asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will now impose a total ban on the import of meat from countries where foot-and-mouth disease is endemic.

I cannot yet add to my statement of 15th February.—[Vol. 758, cc. 1589–90.]

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what study he has made of the harm likely to be caused to fish or birds from escaping gas being emitted from the unsealed well in the North Sea.

My Department's laboratories do not expect any material harm to fish, and the Nature Conservancy take a similar view so far as birds are concerned.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will make a statement on his policy regarding amendments of the law on the termination of tenancies of agricultural holdings in England and Wales.

A general review of the agricultural holdings legislation is in hand, including those aspects of it which concern the termination of tenancies of agricultural holdings. It would be premature to make any statement while this review is still in process.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in order to strengthen the economy of many small farms, he will consider the introduction of a two-tier milk price system in this year's Price Review.

The Annual Review is now in progress and my hon. Friend will understand that I cannot anticipate the outcome.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will, in the interests of economy, direct the Home Grown Cereals Authority to confine the free distribution of their publication, Ceres, to persons who can reasonably be expected to have a direct interest in agricultural matters.

No, but I am arranging to bring the hon. Member's views to the notice of the Authority.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will have consultations, with a view to providing that bread and other perishable food should have its date on its wrapping.

No. This question was carefully considered before the Labelling of Food Regulations 1967 were made. We are satisfied that the balance of advantage is against compulsory date stamping.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish an up-to-date list of all computers in use in the scientific establishments under his control and currently on order for such establishments, using the same basis of categorisation as that used by the Treasury on pages 102 to 107 of their Organisation and Methods Bulletin, Volume 22, Number 2 of May, 1967, but excluding computers used in process control or in weapon systems.

Details of computers in use in the Ministry of Defence scientific establishments and on order for such establishments were included in the lists published on Pages 214 to 217 of the Treasury's Organisation and Methods Bulletin, Volume 22, Number 4, of November, 1967. Details of some subsequent orders are shown in the February, 1968 edition of the Bulletin. Another full list is to be published in May, 1968.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence (1) why his Department has elected to use the Circular 100 procedure for the projected Oakhanger satellite tracking station;(2) why he has refused to allow the Hampshire County Council to advertise the plans for the Oakhanger satellite tracking station;(3) in view of his refusal to allow the planning authority to advertise his Departments plans for a satellite tracking station at Oakhanger, what steps he is taking to enable members of the public to acquaint themselves with the plans and to discover the effect upon their homes and properties.

Circular 100 provides the normal method of planning consultation for Government Departments; and local planning authorities are free, under this procedure, to take soundings by whatever means they consider appropriate. We have not refused to allow the Hampshire County Council to advertise plans for Oakhanger, and we have arranged to meet them prior to details of the project being announced.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many applications for retirement were received from officers of the Regular Army in December 1967; and what the corresponding totals were in each of the four preceding years.

The number of applications received in December, 1967 was 52. The corresponding number for December, 1966 was 36. Comparable figures for previous Decembers are not available but annual totals over the past five years are:

1963	…	…	…	375
1964	…	…	…	475
1965	…	…	…	529
1966	…	…	…	494
1967	…	…	…	583

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what financial assistance is given to Servicemen posted to the British Army of the Rhine from the United Kingdom who travel to their new unit in their own car, instead of by official transport.

A Serviceman posted from the United Kingdom to the British Army of the Rhine who travels to his new unit in his own car instead of by official transport, is allowed motor mileage allowance at the rate of 3½d. a mile for the distance from the last place of duty in the United Kingdom to the airport in the United Kingdom which would have been used had the journey been made under official arrangements. No other refund is allowed, because there is a regular air trooping service between the United Kingdom and B.A.O.R. on which seats are available for all personnel posted to Germany and to allow a refund of expenses for journeys arranged privately would mean that public funds would pay twice for the same journey. However, the Serviceman who travels privately remains entitled to free transportation of his baggage within the prescribed limits.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what baggage allowance is given to Servicemen posted to the British Army of the Rhine in respect of their children remaining at school in the United Kingdom.

Children at boarding school in the United Kingdom going by charter flight on temporary visits to their parents stationed in B.A.O.R. have the normal accompanied baggage entitlement of 66 1b.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the number of local education authorities which have adopted a system of secondary reorganisation involving a transfer at the age of 13 years; and approximately what proportion of the secondary school children controlled by these authorities is involved.

My right hon. Friend has approved in principle 25 schemes which include arrangements for transfer at 13 from lower to upper tier secondary schools, and he has one other under consideration. I have no estimate available of the proportion of pupils involved.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what requests he has received concerning official papers or documents for use in the trial of certain former Federal Ministers in South Yemen; and what action he is taking.

I have received no requests concerning official papers or documents for use in the political trials in Southern Yemen.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what was the cost of printing the Report, Educational Research in Wales; and why this report was printed in England;(2) what printers were invited to tender for the printing of the Official Report, Educational Research in Wales; and how many printers in Wales were invited to tender.

The cost of printing the Report was £685. It was not specially contracted for but was produced under a standing contract for which printers throughout the United Kingdom were invited to tender.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the total amount involved in meeting the cost of public service and armed forces pensions in the United Kingdom in 1966; and if he will state the separate figure for Scotland.

The table which follows shows, for England and Wales, and Scotland, the cost of pensions and related benefits for former members of the armed forces and the principal public services in the financial year 1965–66. For the armed forces and Civil Service, a breakdown between England and Wales, and Scotland is not readily available and could not be obtained without disproportionate cost and effort.

Service	England and Wales	Scotland	Total
	£m.	£m.	£m.
Civil Service	—	—	93·3
Teaching	48·7	7	55·7
National Health Service	16·7	1·8	18·5
Local Government*	53·5	5	58·5
Police	24·2	2·6	26·8
Fire	3·7	0·3	4
Armed Forces†	—	—	71
			327·8
*Estimated figures which exclude certain gratuities to non-pensionable staff but include certain small items of expenditure which do not appear in the other figures in the table.
† An estimated figure for the United Kingdom.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish an up-to-date list of all computers in use in Government Departments and currently on order for Government Departments on the same basis as the lists published on pages 102 to 107 of the Treasury's Organisation and Methods Bulletin, Volume 22, Number 2 of May, 1967.

A complete list of computers in use in and on order for Government Departments will be published in the May, 1968, edition of the Treasury's Organisation and Methods Bulletin. Additions to the previous list have been published in the August and November, 1967, and February, 1968, editions of the Bulletin which is on general sale and being made available in the House of Commons Library.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give a list of the sales figures for the current year to the latest available date, in each of the retail sales departments of Her Majesty's Stationery Office in the various parts of the country where they are situated.

The retail sales figures for Government bookshops for the first nine months of the current financial year were:

				£
London	…	…	…	778,971
Birmingham	…	…	…	57,031
Bristol	…	…	…	43,810
Cardiff	…	…	…	38,016
Edinburgh	…	…	…	70,473
Manchester	…	…	…	136,007
Total	…	…	…	1,124,308

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide a list of the sales figures of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and Government publications for the current year at the agencies in each of the main centres of population where no retail branch of Her Majesty's Stationery Office exists.

The total value of sales of Government publications through the 37 official United Kingdom agents of Her Majesty's Stationery Office in the first nine months of the current financial year was £92,479 1ls. 3d. I am afraid I cannot publish details of the business done between individual agents and Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

asked the Minister of Health on what date operations commenced for the upgrading of Ward B2 of St. Thomas's Hospital, Stockport; what has been the total expenditure to date; and when he expects completion to permit the intake of patients into the ward.

December, 1966; £3,500 to date; mid April, 1968.

asked the Minister of Health what is the expected increase in rates and earnings likely to arise from the recent settlement of pay claims for craftsmen at hospitals and other departmental establishments; and if such increases are consistent with the Government's prices and incomes policy.

The recent settlement for engineering craftsmen in the National Health Service was for an increase of 3½d. per hour (approximately 3,¾ per cent.). The percentage increase in earnings will be slightly lower. The settlement was in accordance with incomes policy.

asked the Minister of Health (1) if he will now classify muscular dystrophy as a chronic sickness for the purposes of exemption from National Health Service charges;(2) if he will now classify chronic renal failure as chronic sickness for the purposes of exemption from National Health Service charges.

I would refer my hon. Friend to my reply on 13th February to my hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Mr. Hugh Jenkins).—[Vol. 758, c.298.]

asked the Minister of Health what is the estimated annual expenditure by the National Health Service on the treatment of road accidents and industrial injuries, respectively.

As regards road accidents, I would refer the hon. Member to my reply on 29th January, 1968, to my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Dr. David Owen). I regret that information is not available for a similar estimate in respect of industrial injuries.—[Vol. 757, c.221.]

asked the Minister of Health when the reference of nurses pay to the National Board for Prices and Incomes was made; and when he expects to receive their report.

On 29th June, 1967; not later than 29th March this year.

asked the Minister of Health if he will give an assurance that no plan for the Freeman's Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, will be agreed to by him which includes a dining room adjacent to a mortuary.

Yes. I am informed that the Hospital Board has never contemplated such an arrangement.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give the number of sections or branches of the Civil Defence Corps and Auxiliary Fire Service, the members of which have offered to continue their service on a voluntary basis.

My right hon. Friend has received 26 offers to continue Civil Defence service without bounty. 13 on behalf of whole Divisions of the Civil Defence Corps in England and Wales and 13 on behalf of groups of volunteers in particular localities. He has had similar offers from groups representing auxiliary members of 35 of the 132 fire brigades. The total amount which would be saved by the sacrifice of bounty and other payments is only a small part of the cost of these services.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the organisations, to whom Government grants are paid, whose function is in part to preserve marriages; and how much money is given in each case.

The organisations, and the annual exchequer grant which each currently receives, are:

	£
National Marriage Guidance Council	42,000
Catholic Marriage Advisory Council	10,000
Family Discussion Bureau	10,625
Family Welfare Association	375

asked the Minister of Labour if he will estimate the number of employers aged 70 years and over who pay selective employment tax and can claim a refund.

No. I do not keep records of the age of employers.

asked the Minister of Labour what steps he is taking to eliminate discrimination against Scottish applicants for industrial training.

I would refer my hon. Friend to my reply to his Question on 19th February.—[Vol. 759, cc. 11–12.]Scottish applications for industrial training are treated in the same way as those in other parts of the country. If my hon. Friend has any particular case in mind I shall be glad to look into it.

asked the Minister of Labour how many trained disabled persons were found employment on leaving the Leicester Training Centre within the latest 12 months for which figures are available; and how many remained unemployed six months after leaving the Centre.

Out of 41 disabled persons who completed training at the Leicester Government Training Centre during the 12 months ended 31st July, 1967, 36 were placed in employment in their training trades on completion of training or within the following six months. Five have not yet been placed in their training trades.

asked the Minister of Labour how many firms in Leicester are known not to employ their quota of registered disabled persons at the latest convenient date.

On 20th February, 1968, 624 firms to whom the quota provisions of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act of 1944 apply, and located in the area covered by the Leicester Employment Exchange, were known not to be employing the 3 per cent. quota of registered disabled persons. This compares with 702 firms at 1st June, 1967.

asked the Minister of Labour how many registered disabled persons in Leicester were unemployed at the latest convenient date.

On 12th February, 1968, 233 disabled persons were registered as unemployed at the Leicester Employment Exchange.

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what action he has taken in connection with the proposal of the Greater London Council to raise the pay of their new Chief Executive Officer to £12,500 per annum, in view of the fact that this will be £3,020 per annum more than that paid to the existing officer; and whether this is in accordance with the Government's prices and incomes policy.

I asked the Greater London Council to consider this matter in the light of the recent report of the National Board for Prices and Incomes on the pay of Chief Officers in the Local Government Service, which was published after the Council had decided to offer a salary of up to £12,500 for the post. I understand that, subject to confirmation by the Council, a new Director-General has been nominated at a salary of £10,000 a year, which accords with the Board's recommendation.

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will introduce legislation to make architects liable to local authorities for faulty design of blocks of flats or for proposing building materials which lead to excessive dampness and which need replacing at heavy expense.

My right hon. Friend considers that the legal remedies available at common law against professional men who give bad professional service are adequate.

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will take steps to empower local authorities to sell computer time to other users including commercial firms.

The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Bill which is awaiting Second Reading would enable local authorities to sell computer time to other local authorities and public bodies. Any extension of the scope of that Bill to cover commercial undertakings would be in the first instance a matter for consideration by the hon. Member who introduced it.

asked the Minister of Overseas Development what is the definition of the term, non-project, in items (i), (vi) and (viii) of loans to India in the Revised Schedule of Commitments provided for Subheads A 1 and B 1 of Class II, 7, of the Supplementary Civil Estimates, 1967–68.

In general the term "non-project" is applied to loans which are not used for the establishment of new or the expansion of existing production and infra-structure facilities. These particular loans provide foreign exchange for the purchase of a very wide variety of spare parts, components and small capital items produced in Britain and required by firms in India which have traditionally bought these goods in Britain.

asked the Minister of Overseas Development if he will list the names of the members of the United Kingdom delegation to the Commonwealth Education Conference in Lagos.

Yes.Mr. A. E. Oram, M.P. (Leader), Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Overseas Development.Mr. Bruce Milian, M.P., Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office.Mr. J. B. Butterworth, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick University.Mr. Alan Hill, The Book Development Council.Sir William Houghton, Education Officer, Inner London Education Authority.Sir Douglas Logan, Principal, University of London.Mr. F. J. Pedler, Chairman, Council for Technical Education and Training for Overseas Countries.Mr. E. E. Temple, Assistant Secretary, Association of Commonwealth Universities.

asked the Postmaster-General how many applicants are waiting for telephone installations in, respectively, the Fernhurst and Haslemere exchange areas; what is the greatest and shortest period, respectively, of their wait; and by what date they can be expected to receive telephones.

The figures are:

Exchange		Number Waiting	Waiting Period
Fernhurst	…	52	From within 1 to 22 months
Haslemere	…	45	From within 1 to 8 months

We expect to give service to all waiting applicants by late summer.

asked the Postmaster-General if he will publish an up-to-date list of all computers in use in the Post Office and currently on order for the Post Office using the same basis of categorisation as that used by the Treasury on pages 102 to 107 of their Organisation and Methods Bulletin, Volume 22, Number 2 of May, 1967, but excluding computers used in process control or in automatic telephone exchanges.

Computers in use in the Post Office, and on order, were included in the lists of computers for administrative and general purposes, and scientific and technical purposes published in the Treasury's Organisation and Methods Bulletin in May, 1967 and November, 1967, respectively. Another complete list will be published in the next edition in May, 1968.

asked the Minister of Power which nuclear power station he expects to be producing electricity at 0·54d., or less, per unit sent out in 1970.

None. The lowest cost nuclear station expected to be in operation by 1970 will be Dungeness B with an estimated base-load generating cost of 0·57d./kWh. Allowing for different dates of construction and cost levels, this will be comparable with the generating costs of the best coal-fired stations, e.g. Ratcliffe (0·54) and Cottam (0·56) which are due to be commissioned in 1968. Drax is expected to be commissioned in 1971 with a generating cost of 0·60d.

asked the Minister of Power what tonnage of coal, at what total cost, and at what price per ton and per therm, respectively, was supplied by the National Coal Board to the Central Electricity Generating Board in each of the last three years; what are his revised estimates of future requirements under the same headings for each of the next five years; and what are the assumptions on which these estimates are made.

The quantities supplied were, 61·6 million tons in 1965; 61·5 million tons in 1966 and 59·9 million tons in 1967. The overall levels of N.C.B. prices in individual coalfields are broadly related to coalfield costs, but it is not possible to indentify the cost of producing different qualities of coal which are in joint production. The average pit-head price of coal to the Central Electricity Generating Board was 71s. 3d. per ton (3·65d. per therm) in 1965, 79s. 3d. per ton (4·03d. per therm) in 1966 and in the first half of 1967, 80s. per ton (4·07d. per therm).On future requirements I cannot add to the information give in the White Paper on Fuel Policy (Cmnd. 3438) published in November, 1967.

asked the Minister of Power what he estimates to be the amount of the reduction in the electricity industry's capital requirements from not building the proposed nuclear stations at Seaton Carew and Heysham; and what effect he estimates this would have on electricity prices.

I have nothing to add to the reply I gave my hon. Friend on 12th February.—[Vol. 758, c.277.]

asked the Minister of Power whether he will act on the recommendation of the Select Committee on Science and Technology that there should be an independent investigation of the costs of nuclear power stations.

I have nothing to add to the reply I gave my hon. Friend on 26th January.—[Vol. 757, c.199.]

asked the Minister of Power what are his revised estimates of electricity demand in 1971 and 1975 in the light of post-devaluation growth forecasts.

The Electricity Council's new demand forecast, which will be for 1973–74, will not be adopted until March.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if the Lord Advocate has now completed his consideration of the report into the affairs of the Third Lanark Football Club; and if he will make a statement.

The Lord Advocate has completed his consideration of the report and will give certain instructions to the Procurator Fiscal in Glasgow. Meanwhile no statement can be made.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total acreage of land improved with grants from the Crofters Commission in 1967; what was the total sum paid out in grants for this purpose in 1967 by the Commission; and what was the percentage difference in acreage improved with such grants compared with 1966.

2,567; £49,720; a decrease of 22·2 per cent.The drop in 1967 is partly accounted for by the falling rate in Lewis which is now at the stage of consolidation, most of the improvement for which there is scope having been done by this time. Weather during the year was also unfavourable.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if it is the practice of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to deduct from the amount of grant payable to farmers in the seven crofting counties under the Farm Improvement Scheme such sum as has been paid to the farmer by the Highlands and Islands Development Board towards the cost of the improvement.

No such case has arisen.

asked the Minister of Public Building and Works what was the total expenditure of his Department during each of the last five years in Wales, Scotland and England, respectively.

The expenditure of my Department is not recorded on the basis of the country in which it is incurred, and I regret that this information is therefore not available.

asked the Minister of Technology if he will publish an up-to-date list of all computers in use in the scientific establishments under his control and currently on order for such establishments using the same basis of categorisation as that used by the Treasury on pages 102 to 107 of their Organisation and Methods Bulletin, Volume 22, Number 2 of May, 1967, but excluding computers used in process control or in avionics.

Details of computers in use in the Ministry of Technology scientific establishments and on order for such establishments were included in the lists published on pages 214 to 217 of the Treasury's Organisation and Methods Bulletin, Vol. 22, No. 4, of November, 1967. Details of subsequent orders are shown in the February, 1968, edition and a comprehensive list is to be published in the May, 1968, edition of the Bulletin.

asked the Minister of Technology whether he proposes to give support to the International Computers and Tabulators Limited proposal for a new large computer system, Project 51; and what form this support will take.

I hope to be able to make an announcement on this matter shortly.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he is satisfied with the precautions being taken to avoid danger to shipping in the North Sea consequent upon escaping gas from the uncovered well; and if he will make a statement.

Yes. Navigational warnings have been broadcast regularly since 17th February and will continue so long as any danger exists. Two lighted buoys which were already in the vicinity of the well-head are still in position and the company concerned has a patrol boat in the area to warn shipping. In addition, the gas has now been ignited and this will provide a further warning to shipping.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will take steps to carry out a survey of the low grade copper deposits in Wales; and what inducements are given by the Government to private companies to undertake their own surveys.

Anglesey has the only significant copper ore deposits known in Wales, and there are detailed geological maps of this area. Since 1955 private companies have explored there. The Government cannot give financial assistance towards pre-exploration surveys; but investment grants are available for some exploration works, and subject to certain conditions, tax relief may be obtained on expenditure for exploration and development, including abortive expenditure.

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether when giving his approval for the 25 per cent. increase in the price of theDaily Mirror,he took account of the fact that this represents an extra revenue of some £65,000 per day; and what evidence was produced that the cost of newsprint and other costs have risen by this amount since devaluation.

I would refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave him on the 7th February [Vol. 158 c.134]. Increased revenue, like increased costs, is relevant. Detailed information submitted to us in connection with these cases is confidential, but my hon. Friend's estimate of the increased revenue in this instance appears excessive.

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether it was with his approval that the National Board for Prices and Incomes stated on 9th February, 1968 that they had not been asked to investigate the 25 per cent. increase in the price of theDaily Mirror;and whether he will cause further investigations to be made.

The price of theDaily Mirrorwas covered by the reference made to the National Board for Prices and Incomes on 25th July, 1967, and by their Report published as Cmnd. 3435.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the number of new jobs that have been created and taken in the Welsh coalfields between 1964 and the latest convenient date.

I regret that information in the form requested is not available.

asked the President of the Board of Trade what is his estimate of the value of the tourist industry to Wales in 1967.

British residents on holiday and overseas visitors are estimated to have spent £50 million to £60 million in Wales in 1967.

asked the President of the Board of Trade in what ways have Wales and Scotland been projected in the British Week trade fairs overseas held since 1961.

Welsh and Scottish features have been included in British Weeks in the same way as material representative of England and Northern Ireland. Display material, which is distributed to retailers in large quantities, includes posters, figurines and heraldic devices exemplifying both Wales and Scotland. Scottish bands, pipers and dancers have performed at most Weeks. During the British Week in Denmark there was a visit by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and a special Exhibition in Copenhagen by the Scottish Thistle Export Group. At Toronto there was a visit by the band of the Welsh Guards and a display of Welsh painting.

asked the President of the Board of Trade how many advance factories have been built in Wales since 1964; how many are now tenanted; and how many men and women, respectively, they employ.

Of the 32 Board of Trade advance factories announced since October, 1964, 18 have been completed; 4 are occupied and are so far giving employment to about 125 men and 90 women; a further 5 factories have been allocated.

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that since devaluation the price of bath size toilet soap has risen by 20 per cent.; and what action he proposes to take to reduce the price of this toilet soap to its pre-devaluation level.

My Department is not aware of a 20 per cent. price increase in any brand of bath size toilet soap since devaluation.

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give the figures in each of the years since 1961 to the latest available date, of the amount paid in grants under the Local Employment Act to firms moving into the development districts of Blyth, Bedlington and Seaton Valley in each of those years.

Such figures are not readily available and could be extracted only by the expenditure of considerable time and effort.

asked the President of the Board of Trade what plans he has to speed up the development of the hotel industry in Wales.

The Government are still examining the case for further assistance for the hotel industry in Wales and elsewhere and their conclusions will be announced as soon as practicable.

asked the President of the Board of Trade to how many countries outside the British Isles it is possible to fly from a Welsh airport without changing aircraft in England; and if he will list these countries and the frequency interval in each of the last five years to the most convenient date.

I assume the hon. Member is asking about scheduled services. The weekly scheduled passenger services from Welsh airports to countries outside the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands in the month of July for the years 1962 to 1967 were:

To (Country)	From (Welsh Airport)	July, 1963	July, 1964	July, 1965	July, 1966	July, 1967
Eire	Cardiff	12	14	16	13	14
	Cardiff (via England)	4 (via Bristol)	4 (via Bristol)	5 (via Bristol)	3 (via Bristol)	3 (via Bristol)
	Swansea	2	2	1	1	1
Netherlands	Cardiff	—	—	1	1	1
	Cardiff (via England)	3 (via Bristol or Liverpool)	3 (via Bristol or Liverpool)	—	—	—
France	Cardiff (via England)	9 (via Bristol, Bournemouth and Southampton)	9 (via Bristol, Bournemouth and Southampton)	10 (via Bristol, Bournemouth and Southampton)	11 (via Bristol, Bournemouth and Southampton)	13 (via Bristol, Bournemouth and Southampton)
Belgium	Cardiff	2	—	—	2	1
	Cardiff (via England)	1 (via Bristol)	4 (via Bristol)	4 (via Bristol)	—	—
	Swansea	1	—	—	—	1
	Swansea (via England)	—	1 (via Staverton)	—	—	—
Norway	Cardiff (via England)	1 (via Liverpool and Newcastle)	—	—	—	—
Luxembourg	Cardiff (via England)	1 (via Bristol)	—	—	—	—
Switzerland	Cardiff	—	—	1	1	—
	Cardiff (via England)	—	1 (via Bristol and Bournemouth)	—	—	—
Spain	Cardiff	2	—	—	—	—
	Cardiff (via England)	4 (via Bristol)	—	2 (via Bristol)	—	—

Flights making traffic stops at United Kingdom airports, outside Wales which do not involve a change of aircraft for through passengers, are shown separately.

asked the Minister of Transport whether she has now completed her consideration of the proposed route of the trunk road A3, where it passes north-west of East Liss, and south-west of West Liss and Liss Forest, and joins the A325; and if she will make a statement.

:Consideration is being given to initiating a wider traffic study concerning improvement of the A3 from Guildford to Petersfield.No steps under the Highways Act, 1959, are therefore being taken at present to finalise the line of the A3 at Liss.

asked the Minister of Transport when a start is to be made on the construction of the M4 between Tormanton and Liddington; and whether the recent cuts in the roads programme has altered the intended date.

I have nothing to add to the Answer given to the hon. Member on 11th December, 1967. The date then given has not been altered.—[Vol. 756, c.44.]

asked the Minister of Transport if she is aware that a new air pollution control device, details of which have been sent to her, is expected to become standard equipment on all cars sold in the United States of America after 1970; and whether she will take steps to ensure that cars manufactured in this country are similarly equipped for sale in that country.

We have seen reports of an American device intended to control the content of exhaust gases from motor vehicles but my right hon. Friend has no powers to require British motor manufacturers to fit such devices to vehicles intended for sale abroad.

asked the Minister of Transport what plans she has to publish a bilingual motor licence disc to be used by all vehicles licensed in Wales.

None.

asked the Minister of Transport what plans she has to publish a bilingual motor licence renewal form which can be used by all applicants for motor licences in all local licensing departments and Crown post offices throughout Wales.

Such a bilingual form already exists, and is freely available for use at all local taxation offices in Wales and Monmouthshire. Acceptability at post offices conducting vehicle licence business is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Postmaster-General.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will request the Welsh Economic Council to study the possible effects over the next 10 years of supersonic flights over Wales.

The question of routes and supersonic flights over Great Britain as a whole is a matter already under consideration by the Government. The interests of Wales will be taken fully into account.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if the new bilingual birth certificate was devised by or approved by the Translation Panel which he has established.

The certificate was devised by the Registrar General. It was translated into Welsh with the assistance of the Welsh Office, and the translation was approved by the Panel.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will request the Welsh Economic Council to make a study of the possibility of developing an electronics industry in Cardiganshire.

The Council have already submitted a report on Mid-Wales and my right hon. Friend is satisfied that they are already giving the fullest consideration to the promotion of industrial development of all kinds throughout Wales.