asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance if he will publish figures showing what contributions under the graduated pension scheme are estimated to amount to in 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40 years' time; and what the benefits payable are estimated to total at these respective yearly intervals.

I would refer the hon. Member to Tables II and IV in the Appendix to the Government Actuary's report on the financial provisions of the National Insurance Bill, 1960 (Cmnd. 1197), which contains the latest available estimate.

asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance what advice he has received from the National Insurance Advisory Committee concerning the possibility of making some provision within the National Insurance Acts for women whose divorced husbands die whilst still liable to pay alimony.

None since 1956.

Thousand tons
—			Crude Steel Production (a)	Exports (a)	Percentage (2) of (1)	Pig Iron (b) Production	Exports	Percentage (5) of (4)
			(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
1955	…	…	19,791	3,363	17·0	2,280	51	2·2
1956	…	…	20,659	3,287	15·9	2,265	143	6·3
1957	…	…	21,699	3,929	18·1	2,074	129	6·2
1958	…	…	19,566	3,414	17·4	1,905	152	8·0
1959	…	…	20,186	3,729	18·5	1,640	158	9·6
1960	…	…	24,305	4,081	16·8	1,955	146	7·4
(a) In terms of ingot equivalent.
(b) Other than for steel making.

asked the Minister of Power if he is able to estimate the cost to the electrical generating industry of the increase in duty on hydrocarbon oils during the 12 months 1961–62.

asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance if he will give the total cost of all benefits paid out in each of the last three years in respect of unemployment in Scotland.

The cost was as follows:

£million
	1958	1959	1960
National Insurance unemployment benefit	8½	10	7½
National Assistance in respect of unemployment	3	4½	5½
Total	11½	14½	13

asked the Minister of Power what was the output in tons of iron and steel in Great Britain for the years 1955 to 1960; and what percentage of this output was exported.

The figures are as follows.

No. The cost to the electrical generating industry will depend on the amount of oil used, which in turn will be affected by the price at which the Central Electricity Generating Board is able to obtain its supplies.

asked the Minister of Aviation what steps are taken to en sure that the interests of individual pilots are safeguarded when licences to fly are withdrawn or refused on re-application on medical grounds.

An applicant refused a pilot's licence on medical grounds may ask for his case to be reconsidered and may submit medical opinion in his support. Such cases are reviewed by the Ministry's medical advisers and if necessary the applicant is invited before an aviation medical board.

asked the Minister of Aviation why, on the morning of 31st March at 11.30 a.m., at London Airport, an incoming Lufthansa aircraft was directed to land passengers on the far side of the apron, and a Trans Canada aircraft to do likewise nearly a mile from the Terminal Building, when there were four empty berths alongside the Terminal Building.

The Lufthansa aircraft was directed to the far side of the apron at the request of the airline operator.The Trans Canada Aircraft, a DC 8, was directed to a stand suitable for use by large jet aircraft.

asked the Minister of Aviation what pooling arrangements there are between British European Airways, the British Overseas Airways Corporation and foreign airlines.

Pooling arrangements with foreign airlines are commercial arrangements for which the managements of the Corporations are responsible.

asked the Minister of Aviation what is the cost of the petrol rebate for club flying; and what would be the cost of extending this rebate to flying schools and to Air Service Training, Limited, Hamble, respectively.

The cost of the petrol duty rebate for club flying in 1960–61 was £71,045. I have no estimate of the cost of extending the scheme to flying schools in general. If it were to be extended to the College of Air Training at Hamble, the cost, at its future full level of activity, is estimated at about £21,000 a year. The Government already make a substantial contribution towards the cost of the College.

asked the Minister of Aviation if, in the case of an associated flying club and school, he will authorise the granting of petrol rebate to students for flying in the school section of the organisation while qualifying for private pilot's licence and for flying after qualifying for commercial pilot's licence.

The petrol rebate is intended to assist club flying and is available for club members training in the normal way for private pilots' licences through their clubs. Assistance to flying schools is a different matter.

asked the Minister of Aviation what is the administrative cost of checking time-keeping records at associated flying clubs and schools to separate flying qualifying for petrol rebate from flying not qualifying for the rebate.

Such a check, being part of the normal inspection of club records, involves no extra cost.

asked the Minister of Health if he will give an estimate of what would be the additional cost to the services for which he is responsible if a payroll tax of 4s. per person were imposed for the 12 months from 1st May, 1961.

About £5 million (excluding local authority staff).

asked the Minister of Health bow many cases of leukaemia were included among the cases of cancer notified to the General Registry Office in each of the last 10 years.

Following are the figures:

CANCER REGISTRATIONS, ENGLAND AND WALES, 1948–1957
Year	Total new registrations (confirmed cases)	Cases of Leukaemia (included in previous column)
1948	50,919	553
1949	54,393	588
1950	55,147	697
1951	57,852	810
1952	62,565	919
1953	67,131	869
1954	66,005	948
1955	64,245	922
1956	72,654	1,121
1957	82,494	1,364

NOTES:

asked the Minister of Health if he will issue guidance to local health authorities defining the scope and limits of their responsibilities for community mental health services, indicating in particular that therapeutic services, such as the provision of psychiatric clinics and day hospitals, remain the function of hospital authorities; and if he will clearly define what constitutes therapeutic services in this context.

Detailed advice has been given to local health authorities on the extent of their responsibility for providing mental health services. I am not aware that anything further is needed, but if the hon. Member has any particular difficulty in mind, perhaps he would let me know.

asked the Minister of Health whether he will have a passenger seat included in all petrol-powered invalid cars.

No. These vehicles are not designed for more than one person.

asked the Minister of Health when Mr. Jolliffe, of Knole Street, Grangetown, Cardiff, who is nearly blind, may expect to be admitted as a patient to the eye ward of Cardiff Royal Infirmary; and whether, in view of the fact that people who see consultants privately get speedier admission to this ward, he will make a statement concerning the general delay in cases of this sort.

In 4 to 5 months; admission of patients, whether previously seen privately or not, depends on the relative urgency of the case; the additional beds recently opened at Lansdowne Hospital should reduce the waiting time.

asked the Minister of Health if he is aware that a resident of Cleethorpes, details of whom have been sent to him by the hon. Member for Louth, has been told she must wait two years before she can be admitted to hospital for an operation; how far this delay is general; What steps he is taking to reduce such waiting periods: and if he will make a statement.

This patient, who requires a minor operation on her finger, was told that she would normally have to wait about 18 months but might be admitted sooner if she could come at short notice. I have no national figure of the average delay for non-urgent orthopaedic surgery but where waiting lists are lengthening, I expect regional hospital boards to take account of this in preparing their building programmes.

asked the Minister of Health how many ophthalmic consultants were on the staff of the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board at the end of 1959; and how many there are today.

Twenty-six at both dates.

asked the Minister of Health at what prices hospitals are able to buy chlorothiazide, tetracycline and chloramphenicol from the Continent; how these prices compare with those charged by British manufacturers; and if the Continental and British drugs are of comparable quality.

Some hospitals have bought small quantities of these drugs at £5, £37 5s. and £27 per 1,000 tablets, respectively. These prices are approximately one-third lower than those charged by suppliers in this country. The drugs purchased are believed to be of comparable quality.

asked the Minister of Health what are the six sites he has in mind for the new St. Helen Hospital, Barnsley.

There have been six development plans. Four used the existing hospital site in different ways and the other two the site of "The Limes" as well.

asked the Minister of Health if he will give the proposed details of the three alternative plans for the new St. Helen Hospital, Barnsley, which were prepared by 4th February, 1960; and which one has been adopted.

One involved indefinite retention of the existing buildings, another the use of the present site only, and the third the use of the site of "The Limes" also. On the last part of the Question, I would refer the hon. Member to my reply to him on 24th April.

asked the Minister of Health (1) whether he will give an assurance that the St. Helen Hospital, Barnsley, extension will remain on the priority list as one of the major hospital projects to be centrally financed, as announced on 16th November, 1959; and whether he will speed up planning and acquisition of land in order to start building within the next 12 months;(2) if he will give the most recent estimate of the cost of preparing all the plans, old and new, for the new St. Helen Hospital, Barnsley;(3) if it is still his intention to build the extension of the St. Helen Hospital, Barnsley, on the site of the Limes Hostel; and when he hopes to acquire the site.

I would refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave him on 24th April. The additional land which I referred to is the site of "The Limes".

asked the Minister of Health what was the district valuer's preliminary estimate of the cost of acquiring "The Limes" site for the new St. Helen Hospital, Barnsley.

Estimates of this kind made by district valuers at the request of regional hospital boards are confidential.

asked the Minister of Health (1) if he will list the number of people waiting for operations, giving the separate figures for each type of operation, at the Barnsley Becket and St. Helen hospitals;(2) in view of the delay in building the new St. Helen Hospital, Barnsley, and the urgent need to reduce the large waiting list, what immediate steps he proposes to take to help the staff of Barnsley Becket and St. Helen Hospitals to successfully cope with the present waiting list.

Following are the figures at 31st March, 1961:

General Surgery	466
Gynaecology	410
Ear, Nose and Throat (except Tonsils and Adenoids)	302
Tonsils and Adenoids	421
Orthopaedic Surgery	196
Ophthalmology	148
	1,943

The corresponding figures at 31st March and 30th September, 1960, were 2,217 and 1,979. The possibility of reducing them further with the co-operation of other hospital authorities is being investigated.

asked the Minister of Health what is the estimated cost of the most recent scheme for the extension of the St. Helen Hospital, Barnsley.

Roughly £4 million.

asked the Minister of Health, in view of the fact that he put the new St. Helen Hospital, Barnsley, on the priority list in November, 1959, if it was with the permission of his Department that the regional hospital board allowed the architects to withdraw their services from this priority project.

My permission was not required.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he has yet held discussions with the National Farmers' Union to consider the effect on the horticultural industry of the proposed increase in fuel oil duty; and whether he will make a statement.

My right hon. Friend discussed this question with representatives of the National Farmers' Union last week. He has since received further representations from the union and is now considering these and the other representations he has received.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many applications from East Sussex under the Horticulture Improvement Scheme, 1960, have been approved; and what was the average gross cost.

By 31st March, 1961, 30 applications from East Sussex had been approved. The average cost of work covered by an approved application was £1,841.

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs why, in the case recently referred to the Lord Chancellor by the Council on Tribunals, Recommendation 83 of the Franks Report was over-ruled.

Had any new factual evidence come to light after the inquiry, it would have been submitted to the parties for their comments, but in this case it did not. As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said on 27th April in reply to the hon. Member for Widnes (Mr. MacColl), the Government have always taken the view that the term "factual evidence" does not cover technical or other advice given to a Minister by officials on the issues raised at the inquiry and on the weight to be attached to the evidence which was given there.

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will give an estimate of what would be the total cost to local authorities in England and Wales if a payroll tax of 4s. per person were imposed for the 12 months from 1st May, 1961.

About £16 million.

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what is the nature of the survey being carried out by the Central Office of Information in Wales with regard to the tourist industry in the Principality; and whether the conclusions and recommendations will be made available to Members of Parliament.

This survey which I have authorised, was asked for by the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire as a part of its investigation of the tourist industry. Its purpose is to collect detailed information about the reactions of holidaymakers to Wales and to assess the possibilities of increasing the tourist industry's contribution to the wellbeing of the country. I cannot of course commit the Council, but I have little doubt that, after the Council has had an opportunity to study the results of the survey, it will be very ready to make them available to all those who are interested in this important subject.

asked the Postmaster-General (1) what procedure he now follows in permitting the tapping of subscribers' telephones; who decides the duration; and whether his officials keep a record of any kind of the conversations overheard.(2) How many complaints he has received within the last 12 months about allegations of telephone tapping; and what has been the nature of his replies.

The procedure followed is that recommended in the Report of the Committee of Privy Councillors in Command Paper No. 283 of 1957, interceptions being made only on the express authority of a Secretary of State. Records of conversations overheard are not retained by Post Office officials.I have received no complaints during the past 12 months.

asked the Minister of Education whether he is now in a position to make a further announcement about the body which is to administer the Diploma in Art and Design, recommended in the First Report of the National Advisory Council on Art Education.

Yes. The following have accepted my invitation to serve as members of the National Council for Diplomas in Art and Design under the Chairmanship of Sir John Summerson:Professor R. W. Baker, A.R.C.A., Art Director, Worcester Royal Porcelain Company.Mr. Robin Darwin, C.B.E., Principal, Royal College of Art.Mr. James Fitton, R.A., Painter; Director of Advertising firm.Mr. C. H. Flurscheim, B.A., M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E., Director and Chief Electrical Engineer, Associated Electrical Industries (Manchester) Ltd.Professor R. Goodden, C.B.E., R.D.I., Professor of Silversmithing and Jewellery, Royal College of Art.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the details of the request which he has received from the Fire Brigades Union asking for an independent inquiry into the conditions of service and salaries of its members; and what reply he has made.

I received a letter last Thursday from the National Association of Fire Officers and the Fire Brigades Union asking me to receive a deputation at which representatives of these two bodies could put the arguments for setting up an independent committee to inquire into the manpower position and remuneration of the Fire Service. I am considering this request.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state the number of immigrants to Scotland in the last five years; how many of these, who are of working age, have come from the Commonwealth, Eire and other foreign countries, respectively; and how many there are of each sex, in respect of each category.

I regret that this information is not available.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the estimated, and what was the actual, expenditure on trunk roads in the Highland counties, including trunk road schemes in the crofter counties programme, during each of the last four years, respectively; and what is the estimated expenditure for 1961–62.

The relevant figures of Government expenditure on major improvements and on maintenance and minor improvements to these roads are as follows:

Year	Estimated Expenditure	Actual Expenditure
	£	£
1957–58	531,000	440,531
1958–59	734,000	616,467
1959–60	844,000	788,121
1960–61	867,000	865,729
1961–62	849,000	—

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the estimated, and what was the actual, expenditure on classified road schemes in the Highland counties, including the crofter counties scheme, during each of the last four years, respectively; and what is the estimated expenditure for 1961–62.

The relevant figures of Government expenditure on major improvements and on maintenance and minor improvements on these roads (in terms of grant paid) are as follows:

Year	Estimated Expenditure	Actual Expenditure
	£	£
1957–58	1,040,000	1,089,842
1958–59	1,266,000	1,166,145
1959–60	1,356,000	1,247,946
1960–61	1,650,000	1,554,884
1961–62	1,660,000	—

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish figures showing the approved establishment for each fire authority area in Scotland, the actual establishment of each fire authority area, and the number of personnel due to retire during each of the next three years.

Particulars of the establishment and actual strength of each fire brigade in Scotland at 31st December of each year are published in the annual report for that year of H.M. Inspector of Fire Services for Scotland, issued by H.M. Stationery Office.The report of H.M. Inspector for 1960, which will include particulars of establishments and actual strengths of brigades at 31st December last, is expected to be published early in June next.The estimated total numbers of whole-time men due to retire from the fire service in Scotland during each of the next three years are 28 in 1962; 53 in 1963; and 45 in 1964.

asked the President of the Board of Trade how many applications from Inverness-shire for grants and loans under the Local Employment Act, 1959, have been made; how many have been accepted; how many have been refused; and what are the amounts of money involved.

Twenty-three applications have been made. Five firms have been offered assistance amounting to £34,200; twelve applications have been rejected. Six are still under consideration.

asked the President of the Board of Trade how many jobs in Scotland, the Highlands and Islands, and in Inverness-shire, respectively, have become, or it is estimated will become, available as a result of loans or grants authorised under the Local Employment Act.

It is estimated by the firms concerned that in Scotland nearly 18,000 additional jobs will become available, of which about 470 are in the Highlands and Islands and 42 are in Inverness-shire.

asked the President of the Board of Trade how many applications from Scotland, from the Highlands and Islands, and from Inverness-shire, respectively, have been made for grants and loans under the Local Employment

—		Scotland	Highlands and Islands	Inverness-shire
Number of applications	…	37	30	11
Number in which assistance has been offered	…	9	7	4
Number rejected	…	19	14	5
Amount of assistance offered	…	£66,200	£44,200	£33,200

asked the Minister of Transport what proposals he has for widening the bridge at the junction of Watenden Road and Hackney Marshes.

I have made a grant of £152,000 to the London County Council to reconstruct the Temple Mills Bridge over the River Lea in Hackney. The L.C.C. hopes to invite tenders shortly for work to start in June of this year.

asked the Minister of Labour how many of those registered as unemployed in Scotland at the latest convenient date are known to be immigrants who have settled in the country during the last five years; and if he will give an estimate of the number of such immigrants actively employed in Scotland today.

On 27th April last, 22 persons registered as unemployed in Scotland were known to be immigrants from Commonwealth countries who had Act for the expansion of hotel accommodation, restaurant and other such facilities for tourists; how many have been accepted; how many have been refused; and what are the amounts of money concerned.

The following is the information required:settled in Great Britain during the past five years. I am unable to estimate how many Commonwealth immigrants are employed in Scotland, but the number is not thought to be large. There is no information available about immigrants from other countries.

asked the Minister of Works if he will give the figures of prosecutions for exceeding the speed limit in Richmond Park for the first four months after the speed limit was increased to 30 miles-per-hour, and the comparable figures for the previous three years.

The number of prosecutions for offences committed in the period 4th August to 3rd December in each of the four years was:

1957	None
1958	None
1959	2
1960	29

The 1960 figure reflects the vigorous enforcement of the new speed limit which, in the House on 18th July last, I undertook to ensure.