asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will specify the present estimates, broken down to each individual case, in respect of all 18 institutions, of:(1) the gross receipts expected from admission charges to the national museums and galleries in Great Britain during the first 12 months of their imposition: and

					Gross	Net;
					£	£
British Museum	…	…	…	…	190,000	170,750
Science Museum	…	…	…	…	125,000	107,250
Victoria and Albert Museum (Note 1)	…	…	…	…	169,000	139,500
Imperial War Museum	…	…	…	…	50,000	43,500
London Museum	…	…	…	…	21,000	15,500
National Gallery	…	…	…	…	170,000	155,000
National Maritime Museum	…	…	…	…	85,000	62,500
National Portrait Gallery	…	…	…	…	50,000	43,500
Tate Gallery	…	…	…	…	95,000	80,000
Wallace Collection	…	…	…	…	16,000	11,000
British Museum (Natural History)	…	…	…	…	110,000	96,500
Geological Museum	…	…	…	…	25,000	20,000
Royal Scottish Museum	…	…	…	…	30,000	26,500
National Galleries of Scotland	(Note 2)			…	39,000	32,000
National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland	(Note 2)			…
National Museum of Wales	…	…	…	…	28,100	23,400

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether there is any means of exchanging 20 pence and 50 pence coinage from the Irish Republic into legal currency in this country.

Coins of the Republic of Ireland are not legal tender anywhere in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but they are freely accepted by people and banks in Northern Ireland. I understand that most banks in Great Britain will also exchange Republic of Ireland 50 pence coins, usually making a small charge to cover the cost of returning the coins. Neither the Republic of Ireland, nor the United Kingdom has a 20 pence coin.

The gross estimated receipts from new admission charges and the net receipts after allowing for staffing costs to be met from the Votes of the museums and galleries are given in the following table, the figures for the Scottish and Welsh Institutions having been provided by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales:

asked Her Majesty's Government:On the basis of what percentage of unemployment Part IV of the Beveridge Report was written and on the basis of what percentage of unemployment the White Paper on Social Insurance (1944, Cmnd. 6550) was expressed to be founded.

The Beveridge Report (1942, Cmnd. 6404) published in November, 1942, at paragraph 441 on p. 164 contains the following passage:

" In framing the Social Security Budget in Part IV of this Report, it has been assumed that, in the industries now subject to insurance, the average rate of unemployment will in future be about 10 per cent. and that over the whole body of insured employees in Class I unemployment will average about 8½ per cent."

The White Paper on Social Insurance (Cmnd. 6550) published in September, 1944, at paragraph 177, says:

"The Government have instructed him (the Government Actuary) to assume for the purpose of framing his financial estimates a notional figure of 8½ per cent. of insured persons out of work … This needs explanation. It does not mean that the Government expect that year in year out this will be the percentage figure … it was thought a matter of financial prudence to estimate a figure of 8½ per cent."

asked Her Majesty's Government:What the present percentage of unemployment would be to-day in the industries subject to insurance at the time of the writing of the Beveridge Report.

Owing to structural changes in industry since 1942 it would be difficult to provide a reliable estimate, and a disproportionate administrative effort would be required for it.

asked Her Majesty's Government:What have been the assumptions as to the likely percentage of unemployment which have governed Government policy in this field, and how far this assumption is based on Beveridge's statement in

All Governments since the war have pursued a policy of full employment, but no Government since the war has stated publicly the precise unemployment assumptions underlying its policies.

asked Her Majesty's Government:What is the total amount of Aid and/or subvention given to Libya since its establishment as an independent State.

Libya became independent in 1951, and, in the financial years 1951–52 to 1970–71, inclusive, received from Britain a total of £47,598,000 in bilateral economic aid.

asked Her Majesty's Government:

1. What increases have taken place, since their Answer of November 18, 1970, to the gross £375 million which the United Kingdom Treasury contributes to Northern Ireland;

2. What further increases are proposed;

3. How does this compare with a similar sized region like Devon and Cornwall;

4. How much is collected back from both these regions bearing in mind that some companies pay their taxes centrally.

In 1971–72 expenditure from the Northern Ireland Exchequer is estimated to be £423 million. Of this £269 million is expected to be met by a payment to the Northern Ireland Exchequer in respect of taxes paid by the inhabitants of Northern Ireland but collected by United Kingdom revenue departments. £84 million revenue is expected to be raised directly by the Northern Ireland Government.To help the Northern Ireland Government to maintain parity of services with the rest of the United Kingdom the following payments are made to the Northern Ireland Exchequer:

	£ million
Payments under the Health Service Agreement	20
Social Services Payments (under the Finance Act 1971)	37
Payments (under the Finance Act 1967)	11
Agricultural remoteness grant (direct from M.A.F.F. votes)	2

In addition, Northern Ireland farmers receive certain grant and subsidy payments (estimated at about £30 million in 1971–72) from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.£22 million is expected to be paid from the Great Britain National Insurance Fund to that of Northern Ireland.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether the Advisory Committee on Legal Education has now been established as recommended by the Ormrod Report.

The consultations with the appropriate academic authorities to which I referred in my answer of August 2 took longer than expected. However, I am glad to say that they are now complete, and that the Advisory Committee on Legal Education has accordingly been established, with effect from to-day, by resolutions of the Senate of the Four Inns of Court and The Law Society. It is expected to hold its first meeting in February.The Committee's terms of reference are to advise the Senate, The Law Society and Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Further Education on all matters affecting education and training of candidates for entry to the legal profession.As already announced, the Chairman of the Committee will be Lord Cross of Chelsea. The rest of the Committee will consist of—

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether the list of 94 historic towns circulated in the OFFICIAL REPORT. column 582, December 2, by Lord Sandford, in which ten towns occur twice, can safely be equated with the list of 84 towns mentioned by him at columns 575–6.

I regret that the list of towns printed in the OFFICIAL REPORT on December 2 (col. 582) contained in error some duplication of names. Eighty-four towns, which are on trunk roads and appear on the Council of British Archæology's list of historic towns, should be relieved of trunk road through traffic by the early 1980's. Of these, 16 towns already benefit from schemes which provide relief from trunk road through traffic:

Carlisle, Durham, Faversham, Kendal, Lancaster, Ledbury, Market Harborough, Marlborough, Morpeth, Nottingham, Oxford, Painswick, Penrith, St. Albans, Tewkesbury, Worcester.

Sixty-eight towns will benefit from road schemes to be completed by the early 1980's:

Abingdon, Appleby, Arundel, Ashbourne, Ashby de la Zouch, Barnstaple, Bath, Belper, Beverley, Bideford, Boston, Brampton, Bridgewater, Bridport, Bury St. Edmunds, Buxton, Cambridge. Canterbury, Castle Donington, Cheltenham, Chester, Cirencester, Colchester, Cockermouth, Dorchester (Dorset), Dorchesteron-Thames, East Dereham, Ely, Evesham, Exeter, Gloucester, Godmanchester, Henley-on-Thames, Hereford, Hexham, Huntingdon, King's Lynn, Launceston, Leominster, Lewes, Lichfield, Ludlow, Newark on Trent, Newport (Essex), Newport (Salop), Northampton, Peterborough, Rochester, Ross-on-Wye, St. Neots, Shrewsbury, Skipton, Southampton, Spalding, Stamford, Stratford-upon-Avon, Swaffham, Tamworth, Tarporley, Taunton, Thetford, Thirsk, Ware, Wimbourne, Winchester, Witney, Wymondham, York.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they have considered the traffic hold-up which will inevitably occur in the two bottlenecks at Chepstow when the M4 Motorway is opened and whether they will investigate the possibility of constructing access roads on to and off the M4 Motorway at Beachley so as to enable traffic going to and from West Gloucestershire and the Forest of Dean to use the M4 Motorway without having to pass through the Chepstow bottlenecks.

:It is not expected that completion of the M4 is likely to result in a large volume of traffic passing through Chepstow to reach the Forest of Dean. Other routes are available. Access roads to the motorway viaduct at Beachley were considered when the Severn Bridge was designed but rejected on account of the physical problems involved and the proximity of the Newhouse Interchange.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether anything can be done to mitigate the nuisance caused in urban areas by external burglar alarms which are set off either by a mechanical fault or by a false alarm and cannot be silenced for a long time by any lawful means.

Not as the law stands. But the Public Health (Recurring Nuisances) Act 1969, enables a local authority to require steps to be taken to prevent the recurrence of a noise nuisance. I would suggest that anyone who is repeatedly troubled by a false or faulty alarm should bring the matter to the attention of their local public health department.House adjourned at ten minutes before five o'clock.