HC Deb 25 March 1994 vol 240 cc433-4W
Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what considerations underlay the decision to pay the assistance under aid and trade provision for the Pergau dam to the Tenaga power company and not to the Malaysian Government.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

The Malaysian Government requested that the soft loan should be made direct to Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB). The Malaysian Government took the view that TNB was still a public body and therefore entitled to benefit from preferential loans. Her Majesty's Government considered that, in 1 April. Copies of this order are being sent to all maintained schools, to all local education authorities and to the teachers' and employers' associations.

Drafts of the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 1994, which will set out the details of the changes to the pay structure which I propose should apply from 1 September, will shortly be sent to the relevant teachers' and employers' associations and to representatives of the governors of voluntary schools and grant-maintained schools. I shall be inviting their comments on the detail of the draft document and on the Department's associated circular of guidance.