asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will send a fishery expert to Malta to examine the position of the fishing industry, to suggest ways of improving it, and to recommend how assistance can be given to fishermen to purchase better and larger vessels.

As I informed the hon. Member in reply to his supplementary question on 8th December, my fisheries adviser will be visiting Malta next month to look into the position.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies if he will instruct the Governor of Hong Kong to appoint a new Salaries Commission, including representatives of organisations of women civil servants, to consider the application of the principle of equal pay in the Government Service in Hong Kong.

No.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what further discussions he has had with West Indian Federal authorities in respect of migration from the West Indies to the United Kingdom and the reasons for the substantial increase of immigrants this year compared with the previous year; by what means these immigrants make the journey to this country; if Federal representatives make arrangements to meet them on their arrival; into what areas they have mostly gone; and to what extent new arrivals soon find employment.

I maintain close touch with the Federal and Unit Governments of the West Indies. The main reason for this year's increase in immigration is probably that West Indians already here have written home encouragingly about employment and general conditions of life in this country, since new arrivals have so far been finding jobs fairly easily. I have, however, impressed upon all West Indian Governments that the ability of the United Kingdom to absorb unskilled immigrant labour is not unlimited. Immigrants come by sea and air and are met by officers of the Commissioner for the West Indies. They tend to settle chiefly in London and large industrial towns in the Midlands and the north of England.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is satisfied with the progress being made in the Aden Federation; what further developments have taken place recently; whether transport of passengers and goods is now passing without hindrance between Aden and the Yemen; and what disturbances have taken place in Aden or the Federation during the past six months.

Yes. The Federal Government continues to organise its administration and develop its authority. Traffic with the Yemen passes without hindrance. Conditions have been peaceful, apart from a few minor incidents.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what nations are members of the International Whaling Commission; what was the amount of their subscriptions for the years 1959–60 and 1960–61; and what action is being taken by the commission to bring about the use of humane methods in whaling.

Seventeen countries are members of the International Whaling Commission. I am circulating the details below. Each country's subscription was £200 in 1959–60 and will be £250 in 1960–61. The Commission consider that the development of the electric harpoon offers the best prospect of killing whales more humanely and they have asked British and Norwegian companies to discuss further experimental work.The following nations are members of the International Whaling Commission:Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Sweden, Union of South Africa, U.S.S.R., U.S.A.. and the United Kingdom.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much money has been spent by his Department on research into fowl pest during the last 12 months; and how much has been paid out in compensation as a result of fowl pest during the same period.

It is not possible to assess the cost of research into fowl pest separately from other similar activities at the Department's Veterinary Laboratories and elsewhere. During the year ended 30th November, 1960, approximately £4·1 million has been incurred in compensation of which over a quarter was paid out as a result of outbreaks in December, 1959.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he is satisfied with the policy of slaughter for fowl pest, in view of the changed conditions in the poultry industry in recent years; and if he will make a statement.

This policy is at present being reviewed by a Committee appointed by my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State for Scotland and my predecessor.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much money has been spent by his Department on research into foot-and-mouth disease during the last financial year; and how the amount compares with the 1955 financial year.

In the financial year 1960, approximately £290,000 was spent on research into foot-and-mouth disease at the Research Institute at Pirbright, Surrey, which is financed through the Agricultural Research Council. This compares with £104,000 in 1955.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what has been the total cost of his Department's factory at Aberdeen, which has been engaged in the manufacture of dehydrated foods, from the time of its erection to its recent closure; and how much of this cost has been recovered by way of payment for the benefit of the expert knowledge of production techniques accumulated at this factory and given to Governments of other countries.

Total expenditure on the Aberdeen Research Establishment and Experimental Factory from its opening in 1948 to 31st October, 1960 (the latest date for which figures are available) has amounted to £816,865. The establishment is due to close at the end of March, 1961. No charge has been made for information about the results of the developmental and research work. This has been made freely available in accordance with the usual practice in Government research organisations.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in view of the proposed further increase in the price of bread, what steps he proposes to take to control the price.

None.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will call the beef breed societies together to meet him to discuss suitable tests to see which beef breeds in this country are suitable for crossing with dairy herds for beef production, and to consider the desirability of agreeing standards for these tests; and what help he is prepared to offer the societies.

I will certainly consider my hon. Friend's suggestion but, as he knows, this is a very complicated subject and, before standards for tests could be laid down, there are many questions which have to be resolved. I will gladly look at any proposals on this which the National Cattle Breeders' Association wish to put to me.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has now completed his consultations with the local authorities' organisations on the future of common land; and if he will make a statement.

Good progress is being made with the discussions referred to in the reply given on 26th July last to my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Sir A. Hurd), but my right hon. Friend is not yet in a position to make a statement.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state in detail why he refused to approve a grant to the firm of Canvas Products, Limited, Tipton, Staffordshire, which sought his assistance and approval to move to Aberdeen; and if he will now reconsider his decision and give them the grant and assistance they seek.

In the absence of a recommendation from the Board of Trade Advisory Committee, I have no powers to offer assistance. But it is open to the firm to ask the Advisory Committee to reconsider their decision if there are changed circumstances or new facts of which the Committee were not aware when this application was rejected five months ago.

asked the President of the Board of Trade what are the main British tariffs against industrial goods which are two to three times greater than American tariffs against British goods; if he will negotiate for the reduction of British tariffs in order to prevent an increase in American tariffs, and so increase world trade; and if he will make a statement.

The principal industrial goods on which United Kingdom tariffs are two times or more greater than the United States tariff on the same goods, are cars, motor-cycles, cameras, radio valves and some optical instruments. There are similar differences on the United States side over a range of goods of interest to this country.It is our intention to negotiate with the U.S.A. for further reductions in tariffs in the present G.A.T.T. Conference early in the new year.

asked the President of the Board of Trade what communications he has received from the hon. Member for Swindon about the employment situation in the Swindon area; what reply he has sent; and what further steps he now proposes to take to deal with this matter.

The hon. Member forwarded a resolution passed at a meeting of trade unionists in Swindon which raised a number of specific points affecting several Departments. A full reply has been sent to the hon. Member and I do not consider that there are any further steps which I could take at the present time.

asked the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on his policy with regard to the resolution accepted by the Western European Union inviting him to participate in talks with Prime Ministers of the Six.

As I told the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Bellenger) on 6th December, I have received no invitation to participate in any such meeting. The resolution of the Assembly of Western European Union has been forwarded to the Council of Western European Union for their consideration and also to the Governments concerned.

asked the Prime Minister whether he will inform Dr. Adenauer that Her Majesty's Government will not agree to the granting of bases, training facilities, and barrack room accommodation to West German troops.

No

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is aware that brewers and distillers are devoting £40 million per annum to advertising revenue for the purpose largely of inducing young persons to become habitual consumers; and if, in the interests of national economy and sobriety, he will introduce fiscal measures to control this expenditure.

No.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his attention has been drawn to the urgent need of the British School of Archaeology at Athens to secure help for the construction of a stratigraphical museum at Knossos, in view of the particular responsibilities of the school in the matter of the preservation and availability of the collection of pottery originating from the excavations by the late Sir Arthur Evans; and whether he will increase the grant to the British Academy to achieve this end.

Representations on this subject have recently been received in the Treasury. I will consider them in conjunction with the British Academy who have undertaken the responsibility for distributing the total Government subvention covering such purposes.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, since the American Treasury refuse to increase substantially interest rates because this would precipitate a recession, why Her Majesty's Government still maintains a relatively higher Bank Rate; whether he is satisfied that the present high rate will not help cause a slump in this country; and if he will make a statement.

As to the considerations which determine the level of Bank Rate in this country, I have nothing to add to what my right hon. Friend said in reply to my hon. Friend on 22nd November. I do not believe that there is any danger in present circumstances of a 5 per cent. bank rate helping to cause a slump.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will consider means of levying a tax on or licensing the installation of fruit-machines; and if he will make a statement.

These machines are already liable to Purchase Tax at 25 per cent. of the wholesale value.

asked the Secretary to the Treasury if he will set out in tabular form the gross investment on dwellings as a percentage of total fixed capital formation for the years 1938, 1948, 1958, and on the latest available date.

The figures are as follows:

GROSS INVESTMENT IN DWELLINGS AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL FIXED CAPITAL FORMATION AT HOME
per cent.
1938	1948	1958	1960 1st half
27	23	16	18

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what reason aliens resident in the United Kingdom are required to fill up Embarkation Card 1B29A (Aliens Order, 1953) in this country whenever they leave London Airport for temporary visits abroad;(2) what procedure is adopted to check the information obtained on Embarkation Card 1B29A from outgoing aliens leaving London Airport; what is the number of personnel involved in this work; and what is the total annual cost.

The completion of embarkation cards, which is a requirement of the Aliens Order, and their association with the corresponding landing cards, are an important part of our system of aliens control. It would not be practicable to exempt resident aliens from the requirement. At the port of departure the card is checked by the immigration officer against the alien's passport or travel document. Dealing with embarkation cards is part of the duties of the staff employed at London Airport and in the Aliens Department, and it is not practicable to assess the cost.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware of public concern about the sale in shops of throwing knives; and, in view of the increase in crimes of violence, whether he will take powers to prevent their sale.

I see some difficulty in contemplating the introduction of further legislation dealing with particular kinds of knife.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is aware that air-raid shelters built 20 years ago still exist in towns and cities, and that they are both an eye-sore and dangerous to the general health of the people in the neighbourhood where they exist; and if he will take steps in consultation with local authorities to arrange for their removal as quickly as possible.

It remains the policy of the Government to preserve sound air-raid shelters as far as possible. If, however, a shelter is certified to be dangerous to health or there are other compelling grounds, I am always prepared to consider its removal.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many aliens were registered in The Hartlepools at the last available date; and if he will give a breakdown by countries.

The total is 168. I am writing to my hon. and gallant Friend to give him the further details for which he asks.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that prison medical officers lacking a recognised psychiatric diploma are regularly submitting reports on the santity of accused persons to the courts; and what steps he is taking to increase the number of prison medical officers who hold a diploma in psychological medicine.

Yes. Few prison medical officers who submit reports to court on the mental condition of inmates possess a recognised psychiatric diploma, though all have experience in the diagnosis of mental disorder and the majority are approved by local health authorities for the purposes of Section 28 of the Mental Health Act, 1959. In recruiting prison medical officers, weight is given to the possession of a diploma in psychological medicine, and encouragement is given to medical officers in post to take the diploma wherever possible.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that persons in custody charged with murder are being compelled to submit to psychiatric examinations by prison medical officers, and that the facts so obtained are supplied to the Director of Public Prosecutions; and whether he will give instructions that no psychiatric examination of an accused person charged with murder shall take place, and no report be given to the Director of Public Prosecutions, except with the consent of the accused or their legal advisers.

It has for long been the established practice for a report on the mental condition of any prisoner charged with murder to be furnished by the prison medical officer to the court through the Director of Public Prosecutions, who supplies a copy to the defence. The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment approved this practice, but recommended that such prisoners should in future be examined by an independent psychiatrist of standing as well as by an experienced member of the prison medical service. The Government accepted this recommendation. I see no reason to disturb the existing arrangements, which have been generally accepted as being necessary and desirable in the interests of justice.

asked the Secretary of Stat for the Home Department how many drivers have been prosecuted for exceeding the speed limit in Whitton Avenue, on the boundary between Wembley and Ealing, in the last three months.

I am informed by the Commissioner of Police that during the three months ended 30th November, 1960, 60 cases of exceeding the speed limit in this road were reported. Proceedings have been instituted in twenty-eight of these cases, and thirty cases are awaiting a decision on the question of prosecution.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the net influx of immigrants into the United Kingdom from the Republic of Eire, India, Pakistan, and Malta, respectively, for the 10 months ended 31st October, 1960, as compared with the similar period in 1959.

The estimated net inward movement from India and Pakistan during the first ten months of 1959 was 2,750 and 1,000 respectively; and for the first ten months of 1960, 4,100 and 1,300, respectively. In the case of Malta there was an estimated net outward movement of 300 in the former period and 1,200 in the latter. No figures are available in respect of the Irish Republic.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions were made under the Pet Animals Act, 1951, in 1959, and 1960 to date.

The number of prosecutions under the Pet Animals Act, 1951, shown in the police returns for 1959 is 2. The provisional figure for the first six months of 1960 is 2.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will take early steps to give effect to Section 18 (2) of the Legal Aid and Advice Act, 1949, so as to extend the scope of legal aid in cases coming before magistrates' courts and quarter sessions.

This matter is under consideration.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if the selection team shortly to proceed to Europe to interview refugees for admittance to the United Kingdom is to be precluded from considering refugees who were not accepted on the occasion of the earlier mission.

Refugees who were seen by the previous mission, and whose applications were rejected because they did not satisfy the criteria set out in reply to the hon. Member's Question on 10th March, will not be interviewed again unless there has been a material change in their circumstances. Refugees who failed to appear for interview before the earlier mission will, however, be considered if their names are included on the lists recently submitted from Germany.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what instructions he gives to local fire brigades with regard to providing the public with the means of sending alarms in case of fires.

None. This is not a matter in which I could give instructions to fire authorities.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements he made with the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, in their recent talks on the unemployment problems, regarding future communications between the two Governments.

There is constant consultation between the two Governments and we agreed that no fresh arrangements are necessary.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state the number of licensed premises and club premises, respectively, in the administrative counties and county

—					Premises open at 30th June, 1960		Premises opened during the five years ended 30th June, 1960		Premises closed during the five years ended 30th June, 1960
					Licensed premises	Registered clubs	Licensed premises	Registered clubs	Licensed premises	Registered clubs
Anglesey		…	…	…	110	32	6	16	7	5
Breconshire		…	…	…	238	32	6	5	14	1
Caernarvonshire			…	…	280	83	8	31	9	10
Cardiganshire		…	…	…	170	18	2	7	3	2
Carmarthenshire			…	…	569	61	6	17	21	5
Denbighshire		…	…	…	391	75	10	22	21	8
Flintshire		…	…	…	333	83	13	22	12	9
Glamorganshire			…	…	1,191	410	38	64	18	8
Merionethshire			…	…	90	13	7	10	2	9
Monmouthshire			…	…	733	228	17	32	37	13
Montgomeryshire			…	…	164	17	4	6	7	1
Pembrokeshire			…	…	317	65	17	18	6	9
Radnorshire		…	…	…	80	10	1	4	1	3
Total Administrative Counties			…	…	4,666	1,127	135	254	158	83
Cardiff	…	…	…	…	298	107	22	40	11	11
Merthyr Tydfil		…	…	…	151	32	2	5	9	3
Newport		…	…	…	154	72	10	9	7	6
Swansea		…	…	…	265	62	17	18	15	7
Total County Boroughs					868	273	51	72	42	27
GRAND TOTALS			…	…	5,534	1,400	186	326	200	110

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will introduce legislation to prohibit the sale of rabbits in the United Kingdom.

No.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many murders are known to the police for the 11 months of 1960 to date; and what were the corresponding figures for each of the previous nine years, respectively.

The numbers of licensed premises (including off licences) and registered clubs open at 30th June, 1960 (the latest date for which figures are available) and the numbers opened and closed during the preceding five years are given in the table below:

The number of offences of murder known to the police is recorded in the Criminal Statistics on the basis of calendar years, and it is impossible to provide statistics on a strictly comparable basis for periods of 11 months. The following are the numbers of murders known to the police in each of the calendar years 1951 to 1959:

Year	Number
1951	132
1952	146
1953	143
1954	146
1955	135
1956	156
1957	166
1958	137
1959	149

These are the numbers of offences originally recorded by the police as murder, less those in which, up to the end of the calendar year, the police found that no murder had been committed, and those disposed of by the courts as offences other than murder.The numbers of murders recorded as known to the police during the first 11 months of 1960, and not so far decided not to be murders, is 142. Some of these may be removed from the statistics before the final figure of offences known to the police in 1960 is computed.The figures for 1957 and subsequent years are not directly comparable with those for earlier years because the Homicide Act, 1957, which came into operation on 21st March, 1957, altered the definition of murder and provided that, in certain circumstances, persons who would have been found guilty of murder before the Act came into operation might in future be found guilty of manslaughter.

asked the Minister of Education if he will consider excluding from the quota any married woman teacher recruited back into the profession by a local education authority, for the first year of her return.

The precise suggestion made by the hon. Member is not free from difficulty; but I am about to make changes in the quota arrangements, on these lines, to help authorities to encourage the return of more qualified married women teachers to the schools.

asked the Minister of Education if he will introduce a measure whereby a teacher's war service and National Service which does not at present rank as pensionable, shall be made pensionable on payment by the teacher of the necessary contributions.

No. It is an established principle of public service pension schemes that account should be taken of war or National Service only when this occurs after a person has entered pensionable civil employment. This principle has already been stretched to accommodate teachers whose training was interrupted by war service.

asked the Minister of Education what representations he has received from the teaching profession consequent on the recently announced proposals for increased pay for the police; and what reply he has sent.

Such representations as I have received welcome the rise in police pay and urge that teachers' salaries should be increased immediately. Some have requested a Royal Commission on teachers' pay. I am replying that in my view the Burnham machinery is adequate for consideration of these matters.

asked the Minister of Education what scholarship facilities are available at the Leicester Training College as an inducement for training youth leaders.

Grants for students attending the Leicester Training College are on the same lines as those available to students at technical teacher training colleges. I am sending the hon. Member a paper which sets out the arrangements in detail.

asked the Minister of Education how many men and women applicants, respectively, have applied for admission to teachers' training colleges in 1960; and what percentage of the applicants have secured admission for 1961.

About 8,200 men and 15,000 women applied for admission in 1960–61 to general and specialist house-craft and physical education colleges. Colleges will not begin to offer places for 1961–62 until the end of January next. The number of places offered to applicants who had previously been unsuccessful cannot be ascertained without a great deal of work.

asked the Minister of Education how many men and women students were admitted for training in general and specialist teacher training colleges in each of the five years up to and including 1960.

ADMISSION OF STUDENTS TO INITIAL COURSES OF TEACHER TRAINING IN GENERAL AND SPECIALIST COLLEGES AND CENTRES
—					September
					1956	1957	1958	1959	1960
General Colleges:
Men	…	…	…	…	2,821	3,159	3,617	4,455	5,002
Women	…	…	…	…	8,645	8,970	9,468	9,884	10,007
Housecraft Colleges:
Women	…	…	…	…	824	858	815	820	895
Physical Education Colleges:
Women	…	…	…	…	324	367	340	392	432
Technical Teacher Training Colleges:
Men	…	…	…	…	245	274	378	407	454
Women	…	…	…	…	95	88	81	97	103
Art Training Centres:
Men	…	…	…	…	153	177	155	188	200
Women	…	…	…	…	182	173	173	174	210
Total Men		…	…	…	3,219	3,610	4,150	5,050	5,656
Total Women		…	…	…	10,070	10,456	10,877	11,367	11,647
TOTAL MEN AND WOMEN				…	13,289	14,066	15,027	16,417	17,303

asked the Minister of Education what progress has been made by his Department in carrying out the recommendations of the Albemarle Report on Youth Clubs, and whether he will make a statement.

Considerable progress has been made in carrying out the recommendations which the Government accepted on the day the Report was published. In particular, I have announced youth service building programmes to the value of £3 million for starts in 1960–62 and £4 million in 196263, and have substantially increased the amount of grant to the national voluntary youth organisations. Grants for capital projects of local voluntary bodies have also been increased. Progress has been made in securing greater co-operation between local authorities and voluntary bodies. A national college for the training of youth leaders has been established at Leicester and will open in January. The Youth Service Development Council, set up last March, has met regularly.

The following table gives the information desired:

asked the Minister of Education whether he will state the sums approved for school building programmes of each local education authority for 1961–62 and 1962–63, respectively.

I am sending details to the hon. Member.

asked the Minister of Education what further progress has been made in his discussions with local authorities about the future of the library service in the light of the Roberts Report; and what action he now intends to take in the matter.

The Government's intention is that the Minister of Education shoulld have a general responsibility for the oversight of the public library service, with power to appoint advisory councils for both England and Wales, and that public library authorities should be required to discharge a statutory duty to provide an efficient service. As I stated on 7th November, however, further study of certain problems is needed before legislation can be drafted. Accordingly, I propose after consulting the local authorities' associations and library interests concerned, to appoint two small working parties: one to examine further, from a technical point of view, the basic requirements for an efficient service, the other, to study more closely the problems of inter-library co-operation.

asked the Minister of Education, as representing the Minister for Science, whether he will circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT his Department's diary of events, connected with the publication of the Report of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, on the research and development requirements of the shipbuilding and marine engineering industries from 4th February, 1960.

I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to her by my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport on 13th December.

asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations what protest he has made to the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland about their declaration that Mr. James Sholto Douglas, a United Kingdom citizen, is a prohibited immigrant.

I understand from the Federal Government that the person in question has not been declared a prohibited immigrant.

asked the Minister of Health if he will give an analysis of the total annual cost of the Dental Estimates Board.

The analysis is as follows:

	£
Salaries and Wages	722,000
Maintenance of buildings	10,000
Furniture and equipment	4,000
Stationery, printing and postage	31,000
Miscellaneous	8,000
Total	775,000

asked the Minister of Health how many dental estimate forms and how many dental models are received by the Dental Estimates Board each working day; and how many of these estimates are for treatment requiring prior approval.

On average 54,000 new dental estimate forms and 560 dental models. About 7,000 of the estimates are for treatment requiring prior approval.

asked the Minister of Health whether he will make a statement on the case relating to a dentist in Hinckley and a National Health Service patient, as described in correspondence sent to him by the hon. Member for Bosworth.

I have written to the hon. Member in answer to his letter of 6th December about this case.

asked the Minister of Health whether he will make a statement on the renewal of the voluntary scheme for the regulation of drug prices.

Yes. Agreement has been reached with the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry on a number of modifications to the scheme and it is to be renewed, as modified, until 30th June, 1964. The main modifications, all of which should result in further restraint on prices, are as follows:

(i) Provision is made for the prices of some widely-used patented drugs to be negotiated directly.

(ii) The percentage of sales that must be exported if the export price is to be the maximum price is increased from 20 to 25.

(iii) The formula which fixes the maximum price for products which do not satisfy the export criterion and for which there are no exact unbranded equivalents, is revised so as to result in lower maxima.

(iv) The definition of new drugs, which are free from control during their first three years, is so revised as to exclude products which manifestly owe nothing to fresh research.

I should like to acknowledge the co-operation of the Association in the discussions that have led to agreement on these modifications.

asked the Minister of Labour if he will state the number of labour attachés in posts overseas on a convenient date in 1945, and for each succeeding year up to 1960.

The number of Labour Attachés in post in December of each year from 1945 to 1960 was as follows:

1945–8	1953–17
1946–14	1954–18
1947–19	1955–19
1948–21	1956–19
1949–21	1957–18
1950–22	1958–18
1951–21	1959–19
1952–19	1960–18

asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance what would have been the income to the National Insurance Fund in the year 1958–59 based on the wages, salaries, and forces pay of £12,949 million, and £1,893 million for the self-employed, if there had been a level rate contribution up to £9 income as in the 1960 Act and a 4 per cent. contribution by insured persons above £9 income with a 5½ per cent. contribution by employers, the self-employed paying 7 per cent. on their income; what would have been the approximate numbers paying the level rate in that year; and what would have been the Exchequer supplement if the proposal of the 1960 Act had then been in force.

I hope the hon. Gentlemen will forgive me if I do not use the Government machine for the purpose of attempting to make a series of elaborate calculations based on a series of highly improbable hypotheses.

asked the Minister of Transport if he will state the number of road accidents in Wales for each of the last five years; and in how many of them commercial vehicles were involved.

I regret that the information asked for is not available; the number of casualties in road accidents in Wales and Monmouthshire in the last five years is shown in the table below.

CASUALTIES IN ROAD ACCIDENTS IN WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE
	Fatal Casualties	Seriously injured	Slightly injured	Total
1955	251	3,389	8,454	12,094
1956	292	3,230	8,688	12,210
1957	283	3,670	8,859	12,812
1958	305	3,670	9,565	13,540
1959	289	4,547	9,838	14,674

asked the Lord Privy Seal what resolutions on South-West Africa came before the General Assembly of the United Nations which were accepted and rejected; for which resolutions the British delegate voted: which delegates voted in favour and against each, respectively; and which abstained.

Six resolutions have been adopted in the Trusteeship Committee but have not yet been put to the vote in plenary session. In the Committee the United Kingdom Delegates voted for one resolution and abstained on five. As the answer to the last part of the Question is rather long, I am putting in the Library the texts of the resolutions with an account of the voting on each.