§ Mr. HawksleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what changes there have been in circulars giving guidance to schools concerning the reporting to police of pupils caught with soft drugs. [21279]
§ Mr. ForthThe Department issued for consultation last November a draft circular on drug prevention and schools. That made it clear that my right hon. Friend expects schools to notify the police when illegal drugs are found on a pupil or on school premises. That remains our view. Any instances of possession, use or supply of illegal drugs on school premises should be regarded with the utmost seriousness. The final circular will be published next month.
654Wcomparable to that given for self-administered private sector schemes in table 4.4 of the Government Actuary's report, "Occupational Pension Schemes 1991"; and what was the total expenditure of public sector schemes under each of these heads in 1991 and in the financial year 1992–93. [19990]
§ Sir George Young[holding answer 25 April 1995]: Information in the form requested is held centrally only for the public service pension schemes covering local government, teaching, the NHS, the civil service and the armed forces. It is given in the following table. Similar information for other public sector occupational pension schemes may be available from employing authorities or the managers of those schemes.
The Central Statistical Office publishes information obtained on a different sampling basis from that used by the Government Actuary—its survey of income and expenditure of funded private and public sector schemes in table 4.3 of "Business Monitor MQ5".