asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty whether, in view of the time that has elapsed since the announcement of the closure of Her Majesty's Dockyard. Sheerness, he will now make a statement as to its future.

The Admiralty has agreed, subject to contract, to sell Sheerness Dockyard to Building Developments Ltd. which intends to develop the Dockyard as a single or a few large units for engineering production, erecting new industrial buildings as appropriate. The company brings together the interests of Messrs. Balfour Beatty (who are controlled by Power Securities Ltd.), City Centre Properties Ltd. and the Industrial Finance and Investment Corporation Ltd. It expects to take possession of the Dockyard in the spring of 1960 at the latest.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many Africans were executed in Kenya in each of the years 1952–58; and how many of those were for offences in connection with the emergency and Mau Mau offences.

The figures for 1952–55 inclusive were given in answer to a Question by the hon. Member for Eton and Slough (Mr. Brockway) on 4th June, 1956.The figures for 1956–58 inclusive are as follows:

KENYA—EXECUTIONS
—			For Mau Mau Offences	For Other Offences
1956	…	…	80	27
1957	…	…	14	6
1958	…	…	8	11

asked the Minister of Education what information he has available on the number of secondary pupils in comprehensive schools staying on beyond the statutory school-leaving age.

The information is as follows:

NUMBERS OF PUPILS IN COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOLS
Year (January)			Aged 15 and over	All pupils
1955	…	…	2,121	15,891
1956	…	…	3,303	27,315
1957	…	…	5,449	42,416
1958	…	…	11,384	75,081

NOTE: As explained on page 30 of the Annual Report for 1958, a number of schools formerly classified as "bilateral" have been reclassified as "comprehensive" and the figures for 1958 are not therefore comparable with those for previous years.

asked the Minister of Education to what extent sixth forms have expanded in comprehensive schools; and how this expansion compares with selective schools.

The information is as follows:

Year (January)		Number of sixth-form pupils in the 27 schools classified as comprehensive throughout the period 1956–59	Number of sixth-form pupils in grammar schools and streams
1956	…	506	65,002
1957	…	598	68,611
1958	…	713	70,281
1959	…	904	77,000 (est.)

Any comparison of the rate of growth would be misleading because most of the comprehensive schools are new schools which had relatively few older pupils in the earlier years.

asked the Minister of Education for how many men and women candidates for teachers' training colleges vacancies are not expected to be available this year; and to what extent those considered are in other respects considered suitable to be trained as teachers.

I would refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Members for Southampton, Itchen (Dr. King) and Dartford, Mr. Sydney Irving on Thursday, 25th June.

asked the Minister of Education what plans he has for further expansion of teacher training colleges.

I have decided to put in hand forthwith a programme of 4,000 training college places in addition to the 12,000 which I announced last September. The further 4,000 will be provided by 1964 at the latest.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of new investment in the private sector he estimates comes from private investors, from insurance companies and other institutions, including pension funds, and from the investment of ploughed back profits, respectively, distinguishing between investment of ploughed back profits in the firms concerned, and investment of such profits in other and non-associated companies.

I regret that detailed information in this form is not at present available. I would, however, draw the right hon. Gentleman's attention to the figures given in Table 22 in the "Economic Survey 1959" and to the article and tables "Income and Finance of public quoted companies 1956" published in the February, 1959, issue of "Economic Trends".

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the latest available financial year the total tax yield from personal Income Tax, Surtax, company Income Tax and company Profits Tax, and also the respective yields of Schedule D and Schedule E Income Tax.

The total net yield from Income Tax, Surtax and Profits Tax in 1958–59 was £2,757 million, of which it is estimated that the net amount paid under Schedule D was £1,130 million and under Schedule E £980 million.

asked the Minister of Health the estimated total of the cost of the National Health Service in the current financial year, showing separately how much of that cost will be met by the following five sources, namely, weekly National Health Service contributions, the Exchequer, charges to National Health Service patients, staff pension contributions, and local health authorities, respectively.

As my hon. Friend knows, the Exchequer grant towards the cost of the local health authority services has now been absorbed within the general grant and is, therefore, not separately identifiable. Excluding the cost of these services, the estimate requested is given for England and Wales in the following table, which is based on the estimates submitted to Parliament:

National Health Service—England and Wales Estimated Expenditure 1959–60 (excluding local health authority expenditure) and Different Sources of Finance.
	All figures approximate £ million
Total Estimated Expenditure	640
Borne on Exchequer	475
Met by N.H.S. contributions	101
Met by Patients' charges	30
Met by Superannuation contributions and Transfer Values	33

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware of the difficulties experienced by the Northern Area Fire Service in dealing with recent heathland and plantation fires due to lack of water in streams and lochs; and if he will consult the appropriate authorities, including the Hydro-Electricity Board, with a view to ensuring adequate piped and static water supplies for fire protection.

I am discussing this matter with the Northern Fire Area Joint Committee and shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible about it.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give a list of the export items from Holland to this country which are limited by quota; and what changes there have been in this respect during the past two years.

Since 1957 bilateral quotas have been granted to the Netherlands and the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union jointly. The following table shows the principal items for which, in 1957, the United Kingdom granted import quotas to Benelux either bilaterially, or under general arrangements with Western European countries. The items from which restrictions have since been lifted are marked with an asterisk.

Bilateral Quotas	Global Quotas
*Chocolate and sugar confectionery.	Stockings and socks.
	Sports goods, toys and games.
*Biscuit and other flour confectionery.
	*Air guns, air rifles etc.
*Yeast and yeast extract.
Flower bulbs.	Stationery.
Processed milk.	Cutlery.
Decorated glassware.	Imitation jewellery.
Scientific glassware.	*Oiled, waxed and other waterproof wrappings and transparent cellu-lose wrappings.
Stone, worked and un-worked (1).
*Hemp yarns, twist, rope and twine.
Lace.	Paper manufactures.
Baskets (2).	*Sugar preparations.
*Slide fasteners.	Apples, fresh, bottled or canned.
*Sporting weapons.
*Leather.	Pears.
*Stereoscopic viewers and picture reels.	Smokers requisites.
	*Fancy goods.
*Miscellaneous wood-ware.	*Lithopone.
	* Cream.
Optical, scientific and industrial instruments.	Clocks.
*Outboard motors.
Precious jewellery.
Motor vehicles.
Cameras (3).
(1) Unworked stone has been liberalised since 1958.
(2) Baskets other than of cane, wicker, or willow have been liberalised since 1958.
(3) Quota agreed since 1957 for cameras costing more than £7 10s. 0d.; others are liberalised.

asked the President of the Board of Trade (1) what progress is being made in experiments to produce a regenerative mechanical transmission system; and to what extent he foresees its successful application to public service vehicles and ultimately all automobiles;(2) what progress is being made in the development of the Gabor cathode ray tube for colour television; and whether he estimates that it will be ready to be applied to television units at the same time as coloured television is generally introduced in this country.

These two inventions are being developed by the National Research Development Corporation under the Development of Inventions Act, 1948. The Corporation, for whose day to day work I am not responsible, stated in its last Annual Report that work on both projects was proceeding. If the developments are successful their application will be a matter for the industries concerned.

asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance in how many cases during the years 1957 and 1958, war pensions have been awarded for the first time to men injured in the 1914–18 war.

The Answer is 72 and 73 respectively.

asked the Minister of Health the number of births at the Townend Maternity Home, Hull, in 1958, the number who were amenity bed patients and the fee paid by each patient, and the number of patients who were doctors' wives; how many of these were obstetric abnormalities, fifth and subsequent confinements, or in urgent need of hospital confinement on social grounds, respectively; and how many were second births.

There were 286 births in the hospital in 1958. All the patients occupied amenity beds and all paid the statutory fee of 12s. per patient per day. The rest of the information requested is not readily available but I will see whether it can be extracted from the hospital records and write to the hon. and gallant Member.

asked the Minister of Health the number of hospital cases in Hull, in the last year, who have been kept waiting in an ambulance at a hospital, and the time which has elapsed, while inquiries have been made from other hospitals in an attempt to send the patient elsewhere.

I regret that this information is not available. I understand, however, that the Hospital Management Committee has received only one complaint on the subject in the past year.