage repossession schemes he has considered with mortgage lenders since his statement of 19 December; how many families for each scheme are expected to be 526
  housed; how many families have already been housed; what has been the total cost; and if he will give the proportion met from public funds.

  Mr. Maples
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: Lenders have pledged funding for mortgage rescue schemes which is expected by the Council of Mortgage Lenders to amount to £1 billion if the need is there. Detailed schemes have already been announced by some lenders and announcements from others are expected shortly. It is too early to provide estimates of the number of borrowers in difficulties who are being helped in these schemes or the consequential effect on housing benefit expenditure.

EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

  Bullying
  Mr. Bowis
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what advice and guidance he issues to local education authorities for the use of teachers and school governors to counteract bullying; and if he will assist with the provision of educational materials to help children when confronted with the problem.

  Mr. Fallon
  The report of the committee of inquiry into discipline in schools, chaired by Lord Elton and published in 1989, contained advice on bullying. Copies of the report were sent to all schools and local education authorities in England and Wales. The Department is funding a major research project on bullying which is aimed at making available guidance on good practice for all schools when the project is completed in August 1993.

  Pupil Numbers
  Mr. Hunter
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many children attended(a) primary—infant and junior—and (b) secondary schools in England each year since 1979.

  Mr. Fallon
  The number of pupils, in England, for the categories shown are given in the table.

  Capital expenditure: Local authority maintained schools in England

  Nursery and primary

  Secondary

  Year

  Cash terms £ million

  1978–80 prices £ million

  Percentage change on previous year

  Cash terms £ million

  1979–80 prices £ million

  Percentage change on previous year

  1979–80

  124

  124

  —

  201

  201

  —

  1980–81

  162

  137

  +10·5

  229

  194

  -3·5

  1981–82

  131

  101

  -26·3

  183

  141

  -27·3

  1982–83

  131

  94

  -6·9

  197

  142

  +0·7

  1983–84

  146

  100

  +6·4

  197

  135

  -4·9

  1984–85

  171

  112

  +12·0

  197

  129

  -4·4

  1985–86

  195

  121

  +8·0

  202

  125

  -3·1

  1986–87

  215

  129

  +6·6

  205

  123

  -1·6

  1987–88

  254

  145

  +12·4

  215

  123

  0·0

  1988–89

  336

  179

  +23·4

  279

  148

  +20·3

  1989–90

  379

  189

  +5·6

  376

  188

  +27·0

  Notes:

  (1) 1989–90 is the latest year for which final outturn data are available.

  (2) Spending covers LEA maintained, voluntary aided and special agreement schools; DES grant and Governors' contribution to voluntary aided schools split 63 per cent. primary and 37 per cent. secondary as in 1990–91 VA major named projects.

  (3) Spending on special education is excluded.

  (4) Spending figures are rounded to the nearest £1 million.

  Mr. Hunter
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what has been the total spending on(a) primary—infant and junior—and (b) secondary schools in England each year since 1979 in cash terms and at 1979 prices; and what was the percentage change in the level of spending in real terms between each of those years.

  Mr. Fallon
  Net recurrent spending on primary and secondary schools in England is shown in the tables. The tables show for each year from 1979–80 to 1989–90, the latest year for which actual spending figures are available, expenditure in cash, expenditure at 1979–80 prices, and the percentage change in real terms spending from the previous year.528

  Full-time equivalent pupils in primary and secondary schools in England 1979 to 1991

  Maintained primary schools

  Maintained secondary schools

  1979

  4,444,500

  3,872,000

  1980

  4,285,600

  3,866,100

  1981

  4,098,700

  3,839,900

  1982

  3,922,800

  3,798,000

  1983

  3,752,400

  3,740,900

  1984

  3,668,600

  3,645,600

  1985

  3,645,000

  3,525,800

  1986

  3,654,600

  3,388,500

  1987

  3,684,600

  3,239,500

  1988

  3,731,600

  3,070,200

  1989

  3,786,300

  2,944,700

  1990

  3,859,400

  2,862,600

  1991

  3,914,800

  2,853,300

  Education Expenditure
  Mr. Hunter
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what has been the total capital spending on(a) primary—infant and junior—and (b) secondary schools in England each year since 1979 in cash terms and at 1979 prices; and what was the percentage change in the level of spending in real terms between each of those years.

  Mr. Fallon
  The information requested is set out in the table.

  Nursery and primary schools2

  Year

  Net recurrent expenditure1

  Net recurrent expenditure at 1979–80 prices3

  Real terms change on previous year

  £ million

  £ million

  Percentage

  1979–80

  19,081

  19,081

  1980–81

  23,282

  19,675

  3·1

  1981–82

  25,222

  19,438

  -1·2

  1982–83

  26,561

  19,108

  -1·7

  1983–84

  27,654

  19,013

  -0·5

  1984–85

  28,630

  18,747

  -1·4

  1985–86

  30,509

  18,933

  1·0

  1986–87

  34,011

  20,434

  7·9

  1987–88

  38,291

  21,819

  6·8

  1988–89

  42,254

  22,464

  3·0

  1989–90

  47,617

  23,773

  5·8

  529

  Secondary schools

  year

  Net recurrent expenditure1

  Net recurrent expenditure at 1979–80 prices3

  Real terms change on previous year

  £ million

  £ million

  Percentage

  1979–80

  24,846

  24,846

  1980–81

  30,934

  26,141

  5·2

  1981–82

  34,384

  26,498

  1·4

  1982–83

  36,915

  26,557

  0·2

  1983–84

  38,800

  26,677

  0·5

  1984–85

  40,173

  26,305

  -1·4

  1985–86

  43,523

  27,009

  2·7

  1986–87

  45,617

  27,406

  1·5

  1987–88

  49,067

  27,959

  2·0

  1988–89

  52,217

  27,761

  -0·7

  1989–90

  55,391

  27,954

  -0·4

  1 Net recurrent expenditure includes total expenditure other than costs of financing capital expenditure, less income other than from specific grants.

  2 Spending on nursery and primary schools was not collected separately for years after 1986–87, so expenditure figures cover both nursery and primary schools.

  3 Expenditure figures have been repriced to 1979–80 prices using the current GDP (market prices) deflator index.

  Note: The figures in the tables are derived from local education authorities' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment.

  Schools (Capital Schemes)
  Mr. Carr
  To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a list of secondary schools that have applied for borrowing approval for capital schemes; and, in each case, whether approval was given.

  Mr. Fallon
  Under the terms of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989, only local authorities are allowed to bid for borrowing approval for capital schemes.

  Details of all secondary schools included within LEAs' capital bids and our decisions in each case could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT

  International Fund for Agricultural Development
  Mrs. Mahon
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment has been made of the effectiveness of the international fund for agricultural development in achieving its aim of providing long-term aid.

  Mrs. Chalker
  The IFAD has an effective monitoring and evaluation system, which includes the provision of an annual report on evaluation findings to the executive board. An evaluation committee of the board meets regularly to examine issues in more detail.

  Africa (Food Crisis)
  Mr. Madden
  To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what further contribution Her Majesty's Government are making to the second phase of the United Nation's international fund for agricultural development to overcome Africa's food crisis; and if he will make a statement.

  Mrs. Chalker
  We consider that IFAD's future activities in Africa should be financed in the same way as its work elsewhere. The most important priority is to work 530
  for a successful outcome to the fourth replenishment of IFAD's resources, discussions on which will start in Qatar in April.

WALES

  Data Information Systems
  Mr. Cohen
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what data information systems his Department has(a) agreed and (b) been consulted about with a view to taking part in; what is the criteria for inclusion in such systems; whether they will be linked to (i) the police national computer and (ii) other computer systems; what data protection provisions apply to them; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. David Hunt
  My Department has no existing or planned links between its computer systems and external data information systems or the police national computer.

  Government Grants
  Mr. Andrew Welsh
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what Government grants were awarded for(a) ferry services and (b) bridge projects in Wales listed by county, for each of the last five years.

  Sir Wyn Roberts
  My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales has not grant-aided any ferry services. Local authority road schemes supported under transport grant can involve bridges, and assistance can be provided, for example, through the urban programme, European regional development fund and historic buildings and ancient monuments grants. A central record is not kept.

  Alzheimer's Disease
  Mr. Michael
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what steps he has taken to identify and quantify the use made of day centres in South Glamorgan for Alzheimer's disease sufferers and their carers and the extent to which they have succeeded in improving the quality of life for those involved.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  [holding answer 10 February 1992]: The three-day centres run by the Alzheimer's Disease Society in Cardiff provide a valuable service for sufferers and their carers.

  Mr. Michael
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will make it his policy to extend the finances available through urban aid grant for running day centres for those suffering from Alzheimer's disease and their carers in South Glamorgan.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  [holding answer 10 February 1992]: In Wales, funding previously available for mental illness services through the urban programme is now directed through the mental illness strategy. In 1992–93, the Welsh Office will make £58,035 directly available to the Alzheimer's Disease Society for the running of its three day centres in Cardiff.

  Mr. Michael
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give for each county in Wales his estimate of the number of people suffering from Alzheimer's disease at the present time and in each of the past five years.
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  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: The information is not available centrally, but, based on an estimate derived from the NHS Health Advisory Service's publication "The Rising Tide—Developing Services for Mental Illness in Old Age" published in November 1982, a copy of which is in the Library of the House, there are approximately 28,000—9,500 males and 18,500 females—suffering from Alzheimer's disease in Wales.

  Mr. Michael
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the centres available in each county in Wales which cater for Alzheimer's disease sufferers and their carers together with the financial contribution made to each by his Department.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: The information is not available centrally, but the Department made available in 1991–92 a total of £2·26 million through the mental illness strategy and elderly initiative grant schemes towards services in Wales for elderly people with a mental illness, including sufferers from Alzheimer's disease.

  Waste Water
  Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the total percentage of waste water(a) treated at inland works and receiving secondary or tertiary treatment, (b) treated at inland works and receiving primary treatment or less, (c) discharged at sea through properly designed long outfalls and (d) discharged into the sea without treatment by the water authorities operational in Wales.

  Mr. Nicholas Bennett
  I refer the hon. Gentleman to the following three reports: House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities 10th report "Municipal Waste Water Treatment"; The study of coastal sewage discharges carried out by consultants in environmental services for the Department of the Environment, a copy of which is in the Library of the House; and "Waterfacts 1990" published by the Water Services Association, a copy of which is available in the Library of the House.

  Projected Traffic Levels
  Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones
  To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish his latest estimate of projected traffic levels for Welsh roads for 2000.

  Sir Wyn Roberts
  Overall traffic growth in Wales is expected to be in line with the current National Road Traffic Forecasts which give an increase in traffic between 1991 and 2000 of 18 per cent. on low growth and 30 per cent. at high growth.

LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL

  Data Information Systems
  Mr. Cohen
  To ask the Lord President of the Council what data information systems his office has(a) agreed and (b) been consulted about with a view to taking part in; what are the criteria for inclusion in such systems; whether they will be linked to (i) the police national computer and (ii) other computer systems; what data protection provisions apply to them; and if he will make a statement.
  532
  Mr. MacGregor
  The Privy Council Office has data information systems for routine administrative purposes, and a link is maintained with the Chessington computer centre, which operates the payment of salaries. The department is subject to the Data Protection Act 1984 to the extent specified in section 38 of the Act, and personal data held are covered, except where they are expressly exempt.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

  Refreshment Facilities
  Mr. Andrew Mitchell
  To ask the Lord President of the Council how many high chairs are available in refreshment establishments within the House of Commons for the use of children.

  Mr. MacGregor
  I shall ask the Director of Catering Services to write to my hon. Friend.

  Members' Salaries
  Mr. Alan Williams
  To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will outline the implications for future changes in hon. Members' salaries of the negotiations taking place on performance pay for grades 5 to 7 civil servants.

  Mr. MacGregor
  The nature of the new pay arrangements for grades 5 to 7 civil servants are currently being developed. It is too early to assess the implications, if any, for future changes in hon. Members' salaries.

  Divisions
  Mr. Flynn
  To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will list in order from largest to smallest the numbers of Divisions hon. Members took part in during the 1990–91 Session.

  Mr. MacGregor
  [holding answer 31 January 1992]: This information is available in a document entitled "Survey of Voting Participation Rates Regarding House of Commons Divisions", published by Campaign Information, a copy of which is available in the Library.

HEALTH

  North-West Region (Hospitals)
  Mr. Callaghan
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many beds there were in the North-West regional hospitals in(a) 1979, (b) 1987 and (c)

  Mr. Dorrell
  The information requested is given in the table.

  National Health Service Hospitals, North Western Regional Health Authority

  Year

  Average daily number beds

  In-patients

  Day cases

  1 1979

  30,812

  509,049

  70,608

  1 1987–88

  27,320

  644,540

  120,368

  2 1990–91

  24,057

  733,809

  153,220

  1 In-patients; discharges and deaths.

  2 In-patients: finished consultant episodes.

  Radiotherapy (Greater Manchester)
  Mr. Callaghan
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients are awaiting radiotherapy in the Greater Manchester health authorities; how many were on the lists for treatment in each year since 1989; and what is the average waiting time for treatment in each authority in each of those years.

  Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
  Information on the number of patients waiting for radiotherapy is given in the table. The median waiting time for those treated from radiotherapy waiting lists in the Greater Manchester area was 23 days in 1988–89 and 22 days in 1989–90. Information is not yet available centrally for 1990–91.

  The figures relate to South Manchester, the only health district in Greater Manchester where radiotherapy is carried out.

  Greater Manchester—Waiting lists for radiotherapy In-patients and day cases

  Year

  Number waiting1

  March 1989

  190

  March 1990

  244

  March 1991

  183

  1 Total number waiting less self-deferred cases.

  Long-stay Beds
  Mr. Redmond
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each(a) regional health authority and (b) each district health authority the current number of national health serrvice long-stay continuing care beds.

  Mr. Dorrell
  The only figures available centrally on long-stay beds relate to mental illness and learning disability. For information on numbers of geriatric beds, I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) on 11 February. Long-stay geriatic beds are not separately identified.

  Patients (Personal Information)
  Mr. Cohen
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to allow a patient to consent to, or to be aware of, those uses and disclosures of personal information that are not obvious at the time the patient provides the information; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Dorrell
  Patients give consent (either expressly or implicitly) to the use of personal information for the purpose of their care and treatment and for NHS management purposes. The Department is currently consulting about a draft EC directive on data protection which includes a proposal that individuals should be given specific advice about the purposes for which it is proposed to record information about them.

  NHS Trusts
  Mr. Cousins
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether NHS trusts are required to have qualified and nominated officers with financial responsibility corresponding to those in the Local Government Acts 1975 and 1988.

  Mr. Dorrell
  Paragraph 6.2b of schedule 2 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 534
  clearly states that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has the power to control the qualifications of persons who may be employed as officers of the trust if he thinks it necessary.

  Mr. Cousins
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what responsibilities non-executive directors of NHS trusts are required to exercise for audit and financial scrutiny.

  Mr. Dorrell
  An NHS trust's accounts are the corporate responsibility of the trust's board. All board members, including the non-executives, are expected to take general responsibility for every aspect of the trust's business and operation. While it is not a statutory responsibility many of the non-executive directors have financial and commercial backgrounds of particular relevance and are able to make an effective contribution to financial management.

  Cost-weighted Activity Index
  Mr. Cousins
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health how his Department calculates the cost-weighted activity index; and if he will place the relevant technical papers in the Library.

  Mr. Dorrell
  The cost-weighted activity index is a broad aggregate measure of the increase in activity in the hospital and community health services. Since activity increases at different rates in different areas of the HCHS, and it would not be appropriate to add different types of activity together—for example hospital in-patient activity and treatments by chiropodists—the increases in activity in each of these areas are weighted together according to the proportion of total expenditure on them. Thus, because hospital in-patient activity consumes the largest share of expenditure—over 60 per cent.—growth in this area of activity has the highest weight in the index.

  A more detailed description of the construction of the index, with information about the specific areas of activity included, and the expenditure weights used, was published in the Department of Health evidence to the Social Services Committee in 1986 and details of certain revisions to the index were given in the Department of Health memorandum to the Health Committee in 1991. Both of these publications are available in the Library.

  Citizens Charter
  Miss Emma Nicholson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what effects the citizens charter will have on the provision of information for patients about medical treatment.

  Mr. Dorrell
  The patients charter confirms the existing right of patients to receive sufficient information about the proposed treatments, the possible alternatives and any substantial risks, so that they can make a balanced judgment in deciding whether to consent to treatment.

  Cardiologists
  Mr. Morgan
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the number of cardiologists per one million population in(a) England, (b) Wales and (c) Northern Ireland at the last convenient date for which data is available.
  535
  Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
  The latest data available show that there are 3·3 consultant cardiologists per million population in England. Information relating to Wales and Northern Ireland is the responsibility of my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales and for Northern Ireland.

  Medical Treatment
  Miss Emma Nicholson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Helth what measures his Department is taking to ensure that questions regarding medical treatment, whenever the patient requests such information, are answered in a prompt, accurate and comprehensive form.

  Mr. Dorrell
  The Department issued guidelines in August 1991 which required that before a patient receives treatment he is entitled to as much information as is necessary in order to decide whether to consent to that treatment. After treatment has commenced, a patient has the right under the Access to Health Records Act 1990 to see his record and to receive an explanation of the information recorded. The Department's advice on the Act encourages the informal voluntary disclosure of information.

  Miss Emma Nicholson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health if the Government will bring forward legislation to provide better information for patients about medical treatment.

  Mr. Dorrell
  Such legislation is unnecessary since patients have the right under common law to give or withhold consent prior to examination or treatment. To exercise this right patients are entitled to be given a clear explanation of any treatment proposed, including any risks and any alternatives.

  Qa Business Services
  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will establish a public inquiry into the sale of Qa Business Services.

  Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
  Qa Business Services was formed in December 1989 as a result of a management buyout of the management services division of West Midlands regional health authority. The company was put into administrative receivership in September 1991. Some of the assets of the company were acquired by AT & T ISTEL in October 1991. Any investigation of this company's affairs would be a matter for the Department of Trade and Industry.

  NHS Administration
  Dr. Michael Clark
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of staff employed by the NHS are engaged in administrative work; and what was the figure in 1979.

  Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
  At September 1990, staff employed on the terms and conditions of the administrative and clerical staffs Whitley council made up 15·1 per cent. of the total NHS work force in England compared with 13·3 per cent. at September 1979. More than one quarter of them work in direct support to clinicians. Numbers of such clinically-related staff have nearly trebled 536
  since 1979 and this is helping to free clinical staff to concentrate their skills and experience on direct patient care.

  Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
  Mr. Riddick
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made in preparing a statement about the rules governing the confidentiality and security of personal data held within the OPCS; and if he will now make a statement.

  Mr. Dorrell
  A draft statement of policies has now been produced, a copy of which I have placed in the Library. The Registrar General will be seeking the views of a range of outside bodies before this statement is formally adopted. The policies it proposes are, however, being followed in OPCS, pending consideration of the views obtained through the consultation process.

  Family Practitioner Committees
  Mr. Clelland
  To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the cost of allowances and expenses to members of family practitioner committees in the last year for which figures are available; and what is the projected cost of such allowances and expenses in the first full year of family health service units.

  Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
  [holding answer 27 January 1992]: Family health services authorities (FHSAs) were established on 17 September 1990 and consequently 1989–90 was the last full financial year of operation for their predecessor family practitioner committees (FPCs). Arrangements to remunerate (essentially to compensate) members for their time spent on FHSA business were introduced only during 1990–91.

  The information derivable from the 1989–90 and 1990–91 annual accounts of FPCs/FHSAs in England is shown as follows.

  This detailed information is not collected in-year and any projected cost for the current financial year would be speculative. However, broadly equivalent information derived from the 1991–92 annual accounts of FHSAs will be available in the autumn.

  1989–90 £000 (cash)

  1990–91 £000 (cash)

  Chairmen's remuneration

  450

  1,003

  Members' remuneration

  —

  2,234

  Members' travelling and subsistence expenses

  498

  527

NORTHERN IRELAND

  Health Service Staff
  Mr. Kennedy
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list, by staff grade and specialty, the number of full-time equivalent medical and nursing posts available to health service hospitals for 1976, 1981, 1986 and 1991.

  Mr. Hanley
  The information requested is set out in the tables.
  537

  Hospital medical staff—Northern Ireland

  Analysis by specialty and grade, showing number of staff in post and whole-time equivalent at 30 September 1986

  Consultants

  SHMOS and associate specialists

  Senior registrars

  Registrars

  Senior house officers

  Pre-Reg House officers

  All grades

  Specialty

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  Accident and Emergency

  7

  7·0

  9

  8·6

  2

  2·0

  1

  1·0

  38

  37·0

  2

  2·0

  59

  57·6

  Anaesthetics

  87

  84·0

  8

  7·2

  17

  16·0

  22

  21·5

  27

  27·0

  0

  0·0

  161

  155·7

  Anatomy

  1

  0·5

  1

  0·9

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·4

  Cardiology

  15

  14·7

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  4

  4·0

  8

  8·0

  4

  4·0

  32

  31·7

  Cardiothoracic Surgery

  3

  3·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  3

  3·0

  3

  3·0

  0

  0·0

  11

  11·0

  Chemical Pathology

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  5

  5·0

  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

  3

  2·6

  1

  1·0

  3

  3·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  8

  7·6

  Clinical Genetics

  1

  0·6

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·6

  Clinical Neuro-Physiology

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  Clinical Pharmacology

  4

  2·2

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·5

  1

  1·0

  4

  4·0

  2

  2·0

  13

  10·7

  Dermatology

  11

  10·4

  1

  0·6

  1

  1·0

  1

  1·0

  4

  4·0

  1

  1·0

  19

  18·0

  Ent (Otdrhindlaryngology)

  22

  20·5

  1

  0·6

  3

  2·5

  7

  7·0

  12

  12·0

  0

  0·0

  45

  42·6

  Gen Med Spec Int Geriatrics

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  General Medicine

  58

  54·1

  3

  3·0

  14

  12·5

  9

  8·0

  98

  98·0

  56

  55·1

  238

  230·7

  General Pathology

  4

  4·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  4

  4·0

  0

  0·0

  8

  8·0

  General Surgery

  53

  50·5

  0

  0·0

  7

  6·5

  16

  14·0

  72

  71·5

  61

  61·0

  209

  203·5

  Genito-Urinary Medicine

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  4

  4·0

  Geriatric Medicine

  16

  14·4

  7

  7·0

  5

  4·5

  2

  2·0

  16

  16·0

  4

  4·0

  50

  47·9

  Haematology/Blood Transfusion

  10

  9·0

  4

  3·1

  7

  7·0

  1

  1·0

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  24

  22·1

  Histology

  1

  0·2

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  0·2

  Histopathology

  16

  12·9

  0

  0·0

  9

  6·5

  5

  5·0

  5

  5·0

  0

  0·0

  35

  29·4

  Immuno-Pathology

  1

  0·6

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  3

  2·6

  Infectious Diseases

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  4

  4·0

  0

  0·0

  7

  7·0

  Medical Microbiology

  8

  7·1

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  5

  5·0

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  16

  15·1

  Medical Oncology

  2

  1·1

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·1

  Mental Handicap

  6

  6·0

  8

  8·0

  2

  1·5

  4

  3·5

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  20

  19·0

  Mental Illness

  45

  42·2

  15

  14·0

  20

  16·6

  20

  19·0

  41

  41·0

  0

  0·0

  141

  132·8

  Nephrology

  3

  3·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  1

  1·0

  2

  2·0

  1

  1·0

  8

  8·0

  Neurology

  4

  3·5

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  1

  1·0

  6

  5·5

  0

  0·0

  12

  11·0

  Neurosurgery

  4

  3·5

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  2

  2·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  8

  7·5

  Obstetrics and Gynaecology

  41

  36·7

  2

  2·0

  8

  7·5

  15

  14·0

  74

  72·5

  1

  1·0

  141

  133·7

  Ophthalmology

  14

  12·4

  13

  9·2

  1

  1·0

  10

  10·0

  6

  6·0

  0

  0·0

  44

  38·6

  Orthopaedics

  21

  18·7

  0

  0·0

  6

  6·0

  4

  3·5

  6

  5·0

  10

  10·0

  47

  43·2

  Other Departments

  1

  1·0

  1

  0·6

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·6

  Paediatric Surgery

  3

  3·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  6

  6·0

  2

  2·0

  13

  13·0

  Paediatrics

  20

  17·2

  1

  0·5

  4

  3·5

  7

  6·5

  39

  37·5

  4

  4·0

  75

  69·2

  Physiology

  4

  0·6

  1

  0·2

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  5

  0·8

  Plastic Surgery

  5

  4·5

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  1

  0·5

  1

  1·0

  2

  2·0

  11

  10·0

  Radiology

  36

  35·2

  1

  0·5

  5

  5·0

  11

  11·0

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  55

  53·6

  Radiotherapy

  5

  5·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  4

  4·0

  5

  5·0

  0

  0·0

  14

  14·0

  Rheumatology and Rehabilitation

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  1

  1·0

  5

  5·0

  3

  3·0

  13

  13·0

  Thoracic Medicine

  0

  0·0

  3

  3·0

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  3

  3·0

  0

  0·0

  8

  8·0

  Urology

  4

  4·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  4

  4·0

  All Specialties

  549

  505·4

  80

  69·8

  134

  122·1

  163

  155·5

  499

  493·0

  153

  152·1

  1,578

  1,498·0

  Note: This report excludes 'community medicine' staff and 65 staff on 'study leave'.

  Hospital medical staff—Northern Ireland

  Analysis hr specialty and grade, showing number of staff in post and whole-time equivalent at 30 September 1990

  Consultants

  SHMOS and associate specialists

  Senior registrars

  Registrars

  Senior house officers

  Pre-Reg house officers

  All grades

  Specialty

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  Accident and Emergency

  8

  8·0

  8

  7·5

  2

  2·0

  2

  2·0

  49

  45·4

  0

  0·0

  69

  64·9

  Anaesthetics

  99

  95·3

  8

  7·2

  18

  17·5

  19

  19·0

  29

  29·0

  0

  0·0

  173

  168·0

  Anatomy

  1

  0·5

  1

  0·9

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·4

  Cardiology

  14

  13·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  3

  3·0

  9

  9·0

  4

  4·0

  31

  30·8

  Cardiothoracic Surgery

  5

  5·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  3

  3·0

  3

  3·0

  0

  0·0

  12

  12·0

  Chemical Pathology

  3

  2·6

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  7

  6·0

  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

  5

  4·6

  1

  1·0

  4

  4·0

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  12

  11·6

  Clinical Genetics

  1

  0·6

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  3

  2·6

  Clinical Neuro-Physiology

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  Clinical Pharmacology

  4

  2·2

  0

  0·0

  1

  0·6

  1

  0·5

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  7

  4·3

  Dermatology

  12

  11·4

  1

  0·6

  1

  1·0

  3

  3·0

  3

  3·0

  0

  0·0

  20

  19·0

  Endocrinology and Diabetes

  0

  0·0

  0

  00

  1

  1·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  Ent (Otdrhindlaryngology)

  22

  20·5

  1

  0·6

  4

  4·0

  5

  5·0

  16

  16·0

  0

  0·0

  48

  46·1

  Forensic Psychiatry

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  0·5

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·5

  Gen Med Spec Int Geriatrics

  7

  7·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  7

  7·0

  General Medicine

  60

  56·1

  2

  2·0

  10

  9·5

  8

  7·5

  104

  104·0

  67

  67·0

  251

  246·1

  General Pathology

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  General Surgery

  52

  49·0

  1

  1·0

  8

  7·5

  20

  18·6

  66

  65·0

  66

  66·0

  213

  207·1

  Genito-Urinary Medicine

  3

  2·9

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  6

  5·9

  Geriatric Medicine

  17

  15·2

  7

  7·0

  I

  1·0

  1

  1·0

  23

  23·0

  6

  6·0

  55

  53·2

  Haematology/Blood Transfusion

  12

  11·0

  3

  2·6

  3

  3·0

  2

  2·0

  4

  4·0

  0

  0·0

  24

  22·7

  Histology

  1

  0·2

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  0·2

  Histopathology

  22

  19· 2

  0

  0·0

  5

  4·0

  6

  5·5

  6

  6·0

  0

  0·0

  39

  34·7

  Immuno-Pathology

  1

  0·6

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·6

  Infectious Diseases

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  5

  5·0

  0

  0·0

  7

  7·0

  Medical Microbiology

  12

  11·1

  0

  0·0

  5

  5·0

  2

  2·0

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  21

  20·1

  Medical Oncology

  2

  1·1

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·1

  Mental Handicap

  7

  7·0

  7

  7·0

  2

  1·5

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  0

  0·0

  18

  17·5

  538 539

  Consultants

  SHMOS and associate specialists

  Senior registrars

  Registrars

  Senior house officers

  Pre-Reg house officers

  All grades

  Specialty

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  No.

  WTE

  Mental Illness

  45

  42·6

  13

  11·9

  14

  12·0

  8

  7·0

  64

  63·0

  0

  0·0

  144

  136·5

  Nephrology

  5

  4·1

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  3

  3·0

  2

  2·0

  11

  10·1

  Neurology

  5

  4·5

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  1

  1·0

  5

  5·0

  0

  0·0

  13

  12·5

  Neuropathology

  1

  0·6

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·6

  Neurosurgery

  4

  3·5

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  2

  2·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  8

  7·5

  Obstetrics and Gynaecology

  41

  38·0

  1

  1·0

  7

  6·5

  17

  15·5

  68

  68·0

  1

  1·0

  135

  130·0

  Occupational Medicine

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1·0

  Ophthalmology

  13

  12·0

  12

  8·5

  4

  4·0

  5

  4·5

  7

  7·0

  0

  0·0

  41

  36·0

  Orthopaedics

  22

  19·4

  0

  0·0

  4

  4·0

  4

  4·0

  10

  10·0

  9

  9·0

  49

  46·4

  Other Departments

  1

  1·0

  1

  0·6

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·6

  Paediatric Surgery

  3

  3·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  4

  4·0

  1

  1·0

  9

  9·0

  Paediatrics

  21

  18·8

  1

  0·5

  4

  3·0

  8

  8·0

  48

  47·5

  0

  0·0

  82

  77·7

  Physiology

  3

  0·5

  1

  0·2

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  4

  0·6

  Plastic Surgery

  5

  4·4

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  1

  1·0

  2

  2·0

  10

  9·4

  Psychiatry of Old Age

  2

  1·6

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  1·6

  Psychotherapy

  1

  1·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  Radiology

  46

  45·3

  1

  0·5

  5

  5·0

  4

  4·0

  4

  4·0

  0

  0·0

  60

  53·6

  Radiotherapy

  5

  5·0

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  3

  3·0

  6

  6·0

  0

  0·0

  15

  15·0

  Rheumatology and Rehabilitation

  5

  4·6

  0

  0·0

  1

  1·0

  1

  1·0

  8

  8·0

  1

  1·0

  16

  15·6

  Thoracic Medicine

  0

  0·0

  3

  2·9

  1

  0·5

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  4

  3·4

  Urology

  4

  4·0

  0

  0·0

  2

  2·0

  1

  0·6

  0

  0·0

  0

  0·0

  7

  6·6

  All Specialties

  607

  563·2

  73

  63·4

  120

  112·1

  139

  132·7

  554

  547·9

  159

  159·0

  1,652

  1,578·3

  Note: This report excludes `community medicine' staff and 60 staff on `study leave'.

  Government Grants
  Mr. Andrew Welsh
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what Government grants were awarded for(a) ferry services and (b) bridge projects in Northern Ireland listed by region, for each of the last five years.

  Mr. Needham
  Grants amounting to approximately £60,000 have been awarded in the current financial year to the operators of the ferry service between Ballycastle and Rathlin island. No grants were awarded in previous years.

  The funding of public road bridges is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

  Road Schemes
  Mr. John D. Taylor
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what were the major capital road schemes programmed in 1989 for the years 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92 and 1992–93; and what was the estimated cost of each scheme.

  Mr. Needham
  The information is as follows:

  Financial Year and Proposed Schemes

  Total estimated cost £ million (at 1989) prices)

  1989–90

  Frederick Street, Belfast

  2·7

  East Link, Dundonald

  0·6

  Greenmount Link Roundabout, Coleraine

  0·2

  Crossnadonnell, Limavady

  0·4

  Strand Road/Culmore Road, Londonderry

  0·8

  Bridge Street/Tavanagh Avenue, Portadown

  0·9

  Newry 8A (Canal Street/Downshire Road Link)

  1·4

  Dunmurry By-Pass: Stage 2.C

  3·1

  A48 Donaghadee Road, Newtownards

  1·1

  T4 Hillsborough Bypass Junction

  0·4

  Strabane Bypass: Stage 1

  3·8

  Enniskillen Throughpass: Stage 3B (Link road)

  0·1

  Enniskillen Throughpass: Stage 3B

  1·0

  1990–91

  T8 Castledawson Bypass

  3·1

  B101 Oldstone Road: Stage 2

  1·1

  540

  Finicial Year and Peoposed Schemes

  Total estimated cost £ million (at 1989 prices)

  Forster Green Junction, Belfast

  0·5

  Ballymaconaghy Road, Castlereagh: Phase 1

  0·1

  Ballymaconaghy Road, Castlereagh: Phase 2

  0·5

  Castlereagh Roundabout, Belfast

  1·1

  Greenmount Link, Coleraine: Stage 5

  0·4

  Bushmills Road, Coleraine

  0·7

  Church Street/Scotch Street, Downpatrick

  1·0

  Dunmurry Bypass: Stage 2D

  2·5

  High Street/Hamilton Road, Bangor

  1·3

  1991–92

  Killead Bypass

  1·5

  M2 Crosskennan Slip Roads

  0·6

  Belfast Schemes arising from Belfast Urban Area Plan

  3·3

  Queen's Quay, Londonderry

  1·2

  T4 Mullan's Corner Dualling

  1·8

  Newry Bypass: Stage 2

  3·4

  1992–93

  A26 Antrim/Ballymena Dualling: Stage 2

  3·1

  Belfast Schemes arising from Belfast Urban Area Plan

  3·3

  Strand Road, Londonderry: Stage 2

  0·9

  Greenmount Link, Coleraine: Stages 3 and 4

  0·5

  Newry Bypass: Stage 3

  5·8

  Comber Bypass: Stage 2

  2·6

  Omagh Throughpass: Stage 2

  2·7

  Mr. John D. Taylor
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what were the major capital road schemes programmed in 1987 for the years 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91 and 1991–92; and what was the estimated cost of each scheme.

  Mr. Needham
  Prior to 1989 the programme for major capital road schemes only covered a three-year period. In 1987 the Programme was as follows:
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  Financial year and proposed schemes

  Total estimated cost £m (at 1987 prices)

  1987£88

  Spine Road, Carrickfergus

  0·6

  A26 Antrim-Ballymena Dualling Stage 1

  3·1

  A57/B101 Airport Road, Antrim

  0·9

  T1 Tillysburn Roundabout, Belfast

  1·0

  Short Strand, Belfast

  1·3

  East Link, Dundonald

  0·5

  Longwood Road, Newtownabbey

  0·5

  Waterside/Caw, Londonderry

  2·2

  T4 Banbridge Bypass Dualling: Bridge

  0·2

  Lisburn Throughpass (Bridge Street-Hillsborough Road)

  1·2

  T4 Hillsborough Bypass Junction

  0·5

  A29 Carland Bridge

  0·8

  Omagh Throughpass: Stage 2

  2·6

  1988–89

  T8 Castledawson Bypass

  2·1

  Frederick Street, Belfast

  1·4

  Greenmount Link Roundabout, Coleraine

  0·1

  Buncrana Road, Londonderry

  0·3

  Banbridge Bypass Dualling

  1·4

  Bridge Street/Tavanagh Avenue, Portadown

  0·3

  Newry 8A (Canal Street/Downshire Road Link)

  0·8

  Dunmurry Bypass: Stage 2A

  2·1

  Balloo Road, Bangor: Stage 2

  0·5

  1989–90

  Killead Bypass

  0·8

  Northern Distributor, Ballymena

  2·2

  A26 Antrim-Ballymena Dualling: Stage 2

  2·5

  Forster Green Junction, Belfast

  1·4

  Greenmount Link, Coleraine: Stages 3 and 4

  0·4

  Strand Road, Londonderry: Stage 3, Phase 2

  0·2

  Culmore Road, Londonderry

  0·4

  Crossnadonnel, Limavady

  0·3

  T4 Improvements—Fourmile

  0·2

  —Sheepbridge

  0·2

  A2 Warrenpoint Road, Newry

  0·2

  Dunmurry Bypass: Stage 2C

  1·8

  Church Street/Scotch Street, Downpatrick

  0·6

  Strabane Bypass: Stage 1

  2·2

  Enniskillen Throughpass: Stage 3B

  0·9

  Moneyreagh (Street Lighting)
  Mr. John D. Taylor
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when the adequacy of the street lighting at Moneyreagh village was last reviewed; and if he will arrange for a further review of street lighting at Moneyreagh.

  Mr. Needham
  The adequacy of street lighting in Moneyreagh village is monitored regularly and improvements are carried out when considered necessary, subject to the availability of finance. No specific review is planned.

  Toll Bridges
  Mr. Andrew Welsh
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what are the figures for the(a) annual income and cost and (b) capital debt outstanding for toll bridges in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Needham
  There are no toll bridges in Northern Ireland.

  Northern Ireland Airports Ltd.
  Mr. John D. Taylor
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many hours per week the chairman works for Northern Ireland Airports Ltd.; what involvement he has in its day-to-day management; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Needham
  This information is not available in the form requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

  Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners
  Mr. John D. Taylor
  To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the names of the members of the Londonderry port and harbour commissioners; and if he will identify with which user firms of the port each of these persons is associated.

  Mr. Needham
  The membership is as follows:

  J. T. Eaton (Chairman)

  J. Doherty (Deputy Chairman)

  M. G. Black

  G. Craig

  C. B. Doherty

  Mrs. H. McClure

  J. S. McIlvenny

  C. Murray-Cavanagh

  Councillor J. Tierney

  No member of the board is associated with a user firm of the port.

EMPLOYMENT

  Labour Statistics
  Mr. Hague
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will estimate the number of(a) employees in employment and (b) self-employed people in the Darlington constituency in June 1983, June 1987 and at the latest available date.

  Mr. Jackson
  Latest available constituency data for the self-employed relates to the population census for 1981.

  Information available for employees in employment is from the periodic censuses of employment and is given in the table. No census was taken in 1983.

  Employees in employment in the Darlington constituency

  September of each year

  Number of employees

  1984

  33,300

  1987

  34,100

  11989

  36,700

  1 latest available

  Youth Training
  Mr. Callaghan
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he has any plans to review the guarantee that all 16-year-olds with special needs in the north-west region will be offered a place if they so wish on any available youth training scheme.

  Mr. Jackson
  The YT guarantee assures young people, whether they have special training needs or not, the offer of a suitable training place. The Department's regional directors are in close touch with every training and enterprise council about the guarantee position in its area.
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  Where necessary, the Government have offered TECs additional support so that they can continue to meet the guarantee.

  Seafarers
  Ms. Walley
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the provisions of employment legislation which exempt seafarers on vessels registered in the United Kingdom or Crown dependencies from the general provisions of such legislation.

  Mr. Forth
  Provisions which exclude seafarers of various descriptions in some circumstances from certain of the provisions of general employment legislation include:

  Section 119 of the Employment Protection Act 1975

  Section 10 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975

  Sections 8 and 9 of the Race Relations Act 1976

  Sections 141 and 144 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978

  Section 30 of the Wages Act 19860

  Paragraph 16 of schedule 1 of the Employment Act 1990

  Merseyside TEC
  Mr. Kilfoyle
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what amount of provision of training he will purchase from the Merseyside training and enterprise council in 1992–93.

  Mr. Jackson
  [holding answer 10 February 1992]: This is the subject of local negotiations. Therefore figures for 1992–93 are not available.

  The Employment Department contract with Merseyside training and enterprise council for 1991-92 is made up of the following expenditure:

  £

  Block 1

  20,906,987

  Block 2

  12,960,897

  Block 3

  3,551,350

  Block 4

  1,205,303

  Block 5

  2,029,638

  Total

  40,654,170

  Block 1 covers: Youth Training and Education.

  Block 2 covers: Adult Training—Employment Training.

  Block 3 covers: Business and Enterprise.

  Block 4 covers: Other expenditure including local initiative fund activities, advertising and publicity etc.

  Block 5 covers: Management costs.

  Departmental Achievements
  Mr. Gregory
  To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the expenditure and achievements of his Department in North Yorkshire during 1991; and what was the comparable position between June 1979 and May 1980.

  Mr. Jackson
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: The Leeds and North Yorkshire area of the Employment Service and North Yorkshire training and enterprise council (TEC) have helped a wide range of people and businesses in North Yorkshire during 1991. The main achievements are set out as follows; those for the Employment Service cover the calendar year 1991; and for North Yorkshire TEC cover the period 1 April to 31 December 1991.

  Employment Service achievements in North Yorkshire
  Over 17,000 people placed into jobs;
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  Over 16,000 unemployed people interviewed and advised under the Restart and similar arrangements;
  Over 1,100 unemployed people helped through nine Jobclubs.

  North Yorkshire TEC
  1,700 young people entered Youth Training;
  Over 2,100 unemployed people entered employment training;
  1,000 unemployed people entered the enterprise allowance scheme;
  Help under a range of special initiatives, including a Centre for Training and Development, Business Development Projects, Women into Enterprise, and Access into Management.

  Employment Service expenditure in North Yorkshire is not available. The expenditure of the North Yorkshire TEC in the calendar year is not available; the TEC budget for financial year 1991–92 is £18·03 million.

  Information is not available for 1979 and 1980.

  Other services and facilities of this Department, such as the wages inspectorate and the redundancy payments service, are also available in North Yorkshire but cannot be separated out.

SCOTLAND

  Data (Personal Health Information)
  Mr. Cohen
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what action he intends to take with regard to the code of practice on the confidentiality of personal health information in the light of the seventh report of the Data Protection Registrar; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  My officials have arranged a meeting with the Data Protection Registrar's department to discuss the matters raised in the report. There are no plans at present to amend the code of practice but the concerns of the Data Protection Registrar will be taken into account in any future revision of the code.

  Mr. Cohen
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to allow patients, consumers and parents to consent to, or to be aware of, those uses and disclosures of personal information that are not obvious at the time the citizen provides the information; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  Personal information contained in health records is primarily for the health care of patients. Advice to patients on other uses which may be made of such information is already contained in some hospital admission booklets. It is planned to extend this practice to all hospital admission booklets and guidance on this will be issued to health boards and NHS trusts.

  There are no plans to extend the restrictions on the use of the information contained in a pupil's progress record as set out in regulation 10(3) of the School General (Scotland) Regulations 1975.

  Consumer affairs are the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.

  Diabetes
  Mr. Galbraith
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the action taken by health boards in response to the report produced by the working group of the national medical consultants committee on the management of diabetes in Scotland.
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  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  Comprehensive information is not available about action taken by health boards as a direct response to the recommendations made in 1987 by the National Medical Consultative Committee working group on diabetes. Clinical audit which is supported by specific Government funding is now the principal mechanism employed to review and improve patient care in the whole range of settings and six health boards have reported 12 separate audit projects for diabetes in general practice and in hospitals and in shared care. Applications for two national projects to be led by the recently formed Scottish study group for the care of the young diabetic will shortly be considered for funding. A third project involving health boards in the central belt of Scotland is under discussion.

  Mr. Galbraith
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last met representatives from the British Diabetic Association; what matters were discussed; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  There are no records of my right hon. Friend meeting representatives from the British Diabetic Association in recent years.

  Mr. Galbraith
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give, for each health board, the number of consultant diabetic physicians per head of the population.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  The information is given in the table.

  Consultants in Endocrinology and Diabetes at 30 September 1991

  Health board

  Number (whole-time equivalents)

  Rate per 100,000 population

  Greater Glasgow

  3

  0·32

  Lothian

  1

  0·13

  Tayside

  1

  0·25

  Notes:

  1. Data are provisional.

  2. All the consultants are whole time.

  3. All other boards have no diabetes consultants.

  4. Information collected centrally records only the main specialty of a doctor. The above figures therefore do not include general physicians who have a special interest in endocrinology or diabetes.

  Major products supplied

  Year ending 31 March

  Whole blood (donations)

  Red cell concentrate (donations)

  Factor VIII (vials)

  Factor IX (vials)

  Albumin (bottles)

  1978

  138,988

  106,169

  7,733

  3,681

  26,943

  1979

  138,740

  115,623

  8,346

  2,761

  24,904

  1980

  135,239

  129,350

  10,053

  3,273

  37,979

  1981

  121,365

  143,796

  18,154

  2,875

  39,406

  1982

  98,405

  173,550

  19,518

  2,998

  43,335

  1983

  81,581

  185,543

  24,890

  3,381

  56,065

  1984

  61,655

  204,325

  30,345

  4,293

  62,486

  1985

  57,953

  210,069

  35,732

  4,761

  64,555

  1986

  41,021

  220,602

  29,176

  3,275

  65,044

  1987

  26,407

  222,570

  37,243

  1,013

  77,752

  1988

  19,210

  221,025

  52,204

  9,614

  100,272

  1989

  22,454

  237,144

  41,335

  9,160

  95,057

  1990

  11,704

  256,361

  42,798

  7,812

  89,060

  1991

  9,210

  278,300

  52,023

  8,689

  89,306

  Assisted Places
  Sir Hector Monro
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has decided on the level of fee remission grant which will be available to parents under the assisted places scheme in school session 1992–93.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  My right hon. Friend is making £9·6 million available for fee remission in 1992–93. Fifty-eight schools across Scotland will participate in the scheme. The funding now available should increase the number of pupils benefiting to the planned level of about 3,000 by the end of the session.

  Blood
  Mr. Strang
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many donations of blood were taken by the National Blood Transfusion Service in Scotland, in each year from 1978 to the latest year available.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: The number of donations taken in each year since 1978 was:

  Year ending 31 March

  Number of donations

  1978

  284,358

  1979

  284,184

  1980

  279,653

  1981

  286,230

  1982

  281,904

  1983

  284,248

  1984

  298,945

  1985

  307,356

  1986

  299,023

  1987

  285,866

  1988

  259,991

  1989

  266,259

  1990

  275,565

  1991

  291,819

  Mr. Strang
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many transfers of(a) blood and (b) blood products were performed by the national health service in Scotland in each year from 1978 to the latest year available.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: Information on transfers performed is not available in the form requested. Figures of blood and blood products supplied by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service to hospitals for use in each year was as follows:

  Training
  Mr. Worthington
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what have been the numbers on employment training and youth training schemes in Scotland in each of the past five years.

  Mr. Allan Stewart
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: The information requested is set out in the table.

  Employment training and youth training scheme/youth training in training in Scotland 1987 to 1991

  Date

  Employment training

  YTS/Youth training

  March 1987

  1—

  38,000

  March 1988

  1—

  46,000

  March 1989

  21,200

  49,800

  March 1990

  26,400

  45,100

  March 1991

  25,200

  237,000

  1 Not collected—employment training programme did not start until September 1988.

  2 Excludes figures for the national providers unit provision.

  Mr. Worthington
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information he has about the financial contribution of employers to youth training and employment training.

  Mr. Allan Stewart
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: My right hon. Friend does not seek to obtain detailed information about financial contributions made by employers, either in money or in kind, to the youth training or employment training programmes. It is in the interest of employers to contribute towards training costs and they are encouraged by local enterprise companies to do so. Furthermore, local enterprise companies work to maximise employer contributions through their contracts with providers.

  Mr. Worthington
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many people in Scotland are currently on youth training and employment training schemes;

  (2) if he will make a statement on the arrangements made for the independent national monitoring of the quality of youth training and employment training schemes;

  (3) how many people on youth training and employment training schemes in Scotland have employee status.

  Mr. Allan Stewart
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: In Scotland responsibility for monitoring the delivery of youth training and employment training rests with Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise. I have asked the chairmen of these two bodies to write to the hon. Member with the information that he has requested about the numbers and status of people on the youth training and employment training schemes.

  Mr. Worthington
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of(a) persons aged 16 years and (b) persons aged 17 years who are on youth training schemes are classified as special needs trainees; and how the numbers and percentages have changed in the years that youth training has been in operation.

  Mr. Allan Stewart
  [holding answer 20 December 1991]: For years 1986–87 to 1989–90 it is not possible to identify precisely by age the numbers and percentages of trainees
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  with special training needs in Scotland. However, it is possible to identify the numbers of trainees in respect of which payments to providers were made at rates equivalent to special training needs rates. These numbers will include some payments made in respect of trainees who did not have special training needs and will contain instances of double counting. On this basis for each of the years the estimated number and proportion of trainees for whom payments at special training needs rates were made are:

  Trainees aged 16 years

  Trainees aged 17 years

  Estimated number

  Per cent.

  Estimated number

  Per cent.

  1986–97

  105

  0·4

  56

  1·0

  1987–88

  117

  0·5

  61

  1·1

  1988–89

  167

  0·7

  94

  1·2

  1989–90

  1,403

  6·7

  364

  5·7

  No information is available about payments made to providers in respect of trainees with special training needs in 1990–91; and Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise do not collect data on special needs trainees broken down by age. That information will therefore not be available for 1991–92 and later years.

  Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise are required to collect data on the total number of trainees with special needs. The proportion of Youth Training starts by trainees who have special training needs which are expected this year, and the targets which have been set for 1992–93, are as follows:

  1991–92 (per cent.)

  1992–93 (per cent.)

  Scottish Enterprise

  19

  20

  Highlands and Islands Enterprise

  21

  21

  Mr. Maxton
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many youth training placements in electrical and electronic engineering in Scotland went(a) to young men and (b) to young women; and if he will provide comparable figures for health, community and personal services placements.

  Mr. Allan Stewart
  I regret that this information is not available.

  Labour Statistics
  Mr. Worthington
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many full-time(a) male and (b) female jobs there were in Scotland in June 1979; and how many there are now.

  Mr. Allan Stewart
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: For the years requested it is not possible to obtain separate figures for a number of male full-time employees. Figures are available for the total number of male employees. In June 1979 there were 1,205,191 male employees in employment. In June 1991 there were 1,014,677 male employees in employment. There were 565,202 full-time female employees in employment in June 1979 and 529,763 full-time female employees in employment in June 1991.

  Medical Facilities (Western Isles)
  Mr. Macdonald
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether any consideration is being given to the construction or development of new medical facilities in the Uists or Benbecula.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: This is a matter for the board.

  Self-employment
  Mr. Worthington
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many self-employed people there have been in Scotland each quarter since 1979.

  Mr. Allan Stewart
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: The information is available on the NOMIS database in the House of Commons Library. Library staff are ready to assist in accessing the information if necessary.

  Health Services (Remote Areas)
  Mr. Macdonald
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether the Scottish Health Advisory Council working group on the provision of health services to remote and island areas will extend its deadline for submissions beyond 31 January; and whether it intends to seek submissions from local health councils.

  Mr. Michael Forsyth
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: Evidence was requested on behalf of the working group in a letter sent on 3 December 1991 to a number of statutory bodies and organisations, including the Association of Scottish Local Health Councils. The letter asked for responses by 31 January 1992, and requested recipients foreseeing difficulty in meeting this deadline to advise the group's secretary accordingly.

  The association is currently undertaking consultation with local health councils and hopes to submit evidence to the group by the end of March, or failing that, by the end of April.

  In addition to the collection of written evidence, the group plans to visit the areas covered by its remit, including the Western Isles. The visit programmes will include both formal meetings with representatives of the health service and open sessions for members of the local community.

  Manufacturing
  Mr. Worthington
  To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many manufacturing jobs there were in each region of Scotland in June and December of every year since 1979.

  Mr. Allan Stewart
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: The information requested is available only from the census of employment which is conducted by the Employment Department. The census of employment is not carried out annually. Information is given in the table for the years in the required period in which a census of employment was conducted.

  Total employees in employment by Scottish region 1981, 1984, 1987, 1989

  Region

  Manufacturing employees in employment

  1981

  1984

  1987

  1989

  Borders

  12,940

  12,610

  12,260

  12,010

  Central

  31,090

  22,780

  23,080

  23,450

  Dumfries and Galloway

  12,240

  11,300

  10,920

  11,790

  550

  Region

  Manufacturing employees in employment

  1981

  1984

  1987

  1989

  Fife

  39,980

  35,810

  32,610

  32,730

  Grampian

  36,780

  35,230

  34,130

  36,220

  Highland

  12,410

  10,220

  9,020

  9,680

  Lothian

  66,200

  55,300

  56,130

  55,530

  Strathclyde

  249,840

  215,350

  194,890

  187,880

  Tayside

  37,050

  32,090

  31,010

  31,090

  Islands

  3,330

  2,960

  2,900

  2,110

  Scotland

  501,790

  433,690

  406,950

  402,480

  Source: Employment Department Census of Employment.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY

  Trade Deficit
  Mr. Dykes
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give the figures for the United Kingdom trade deficit in the last three quarters for which the adjusted figures are available.

  Mr. Redwood
  United Kingdom current account trade deficits in the second, third and fourth quarters of 1991 were £145 million, £1,342 million and £1,585 million respectively.

  Industrial Policy
  Mr. Enright
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he will next meet representatives of the northern region CBI to discuss industrial policy.

  Mr. Lilley
  I next plan to meet representatives of the northern region CBI later this month to discuss a range of business matters.

  Innovation
  Mr. Moss
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement about the new innovation unit within his Department.

  Mr. Leigh
  I am pleased to inform my hon. Friend that DTI's innovation unit, launched last October by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, is proceeding well with its task of promoting innovation as the key to wealth creation. On 18 December last year my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the appointment of five top business men to the unit. All five have hands-on experience of innovation in industry and will use that experience to deal directly with firms, higher education institutes, schools and local media.

  Mr. Patrick Thompson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from business men about the introduction by his Department of the Spur scheme, for innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises.

  Mr. Leigh
  Business response to Spur (Support for Products Under Research) has been most positive and to date 90 offers of grant have been made to companies throughout Great Britain. The scheme has also been warmly welcomed by the Confederation of British Industry, the independent Advisory Council on Science and Technology (ACOST) and the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology.

  Kuwait
  Mr. Gerald Howarth
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on Britain's share of the Kuwaiti market since the end of the Gulf war.

  Mr. Lilley
  According to the information we have, Britain regained its pre-Gulf war OECD market share within two months of the end of hostilities. Our exports to Kuwait increased in value by nearly 30 per cent. in the second half of 1991 compared with the second half of 1989 (the most recent comparable period). United Kingdom companies gained at least £500 million worth of reconstruction business in Kuwait last year. The United Kingdom is now Kuwait's largest European supplier.

  Manufactured Exports
  Sir Michael Neubert
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement about the United Kingdom's share of manufactured exports by developed nations over the last five years.

  Mr. Bill Walker
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement about the United Kingdom's share of manufactured exports by developed nations over the last five years.

  Mr. Leigh
  As the table shows, the United Kingdom's share of total OECD exports of manufactured goods increased during the period 1985–90. Our share has been broadly stable since the early 1980s, after decades of decline.

  United Kingdom share of the value of the OECD's exports of manufactured goods

  Percentage

  1985

  7·2

  1986

  7·0

  1987

  7·4

  1988

  7·6

  1989

  7·5

  1990

  7·8

  Sources: United Nations Monthly Bulletin, OECD International Monetary Fund, DTI.

  Manufacturing Industry
  Mr. Dunnachie
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he next expects to meet the president of the CBI to discuss manufacturing industry.

  Mr. Lilley
  Ministers and officials of my Department keep in touch with the CBI on a wide range of business matters. I next plan to meet representatives of the CBI on 19 February.

  Dr. Kim Howells
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans he has to assist British manufacturing industry to become more cost-effective and competitive.

  Mr. Redwood
  Over the last 10 years British manufacturing industry has increased its productivity by over a half and its exports by over two-thirds, faster than any of our major competitors. I plan to ensure that these substantial improvements in competitiveness are sustained by continuing to improve the climate in which British 552
  business operates, by reducing burdens on business and stimulating investment, innovation and the spread of best practice, by encouraging vigorous competition at home and by working for trade liberalisation and promoting our exports world wide.

  Mr. Harry Barnes
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he will meet representatives of the east midlands regional CBI to discuss policy towards manufacturing industry.

  Mr. Lilley
  Ministers and officials of my Department keep in touch with the CBI on a wide range of business matters.

  Engineering
  Mr. Bellingham
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he next hopes to meet representatives of the engineering sector to discuss exports.

  Mr. Lilley
  My DTI ministerial colleagues and I have frequent contacts with representatives of the engineering industry on a range of matters.

  Regional Policy
  Mr. McAvoy
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he next intends to meet representatives of the European Commission to discuss regional policy.

  Mr. Leigh
  I have at present no plans for such a discussion.

  Manufacturing Balance of Trade
  Mr. Mullin
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when Britain last had a surplus on its manufacturing trade; and what forecast he has made of the manufacturing trade balance for the future.

  Mr. Redwood
  Britain last had a surplus on its manufacturing trade in 1982. Since 1982 the value of United Kingdom exports of manufactures has increased by 131 per cent. My Department does not make forecasts of the trade balance.

  Self-catering Accommodation
  Mr. Kennedy
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects to be in a position to respond to the concerns of those involved in the self-catering accommodation sector over EC guidelines with regard to fabric content standards; and if he will make a statement.

  Mr. Leigh
  The Commission decided, in May 1991 to suspend work on the draft EC Directive on the Fire Behaviour of Upholstered Furniture pending further research into the fire characteristics of materials used in furniture and into test methods. The purpose of this research, as discussed at a consultative meeting in Brussels on 29 January, is to support requirements imposing limits on the burning behaviour of upholstered furniture and the associated emission of smoke and toxic gases. We have made it clear to the Commission that we will retain our Furniture Regulations until a regime consistent with the level of protection in the United Kingdom is available under the directive.
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  As a quite separate issue, the application of the United Kingdom's Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations to self-catering holiday accommodation has necessitated a wide-ranging review of the legal position with the involvement of other Departments. I am consulting with colleagues about a possible way forward and I hope to be able to make some positive proposals shortly.

  Regional Assistance (North-east England)
  Mr. Amos
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on regional assistance for the north-east of England.

  Mr. Leigh
  Of the four North-East region counties, Cleveland, Durham, and Tyne and Wear have assisted area status, as does the Morpeth and A shington travel-to-work area in Northumberland. For 1990–91, expenditure on regional selective assistance, regional enterprise grants, regional development grants and by English Estates in the region amounted to £84 million. In addition, £97 million has been committed between 1989 and 1991 under ERDF programmes for the region, which also has access to ECSC loans.

  Telephone Boxes
  Mr. Andy Stewart
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what discussions he has had with OFTEL relating to the increase in the number of working telephone boxes since 1987.

  Mr. Redwood
  I meet the Director General of OFTEL from time to time to discuss a wide range of telecommunications issues. I welcome the fact that BT now has approximately 100,000 public telephone boxes compared to 78,000 in 1987, and that 96 per cent. are in working order compared to 77 per cent. in 1987. There are also approximately 5,000 Mercury telephone boxes of which 98 per cent. are in working order.

  Manufacturing Output
  Mr. Doran
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans he has to boost manufacturing output.

  Mr. Lilley
  The reduction of inflation is the precondition of renewed sustainable growth.

  Miss Lestor
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has recently received about manufacturing output.

  Mr. Lilley
  I have received the recent excellent report by the CBI's manufacturing advisory group which showed that there has been a transformation for the better in manufacturing performance during the 1980s.

  Bicycles
  Mr. Cousins
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from the British bicycle industry about Chinese imports; and what action he has taken to maintain fair trade in bicycles.

  Mr. Redwood
  I have received a number of such representations. The European Commission is currently 554
  investigating an anti-dumping complaint brought by the European industry against imports from China. The case for introducing a Community-wide import quota is also under consideration. The treatment of Chinese bicycles under the Community's generalised scheme of preferences is kept under review.

  Perfume Exports
  Mr. Andrew MacKay
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the level of imports and exports of perfumes for each of the last five years defined by country.

  Mr. Redwood
  The available information is given in the following table. The value of United Kingdom exports in 1991, £62 million, was 3 per cent. higher than in 1990, while imports fell by 5 per cent. to £116 million.

  United Kingdom Trade in Perfumes and Toilet Waters1 (Countries ranked by 1991 trade) Imports, £ million

  Country

  1988

  1989

  1990

  1991

  France

  68·7

  73·0

  83·4

  66·1

  United States of America

  6·7

  12·7

  11·6

  14·7

  Netherlands

  2·5

  4·2

  6·4

  8·0

  Germany2

  10·0

  2·2

  3·3

  6·2

  Switzerland

  6·6

  5·2

  6·2

  5·1

  Others

  10·1

  10·6

  11·0

  16·2

  Total

  104·7

  107·9

  121·9

  116·2

  Exports, £ million

  France

  4·8

  7·0

  11·6

  9·2

  Germany2

  5·9

  4·9

  5·7

  6·3

  United States of America

  1·8

  3·3

  5·2

  6·0

  Italy

  4·8

  4·4

  5·2

  3·7

  Saudi Arabia

  3·3

  4·5

  4·5

  3·2

  Irish Republic

  2·2

  1·7

  1·7

  2·7

  Dubai

  1·4

  1·5

  1·6

  2·6

  Others

  29·7

  26·8

  24·6

  28·4

  Total

  54·0

  54·1

  60·3

  61·9

  1 Perfumes and toilet waters are defined as item 553·1 of the Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 3.

  2 Germany includes the former East Germany throughout.

  Source: Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom.

  Mr. Andrew MacKay
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on negotiations concerning intellectual property rights in respect of perfumes during the current GATT round.

  Mr. Lilley
  The Government welcome the progress made in the GATT Uruguay round negotiations on trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPs). The GATT Director-General's proposals for improved international rules for the protection and enforcement of all main forms of intellectual property should benefit United Kingdom trading interests. The perfume industry stands to benefit particularly from his proposals for strengthened multilateral rules to combat trade in counterfeit goods and to protect undisclosed trade information.

  Computer Misuse
  Miss Emma Nicholson
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will introduce proposals to amend the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to take into account the effect of viruses and hackers on databases where electronic data interchange is in use.

  Mr. Leigh
  The Secretary of State has no plans to introduce proposals to amend the Computer Misuse Act 1990. Since the passing of that Act, the DTI has monitored its application, and has not identified any features of electronic data interchange which would indicate the need for such amendment.

  Bank of Credit and Commerce International
  Mr. Marlow
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will investigate the fees charged by Touche Ross with regard to the Bank of Credit and Commerce International with a view to introducing further safeguards for creditors.

  Mr. Redwood
  I set out in a reply on 20 January at column 58, the means by which a liquidator's remuneration must be approved, that is by the creditors acting either through a liquidation committee or in general meeting, with recourse available to the court. In the case of BCCI, this procedure will apply to the remuneration of Touche Ross as liquidators after 14 January 1992, the date of the winding up order. The procedure provides safeguards in control by the creditors who have a financial interest and by the courts who are independent of the liquidator.

  The Secretary of State does not have a role in deciding the amount of remuneration which should be paid, but has the power if necessary to audit a liquidator's accounts in order to ensure that the approved amount has been drawn.

  The remuneration of Touche Ross as provisional liquidators, that is up to 14 January, must be approved by the court and I understand that their bill will shortly be lodged with the court for approval.

  Environmental Claims
  Mr. Day
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what measures the Government are taking to monitor and control false and misleading environmental claims on products sold in the United Kingdom.

  Mr. Leigh
  Environmental claims about goods and services are generally subject to the provisions of the Trade Descriptions Act, 1968. Enforcement is the responsibility of local trading standards officers.

  House of Fraser
  Mr. Warren
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list for each of the regulatory bodies to which copies of the inspectors' report on House of Fraser were sent prior to, or at the time of, publication, and the conclusions each body has reported to him on that report.

  Mr. Lilley
  [holding answer 6 February 1992]: My predecessor sent copies of the inspectors' report to the following regulatory bodies: the Bank of England, the takeover panel, the Law Society, the Securities and
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  Investments Board, the Securities Association and FIMBRA. Copies were disclosed to the Bank of England and the takeover panel prior to publication of the report. The remaining bodies were passed copies on publication.

  My Department's memoranda of November and December 1990 to the Trade and Industry Committee gave information on action taken at that time by regulatory bodies following their consideration of the House of Fraser report. These were published in March 1991. Subsequently the following further information has become available.

  For the Bank of England the Governor gave evidence to the Committee in 1991. FIMBRA has informed the Department that it has nothing to add to the evidence given to the Committee by the Bank of England, which is the lead regulator for Harrods Bank.

  As for the Solicitors Complaints Bureau, as set out in my Department's December 1990 memorandum the report of the solicitors instructed by the Law Society to consider the part played by Herbert Smith in the matters dealt with in the inspectors' report was considered by the adjudication committee in November 1990. The adjudication committee considered that there was no evidence of professional misconduct by Herbert Smith.

  The same report was considered in January 1991 by the standards and guidance committee of the Law Society, responsible for setting professional standards. That Committee considered that there was no evidence to justify changes to the solicitors' practice rules or to the principles contained in the Guide to the Professional Conduct of Solicitors. The committee was of the view that any guidance on the issues raised by the House of Fraser case should be by way of "best practice", and as such was a matter for the relevant specialist committee, that is the company law committee.

  The company law committee, which is composed of specialist practitioners engaged in private practice, commerce and industry, has set out its views on the company law issues raised by the inspectors' report in the Law Society's memorandum submitted to the Trade and Industry Committee in April 1990. The company law committee had no comments to make on the conduct or regulatory issues raised by the case. The Committee is of the view that professional conduct guidance on such a technical area of practice would be inappropriate. In practice the lessons to be learnt from cases such as House of Fraser will have been incorporated into the internal practice procedures adopted by the large City firms involved in such takeovers and mergers. On that basis, the committee was therefore content to let the matter rest.

  The takeover panel has informed my Department that on 23 January 1992 the High Court dismissed the Fayed brothers' application for leave for judicial review of the decisions of the panel and its appeal committee in December 1991 not to grant an adjournment of the hearing of disciplinary charges being brought against the Fayed brothers by the panel executive. The decision of the High Court is subject to an appeal by the Fayeds.

  Small Firms Merit Award
  Mr. Win Griffiths
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) how many companies, by standard planning region, who were successful under the small firms merit award for research and technology stage I, were successful in stage II;
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  (2) how many applications he received from companies in each standard planning region under the small firms merit award for research and technology stage II; how many were approved in each region; and how many had been successful in stage I.

  Mr. Leigh
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: The stage 2 SMART competition is open only to those who won stage 1 the previous year. Firms unsuccessful in stage 1 cannot enter stage 2. In 1991 there were 134 entries for the stage 2 competition, 103 of which have been successful as follows:

  Region/territory

  Number of entries

  Number successful

  East

  14

  10

  East Midlands

  16

  11

  North East

  5

  4

  Northern Ireland

  4

  4

  North West

  11

  9

  Scotland

  16

  13

  South East

  22

  12

  South West

  14

  12

  Wales

  12

  11

  West Midlands

  11

  9

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  9

  8

  Research and Development
  Mr. Win Griffiths
  To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list by travel-to-work areas the amounts of money allocated to companies from his Department's research and development budget.

  Mr. Leigh
  [holding answer 11 February 1992]: The following is, for each of the last two completed financial years and the current year to date, a breakdown by DTI region and travel-to-work area, of DTI innovation budget grants paid to companies.

  Please note, however, that the majority of the innovation budget is devoted to support for collaborative R and D projects where payments are made to one of the participating organisations (project leader) who distributes the grant to the other collaborators on the DTI's behalf. In these cases only one travel-to-work area is recorded on the DTI's database, but much of the money shown to be going to a particular travel-to-work area will be passed on to other companies, in other travel-to-work areas and possibly in other regions.

  Department of Trade and Industry innovation grants paid to companies in 1989–90

  Region and travel-to-work area

  Amount paid

  (£)

  East Midlands

  Boston

  12,500

  Burton-on-Trent

  48,249

  Chesterfield

  8,092

  Derby

  15,420

  Gainsborough

  147,037

  Leicester

  90,363

  Lincoln

  14,309

  Loughborough and Coalville

  94,191

  Mansfield

  2,603

  Matlock

  70,296

  Northampton

  923,931

  Nottingham

  361,565

  Rugby and Daventry

  26,676

  Worksop

  6,261

  North East

  558

  Region and travel-to-work area

  Amount paid

  (£)

  Alnwick and Amble

  25,000

  Bishop Auckland

  19,545

  Darlington

  8,925

  Durham

  63,211

  Hartlepool

  74,537

  Hexham

  11,282

  Middlesbrough

  326,886

  Morpeth and Ashington

  55,297

  Newcastle upon Tyne

  460,653

  South Tyneside

  35,275

  Stockton-on-Tees

  516,838

  Sunderland

  130,183

  Northern Ireland

  Belfast

  169,218

  Coleraine

  12,500

  Craigavon

  51,781

  Omagh

  8,147

  North West

  Accrington and Rossendale

  62,931

  Barrow-in-Furness

  19,773

  Blackburn

  24,676

  Blackpool

  8,635

  Bolton and Bury

  35,374

  Burnley

  16,583

  Crewe

  68,898

  Hexham

  26,838

  Liverpool

  215,731

  Macclesfield

  407,481

  Manchester

  1,884,748

  Northwich

  5,676

  Preston

  139,309

  Sheffield

  14,733

  Warrington

  33,994

  Widnes and Runcorn

  50,572

  Wigan and St. Helens

  117,479

  Wirral and Chester

  186,162

  Workington

  26,163

  Scotland

  Aberdeen

  133,236

  Ayr

  77,627

  Bathgate

  155,756

  Dumbarton

  15,634

  Dundee

  9,032

  Dunoon and Bute

  9,487

  Edinburgh

  391,596

  Glasgow

  183,908

  Greenock

  12,500

  Haddington

  12,500

  Invergordon and Dingwall

  19,375

  Inverness

  31,061

  Kelso and Jedburgh

  2,551

  Kirkcaldy

  14,637

  Lanarkshire

  23,015

  Perth

  17,070

  Skye and Wester Ross

  8,414

  St. Andrews

  25,000

  Stirling

  27,320

  South East

  Andover

  36,158

  Aylesbury and Wycombe

  442,225

  Banbury

  0

  Basingstoke and Alton

  58,278

  Bedford

  119,730

  Brighton

  97,663

  Cambridge

  649,306

  Canterbury

  8,339

  Chelmsford and Braintree

  501,076

  Chichester

  63,682

  Colchester

  114,124

  Crawley

  1,480,580

  Eastbourne

  7,249

  Great Yarmouth

  284,587

  Guildford and Aldershot

  883,189

  559

  Region and travel-to-work area

  Amount paid

  (£)

  Hastings

  221,996

  Haverhill

  25,667

  Heathrow

  1,577,484

  Hertford and Harlow

  750,976

  Hitchin and Letchworth

  49,140

  Huntingdon and St. Neots

  63,099

  Ipswich

  44,919

  Isle of Wight

  58,713

  London

  3,278,634

  Lowestoft

  1,875

  Medway and Maidstone

  206,215

  Milton Keynes

  8,585

  Newbury

  271,720

  Newmarket

  54,686

  Norwich

  443,746

  Oxford

  1,901,148

  Peterborough

  188,607

  Portsmouth

  232,383

  Reading

  351,403

  Slough

  622,636

  Southampton

  60,560

  Southend

  122,119

  Sudbury

  8,025

  Thanet

  16,109

  Tunbridge Wells

  22,830

  Watford and Luton

  122,515

  Winchester and Eastleigh

  114,718

  Wisbech

  4,582

  Woodbridge and Leiston

  114,474

  Worthing

  95,211

  South West

  Barnstaple and Infracombe

  33,720

  Bath

  285,027

  Bournemouth

  26,053

  Bristol

  497,207

  Chard

  74,652

  Cheltenham

  0

  Cinderford and Ross-on-Wye

  42,152

  Cirencester

  111,369

  Devizes

  24,252

  Dorchester and Weymouth

  19,137

  Evesham

  74,268

  Falmouth

  15,129

  Honiton and Axminster

  32,509

  Launceston

  12,500

  Plymouth

  141,473

  Poole

  187,824

  Shaftesbury

  12,449

  South Molton

  18,008

  Stroud

  122,672

  Swindon

  118,420

  Taunton

  125,476

  Torbay

  26,303

  Trowbridge and Frome

  43,954

  Truro

  13,371

  Wareham and Swanage

  19,375

  Yeovil

  24,925

  Wales

  Aberdare

  26,304

  Aberystwyth

  36,038

  Bangor and Caernarfon

  56,266

  Cardiff

  252,928

  Carmarthen

  20,035

  Conwy and Colwyn

  7,776

  Denbigh

  32,250

  Holyhead

  9,846

  Llanelli

  12,500

  Merthyr and Rhymney

  28,162

  Monmouth

  25,000

  Neath and Port Talbot

  18,796

  Newport

  18,384

  Pontypridd and Rhondda

  783

  Porthmadog and Ffestiniog

  19,930

  Shotton, Flint and Rhyl

  23,874

  Swansea

  94,815

  560

  Region and travel-to-work area

  Amount paid

  (£)

  Wrexham

  12,242

  West Midlands

  Birmingham

  1,348,247

  Burton-on-Trent

  2,745

  Coventry and Hinckley

  277,951

  Dudley and Sandwell

  292,395

  Evesham

  77,141

  Hereford and Leominster

  30,655

  Kidderminster

  66,716

  Leek

  14,616

  Malvern and Ledbury

  41,322

  Rugby and Daventry

  1,784,508

  Stafford

  85,488

  Stoke

  48,613

  Walsall

  32,335

  Warwick

  49,341

  Whitchurch and Market Drayton

  12,500

  Wolverhampton

  54,375

  Worcester

  23,866

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Bradford

  221,890

  Calderdale

  5,958

  Doncaster

  220,367

  Harrogate

  85,307

  Hull

  1,097,784

  Leeds

  649,752

  Malton

  21,400

  Richmondshire

  3,166

  Ripon

  10,125

  Rotherham and Mexborough

  41,829

  Scarborough and Filey

  41,485

  Scunthorpe

  37,175

  Sheffield

  213,782

  Thirsk

  26,648

  Wakefield and Dewsbury

  21,292

  York

  57,073

  DTI innovation grants paid to companies in 1990–91

  Region and travel to work area

  Amount paid

  £

  East Midlands

  Bicester

  21,797

  Boston

  8,975

  Burton-on-Trent

  21,439

  Corby

  25,000

  Derby

  61,629

  Gainsborough

  16,121

  Kettering and Market Harborough

  22,233

  Leicester

  208,042

  Lincoln

  18,935

  Loughborough and Coalville

  197,256

  Mansfield

  16,113

  Matlock

  19,150

  Northampton

  248,134

  Nottingham

  349,521

  Wellingborough and Rushden

  8,705

  Worksop

  1,362

  North East

  Alnwick and Amble

  50,000

  Bishop Auckland

  17,955

  Durham

  35,833

  Hartlepool

  54,210

  Middlesbrough

  84,370

  Morpeth and Ashington

  86,673

  Newcastle upon Tyne

  364,740

  South Tyneside

  4,865

  Stockton-on-Tees

  94,806

  Sunderland

  145,448

  Northern Ireland

  Belfast

  205,252

  Coleraine

  25,000

  561

  Region and travel to work area

  Amount paid

  £

  Craigavon

  14,244

  Newry

  28,435

  North West

  Accrington and Rossendale

  29,723

  Barrow-in-Furness

  33,040

  Blackburn

  40,016

  Blackpool

  24,880

  Bolton and Bury

  26,899

  Burnley

  20,711

  Crewe

  41,091

  Kendal

  12,500

  Lancaster and Morecambe

  36,403

  Liverpool

  114,216

  Macclesfield

  249,342

  Manchester

  1,710,431

  Northwich

  17,493

  Preston

  121,688

  Rochdale

  19,344

  Sheffield

  31,121

  Warrington

  25,000

  Widnes and Runcorn

  131,225

  Wigan and St. Helens

  48,768

  Wirral and Chester

  60,589

  Workington

  31,966

  Scotland

  Aberdeen

  109,247

  Ayr

  119,373

  Bathgate

  31,000

  Dumbarton

  12,500

  Dunoon and Bute

  18,750

  Edinburgh

  360,628

  Glasgow

  219,605

  Greenock

  36,190

  Haddington

  25,000

  Invergordon and Dingwall

  60,625

  Inverness

  16,497

  Kilmarnock

  12,500

  Kirkcaldy

  47,006

  Lanarkshire

  11,482

  Oban

  8,350

  Perth

  6,809

  St. Andrews

  60,126

  Stirling

  11,634

  South East

  Andover

  25,389

  Aylesbury and Wycombe

  704,964

  Basingstoke and Alton

  50,941

  Bedford

  95,061

  Brighton

  91,097

  Cambridge

  904,143

  Canterbury

  3,052

  Chelmsford and Braintree

  54,588

  Chichester

  20,839

  Crawley

  223,136

  Cromer and North Walsham

  6,897

  Great Yarmouth

  380,061

  Guildford and Aldershot

  707,543

  Hastings

  132,351

  Haverhill

  21,618

  Heathrow

  1,213,794

  Hertford and Harlow

  768,127

  Huntingdon and St. Neots

  48,772

  Ipswich

  57,379

  Isle of Wight

  35,000

  London

  2,472,532

  Medway and Maidstone

  147,234

  Milton Keynes

  132,506

  Newbury

  266,875

  Newmarket

  17,560

  Norwich

  294,410

  Oxford

  1,378,564

  Peterborough

  163,462

  Portsmouth

  253,856

  Reading

  287,316

  562

  Region and travel to work area

  Amount paid £

  Slough

  841,322

  Southampton

  391,458

  Southend

  449,903

  Sudbury

  9,774

  Swindon

  22,899

  Tunbridge Wells

  19,115

  Watford and Luton

  150,331

  Winchester and Eastleigh

  154,347

  Woodbridge and Leiston

  180,700

  Worthing

  40,834

  South West

  Barnstaple and Ilfracombe

  54,457

  Bath

  166,117

  Bournemouth

  10,102

  Bristol

  1,744,611

  Chard

  22,860

  Cheltenham

  80,243

  Chippenham

  78,203

  Cinderford and Ross-on-Wye

  44,624

  Cirencester

  49,563

  Dartmouth and Kingsbridge

  12,500

  Devizes

  57,927

  Dorchester and Weymouth

  50,000

  Evesham

  49,073

  Exeter

  32,006

  Falmouth

  24,640

  Gloucester

  14,498

  Honiton and Axminster

  29,991

  Launceston

  21,578

  Newton Abbot

  19,070

  Okehampton

  16,950

  Plymouth

  210,057

  Poole

  45,296

  Salisbury

  35,388

  South Molton

  13,741

  Stroud

  182,660

  Swindon

  86,709

  Taunton

  34,952

  Torbay

  108,531

  Trowbridge and Frome

  27,644

  Wareham and Swanage

  5,170

  Wells

  22,010

  Weston-super-Mare

  57,327

  Yeovil

  13,500

  Wales

  Aberytswyth

  17,067

  Bangor and Caernarfon

  66,662

  Blaenau Gwent Abergavenny

  8,363

  Bridgend

  12,500

  Cardiff

  336,000

  Carmarthen

  37,405

  Denbigh

  25,000

  Llandrindod Wells

  18,750

  Llanelli

  44,096

  Merthyr and Rhymney

  7,888

  Neath and Port Talbot

  25,000

  Newport

  36,857

  Pontypool and Cwmbran

  38,167

  Pontypridd and Rhondda

  26,881

  Shotton, Flint and Rhyl

  37,248

  Swansea

  291,882

  Wrexham

  16,604

  West Midlands

  Birmingham

  1,265,081

  Coventry and Hinckley

  319,019

  Dudley and Sandwell

  269,911

  Evesham

  129,437

  Hereford and Leominister

  74,132

  Kidderminster

  208,980

  Malvern and Ledbury

  51,288

  Rugby and Daventry

  735,074

  Stafford

  26,724

  Stoke

  228,938

  Telford and Bridgnorth

  23,411

  563

  Region and travel to work area

  Amount paid

  £

  Walsall

  71,898

  Warwick

  141,095

  Whitchurch and Market Drayton

  9,103

  Wolverhampton

  23,091

  Worcester

  5,426

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Barnsley

  20,767

  Bradford

  221,061

  Doncaster

  71,250

  Harrogate

  66,931

  Hull

  713,904

  Leeds

  553,085

  Malton

  26,282

  Northallerton

  14,644

  Richmondshire

  992

  Rotherham and Mexborough

  20,875

  Scarborough and Filey

  81,961

  Scunthorpe

  24,129

  Sheffield

  275,165

  Whitby

  23,579

  York

  20,525

  DTI innovation grants paid to companies in 1991–92

  Region and travel-to-work area

  Amount paid £

  East Midlands

  Alfreton and Ashfield

  22,590

  Bicester

  13,201

  Burton-on-Trent

  16,062

  Derby

  115,040

  Gainsborough

  46,842

  Grantham

  15,000

  Kettering and Marker Harborough

  28,767

  Leicester

  102,536

  Lincoln

  123,029

  Loughborough and Coalville

  336,580

  Matlock

  24,886

  Northampton

  536,007

  Nottingham

  353,599

  Rugby and Daventry

  125,000

  Stamford

  4,375

  Wellingborough and Rushden

  33,640

  North East

  Durham

  210,632

  Hartlepool

  7,742

  Middlesbrough

  30,712

  Morpeth and Ashington

  73,234

  Newcastle upon Tyne

  577,172

  Stockton-on-Tees

  39,783

  Sunderland

  70,508

  Northern Ireland

  Belfast

  223,122

  Coleraine

  42,500

  Cookstown

  27,182

  Craigavon

  49,519

  Newry

  24,911

  North West

  Barrow-in-Furness

  30,092

  Blackburn

  65,520

  Blackpool

  157,037

  Bolton and Bury

  6,917

  Buxton

  29,628

  Carlisle

  15,000

  Crewe

  47,203

  Kendal

  25,000

  Lancaster and Morecambe

  33,160

  Liverpool

  196,043

  Macclesfield

  137,416

  Manchester

  1,371,933

  Northwich

  29,917

  Oldham

  36,587

  Rochdale

  18,156

  564

  Region and travel-to-work area

  Amount paid £

  Sheffield

  19,627

  Warrington

  21,401

  Widnes and Runcorn

  318,716

  Wigan and St. Helens

  15,000

  Wirral and Chester

  83,489

  Scotland

  Aberdeen

  166,513

  Ayr

  47,430

  Badenoch

  15,000

  Bathgate

  72,871

  Dunoon and Bute

  64,147

  Edinburgh

  325,647

  Glasgow

  222,395

  Greenock

  36,644

  Haddington

  8,725

  Invergordon and Dingwall

  7,500

  Inverness

  48,125

  Kilmarnock

  31,875

  Kirkcaldy

  78,868

  Lanarkshire

  21,878

  Oban

  15,000

  Perth

  1,202

  Skye and Wester Ross

  15,000

  St. Andrews

  76,724

  Stirling

  1,566

  South East

  Andover

  68,204

  Aylesbury and Wycombe

  258,419

  Basingstoke and Alton

  98,262

  Bedford

  111,698

  Brighton

  22,821

  Cambridge

  1,167,533

  Canterbury

  41,794

  Chelmsford and Braintree

  111,199

  Chichester

  10,809

  Crawley

  623,105

  Diss

  11,820

  Great Yarmouth

  15,181

  Guildford and Aldershot

  836,331

  Hastings

  22,672

  Heathrow

  622,538

  Hertford and Harlow

  586,180

  Hitchin and Letchworth

  27,535

  Huntingdon and St. Neots

  21,458

  Ipswich

  109,390

  Isle of Wight

  20,477

  London

  1,239,879

  Medway and Maidstone

  48,365

  Milton Keynes

  101,033

  Newbury

  233,995

  Norwich

  69,708

  Oxford

  663,369

  Peterborough

  184,786

  Portsmouth

  579,821

  Reading

  534,586

  Slough

  255,596

  Southampton

  389,374

  Southend

  61,101

  Swindon

  14,524

  Tunbridge Wells

  3,149

  Watford and Luton

  228,614

  Winchester and Eastleigh

  63,493

  Woodbridge and Leiston

  192,636

  Worthing

  62,964

  South West

  Barnstaple and Ilfracombe

  21,772

  Bath

  139,004

  Bideford

  15,000

  Bridport

  15,000

  Bristol

  469,251

  Chard

  6,032

  Cheltenham

  122,909

  Chippenham

  71,119

  Cinderford and Ross-on-Wye

  3,150

  Cirencester

  49,274

  565

  Region and travel-to-work area

  Amount paid £

  Dartmouth and Kingsbridge

  19,375

  Evesham

  27,460

  Exeter

  38,041

  Falmouth

  73,393

  Gloucester

  15,000

  Helston

  15,000

  Honiton and Axminster

  54,572

  Launceston

  3,422

  Newton Abbot

  18,430

  Okehampton

  6,591

  Penzance and St. Ives

  21,359

  Plymouth

  207,492

  Poole

  57,036

  Salisbury

  53,086

  South Molton

  5,735

  Stroud

  108,946

  Swindon

  107,621

  Taunton

  54,841

  Torbay

  49,653

  Trowbridge arid Frome

  59,960

  Wells

  20,504

  Weston-Super-Mare

  217,062

  Yeovil

  25,941

  Wales

  Aberystwyth

  13,347

  Bangor and Caernarfon

  28,059

  Blaenau Gwent Abergavenny

  24,296

  Bridgend

  25,000

  Cardiff

  301,562

  Carmarthen

  43,439

  Conwy and Colwyn

  44,312

  Denbigh

  32,820

  Llandrindod Wells

  18,750

  Llanelli

  65,954

  Merthyr and Rhymney

  76,217

  Neath and Port Talbot

  44,649

  Newport

  113,126

  Newtown

  25,469

  Pontypool and Cwmbran

  49,333

  Pontypridd and Rhondda

  10,619

  Shotton, Flint and Rhyl

  57,680

  Swansea

  320,041

  Wrexham

  16,103

  West Midlands

  Birmingham

  794,440

  Burton-on-Trent

  8,288

  Coventry and Hinckley

  438,912

  Dudley and Sandwell

  83,981

  Evesham

  52,905

  Hereford and Leominster

  67,927

  Kidderminster

  5,625

  Malvern and Ledbury

  243,301

  Oswestry

  15,000

  Rugby and Daventry

  102,597

  Stafford

  23,622

  Stoke

  208,920

  Telford and Bridgnorth

  63,455

  Walsall

  30,602

  Warwick

  12,850

  Wolverhampton

  32,158

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Barnsley

  38,377

  Bradford

  174,576

  Bridlington and Driffield

  14,815

  Calderdale

  164,627

  Goole and Selby

  18,099

  Harrogate

  90,647

  Huddersfield

  11,688

  Hull

  1,003,690

  Leeds

  587,587

  Malton

  27,983

  Northallerton

  28,009

  Rotherham and Mexborough

  26,338

  Scarborough and Filey

  155,244

  Sheffield

  127,840

  566

  Region and travel-to-work area

  Amount paid £

  Whitby

  13,921

  York

  51,985

  DTI innovation grants paid to companies in 1989–92

  Region and travel to work area

  Amount paid

  £

  East Midlands

  Alfreton and Ashfield

  22,590

  Bicester

  34,997

  Boston

  21,475

  Burton-on-Trent

  85,750

  Chesterfield

  8,092

  Corby

  25,000

  Derby

  192,089

  Gainsborough

  210,000

  Grantham

  15,000

  Kettering and Market Harborough

  51,000

  Leicester

  400,941

  Lincoln

  156,272

  Loughborough and Coalville

  628,028

  Mansfield

  18,716

  Matlock

  114,331

  Northampton

  1,708,072

  Nottingham

  1,064,685

  Rugby and Daventry

  151,676

  Stamford

  4,375

  Wellingborough and Rushden

  42,345

  Worksop

  7,623

  North East

  Alnwick and Amble

  75,000

  Bishop Auckland

  37,500

  Darlington

  8,925

  Durham

  309,676

  Hartlepool

  136,489

  Hexham

  11,282

  Middlesbrough

  441,968

  Morpeth and Ashington

  215,204

  Newcastle upon Tyne

  1,402,565

  South Tyneside

  40,140

  Stockton-on-Tees

  651,426

  Sunderland

  346,139

  Northern Ireland

  Belfast

  597,592

  Coleraine

  80,000

  Cookstown

  27,182

  Craigavon

  115,544

  Newry

  53,345

  Omagh

  8,147

  North West

  Accrington and Rossendale

  92,654

  Barrow-in-Furness

  82,905

  Blackburn

  130,212

  Blackpool

  190,552

  Bolton and Bury

  69,190

  Burnley

  37,294

  Buxton

  29,628

  Carlisle

  15,000

  Crewe

  157,192

  Hexham

  26,838

  Kendal

  37,500

  Lancaster and Morecambe

  69,563

  Liverpool

  525,989

  Macclesfield

  794,239

  Manchester

  4,967,112

  Northwich

  53,086

  Oldham

  36,587

  Preston

  260,997

  Rochdale

  37,500

  Sheffield

  65,481

  Warrington

  80,395

  Widnes and Runcorn

  500,513

  Wigan and St. Helens

  181,247

  Wirral and Chester

  330,240

  567

  Region and travel to work area

  Amount paid

  £

  Workington

  58,129

  Scotland

  Aberdeen

  408,997

  Ayr

  244,429

  Badenoch

  15,000

  Bathgate

  259,627

  Dumbarton

  28,134

  Dundee

  9,032

  Dunoon and Bute

  92,384

  Edinburgh

  1,077,871

  Glasgow

  625,907

  Greenock

  85,334

  Haddington

  46,225

  Invergordon and Dingwall

  87,500

  Inverness

  95,683

  Kelso and Jedburgh

  2,551

  Kilmarnock

  44,375

  Kirkcaldy

  140,511

  Lanarkshire

  56,375

  Oban

  23,350

  Perth

  25,081

  Skye and Wester Ross

  23,414

  St. Andrews

  161,850

  Stirling

  40,521

  South East

  Andover

  129,750

  Aylesbury and Wycombe

  1,405,607

  Banbury

  0

  Basingstoke and Alton

  207,481

  Bedford

  326,489

  Brighton

  211,580

  Cambridge

  2,720,982

  Canterbury

  53,185

  Chelmsford and Braintree

  666,862

  Chichester

  95,329

  Colchester

  114,124

  Crawley

  2,326,821

  Cromer and North Walsham

  6,897

  Diss

  11,820

  Eastbourne

  7,249

  Great Yarmouth

  679,830

  Guildford and Aldershot

  2,427,063

  Hastings

  377,019

  Haverhill

  47,285

  Heathrow

  3,413,817

  Hertford and Harlow

  2,105,284

  Hitchin and Letchworth

  76,675

  Huntingdon and St. Neots

  133,329

  Ipswich

  211,688

  Isle of Wight

  114,190

  London

  6,991,045

  Lowestoft

  1,875

  Medway and Maidstone

  401,814

  Milton Keynes

  242,123

  Newbury

  772,590

  Newmarket

  72,246

  Norwich

  807,864

  Oxford

  3,943,081

  Peterborough

  536,856

  Portsmouth

  1 ,066,060

  Reading

  1,173,304

  Slough

  1,719,554

  Southampton

  841,392

  Southend

  633,124

  Sudbury

  17,799

  Swindon

  37,423

  Thanet

  16,109

  Tunbridge Wells

  45,094

  Watford and Luton

  501,459

  Winchester and Eastleigh

  332,557

  Wisbech

  4,582

  Woodbridge and Leiston

  487,811

  Worthing

  199,009

  568

  Region and travel to work area

  Amount paid

  £

  South West

  Barnstaple and Ilfracombe

  109,950

  Bath

  590,148

  Bideford

  15,000

  Bournemouth

  36,155

  Bridport

  15,000

  Bristol

  2,711,069

  Chard

  103,544

  Cheltenham

  203,151

  Chippenham

  149,322

  Cinderford and Ross-on-Wye

  89,926

  Cirencester

  210,206

  Dartmouth and Kingsbridge

  31,875

  Devizes

  82,179

  Dorchester and Weymouth

  69,137

  Evesham

  150,801

  Exeter

  70,047

  Falmouth

  113,162

  Gloucester

  29,498

  Helston

  15,000

  Honiton and Axminster

  117,072

  Launceston

  37,500

  Newton Abbot

  37,500

  Okehampton

  23,540

  Penzance and St. Ives

  21,359

  Plymouth

  559,021

  Poole

  290,156

  Salisbury

  88,474

  Shaftesbury

  12,449

  South Molton

  37,485

  Stroud

  414,277

  Swindon

  312,751

  Taunton

  215,269

  Torbay

  184,487

  Trowbridge and Frome

  131,558

  Truro

  13,371

  Wareham and Swanage

  24,545

  Wells

  42,514

  Weston-super-Mare

  274,389

  Yeovil

  64,366

  Wales

  Aberdare

  26,304

  Aberystwyth

  66,453

  Bangor and Caernarfon

  150,987

  Blaenau Gwent Abergavenny

  32,659

  Bridgend

  37,500

  Cardiff

  890,490

  Carmarthen

  100,879

  Conwy and Colwyn

  52,088

  Denbigh

  90,070

  Holyhead

  9,846

  Llandrindod Wells

  37,500

  Llanelli

  122,550

  Merthyr and Rhymney

  112,267

  Monmouth

  25,000

  Neath and Port Talbot

  88,445

  Newport

  168,367

  Newtown

  25,469

  Pontypool and Cwmbran

  87,500

  Pontypridd and Rhondda

  38,283

  Porthmadog and Ffestiniog

  19,930

  Shotton, Flint and Rhyl

  118,802

  Swansea

  706,738

  Wrexham

  44,949

  West Midlands

  Birmingham

  3,407,767

  Burton-on-Trent

  11,033

  Coventry and Hinckley

  1,035,882

  Dudley and Sandwell

  646,287

  Evesham

  259,483

  Hereford and Leominster

  172,714

  Kidderminster

  281,321

  Leek

  14,616

  Malvern and Ledbury

  335,911

  Oswestry

  15,000

  569

  Region and travel to work area

  Amount paid

  £

  Rugby and Daventry

  2,622,180

  Stafford

  135,834

  Stoke

  486,471

  Telford and Bridgnorth

  86,866

  Walsall

  134,835

  Warwick

  203,286

  Whitchurch and Market Drayton

  21,603

  Wolverhampton

  109,624

  Worcester

  29,292

  Yorkshire and Humberside

  Barnsley

  59,144

  Bradford

  617,527

  Bridlington and Driffield

  14,815

  Calderdale

  170,585

  Doncaster

  291,617

  Goole and Selby

  18,099

  570

  Region and travel to work area

  Amount paid

  £

  Harrogate

  242,885

  Huddersfield

  11,688

  Hull

  2,815,378

  Leeds

  1,790,424

  Malton

  75,664

  Northallerton

  42,654

  Richmondshire

  4,157

  Ripon

  10,125

  Rotherham and Mexborough

  89,041

  Scarborough and Filey

  278,690

  Scunthorpe

  61,304

  Sheffield

  616,788

  Thirsk

  26,648

  Wakefield and Dewsbury

  21,292

  Whitby

  37,500

  York

  129,582

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