asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many firearms certificates have been granted since 1st July, 1961; and what were the main categories of users to whom these were given.

The information is not available.

	Estimated Completion Date	Estimated Total Cost (including land)
Motorways		£
M.4. Chiswick-Langley Viaduct (Preparatory work) (London-South Wales Motorway).	November, 1962	842,000
M.6. South Cheshire Section	September, 1963	6,644,000
Wigan South Link (Birmingham-Preston Motorway).	June, 1963	454,000*
A.1(M). Major bridges on Darlington By-pass Motorway	April, 1963	343,000*
Trunk Roads
A.1. Allerton (Hopperton) Station Diversion, West Riding	Summer, 1962	300,000
A.1. Boroughbridge By-pass, North and West Ridings	Summer, 1963	1,654,000
A.1. Buckden By-Pass and widening to Buckden Railway Bridge, Hunts.	Early, 1963	440,000
A.12. Woodbridge By-Pass Improvement, East Suffolk	Summer, 1962	282,000
A.18. Laceby Crossroads to Grimsby Improvement including Laceby By-Pass, Lindsey.	Late, 1962	398,000
A.38. Beam Bridge Diversion, Somerset	Summer, 1963	135,000
A.40. Ross to Goodrich Cross Improvement, Herefordshire	Autumn, 1962	687,000
A.50. Hanchurch Link Road to Birmingham-Preston Motorway, Staffs.	Autumn, 1962	422,000
A.63. North Ferriby By-Pass to Welton Improvement, East Riding.	Late, 1963	187,000
Classified Roads: London Area
A.40, A.400, B.401. Roundabout at junction of Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, St. Giles High Street and Charing Cross Road (L.C.C.).	Spring, 1963	488,000
Holborn, Kingsway. Construction of new road between Theobalds Road and High Holborn. (L.C.C.)	Summer, 1963	1,354,000
A.202 and A.3212. Improvement at Vauxhall Bridge. (Northern Bridgehead.) (L.C.C.)	Summer, 1962	142,000
A.3036. Widening from railway bridge near Nine Elms Lane to Lansdowne Way, Lambeth-Wandsworth Road. (L.C.C.)	Summer, 1962	222,000
Victoria Link Roads with 3 subways. (Associated with the Stag Brewery and Wilton Hotel Development.) (L.C.C.)	End of 1963	590,000
Classified Roads: Other Urban Areas
Stoke Road A.322. Reconstruction of bridge near Slough Station. (Slough B.C.)	Spring, 1963	202,000
B.274. Widening of Wellesley Road to Park Lane. (Croydon C.B.C.)	Spring, 1964	827,000
A.232. Widening of George Street. Altyre Road to Park Lane. (Croydon C.B.C.)	Spring, 1964	389,000
Filton By-pass. (Bristol C.B.C.)	Autumn, 1963	174,000
A.34. Underpass of the Middle Ring Road, Six Wavs, Aston. (Birmingham C.B.C.)	Summer, 1963	753,000
A.38. Inner Ring Road, Section I Holloway Circus Underpass, (Birmingham C.B.C.)	Autumn, 1964	1,847,000
A.4058. Widening and improvement of Gefeilon Gardens to Distillery Road. (Pontypridd U.D.C.)	Autumn, 1963	183,000
A.483 and B.5131. Grosvenor Street-Pepper St. Junction. Reconstruction and widening. (Chester C.B.C.)	Summer, 1962	120,000
Tyne Tunnel. (Northumberland and Durham C.Cs.)	Summer, 1966	12,622,000
* Excludes land cost. This is included in the main scheme.

asked the Minister of Transport what schemes under the road programme, costing over £100,000, were started in the six months ended 31st December, 1961; and what are the estimated completion date and total cost of each.

The schemes are:

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will publish as a White Paper the relevant documents concerning the subversive activities, arrest, trial, denaturalisation and deportation to Communist China of John Tsang, former Assistant Commissioner of Police in Hong Kong.

I assume the hon. Member is referring to the former Assistant Superintendent of Police, John Tsang.The answer to his Question is "No"

asked the Minister of Health by what date there will be sufficient bed capacity within the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board's area satisfactorily to accommodate all the subnormal patients who are in urgent need of hospital treatment.

The number of additional beds in schemes now in progress or due for completion by spring, 1963, approximately equals the number on the urgent waiting list as last known.

asked the Minister of Health if he will announce the names of the members of the Lycett Green Committee on administrative and clerical staffing arrangements in the hospital service.

Yes. The members are:

• Sir Stephen Lycett Green, Bt., J.P. (Chairman).
• A. J. Bennett, Esq., M.A., F.H.A.
• Captain H. Brierley, O.B.E., M.C.
• Professor T. E. Chester. M.A.
• C. R. Jolly, Esq., O.B.E., F.H.A., A.R.S.H.
• A. S. Marre, Esq., C.B.
• R. A. Mickelwright, Esq. F.H.A.
• E. Ag. Norton, Esq., C.B.E., M.A.
• Alderman Mrs. D. M. Rees, J.P.
• M. S. Rigden, Esq., A.C.A., F.H.A.
• Alderman J. Serrell-Watts, M.A., J.P., C.A.
• C. C. Stevens, Esq., LL.B.
• E. D. B. Todd, Esq., A.S.A.A., A.I.M.T.A.

asked the Minister of Health when he expects to reach a decision on the new out-patients' and casualty departments for the Willesden General Hospital.

The regional hospital board will be authorised to invite tenders when the working drawings and bills of quantities, now before me, have been examined and approved.

asked the Minister of Health when he expects to reach a decision on the Central Middlesex Hospital extension scheme for the casualty and dental departments.

I have authorised the regional hospital board to prepare the working drawings and bills of quantities.

asked the Minister of Health if he will state the amount of lymph for vaccination against smallpox imported into this country during the month of January; from what countries these imports originated; and what has been their cost in foreign exchange.

Five hundred thousand doses from Canada and 1,500,000 doses from the United States of America at a cost of about £35,000. I have also gratefully accepted a gift of 1 million doses from the Argentine Government.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the area of productive woodlands under the control of the Forestry Commission in Scotland at 30th September, 1961, and how this compares with the areas in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, respectively.

The areas of the Forestry Commission's productive woodlands at that date were as follows:

	Acres
Scotland	593,500
England	503,500
Wales	247,200

The Government of Northern Ireland inform me that the comparable area there is 58,000 acres.All these areas include plantations too young to be producing timber.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether, in view of the growing use of water for domestic, industrial and agricultural purposes, he will reconstitute the Scottish Water Advisory Committee.

Yes. I have decided to reconstitute this Committee, primarily to advise me on the organisation of water supply and distribution best adapted to meet present and future needs in central Scotland. The members of the new Committee are:

• Craig Mitchell, Esq., C.B. (Chairman).
• P. L. Aitken, Esq., M.Sc., M.I.C.E.
• S. F. Carruthers, Esq., F.L.A.S.
• J. W. Fletcher, Esq., B.Sc., A.R.C.S. & T., M.I.C.E., M.I.W.E.
• Thomas Gibb, Esq.
• George D. Grant, Esq., B.L.
• A. L. Imrie, Esq., C.B.E., C.A., F.I.M.T.A.
• Thomas W. Leslie, Esq., M.I.W.E
• Robert McGill, Esq.
• A. H. Martin, Esq., B.L.
• George Sharp, Esq.
• A. E. R. Taylor, Esq., B.Sc., A.R.I.C.
• I. B. L. Weir, B.Sc., M.B. Ch.B., D.P.H., D.P.A.