To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will make it his policy progressively to introduce low-energy lighting in all the buildings operated by his Department.

Practically all the Department's buildings are equipped with low-energy lighting. It is the Department's policy progressively to install energy efficient lighting in premises where such equipment is not already fitted.

	1989		1990		1991
Board	Number of vacancies filled	Number of applications received	Number of vacancies filled	Number of applications received	Number of vacancies filled	Number of applications received
Belfast	102	585	105	1,249	98	823
North-Eastern	64	463	81	762	68	458
South-Eastern	82	949	73	1,228	32	267
Southern	41	467	82	1,194	120	1,924
Western	93	1,065	77	650	96	683

In 1989 one complaint against the Southern board was taken to the Fair Employment Agency which upheld the board's decision. In 1990 two complaints were made to the North-Eastern board but went no further. In 1991 two complaints against the Southern board were taken to the Fair Employment Commission, one is now awaiting a tribunal hearing, the other, together with a third complaint, against the Western board, is still under consideration.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a table to show for each of the last three years for which figures are available the number of vacancies filled by the Housing Executive, the