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Mr. Haselhurst
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the future of co-ordination of research effort in matters of flight safety.
Mr. McLoughlin
In the United Kingdom the Civil Aviation Authority is responsible for co-ordinating research on civil flight safety. The machinery for this co-ordination is being reviewed, so as both to increase managerial accountability within the authority and to obtain additional advice from outside.Research on flight safety in Europe is co-ordinated as appropriate through the joint aviation authorities or Eurocontrol. I expect to see more extensive co-ordination of research in this field in the years ahead.
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| Non-industrial staff in post in Scotland by Department (including Agencies) and Scottish region at 1 October 1991 (excluding Scottish Office) | |||||||||||
| Department | Highland | Grampian | Tayside | Fife | Lothian | Borders | Central | Strathclyde | Dumfries | Islands | Total |
| Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | 8 | 93 | 11 | — | 31 | 6 | 5 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 181 |
| Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal | 35 | 60 | 72 | 43 | 305 | 9 | 47 | 584 | 28 | 8 | 1,191 |
| Customs and Excise | 48 | 250 | 116 | 34 | 333 | 11 | 70 | 790 | 17 | 28 | 1,697 |
| Defence | 80 | 272 | 227 | 1,467 | 362 | 1 | 158 | 4,032 | 54 | 90 | 6,743 |
| Employment Department Group | 205 | 284 | 340 | 219 | 1,140 | 52 | 184 | 2,348 | 97 | 52 | 4,921 |
| Energy | — | 8 | — | — | 2 | — | — | 70 | — | — | 80 |
| Environment | — | — | — | — | 47 | — | — | 21 | — | — | 68 |
| PSA Service | 16 | 70 | 22 | 46 | 453 | — | 5 | 254 | 14 | 13 | 893 |
| General Register Office, Scotland | — | — | — | — | 303 | — | — | 21 | — | — | 324 |
| Home Office | — | — | 6 | — | 3 | 7 | — | — | 219 | — | 235 |
| Inland Revenue | 159 | 243 | 195 | 137 | 1,942 | 45 | 97 | 3,752 | 72 | — | 6,642 |
| Lord Chancellor's Department | — | — | — | — | 17 | — | — | 36 | — | 114 | 167 |
| National Savings | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2,562 | — | — | 2,562 |
| Ordnance Survey | 10 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 24 | 3 | 5 | 33 | 6 | — | 103 |
| OPCS | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 108 | — | — | 108 |
| ODA | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 555 | — | — | 555 |
| Registers of Scotland | — | — | — | — | 1,112 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,112 |
| Scottish Courts Administration | — | — | — | — | — | — | 161 | — | — | — | 161 |
| Scottish Courts Service | 26 | 51 | 46 | 36 | 218 | 6 | 34 | 369 | 23 | 6 | 815 |
| Scottish Record Office | — | — | — | — | 117 | — | — | — | — | — | 117 |
| Social Security | 174 | 389 | 427 | 334 | 1,465 | 74 | 315 | 4,325 | 133 | 62 | 7,698 |