To ask the Prime Minister which Government Department or Departments have responsibility for implementing each of the recommendations of the second report of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE).

Several Government Departments are considering how best to implement these recommendations. Government Departments with an interest in specific recommendations include the following: Scottish Office, recommendations 1, 2 and 4(d); health Departments, recommendation 3; Departments responsible for authorising discharges, recommendations 4(a), (b) and (c); Health and Safety Executive and Departments with appropriate environmental responsibilities, recommendation 5; health Departments and authorising Departments, recommendations 6 and 7; health Departments and Department of Education and Science jointly, recommendation 8. The Departments and agencies to which the recommendations relate will consult one another as appropriate. Co-ordination of action on a United Kingdom basis rests with the Department of Health and Social Security.

To ask the Prime Minister if she intends to make an appeal herself to the State President of South Africa to reprieve the Sharpeville Six; and if she will make a statement.

It would be premature to consider intervening again with the South African Government before the legal processes are exhausted.However, as was made clear in the chairman's summary of discussions on South Africa at the Toronto summit on 20 June, we continue to urge that all legal options available in South Africa should be used to secure clemency for the Six.

To ask the Prime Minister what assessment she has made as to whether the proposals agreed at the Council meeting in February on penalising over-production and maintaining agricultural guidelines will be achieved in light of the provisional agreement of 11 member states at the recent Council meeting of Agriculture Ministers.

The Commission has provided assurances that the costs of the package now agreed can be contained within the guideline.The stabilisers agreed at the European Council in Brussels are not affected by the price-fixing agreement. They will operate generally to reduce levels of support if predetermined production thresholds are exceeded. The extent of any reductions in support can only be determined once production levels for 1988–89 are known.

To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to her answer of 23 June, if she will give the precise references in the Official Report of previous replies in which the specific supplementary question from the hon. Member for Linlithgow was answered; and if she will make a statement.

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply I gave him on 17 July 1987 at column 660.

To ask the Attorney-General how the Government's policies on race relations and equal opportunities for women in accordance with the appropriate code of practice include race and sex monitoring exercises in (a) his Department and (b) the Lord Chancellor's Department; and if he will make a statement.

The Treasury Solicitor's Department is responsible for the provision of all staff to the Law Officers' Department. Within the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the application of the policies is monitored by the personnel division. Within the Lord Chancellor's Department, the application of the policies is monitored by appropriate committees of the departmental Whitley council, and the equal opportunities officers chairs a joint working party. Within both Departments ethnic monitoring is being carried out by a phased programme of surveys of staff and, in addition surveys of applicants in recruitment schemes. Monitoring by sex can be done from staff records.

To ask the Attornery-General whether he has taken steps to identify disparities in recruitment and promotion by reason of the ethnic origins and sex of staff (a) in his Department and (b) in the Lord Chancellor's Department; and if he will make a statement.

Figures of individual local recruitment schemes and promotion boards are collected within the Lord Chancellor's Department by the equal opportunities officer; and within the Treasury Solicitor's Department by the personnel division. Benchmark data on the ethnic composition of recruitment areas are not yet available in either Department, nor are the full results of the surveys of the ethnic origins of serving staff. Disparities cannot be identified until this information is to hand. In the year ending 31 May 1988 nearly 66 per cent. of new entrants to the Lord Chancellor's Department were women. Within the Treasury Solicitor's Department, the figure was over 49 per cent.

To ask the Attorney-General whether the Lord Chancellor has taken any steps other than issuing policy statements and leaflets to staff and giving guidance and training on equal opportunities, so as to promote greater equality within his Department; and if he will make a statement.

Yes. In addition to the other examples of action taken specified in the reply to the hon. Member on 7 June, at column 449, a joint working party of the departmental Whitley council has been set up to monitor and review the application of the equal opportunity policies and the effect of the personnel procedures to ensure equality of opportunity.

To ask the Attorney-General whether he has identified any inequalities in employment practices in his Department, arising from the sex or ethnic origins of staff; and if he will make a statement.

No.

To ask the Attorney-General what was the result of the survey of ethnic origin of all staff carried out by the Lord Chancellor's Department; which areas that survey identified as areas where positive action was required; and what positive action has been taken other than that specified in his reply to the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West on 25 May, Official Report, column 44.

The full result of the survey of ethnic origin of staff in post is not yet available. With the limited data available at present there is insufficient information to identify any areas where an imbalance of ethnic origin of staff calls for positive action.

To ask the Attorney-General whether (a)he and (b) the Lord Chancellor have appointed an equal opportunities officer; and if he will make a statement.

Yes. Both Departments have an equal opportunities officer.

To ask the Attorney-General how many and what percentage of officers in each grade and overall in his Department are (a) women and (b) from ethnic minorities, respectively.

There are at present no black or Asian members of staff in the Law Officers' Department.The figures in relation to women members of staff are as follows:

Grade	Men (%)	Women (%)	Total
2	1 (100)	—	1
5	3(75)	1(25)	4
6	5 (100)	—	5
SPS	—	4 (100)	4
EO	—	1 (100)	1
PS	—	1 (100)	1
AO	—	2 (100)	2
AA	1 (100)	—	1

To ask the Attorney-General what steps (a) he and (b) the Lord Chancellor have taken to ensure that there is equality of opportunity for women and for people fom ethnic minorities in all grades of their Departments, in connection with employment, training and promotion, respectively.

The position is the same in both Departments. Recruitment procedures and promotion selection procedures are formal and standard and designed to avoid both direct and indirect discrimination. They are based on merit. Training is available to all staff in accordance with their identified needs. The training given to interviewing panels includes guidance on the dangers of assumptions and stereotyping.

To ask the Attorney-General what action he is taking about the writs recently served on right hon. and hon. Members of Parliament.

The proceedings to which my hon. Friend refers are brought by one Anthony Hill who styles himself "The Christ". An application has been made to the High Court by the Treasury Solicitor acting on behalf of my right hon. and noble Friend the Lord Chancellor as one of the Defendants named on the writ, seeking to have the proceedings struck out as against all the defendants. I understand that the application will be heard in the Sheffield district registry on Thursday 30 June. In these circumstances, I do not consider any action on my part to be presently necessary.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will give for each standard planning region of England (a) the number of employees of his Depatment, (b) the amount spent on wages and salaries and (c) the proportion of total expenditure in each region by his Department which is represented by personnel costs.

The table gives the numbers of employees in each region in England and their salary cost based on average salary in the Department. A breakdown by region of total departmental expenditure is not available.

Region	Number of Staff in post	Salary and Wages £
North	2·0	32,730
South East	809·0	13,239,285
South West	5·5	90,007
Yorks & Humber	5·0	81,825
North West	21·0	343,665
West Midlands	4·0	65,460
East Midlands	43·0	703,695
East Anglia	2·0	32,730
Total	891·5	14,589,397

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what information he has on the level of investment proposed for the north-east area of British Coal in the year 1988–89.

Investment levels for individual areas are a management matter for British Coal. I have asked the chairman to write to the hon. Member.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will make more food aid available directly to the Eritrean Relief Association.

We will continue to seek to provide humanitarian relief to the hungry in Ethiopia wherever they may be. In selecting the most appropriate channels for our assistance we take particular account of the need to ensure that it reaches those for whom it is intended as quickly as possible. We believe this can best be achieved by operating through international organisations, or through British based non-governmental organisations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the current level of aid to Nepal; and what is the planned total for the coming year.

In the current year Her Majesty's Government expect to provide about £12 millon of aid to Nepal. Most of this is designed to help protect the environment and reduce poverty in one of the world's poorest countries and to support the Government of Nepal's efforts to reform its economy. When I visited Nepal in March this year I announced a new grant of £20 million.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to cease to give aid to any country which tortures British citizens; and if he will make a statement.

Her Majesty's Government deplore the use of torture wherever and to whomsoever it occurs. Respect for human rights is one factor taken into account in deciding the level and nature of our bilateral aid to a particular country.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list information services,

College	Aulhority	Political make up
England
Exeter	Devon	No overall majority
North Devon	Devon	No overall majority
Nelson and Colne	Lancashire	No overall majority
Strode	Somerset	No overall majority
South East Derbyshire	Derbyshire	Labour
W. R. Tuson	Lancashire	No overall majority
Cricklade	Hampshire	No overall majority
Yeovil	Somerset	No overall majority
Leigh	Wigan	Labour
Accrington and Rossendale	Lancashire	No overall majority
Richmond	Richmond	Liberal
Wigan	Wigan	Labour
Oswestry	Shropshire	Conservative/Independent
Wakefield	Wakefield	Labour

The following information services are funded by the research councils from their grant-in-aid from the Department's science budget.

1. Protein structure sequence database. Science and Engineering Council with University of Leeds and Birkbeck College. SERC support £823,000 over four years.

2. DNA sequence data bank at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in conjunction with, and to complement, Genbank in the USA. The operating costs are not known, but the Medical Research Council's contribution to the EMBL total budget will be £2·6 million in the 1988–89 financial year. Major users of the data have direct access and the MRC funds one scientist to provide a centralised UK facility for accessing the databank at a cost of £10,000 per annum.

3. Systematics of microfungi. Science and Engineering Research Council with Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, International Mycological Institute, Kew. SERC support £187,000 over four years.

4. Information on the following collections is available on request, but it is not possible to identify expenditure directly relating to provision of information:

(a) The National Environment Research Council's culture centre for algae and protozoa;

(b) The Agricultural and Food Research Council's national collections of food bacteria and yeast cultures;

(c) The Medical Research Council (MRC) radiobiology unit's mouse mutant stock facility;

(d) The national collection of animal cells, part funded by the MRC and SERC.

In addition, a number of research council institutes maintain small data bases primarily for their own use.The research councils expect to create new data bases in the future and several proposals are under consideration.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the tertiary colleges., by local education authorities, showing the political make-up of the appropriate local councils.

Those colleges generally classified as tertiary colleges which are currently in existence in England and Wales are listed in the following table. The table also shows which political party, if any, held a majority in each authority following the last elections.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will describe the procedures used in appointing members of the national curriculum working group on science, stating what proportion of members were interviewed by a Minister before appointment; and if he will make a statement;(2) if he will describe the procedures used in appointing members of the national curriculum working group on mathematics, stating what proportion of members were interviewed by a Minister before appointment; and if he will make a statement;(3) if he will describe the procedures used in appointing members of the national curriculum working group on English, stating what proportion of members were interviewed by a Minister before appointment; and if he will make a statement.

In appointing members to the various national curriculum subject working groups, the Government looked for a range of professional expertise and experience. We also ensured that each group had at least one member from the business world. My right hon. Friend and I met the chairman of the mathematics and science working groups before they were appointed; in the case of the English group my right hon. Friend and I held discussions with all those offered appointment.

To ask the Secretary of State of Education and Science if he will give for each standard planning region of England (a) the number of employees of his Department, (b) the amount spent in wages and salaries and (c) the proportion of total expenditure in each region by his Department which is represented by personnel costs.

The Department currently has 1,379 employees in London and 627 in Darlington. In addition, there are 584 members of Her Majesty's Inspectorate and their support services who are based outside London around the country.The wage and salary costs (including national insurance) in each case in 1987–88 were of the order of £19 million, £5 million and £12·5 million. Information about total expenditure is not readily available in the form requested.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the latest figures for the number of students on mandatory or discretionary grants with children.

In 1986–87, 7,405 mandatory award holders received allowances in respect of dependants. Most of these dependants are likely to have been children. Information on the number of students with children who did not receive dependants allowances (usually because of the level of the family's income) is not available. Nor is information available about discretionary award holders with children.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information is available regarding the number and proportion, for each subject, of newly trained secondary teachers (a) taking up a first appointment in the maintained sector; and (b) working in the maintained sector after the satisfactory completion of probation; and if he will make a statement.

[holding answer 13 June 1988]: The numbers and percentages of newly trained secondary teachers who in 1986 both completed training and took up a teaching appointment in a maintained secondary school are shown in the table. Others enter teaching at a later date, and a small number become teachers in the primary, special or further education sectors. For those who trained in university departments of education, data are readily available only for the three subjects shown.The Department has no direct information on the numbers of teachers remaining in service after satisfactory completion of probation. However 10 per cent. of secondary teachers in service two terms after qualifying were no longer in service a year later.

First destination of newly trained secondary school teachers
	Number in maintained secondary schools in England and Wales1	As percentage of all of known destination
Trained in public sector institutions in England and Wales:
Subject of training:
Mathematics	115	74
Chemistry	29	83
Physics	20	95
Biological Science	67	84
Other Science	72	79
English	170	86
English as a foreign language	6	67
French	68	74
Other languages	71	84
Drama	47	69
History	29	83
Geography	28	80
RE	90	76
CDT	170	84
Commercial and Business Studies	50	69
Economics	22	76
Social Studies	19	68
Art/Light Craft	44	80
Home Economics	187	80
Music	125	80
PE	381	74
Combinations	194	83
Other	137	77
Total	2,141	78
Trained in universities in the United Kingdom of which, by selected subjects of training:	23,186	274
Mathematics	3427	3 482
Chemistry	3238	3 478
Physics	3170	3 475

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Blackburn of 26 May, Official Report, column 236, if he will state the numbers separately of primary school teachers who (a) have a post A-level qualification in which science was a main subject and (b) have attended an in-service course in science of at least one term's full-time equivalent duration.

[holding answer 14 June]: I regret that my answers to the first two of the hon. Member's questions of 26 May, at columns 236, 237, contained small errors. Some teachers whose training took the form of short courses only were included.The corrected figures and further detail requested are as follows:

Maintained nursery and primary school teachers qualified in science
March 1987
Teachers with science as:	Full-time	Part-lime
1. Main subject of post-A-level qualification
(i) with long INSET course1	2400	—
(ii) without long INSET course	12,700	2,300
2. Second subject of post-A-level qualification
(i) with long INSET course1	100	—
(ii) without long INSET course	8,200	1,200
3. Subject of long INSET course1 only	700	—
Total of the above	22,000	3,400
1 Long INSET courses are courses in science of at least one term's full-time duration or equivalent, attended in the years 1982 to 1986.
2 Including some who obtained the qualification through the long INSET course.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Blackburn of 26 May, Official Report, column 236, if he will state the numbers separately of primary school teachers who (a) have a post A-level qualification in which mathematics was a main or second subject and (b) have attended an in-service course in mathematics of at least one term's full-time equivalent duration.

[holding answer 14 June 1988]: I regret that my answers to the first two of the hon. Member's questions of 26 May, at columns 236, 237, contained small errors. Some teachers whose training took the form of short courses only were included.The corrected figures and further detail requested is as follows:

Maintained nursery and primary school teachers qualified in mathematics
March 1987
Teachers with mathematics as:	Full-time	Part-time
1. Main subject of post-A-level qualification
(i) with long INSET course1	21,100	—
(ii) without long INSET course	8,300	1,000
2. Second subject of post-A-level qualification
(i) with long INSET course1	100	—
(ii) without long INSET course	5,500	1,000
3. Subject of long INSET course1 only	1,400	100
Total of the above	16,400	2,200

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will give for each standard planning region of England (a) the number of employees of his Department, (b) the amount spent in wages and salaries and (c) the proportion of total expenditure in each region by his Department which is represented by personnel costs.

The following gives, by standard planning region:

(a) staff in post as at 1 April 1988;

(b) the estimated amount spent on salaries and wages in 1987–88, and;

(c) the proportion of total running cost expenditure represented by personnel costs.

Approved projects	Task force	Birmingham City Council	MSC	Other sources
Handsworth
Black Star Car Company—motor vehicle repair project run as a community business	28,535	—	66,000	—
Broughton Road housing refurbishment local labour initiative	575,000	250,000	—	775,000
CANDEL Potohari Hinko: provision of a community base to develop employment and training opportunities, and provide a drugs and AIDS awareness programme	68,000	65,000	172,000	—
Copthorne Hotel customised pre-recruitment training programme	6,500	6,500	30,000	—
CP Management Training for ethnic minorities, and follow-up	85,800	67,800	41,000	—
Grove Lane Baths—Community and Youth Enterprise Centre	272,000	143,750	563,000	463,250
Handsworth Employment Scheme Catering Training Unit	53,000	—	51,000	—
Handsworth Opportunities Programme for Employment (HOPE): Sikh managed CP scheme to refurbish the group's training base	36,500	1,040	177,000	3,119
Handsworth Churches Forum YTS Training Centre and Neighbourhood Care Project	115,075	—	151,851	965
Handsworth Single Homeless Housing Association Development Worker	15,000	—	—	—
Hotel and Catering pre-recruitment training Compact with 12 major Birmingham hotels	92,500	31,000	—	50,000
Inner City Contracts—non profit making building company, providing jobs for local people	58,325	—	—	—
Inner City Glass Decorating: a craft workshop for predominantly disabled Task Force area residents which will develop into a community business	14,318	2,571	39,800	7,714
Local recruitment in the finance sector—feasibility study	3,967	—	25,000	—
United Youth Association: construction skills training	105,025	—	43,164	—
Villa Cross Employment Centre (formerly Villa Cross pub)	302,875	17,500	60,000	152,500
Asian Business Institute	17,000	—	—	125,000
Birmingham Interpretation and Translation Service (BITS): grant to turn existing voluntary organisation into a self financing business	32,269	16,250	—	48,750

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list the projects helped by the Handsworth task force and the contribution made to each project by (a) the task force, (b) Birmingham city council, (c) the Manpower Services Commission, and (d) other sources.

The list is as follows:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for The Wrekin of 20 June, how many civil servants in his Department are employed at grade 3 and above; and what is the estimated cost of discovering whether they were educated at state or private schools.

Sixty-seven. The cost was seen to be disproportionate.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will give the deficit in manufactured trade for the first quarter of 1988 at an annualised rate.

Information for the first quarter of 1988 is available in the June 1988 issue of the "Monthly Review of External Trade Statistics" (table A8).

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he has any plans to introduce legislation on tare weights for barrels and casks used in the sale of bulk beer.

The Brewers' Society and the National Licensed Victuallers Association are themselves seeking to regulate the filling of beer barrels by the introduction of a code of practice. Accordingly, I have no plans to legislate on this matter at present.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will take steps to ensure that the Post Office maintains Welsh/bilingual versions of all Government forms and leaflets.

No. The Post Office maintains Government forms and leaflets in the versions provided to it by the Departments concerned. It is a matter for those Departments to decide whether to issue the material in Welsh, taking into account the cost and demand and whether a Welsh version seems appropriate.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list those forms and leaflets which are available in post offices in Wales (a) both in Welsh and English, (b) in a bilingual format and (c) in English only.

My Department does not keep this information, but I have asked the chairman of the Post Office to write to the hon. Member with the relevant details.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster when he expects the British Standards Institute to complete its updating of standards for baby-walkers or other infants' walking devices; and if he will make a statement.

I understand that the British Standards Institution hopes to publish the revised standard on babywalkers, BS 4648, by the end of the year.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he has received a report from the liquidator in connection with the bankruptcy of Southeach Ltd., formerly of Epworth Chapel, Tanfield Lea, Stanley.

It is not the Department's practice to disclose information about reports under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 in relation to individual companies.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will place in the Library a copy of the

Office	Economic region	Approved posts 1 April 1987	Staff in post 1 April 1987
State House, 66–71 High Holborn, London WC1R 4TP	South East	992	960½
Station Square House, St. Mary Cray, Orpington, Kent BR5 3RD	South East	171	157 (including 8 casuals)
Trade Mark, Manchester Office, Sunley Tower, Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester Ml 4BA	North West	2	2

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what information he has as to the ownership of Woodhill Developments Ltd., formerly Bushart Ltd.

The Registrar of Companies tells me that an annual return giving details of this company's shareholdings is not yet due to be filed. The current holders of the two subscriber shares should however be shown in the company's register of members, available for inspection at the registered office, 1 Harley Street, London W1A 4DG.Copies of documents delivered to the Registrar of Companies are available for public inspection at Companies House, Cardiff and London.

No. This report was submitted to my Department on a confidential basis as part of the run-up to the proposed hiving-off of the Patent Office. That proposal has since been abandoned for the reasons given by my right hon. and noble Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on 29 October 1987, Official Report, House of Lords, at columns 775–76.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will publish in the Official Report a reconciliation of the expenditure and receipts table for calendar year 1986 of the Patent Office, House of Commons Paper 323, 1986–87, paragraph 14, with the financial year figures provided in the 1986–87 Appropriation Accounts, class V, vote 2, House of Commons 107–IV, 1987–88; and if he will indicate whether the Comptroller and Auditor General audits the calendar year figures as well as the appropriation accounts.

The reconciliation cannot be provided other than at disproportionate cost.As part of routine audit activity the Comptroller and Auditor General has from time to time examined the material used to produce the calendar year figures.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list in the Official Report the facilities and offices operated by the Patent Office, indicating the standard economic region in which they are located and stating both approved establishments and actual employment in 1987.

The information requested is as follows:

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what information he has about the application by Woodhill Developments Ltd. to become a member of the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation.

I understand that Woodhill Developments Ltd. held interim authorisation under the Financial Services Act as a consequence of its application to join the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation, but has now withdrawn its application. Interim authorisation has therefore lapsed. Applications for membership of a self-regulatory organisation recognised under the Financial Services Act are matters for the organisation concerned.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what representations he has received about the financial and personal links between Brookwood Asset Management and Barlow Clowes.

None.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will obtain a report from the Gibraltar authorities on the activities of Brookwood Asset Management.

It is not my policy to comment on discussions which may or may not take place with the authorities in other jurisdictions concerning individual cases.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will refer to the Director General of Fair Trading the current practice of certain newspaper publishers in deliberately narrowing the options of newsagents in terms of wholesale distribution; and if he will make a statement.

I understand that the Director General of Fair Trading has the distribution of newspapers under review, including recent developments in distribution introduced by certain newspaper publishers.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what representations he has received from newsagents about the trend towards a virtual monopoly of distribution on the part of certain newspapers; and if he will make a statement.

My Department has received a number of representations from newsagents about recent developments in newspaper distribution. They have been referred to the Director General of Fair Trading, who is monitoring such developments.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how much was spent on monitoring, identifying and prosecuting pirate radio operators in each of the last five years.

The Radio Investigation Service became part of the Department only in August 1984. As a consequence, it is possible to provide detailed information only for the last three financial years. The following table lists the RIS's overall costs, and the estimated amount spent on enforcement activity against unlicensed broadcasters where figures are available.

Year	Overall costs £ million	Costs of Broadcasting Enforcement £ million est
1983–84	9·3	n/a
1984–85	8·6	n/a
1985–86	6·8	0–6
1986–87	6·6	0·6
1987–88	6·5	0·8

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many pirate radio operators have been prosecuted in each of the last five years.

The answer is as follows:

	Prosecutions	Convictions
1983	40	40
1984	48	47
1985	136	135
1986	79	74
1987	77	75

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether, in the light of the recent ruling by the Advertisement Standards Authority that certain advertisements issued by the Campaign for Independent Financial Advice are misleading, he will now take steps, pursuant to the answer of Friday 6 May, Official Report, column 645, to ensure that the public are not misled as to the standards required of advisers regulated under the Financial Services Act 1986.

I understand that the advertisements referred to by my hon. Friend relate to the period prior to 29 April, the date on which the main provisions of the Financial Services Act came into force. With the commencement of the provisions of the Financial Services Act relating to advertisements and the Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations I am confident that adequate machinery is being established in this area.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if the completion of the single European market by 1992 will affect the restrictions on the number of shares that can be owned by foreign shareholders in the privatised companies.

The completion of the single European market in 1992 will not in itself directly affect any restrictions on foreign shareholdings in British companies. Article 7 of the EEC treaty already generally prohibits discrimination on the grounds of nationality and article 221 requires that member states accord nationals of other member states the same treatment as their own nationals as regards participation in the capital of companies or firms, without prejudice to application of other provisions of the treaty. One of the latter, article 223, enables any member state to take such measures as it considers necessary for the protection of the essential interests of its security which are connected with the production of or trade in arms, munitions or war material.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will make a further statement on arrangements for the sale of the Govan shipyard by British Shipbuilders.

I have today approved, on behalf of the Government, the terms of the sale of the Govan shipyard by British Shipbuilders to a subsidiary of the Norwegian Group Kvaerner Industrier. Kvaerner has secured an order for two gas ships with the option for its clients to confirm orders for two further ships later this year. I have agreed to offer intervention fund support within the limits permitted by the European Community sixth directive for all these orders. Once secured these orders would provide work for Govan well into 1992.Agreement with Kvaerner brings the promise of a secure future for the yard for which BS has not been able to win further orders beyond the two ships for China announced early last year. Kvaerner has confirmed its intention to transfer its ship technology to this country and to develop Govan as its centre for gas ship technology in support of activities worldwide. There is the possibility of further investment in future by this major engineering group.Subject to the approval of the Euopean Commission and agreement on certain outstanding matters of detail, my right hon. and noble Friend therefore intends to give his consent for the disposal of British Shipbuilders Govan yard to Moss Rosenberg Verft, the shipbuilding subsidiary of the Norwegian group Kvaerner Industrier. I have received formal application for consent from the chairman of British Shipbuilders. The board of Kvaerner Industrier approved the broad terms earlier today.Completion is planned for the beginning of August to allow Govan to start under new ownership after the annual summer holiday. Kvaerner will then pay £6 million for the yard, while BS will meet certain agreed costs. These include costs arising from the completion of the present work load, which BS will subcontract to Kvaerner, costs of redundancies, and a contribution to a programme of capital investment Kvaerner plans to undertake to restructure the yard. Certain payments will be made on completion, others over time as expenditure is incurred, giving a net cost of disposal to British Shipbuilders of up to £25 million valued at completion.The liabilities of Govan Shipbuilders Ltd. will remain with the company and therefore with BS. Nothing is being written off. The assets and work force will shortly be transferred into a new subsidiary of British Shipbuilders, which will become Govan Kvaerner Ltd. on completion.The trades unions representing the work force have already agreed to proposals from Kvaerner for a reduction of up to 500 in the number of employees and to certain changes in the yard.I welcome the achievement of this agreement, as I am sure will the people of Scotland in particular. I look forward to welcoming Kvaerner to these shores once the final hurdles have been cleared.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) if he will outline the job description of Mr. Peter Luff as special adviser to his Department;(2) what expenses are payable to Mr. Peter Luff as special adviser to his Department; and how many hours he is expected to work.

[holding answer 23 June 1988]: Mr. Luff's appointment is full-time. He is entitled to claim travel and subsistence expenses incurred in connection with his departmental duties as special adviser. His duties are to act as special adviser to the Secretary of State, on such tasks as the Secretary of State allocates to him.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will meet members of Clwyd public protection committee to discuss proposed increases in radio licence fees; and if he will make a statement.

[holding answer 23 June 1988]: Arrangements will be made for a senior official from the Department of Trade and Industry's radiocommunications division to meet members of Clwyd public protection committee to discuss increases in radio licence fees.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will give the latest available figures for Government-backed civil research and development for each year since 1983.

[holding answer 23 June 1988]: The available information is given in the table:

Government funding of research and development for civil objectives
	£ million
1983–84	2,011
1984–85	2,093
1985–86	2,185
1986–87	2,330

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) if he will request the Director General of Fair Trading to use his powers under the Fair Trading Act 1973 to obtain written assurances of future good conduct from Cozy Glaze Ltd. of Unit 3B, Sneckyeat industrial estate, Whitehaven;(2) if he has received any complaints regarding shoddy and defective work, and failure to remedy such work, on the part of Cozy Glaze Ltd. of Unit 3B, Sneckyeat industrial estate, Whitehaven.

[holding answer 24 June 1988]: I have received representations from the hon. Member about a company trading as Cozy Glaze, to which I replied on 12 May.The exercise of the powers in part III of the Fair Trading Act 1973 in a particular case is a matter for the Director General of Fair Trading. I shall ask him to write to the hon. Member.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether guidance is issued to police authorities to ensure that no offensive pin-ups are displayed in police premises.

No. This is a matter for individual chief officers of police.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the dates of prison disturbances that have taken place in 1988; and if he will list the prisons involved;

Incidents causing significant damage occurred at Bedford prison on 1 and 2 March, Rollestone prison on 24 May, Haverigg prison on 5–6 June, and Hindley youth custody centre and remand centre on 8 June. The estimated cost of damage was approximately £11,000 at Bedford, £750 at Rollestone, £750,000 at Haverigg and £750 at Hindley.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the number of people charged with offences at football matches in each of the last three years and the number convicted of such offences.

The information requested on charges and convictions is not available from the records held centrally.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will set up a full public enquiry into the recent events at Her Majesty's prison, Haverigg.

	1979–80		1980–81		1981–82		1982–83		1983–84
	Increase applied for	Increase approved	Increased applied for	Increase approved	Increase applied for	Increased approved	Increase applied for	Increased approved	Increase applied for	Increased approved
Avon and Somerset	146	100	100	67	30	—	30	—	—	—
Bedfordshire	13	—	2	13	33	15	37	5	20	20
Cambridgeshire	50	50	—	—	2	—	—	—	—	—
Cheshire	100	—	40	40	10	—	10	—	—	—
Cleveland	—	7	50	52	—	3	—	—	—	—
Cumbria	130	25	100	15	85	—	85	—	7	—
Derbyshire	3	3	152	55	75	—	75	—	7	17
Devon and Cornwall	62	34	—	27	10	—	10	—	—	—
Dorset	—	—	20	—	12	12	50	7	11	—
Durham	—	—	—	—	—	6	2	2	—	—
Dyfed Powys	—	18	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Essex	179	78	101	30	45	—	45	10	35	10
Gloucestershire	—	—	36	15	9	9	—	—	24	24
Greater Manchester	365	31	300	175	125	—	125	2	—	—
Gwent	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	3	—	—
Hampshire	81	80	50	50	—	—	—	—	—	—
Hertfordshire	—	—	—	35	—	—	40	—	—	—
Humberside	—	—	48	33	—	—	—	—	—	—
Kent	100	22	—	—	—	4	—	—	44	—
Lancashire	70	20	20	20	—	—	—	—	20	—
Leicestershire	31	21	3	—	3	—	3	6	—	—
Lincolnshire	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	1	1
Merseyside	—	—	238	155	—	—	—	—	—	—
Norfolk	—	—	59	—	—	—	8	8	—	—
Northamptonshire	56	28	28	28	—	—	—	—	14	12
Northumbria	150	—	30	30	—	2	—	—	25	—
North Wales	60	33	3	3	1	1	—	—	3	3
North Yorkshire	85	40	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Nottinghamshire	124	115	—	-1	—	—	—	—	—	—
South Wales	—	—	102	30	—	6	—	—	4	4
South Yorkshire	—	—	120	120	—	—	—	—	—	—
Staffbrdshire	—	—	30	33	—	—	—	—	50	—
Suffolk	49	35	—	—	—	1	—	—	14	12
Surrey	3	3	250	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Sussex	6	10	—	—	—	—	—	-1	20	8
Thames Valley	99	8	100	98	18	4	18	17	308	143
Warwickshire	50	—	50	43	68	—	68	5	—	—
West Mercia	—	—	90	—	90	—	90	2	—	—
West Midlands	—	—	100	175	—	—	—	—	—	—
West Yorkshire	—	—	100	50	—	—	—	—	—	—
Wiltshire	29	10	—	2	—	—	12	7	—	—
City of London	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-224
Metropolitan	—	—	—	-12	—	38	—	—	—	300

As I informed the House on 7 June, at column 709, my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has asked the deputy director general of the Prison Service, Mr. G. H. Lakes, CB, MC, to conduct an urgent investigation into the recent incident at Haverigg prison. The inquiry will be comprehensive and wide-ranging and will consider all relevant factors which may have contributed to the incident. My right hon. Friend will report Mr. Lakes' conclusions to the House.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, for the present year and each of the last nine fiscal years, the increase in establishment requested by the Metropolitan police force and each of the provincial police authorities, together with the increase approved for each of those authorities for each of those years.

The information requested is as follows: