asked the President of the Board of Trade what other publicity material, apart from "Make it in Britain," has been distributed by the Central Office of Information to encourage firms abroad to set up factories in Great Britain.

Items of current interest and special articles in response to specific requests are provided to overseas posts on this subject as part of the overseas information services.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give consideration to the production of a new booklet by the Central Office of Information publicising to manufacturers overseas the encouragement given by the Government to firms to set up factories in Great Britain where labour is plentiful and good sites are available.

Such a booklet is being printed and is expected to be ready next month.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware of the anxiety in Scotland about the need for further employment opportunities, and that this anxiety is increased by developments in the European Free Trade Area; and whether he will consult with the publicly-owned industries and research establishments with a view to the extension of their activities in Scotland.

I am aware of the need for further industrial development in Scotland, and the Board of Trade will continue to impress this on publicly-owned industries and research establishments.

asked the President of the Board of Trade how many new jobs he now estimates will be provided in Scotland in 1960; and how many jobs are expected to be lost as a result of redundancy in the same year.

As far as at present can be estimated from industrial development certificates which have been issued, over 7,000 new jobs will be provided in Scotland in 1960. I am unable to give any estimate of redundancies, but I hope these will be small.

asked the President of the Board of Trade when he expects to be in a position to announce the 1960 level of import quotas for Polish bacon.

The arrangements to be made for the import of Polish bacon after 30th June this year will be discussed at the trade negotiations with Poland which, we hope, to resume within the next few weeks. The arrangements will be announced when the negotiations have been completed.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement giving details of the new trade agreement entered into recently between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland.

I refer the hon. and learned Gentleman to the statement which was made by my hon. Friend on 13th April in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Marten).

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many detainees are still held without trial under the Nyasaland Emergency Regulations; and when he proposes to release them and end the state of emergency.

121. As regards their release, I have nothing to add to my statement on 14th April. The emergency will be brought to an end when the Governor considers that public safety no longer requires it.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how many Nyasaland students are studying overseas.

29; of these, 18 are studying in the United Kingdom, five in the U.S.A., and six in India. In addition, 19 students are taking degree courses at university institutions in Africa.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies to what terms of imprisonment Frank Chitambala, Secretary-General of the United National Independence Party of Northern Rhodesia, Sykes Ndilila, Information Secretary, Diminico Mwansa, Propaganda Secretary, and George Nsunge, Secretary for the Lusaka Constituency, have been sentenced on charges of sedition, publishing seditious documents, and possessing seditious publications; and if he will give particulars of their offences, including the documents and publications which they published or possessed.

They were each sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on various charges of seditious intention and possession and publication of seditious documents. As the particulars of their offences are detailed, a fuller reply is as follows:The Governor has informed me that the four men were tried on the following charges:

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he is now in a position to state what constitutional changes are proposed in Malta to re-establish a democratic legislature and to provide for the right of self-determination.

I do not expect to be ready for some considerable time to add to the Answer I gave to the hon Member on 14th April.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the cost of a single place at the Royal Technical College, Nairobi, with full residential accommodation and without accommodation, respectively; and how many students at the college, in the present academic year, come from Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, and Uganda, respectively.

pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th April, 1960; Vol. 621, c. 56], supplied the following additional information:The cost of a single place at the Royal Technical College with full accommodation is £1,135. The cost without full accommodation, based on 235 full residents and 55 non-residents, is £961.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the value, annually, of the financial contributions made to the Royal Technical College, Nairobi, respectively, from the United Kingdom, the Governments of Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar, the local ratepayers, and any other source.

pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 6th April, 1960; Vol. 621, c. 56], supplied the following information:Annual contributions to the recurrent expenditure of the Royal Technical College (showing bursaries to students separately), for the financial year 1959–60 are as follows:

(i) Government contributions
	£
United Kingdom	Nil
Kenya	147,491
Uganda	77,610
Tanganyika	40,794
Zanzibar	3,000
	268,895
(ii) Bursaries.
(Central Governments)
Kenya	20,498
Uganda	7,933
Tanganyika	4,573
Zanzibar	1,268
(Local Governments)
Uganda	5,303
Private	400
	39,975
(iii) Other incomes including rents, interest and part time fees	7,890
(iv) Assessed contributions from students' families	5,108
Total	£321,868

Contributions towards capital expenditure are not made on an annual basis but the sum of £800,000 has been allocated provisionally from CD. & W. funds for capital expenditure at the College during the currency of the CD. & W. Act.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the outcome of the Law of the Sea Conference at Geneva.

I would refer the hon. Member to the statement which I made to the House this afternoon.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is yet able to announce the intentions of Her Majesty's Government with regard to the recommendations of the Peppiatt Committee.

Study of the Committee's recommendations is proceeding with all speed and I shall make a statement as soon as possible.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what official expenditure he proposes to incur in connection with the Royal wedding on 6th May.

None. The cost of the policing arrangements will fall on the Metropolitan Police Fund and qualify for the normal 50 per cent. Exchequer grant. The cost cannot be precisely calculated in advance.

asked the Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations what progress has been made by the High Commissioner in South Africa in securing the immediate release of Miss Stanton from prison.

I would refer my hon. Friend to the Answer given today by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to the hon. Member for Barking (Mr. Driberg) and the right hon. Member for Middlesbrough, East (Mr. Marquand).

asked the Minister of State for Commonwealth Relations whether he will make a further statement about the United Kingdom's gift to Ghana to commemorate the latter's independence.

Yes. After consultation with the Ghana authorities, it was agreed that the United Kingdom Government gift should be a Cabinet table and other furniture instead of a piece of sculpture. The table, chairs and other items—which are replicas of the furniture in the Cabinet Room at No. 10—have now been completed under the direction of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Works.In case hon. Members should wish to see the gift, it will be on display in the Upper Waiting Hall on 9th and 10th May, before despatch to Ghana. I will arrange in due course for a set of photographs of this Government gift to be placed in the Library of the House.

Local Education Authority			Year (January)		Number of pupils in secondary schools and senior classes in all-age schools	Percentage of 13 year old pupils for whom the authority is responsible attending grammar schools*
Lancashire	…	…	1956	…	97,962	21·9
			1957	…	102,529	21·3
			1958	…	107,334	20·9
			1959 (provisional)	…	118,947	21·5
Bolton	…	…	1956	…	7,501	15·9
			1957	…	7,792	16·8
			1958	…	8,075	19·5
			1959 (provisional)	…	9,116	20·1
Manchester	…	…	1956	…	35,010	16·1
			1957	…	36,083	15·7
			1958	…	37,195	15·7
			1959 (provisional)	…	41,181	16·6
* This does not include pupils attending technical schools. In January, 1958, these represented over 10 per cent. of the age group in Bolton and Manchester, and four per cent. in Lancashire.

asked the Minister of Education the number of students given grants for university degree courses, and the average annual value of such grants, by the educational authorities of Bolton, Manchester, and Lancashire, respectively, for the years 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58 and 1958–59.

Year			Bolton		Manchester		Lancashire
			Awards taken up	Average value	Awards taken up	Average value	Awards taken up	Average value
				£		£		£
1955–56	…	…	58	250	220	194	764	221
1956–57	…	…	63	234	214	179	814	217
1957–58	…	…	55	229	217	204	811	223
1958–59	…	…	49	278	204	248	904	263

asked the Minister of Education what is the policy of his Department with regard to central school

asked the Minister of Education if he will give the total number of secondary school places, and the percentage of grammar school places, in the educational authorities of Bolton, Manchester, and Lancashire, respectively, for the years 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, and 1958–59.

The answer is as follows:

The following table gives the numbers of university awards made by these local education authorities and taken up in the years named, with the average annual value of the awards:kitchens as opposed to individual kitchens.

Individual kitchens are provided wherever practicable. No new central kitchens are being built.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received from the Industrial Welfare Society and other bodies regarding the advantages of transferring the August Bank Holiday to a later date in the year; and what reply he has given.

I have seen two memoranda by the Society. As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade has recently appointed an official committee to consider what action the Government can take to encourage the extension of the summer holiday season. The question of moving the August Bank Holiday to a later date in the year is one of the possibilities which this committee is considering and the views of interested organisations will be welcomed.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in respect of the financial year ended 5th April, 1960, how many assessments were raised under Income Tax Schedule A for owner-occupiers of domestic hereditaments; how many maintenance relief claims were submitted; and what were the respective aggregate amounts of assessments and maintenance relief claims, correct to the nearest £1,000,000.

It is estimated that there are about 6 million owner-occupiers of dwellings, of whom nearly 600,000 submitted maintenance claims in 1959–60: some of those claims related to more than one year of claim.The total tax attributable to owner-occupiers, including Surtax and including Income Tax collected indirectly by restricting the P.A.Y.E. coding, is estimated at £45 million; this is the net figure after allowing about £10 million maintenance relief.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer the aggregate revenue derived from Purchase Tax for the year ended 5th April, 1960, compared with his 1959 Budget estimate; and what sum he expects to collect from Purchase Tax during the year ending 5th April, 1961.

I would refer my hon. Friend to Table XII of the Financial Statement (1960–61).

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he now proposes to introduce new restrictions on bank credit or hire-purchase trading.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what restrictions he has now decided to impose on hire-purchase transactions.

My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a statement on this and related matters after Questions today.

asked the Minister of Aviation if he will give an assurance that Her Majesty's Government will seek the consent of the House before undertaking any further expenditure on the Blue Streak missile as a space launching vehicle.

We are at present examining with the firms concerned the cost and implications of adapting Blue Streak for use as a launcher for space satellites. The Government will consider the position in the light of that information, after which a further statement will be made to the House.

asked the Minister of Labour whether, in order to provide continuity for the valuable reports issued by the former National Advisory Committee on the Employment of Older Men and Women, he will consult the other Government Departments concerned with regard to the publication of a Report by the Inter-departmental Committee on the Employment of Older Workers.

The task of the Interdepartmental Committee is to encourage research into the employment problems of older workers and to publicise the results. Reports on the lines of those made by the National Advisory Committee would not be appropriate, but at the request of the Ministry of Labour, a booklet reviewing recent research has been prepared by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.This booklet, which was approved by the Committee, has just been published under the title

asked the Minister of Transport what number and percentage of the motor car accidents, of which the police took note during the Easter weekend, were found to be due to the driver of either car being under the influence of alcoholic liquor.

Detailed reports of the accidents at Easter have not yet been received. When the detailed police reports have been received and collated I will write to the hon. and learned Member.

asked the Minister of Transport what arrangements have been made for further talks on shipping matters of mutual interest to the Governments of the United States of America and the European countries, as envisaged in the communiqué issued after the informal inter-Governmental talks held in Washington in June of last year.

It has been agreed that informal and confidential discussions on shipping matters will be arranged in Washington at expert level at the request of one or more of the participating nations. Should any matters arise from the talks which require review at a higher level, ad hoc discussion at ambassadors' level with appropriate officials of the United States Government will be arranged at the request of one or more of the ambassadors concerned. Similar discussions at Cabinet Minister level may also be arranged on such occasions as the nature and importance of the problems to be discussed may warrant.I expect a meeting at expert level to take place early in May.

asked the Minister of Transport when he expects to seek supplementary provision in respect of the British Transport Commission's estimated deficit in 1960–61; and what action he is taking in the meantime.

Before the Summer Recess a Supplementary Estimate will be presented for the purpose to which my hon. Friend refers. In the meantime, with the agreement of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, use is being made, when necessary, of the Civil Contingencies Fund.

asked the Secretary of State for War how many horses are on the establishment of the Army.

635.