asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state the number of school leavers in Lanarkshire this year.

About 7,800 are expected to leave in the calendar year 1960.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give details of the number of persons, and their official rank, employed on a full time basis by his Department dealing with educational matters as they relate to the countries of the Commonwealth.

None. I consider it better that these functions should be discharged by officers in my Department in conjunction with other duties.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what progress has been made by river purification authorities in implementing the provisions of Part III of the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act, 1951.

The implementation of these provisions is necessarily a long-term job, but the reports of the river purification boards show that, despite the financial and other problems involved, reasonable progress has been made in improving trade and sewage effluents. If the right hon. Gentleman would like to see any of these reports, I shall be glad to send him copies.

asked the Secretary of Stale for Scotland what further progress has been made in the purification of the River Esk.

Since the hon. Member's previous Question on 28th July, 1959, work has begun on modernising small sewage works and linking others with the Esk Valley regional sewer. The Lothians River Purification Board is continuing its efforts to secure reductions in pollution from other sources.

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that the tariff wool quota for the import of wool cloth into the United States of America for the year 1960 has now been filled; and what representations have been made by him to the United States authorities, in view of this fact and the loss this exceptionally early filling of the quota will cause the British wool textile industry.

Yes. In our representations to the United States authorities, we have made it clear that we regard the earlier filling of the wool tariff quota each year as one of its worst features. As the hon. Member is aware, the United States authorities have agreed at our request to re-negotiate the wool tariff with a view to eliminating the difficulties created by the tariff quota.

asked the President of the Board of Trade to what extent, in trading with China, there is at present an expansion of trade in those goods admitted on open general licence from all countries; and to what extent the expansion of trade consists of those goods subject to quotas and allocations.

Goods which are still admitted under open licences accounted for the whole of the expansion in imports in 1959 as compared with 1958. During this period there was no significant change in the total value of imports of those goods which are subject to quotas and allocations.

asked the President of the Board of Trade what is the anticipated volume of trade between the United Kingdom and China this year; and how this compares with the figure for each of the last three years.

I hope that our trade with China will expand this year, but this will depend mainly on the trading policy of the Chinese Government, and I cannot estimate what the results are likely to be. The combined value of the United Kingdom's imports from and exports to China was £26 million in 1957, £46 million in 1958 and £45 million in 1959.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will now announce a date for the redemption at par of War Loan 3½ per cent.

I am afraid that I would not feel it right to do so in present circumstances, for reasons which I explained in a letter to my hon. Friend last November.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what communications he has received from organisations or persons representing small rural communities urging the abolition of Entertain ments Duty on the ground that the resultant closure of cinemas is depriving such communities of their only form of public entertainment; and what replies he has sent.

I cannot trace any.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of the national revenue was represented by the yield from Entertainments Duty in the last financial year.

0·22 per cent.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would be the cost to the revenue of the abolition of the Entertainments Duty.

About £7 million a year.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much it would cost the Treasury to give a tax allowance of £10 per annum in respect of travel between home and place of business to all Income Tax payers so travelling.

The cost in a full year of allowing a deduction from earned income of £10 to all occupied persons would be £40 million. The cost of the kind of allowances which my hon. Friend envisages would be less than this, but it is not possible to make any estimate because there is not sufficient information available about the number of occupied persons who would qualify.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in framing his Budget proposals, he will take into account the need to curtail the disguising and consequent avoidance of Income Tax and Surtax, of ventures in the nature of trade, taxable under Case I of Schedule D by the device, inter alia, of the formation of separate company structures for each transaction.

I have noted my hon. Friend's suggestion.

asked the Attorney-General if he will give the occupational classification of members of the Lord' Lieutenants' advisory committees in the counties of Hampshire, Leicestershire, Cheshire and the North Riding in the same terms as Table III of the Report of the Royal Commission on Justices of the Peace. 1946 to 1948.

No. The members of Advisory Committees are appointed by the Lord Chancellor to assist him, personally and confidentially, in certain matters relating to the appointment of Justices of the Peace. It is not in the public interest to publish any information about them.

asked the Attorney-General what statutory and non-statutory provisions have so far been made to implement the recommendations of the Report of the Committee on Administrative Tribunals and Inquiries.The Attorney-General: The Tribunals and Inquiries Act, 1958, implemented most of the recommendations made by the Committee. Effect was given to further recommendations by the Land Powers (Defence) Act, 1958, Sections 3 and 5 of the Agriculture Act, 1958, Part III of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1959, and the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act, 1959.Where land is acquired for defence purposes which are outside the scope of the Land Powers (Defence) Act, 1958, a procedure corresponding to the one prescribed by that Act is now followed in accordance with the undertaking given by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War in answer to a Question by my hon. Friend the Member for Bebington (Sir H. Oakshott) on 6th March, 1959. The Committee's recommendations about legal representation before tribunals have been implemented by several statutory instruments.Effect was given to a number of recommendations about statutory inquiries affecting land by circulars issued by my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Minister of Housing and Local Government, and they will be followed in due course by the rules of procedure to be made under the powers conferred by Section 33 of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1959. Other minor recommendations have been implemented by administrative action.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what is the total annual cost of maintaining staff employed by his Department in Spain; and whether he will give details of salaries and allowances for this staff.

The total cost to the Votes for which my right hon. and learned Friend is responsible of maintaining the staff of Her Majesty's Embassy in Madrid and of Consular posts in Spain is approximately £175,680 per annum. Of this, £111,777 is attributable to salaries and £63,903 is attributable to frais de représentation and foreign and rent allowances.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the number of staff employed by the British Embassy in Spain, together with details of the precise duties performed by this staff.

One hundred and eight staff of all grades, paid from the Votes for which my right hon. and learned Friend is responsible, are employed at Her Majesty's Embassy in Madrid. Of these, 31 are United Kingdom based. Of these 31, five are engaged under Her Majesty's Ambassador on work which may be described as political in the narrower sense, six are engaged on commercial work, six on consular and visa work, and two on information work. The remainder are engaged on administrative, clerical and typing duties and communications. Of the 77 locally-engaged staff, 37 are engaged on clerical and administrative duties: the remainder are drivers, messengers, cleaners, etc.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the number of staff employed by the British Consulate in Bilbao, together with details of the precise duties performed by this staff.

Twelve staff paid from the Votes for which my right hon. and learned Friend is responsible are employed in Her Majesty's Consulate at Bilbao. Of these Her Majesty's Consul and his Personal Assistant are United Kingdom based. Of the ten locally-engaged staff, one is engaged on commercial work, one on general Consular work and four on clerical and administrative duties. The remainder are drivers, messengers and cleaners.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will make a further statement about aid for Agadir.

Her Majesty's Government have decided to make available a further sum of £10,000 for the relief of the victims of the Agadir disaster. This is in addition to the sum of £10,000 to which my right hon. Friend referred in his reply to the hon. Member for Coventry, North (Mr. Edelman) on 2nd March. The money will be devoted mainly to the provision of food and of prefabricated huts which will be erected by the crew of H.M.S. "Tyne" now at Agadir. Considerable supplies of blankets, tents, medical and other essential items have already been landed by the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.Parliament will be asked in due course to vote the money by means of a supplementary estimate to the Foreign Office Grants and Services Vote. In the meantime, an advance is being obtained from the Civil Contingencies Fund.

asked the Minister of Health, as representing the Minister for Science, what are the radioactive elements present in radioactive particles of measurable size found in fall-out in Great Britain.

The radioactive elements present in these particles, as in all fall-out particles, are principally those arising from fission products such as, for example, Strontium 90, Caesium 137, Zirconium 95 and Niobium 95; and also certain radioactive elements produced in nearby materials during the explosion or present in the particular nuclear device, such as plutonium.