§ Mr. HaselhurstTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the future of co-ordination of research effort in matters of flight safety.
§ Mr. McLoughlinIn the United Kingdom the Civil Aviation Authority is responsible for co-ordinating research on civil flight safety. The machinery for this co-ordination is being reviewed, so as both to increase managerial accountability within the authority and to obtain additional advice from outside.
Research on flight safety in Europe is co-ordinated as appropriate through the joint aviation authorities or Eurocontrol. I expect to see more extensive co-ordination of research in this field in the years ahead.
Table 1 Non-industrial staff in post in Scotland by Department (including Agencies) and Scottish region at 1 October 1991 (excluding Scottish Office) Department Highland Grampian Tayside Fife Lothian Borders Central Strathclyde Dumfries Islands Total Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 8 93 11 — 31 6 5 19 6 2 181 Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal 35 60 72 43 305 9 47 584 28 8 1,191 Customs and Excise 48 250 116 34 333 11 70 790 17 28 1,697 Defence 80 272 227 1,467 362 1 158 4,032 54 90 6,743 Employment Department Group 205 284 340 219 1,140 52 184 2,348 97 52 4,921 Energy — 8 — — 2 — — 70 — — 80 Environment — — — — 47 — — 21 — — 68 PSA Service 16 70 22 46 453 — 5 254 14 13 893 General Register Office, Scotland — — — — 303 — — 21 — — 324 Home Office — — 6 — 3 7 — — 219 — 235 Inland Revenue 159 243 195 137 1,942 45 97 3,752 72 — 6,642 Lord Chancellor's Department — — — — 17 — — 36 — 114 167 National Savings — — — — — — — 2,562 — — 2,562 Ordnance Survey 10 7 7 8 24 3 5 33 6 — 103 OPCS — — — — — — — 108 — — 108 ODA — — — — — — — 555 — — 555 Registers of Scotland — — — — 1,112 — — — — — 1,112 Scottish Courts Administration — — — — — — 161 — — — 161 Scottish Courts Service 26 51 46 36 218 6 34 369 23 6 815 Scottish Record Office — — — — 117 — — — — — 117 Social Security 174 389 427 334 1,465 74 315 4,325 133 62 7,698