HC Deb 04 March 1994 vol 238 c913W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer of 17 February,Official Report, columns 949–50, if he will place in the Library the results of research conducted on the campaigns listed; and if he will publish an estimate of (a) the number of responses received to the children's panel recruitment campaign, (b) the number of responses received to the teacher recruitment campaign, (c) the number of requests for the right to buy information booklet and (d) the number of responses received to the national continence week telephone hotline.

Mr. Lang

The details requested are as follows:

  1. (a) Children's panels. A total of 2,262 responses were received via the telephone number and advertisement coupon which featured in the Scottish national press. Weekly newspapers published a local authority telephone number; number of responses not yet available.
  2. (b) Teacher recruitment—2,408 responses.
  3. (c) Right to Buy—7,I82 responses.
  4. (d) National continence week from 13 to 19 March publicises the existing all-the-year round help service. The telephone number featured is that of the continence resource centre at the Southern General hospital NHS trust, Glasgow where help can be sought.

Accessibility to the Scottish Office. Data based on post campaign research have just been received and are still being analysed. Drugs and solvent misuse. The pre-campaign qualitative research on the drugs and solvents campaign was commissioned by the Department of Health. These are working documents used to inform management decision making and are not generally made available.

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