Written Answers

Written Answers To Questions

Friday 6 July 1990

Education And Science

Teacher Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many extra teachers and potential extra teachers have been recruited as a result of his Department's recent advertising campaign; and if he will make a statement.

Nearly 20,000 requests have been received from people seeking information about teaching as a career in response to the first phase of the teacher recruitment advertising campaign. The next step is for those who, as a result of the campaign, have decided upon a career in teaching to approach their local education authority or contact the graduate teacher training registry depending on their qualifications and experience.

Special Educational Needs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many cases are known to his Department arising from their special educational needs, of children of school age suffering from juvenile muscular degeneration; and what educational provisions is made for these children.

Information identifying the nature of a child's special educational needs is not collected centrally.

Infant School Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the median years of service of teachers in infant schools in each year from 1980 until the latest year for which figures are available.

The information requested is given in the table:

Median years of service of full-time qualified teachers in infant and first schools in England 1980–87
	¹Years
1980	11
1981	12
1982	13
1983	13
1984	14
1985	13
1986	14
1987	13
¹ All figures in complete years.

Source: The Database of Teacher Records.

Local Management Of Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement concerning the effects of local management of schools upon schools of under 100 pupils in England.

Under local management of schools all primary and secondary schools will be funded according to the resource allocation formula as approved by my right hon. Friend. Although not required to do so, the majority of local education authorities have indicated that they intend, in the longer term, to delegate responsibility for managing budgets to schools with fewer than 100 pupils.

School Building

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has received from school governing bodies in north Devon about the level of capital grant for school building.

None.

Health

Kidney Disease

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) males and (b) females over the age of 65 years, per million of the population, are accepted for kidney dialysis treatment.

According to information provided by the European Dialysis and Transplant Association, the number of new patients aged 65 years and over, accepted for renal replacement therapy in 1988 was as follows:

	Number	Per million population
Males	265	75
Females	167	31

The rate per million population is based on the number of males and females respectively in the relevant age group.

Hospitals

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the total number of (a) hospital beds, (b) nurses, (c) consultants and (d) all administrative staff in the national health service hospitals in (i) England and (ii) the Basildon and Thurrock health authority or its predecessor for each of the years 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985 and the most recent date for which figures are available.

The information is shown in the following tables.

England ¹
Year	Discharges and deaths	Average daily number of available hospital beds	Hospital nursing and midwifery staff (WTE) ²	Hospital medical and dental consultants (WTE) ³	Administration and clerical staff (WTE)
1960	n/a	n/a	⁴197,900	⁵10,800	n/a
1965	⁷4,616,700	⁷434,800	⁴222,400	⁵10,200	⁴37,600
1970	5,011,700	423,600	⁴252,800	⁶9,700	⁴45,300
1975	4,975,800	387,600	300,400	11,300	91,900
1980	5,670,000	356,000	330,200	12,600	105,400
1985	6,353,800	325,500	352,500	14,000	111,000
1988	6,586,000	282,900	355,600	15,000	116,000
¹ All figures are rounded to the nearest hundred (100).
² There was a change in nurses working hours in 1980–81 from 40 to 37·5 hours per week. This has not been taken account of in the calculations.
³ Figures include permanent paid and honorary staff. Prior to 1987 senior hospital-dental officers with allowance were included with consultants.
⁴ These are figures for England and Wales. Figures for England are not available prior to 1971.
⁵ Figures for 1960 and 1965 are not comparable with later years.
⁶ Figures for 1970 are not comparable with other years.
⁷ Figures are for 1966.

n/a not available.

Basildon and Thurrock DHA ¹
Year	Discharges and deaths ²	Average daily number of available hospital beds ²	Hospital nursing and midwifery staff (WTE) ³	Hospital medical and dental consultants (WTE) ⁴	Administration and clerical staff (WTE)
1960	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
1966	14,930	2,360	n/a	n/a	n/a
1970	19,010	2,430	n/a	n/a	n/a
1975	22,920	1,860	n/a	n/a	n/a
1980	29,450	1,880	1,820	n/a	310
1985	33,300	1,950	2,140	n/a	490
1988	33,710	1,720	1,970	n/a	690
¹ All figures are rounded to the nearest ten (10).
² For years 1966 and 1970 the data is for Tilbury and south east Essex and south Ockenden hospital management committees.
³ There was a change in nurses working hours in 1980–81 from 40 to 37·5 hours per week. This has not been taken account of in the calculations.
⁴ Figures not available as consultants' contracts are not directly held by non-teaching district health authorities.

n/a not available.

Contraceptive Clinics

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if Her Majesty's Government will make more funds available to health authorities for the purposes of providing contraceptive clinic services.

In the future, as now, it will be for each health authority to decide on the most appropriate financial arrangements for family planning provision. Under the NHS reforms, district health authorities will be responsible for ensuring that patients have access to a comprehensive range of services and this will include family planning. Guidance issued by the Department on the provision of family planning services was recently reaffirmed in a letter (EL(90)MB115) to regional general managers by the director of operations and planning on the NHS management executive. A copy of the letter is available in the Library.

Newmarket Hospital

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if funds earmarked in 1988 for the redevelopment of Newmarket hospital are still available.

The East Anglian regional health authority is still holding an allocation within its capital programme towards that scheme.

Drug Prescribing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many times regulation 16 of the Service Committee and Tribunal Regulations has been invoked in respect of (a) excessive prescribing and (b) under-prescribing by each family practitioner committee in each of the past five years for which figures are available.

Regulation 16 of the Service Committee and Tribunal Regulations has not been invoked in England in the past five years. Regulation 16 concerns excessive prescribing only and not under-prescribing.

Private Residential Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action he has taken to ensure that private nursing homes and residential care homes include medical requisites and all necessary services in their fees.

People in residential care homes retain the right to NHS services as though they were in their own homes. The fees charged need only reflect provision made beyond this. The person responsible for a private nursing home must provide adequate facilities and services for those accommodated and we would expect fees to reflect this. Nursing home patients retain the right to NHS general medical, dental and hospital services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether elderly people in private residential care are entitled to receive free national health service prescriptions.

All men aged 65 and all women aged 60 or over are entitled to have NHS prescriptions dispensed free of charge. One of the duties of the person responsible for a residential home is to make adequate arrangements for patients and residents to receive general medical and dental services under part II of the National Health Service Act 1977.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will hold an inquiry into the level of fees charged by private nursing homes and residential care homes.

The level of fees charged in private nursing or residential care homes is a matter between the proprietor and the residents or whoever pays on the residents' behalf and not one in which we see any need to intervene.

Eye Tests

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the number of sight tests in the second quarter of 1990, and in previous quarters over the past five years.

Information on sight tests is not available centrally on a quarterly basis. Statistics on the number of sight tests paid for under the general ophthalmic services are currently collected on a six-monthly basis. The following table gives the number of NHS sight tests paid for in England for the five-year period up to and including 31 September 1989—the most recent figure available. Comparable data on private sight tests conducted since April 1989 are not centrally collected.

Number of sight tests paid for by FPCs England
	Millions
1984–85
April-September	4·793
October-March	5·090
1985–86
April-September	5·166
October-March	5·080
1986–87
April-September	5·265
October-March	5·350
1987–88
April-September	5·581
October-March	6·114
1988–89
April-September	5·779
October-March	6·714
1989–90
April-September	3·380

Aids

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what are the latest figures available for the total number of AIDS cases reported in the United Kingdom.

At the end of May 1990 the cumulative United Kingdom total of AIDS cases reported was 3,346, of whom 1,845 are known to have died.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many infants died from sudden infant death syndrome in the United Kingdom in 1989–90; what precentage change that is from 1980; and if he will make a statement.

The information is shown in the table. Data relate to Great Britain rather than the United Kingdom, since comparable data for Northern Ireland are not available.

Number of deaths under one year of age with any mention of "sudden infant death syndrome", "cot death" or similar term on the death certificate, Great Britain 1980 and 1989
1980	¹1989	Percentage change
1,358	1,464	¹7.8
¹ Provisional.

Data for 1990 are still being processed.

Publications

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has any plans to make savings by discontinuing the circulation to NHS doctors of (i) Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin, (ii) Prescribers Journal, (iii) Health Trends and (iv) the British National Formulary.

[holding answer 26 June 1990]: There are currently no such plans. All such departmental publications are reviewed from time to time to ensure that their circulation continues to be justified to meet the needs of the target audience.

Administrative Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set out the administrative costs as a percentage of total costs for the national health service for each financial year since 1980–81 and the projected figure for 1990–91.

[holding answer 5 June 1990]: Following is information, covering both hospital and community health services and family practitioner services, derived from annual accounts submitted to the Department for the years 1980–81 to 1988–89 (the latest available).We do not collect such information in-year and consequently cannot provide an estimate for 1990–91, but equivalent information for the financial year 1989–90 will be available in the autumn.

National Health Service (England)—Headquarters Administration (Hospital and Community Health Services [HCHS] and Family Practitioner Services)
Expenditure
	£000(cash)	As a proportion of total current expenditure Per cent.	As a proportion of total expenditure (Current and Capital) Per cent.
1980–81	378,311	4·26	4·00
1981–82	393,377	3·97	3·72
1982–83	403,292	3·75	3·52
1983–84	418,429	3·66	3·45

Expenditure
	£000 (cash)	As a proportion of total current expenditure Per cent.	As a proportion of total expenditure (Current and Capital) Per cent.
1984–85	444,016	3·63	3·41
1985–86	479,047	3·71	3·47
1986–87	516,624	3·72	3·48
1987–88	574,198	3·76	3·53
1988–89	624,496	3·66	3·44

Sources

Annual financial accounts of:

i. regional and district health authorities and the special health authorities for the London postgraduate teaching hospitals (predecessor authorities for years prior to 1982–83)

ii. family practitioner committees

iii. The Dental Estimates Board and the Prescription Pricing Authority.

Notes to the Table

1. HCHS covers the total expenditure of the health authorities concerned including hospital, community health, patient transport (ie ambulance), blood transfusion and other services.

2. Expenditure on headquarters administration includes all current expenditure on the pay and pay related costs of staff of all disciplines (including general managers) employed at headquarters levels and their office costs and overheads. It excludes the cost of clerical and secretarial support staff employed in departments at hospital and unit levels; such costs are regarded as operational.

£ million
Region	Shops		Offices		Factories		Hotels and Boarding Houses		Mines
	Without transition	With transition	Without transition	With transition	Without transition	With transition	Without transition	With transition	Without transition	With transition
Northern	-14·86	-4·66	-13·40	-3·35	-72·44	-15·89	1·85	0·33	0·39	0·19
Yorkshire and Humberside	-5·90	-4·40	-20·05	-5·64	85·65	-20·75	3·15	0·93	9·99	1·51
East Midlands	-1·60	0·09	-10·33	-2·56	-71·76	-19·34	3·17	0·77	6·78	1·44
East Anglia	20·33	6·96	1·71	0·56	-9·23	-3·68	2·75	0·68	—	—
Inner London	207·22	40·52	259·78	100·00	4·62	0·20	55·42	7·54	—	—
Outer London	54·94	14·06	-0·17	2·28	-36·07	-11·73	4·17	1·21	—	—
Rest of South East	131·80	38·99	91·64	31·95	-51·06	-16·14	16·78	3·24	0·13	0·06
South West	53·81	15·13	9·45	3·58	-21·07	-6·90	6·71	1·49	-0·14	-0·04
West Midlands	-27·80	-7·64	-19·18	-5·92	-144·42	-32·39	4·43	1·15	3·27	0·56
North West	-39·28	-9·56	-48·01	-11·13	-150·04	-32·17	3·54	1·17	0·75	0·26
England	378·22	89·39	251·45	109·78	-637·13	-158·79	101·97	18·52	21·16	4·00

Note: The totals for England may not sum due to rounding.

Energy-Efficient Buildings

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what contribution will be made by his Department to the International Building Bureau conference on energy-efficient buildings, to be held in London on 21 June.

I understand that the hon. Member is referring to the luncheon held by the Industrial Building Bureau at the House of Lords on 21 June to mark the launch of its national industrial building audit. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory), attended the lunch and spoke on the subject of energy-efficient buildings and related matters.

Protection Of Birds

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those areas of special protection for birds as well as those Ramsar sites and areas with dual designation for the protection of birds.

3. The table includes the total expenses of the Dental Estimates Board and the Prescription Pricing Authority which are regarded as wholly administrative. Expenditure by other bodies and special health authorities providing central services to the National Health Service (eg the Central Blood Laboratories Authority) and expenditure met centrally by the Department is excluded.

Environment

Rate Bills

To ask the Secretary of State For the Environment, pursuant to his reply of 19 June, Official Report, columns 477–80, if he will publish the overall estimated increase in rate bills in 1990–91 as against 1989–90 of (a) shops (b) factories, (c) hotels and boarding houses, (d) officies and (e) mines, in total and by economic regions (i) including the effects of transitional relief and (ii) excluding the effects of transitional relief.

Aggregate changes in rate bills between 1989–90 and 1990–91 for the types of property about which my hon. Friend asks, with and without the transitional arrangements, are given in the table. The figures have been calculated at 1990–91 prices and are based on the rateable values shown in the lists deposited with local authorities on 20 December 1989. The figures take no account of empty property or other reliefs.

I assume that the hon. Member is referring to special protection areas under the EC birds directive rather than areas of special protection under section 3 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Details of those sites which have been designated as special protection areas and as wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar convention are set out in the table. Those sites with dual designation have been marked with an asterisk. Responsibility for the designation of sites in Scotland rests with the Secretary of State for Scotland.

Sites designated as wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar convention

Name and county/region

Bridgwater Bay—Somerset
Bure Marshes—Norfolk
Cors Fochno and Dyfi—Dyfed, Gwynedd and Powys
Hickling Broad and Horsey Mere—Norfolk
Lindisfarne—Northumberland
Minsmere—Walberswick—Suffolk
North Norfolk Coast—Norfolk
Ouse Washes—Cambridgeshire and Norfolk
Abberton Reservoir—Essex

Rostherne Mere—Cheshire
^*Chesil Beach and the Fleet—Dorset
^*The Dee Estuary—Merseyside, Cheshire and Clwyd
^*Derwent Ings—North Yorkshire and Humberside
^*Holburn Moss—Northumberland
Irthinghead Mires—Cumbria and Northumberland
^*The Swale—Kent
^*Alt Estuary—Merseyside
^*Leighton Moss—Lancashire
^*Martin Mere—Lancashire
^*Rockliffe Marshes (Part of Upper Solway Flats and Marshes)—Cumbria
^*Chichester and Langstone Harbours—Hampshire/West Sussex
^*Upper Severn Estuary—Gloucestershire
^*The Wash—Lincolnshire/Norfolk
^*Pagham Harbour—West Sussex
Moor House—Cumbria
Orfordness-Havergate—Suffolk
Ribble Estuary—Lancashire
Skomer—Dyfed
^*The Swale—Kent
^*Chesil Beach and The Fleet—Dorset
Chew Valley Lake—Avon
Coquet Island—Northumberland
^*The Dee Estuary—Merseyside, Cheshire and Clwyd
^*Derwent Ings—North Yorkshire
Farne Islands—Northumberland
^*Holborn Moss—Northumberland
^*Alt Estuary—Merseyside
^*Leighton Moss—Lancashire
^*Martin Mere—Lancashire
Grassholm—Dyfed
^*Rockliffe Marshes (Part Upper Solway Flats and Marshes)—Cumbria
Chichester and Langstone Harbours—Hampshire/West Sussex
^*Upper Severn Estuary—Gloucestershire
^*The Wash—Lincolnshire/Norfolk
^*Pagham Harbour—West Sussex
^*North Norfolk Coast—Norfolk

Water Quality

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will seek powers to forbid the payment of dividends to the shareholders in water companies until all European Community directives on water quality are met.

No.

Greenhouse Effect

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will obtain for his departmental library a copy of the cassette and transcript of the Radio 4 analysis programme on the greenhouse effect and global warming broadcast on 28 June.

No. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State took part in this programme, the contents of which have been noted.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will obtain for his departmental library a transcript of the interview given by the Minister for the Environment and Countryside, the hon. Member for Rossendale and Darwen (Mr. Trippier), to the BBC radio "Today" programme on 30 June, on the London amendment conference of the Montreal protocol.

A copy is already in my Department's library.

Carbon Dioxide Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he received the report commissioned by his Department jointly from the centre for configurational studies at the Open university and the earth resource research centre on the potential role of town and country planning in reducing carbon dioxide.

A draft report commissioned from the Open university was received by my Department in March this year.

Chlorofluorocarbons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps he has taken to ensure research contracts placed by his Department contain a stipulation the contractors institute a policy of chlorofluorocarbons recovery from equipment using chlorofluorocarbons, in research carried out for his Department.

It is Government policy to encourage all users of equipment using CFCs to institute a policy of CFC recovery and to reduce dependence on such equipment.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the essential medical uses of chlorofluorocarbons that will be exempted from phasing out by 2000 or 2005 in the United Kingdom, following the recent amendment to the 1987 Montreal protocol.

There are no essential medical uses of chlorofluorocarbons exempted from the 2000 phase-out under the recently revised Montreal protocol.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what arrangements exist for the recovery of chlorofluorocarbons in refrigeration and refrigeration units used by his Department and research laboratories sponsored by his Department.

My Department does not have to dispose of a significant amount of refrigeration equipment. We have, however, identified facilities which provide for the safe disposal of such items and the recycling of any CFC gases.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment why the United Kingdom decided not to sign the proposals sponsored by Finland at the amendment conference on the Montreal protocol in London in June to bring forward the date for the phase-out of chlorofluorocarbon use to 1997.

Neither my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State nor my hon. Friend the Minister for the Environment and Countryside was asked to sign the proposal. However, we are firmly committed to the phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons, with exemption for essential medical uses, by 1997. We will be pressing the European Commission to bring forward proposals to this end.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if, following the agreement made at the recent London amendment conference of the Montreal protocol on the protection of the ozone layer, he has any plans to make arrangements with (a) foreign embassies and consulates and (b) United States military forces based in the United Kingdom for the safe recovery of all chlorofluorocarbons in refrigeration and air conditioning in their premises.

Foreign embassies and consulates are responsible for their own maintenance and facilities in the United Kingdom. Maintenance of United States military installations is managed on their behalf by PSA and appropriate procedures are already used in handling and disposal of equipment containing chlorofluorocarbons.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if the agreement made by Her Majesty's Government for the phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons use by 2000 applies to (a) Her Majesty's Crown Territories of Hong Kong, (b) the Falkland Islands, (c) Gibraltar and (d) the Channel Islands.

Her Majesty's Government's ratification of the Montreal protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer, and the recently agreed adjustments, apply to Hong Kong, the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar and Jersey. Arrangements are in hand to apply them to Guernsey.

Competitive Tendering

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress is being made in relation to the enforcement of the competition provisions of the Local Government Act 1988.

My right hon. Friend has today issued directions under section 14 of the Local Government Act 1988 requiring both East Lindsey district council and Knowsley metropolitan borough council to expose refuse collection work to competitive tendering again by July 1991. He has taken this action because he is not satisfied with the responses which these authorities made to the notices issued under section 13 of the Act.The notices issued to both authorities set out his belief that they had acted contrary to the requirement of section 7(7) of the Act, which is that, in awarding a contract, they must not

"act in a manner having the effect or intended or likely to have the effect of restricting, distorting or preventing competition",

in that they had assigned refuse collection work to their own direct service organisations when they had received a lower-priced bid from a private contractor.

North Sea Conference

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he intends to publish the guidance note on implementation of the declaration of the third North sea conference in the Hague on 2 to 8 March.

The United Kingdom has taken an early lead in setting out the details of the measures it will be taking to implement the agreements reached at the Hague North sea conference in March. I am publishing the implementation note today. This gives guidance on the ministerial declaration of the Hague conference and lists the targets and timetables we have set for the action necessary to implement these commitments. It demonstrates our determination to protect the marine environment, both in the North sea and all the seas and coastal waters surrounding the United Kingdom. Copies of the note will be placed in the Library of the House.

Right To Buy, Norwich

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give figures showing the proportion of occasions on which Norwich city council's housing committee has quoted prices to tenants seeking the right to buy above the figure estimated by its own estates surveyor.

A landlord is required to state its opinion of the value of a property to be sold under the right to buy on the assumptions specified in section 127 of the Housing Act 1985. This opinion, and the basis on which it is formed, are the responsibility of the landlord, and the Department does not collect information of the kind requested. A tenant who disagrees with the landlord's opinion has the right to an independent determination of value by the district valuer. Twenty-two such determinations were made on the application of tenants of Norwich city council in the three months ending 30 June, the value determined being lower than the council's opinion in all 22 cases by an average of £2,966 or 6.32 per cent.

Nuclear Waste (Reprocessing)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what arrangements are in hand for the return to West Germany of waste arising from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from Wachersdorf;(2) if he will give details of the nuclear waste reprocessing contract between Sellafield and the Federal Republic of West Germany in respect of the Wachersdorf plant; and what discussions he has had with the German Government on safety standards at Sellafield.

I have been asked to reply.I understand from British Nuclear Fuels plc that the new reprocessing contracts with the Federal German electricity utilities will bring in some £750 million of business to the company. These contracts are for reprocessing spent fuel, not nuclear waste.In line with all BNFL's overseas reprocessing contracts signed since 1976, these contracts contain options for the return of wastes arising. The Government intend that such options should be exercised and that wastes should be returned.Exchange of information agreements exist between the nuclear regulatory authorities in the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. Nuclear safety standards in the Federal Republic are in line with those in the United Kingdom.

Social Security

Blind People

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what information he has as to the numbers of blind people who neither pay tax nor benefit from social security payments.

I regret that the information requested is not available.

Finsbury Park Local Office

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what has been the real level of expenditure on social fund loans and grants in 1988–89 and 1989–90 relative to expenditure on single payments in 1987–88 in Finsbury Park Department of Social Security office, taking into account the repayment of loans by claimants to the Department of Social Security.

The table shows the comparative expenditure for the Finsbury Park Department of Social Security office as reckoned by the gross domestic product deflator.

	Expenditure (in £000s)
1987–88 Single Payments	769
1988–89 Social Fund
Gross	474
Net	375
1989–90 Social Fund
Gross	624
Net	389

Social Fund

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether he will make it his practice in future to seek parliamentary approval of any general directions issued by him to social fund officers.

No. It was clearly Parliament's intention, recognised in a recent case before the Court of Appeal, that the social fund would operate in accordance with the directions of the Secretary of State, which would not be subject to parliamentary approval.

Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will review the adequacy of social security provision for people with severe disabilities needing full-time care.

On 10 January we laid before Parliament "The Way Ahead: Benefits for Disabled People" which details our major proposals arising from our review of the balance and structure of social security benefits for disabled people and their carers. The existing benefit structure already recognises that disabled people have extra needs. The OPCS survey findings showed that attendance allowance and mobility allowance are well targeted on the most common of the more costly disabilities. From October 1990 a carer's premium, initially at a rate of £10 a week, will be introduced into income support and housing benefit for those receiving invalid care allowance. We estimate that this will help 30,000 carers.

Single Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish a table showing the total number of single payments made in 1986–87 and 1987–88 broken down into pensioners, couples with children, lone parents, sick and disabled people and others.

[holding answer 21 June 1990]: The information requested is available only for the 12 months prior to each annual statistical inquiry. As marital status applies to all client groups, the data are split into two separate tables.

Number of single payments (thousands)
	February 1986	May 1987
Group
Pensioners	410	933
Sick and disabled	175	257
Others	2,498	2,115
Total	3,083	3,305
Marital status
Lone parent	1,038	960
Couples with dependants	876	693
Others	1,169	1,652
Total	3,083	3,305

Source: Annual statistical inquiry

Notes: Columns may not sum due to rounding.

The figures include payments made to cases during the 12 months prior to the inquiry, but exclude those cases which received a payment during the year but were not in receipt of benefit at the date of the inquiry; there is therefore an undercount of the total payments made.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish a table showing the proportion of pensioners, couples with children, lone parents, sick and disabled people and others on income support who received single payments in 1986–87 and 1987–88.

[holding answer 21 June 1990]: The information requested is available only for the 12 months prior to each annual statistical inquiry. As marital status applies to all client groups, the data are split into two separate tables.

Proportion of single payments by client group and marital status
Group	February 1986	May 1987
Pensioners	0.14	0.31
Sick and Disabled	0.24	0.30
Others	0.30	0.29
All cases	0.24	0.30
Marital status
Lone parent	0.44	0.52
Couples with dependants	0.59	0.47
Others	0.16	0.24
All cases	0.24	0.30

Source: Annual statistical inquiry.

Note:

The figures include payments to cases during the 12 months prior to the inquiry, but exclude those cases which received a payment during the year but were not in receipt of benefit at the date of the inquiry; there is therefore an undercount of the total payments made.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish a table showing expenditure on the single payments scheme in each year between 1980–1981 and 1987–1988 in both current prices and 1990–91 prices.

[holding answer 21 June 1990]: The information requested is given in the table.

National expenditure on single payments
£ million
	Current prices	1990–91 prices
1980–81	48·403	87·302
1981–82	57·295	94·123
1982–83	98·074	150·265
1983–84	166·136	243·197
1984–85	240·663	335·621
1985–86	334·409	442·633
1986–87	329·945	422·376
1987–88	213·084	258·898

Source: Statistical record of actual single payment decisions made.

Wales

Protection Of Birds

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list those areas of special protection for birds as well as those Ramsar sites and areas with dual designation for the protection of birds.

The designation of special protection areas and Ramsar sites is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, although Welsh sites are designated in consultation with me. I therefore refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Minister for the Environment and Countryside today.

Radioactive Caesium

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list by county, and by year for the last five years, the number of reported cases of radioactive caesium in people.

The information is not available in the form requested. However, last month the Welsh Office published a report of a study of radioactivity in over 150 volunteers in north, south and mid-Wales.The study showed that there were no significant differences between the body burdens of radiocaesium of the volunteers from the different parts of Wales, and that if the body burdens continue to decline at the current rate, levels in the Welsh population will on average reach pre-Chernobyl levels some time this year. A copy of the report "Whole Body Monitoring Research Project" is in the Library.Welsh subjects are also participating in a national survey of radiocaesium levels in people, sponsored by the Department of the Environment.

Nurseries And Playgroups

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the numbers of (a) children, (b) qualified staff and (c) full-time equivalent qualified staff in registered (i) pre-school nurseries and (ii) playgroups for each academic year from 1970–71 to 1988–89 in (1) Wales as a whole and (2) each county of Wales.

The number of staff in registered pre-school nurseries and playgroups is not held centrally. The available information on the numbers of places for children in registered pre-school nurseries and registered playgroups is shown in the following table. Data before 1975 are not readily available.

Number of places at 31 March Clwyd
Year	Pre-school nurseries	Playgroups
1975	168	2,887
1976	198	2,953
1977	140	3,225
1978	154	3,806
1979	178	3,317
1980	178	3,802
1981	190	3,834
1982	203	3,957
1983	218	3,726
1984	218	3,815
1985	292	3,815
1986	289	3,792
1987	340	4,358
1988	382	4,573
1989	645	4,341

Dyfed
Year	Pre-school nurseries	Playgroups
1975	51	1,787
1976	11	2,048
1977	16	2,062
1978	—	2,089
1979	—	2,206
1980	—	2,443
1981	—	2,527
1982	—	2,597
1983	—	2,626
1984	—	2,663
1985	—	2,645
1986	—	2,644
1987	—	2,736
1988	—	3,378
1989	56	3,226

Gwent
Year	Pre-school nurseries	Playgroups
1975	63	1,829
1976	68	1,859
1977	68	2,171
1978	68	2,174
1979	68	2,137
1980	68	2,277
1981	7	2,064
1982	—	2,245
1983	—	2,144
1984	—	2,203
1985	—	2,323
1986	—	2,403
1987	—	2,580
1988	—	2,677
1989	—	2,803

Gwynedd
Year	Pre-school nurseries	Playgroups
1975	—	1,761
1976	—	1,818
1977	—	1,907
1978	—	1,998
1979	—	2,122
1980	—	2,418
1981	40	2,181
1982	60	2,470
1983	60	2,531
1984	60	2,553
1985	66	2,767
1986	77	2,804
1987	89	2,817

Year

Pre-school nurseries

Playgroups

1988

67

2,523

1989

189

3,219

Mid Glamorgan
Year	Pre-school nurseries	Playgroups
1975	444	1,789
1976	207	1,854
1977	127	2,240
1978	101	2,419
1979	127	2,416
1980	127	2,163
1981	127	2,174
1982	127	2,534
1983	145	2,685
1984	260	2,448
1985	157	2,686
1986	136	2,801
1987	210	2,747
1988	184	2,873
1989	117	3,064

Powys
Year	Pre-school nurseries	Playgroups
1975	10	653
1976	10	707
1977	10	581
1978	10	831
1979	10	914
1980	10	1,067
1981	10	1,086
1982	—	1,112
1983	—	1,325
1984	—	1,305
1985	—	1,294
1986	30	1,328
1987	50	1,357
1988	76	1,300
1989	81	1,363

South Glamorgan
Year	Pre-school nurseries	Playgroups
1975	377	2,578
1976	402	2,917
1977	534	2,931
1978	460	3,109
1979	478	2,768
1980	424	2,695
1981	357	2,918
1982	338	2,775
1983	310	2,806
1984	357	2,806
1985	377	2,943
1986	416	2,849
1987	438	3,074
1988	498	3,409
1989	548	3,727

West Glamorgan
Year	Pre-school nurseries	Playgroups
1975	70	1,099
1976	40	1,085
1977	40	1,173
1978	40	835
1979	40	849
1980	10	888
1981	15	727

Year	Pre-school nurseries	Playgroups
1982	15	849
1983	101	890
1984	111	928
1985	121	933
1986	101	1,062
1987	106	932
1988	106	1,020
1989	276	1,002

Wales
Year	Pre-school nurseries	Playgroups
1975	1,183	14,383
1976	936	15,241
1977	935	16,290
1978	833	17,261
1979	901	16,729
1980	817	17,753
1981	746	17,511
1982	743	18,539
1983	834	18,733
1984	1,006	18,721
1985	1,013	19,406
1986	1,049	19,683
1987	1,233	20,601
1988	1,313	21,753
1989	1,912	22,745

Nhs And Community Care Act

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will make it his policy that information circulated to people in Wales regarding the implementation of the National Health Service and Community Care Act should include information and advice on problems that may arise in the course of its implementation.

The booklet that we propose to distribute to all households in Wales will, of course, contain accurate information and advice. It will not address hypothetical problems arising from the implementation of the Act. Following the initial adjustment to the new arrangements nurseries we have every reason to believe that the advantages stemming from the reforms will be recognised and welcomed widely.

Drug Prescribing

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many times regulation 16 of the Service Committee and Tribunal Regulations has been invoked in respect of (a) excessive prescribing and (b) under-prescribing by each family practitioner committee in each of the past five years for which figures are available.

Regulation 16 has been invoked once during the last five years in respect of a case of excessive prescribing in the West Glamorgan FPC area.

General Medical Practices, West Glamorgan

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what are the reasons for the delay in financial allocation for service development of general medical practices in West Glamorgan.

Final cash allocations cannot be made until an analysis has been completed for information supplied by all family practitioner committees in Wales. This information could not be provided until several weeks after the end of the financial year 1989–90. I hope to announce these allocations within a few weeks.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many infants died from sudden infant death syndrome in Wales in 1989; what was the comparable figure in the previous three years; and if he will make a statement.

Available data on deaths of babies under a year old, resident in Wales, caused by sudden infant death syndrome (ICD code 798.0) for the years 1986–1989 are given in the following table.The introduction in 1986, in England and Wales, of a separate certificate for neonatal deaths—in the period 28 days after birth—means that it is not appropriate to assign a single underlying cause to such deaths. Consequently, for all infant deaths—in the first year after birth—only a count of the certificates where the syndrome is mentioned can be made, whether the syndrome was the underlying cause of death or not.

Deaths in infants in Wales
	(a) in Postneonatal period¹ due to ICD 798.0	(b) with 1 year of birth where ICD 798.0 mentioned on death certificate²
1989	63	66
1988	68	78
1987	88	96
1986	66	72

Source: OPCS.

¹ Post neonatal period as from 28 days but within 1 year of birth.

² Includes deaths listed in column (a).

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what proposals he has to combat sudden infant death syndrome in Wales.

The Government announced a major new initiative to reduce infant mortality, including sudden infant deaths, in their response to the Social Services Select Committee report on perinatal, neonatal and infant mortality which was published in July 1989 (Cmnd 741). The review of research relating to sudden infant death syndrome commissioned as part of this initiative will be of benefit to Wales. Also, in line with the initiative's goal to increase capacity to undertake expert post mortem examination of infants who die, action has been put in hand to secure, by central funding, the appointment of a full-time consultant paediatric pathologist at the University hospital of Wales. Pending that appointment, part-time consultant sessions are being funded centrally.

Local Management Of Schools

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement concerning the effects of local management of schools upon schools of fewer than 100 pupils in Wales.

I refer the hon. and learned Gentleman to my reply of 15 June 1990, column 369.

School Budgets

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the average budget for schools in Wales of (a) fewer than 100 pupils, (b) between 101 and 200 pupils and (c) over 201 pupils; what were the comparable figures in real terms in (i) 1975, (ii) 1980 and (iii) 1985; and if he will make a statement.

This information is not available.

Polychlorinated Biphenyls (River Usk)

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what arrangements have been made to deal with contamination of the River Usk by polychlorinated biphenyls carried in vessels in the river.

We are not aware of any such incidents. However, were such an event to occur it would be a matter for the National Rivers Authority, the local authority and if it were within a port, the harbour authority.

Mental Illness

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much money was allocated in the 1989–90 financial year by his Department (1) specifically to support the implementation of the all-Wales strategy on mental illness and (2) for other work in connection with mental illnesss (a) to each local authority in Wales, (b) to voluntary organisations in each local authority area and (c) to voluntary organisations in Wales as a whole.

[holding answer 26 June 1990]: No funding was allocated by the Department in 1989–90 under the mental illness strategy; 1990–91 is the first year of central Government funding under the strategy.The following allocations were made by the Department to local authorities in 1989–90 under the urban programme for projects concerned primarily with mental illness:

	£
Dyfed	14,092
Gwent	29,852
Newport	1,097
Cynon Valley	14,910
Merthyr Tydfil	11,797
Ogwr	22,189
Vale of Glamorgan	5,623
West Glamorgan	31,346

With the exception of the allocation made to West Glamorgan, all this funding was provided for voluntary sector schemes.In addition, Wales MIND received a grant of £57,166 under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968.The Department also made available earmarked funds totalling £1,072,547 to district health authorities which use them to make payments to local authorities and voluntary organisations under the powers in section 28A of the National Health Service Act 1977.

National Finance

World Student Games

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has any plans to cast a commemorative coin to help fund the world student games in Sheffield.

There are no plans to issue a commemorative coin to mark the world student games.

Vehicle Excise Duty

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what reviews he is carrying out into the likely effects of linking motor vehicle excise duty to engine capacity; and if he will make a statement.

We have no plans at present to link vehicle excise duty to engine capacity.

Vat

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the amount of tax forgone due to the zero rating of value added tax on (a) food, (b) children's clothing, (c) new housing and (d) books and newspapers.

The extra revenue yield, in a full year, from applying the standard rate of VAT to the items listed is estimated approximately at:

	£ million
a. Food	5,100
b. Children's clothing	600
c. New Housing	1,600
d. Books and newspapers	700
Total	8,000

Such estimates depend, among other things, on the reaction of consumers to increased prices and so are subject to a considerable margin of error.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will take steps to harmonise the arrangements for payment of value added tax on duty-free fuel by British fishing vessels to bring them into line with existing arrangements for Belgian, Dutch and French fishing.

[holding answer 2 July 1990]: The Government are aware of the difficulties for British fishing vessels and other maritime interests, caused by the European Court of Justice's ruling on some of the United Kingdom's VAT zero rates. They are considering whether and how any changes to the present arrangements should be made.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the likely increase in the retail prices index if value added tax at standard rate was applied to (a) food, (b) children's clothing, (c) new housing and (d) books and newspapers.

Following is the information:

Percentage increase in the Retail Prices Index Per cent.

a. Food

2.0

b· Children's clothing

0·2

c· New housing

¹n·a·

d· Books and newspapers

0·2

¹ The effects on the RPI of applying VAT to new housing cannot be quantified precisely. The immediate impact would be very small. Over many years however it would become significant.

Beaulieu Group

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if, further to his reply of 20 March, Official Report, column 525, on the directors of the Beaulieu group of companies charged with cheating the public Revenue and offences under section 39(3) of the Value Added Tax Act 1983 heard before the Harrogate justices, he will make a further statement on the progress of the case.

Jan De Clerck, Dominiek De Clerck, Luc De Clerck and Francis De Clerck are next due to appear upon a remand before the Harrogate justices on 16 August 1990.The prosecution will seek to pursue committal proceedings on a date to be fixed by the court following representations by the parties at the remand hearing.

Mortgage Arrears

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what information he has on the number of people more than one month and up to six months in arrears on their mortgage repayments.

I have nothing to add to the answer I gave to the hon. Member on 27 June at column 216.

Natural Beauty Products, Bridgend

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide the hon. Member for Bridgend with a full note of the meeting on 1 February between Customs and Excise and Natural Beauty Products Ltd., Bridgend, including the timing and source of, and participants in, all phone calls made and received during that meeting.

[holding answer 29 June 1990]: I refer the hon. Member to the letter that my right hon. and noble Friend the Paymaster General sent to him on 6 July, a copy of which has been placed in the Library.

German State Lottery

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the last date on which lottery tickets from the West German state lottery organisations were seized by Customs and Excise.

[holding answer 5 July 1990]: I understand from Customs and Excise that the latest date on which it seized lottery material from the Suddeutsche Klassenlotterien is 2 July 1990 and the latest date on which it seized material from the Nordwestdeutsche Klassenlotterien is 18 May 1990.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the policy of Her Majesty's Government towards seizures of West German state lottery tickets, in the light of the legal proceedings initiated by a West German lottery ticket salesman; and if he will make a statement.

[holding answer 5 July 1990]: Policy remains that the import prohibition on lottery material should be enforced. Pending the outcome of any legal proceedings taken to challenge the validity of its action, Customs will continue to seize offending material which comes to its notice.

Employment

Radiation Exposure

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will introduce legislation to reduce levels of exposure to radiation at nuclear plants; and if he will make a statement.

The current dose limits are set out in schedule 1 to the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985 (IRR 85). The regulations comply with an EC directive (80/836 Euratom, as amended by 84/467) which in turn reflects advice from the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). The ICRP is now reviewing its advice. The Health and Safety Commission's working group on ionising radiations will consider the revised ICRP recommendations, when finalised, and make any necessary proposals for further action.Proposals for interim action pending the receipt of the revised ICRP recommendations were set out in an HSC consultative document earlier this year. The response is being considered with a view to issuing an additional part to the existing approved code of practice to IRR 85.

Industrial Tribunals

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many cases were registered with industrial tribunals in the United Kingdom and in the calendar year 1989 under section 1 of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 where the applicant claimed that their employer had not provided a written statement of terms and conditions of employment.

The information is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Action For Jobs

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what expenditure was incurred on the action for jobs campaign in 1988–89 in addition to printed material, television advertising, press advertising, radio advertising and outdoor advertising.

Expenditure of £10,000 on exhibition materials and £5,000 on research was incurred on the action for jobs campaign in 1988–99, in addition to expenditure on printed material, television advertising, press advertising, radio advertising and outdoor advertising.

Scotland

Cleanliness

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will release additional funding to enable local authorities to upgrade standards of cleanliness in public places.

The matter of any cost implications that may arise for local authorities in upgrading standards of cleanliness in public places and other provisions contained in the Environmental Protection Bill has been raised in the round of discussions with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities on local government finance in 1991–92. They will be taken into account in establishing the level of aggregate external finance for that year.

Public Toilets

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will introduce legislation compelling Scottish local authorities to upgrade standards of hygiene in public toilets; and if he will make a statement.

Islands and district councils have discretionary powers under section 26 of the Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982 to provide, equip and maintain fixed or moveable public conveniences in such places as appear to them to be suitable.My right hon. and learned Friend has no plans to introduce legislation on standards of hygiene in such places.

Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland in each of the years from 1980 to 1989 inclusive how many gay and/or bisexual men in Scotland were convicted of importuning in public places, contrary to section 32 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956.

Section 32 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 does not extend to Scotland. It is not possible to separately identify broadly similar offences within the Scottish Home and Health Department's classification of crimes and offences.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many men in Scotland were convicted of the offences of procuring or attempting to procure the commission of acts of buggery and gross indecency in each of the years 1980 to 1989, inclusive.

The information requested is not separately identifiable within the Scottish Home and Health Department's classification of crimes and offences.

Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimates he has on the proportion of A702 traffic that will be diverted to the M74-M8 within Fastlink.

Following our consultations on the routes south of Edinburgh study, management consultants have been appointed to assess the viability of the Fastlink as a privately financed project. Clearly the new road would attract traffic from the A702. It is for potential promoters of the scheme to quantify the volume of traffic which might be diverted to the route, but it could be in excess of one third of the flow on the rural section of the road north of Biggar.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to enforce restrictions on heavy vehicles using the A702 and A701 routes after the M74-M8 Fastlink is completed.

Subject to the satisfactory conclusion of discussions with Strathclyde, Borders and Lothian regional councils, it is proposed that the A702 would be de-trunked on completion of an M74-M8 Fastlink. The A701 is not a trunk road. It would therefore be for the regional councils as local roads authorities to consider whether any access restrictions were desirable.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans his Department has to reconsider dualling the Al to Dunbar.

I have announced a package of improvement schemes for the Al which is likely to require the provision of nearly £50 million. We propose to dual the Al from Bankton to Haddington, and in the longer term to Dunbar, and it is intended to formulate an appropriate package of further measures to improve the level of service over the remaining length. Dual carriageways are considered for roads expected to carry between 11,000 and 46,000 vehicles per day, and dualling on the A1 is being provided at the threshold level. Although dualling of the whole route is not ruled out in the very long term, current average daily traffic levels on the rural sections through Borders region are only about 5,000 vehicles per day.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimates he has on the cost of dualling the A6091 between the A68 and the A7.

The A6091 is not a trunk road, and is the responsibility of Borders regional council as local roads authority.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he next plans to visit the Borders region to discuss the Government's current road plans for the future development of the A7 south of Hawick with the local roads authority; and if he will make a statement.

[holding answer 5 July 1990]: I received an invitation from Roxburgh district council to attend a meeting to discuss the Government's plans for improving road access to the Borders. I propose to visit Borders regional council, as the authority responsible for trunk roads. I also propose to visit Roxburgh district council, on housing matters in the course of which I shall listen to its representations. Neither the date nor format of the meetings has yet been arranged.

Health Boards

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has any plans to review the levels of remuneration for health board chairmen.

My right hon. and learned Friend accepts that the remuneration of health board chairmen should be revised to reflect the additional workload which chairmen are experiencing in preparing for implementation of NHS reforms and in recognition of the new responsibilities which they will take on when the new health boards are established in 1991. He has therefore decided on the following levels of remuneration for chairmen with effect from 1 April 1990:

Health board	Remuneration £ per annum
Greater Glasgow	22,730
Lothian	20,490
Grampian; Tayside	18,250
Lanarkshire; Argyll and Clyde	16,005
Ayr and Arran; Fife; Forth Valley; Highland	13,415
Borders; Dumfries and Galloway	10,810
Orkney; Shetland; Western Isles	6,510

In addition, my right hon. and learned Friend has decided that remuneration should be introduced for non-executive members of the new health boards. This will apply from 1 April 1991 and the levels will be £5,000 per annum for mainland health boards and £2,000 per annum for island health boards.

Illiteracy

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many children have left school in each of the past five years unable to read or write in each education authority area.

[holding answer 5 July 1990]: This information is not available.

New Towns

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he next expects to meet the chairmen of the new town development corporations.

[holding answer 5 July 1990]: My right hon. and learned Friend has no immediate plans to meet the chairmen of the new town development corporations. I shall be meeting them on Friday 6 July.

Primary Schools, Glasgow

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the current teacher to pupil ratio in Glasgow primary schools; and if he will make a statement.

[holding answer 5 July 1990]: The pupil:teacher ratio in primary schools in the Glasgow division of Strathclyde in 1989–90 was 19.4:1, compared with 20.9:1 in 1988–89. This information may be found in SED statistical bulletin No. 9/B1/1990, a copy of which is in the Library.

Northern Ireland

Dental Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information is available to indicate the average cost per estimate for completed dental treatment for patients under 16 years in Northern Ireland.

At present the average cost per course of dental treatment for children under 16 years is £25·78.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what statistical information is available on child dental health under 18 years in Northern Ireland.

A survey of the dental health of children aged five, eight, 12 and 15 years was carried out in 1989. Preliminary results show that on average caries levels in these age groups have fallen by some 38 per cent. since 1983.

Extradition

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether he has received any indications from the Government of the Republic of Eire about removal of articles 2 and 3 of their 1937 constitution or appropriate amendment of the Extradition Act 1965 in order to deal with terrorists more effectively.

The situation in relation to our arrangements for dealing with fugitive offenders is currently being reviewed by British and Irish officials, as agreed between the respective Ministers on 19 April. I would prefer not to comment on the details of the review.

Community Care Grants

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many claims there have been for community care grants in each DHSS office in Londonderry city, Limavady, Coleraine and Magherafelt during the last 12 months for which figures are available; and how many in each office were (a) granted, (b) refused and (c) how many of the applicants refused were advised on the refusal form to (i) apply for a budgeting loan, (ii) were offered a budgeting loan and (iii) how many offered a loan sought and received such a loan, or as much of such information as is available to him.

[holding answer 3 July 1990]: Information about the number of community care grants processed each month, the number awarded and the amount paid by each social security office is available in the Library. The number of refusals can be derived from these figures.Applicants who are refused community care grants do not need to apply for budgeting loans as social fund officers automatically consider the possibility of a loan in all such cases. No information is available about the number of loans subsequently offered or made to people whose applications for grants have been turned down.

Remand Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of prisoners on custodial remand for (i) scheduled and (ii) non-scheduled offences were (a) given a non-custodial sentence, (b) given a custodial sentence and (c) found not guilty or not proceeded against in 1989.

[holding answer 4 July 1990]: The information requested is as follows:

Per cent.

1989

(i) Scheduled

(ii) Non-scheduled

(a) Non-custodial

14·3

17·5

(b) Custodial

75·4

72·2

(c) not guilty etc·

10·3

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many prisoners were remanded in custody prior to trial for (a) scheduled and (b) non-scheduled offences in 1989.

[holding answer 4 July 1990]: In 1989, 928 individuals were remanded in custody for scheduled offences and 697 individuals were remanded in custody for non-scheduled offences.

Royal Ulster Constabulary

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many attacks on RUC personnel took place in 1989, showing whether the attack was on (i) a foot patrol and (ii) a mobile patrol, the total attacked while on duty each month together with details of the type of attack, namely (a) physical assault, (b) stone throwing, (c) petrol bomb, (d) explosion or (e) shooting and the number of persons made amenable.

[holding answer 4 July 1990]: The information is not available in the form requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, in 1989 there were over 500 incidents in which the police were attacked either on duty or at home. Of these, 67 incidents involved the use of firearms and 83 the use of explosives.

Transport

Roads

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much money has been spent on road schemes, not including maintenance, since 1960; and whether he will express this in terms of the current value of the pound.

Total capital expenditure by central Government on national roads in the United Kingdorn 1960–61 to 1989–90 amounts to about £15 billion, or £35 billion when expressed in 1989–90 prices. These figures should be treated as approximations, since there have been definitional changes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what information he has on the number of (a) properties and (b) homes that have been demolished as a result of road schemes since 1960;(2) what information he has on the acreage of

(a) agricultural land and (b) other land taken out of use (i) permanently and (ii) temporarily as a result of road schemes since 1960.

Information is not held in the form requested, and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Collision (River Usk)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what information he has on the cargoes carried on the vessels Marius AS and Belle Roger which were involved in a collision on the River Usk at Newport on 24 April.

The collision on 24 April was between the Greek bulk carrier Morias and the Irish container vessel Bell Ranger.The Morias was carrying a cargo of steel products, and the Bell Ranger a cargo of containers. The containers, none of which appears to have been damaged, were loaded with general cargo, except one, which contained drums of chemical waste.

Air Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he last met his colleagues in the Council of Ministers for Transport to discuss deregulation of air fares.

I attended a meeting of the EC Transport Council on 18 June 1990. A formal commitment was made to complete a single market in aviation by the end of 1992, and agreement was reached on a second package of EC air transport liberalisation measures for the interim. Regulations on fares, market access and capacity sharing, and on the application of the competition rules to air transport were adopted. The agreement reached will allow airlines greater freedom to exercise their own commercial judgment.

Railway Investment Criteria

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will seek an early meeting with his West German counterpart to discuss railway investment criteria.

My right hon. Friend has no plans to do so.

Concessionary Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many local authorities (a) issue free bus passes, (b) issue some form of assisted bus passes and (c) do not provide free or assisted travel for their pensioners.

According to a survey of local authorities done by the Department of Transport in 1986, there were concessionary fares schemes for pensioners in 92 per cent. of districts in England and Wales, some operated by district councils and some by county councils or passenger transport executives. Of the 285 schemes for the elderly, 19 provided for free fares. There were no concessionary fares schemes in 29 districts. In London, a free fare scheme is funded by the boroughs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will take steps to make it mandatory for every local authority to provide a free bus pass to their pensioners; and if he will make a statement.

Local authorities always have discretionary powers to provide for reduced fares or free travel for people of state pensionable ago on local public transport services, and we have no plans to change these arrangements.

Passenger Transport Authorities (Funding)

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has made for monitoring and acting upon the effects of the change in funding of passenger transport authorities in those areas affected by (a) poll tax capping and (b) loss of safety net grant in 1991–92.

[holding answer 5 July 1990]: The passenger transport authorities discuss transport and financing issues with my Department on an on-going basis. Spending priorities within the level of community charge caps are a matter for the local authorities concerned.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on proposals for amending the use of weighted ward densities in the allocation of funding for public transport authorities in the coming financial years.

[holding answer 5 July 1990]: Representations made by the local authority associations will be considered by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, who will make his proposals known in the autumn.

Attorney-General

Serious Fraud Trials

To ask the Attorney-General when he last met the director of the Serious Fraud Office to discuss the conduct of serious fraud trials.

I last met the Director of the Serious Fraud Office for this purpose on 3 June 1990.

Wreck Commissioners

To ask the Attorney-General (1) what steps were taken to avoid any possible conflict of interests when assessors were appointed to sit on the Wreck Commissioners inquiry into the loss of the MV Derbyshire;(2) what criteria govern the appointment of members of Lloyd's Register to sit on a Wreck Commissioners inquiry when the ship under scrutiny had been granted a certificate by Lloyd's Register.

Those under consideration for appointment as assessors are asked to confirm that they have no connection with any known parties to the formal investigation which might give rise to a conflict of interest.Any assessor for a formal investigation, including members of Lloyd's Register, must fulfil the criteria set out in the schedule to the Merchant Shipping (Formal Investigations) Regulations 1985 (SI 1985/No. 1001), and any other appropriate criteria relating to special skills or knowledge which the Lord Chancellor might set having regard to the nature of the casualty which is to be the subject of that inquiry.

Prime Minister

Gifts

To ask the Prime Minister what guidelines exist in respect of the receipt, recording and disposal or otherwise of gifts received by Ministers acting in their official capacity.

It is a well-established rule that no Minister should accept gifts, hospitality or services from anyone which would, or might appear to, place him or her under an obligation. The recording and, where appropriate, disposal of gifts received is a matter for Departments.

To ask the Prime Minister (1) where the synthetic sapphire presented to her in her official capacity by the British Scientific and Technical Trust is held;(2) if she will make it her policy to refuse any gift offered to her in her official capacity which contains

(a) ivory, (b) fur, (c) tropical hardwoods or (d) chlorofluorocarbons;

(3) what gift she presented to President de Klerk on the occasion of his recent visit to the United Kingdom;

(4) what gift she presented to President Gorbachev on the occasion of her recent visit to the USSR in June;

(5) what gift she presented to President Bush on the occasion of her visit to the United States of America in November 1989.

It is not my normal practice to provide information of this kind concerning gifts given or received.

1991 Census

To ask the Prime Minister whether the level of resources and funding for the Northern Ireland 1991 census will be on the same basis as for the census in the rest of the United Kingdom.

Yes.

Calcutt Inquiry

To ask the Prime Minister whether she expects to revise any more of her previous parliamentary answers in the light of the findings of the Calcutt inquiry into the handling of papers relating to Mr. Colin Wallace; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Calcutt's inquiry into the handling of Mr. Colin Wallace's disciplinary case is still in progress.A copy of the conclusions of the Ministry of Defence's internal inquiry into the handling of documents relating to Mr. Wallace's case has been placed in the Library of the House. Nothing in these conclusions makes it necessary to revise my previous parliamentary answers.

Exchange Rate Mechanism

To ask the Prime Minister what mechanisms exist for revaluation within the exchange rate mechanism; how often they have been used; and if she will make a statement.

I refer the hon. Member to section 3.2 of the resolution of the European Council of 5 December 1978 on the establishment of the European monetary system (EMS) and related matters, a copy of which is in the Library of the House. Since the inception of the EMS on 13 March 1979, there have been 12 realignments of currencies in the exchange rate mechanism.

New Taxes

To ask the Prime Minister if she will make it her policy to introduce no new taxes before the next general election.

We have no plans to introduce any new taxes. Since 1979, we have abolished five major taxes, and the 1990 Finance Bill contains provisions for the abolition of two more.

Nato Meeting, London

To ask the Prime Minister what proposals she proposes to put to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Heads of Government meeting on 5–6 July in London.

The NATO summit, which ends today, has been an important opportunity to chart the future course of the alliance at a time of momentous change in Europe. We need to preserve a sure defence and adapt NATO to the new circumstances. A copy of the declaration to be issued by the summit will be placed in the Library of the House as soon as it is available.

Natural History Museum

To ask the Prime Minister in relation to the science base of the United Kingdom, what proposals have recently been discussed with the chairman of the trustees of the natural history museum.

[holding answer 5 July 1990]: The Lord President indicated on my behalf, in response to the hon. Member's question of 26 June, that the chairman of the museum is in discussion with the Government's chief scientific adviser and the Office of Arts and Libraries about the museum's position in relation to the United Kingdom science base.As the Minister for the Arts said in the Adjournment debate of 20 June, he will be holding further discussions with the chairman of the trustees and the museum's director on this and related issues.

Foreign And Commonwealth Affairs

South Africa

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has received regarding the policy of Her Majesty's Government on sanctions in relation to South Africa.

We receive numerous representations on all aspects of our policy towards South Africa.

Cyprus

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to the Government of the Republic of Cyprus to observe paragraph 5 of Security Council resolution 649.

We continue to support United Nations efforts to bring about a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement to the Cyprus dispute, in line with Security Council resolution 649. We maintain continuous diplomatic contact with all parties to this end.

Morocco

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement concerning the official visit of the Prince of Morocco to Britain.

Prince Sidi Mohammed paid a highly successful first official visit to Britain from 18 to 22 June as a guest of Government. He met His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, had dinner with my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, met other Ministers, visited Parliament and the City of London and had the opportunity to see some modern technology projects.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether his Department has raised the issue of violation of human rights with the Moroccan Government.

The Moroccan Government are aware of our concern about human rights abuses wherever they occur.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what his Department is intending to do to influence the Moroccan Government to renew a direct dialogue with the Polisario.

This is a matter for the parties involved. We continue to believe that the good offices of the UN Secretary-General and the chairman of the Organisation of African Unity offer the best prospects for an early and equitable solution. The latest developments at the UN are encouraging.

Western Sahara

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps have been taken by his Department to assist Perez de Cuellar in his efforts to implement the last general assembly resolution regarding the organisation of a fair and genuine democratic referendum for the self-determination of the Saharawi people without any military or administrative constraints.

There have been welcome developments since the last UN general assembly resolution. The Secretary-General is expected soon to make detailed proposals for the establishment of a UN mission for the referendum in the western Sahara (MINURSO). Together with the other members of the Security Council we support these efforts and stand ready to consider requests for assistance.

Bulgaria

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on his response to the recent elections in Bulgaria.

The vote was generally free and fair, although there was a certain amount of intimidation and violence during the campaign. Both observers and Bulgaria's own electoral commission have cast doubts on some individual results. We shall now need to assess the policies and practices of the new Government and hope that their commitment to reform will be shown to be real.

Guyana

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions have been held with the Government of Guyana concerning the freedom of the forthcoming elections.

My right hon. Friend, the then Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and my right hon. Friend the Minister for Overseas Development reminded President Hoyte of the importance which the Government attach to the principle of free and fair elections when they met him in October and December 1989.I also emphasised the need for elections to be free and fair when the Foreign Minister of Guyana called on me on 21 May 1990.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if, pursuant to the reply to the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd), Official Report, 21 June, column 685, he will list in the Official Report the states parties to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, the non-governmental organisations and members of the public to whom he makes reference as having made communication on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty review conference and the general nature of the communications.

Only at disproportionate cost could the non-governmental organisations and members of the public who have communicated on the subject of the NPT be listed. The communications received have been concerned with Government policy towards, and the fulfilment of obligations arising from, the NPT.The following are states parties to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty:

United Kingdom
United States of America
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Afghanistan
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Botswana
Brunei Darussalam
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape verde
Central African Republic
Chad

Colombia
Congo
Costa Rica
Cote D'Ivoire
Cyprus
Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
Denmark
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
Gabon
Gambia
German Democratic Republic
Germany, Federal Republic
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Haiti
Holy See
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Republic of Ireland
Italy
Jamaica Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, Republic of
Kuwait
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Mauritius
Mexico
Mongolia
Morocco
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Norway
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Rwanda
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
Somalia
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Tuvalu
Uganda
Uruguay
Venezuela
Vietnam
Western Samoa
Yemen, Republic of
Yugoslavia
Zaire

Notes:

1. Taiwan (not recognised as a State by Her Majesty's Government) signed the Treaty in Washington on 1 July 1968 and deposited an Instrument of Ratification in Washington on 27 January 1970.

2. North Korea (not recognised as a State by Her Majesty's Government) acceded to the Treaty on 12 December 1985 in Moscow.

Gatt

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the implications for developing countries of the United States, European Community, Japanese and Nordic proposals for the current Uruguay round of GATT to include liberalisation of the services sector.

I have been asked to reply.With services accounting for a growing proportion of world trade, the proposals being considered in the GATT Uruguay round for a multilateral agreement on trade in services, stand to benefit all participants, developed and developing countries alike. The United Kingdom and its European Community partners are working for an agreement with the widest possible participation, and which achieves the greatest liberalisation. It is recognised that the commitments expected of developing countries will need to take account of development of their service sectors, and this is reflected in the draft agreement recently tabled by the EC.

Home Department

Sexual Offences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) in each of the years from 1980 to 1989 inclusive how many gay and/or bisexual men in England and Wales were convicted of importuning in public places, contrary to section 32 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956;

(2) in each of the years from 1980 to 1989 inclusive how many men were convicted for the offences of gross indecency and indecency between males in England and Wales.

The information requested is given in the table. Data for 1989 will not be available until the autumn.

Males convicted of specified sexual offences 1980 to 1988 England and Wales
Offence	Soliciting or importuning by a man (Section 32 of Sexual Offences Act 1956)	Indecency between males
1980	1,184	1,603
1981	878	1,420
1982	783	1,145
1983	719	1,232
1984	399	821
1985	452	730
1986	452	714
1987	500	951
1988	545	1,333

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many men in England and Wales were convicted of the offences of procuring or attempting to procure the commission of acts of buggery and gross indecency in each of the years 1980 to 1989, inclusive.

The information requested is given in the table. Data for 1989 will not be available until the autumn.

Male defendants convicted of procuration of males 1980 to 1988 England and Wales
	Procuration of males
1980	143
1981	121
1982	140
1983	125
1984	194
1985	350
1986	193
1987	246
1988	332

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what guidance his Department issues to police forces on what constitutes an immoral purpose for the purposes of prosecution for importuning in a public place for immoral purposes;(2) what guidance his Department issues to police forces as to those acts which might be construed as representing gross indecency.

None. The law has been interpreted by the courts. If necessary the police can turn to the Crown prosecution service for advice.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance his Department issues to police forces on criteria to be employed when deciding between prosecution for the offences of indecency between men and gross indecency; and what is his Department's definition of indecency between males as used in its sexual offences statistics.

None. Charges brought under section 13 of the Sexual Offences Act 1956 are for acts of gross indecency between men. There is no lesser offence of indecency as opposed to gross indecency.

Crime Prevention

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the steps which Her Majesty's Government have taken since 1979 to promote crime prevention.

The Government's strong belief in the potential for the whole community to contribute to crime prevention is reflected in the range of measures we have taken which include the following:

(i) Publication in 1984 and in 1990 of circulars to local authorities and a variety of relevant agencies, recommending the development of locally based crime prevention schemes through partnership between local authority departments, the police and commercial and voluntary interests.

(ii) A series of national publicity campaigns using TV and press advertising. The most recent, which is not yet complete, features the latest edition of the handbook of crime prevention advice entitled "Practical Ways to Crack Crime". Over 3 million copies of this handbook have been distributed.

(iii) The establishment of Crime Concern, an independent body (funded initially by the Home Office) which seeks to encourage and facilitate local crime prevention activity, and to draw the business sector into crime prevention.

(iv) The safer cities programme. Projects have been set up in 16 inner-city areas with the objectives of reducing crime, lessening the fear of crime and creating conditions in which economic enterprise and community life can flourish.

(v) The establishment of the standing conference on crime prevention, giving the opportunity for a wide range of groups and agencies to discuss ideas on crime prevention.

(vi) Enhancement of the training offered to the police service by the Home Office crime prevention centre, including specialist areas such as architectural liaison and designing out crime.

(vii) A seminar in 1986, chaired by the Prime Minister, brought together representatives from the private sector, the unions, the police and central and local government to discuss action on crime prevention. This event led to the setting up of the ministerial group on crime prevention, through which Ministers from 13 Government Departments coordinate an interdepartmental approach to crime prevention.

Immigration

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many nationals of (a) Trinidad and Tobago, (b) Guyana, (c) Barbados and (d) Jamaica have (i) been admitted and (ii) been refused admittance and removed during each of the first five months of the current year.

The available information is given in the following table:

Citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Barbados and Jamaica admitted to, and refused leave to enter and removed from, the United Kingdom
	1990 January	February	March	April	May
Trinidad and Tobago
Total admitted¹	1,200	700	1,400	1,400	1,400
Total refused leave to enter and removed	11	11	10	9	11
Guyana
Total admitted¹	300	300	400	500	400
Total refused leave to enter and removed	6	3	6	3	4
Barbados
Total admitted¹	500	300	400	700	700
Total refused leave to enter and removed	2	1	3	3	4
Jamaica
Total admitted¹	1,600	2,000	1,900	2,100	2,400
Total refused leave to enter and removed	50	52	58	42	48
¹ Provisional figures.

Birmingham Prison

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide a month-by-month breakdown of the number of attempted suicides by inmates in Birmingham prison during the first six months of 1990.

The number of inmates who were recorded as having attempted suicide at Birmingham prison in each of the first six months of 1990 is as follows:

	Number
January	1
February	1
March	2
April	2
May	9
June	4
Total	19

Remand Prisoners

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are still remanded in custody awaiting trial following the incidents in Trafalgar square on 31 March.

The information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Students (Deportation)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his Department's current policy and practice on enforcing deportation decisions against students who have been found to be working in breach of their conditions of entry; what definition is used of student; and whether he will list the colleges which he would not recognise as providing courses of study for overseas students acceptable under the immigration rules.

Any overseas student who wishes to work during his free time or vacations may do so by obtaining the requisite permission from the Department of Employment. Each case in which a student is found working without such permission is considered on its individual merits: as required by the immigration rules, the case for deportation is considered in the light of all known relevant factors. For this purpose a student is a person who at the time meets the requirements of the immigration rules for the grant of leave to enter or remain as a student. The Immigration and Nationality Department keeps records of information which has come to light about individual colleges. In dealing with individual applications from students, account is taken of any material which is available to the Department about the circumstances of, and courses offered by, the colleges concerned. Caseworkers are made aware of what information is available by means of internal notices which are part of staff instructions and are not published.

Criminal Records Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps have been taken to (a) receive the original notes and (b) identify the authors of criminal records office file no. 10368/74.

These are among the matters which are being considered by the Devon and Cornwall constabulary, whose report my right hon. and learned Friend will consider very carefully in due course.

Football Licensing Authority

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to meet representatives from the Football League to discuss the work of the Football Licensing Authority; and if he will make a statement.

My right hon. and learned Friend has no such plans at present. My right hon. and noble Friend the Minister of State has had such a meeting and has recently written to the chief executive of the Football League on this subject.

Firearms

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he next intends to meet the chairman of the firearms consultative committee to discuss firearms certification procedures.

My right hon. and learned Friend has no immediate plans to meet the chairman of the firearms consultative committee. It is for the committee to keep under review the working of the administration of the Firearms Acts 1968 to 1988 and to make to my right hon. and learned Friend such recommendations as the committee may from time to time think necessary for the improvement of that working.

Bombing Cases

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has discussed the Guildford and Woolwich or the Maguire cases with (a) the Lord Chief Justice or (b) the Master of the Rolls.

No.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if the nine Surrey police officers who were in Birmingham at the time of the pub bombings have been identified.

I refer the hon. Member to the replies given to questions from the hon. Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin) on 30 October 1989 at columns 39–40. It is not known whether any Surrey officers were in Birmingham at the time of the pub bombings, although I understand that a team of nine Surrey officers was in the west midlands area at the time. This is among the matters relating to the case of the Birmingham pub bombings which are currently under investigation by the Devon and Cornwall constabulary on behalf of the chief constable of the West Midlands police.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the new inquiry undertaken by the Devon and Cornwall police into the Birmingham Six to be completed.

It is not possible at this stage to say when the Devon and Cornwall constabulary will be able to report on the results of its inquiries, but I know that the police are fully aware of the need to complete those inquiries as quickly and as thoroughly as possible.

Television Licences

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will meet pensioners' representatives to discuss free television licences for all pensioners; and if he will make a statement.

Such a meeting would serve no strong purpose. Our policy is clear and well known to the hon.

Establishment	Number of transfer requests			Numbers transferred¹			Earliest outstanding request
	1988	1989	1990	1988	1989	1990
Holloway	24	45	12	42	13	11	13 July 1987
Pentonville	47	40	10	25	15	6	16 February 1987
Wormwood Scrubs	62	77	16	47	49	9	24 April 1987
Brixton	58	103	37	80	35	10	4 September 1987
Feltham	13	70	18	16	17	11	29 September 1988
Wandsworth	52	91	25	57	27	5	1 April 1987
Latchmere House	10	12	9	8	2	3	10 May 1988
¹ Includes officers requesting transfer during previous years.

Member. The licence fee is not a proper instrument of social policy, and we have no plans to change the present concessionary arrangements. Giving free licences to all pensioners would cost £435 million a year, and would necessitate increasing the cost of the licence to everyone else to well over £100.

Missing Persons Register

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to establish a national computerised missing persons register; and if he will make a statement.

We have been considering the establishment of such a register for some time now. We have been examining two possible options and are now seeking the views of the Association of Chief Police Officers before reaching a conclusion as to the better method.

Criminal Damage

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his estimate of the cost of vandalism or criminal damage in England in the last year for which figures are available.

The information requested is not available.

Prison Officers, London

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list for each of the London prisons the number of applications for transfer from officers at those prisons to other prisons in England and Wales for each of the last three years; and what is the number of applications that have been granted;(2) if he will list the present number of transfer applications that have been submitted by officers serving at each of the London prisons for transfers to another prison in England and Wales; and what is the longest period of time such an application has been waiting for a decision to be made.

The available information is given in the following table.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps are taken to help prison officers transferred from other establishments into London prisons with accommodation.

Prison officers who are transferred to London prisons on permanent compulsory transfer terms are entitled to reimbursement of the expenses incurred in moving home. They are eligible to receive, for example, travel and subsistence allowances, removal expenses, estate agents' and solicitors' fees, a transfer grant or a miscellaneous expenses grant and in certain circumstances the interest charges on bridging loans.

Establishment	¹1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	²1990
Acklington	5	18	21	8	16	18	16
Albany	36	86	—	11	1	16	—
Aldington	1	1	3	1	4	9	6
Ashford	1	12	—	6	1	29	—
Ashwell	3	1	9	6	25	23	1
Askham Grange	1	2	2	2	2	8	3
Aylesbury	2	2	13	9	12	17	9
Bedford	13	17	12	11	12	5	8
Birmingham	10	27	—	28	66	56	30
Blantyre House	1	1	—	—	—	3	—
Blundeston	14	26	17	14	16	23	8
Bristol	7	10	—	13	30	59	12
Brixton	46	111	118	199	205	251	122
Brockhill	6	5	8	1	14	9	13
Buckley Hall	—	—	—	1	1	2	—
Bullwood Hall	3	1	5	1	14	7	14
Camp Hill	6	5	17	3	8	13	13
Campsfield House	—	—	—	—	1	1	2
Canterbury	4	13	1	5	8	1	2
Cardiff	6	5	17	15	31	15	4
Castington	1	1	7	2	5	4	2
Channings Wood	16	8	17	12	18	11	5
Chelmsford	32	16	24	18	34	52	19
Coldingley	6	6	3	5	7	9	1
Cookham Wood	—	1	11	14	—	5	—
Dartmoor	2	10	11	18	25	17	10
Deerbolt	1	3	3	1	1	6	5
Dorchester	5	3	6	1	5	2	1
Dover	5	24	19	16	16	9	7
Downview	—	—	—	—	—	7	3
Drake Hall	—	8	3	11	2	9	1
Durham	7	13	39	31	19	26	4
East Sutton Park	—	4	1	7	10	7	2
Eastwood Park	—			1	2	3	2
Erlestoke	—	3	1	3	14	5	1
Everthorpe	1	3	1	2	2	7	2
Exeter	1	6	14	15	11	13	1
Featherstone	3	43	25	10	10	24	6
Feltham	9	33	21	23	59	107	83
Ford	8	17	40	37	59	64	19
Frankland	4	13	7	12	35	29	4
Full Sutton	—	—	—	—	18	15	1
Garth	—	—	—	—	—	19	13
Gartree	9	58	12	8	12	22	10
Glen Parva	2	5	12	13	15	21	8
Gloucester	—	1	—	1	3	5	1
Grendon/Spring Hill	18	5	36	19	14	22	3
Guy Marsh	2	—	—	—	1	1	4
Haslar	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Hatfield	—	1	1	—	3	2	—
Haverigg	15	42	45	50	34	30	10
Hewell Grange	2	1	—	5	8	3	1
Highpoint	14	5	34	10	21	31	22
Hindley	7	8	3	5	8	10	8
Hollesley Bay	2	13	—	—	41	37	8
Holloway	16	21	22	37	40	53	15
Hull	11	8	7	4	7	27	5
Huntercombe/Finnamore Wood	13	19	5	2	5	31	6

Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drug finds there have been in each British prison establishment in each of the last 10 years.

The following relates to England and Wales. Responsibility for prison establishments in Scotland rests with my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland. New instructions for the reporting by prison establishments of finds of illicit drugs and related implements took effect on 1 July 1984. Available information about numbers of finds reported since that time is shown in the table. The information for 1984 and 1985 relates to both substances and implements. The figures for subsequent years relate to substances only.

Establishment	¹1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	²1990
Kingston	1	—	—	—	1	2	—
Kirkham	—	6	13	13	56	69	—
Kirklevington	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Lancaster	4	8	4	3	20	15	1
Latchmere House	7	33	10	4	3	6	—
Leeds	19	12	15	27	23	25	1
Leicester	5	6	13	10	4	18	—
Lewes	51	18	—	1	9	13	—
Leyhill	2	1	—	2	16	3	4
Lincoln	3	25	9	8	15	32	8
Lindholme	—	—	—	—	47	39	12
Littlehey	—	—	—	—	21	23	13
Liverpool	43	121	170	110	96	82	29
Long Lartin	28	54	32	29	35	27	13
Lowdham Grange	5	7	7	4	14	15	—
Low Newton	—	7	7	6	11	9	1
Maidstone	15	18	21	37	10	13	2
Manchester	43	87	48	20	42	88	10
Morton Hall	—	—	2	4	5	7	7
The Mount	—	—	—	—	6	31	15
New Hall	3	—	—	—	4	5	—
Northallerton	2	1	3	3	3	6	—
Northeye	19	26	—	4	27	17	20
North Sea Camp	1	—	—	—	2	6	2
Norwich	23	5	18	24	40	53	24
Nottingham	—	6	4	3	4	5	1
Onley	2	11	7	9	9	26	2
Oxford	4	—	6	3	5	1	—
Parkhurst	16	43	39	38	29	80	7
Pentonville	15	30	32	33	50	63	49
Portland	—	3	—	2	22	24	2
Preston	7	6	13	22	12	10	—
Pucklechurch	—	4	1	7	3	22	8
Ranby	4	5	6	8	14	16	5
Reading	2	9	6	11	26	14	14
Risley	12	23	17	19	19	14	1
Rochester	14	10	31	16	57	27	14
Rudgate	1	3	13	10	11	17	8
Send	—	—	1	2	15	16	5
Shepton Mallet	10	2	10	20	15	13	11
Shrewsbury	1	4	2	4	9	10	1
Stafford	26	35	21	33	35	42	8
Standford Hill	29	18	—	16	36	26	11
Stocken	—	5	2	5	16	11	5
Stoke Heath	6	5	13	5	12	19	—
Styal	4	2	1	1	1	8	1
Sudbury/Foston Hall	4	17	7	6	15	9	3
Swaleside	—	—	—	—	4	11	19
Swansea	—	4	23	3	8	2	—
Swinfen Hall	—	—	3	2	6	8	3
Thorn Cross	—	—	15	21	16	24	1
Thorp Arch	—	—	5	11	10	12	4
Usk-Prescoed	—	—	2	3	4	7	4
The Verne	1	15	2	9	11	10	16
Wakefield	5	15	5	12	11	5	1
Wandsworth	108	359	237	147	267	217	129
Wayland	—	7	31	26	45	28	16
Wellingborough	1	1	5	6	4	7	—
Werrington	1	—	1	1	—	3	—
Wetherby	3	2	—	5	—	8	6
Whatton	—	—	—	—	2	7	—
Winchester	9	5	3	5	33	45	2
Wormwood Scrubs	120	20	195	174	206	238	105
Wymott	10	19	11	41	16	20	16
¹ From 1 July.
² To 31 May.

New Prison Fazakerley

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will defer any steps towards building a new prison at Fazakerley near Liverpool until the results of a public inquiry are known;(2) what plans he has to hold a public inquiry into the proposed new prison at Fazakerley, near Liverpool.

The construction of a new prison at Fazakerley will not proceed until the objections raised by Liverpool city council have been dealt with. Assuming that it is not possible to resolve the differences between the Home Office and the city council, the matter will be referred to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, who will decide whether it is desirable to hold a non-statutory public local inquiry.

Prison Staff

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whow many assaults on prison officers occurred in each prison establishment in each of the last 10 years.

The readily available information for 1988 is given in the table "Charges of assault on which prisoners were found guilty on adjudication in Prison Service establishments in England and Wales in 1988: by establishment and type of assault", a copy of which has been placed in the Library. Figures for earlier years could be provided only at disproportionate cost. For these years published annual statistics of offences punished at each establishment give the information on gross personal violence to an officer but that on assaults does not distinguish between assaults on officers and assaults on others (table 9.9 to 9.12 of "Prison statistics England and Wales 1987" (Cm. 547), copies of which are in the Library). However, the information requested is summarised by type of establishment (tables 9.13 to 9.15 of the 1987 volume).

Ticket Touts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make it his policy to seek to make the touting of tickets illegal.

We have no plans to make ticket touting generally illegal. The activities of ticket touts are regarded by most of us as offensive and disreputable, but they are not of such a nature as would justify legal prohibition. The tout will have paid the standard price for his tickets, so the promoter will not have lost, and his customers will generally be aware that they are paying above the ticket's face value and are willing to do so to watch the event in question. Most of the more objectionable aspects of ticket touting are already covered by the criminal law and promoters of events can take their own steps to deter touting; for example the organisers of the Ryder cup, by attaching conditions to tickets were able to use the force of the criminal and civil law to make ticket touting very difficult.We are considering separately Lord Justice Taylor's recommendations to meet the specific problem of ticket touting at football matches.

Trade And Industry

Cocom

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the changes in export trade opportunities arising from the agreement at the Co-ordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) meeting in Paris on 6 and 7 June.

An outline of the changes agreed is given in a press briefing paper, a copy of which has been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.The most significant export trade opportunities for industry are likely to arise from changes in the three priority sectors of computers, telecommunications and machine tools, although further opportunities are presented in other areas.

The changes to the controls on computer equipment will be reflected in relaxations on many other types of computer-controlled equipment. It should be noted that some of the relaxations on telecommunications equipment apply only to Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, plus the German Democratic Republic which benefits from a special new licensing regime.

The 30 whole-item deletions and reduced levels of control in about 25 more items, will provide further opportunities across a wide range of goods and technologies. Details on many of these are currently being worked out by COCOM.

There will be an open general export licence for 28 of the 30 deleted items which came into effect on 1 July. The other changes will be brought into effect by means of further amendments to the Export of Goods (Control) Order 1989.

Further publicity will be given to these changes when amendments to the order are issued. The Department's "Security Export Control" guidance booklet will also be reissued as soon as possible and will reflect the deletions of or changes to some 70 items, out of 126, including others currently subject to COCOM's regular review process.

My technical staff in the Export Control Organisation are available to answer questions from industry about these changes.

Import Restrictions

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 11 May, how many complaints were made to the Commission (a) by and (b) against the United Kingdom Government during 1989 alleging illegal or unjustified restriction of imports; and if he will indicate the percentage of complaints upheld in each case.

[holding answer 16 May 1990]: The Government made 11 complaints against practices in other member states in 1989. The Commission is either still considering those complaints or is pursuing them with the member states concerned.My Department does not hold information on complaints made to the Commission against the Government; such complaints come to our notice only if and when the Commission decides to pursue them formally. The Commission records annually in its report to the European Parliament on the control of the application of Community law, figures for infringement proceedings against member states. I understand that the figures for 1989 are not yet available but will appear shortly in the Commission's seventh report. This will be published in the

Official Journal, copies of which are available in the Library.

Agriculture, Fisheries And Food

Foodstuffs (Chemical Residues)

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is his Department's policy as regards the control of pesticide residues in foodstuffs; and if he will make a statement.

The Government operate a rigorous statutory registration procedure, backed up by continuous monitoring to ensure that any pesticide residues in foodstuffs are at entirely safe levels.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what action is being taken by his Department to reduce the amount of (a) organophosphates, (b) methyl bromide and (c) ethylene bisdithiocarbamate present in foodstuffs (i) domestically produced and (ii) imported into the United Kingdom.

Maximum residue limits have been set for all these substances under the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Food) Regulations 1988, which apply equally to imported and to home-grown produce.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is his Department's policy in respect of the incidence of the fungicides dithane, manzate, mancozeb and dinoseb in foodstuffs; and if he will make a statement.

Dithane and manzate contain ingredients such as mancozeb which belong to the group of fungicides known as ethylene bisdithiocarbamates (EBDCs) which are under review by the Advisory Committee on Pesticides. The committee published an interim report in January; it concluded that intakes of EBDC and their breakdown products were at safe levels for all age groups and extreme consumers.Dinoseb was reviewed by the committee in 1987, as a result of which all approvals for its marketing and use have been revoked.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is his Department's policy in respect of the safety in foodstuffs of the fungicides captan, benomyl and chlorothalonil; and if he will make a statement.

All these substances are currently under review by the Advisory Committee on Pesticides.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what progress has been made on achieving common European residue levels for chemical residues in foodstuffs; and if he will make a statement.

The European Community has partially harmonised standards for maximum pesticide residue levels and for contaminants which may arise from materials and articles in contact with food, and is considering further harmonisation in these areas.The Community will be setting maximum limits for veterinary medicines in foodstuffs of animal origin following the adoption of a framework directive by the Agricultural Council in June.The European Commission has announced its intention of bringing forward proposals for legislation to establish Community rules on chemical contaminants in food not already covered by other Community legislation.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what proposals he has to reduce the levels of chemical residues in foodstuffs entering the United Kingdom from (a) European Community countries and (b) third-world countries.

Chemical residues in foodstuffs, both imported and home grown, are continuously monitored to ensure high standards of safety for consumers.

Food Labelling

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what information he has as to the proportion of foods which contain mechanically recovered meat being labelled as such.

I do not keep the information that my hon. Friend requests.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he expects to implement the European Community directive on nutrition labelling; and if he will make a statement.

This directive received its second reading in the European Parliament on 12 June and following consideration of the Parliament's amendments by the European Commission should shortly be presented to the Council of Ministers for adoption. Full implementation will not take place until three years after notification of the directive to member states and regulations will be introduced to that effect. I am however encouraging manufacturers and retailers to adopt the main provision of the directive.

Aflatoxin

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what progress has been made in adopting an EC policy of aflatoxin limits in crops; and if he will make a statement.

There are no proposals for Community limits on aflatoxins in crops; there are however limits which already apply in the case of feedingstuffs under Council directive 74/63/EEC controlling undesirable substances and products in animal nutrition. In addition, the Commission has announced its intention to bring forward proposals shortly for framework legislation on contaminants in foodstuffs which would enable limits to be set for aflatoxins in food for human consumption in due course. We shall expect the public health aspects of any proposals in this area to be based on consultation of the EC's scientific committee for food.

Energy

Oil Rigs

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will introduce legislation to make it compulsory for all safety officers working offshore on oil rigs to be given suitable training in offshore safety methods; and if he will make a statement.

Existing statutory requirements under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act 1971 place duties on employers and owners of offshore installations to provide such training as is necessary to ensure the health and safety at work of their employees, and to ensure that only competent persons are made responsible for the control and safety of operations.

Electricity Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what is his estimate of the proportion of the cost of a unit of electricity which is accounted for by the cost of the fuel used in generation.

The Electricity Council's annual report and accounts for 1988–89 showed that fuel costs represented about 41 per cent. of the average unit price of electricity.

Environmental Damage

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what information he has in regard to the proposals put to the European Parliament by Mr. Enrico Ferri for European legislation to require energy industries to take out full insurance against damage caused to the environment by their operations.

My Department has received no information about Mr. Enrico Ferri's proposals.

European Energy Year

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what is the Government's policy on the proposal put forward by the European Community Energy Commissioners to declare 1992 European energy year.

Only the European Commission has the right to initiate formal proposals to the Council. We are unaware of any such formal proposal in relation to a declaration for 1992.

Defence

Hawk Trainer Aircraft

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he has yet replied to the letters dated 16 June 1989 and 8 August 1989 from J. B. Moffatt, assistant secretary of the Celtic League, concerning Royal Air Force Hawk trainer aircraft operating over Wales and the Isle of Man.

Copies of both letters have now been traced and will be answered as soon as possible.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether all the Hawk trainer aircraft currently based in Wales have been subjected to the turbine fan modification ordered some years ago.

There are no problems outstanding on the Hawk engine.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether all the Hawk trainer aircraft currently based in Wales have now been re-sparred.

There is no programme to re-spar the Hawk trainer. Under the programme to re-wing the Hawk, new wings will be fitted as the existing wings reach the end of their fatigue life. Nine of the 85 aircraft based in Wales have been so modified.

St David's Airfield, Pembrokeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many representations have been received by his Department on the proposed over-the-horizon radar station near St. David's.

In addition to questions tabled in this House and in another place. I have received representations from many right hon. and hon. Members and from members of the public.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list all those companies which were invited to tender for the contract to carry out any environmental impact assessment of his Department's proposals to install an over-the-horizon radar system at St. David's and Cricklade.

In view of the particular circumstances of our proposal to install an over-the-horizon radar transmitter at St. David's airfield and the need to complete the environmental impact assessment by late summer, only one company—W. S. Atkins of Epsom Surrey—was invited to tender for the contract to carry out the environmental impact assessment. At Blakehill, the proposed over-the-horizon radar receiver site, we are not yet in a position to proceed with the environmental impact assessment. This will, however, be by competitive tender.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received concerning the effect of the proposed over-the-horizon radar on birds and animal life in the St. David's area of Pembrokeshire; and if he will make a statement.

I have received no representations concerning the effect of the proposed over-the-horizon radar on birds and animal life in the St. David's area of Pembrokeshire. But my Department has had initial discussions with the Pembrokeshire Coast national park authority about this and the matter will be fully addressed in the environmental impact assessment.

Excalibur Exercises

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans exist to hold exercises in the Excalibur series in the United Kingdom in the current year.

Exercise Excalibur VII is planned to take place in the United Kingdom on 20 July 1990.

Belize

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what information he has on how many incursions by (a) Guatemalan military personnel and (b) other Guatemalans into Belize there have been this year; and what was the response in each case.

I have been asked to reply.We are not aware of any incursions by Guatemalan military personnel. A group of Guatemalan civilians established an illegal settlement in March in Belizean territory at Santiago Jalacte close to the border with Guatemala.The Belize authorities gave the Guatemalans three months' notice to leave so that they could harvest their crops before departure. But we understand that the settlement was abandoned in May following incidents involving local Belizeans.

Nato Meeting, London

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what proposals he intends to introduce to the NATO meeting in London on 5 and 6 July.

My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has discussed a wide range of issues concerning European security with colleagues at the NATO summit meeting.

Nuclear Weapons

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) which states currently possess a nuclear weapon capability that could pose a threat to the United Kingdom; which states currently possess a nuclear weapon capability that could not pose a threat to the United Kingdom; and which states are currently seeking to acquire a nuclear weapon capability that could pose a threat to the United Kingdom;(2) under what circumstances it is judged that the possession of nuclear weapons by another state poses a threat to the United Kingdom.

The possession of nuclear weapons combined with effective means of delivery by any state poses a potential threat to the United Kingdom, but of course account has to be taken of intention as well as capability. The assessment the hon. Member requests of particular nuclear capabilities is classified. In general terms the United Kingdom attaches great importance to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty as a means of preventing nuclear proliferation.

Defence Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Clackmannan of 2 July, on what criteria he decides whether the timing of discussions with the defence industry is commercially confidential.

The commercial-in-confidence caveat is applied to any information relating to a commercial undertaking's, processes or affairs which may be of commercial value to its competitors or to speculators. Disclosure of such information would damage the relationship of trust that must exist between commercial undertakings and the Government.

Volume 175: debated on Friday 6 July 1990

Written Answers To Questions

Education And Science

Teacher Recruitment

Special Educational Needs

Infant School Teachers

Local Management Of Schools

School Building

Health

Kidney Disease

Hospitals

Contraceptive Clinics

Newmarket Hospital

Drug Prescribing

Private Residential Homes

Eye Tests

Aids

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Publications

Administrative Costs

Energy-Efficient Buildings

Protection Of Birds

Environment

Rate Bills

Water Quality

Greenhouse Effect

Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Chlorofluorocarbons

Competitive Tendering

North Sea Conference

Right To Buy, Norwich

Nuclear Waste (Reprocessing)

Social Security

Blind People

Finsbury Park Local Office

Social Fund

Disability

Single Payments

Wales

Protection Of Birds

Radioactive Caesium

Nurseries And Playgroups

Nhs And Community Care Act

Drug Prescribing

General Medical Practices, West Glamorgan

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Local Management Of Schools

School Budgets

Polychlorinated Biphenyls (River Usk)

Mental Illness

National Finance

World Student Games

Vehicle Excise Duty

Vat

Beaulieu Group

Mortgage Arrears

Natural Beauty Products, Bridgend

German State Lottery

Employment

Radiation Exposure

Industrial Tribunals

Action For Jobs

Scotland

Cleanliness

Public Toilets

Sexual Offences

Roads

Health Boards

Illiteracy

New Towns

Primary Schools, Glasgow

Northern Ireland

Dental Health

Extradition

Community Care Grants

Remand Prisoners

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Transport

Roads