asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the names and addresses of those places in Scotland approved for the termination of pregnancies under the terms of the Abortion Act 1967; how many beds each has; whether any of them is owned and run by non-profit making charitable trusts; whether they have permission to do day-care operations; and whether they are approved to terminate pregnancies of more than 20 weeks duration.

The information is set out in the following table:

Name of place approved for termination of pregnancy	Approved for day care	No. of approved beds
The Edinburgh Private Clinic 19–21 Drumsheugh Gardens Edinburgh EH3 7RM	Yes	2
Stirling and District Nursing Home 18 Park Terrace Stirling	Yes	2
St. John Nursing Home 21 Albyn Place Aberdeen AB9 1RJ	Yes	2
Moat Brae Nursing Home Ltd. George Street Dumfries	Yes	1
Nuffield McAlpin Clinic Beaconsfield Road Glasgow G12 OPJ	No	2
Fernbrae Private Clinic (Dundee) Ltd. 329 Perth Road Dundee DD2 1EQ	No	1

None of these places is approved for terminating pregnancies of 20 weeks or more duration.Information about the charitable or other status of the approved places is not available centrally.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland on how many occasions a reporter's recommendations following a public inquiry held under section 211 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act have been set aside; and if he will list them in the Official Report.

Once. On only one of the three occasions on which an inquiry under this power has been held has the reporter considered it desirable to make a recommendation, as distinct from reporting the results of his investigation. The occasion in question was the recent inquiry into whether East Lothian district council had failed to carry out its duties under section 7(1) of the Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Act 1980. The earlier reports on the similar issues affecting Dundee district council and Stirling district council reported the evidence obtained at the inquiries but left my right hon. Friend to reach his own conclusions.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the grounds for his decision to order East Lothian district council to pay the full costs of the public inquiry held under section 211 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 on 25 January and 8 February.

Section 210(7) of the Local Governent (Scotland) Act 1973 directs that the Secretary of State's expenses in relation to any local inquiry held under that Act are to be paid by the local authority concerned unless the Secretary of State is of the opinion that he should defray all or part of those expenses. The Secretary of State did not consider that there were any considerations pertaining to the local inquiry in question which would have justified such an opinion on his part.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the cost of the public inquiry into the progress of council house sales in East Lothian district which was held in Haddington on 25 January and 8 February.

I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as I have sent East Lothian district council a note of the Secretary of State's costs.

asked the Prime Minister whether responsibility for matters relating to (a) statistics of Civil Service numbers and staff reductions and (b) control of Civil Service staff numbers rest with HM Treasury or with the Management and Personnel Office.

These functions were assigned to the Treasury under the terms of the Transfer of Functions (Minister for the Civil Service and Treasury) Order (SI 1981 No. 1670).

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) whether the decision of eight European Economic Community countries to impose sanctions on Argentina was an individual decision or a collective decision under the Treaty of Rome; and, if collective, under which section or article of treaty the decision was made;(2) whether article 13(1) of the Treaty of Rome was invoked by the European Economic Community ministerial council to impose sanctions on trade with Argentina.

The original decision in principle to impose an import ban on Argentine goods was taken on 10 April by Foreign Ministers of the Ten meeting in political cooperation. That decision was implemented by an EEC Council regulation under article 113 of the EEC Treaty for EEC products, and by a decision of representatives of Government of member States of the ECSC, meeting within the Council, for ECSC products. The decision on 17 May was made in the same way by all EC members except Italy and Ireland. From 24 May, Denmark no longer applied the Community legislation but instead applied equivalent national measures under article 224 of the EEC Treaty. The United Kingdom import ban which predates the Community ban, was also notified under article 224 of the EEC Treaty.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the European Economic Community ministerial council resolutions critical of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' invasion of Afghanistan indicating whether any member State abstained or voted against any of them on the grounds of neutrality.

The Heads of State and Government and the Foreign Ministers have made the following statements on the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.

• 15 January 1980—Statement by Foreign Ministers of the Nine.
• 19 February 1980—Statement by Foreign Ministers of the Nine.
• 28 April 1980—Statement by the European Council.
• 13 June 1980—Statement by the European Council.
• 24 March 1980—Statement by the European Council.
• 30 June 1980—Statement by the European Council.
• 27 November 1981—Statement by the European Council.
• 30 March 1982—Statement by the European Council.

All these statements were agreed by consensus in political co-operation.In addition, on 15 January 1980, the Foreign Affairs Council decided in support of the United States grain embargo on the USSR, that agricultural products from the Community should not directly or indirectly take the place of United States products on the Soviet market. This decision was also taken by consensus.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish in the Official Report a statement of forthcoming business in the European Community Council of Ministers.

At present eight meetings of the Council of Ministers are planned for June. Heads of State and Government will meet in the European Council in Brussels on 28–29 June. The usual written forecast was deposited in the House on 27 May.The Transport Council is expected to meet on 10 June to consider a European Parliament report on a common transport policy; measures to promote the development of combined transport vehicle weights; rail freight tariffs; railway co-operation within the Community; transport infrastructure and a proposal to monitor Eastern bloc road haulage. Ministers are also likely to discuss technical requirements for inland waterways vessels; the United Nations liner code convention; aircraft noise; interregional air services and Community air fares.The Finance Council is expected to meet on 14 June to discuss the implications for the Community of the outcome of the Versailles summit, consider further the draft insurance services directive and agree a Community position in relation to the negotiations on the export credit consensus. Ministers are also expected to undertake one of their regular economic reviews in preparation for the European Council, assess the draft fifth medium term economic programme in the light of recent developments and may also consider aspects of the draft seventh company law directive on group accounts.The Agriculture Council is expected to meet on 14–15 June and may consider proposals for establishing criteria for determining the world price for oil seeds; proposals concerning tendering for export refunds in milk products; the use of the co-responsibility levy in respect of the milk sector and reform of the Community wine regime.The Development Co-operation Council is expected to meet on 15 June to discuss North-South issues; food strategies; the forthcoming world food council; programme—non-project—aid by the Community, the problems of urbanisation as they relate to Community aid; trade promotion in developing countries; energy needs of developing countries and the role of women in development.In addition to the informal meeting planned for 20 June, the Foreign Affairs Council is expected to meet on 21–22 June to discuss preparations for the European Council and to agree on further statements of the Community position on various aspects of both the Spanish and Portuguese accession negotiations to be made at ministerial level meetings with the two applicant States which will take place in the margins of the Council. Ministers will also consider renewal of the Community's steel anti-crisis measures, the review of the regional development fund, the Northern Ireland housing regulation and the Community's trade regimes with Cyprus and Malta. In addition, the Council may examine Community aid for Central America, the draft directives on liability for defective products and on the protection of consumers buying goods from doorstep salesmen and may discuss the draft company law directive dealing with the division of public companies—scissions—and the directive on group accounts—the seventh directive.The Environment Council is expected to meet on 24 June to discuss draft directives on environmental assessment, cadmium in the acquatic environment and the monitoring of environments affected by waste from the titanium dioxide industry, as well as a draft resolution on the third environment action programme. It is likely that there will also be consideration of a draft regulation on the Washington convention on international trade in endangered species; of draft decisions on the consolidation of precautionary measures concerning chlorofluorocarbons in the environment and the exchange of information on air pollution, and of a draft directive on the control of major accident hazards. Depending on progress there may also be discussion of a draft directive on lead in the atmosphere.The Research Council may meet on 30 June to continue discussion on the re-organisation of Community research and development; the future of the joint research centre and Community support for information technology. There may also be consideration of the programmes on medical and public health and on developing countries research and development.The Fisheries Council may meet again in June to continue discussion of the outstanding issues of a revised common fisheries policy.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 24 May to the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire, East (Mr. McQuarrie) if he will give a breakdown by rank of those 22 officials who left his Department on grounds of inefficiency; and in which Departments they worked immediately prior to leaving, setting out the information in such a manner as not to identify individual officers.

1 DS5, 1 principal, 1 DS8C, 1 DS8T, 2 DS9s, 2 DS9 equivalents, 5 DS10s, 2 clerical officers, 4 clerical assistants, 1 photo-printer and 2 other junior officers left the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on grounds of inefficiency in the period january 1980 to April 1982. It is not possible to indicate the Department or overseas post in which these officers last served without risk of revealing their identity.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will seek to obtain and place in the Library a translation of the agreement of July 1977 between the Atomic Research Company of Karlsruhe and the Argentine Commission for Atomic Energy, and of any subsequent agreements between those parties.

I am making investigations and will write to the right hon. Member.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will give a detailed list of the rates of allowances claimed by civil servants at various stated grades when away from office as expenses; whether these are taxable; and for the longest and most convenient stated period of time, how much has been claimed and paid under these agreements.

There are several different rates of subsistence allowances in the United Kingdom ranging from £1·65 for an absence of between 5 and 10 hours for lower paid officers to £47·55 for a 24 hours absence in inner London for higher paid officers. Full details of these rates are set out in the annex to paragraphs 4710 to 4829 of the Civil Service pay and conditions of service code, a copy of which is in the Library. The allowances are nontaxable. Separate records of subsistence costs are not kept but it is estimated that the total cost of subsistence payments is about £75 million a year.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what changes he proposes to the rules governing double taxation relief for banks engaged in overseas lending.

As my right hon. and learned Friend announced in his Budget Statement, we intend to take action this year to restrict the double taxation relief given to banks for foreign tax on the interest they receive from lending to non-residents. Following consultation with the main banking associations, we propose to limit the relief on all banks' overseas loans to a maximum of 15 per cent. of the gross interest. In those cases where credit is allowed for tax forgone or "spared" by the overseas country we propose in addition for the purposes of United Kingdom tax to treat the banks' income as increased by the amount of the tax "spared".We intend that these changes will apply generally from 1 April 1982, but in the case of loans in existence at that date only to interest arising on or after 1 April 1983. We intend to introduce the necessary legislation at Committee stage of this year's Finance Bill.

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many terraced houses w ere renovated by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in Townhead Street, Ballymoney; what was the cost per dwelling; what is now the value of these dwellings as assessed by the district valuer when for sale; and when was the contract for improvement let and completed.

[pursuant to his reply, 25 May 1982, c. 304]: This is a matter for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive but I understand from the chairman that nine houses in Townhead Street, Ballymoney, were renovated under a contract let on 12 May 1979 and completed on 2 June 1980. The contract price averaged £9,500 per house and the total cost per house including professional fees, etc., averaged £11,500. The district valuer considers that the present market value of the properties is approximately £11,000 per dwelling.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers there were in Lancashire in May 1979; and what is the latest total.

In May 1979, the strength of the Lancashire constabulary was 3,093 compared with 3,144 on 30 April 1982.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his estimate of the number of Vietnamese refugees resettled in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) Greater London and (c) south-east London.

Between April 1975 and April 1982, 16,265 Vietnamese refugees had been admitted to the United Kingdom of whom about 800 were still in reception centres awaiting resettlement. The British Refugee Council tell us that of about 15,450 refugees resettled in the United Kingdom about 2,950 have been resettled in the Greater London area. Of these, about 1,250 have gone to south-east London—defined for this purpose as the London boroughs of Southwark, Greenwich, Bexley, Bromley and Lewisham.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider providing for police officers personal accident insurance in line with that provided for other local authority employees, in particular members of the fire and ambulance services.

It is doubtful whether police authorities have an insurable interest in police officers, who are not employees and whose conditions of service are prescribed in detail in regulations. The Police Pensions Act 1976 makes specific provision for the payment of benefits to police officers who are injured or killed on duty and the payment of any additional benefits must be derived from this Act or from regulations made under it. We are exploring the possibility of improving the compensation payable under the police pension scheme for death or incapacitating injury sustained on duty.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Basildon of 24 May, Official Report, c. 220, when he expects the breakdown of repatriation expenses in tables (a) and (b) to be made available; and if he will list those incidental expenses which are incurred under the baggage allowance in table (b).

I understand from International Social Services that a breakdown of repatriation expenses for the financial year 1981–82 will be available shortly. Incidental travelling expenses paid under the repatriation scheme include the cost of the freight and insurance of baggage, preparation costs and subsistence.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions have been undertaken under section 21(1) of the Copyright Act 1956 in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982 to the most recent practicable date; and what was the average fine imposed.

[pursuant to his reply, 25 May 1982, c. 265]: Records available to me, which may be incomplete, show no person proceeded against in 1979 and three persons proceeded against in 1980 for conspiracy to contravene section 21(1) of the Copyright Act 1956; all of these three were fined and the average fine imposed was about £1,400. Information for 1981 and 1982 is not yet available.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what procedures are followed by him in determining whether or not to approve a closure of a school proposed by a local education authority; if he will list any statutory provisions to which he has regard in this connection; and if he is satisfied with the adequacy of present procedures.

The statutory procedures for making, considering and deciding school closure proposals are set out in section 12 of the Education Act 1980. When it falls to my right hon. Friend to decide statutory proposals to close a school he examines each case on its individual merits in the light of the educational interests of the public concerned, local circumstances including any objections, and the financial factors involved. My right hon. Friend is satisfied that present procedures allow decisions to be made with full regard to all the relevant factors.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list in the Official Report the subjects of the reports of the Management Services (Organisation) Division.

Titles of reports issued by the Management Services (Organisation) Division since its inception in 1969 follow. Titles asterisked are available as open government documents.

• Cash Messing in Military Hospitals.
• O & M Examination of Ration Accounting Procedures for Station Messing.
• Composition and Production of MOD Staff and Telephone Directories.
• DD of Organisation (Deployment) (RAF)—Study of Task and extent to which it can be progressed more effectively and with less effort.
• Study of Army Certificate of Education Records.
• Allocation of responsibilities between the Staffs of DGM(RAF) and DGPS(RAF) for Airmen's conditions of service.
• The feasibility of combining HQ DISC with SCRTE at Colchester.
• O & M Study of procedures for joint services for FINS 47.
• Assignment—Army Training in operation and maintenance of radio equipment.
• Review of the arrangements of the internal movement of paper at Strike Command HQ RAF High Wycombe.
• MOD Printing facilities—Woolwich Area.
• Assignment—Study of methods and procedures for bidding and allocating vacancies on Army Training Courses.
• The responsibilities of DL/AW for Army Aviation, Airborne and Special Forces and Air Delivery.
• Army Department Transport Accounts Office—Passenger Movement Section.
• Army Department—Transportation Accounts Office—Paragraph Section.
• Examination of Clerical Procedures in Editorial preparation of Navy, Army and Air Force Lists (Service Lists).
• Accounting—Portable Equipment in General Manager's Departments of Dockyards.
• Rationalisation in arrangements for promulgating information in MOD PART II—Office Memoranda and Notices to Directors and Heads of Divisions.
• Preliminary Survey of Patients' Documentation in Service Hospitals.
• Patients' Documentation in Service Hospitals—Nursing Records.
• Hospital Documentation—Out Patients.
• Medical Documentation—In Patients.
• Medical Documentation of In and Out Patients in Service Hospitals.
• Study of Administrative arrangements in Royal Naval Medical School, Alverstoke.
• O & M/Work Study Investigation of Ammunition Technical Publications—Part II.
• The Financing and Control of Expenditure on Production of Stores and Expenditure for the Services.
• Microcopying of Eng Drawings for Codification in DCA, ACA and NCA Agencies.
• Study of Registry and Audio Typing Services, RAF Training Command, Brampton.
• Review of Statistical Requirements of HD of Fire Services (RAF) and of Registry Practices within Directorate of Ground Defence (RAF).
• Army Dept Transportation Accounts Office—Freight Section and remaining work not previously covered.
• Dept of Supt of Scientific Personnel (Naval)—Review of Organisation and Procedures.
• Study of System for Forecasting Workload of Admiralty Interview Board.
• O & M Study of Group Catering Procedures.
• Joint Org and Work Study Examination of Army Driver Training.
• Weapons Dept (Naval) (Inspection Directorate)—Review of Paperwork in NOID Outstations.
• Advice and Inspection Notes and Bill Forms and Related Procedures.
• Management of the Electronic Test Equipment Calibration Service provided by REU Henlow.
• Review of Directorate of Army Training AT ld—GS Publications.
• Cashier Offices—their task and site in an integrated Accounting Organisation.
• Review of the Organisation of the Royal Marine Printers.
• Management Control of Aero Engineers.
• PQ's and Private Office Correspondence.
• Naval Manpower Dept—Review of Registry Procedures.
• Review of RM Officers Records including Appointments and Promotion Machinery.
• Rationalisation in Arrangements for Promulgating Information in MOD—PT III—Defence Council Instructions.
• Filing System US of S (RN)'s Office.
• Cardiff Dispersal.
• WP on Secretariat Systems used in the Naval Service.
• Army Locations Section (Stats Eqpt (AD) (Requirements)).
• Q(AE)—Management by Objectives.
• Record Office—Navy Dept Problem of 1939–1945 Papers.
• Office Instructions—MOD Manual 2—Review.
• ACAS (OPS) Re-Organisation—Revised Registry Arrangements and Accommodation Plan.
• DGDA Long Term Organisation.
• Stores Recording and Progression Cells in Strike Command.
• Group Capacity Assessment (GCA) Claims Validation DGDA (Bath).
• Management by Objectives—RNSD Copenacre.
• Study of Determinive Information required by DGW(N) about Weapons Equipment filled in HM Ships and to propose method for obtaining and recording this information centrally.
• Future of Army Central Volunteer HQs.
• Delegation of F6(Air) Financial Powers.
• D of Public Relations. Need for Co-ord in PR 3, 5, 6 and 10.
• Proposal for a Unit Directory.
• Officer Entry Section of NP1.
• O & M Study of Army Medical Equipment Depot, Ludgershall.
• Army Publications—Investigation of Scale of Distribution.
• Review of the Management of Electrical Electronic Test Equipment Calibration Services provided by REU Henlow.
• Review of Organisation and Procedures within Secretariat Structure of CS(RN).
• DNR Careers Literature.
• Examination of Ration Accounting Procedures in Flight Feeding.
• To consider the Form of Records maintained by NPI (Foreign and Commonwealth Trg Sect) in relation to the requirement for the extraction of Ad Hoc Statistical Information.
• Stores and Stock Control-Methods of calculating price items of RAF equipment.
• Survey of MOD HQ Typing Services—Pilot Study in Lansdowne House.
• Efficiency Survey of the Officers' Association.
• Installation of Management by objectives in HMS Collingwood.
• Procurement of AFV Spares.
• Procurement of AFV Spares—Procedures within DS/PC, FVRDE
• Processes and Documentation for Recruitment and Enlistment into the RAF.
• Army Pensions Office—Stanmore (Phase I)—Clerical Work.
• Army Pensions Office—Stanmore (Phase II)—Clerical Work Measurement Review
• Study for Documentation for Army Recruits
• HQ Air Cadets—Optimisation of Accounting Procedures.
• DG Aircraft (Navy)—Paper Handling; Recording and Distribution System.
• Printing Facilities, Training Command RAF.
• Written Instructions—General Control in the RN.
• Pilot Study of Proposed New Navy Book System.
• Service Childrens Education Authority—Central Clearing
• House, Eltham.
• The Recruitment of Civilian Instructors by CE3g (AIR).
• HQ 90 (S) Gp-Open Plan Accomodation.
• Dispersal of EQD (Mintech) PDS responsibilities and its effect on DIWP (MOD)
• RAF, CDA Medmenham Procedures
• Written Instructions in the RN—Mechanical Engineering
• Proposed Integrated RNSTS Organisation at Plymouth
• Transcription of Requisition into Tender/Contracts Document (FV Spares)
• HOC Studies in the Personnel Area—Navy
• HOC Studies in the Personnel Area—Army
• Q & M Assignment Documentation in the Admiralty Gauge Factory.
• HOC Studies in the Personnel Area—RAF
• RN Flight Safety: Availability and Analysis
• Methods and Procedure in GL Training Sections of NPI
• Establishment of Army Recruit Medical Examination Centres.
• Official Entertainment
• Defence Parliamentary Branch
• Service Pensions Arrangements
• Indexing, Filing and Microcopying of Engineering Drawings at DCA Bromley
• Transfer of Responsibility for the Issue of Prints of FV Drawings for Spares Procurement from MVEE and PDS Contractors to QAD (FVE)
• Report on Conduct of Departmental Business—Use of Registered Files.
• Editing of General Staff Training Publication.
• Review of Sea Cadet Corps HQ Organisation.
• Officers Records in DNOA(X).
• Review of the Work and Organisation of AMD2 and the methods used in each section.
• Man S (Org) Examination of ACEPc.
• Investigation into the merits and implications of proposals for locating certain Naval Personnel work outside London.
• Study of Procedure for the Issue of Enrolments and Cash Accounting in the Army.
• Accounting Examination of RAF Catering Accounting Procedures.
• Transfer of Packaging Responsibilities from D AMM P.
• DNOR, DNAW & DNW Clerical Support.
• Paper Handling in FNFdS.
• Naval Secretary—Personnel Records, Methods & Procedures.
• HQ Management Structure of DMS(N).
• Drafting of Navy Department Publications in Bath
• Production of United Kingdom Codification Handbook.
• Tender and Contract Documentation and Procedures within DGDC.
• Man S (Org) Participation in Management Survey at NATO HQ.
• Registry in HMS Lochinvar.
• Printing of STTN, RAF Brampton.
• MOD HQ Libraries.
• Forms: Design and Procurement of.
• RAF Photo Library—Victory House.
• Production of H4 Handbooks, DCA Bromley.
• Review of the System for Negotiating Modification to In-Service Aircraft and Equipment.
• Military Secretary's Department—Registry and Posting Documentation.
• Scrutiny of Training Equipment Proposals—Navy Department.
• Review of Commumications London—Bath.
• D of Q (RAF)—Recording Procedures.
• Distribution of the Pink List.
• Payroll Project.
• The Role of the COS in Crisis Management and the Setting Up of a JSOC.
• Organisation Review RNSD Copenacre (Jointly with I of E (C)).
• Procurement, Storage and Distribution of Publications, Forms, Stationery and Office Equipment.
• Examination of IMS NATO.
• Organisation of Directorate of Recruiting (RAF).
• Examination of the Ratefixing Tasks of F6P(AIR).
• HMS Repulse Refit Control Office.
• Trawls—Vacancy Notices.
• Checking—Royal Navy Accounts.
• Checking—Royal Air Force Accounts.
• Dispersal Studies—Blocks of Work.
• Validation and Payment of Transportation Accounts in Accounts 10E.
• Secretary Defence Police Staff.
• Ship Maintenance Authority Portsmouth—Organisation Study.
• RAF Museum Structural Study.
• Operational Planning.
• Assignment to Study Arrangements for Production of Aircraft Modification Leaflets.
• Review of Clerical Work and Records in Naval Secretary's Department, NP1 and NP2.
• Carriage of Classified Mail c/o Ships Master.
• Amalgamation of MOD HQ and Office Directories with MAS Directories.
• MOD Telephone Directory—Dialling Code Information. Codification and Cataloguing of Medical Stores (JSP 324).
• Catalogue and Scale of Accommodation Stores JSP 307 &308.
• Civilian Payroll Project—MOD HQ Procedures.
• CPRO Cheadle Hulme Review of Pay and Accounts Section.
• Accounting: TRG Service Aspects.
• Appraisal of Problems in Army Manning Record Offices.
• Civil Superannuation—Rationalisation of MOD and former MAS Work.
• Organisation for Material Standardisation within MOD.
• Transfer of Bill Paying from F3(AIR) to Acs 10E.
• Supply of Equipment and Stores for Service Childrens Schools.
• D of Q(N)—Information Display on Married Quarters.
• Organisation of the Ship Maintenance Authority.
• FOSM HQ Staff—Workload and Organisation.
• Overseas Travel and Examination of the Regulations and Procedures for control and authorisation of temporary duty visits overseas.
• Control of temporary duty visits overseas made by officers of one star rank and above.
• Control of Temporary Duty Visits Overseas—North America.
• NATO Codification and "Tasking" in D of SM2(RAF).
• MOD Police—HQ/AREA HQ'S—Organisation and Procedures.
• Conversion of Met. Office Pay Procedures—CPRO(R) Project.
• Study of Army Office Admin. in MOD.
• MOD Civilian Representation in NATS.
• Army Office Recruitment Procedures.
• NATO International DocRegistry-Organisation & Methods revised.
• Management of MOD HQ & Outstation Typing Staff.
• Army Officers Administration in the MOD.
• RAC Centre—Planning & Display of Course Programme.
• Royal Observer Corps—Pay and Cash Accounting.
• Organisation for providing official clothing within MOD.
• Organisation and Procedures for claiming in respect of Loss and Damage in Transit of MOD Freight.
• Organisation for the provision of ADP communications.
• Payment of Civil Airline Bills.
• (Supplementary) Editorial Arrangements for MOD sponsored Non-Technical Publications—PE.
• Pay & Records Systems of Navy, Army and Air Force.
• Organisation of Medical Director General (Navy) Department.
• Supply of Commercial Publications in MOD.
• The Organisation of Transport of Stores off MOD Ex-works Contracts.
• Organisation of Central Reprographic Resources within MOD and HQ Typing Management.
• Study of the Information Requirements of the expanded Defence Ops Centre.
• Review of Air Secretary's department.
• Review of Organisation and Procedures for receiving filing accessity and retrieving information from National Army Museum.
• Director of Army Training—Training for Foreign and Commonwealth Countries—Records of Attendance and Costs.
• Provision of MOD Police Vehicles.
• Possible overlap of functions between RNSTS HQ and other MOD Organisations.
• Rationalisation of MOD Fire—Prevention and Fire Fighting Services.
• Directorate of Clothing Procurement—Study of proposed rationalised HQ Organisation.
• Organsiation of Headquarters Nuclear Divisions.
• Accommodation for Headquarters Nuclear Branches.
• Joint Warfare Establishment—Organisation Procedures of Secretariat and Co-ordination Sections.
• Study of Army Manning and Records Offices.
• Conveyance of Wages and Salaries to Pay Points served by MOD Cash Office.
• The Oman Department of Defence.
• Management and Control of, Signals Equipment by Sigs 36.
• Organisation and Management Structure at Naval Hospitals.
• Facsimile Communication Equipment—Participation to determine potential uses.
• Maintenance of Patients Records in RN Hospitals.
• Registration of Service Voters.
• Military Survey Libraries.
• Examination of the case for a Central Cell to co-ordinate and organise visits of foreign and other visitors to the MOD.
• Naval Manpower Forecasting Requirements—Training.
• Admiral Commanding Reserves—Study of Methods and Records used.
• Feasibility of collecting charges for Prescriptions dispensed to civilians in United Kingdom from service hospitals.
• Recording of Vehicle defect Reports.
• Review of Central Civilian Training Organisations.
• Security Grading of Equipment.
• Examination of Communication in the CM/PM Areas.
• Defence Relations, Machinery.
• Principal Civil Service Pensions—Schemes Acs 1B & 1D Worcester—Rationalisation of Procedures.
• Report on Head Office of Soldiers, Sailors and Airman's Families Association.
• Hospital Ward Paperwork.
• Management Study—HMS Centurion.
• Clerical Support in DTG(RAF).
• Service Pay and Record Systems—Education Allowance.
• Review of Procedure for recovering charges for Services provided by the Met Office.
• Man S (Org) Study on Inspection Techniques and Complementing.
• Study of Naval Married Quarters Administration.
• Services Pay and Records Systems—Advances of Pay Officers.
• Data Retrieval and Project Control—Weapons Branch.
• Study of Clerical Procedures in the Daily Weather Section of the Met Office (MET.O. 10.)
• Report on Audit Study of Cash Accounts.
• Examination of the need for reference out of vouchers by Accounts 8 to other Branches.
• Services Pay and Record Systems Quartering—Accommodation and Food Charges. Officers
• Processing of Applications for Army Commissions.
• Review of Clerical Support—CPL.
• International Document Registry—Work Flow.
• Directorate of Naval Foreign and Commonwealth Training—Review of Organisation.
• Rationalisation Arrangements for Storage and Distribution of Clothing.
• MOV OPS (RAF) Flight Scheduling.
• Repair Control. Procedures in Production Management Wing. HQ REME Support Wing.
• Organisation and Management of MGD(N)'s Department.
• D13b(NAVY) Study of Manual and Clerical Procedures.
• Clyde Submarine Base—Recruitment of Industrial Labour.
• Standardisation of A & I Notes.
• Rationalisation of Barrack Services.
• Addressing Facilities—MOD Headquarters Rationalisation
• Man S (Org) Study of BAOR HQ.
• MOD Libraries—Aims and Organisation.
• Review of Organisation—Procedures in METO4 and METO10.
• Study of media employed to issue instructions and announcements to MOD HQs and Outstations Personnel (DCIs, NDHDs, OMs, VNs and PE Office Circulars).
• Contracts for the Supply of Aero Engine Spares.
• Organisation and Staffing of Branch 27 RNSTS, Bath.
• Man S (Org) Study 2 on inspection techniques and complementing.
• RAF Museum—Office Organisation.
• Data Retrieval—REME Support Group. Radar Branch, RRE Malvern.
• Definition of MOD HQ and Outstations.
• Review of MOD Organisation for Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
• Study of MACH S Division of DGST(N).
• Secretariat Branch Responsibilities in CED.
• Management and Control of Test Equipment by EME 4d (ARMY).
• Production Planning and Control System. 38 Control Workshop REME.
• Review of DIS Document Production Pocedure.
• The Establishment of a Directorate of Naval Assistance Overseas.
• Air Movements Booking Organisation in BAOR and RAF Germany.
• Administration and Security of JHQ Buildings Rheindalen.
• Allocation of Married Officers Quarters, Rheindalen.
• Garrison/RAF Station Headquarters, Rheindalen.
• Report of the Working Group on the Classification of Fire Risks.
• Accommodation Stores—Procedure for the Supply of Curtains.
• Review of the Works of Stats(E)1.
• Joint Services POL Equipment—Rationalisation Procedures.
• Review of Industrial Recruitment Procedures.
• Processing of Civilians Honours in the MOD.
• Police Staffing in Cyprus.
• Study of MOD Libraries Stage II.
• Financial Control of the Food Vote.
• Arrangements for making special payments to manufacturers.
• Provisioning and Procurement of Spares for Land Systems Equipment.
• Disposals Organisation—Rationalisation of Sales Outlet Points.
• Procedures for Procurement Accounting and Payment for Made-Up Garments.
• Allocation and Control of Transit Resources in OS(AR).
• Organisation of DGIA.
• The Responsibilities of Vote Holders.
• Transit Handling Equipment for OS(AR).
• Examination of Officer Entry in NP1.
• Compensation Claims, Indemnities and Insurance: Organisation and Procedures.
• Responsibility for Use of and Expenditure on Postal Services.
• Industrial Pay Organisation in the Navy Department.
• Aircrew Training Policy—Responsibilities within MOD(N).
• Review of Procedures for the Circulation in MOD of Lists of Items surplus to requirements (Shopping List Procedures)
• Fleet Air Arm Museum Records and Retrieval System.
• Review of Army Establishment Procedures.
• Review of Stats(G)4 and Central Medical Records.
• Data Storage & Retrieval—DMS(N).
• Map Production—D Mil Svy.
• Barrack Services Organisation—Gibraltar.
• Stocktaking Major Stockholding establishments.
• Supply Management (RAF) Improvements in Effectiveness.
• Survey of the Civilian Divisions concerned with Legal matters.
• Electoral Registration of Service Personnel.
• Design of Visual Aid for the Alert System.
• Organisation and Procedures D Sigs(Air).
• Centralisation of the Finance Divisions Dealing with Service Pay, Pensions and Allowances.
• Recording of Ship Movements—DNDT.
• Navy Department Use of Real Estate.
• HQ/STC Clerical Support Services.
• CM(A)2—Organisation and Procedures.
• Army Cataloguing Authority—Clothing and General Stores Agency.
• Defence Estate Management.
• Examination of General Linguistic Services Organisation.
• Administrative Tasks at Service Hospitals.
• ^*District Secretariat (CM) and ACSM Offices—Organisation and Procedures.
• Travelling and Subsistence Claims Centralisation.
• Film making and Exhibition Capabilities.
• Review of Personnel Departments in the Royal Dockyards.
• Civilian NATO Posts.
• Organisation Air Trooping Assembly Centre.
• Army Officers Retired Pay Payments proposed transfer from PMG to MOD.
• MOD Police—Secretariat Support.
• Transfer of Naval Central Medical Records to Stats (G4).
• Automated Conveyance of Documents of MOD Dispersal Site Cardiff.
• Clerical Organisation in Military Secretary's Branch.
• Special Measure and Made to Measure Clothing.
• Analysis of Patients and Staff Catering Costs.
• Organisation of MACS(A).
• Defence Estate Records.
• Financial Control of Movements by Civil Air.
• Administration of Teachers.
• ^*Review of the Relationship between CM(GC) and Defence Lands on Civilian Housing.
• RN Film Unit—Tipner.
• ^*Office Services Study into levels of Service.
• Review of Clearance Arrangements for the Release of Military information and equipment to non-Sino Soviet block countries.
• Review of the Organisation and Control Procedures governing the Supply of Government Stores to Contractors for use against C of N contracts.
• Review of stores organisation at the Proof and Experimental Establishment Shoeburyness.
• Review of the Personnel Administration at EQb.
• Review of the Typing Services at DEQD.
• Review of the Financial Management in the Administration Division at EQD.
• ^*Colocation of the Directorate of Army Education and the Institute of Army Education.
• ^*Review of Financial Scrutiny of Equipment Requirements.
• ACGS(OR)'s Central Organisation.
• Report on the Procedure for Listing Offical Information.
• ^*Joint FCO/MOD Study of the Embassy and British Defence Staff Washington.
• RN Medical Store—Greenock.
• Civilian Establishment and Pay Office Cyprus.
• ^*Authority for the Issue of Protective Clothing to Civilian Staff.
• ^*Administrative Procedures—Met Office College.
• ^*Study into the current arrangements in CM(GC) and CM(Ind) for dealing with Civilian pay policy.
• ^*Review of DSWP(N) Software Issuing Organisation.
• ^*Transport for St. Mellons.
• Review of the Specialist Personnel Branch at RARDE.
• Review of the requirement for the Admiralty Pattern Room.
• Review of the IP1b working procedures on NATO common funded projects.
• Recruiting—Possible network of tri-Service medical examination centre at CIOs.
• Civilian Higher appointments.
• Tri-Service job-finding cell for retiring Servicemen.
• ^*Control of Government Equipment held by Contractors
• Study of the Role and Significance of the Patents Directorate.
• ^*Town Majors for Cardiff and Glasgow.
• ^*Photographic resources in the Portsmouth Area.
• MOD Commitment to Committees concerned with International Collaboration.
• ^*Nursing Skills in Service Hospitals.
• Review of Administration Procedures ROF Burghfield.
• ^*Study of Postal Arrangements.
• ^*Defence Codification Authority—Study of Organisation and Working Procedures.
• The Ordnance Board—Structure and Tasks.
• Study of Contract Document Distribution by Naval Weapons Contracts Division.
• ^*Registry and paper handling system RNAY Fleetlands.
• Study of RAF Officers' Personnel Management procedures—Records, files.
• Accommodation Stores Movement of Furniture.
• ^*Review of Registry and Clerical Services to DD Sigs 2(Air) and the projected DD Sigs 5(Air).
• ^*Review of DSWP(N) Development Contracts.
• ^*Reproduction—Study of Secretarial and Typing Services.
• Claims Commission Study of Payments Authorisation System.
• ^*Study of PE Communications Centre.
• ^*Review of the out of system management of 'A' class stores.
• ^*Vote management of RAF fuels and accommodation services in S9(Air).
• Review of Services Kinema Corporation.
• Preparation of Naval Pensions Estimates.
• ^*Officers—Entry section NPI Location and Reporting Times.
• ^*Survey of Civilian Division concerned with legal matters/ 1980.
• Study of Management of BUTEC.
• ^*CPR Departmental press cutting service, newspapers and periodicals.
• ^*Receipt, storage and distribution of Forms and Publications.
• ^*Study of Army Cataloguing Authority.
• Rationalisation of Bath Telex facilities.
• ^*Standard language work in MOD.
• Recruiting methods for the '80s.
• Provision of Staff car drivers—Pilot Study.
• ^*HMSO production of MOD Publications.
• ^*Accommodation Stores—Defurnishing of MQs.
• Review of MOD Protocol Office—Interim only.
• ^*Review of Navy Department Organisation for Foreign and Commonwealth Training.
• ^*Study of MGO's controllerate.
• ^*Reprographic Facilities in the Portsmouth area.
• Organisation of Work and procedures in D of Q(RAF).
• ^*Navy Department Organisation on Introduction of Dockyards Trading Fund.
• ^*Review of OR procedures.
• Review of MOD Protocol Office.
• Central Casualty Section in the MOD.
• ^*Institute of Army Education Publications and Supplies Branch.
• Review of Land Systems in Service Procurement.
• Personnel management of PTO III and PTO IV in the Army Department.
• Delegation of Complementing Authority.
• Care of Service Animals.
• Review of the constitutional arrangements for SKC/BFBS.
• Organisation and working arrangements of Admin Office supporting RNO Pembroke Dock.
• ^*Administrative overheads of Service Hospitals.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how much was originally allocated by Her Majesty's Government to each housing authority for improvement grants; and whether he will list the extra allocations to housing authorities of the £74·5 million allocated in the recent Budget Statement for this purpose.

The normal HIP allocations to housing authorities for 1982–83, announced on 22 December, are a single block grant within which no sums are specified for any particular purpose such as improvement grants; whereas the amounts allocated following the Chancellor's statement are for home improvement grants only. Details of these further provisional allocations, to which I referred in my replies to my hon. Friends the Member for Melton (Mr. Latham) on 21 April and for Reading, North (Mr. Durant) on 6 May, have been placed in the Library.—[Vol. 22, c. 249–256; Vol. 23, c. 117.]

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many units of accommodation in small hostels through registered housing associations have been offered to date under the hostels initiative by the Housing Corporation; what is the number approved in each housing corporation region; and how many of these hostel places are intended to provide accommodation for single homeless people.

Since the beginning of the Government's hostels initiative on 1 April 1981 and up to 26 May 1982 the Housing Corporation has approved the provision of 2,017 bed spaces in hostels accommodating up to 30 residents.Although hostels cater for a variety of client groups, most of the bed spaces provided under the initiative will be for people living singly who would otherwise be homeless or living in very unsatisfactory conditions. Those approved in each region to date under the initiative by the Housing Corporation are as follows:

Region	Approvals
Merseyside	128
North-West	159
North-East	195
West Midlands	233
East Midlands	102
West	304
London Home Counties North	516
London Home Counties South	380
TOTAL FOR ENGLAND	2,017

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when section 29 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act will be implemented.

The Government expect the necessary administrative arrangements and regulations to be completed in time for section 29 to take effect in the late summer 1982.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if efforts to protect areas of the Halvergate marshes have failed; and what efforts were made to protect them.

Extensive negotiations have taken place between the parties concerned with a view to the protection of areas of Halvergate marshes. These negotiations have not yet reached a conclusion.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish the criteria used by the Nature Conservancy Council in the selection of land for notification as a site of special scientific interest; and when these criteria were last reviewed.

An explanatory paper describing the criteria used by the Nature Conservancy Council in the selection of sites of special scientific interest is available from the council on application. A copy was placed in the Library of the House last year. The criteria were last reviewed in 1979.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will set out the arrangements for the employment and remuneration of the chief executive of the Property Services Agency; and whether these include an element of reimbursement to the company for which he formerly worked.

Mr. Alfred is employed under contract with a privately owned company for a three-year period as chief executive of the Property Service Agency as from 1 January 1982. £50,000 per annum plus VAT is payable to this company, which is responsible for his superannuation and national insurance provision. No further payment or reimbursement has been made to any other company for which Mr. Alfred previously worked.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if the chief executive of the Property Services Agency performs the functions of accounting officer and principal establishments officer; and what functions he carries out in the financial and personnel spheres.

The chief executive of the Property Services Agency is the accounting officer for the agency and for PSA Supplies. The principal establishments officer—under secretary—reports direct to the chief executive. The chief executive carries out the duties normally associated with the head of the Property Services Agency.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the results of implementing circular 22/80.

The two main aims of circular 22/80 are to speed up the development control system, and to avoid unnecessary restrictions on development where no clear planning purpose is served.There has been a welcome improvement in the speed with which planning applications are handled. At the beginning of 1980, 60 per cent. of all planning applications were decided in eight weeks. By the end of 1981, 70 per cent. were decided in eight weeks. There is however a wide range of performance between individual authorities and I shall be making a direct approach to those authorities whose performance seems seriously inadequate.Many authorities have shown a more positive attitude to development, and are not placing unnecessary obstacles in its path. However, some authorities have been slow to move away from a negative and restrictive approach. In particular, I am looking for a more widespread adoption of our policies on small businesses, starter homes, and aesthetic control.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his reply to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe on 19 May, if he has now replied to the letter under the heading Gatwick Airport: Second Terminal which was sent on 4 May by the town clerk of Manchester on behalf of the North of England regional consortium to the regional controller (planning) of his Department's south-east regional office; and if he will make a statement.

No reply has yet been sent. As I indicated in my reply of 19 May, my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for the Environment and for Trade are considering the town clerk's letter, along with all the other representations received about the second terminal at Gatwick airport.—[Vol. 24,. c. 140.]

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will take steps to remedy the inadequate provision by some local authorities of facilities for the care of the mentally ill.

Local authorities have powers to make arrangements for the care and after-care of persons suffering from illness. In the case of persons who are or have been suffering from mental disorder there is a duty to provide certain services, including residential accommodation and day centres.Planning guidelines on future levels of provision of residential accommodation and day care were discussed in the 1975 White Paper "Better Services for the Mentally Ill"—Cmnd. 6233—which indicated that completing the future pattern was likely to take 20–30 years.I am aware that local authorities current progress towards these levels of provision varies. But as the White Paper said

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what were the amounts of revenue spending at constant November 1978 prices for each regional health authority area in England for 1980–81; and what are the estimates for 1981–82.

The table below shows the revenue spending at constant November 1978 prices for each regional health authority in England for 1980–81. Information on estimated expenditure for 1981–82 by individual regional health authorities is not held centrally.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what are his estimates of programmed

Health and Personal Social Services—England
Estimated Net Current and Capital Expenditure by Programme
£ million November 1980 prices
	1976–77	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	*1980–81
Primary Care	2,087	2,108	2,160	2,158	2,131
(percentage of total)	(19·2 per cent.)	(19·3 percent.)	(19·3 percent.)	(19·2 percent.)	(18·7 per cent.)
General Acute Hospital and Maternity Services	4,379	4,379	4,474	4,437	4,462
(percentage of total)	(40·3 percent.)	(40·1 percent.)	(39·9 per cent.)	(39·4 per cent.)	(39·2 per cent.)
Services mainly for Elderly and Physically Handicapped	1,485	1,470	1,553	1,579	1,632
(percentage of total)	(13·7 percent.)	(13·5 percent.)	(13·9 per cent.)	(14·0 per cent.)	(14·3 per cent.)
Services for Mentally Handicapped	468	472	481	500	513
(percentage of total)	(4·3 per cent.)	(4·3 per cent.)	(4·3 percent.)	(4·4 per cent.)	(4·5 per cent.)
Services for Mentally III	802	831	844	844	861
(percentage of total)	(7·4 per cent.)	(7·6 per cent.)	(7·5 percent.)	(7·5 per cent.)	(7·6 per cent.)
Services mainly for Children	582	593	603	609	631
(percentage of total)	(5·4 per cent.)	(5·4 per cent.)	(5·4 per cent.)	(5·4 per cent.)	(5·5 per cent.)
Other Services	1,059	1,064	1,086	1,122	1,155
(percentage of total)	(9·8 per cent.)	(9·7 per cent.)	(9·7 per cent.)	(10·0 percent.)	(10·1 percent.)
Grand Total	10,861	10,918	11,201	11,250	11,384
* Provisional.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish figures showing the changes in hospital current expenditure at constant prices, on inputs other than staff, broken down by convenient categories for 1980 and 1981.

The following table shows expenditure on various categories of non-staff expenditure by health authorities in 1980–81. It is not possible to separate expenditure relating to hospitals from community health services in this detail. Expenditure in 1981–82 is not yet available.

Analysis of 1980–81 non-staff revenue expenditure
	£
Drugs	185,279,797
Medical Gases	8,365,914
Dressings	37,258,897
Medical and Surgical Equipment—Purchases	180,717,089

Apart from certain centrally financed services, funds are not allocated centrally to particular programmes. Our estimate of health and local authorities' spending are valid for monitoring broad trends, but not for making close comparisons between individual programmes or between one year and the next. The most readily available figures are at November 1980 prices, and are attached. They are net of charges, and indicate changes in programme shares within an expanding overall total. Figures from 1976–77 presented on the same price base have been included to show the trend across a longer period.

	£
Medical and Surgical Equipment—Maintenance Contracts	8,952,807
X-Ray Equipment and Materials
X-Ray Film	27,938,038
X-Ray Equipment and Chemicals	8,296,474
X-Ray Equipment—Maintenance Contracts	5,424,001
Patients' Appliances	46,995,730
Laboratory Equipment—Instruments and Materials	38,769,139
Laboratory Equipment—Maintenance Contracts	3,569,027
Laboratory Services provided by non-NHS Bodies	8,452,809
Occupational and Industrial Therapy Equipment and Materials	4,132,718
Fluoridation Payments to Water Authorities	416,401
Provisions—Purchases	154,172,176
Provisions—Contract catering	977,645
Staff Uniform and Clothing including contracts for making up etc.	23,180,775
Patients' Clothing	14,143,721
Fuel, Light and Power
Coal	19,777,023
Oil	90,749,677

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate the number of hyperactive mentally handicapped children and adults being looked after at home, whose hyperactivity precludes the use of public transport.

I regret that no information is available centrally that would enable such an estimate to be made.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what is his policy with regard to providing a national network of overnight parking places for heavy goods vehicles.

We believe that it is primarily for the road haulage industry to ensure that adequate provision is made for overnight parking of lorries. This was also the view of the Armitage inquiry. Proposals in the Transport Bill will enable licensing authorities to take into account environmental matters, including parking arrangements, when considering an application for a road haulage operator's licence.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he proposes to exempt drivers of hearses engaged in funeral duties from the compulsory wearing of seat belts when the relevant legislation is implemented.

As my right hon. Friend made clear in his statement on 8 December, he intends to require seat belts to be worn, in the majority of cases, where they have to be fitted under the construction and use regulations. I understand that hearses usually exceed 1,525 kg unladen weight or have a maximum permitted weight exceeding 3,500 kg and therefore belts are not compulsorily fitted. They will not therefore have to be compulsorily worn.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport when he intends to lay the regulations concerning seat belt exemption certificates before the House.

My right hon. Friend is not prepared to lay the regulations until the outstanding issue of the fires for medical exemption certificates has been settled with the British Medical Association. They have said that they will be recommending to their members a fee of £19.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport, if he is satisfied with public awareness of the introduction of the compulsory wearing of front seat belts; and if he will now make a statement regarding the commencement date and the categories of exclusion.

[pursuant to her reply, 27 May 1982]: My right hon. Friend indicated in the statement of proposals he laid before Parliament on 8 December last year that he would take steps to publicise widely the introduction of compulsory seat belt wearing before the new law came into force. However, I am not prepared to lay the regulations, which will set out the proposed categories of exemption and the commencement date, until the outstanding issue of the fees for medical exemption certificates has been settled with the British Medical Association. It has said that it will be recommending to its members a fee of £19 for a medical examination.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what is the average passenger cost per mile of public bus transport in each of the following regions (a)the city of Cardiff, (b) the city of Birmingham and (c) the inner London area.

I regret that information is not available in the form requested. I am writing to the hon. Member.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage of persons involved in cycling accidents are 16 years old or younger.

In 1980, 53 per cent. of reported pedal cyclist casualties were 16 years old or under. However, a considerable number of pedal cycle accidents remain unreported.

asked the Secretary of state for Transport what was the amount of funding provided to local authorities for cycling experiments in 1981.

The Department provided £50,000 in 1981–82 to fund the innovatory aspects of a number of local authority cycle schemes. In addition the local authority expenditure on these schemes was supported through transport supplementary grant. This programme of schemes is being expanded in 1982–83 and succeeding years.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish in the Official Report a list of sections of motorways which have only two-lane carriageways, together with the length of each section.

I will write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport whether in view of the likely disturbance to people in the residential areas affected by his alternative eastbound route for lorries with a gross weight over 32·5 tonnes on the A40, he will propose an alternative replacement route or take steps to publicise the extent of compensation available to the households concerned, supplementing such compensation by ex gratia payments if necessary.

I am investigating the background to this matter and will reply fully to my hon. Friend as soon as I can.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport whether any of the Government funding formerly allocated to the RAC motor-cyclist training scheme has now been paid to the British Motorcycle Safety Foundation.

As I indicated in my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden (Mr. Mills) on 7 April, we have agreed to make available to the foundation a significant proportion of the £143,000 originally allocated to the RAC in respect of motor-cycle training during the current year.—[Vol. 21: c. 361.] The money will be paid as soon as possible when various detailed arrangements have been completed.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will discuss the implications of flexible rostering for British Railways' future investment needs with the chairman of the Railways Board.

I meet the chairman of the Railways Board frequently to discuss a variety of current issues. On the implications of flexible rostering for rail investment I would commend to the hon. Member what Lord McCarthy said in the recent Railways Staffs National Tribunal report:

"Unless progress is made on this question the future outlook for the railway system and railwaymen is bleak and unpromising".

asked the Secretary of State for Transport at what times of the week the site at Alexandra Street first school, Goole, is to be used for motor cycling training and testing.

This will be determined by STEP Management Services who are responsible for motor-cycle testing by the national motor-cycle training scheme at that site.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if, further to his reply of 24 May to the hon. Member for Rugby, he will consider applying traffic restrictions to the road through Clifton on Dunsmore to prevent its use by through or heavy traffic.

[pursuant to her reply, 27 May 1982]: This would be a matter for Warwickshire county council as highway authority.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will review his decision to allow the proposed construction of Penwortham bypass to have an exit next to a primary school and into a road carrying substantial traffic and crossed by many schoolchildren.

[pursuant to her reply, 24 May 1982, c. 260]: No. Having given a decision on the planning application and associated matters following a public inquiry, the Secretaries of State for Environment and Transport have no further jurisdiction and no power to reopen the inquiry. The matter now rests with Lancashire county council.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what steps he proposes to take to avoid the creation of what his inspector at the public inquiry on the proposed Penwortham bypass described as unacceptable road safety hazards for young children, in connection with the siting of one exit from the bypass.

[pursuant to her reply, 24 May 1982, c. 260]: None. The inspector's doubts about the safety of the Cop Lane junction were not shared by the Secretaries of State. The proposed new junction, designed to current standards, with traffic signal control and a pedestrian footbridge, will result in better rather than worse safety conditions in the vicinity of the primary school.

asked the Secetary of State for Transport if any alteration was made to the original tender specification for the bearing plinth replacements recently completed at Gravelly Hill on the Midland link motorways; and if he will make a statement.

[pursuant to her reply, 27 May]: Apart from routine changes to meet local conditions the only alteration has been in respect of the period between the application of the second and third coats of sealing compound.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will arrange another press facility in respect of the problems of the M6 motorway in the West Midlands similar to that held by his Department on 7 July 1980.

[pursuant to her reply, 27 May]: Every effort is made to help meet particular requests. If requests are made for a more general facility, I will certainly consider them.

asked the Minister for Trade whether he will publish a table in the Official Report for 4 January 1959 and each subsequent year showing the proportion of United Kingdom imports from Argentina to United Kingdom imports rounded to three decimal places.

The available information is as follows:

Percentage by value (CIF) of United Kingdom Imports Consigned from Argentina 1959–81
Year	per cent.
1959	2·651
1960	2·152
1961	1·706
1962	2·077
1963	1·849
1964	1·419
1965	1·243
1966	1·187
1967	1·121
1968	0·655
1969	0·947
1970	0·733
1971	0·583
1972	0·691
1973	0·675
1974	0·403
1975	0·222
1976	0·298
1977	0·333
1978	0·387
1979	0·307
1980	0·233
Jan.–June; Sept.–Dec.
1981	0·262

asked the Minister for Trade what percentage of the total production of United Kingdom vehicle components is exported; and if he will express the total of overseas components imported for the completion of United Kingdom manufactured or assembled vehicles as a percentage of total domestic production.

The information required to answer this question is not available.

asked the Minister for Trade what has been the United Kingdom's balance of trade in information technology for the three latest years.

I regret that no exact answer can be provided because of the difficulty of defining information technology precisely in terms of commodities and services. In view of the variety of equipment and services relevant to the areas of technology in question attempting even a rough answer would entail disproportionate cost.

asked the Minister for Trade if he will provide an outline of the main proposals in the current draft of the fifth company law directive as amended by the European Parliament; and what is Her Majesty's Government's policy on the draft.

Copies are available, in the Library, of the Department of Trade's brief for United Kingdom Members of the European Parliament on the EC draft fifth directive on company law dated 19 February 1982. It contains a detailed summary of the Commission's proposals and of the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee report which was adopted by the Parliament on 11 May.The Government's view on the draft directive, as set out in the brief, remains unchanged.

asked the Minister for Trade if he contemplates any changes in the Export Credits Guarantee Department's support for the financing of United Kingdom capital goods exports in foreign currencies.

I believe that the ECGD facilities which have been available in this connection since 1977 for financing United States dollar and deutschemark credits of two years or longer have worked well and remain a useful aid to exporters. The International Consensus on export credits permits preferentially low interest rates to be offered on credits financed in currencies for which domestic interest rates are low, and in agreement with the Japanese authorities ECGD will be extending those facilities to certain credits financed in yen as from 7 June, primarily where this is needed to enable our capital goods exporters to offer interest rates comparable to those available from competitors in Japan or other countries having like arrangements with Japan.This extension also applies to ECGD's tender-to-contract facility, which is available for currency contracts with a minimum United Kingdom value of £5 million equivalent; but, in order to keep charges for this facility as low as possible, its terms for all new applications received after today, in respect of all the approved currencies, will provide for ECGD's trading accounts to benefit by the full amount of any exchange gains which accrue. At present ECGD does not benefit from any gains in excess of 10 per cent. of the expected sterling outturn.From 7 June ECGD will also introduce a new forward exchange supplement facility to provide exporters who win contracts of a minimum United Kingdom value of £5 million equivalent, which are invoiced in an approved foreign currency and are either on credit terms financed in that currency or are on cash payment terms, and which are insured by ECGD on a specific basis, with an assured sterling outturn if all or part of their receivables cannot be promptly sold forward in the commercial foreign exchange market. A specific premium charge will be made for this facility which will be provided on similar terms to tender-to-contract cover.ECGD will shortly circulate fuller details of these changes to the relevant sectors of industry.

asked the Minister for Trade what steps are being taken to ensure that no goods imported by the Republic of Ireland from Argentina can enter the United Kingdom.

The origin of goods imported into the United Kingdom from the Republic of Ireland has to be disclosed in the customs entry document. Since 7 April all imports of goods exported from Argentina have required the authority of import licences issued by my Department. In order to obtain licences traders have been required to prove that the goods were en route for the United Kingdom before midnight on 6 April. This position remains unchanged. Customs enforces these import licence requirements regardless of the country consignment whether or not the goods are in free circulation.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what Manpower Services Commission preparatory courses designed specifically for those speaking English as a second language are to be offered in (a) Greater London and (b) south-east London during 1982–83; how many places will be available on each; and how these figures compare with those for 1981–82.

The information is as follows:

Courses in 1982–83	Number of trainee starts
Hugh Middleton College	30
Barking College	16
City and East London College	16
West Ham College	16
South Thames College	12
Coombe Cliff AEI	12
Pathway Centre	28
Harrow College	16
Hendon College	36
Goldsmiths College*	32
Vauxhall College*	32
TOTAL 1982–83	246

Courses in 1981–82	Number of trainee starts
Barking College	12
City and East London College	16
West Ham College	12
South Thames College	12

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will introduce legislation extending all the legal rights of full-time workers to part-time workers; and if he will make a statement.

Most employees already qualify for the individual statutory rights under the employment protection legislation—to which I assume the hon. Member is referring—provided that they have been employed for at least 16 hours per week by their employer and have completed the necessary qualifying period of service for the right concerned. Employees who have been employed continuously by their employer for at least five years also qualify for these rights provided they have worked for at least eight hours per week over this period.My right hon. Friend has no plans to extend the rights to part-time workers below these limits.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will now seek to extend the role of the Central Arbitration Committee in relation to equal pay and the establishment of equality officers.

These matters have been raised by the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Trades Union Congress in proposing wide-ranging amendments to the Equal Pay Act 1970. These proposals are still under consideration.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will now consider amending the Sex Discrimination Act to shift the burden of proof on to the employers to show that they have not discriminated.

Amendments on these lines are included among a number of wide-ranging amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act proposed by the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Trades Union Congress. These are currently under consideration by the Government, although there is no early prospect of amending legislation.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will now consider amending the Sex Discrimination Act to extend the sections on positive action to enable employers to be designated as able to discriminate positively at the point of recruitment.

No. It is a fundamental principle of the Act that selection at the point of recruitment should be on merit alone. However, the Act does allow employers to take positive action for one sex only, without the need for any formal designation, by way of encouragement and training for work where one sex has in the past been underrepresented.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many young people in Bury and Radcliffe have not had a job since leaving school.

At 13 May there were 444 registered unemployed young people under 18 years of age in the Bury travel-to-work area who had not entered employment since completing full-time education. The Bury travel-to-work area comprises the Bury, Heywood and Radcliffe

Unemployed for over 52 weeks
	Males		All (males + females)
Age	Number	As a percentage of total for all ages	Number	At a percentage of total for all ages
Under 18	21	1·1	40	1·6
18	38	2·0	49	2·0
19	64	3·4	84	3·4
20 to 24	330	17·4	440	17·9
25 to 29	242	12·7	313	12·7
30 to 34	240	12·6	287	11·7
35 to 44	311	16·4	395	16·1
45 to 49	136	7·2	181	7·4
50 to 54	152	8·0	206	8·4
55 to 59	178	9·4	276	11·2
60 and over	190	10·0	190	7·7
Total, all ages	1,902	100·0	2,461	100·0

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report a table giving the total number of persons, including young persons, engaged on Manpower Services Commission schemes in the Bury and Radcliffe travel-to-work areas, together with a breakdown showing the number of schemes and the number of persons engaged in each category of scheme.

Bury and Radcliffe Travel-to-work Areas
MSC Scheme	Nearest equivalent to Bury and Radcliffe area for which figures are available	Number of schemes active as at 24 May 1982	Number of participants/filled places
Youth Opportunities Programme	Bolton and Bury Local Authority Districts	870 Work experience on employers premises schemes 16 Community Projects 2 Training workshops	In April 1982 approx. 300 young people entered schemes
Community Enterprise Programme	MSC Special programmes division's Manchester West area office (includes Bolton, Bury, Salford, Trafford, Wigan)	120	At the end of April 1982 there were 699 filled places on schemes
Training Opportunities Programme	MSC's training services division Bolton district office area including Bury, Bolton, Rochdale, Hindley	Not available	At the end of April 1982 there were 199 people participating in courses

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what was the rate of increase in women's unemployment over male unemployment during 1980 and 1981.

Between January 1980 and January 1981 the numbers registered as unemployed in the United

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide a numerical and percentage breakdown of those unemployed for one year or over in the Bury and Radcliffe travel-to-work area by age group for (a) males and (b) both sexes.

The following is the information for the Bury travel-to-work area which comprises the Bury, Heywood and Radcliffe employment office areas.

The information is not available in the exact form requested. The schemes run by the Manpower Services Commission are administered on different geographical areas. The table below gives details of MSC schemes broken down into areas coinciding as closely as possible with the areas requested.Kingdom increased by 68·9 per cent. for males and 54·7 per cent. for females. For 1981 the corresponding increases were 28·4 per cent. and 23·4 per cent.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will take steps to ensure that employers compile a list of substances used in their business which describes their hazards and the precautions to be taken in their use; and if he will seek legislation to require lists of hazardous substances, and a description of the hazards of each, to be displayed on the work premises.

The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 places a duty on every employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of his employees. This duty extends to the provision of such information as is necessary for this purpose but information is not the only, nor necessarily the principal, means of ensuring employees' health and safety.The Health and Safety Commission is currently considering its general policy on the provision of information to employees, and also more specific proposals in relation to the control of substances hazardous to health. The commission's plan of work for 1981–82 and onwards includes proposals for the preparation of regulations, approved codes of practice and guidance notes on the control of substances hazardous to health and the advisory committee on toxic substances is studying preliminary proposals. These proposals include the assessment of the employer's work activities to produce information on the nature and degreee of exposure to substances hazardous to health and the provision of appropriate information to employees.HSC expects to publish its proposals in 1983 and a period for consultation will follow. This would be the appropriate time to consider the matters that the right hon. Member has raised.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what progress is being made in bringing the new training initiative into operation.

My right hon. Friend has spoken to the chairman of the Manpower Services Commission about the youth task group report and youth training recently. We shall be giving the Government's decision on the report, and the future of youth training, as soon as possible in the summer.

Households accepted as homeless: January to June 1981
	Priority class
	Household with dependent children	Household member pregnant	Household member vulnerable (old age)	Household member vulnerable (mental or physical disability)	Household member vulnerable (other reasons)	Household homeless in an emergency	Total acceptances including non-priority cases
Alyn and Deeside	33	3	2	1	—	1	42
Colwyn	4	1	—	—	—	—	4
Delyn	13	8	1	1	—	1	25
Glyndwr	3	1	—	1	—	1	7
Rhuddlan	23	—	1	—	—	1	26
Wrexham Maelor	44	3	2	9	1	4	69
Carmarthen	21	3	2	3	—	3	37
Ceredigion	7	—	2	—	1	1	11
Dinefwr	5	—	—	—	—	—	5
Llanelli	20	2	1	—	—	1	27
Preseli	14	3	1	3	—	5	27
South Pembrokeshire	22	4	2	3	—	—	33
Blaenau Gwent	50	3	2	10	1	2	73
Islwyn	20	1	1	1	—	3	29
Monmouth	55	8	5	7	—	2	96
Newport	204	34	24	2	—	3	274
Torfaen	78	12	7	2	1	2	143
Aberconwy	18	5	4	1	—	1	29

asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will estimate the cost of importing from the United States of America key reactor pressure vessels and other equipment, if it is decided to build the nuclear power station at Sizewell.

I refer the hon. Member to my reply of 10 May.—[Vol. 23, c. 171.]

asked the Secretary of State for Wales for how many homeless households Welsh local authorities accepted responsibility in the first half of 1981; and how these figures compare with the two previous six month periods.

Two thousand, eight hundred and thirty in the first half of 1981 compared with 2,786 and 2,660 in the second and first halves of 1980 respectively.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of homeless households for whom local authorities accepted responsibility in the first half of 1981 belonged to one of the priority need categories in the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977.

Eighty-five per cent.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will tabulate the individual local authority acceptances for homelessness for the last available six month period and set out the relevant priority need category.

The information is shown in the following table: