asked Her Majesty's Government:(1) In how many cases in England and Wales have Community Service Orders been imposed upon convicted persons since these orders first came within the powers of any court and in what proportion of these cases has the order been "satisfactorily completed";(2) in how many cases have Criminal Bankruptcy Orders been imposed on convicted persons in England and Wales since these orders first became available to the Courts; and

(1) The numbers of persons given a community service order in each of the years 1974 to 1978 are published in Statistics on Community Service Orders (Home Office Statistical Bulletin Issue 3/80, Table 1). Figures for 1973 are not available. Corresponding information on terminations of these community service orders is not available. However, the reasons for termination of orders terminated in 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978 and the first half of 1979 are given in the same publication (Tables 8 and 9). Information for earlier years is not available.(2) The information readily available on criminal bankruptcy orders is published annually from 1975 in

asked Her Majesty's Government:In relation to the Attorney General's new guidelines on jury checks dated 31st July 1980, how many contested cases in each of the last three years for which figures are available, were (i) cases in which national security was involved and part of the evidence was heard in camera, and (ii) terrorist cases, and what definition is proposed for the word "terrorist".

In the three years from 1st January 1977 to 31st July 1980, checks on the jury panel were authorised in one case involving national security, in which part of the evidence was to be given in camera, and in two cases involving acts of terrorism (see table below). There is no offence of "terrorism" as such and most "terrorist" cases in practice involve charges under the Explosive Substances Act 1883 or the Firearms Act 1968, and occasionally, murder. It was found convenient, when drafting the guidelines on jury checks, to adopt "terrorist" as an appropriate description of a particular group of cases, to which reference was made, in view of the definition of terrorism provided by Parliament in the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1976. This is:

"the use of violence for political ends and includes any violence for the purpose of putting the public or any section of the public in fear". (s. 14).

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will publish a table giving the information contained in Table 4 of the paper "Parole in England and Wales: Home Office research Study No. 38", extended to the year 1979.

The information requested (other than those parts of it published annually in the Parole Board's reports) is not readily available and could only be obtained at considerable cost.

asked Her Majesty's Government:

I am informed by the chairman of the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) that the main function of the HSC's Medical Advisory Committee is to advise the commission on the question of occupational health and that the committee has not itself issued guidance. The committee recently discussed and presented to the HSC a paper proposing an HSC guidance note Health Surveillance by Routine Procedures, which sets out guidance on systems to monitor the health of workers and which advises employers about the keeping of health records. This guidance is still under discussion.Employers are required under the Factories Act 1961 to report to the Factory Inspectorate all cases arising in their factories of the following industrial disease: aniline poisoning, anthrax, arsenical poisoning, beryllium poisoning, carbon bisulphide poisoning, compressed air illness, epitheliomatous ulceration, toxic anaemia and toxic jaundice. The relevance and completeness of this list is reviewed at intervals.

asked Her Majesty's Government:What pesticides have been banned under the Pesticides Safety Precautions Scheme, and on what dates.

Clearance of all uses of pesticides, following chemicals, the dates shown:—

asked Her Majesty's Government:What substances are listed under the Agriculture (Poisonous Substances)

The provisions of the Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Act 1952 which set out the broad categories of substances to which the Act applied were repealed by the Agriculture (Poisonous Substances) Act 1952 (Repeals and Modifications) Regulations 1975 when the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 came into force.The Health and Safety (Agriculture) (Poisonous Substances) Regulations 1975 were made under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. The substances which require the maintenance of a register and the use of protective clothing are listed in Schedule 2 of these regulations and are divided into four parts.The list is as follows:

asked Her Majesty's Government:What improvements in the welfare of farm animals have been made or set in motion since the appointment of the Farm Animals Welfare Council.

As a result of recommendations by the Council to the Agriculture Ministers, legislation has been introduced to ban the harvesting of antlers in velvet from live farmed deer. The council has also made recommendations to Ministers, which are being considered, on added legal safeguards designed to improve the protection of farm animals intended for export and of those being transported by sea and on codes of practice related to these matters. As part of its review of the livestock welfare codes, the Council has issued provisional draft revisions of the codes for pigs, domestic fowls and turkeys. I understand that it is currently considering comments which have been received from interested organisations and from the public on the draft of the pigs code. The council has recently begun to examine the welfare of livestock at the place of slaughter.House adjourned at thirteen minutes before ten o'clock.