asked the Secretary of State for Wales on how many occasions he has met officers of West Glamorgan county council during the past 12 months; and what has been the occasion for each of these meetings.

I have not had separate meetings with officers of West Glamorgan county council, but officers have been present at meetings I have held with representatives of local authorities generally.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the figures showing the total milk produced in Wales at the most recent available date compared with the volume of milk consumed in Wales.

The provisional figure for total milk sales off farms in Wales in 1981 is 1,567·1 million litres.While information on the total consumption of milk in Wales is not available, estimates derived from the national food survey indicate that consumption of liquid milk by households in Wales in 1981 amounted to 4·28 pints—2·43 litres—per person per week.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales what proposals he has in mind for the re-siting in Llanwrst, Gwynedd, of the livestock market if and when the present one is displaced by the proposed new bypass of the town, the route whereof he has recently approved.

The Llanwrst bypass is at an early stage of preparation. The statutory processes have yet to be undertaken and the scheme is not scheduled for a start until after 1987. Properties which may be affected by the scheme will be eligible for compensation assessed in accordance with the usual principles and it is, in the first instance, for the owners of the cattle market to consider at the appropriate stage the question of an alternative site.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales whether he remains satisfied that local authorities in Wales continue to fulfil their obligations under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970.

I believe that the local authorities in Wales seek conscientiously to discharge their obligations under this Act.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his Department has sponsored or has available the results of any research work on (a) the effect that the number of beat policemen has upon the level of crime and (b) the level of expenditure required to ensure the success of such a policy; and if he will make a statement.

The Department has sponsored research on the effect that the number of beat police officers has upon the level of crime and has available to it the results of a large number of studies, chiefly conducted in the United States. A review of research evaluating the effectiveness of various methods of policing, including beat policing, has been published as No. 67 in the Home Office research studies series under the title "Crime Control and the Police". A copy of this report has been placed in the Library of the House. No assessment can be made nationally of expenditure needed to ensure the success of any one policing method. We are supporting chief officers in their efforts to deploy their officers to maximum effect; but policing methods will necessarily vary according to local needs and circumstances.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how the figure of £100,000, given in his answer of 29 June, Official Report, c.270, for the minimum level of capital required for an applicant seeking entry to the United Kingdom as a person of independent means compares with the level of assets previously required for entry on those terms.

The previous Immigration Rules—HC 79 and 81; 1973—did not specify a minimum level of capital. An applicant seeking to come here as a person of independent means had to show that he could maintain himself and any dependants indefinitely without working.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make a statement about the transmission standards for direct broadcasting by satellite.

The transmission standards for the United Kingdom direct broadcasting by satellite—DBS—services need to be determined soon if the necessary receiving equipment is to be ready in time for the projected start of DBS in 1986. Before reaching final decisions, which will be of great importance both to our manufacturing industry and to the viewing public generally, I wish to have the benefit of independent expert advice and am accordingly setting up, in consultation with the Secretary of State for Industry, an advisory panel with the following terms of reference:

To consider what technical transmission standards should be adopted for United Kingdom services of direct broadcasting by satellite; and to submit advice by early in November 1982.

I am glad to announce that Sir Antony Part, chairman of Orion Insurance Company and a former permanent secretary of the Departments of Trade and Industry, has agreed to be chairman of the panel. The other members will be Professor Roger Griffiths, Professor of electronics at Loughborough university, and Professor Alan Day, pro-director and professor of economics at the London School of Economics. Additionally, Mr. Bernard Rogers, a consultant on consumer electronics and on international and national standards and issues, will be available to the panel as an assessor.I am most grateful to the members of the panel for agreeing at short notice to undertake this important piece of public service.

asked the Attorney-General if he is now ready to announce whether further charges will be brought against nurses at Rampton hospital.

There remain two cases involving four nurses which are at present under consideration by the Director of Public Prosecutions. On the information now available, no further cases are envisaged.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will give an analysis by country of the 3,400 students from non-North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries trained in the United Kingdom in 1981 referred to at paragraph 231 of the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1982", Cmnd. 8529–1.

It is not our practice to reveal details of training which we provide for particular countries since such information is confidential between ourselves and the Government concerned. However, the non-NATO countries for which we provided training in 1981 were as follows:

Argentina	Malawi
Australia	Malaysia
Bahamas	Mauritius
Bahrein	Morocco
Bangladesh	Nepal
Barbados	New Zealand
Belize	Nigeria
Bermuda	Oman
Botswana	Pakistan
Brazil	Papua New Guinea
Brunei	Peru
Burma	Philippines
Chile	Qatar
Cyprus	Saudi Arabia
Ecuador	Senegal
Egypt	Sierra Leone
Fiji	Singapore
Finland	Spain*

Gambia	Sri Lanka
Ghana	St. Lucia
Guyana	St. Vincent
Hong Kong	Sudan
India	Swaziland
Indonesia	Sweden
Iran	Switzerland
Iraq	Syria
Ireland	Tanzania
Israel	Thailand
Jamaica	Tonga
Japan	Trinidad and Tobago
Jordan	Uganda
Kenya	United Arab Emirates
Korea (South)	Venezuela
Kuwait	Yemen
Lebanon	Zaire
Lesotho	Zambia
Libya	Zimbabwe
* Became NATO member 1982.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the progress of his consultations with British industry to supply competitive equipment to that obtained heretofore from foreign sources for extruded steel frames and forgings for use in the construction of submarines for the Royal Navy.

In co-operation with the British Steel Corporation we expect to carry out a trial rolling of steel frames for patrol submarines next year. Discussions between MOD and DOI officials and BSC on forgings for reactor pressure vessels are continuing.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what compensation is payable to widows who lost their husbands during the Falklands war; and what weekly pension they are paid.

The widow receives her husband's salary for a period of 91 days from the date of his death, or for 182 days if she has one or more dependent children. A death grant and an additional gratuity are paid. The Service widow's pension is 90 per cent. of the pension that the Service man would have received had he served to the end of a full career, with an adjustment to take account of the more favourable Department of Health and Social Security widow's pension that is paid when the husband's death is attributable to his service. Both the Ministry of Defence and the Department of Health and Social Security pay additional pensions to children. The Department of Health and Social Security pensions are paid tax-free. All pensions are index linked from the date of award. The detailed payments are set out in the following table. Annual rates have been used since this is the rate at which Service pensions are awarded.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many of the 221,000 civilian manpower of his Department estimated for 1982 Cmnd. 8529–I, page 30, are employed in Wales; and how this compares with the corresponding figure for 1979.

The Estimates provision of 221,000 was the overall maximum manpower level permitted for United Kingdom-based staff for 1 April 1982. The Estimates provision is not sub-divided into United Kingdom geographical areas. An analysis of actual strengths by United Kingdom geographical area at 1 January each year from 1977 to 1982 is given in table 5.4 of Cmnd. 8529–II.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish a table showing, for each year from 1979–80 to 1982–83, the amount of defence expenditure which was made in Wales.

As I explained in my reply of 6 April—[Vol. 21, c. 312]—defence expenditure is not accounted for on a regional basis.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish a table showing for the current year, or the nearest available year, the defence expenditure per head of population, in £ sterling equivalent, for each of the countries in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the European Economic Community and for Norway, Sweden and Finland, Austria and Switzerland.

The most up to date information available for countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is as follows:

Defence spending per head, 1981
Country	£
United States	360
France	220
United Kingdom	217
Norway	199

Country	£
Germany	187
Belgium	168
Netherlands	158
Denmark	138
Greece	117
Canada	104
Italy	75
Luxembourg	63
Portugal	41
Turkey	33

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many service personnel have received a medical discharge from illness or accident in each of the last five years; and how many of these have had a medical discharge due to wounds received in the course of military action.

The information requested for the latest five years for which it is available is as follows:

	Total discharges	Discharges due to military action
1976	1,749	19
1977	1,691	17
1978	1,632	12
1979	1,386	10
1980	1,004	8

All the medical discharges due to military action were as a result of wounds incurred in Northern Ireland.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence which training schemes are available to Armed Forces personnel wounded in the course of military action for rehabilitation and training for a civil job.

Many training courses for civilian employment are available to disabled Service men at the Services' resettlement centres, at Ministry of Defence sponsored courses run by various polytechnics and colleges of further education, or by attachment to a prospective employer. These can be supplemented after discharge by courses arranged by the Manpower Services Commission either under the training opportunities scheme, or by attending an employment rehabilitation centre.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if, in assessing the effects of the Falklands dispute and its consequences for the future of the Royal Navy, reconsideration will be given to the role of HMS "Caledonia" as a training centre for naval personnel.

The assessment of the operations in the South Atlantic is still in process. However, it is difficult to see, at this stage, that any practical lesson we learn from these operations will significantly affect our plans for the reorganisation of shore training at HMS "Caledonia".

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what response he has received to his proposals for linking the Royal Military College of Science with civilian universities for some aspects of its teaching programme.

Northern Ireland Departments	Financial Year
	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82
	£	£	£	£
Finance/Department of the Civil Service*	16,750	25,230	20,200	40,600
Commerce	23,939	17,453	14,942	9,871
Agriculture	18,987	31,480	29,876	189,070
Manpower Services	2,118,571	3,912,881	4,436,232	8,003,804
Environment	4,145,452	8,187,499	12,760,451	21,542,373
Health and Social Services	504,458	861,998	1,033,252	1,480,677
Education	2,253,503	2,390,908	2,860,991	2,238,372
Northern Ireland Office	116,000	148,595	237,670	314,256
* These two Departments were amalgamated on 1 April 1982.

The voluntary organisations receiving funds from Northern Ireland Departments are contained in the following lists:

We are having discussions with a number of universities and hope to receive detailed proposals from them in the autumn.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if the United Kingdom Government will support the European Commission's draft directive providing safeguards and rights for temporary workers; and if he will make a statement.

The United Kingdom Government's approach to the draft directive was set out fully in the Department's explanatory memorandum of 30 June 1982. As explained in that document, the draft directive envisages intervention in areas relating to the employment of temporary workers which are not generally covered by legislation in the United Kingdom but are left to voluntary agreement or individual choice. In discussions within the Council of Ministers machinery, the United Kingdom Government will express the view that a mandatory instrument of this kind is inappropriate.

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much money was given by Northern Ireland Departments to voluntary organisations in each of the last four financial years for which figures are available; and if he will list those organisations in receipt of such funds.

The funds paid by Northern Ireland Departments are as follows:

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many persons have been admitted to hospital for treatment of drug addiction in each of the past four years.

The information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, the number of psychiatric hospital admissions and re-admissions for treatment of addiction to, dependence on and poisoning by various drugs was as follows:

Year	Total
1977	56
1978	44
1979	40
1980	46

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the average cost to the Exchequer to train a doctor.

The average net recurrent cost to universities of training a doctor in medicine between university entrance and MB graduation is estimated to be about £35,000 at 1980–81 outturn prices. In addition to this, the average cost of mandatory maintenance awards for the same period would be about £6,000 per student. Most of this expenditure is financed by Exchequer grant.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of the gross national product was allocated to education expenditure in each of the member countries of the EEC, including the United Kingdom, in the most recent year for which figures are available.

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Brown) on 16 March.—[Vol. 20, c. 75.]

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will list the items for which the issuing of export licences was withheld on the recommendations of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art during the year ended 30 June, specifying in each case the valuation and whether an item was eventually exported or retained, with particulars in the latter event of the acquiring institution; and whether he will list any items for which licences have been withheld but the final disposal of which is not decided, specifying in each case (a) the valuation and (b) the relevant time limit.

Details are as follows. In three cases the valuation has been omitted because of the owner's wish that this should remain confidential.

Description	Valuation	Outcome
A George II Rosewood Hanging Display Cabinet	—	* Retained: licence suspended for an in-definite period
A Drawing by William Hogarth entitled "The Industrious Prentice, Alderman of London, The Idle One brought before him and impeached by his accomplice"	£14,000	Purchased by the British Museum
A Drawing by William Hogarth entitled "The Idle Prentice betrayed by his Whore and taken in a Night Cellar with his accomplice"	£34,993·27	Purchased by the British Museum.
A Mid 19th century Sofa by John Henry Belter	£32,644·17	Purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum
A George II Giltwood Console Table by John Vardy	£38,500	Purchased by the National Heritage Memorial Fund
A 50 hour Expedition Maritime Chronometer by John Roger Arnold	—	Exported
A Pair of French Flintlock Presentation Pistols by Nicholas Noel Boutet c. 1796	—	* Retained: licence suspended for an in definite period
A Painting: "Gimcrack with Jockey up, on Newmarket Heath" by George Stubbs	£750,000	Purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
A Collection of Archival Papers of H. M. Stanley	£400,000	Licence withheld for 4 months ie to 27 September 1982
A Set of six Early French Silver Spoons with Pear Shaped Bowls and Fruitlet Knops c. 1480–1500	£18,500	Licence withheld for 2 months ie until 27 July 1982
* The owner announced in advance his intention not to accept an offer from a public collection to purchase the item. Therefore, the licence was suspended for an indefinite period.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will specify the allocations made to public institutions in the United Kingdom during the half year ended 30 June, on the recommendations of the Museums and Galleries Commission, of individual works of art and museum objects pre-eminent for national, scientific, historic or artistic interest, which have been accepted in satisfaction of capital transfer tax, together with information, where applicable, as to wishes

Works of art allocated during the half year ended 30 June 1982
Item	Date Allocation Announced	Recipient Institution	Executors'/Testators' Wishes
22 Hebrew Manuscripts and 3 inscribed tombstones	8 January 1982	The British Library (8)	None
		The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds (1)
		The John Rylands University Library of Manchester (3)
		The Bodleian Library, Oxford (4)
		Cambridge University Library (6) The British Museum (the tombstones)
28 Paintings by various artists	28 January 1982	The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
"The Betrayal of Christ", a painting by Sir Anthony Van Dyck	19 February 1982	Painting to remain in situ at Corsham Court: recipient institution under consideration	Offer conditional on painting remaining in situ at Corsham Court, near Bath
Papers of the 1st Duke of Wellington	23 February 1982	Southampton University	The Bodleian Library, Oxford
"The Death of Procris" (also known as "Apollo and Coronis"), a painting by Adam Elsheimer	19 May 1982	The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	To remain in situ at Corsham Court, near Bath

Works of art accepted in lieu of tax and awaiting allocation
Item	Date Acceptance Announced
A collection of 18th and 19th century silver, silver-gilt and gold plate	30 April 1980
A painting by David Teniers the Younger, "A Yard of an inn, with peasants playing bowls"	3 April 1981
A painting by Philips Wouverman, "A Stag Hunt"	3 April 1981
A painting by Gillis Peeters and David Teniers the Younger, "A scene in a Flemish Village"	3 April 1981
A portrait by Gainsborough Dupont of Henry Fiennes Pelham Clinton, then 9th Earl of Lincoln	3 April 1981
A portrait by William Hoare of the Rt. Hon. Henry Pelham, in Chancellor's Robes	3 April 1981
A portrait by William Hoare of Thomas Pelham Holles, 1st Pelham Duke of Newcastle in Garter Robes	3 April 1981
Two watercolours by J. M. W. Turner, "Flint Castle" and "Salisbury"	22 July 1981
A late 14th century English rectangular ivory diptych	19 January 1982
A watercolour by J. M. W. Turner depicting an Italian scene	10 March 1982

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many

The following tables give details of those items accepted in lieu of tax which have been allocated to public institutions in the United Kingdom during the half-year ended 30 June 1982, or are awaiting allocation.Ministers from his Department have paid official visits to Cyprus since May 1979; and whether he has plans to visit Nicosia in the near future.

My right hon. Friend the Member for Chesham and Amersham (Sir I. Gilmour) visited Cyprus in April 1980 when he was Lord Privy Seal. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has no immediate plans to do so.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations Her Majesty's Government have made to secure the release of Dr. Pinder-Wilson by the Afghan Government; and what has been the response.

Since Dr. Pinder-Wilson's detention on 28 March, we have made repeated representations to the Karmal regime for details of why he has been detained and for regular consular access to him. We have not been given adequate information and our consular officials in Kabul have seen him only once. On that occasion restrictions were placed on the meeting.We are seriously concerned about reports on the Afghan media that Dr. Pinder-Wilson has been put on trial and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. We are pressing for clarification, and the Afghan chargé d'affaires was summoned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 7 July to receive a protest.We are in close touch with Dr. Pinder-Wilson's family and colleagues.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has as to which other EEC countries are deporting Iranians to Iran.

This information is not readily available. I will circulate it in the Official Report if and when it can be obtained.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether, in the light of the current investigation in the European Assembly as to irregularities concerning expense claims involving British Members he will introduce legislation to give Her Majesty's Government the power to intervene in such cases.

No. It is for the European Parliament itself to deal with irregularities concerning its own Members. The President of the Parliament has said that he intends to correct any irregularities which have been identified. I am not aware of any irregularities concerning Members of this House.

asked the Prime Minister whether she will make it the policy of Her Majesty's Government when referring to the Argentine incidents of recent months always to make a factual reference to the unprovoked military aggression; and whether she will instruct the British ambassador to the United Nations to do so when he next speaks on these matters.

We have made our view of Argentina's actions abundantly clear and shall continue to do so. But I am grateful to the hon. Member for his practical suggestion. It would be so easy for others conveniently to forget the true facts.

asked the Prime Minister what change has been made in the composition of the United Kingdom delegation to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe.

I have appointed my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Smith) a full Member in place of my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Wilkinson) who has become a substitute Member.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many outbreaks of Aujeszky's disease there have been in the United Kingdom in the past six months and prior to that in each of the previous six month periods for the previous three years.

The number of confirmed outbreaks of Aujeszky's disease in Great Britain in the six-month periods since the disease was made notifiable in August 1979 are as follows:

• 1 August to 31 December 1979, 8
• 1 January to 30 June 1980, 14
• 1 July to 31 December 1980, 8
• 1 January to 30 June 1981, 5
• 1 July to 31 December 1981, 5
• 1 January to 30 June 1982, 25

Of the 25 confirmed outbreaks to 30 June this year, 13 were linked with a single source of infection.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will list the names of all those who have been appointed to the post of commissioner for Local Government—Ombudsman—in Scotland, their dates of appointment and previous jobs, since the post was initiated.

The office of Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland, which was established by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975, has been held as follows:

Name	Period	Previous Employment
Mr. Robert Moore CBE	January 1976 to September 1978	Principal Officer, Manpower Division (General Group), Scottish Health Service Common Services Agency.
Mr. John Russell	October 1978 to June 1982	Chief Executive, Grampian Regional Council.
Mr. Eric Gillett	Appointed from 1 July 1982	Secretary, Scottish Development Department.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will take steps to debar retired senior civil servants from holding the post of Commissioner for Local Government—Ombudsman—in Scotland.

No.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will now issue guidance to local authorities regarding the provisions of section 78(1)(b) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 as they relate to the liability for rent of unemployed 16-year-olds in care.

I do not consider such guidance necessary. Under these provisions contributions are payable at the discretion of local authorities by children over 16 years of age who are in care or under a supervision requirement only if they are in remunerative employment.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many 16-year-olds who are not engaged in remunerative employment are presently in residential care under part 2 of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 in each of the local authority areas in Scotland.

This information is not available centrally.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is aware of any local authority charging rent for residential accommodation afforded to 16-year-olds in care who are not engaged in remunerative full-time work.

No such cases have been brought to my attention.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) whether he will now consider recommending that education authorities should establish criteria for accepting early admission under the age of five years to public primary schools;(2) if any of the education authorities in Scotland have established criteria for accepting early admissions under the age of five years to public primary schools;(3) whether any departmental or other research is being undertaken to establish at what level the minimum age of commencement of attendance at public primary schools should be set;(4) what guidance is given to local authorities about minimum ages for attendance at public primary schools;(5) if he will list in the

The requirement that school commencement dates should be approved by the Secretary of State was repealed by section 33 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1976 and authorities are now free to make their arrangements in the light of local circumstances, subject to the requirement that children must be given an opportunity to begin school attendance before the upper age limit of 5 years and 6 months. This requirement means in practice that any education authority operating a single commencement date in the school year must offer a place in primary school to some children under the age of 5—those in the age range 4½ to 5. Guidance on minimum ages for attendance was conveyed to education authorities in SED circular No. 957 dated 30 June 1976, copies of which are in the Library.Information is not held centrally about the school commencement dates and age ranges operated by individual authorities or about criteria for early admission to primary schools at ages below their normal age range. These criteria are for authorities themselves to determine bearing in mind the school placing requirements of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 as amended. I propose to lay regulations before the House shortly requiring authorities to make available to parents information about their school commencement arrangements including their policy or practice with regard to early admission to primary education and their priorities for early admission.I am not aware of any research being carried out on this subject.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many right-to-buy applications remain outstanding in each London borough at the most recent convenient date.

Local authorities' returns give the number of admitted right-to-buy claims being dealt with at the end of each quarter. This figure excludes admitted claims which have subsequently been withdrawn or deferred, as well as those where the sale has been completed. The authorities concerned reported the following numbers of admitted claims being dealt with at 31 March 1982.

Local Authority	Number of admitted claims in progress
Greater London Council	3,732
City of London	729
Barking and Dagenham	3,857
Barnet	1,550
Bexley	0
Brent	1,010
Bromley	n/a
Camden	861
Croyden	—
Ealing	827
Enfield	864
Greenwich	1,959
Hackney	623
Hammersmith and Fulham	449
Haringey	941
Harrow	502
Havering	660
Hillingdon	n/a
Hounslow	n/a
Islington	741
Kensington and Chelsea	213
Kingston upon Thames	440
Lambeth	n/a
Lewisham	1,590
Merton	180
Newham	n/a
Redbridge	n/a
Richmond upon Thames	n/a
Southwark	1,326
Sutton	553

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will set out the total number of (a) houses and (b) flats and maisonettes so far sold by each London borough council under the right-to-buy legislation.

Figures for houses and flats sold under the right-to-buy between October 1980 and March 1982, reported by the authorities concerned, are as follows:

Right to Buy Sales Completed: 3 October 1980 to 31 March 1982
Local Authority	Houses	Flats	Total
Greater London Council	192	0	192
City of London	0	52	52
Barking and Dagenham	678	0	678
Barnet	159	0	159
Bexley	0	0	0
Brent	185	2	187
Bromley	670	0	670
Camden	7	5	12
Croydon	*514	*0	*514
Ealing	202	50	252
Enfield	330	0	330
Greenwich	205	0	205
Hackney	23	0	23
Hammersmith and Fulham	27	24	51
Haringey	390	6	396
Harrow	201	0	201
Havering	239	58	297
Hillingdon	—	—	—
Hounslow	—	—	270
Islington	9	2	11
Kensington and Chelsea	3	11	14
Kingston upon Thames	62	0	62
Lambeth	33	0	33
Lewisham	179	0	179
Merton	407	27	434
Newham	—	—	271
Redbridge	0	0	0
Richmond upon Thames	186	7	193
Southwark	120	0	120
Sutton	162	20	182
Tower Hamlets	20	0	20
Waltham Forest	532	0	532
Wandsworth	110	23	133
Westminster	14	51	65
* Sales reported to 31 December 1981.
— Not available.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how much each local authority has asked for to pay for land reclamation schemes in their areas in the current financial year; and how much they have been allocated.

I regret that it would require a disproportionate effort to provide the information for local authorities individually. In total their bid for 1982–83 was £71 million. The total public expenditure provision is £44·7 million. The allocations are being made to authorities accord with this latter sum. I shall write to the hon. Member with more details of allocations when they have all been made.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what land reclamation schemes have been submitted to his Department by Wolverhampton borough council; what was the cost of these schemes; which have been approved; and how much has been made available;(2) if he will give additional help to Wolverhampton borough council for its land reclamation schemes to improve the prosperity and appearance of inner city areas.

The council submitted 20 schemes for its 1982–83 programme at a total cost of £1,120,000, with expenditure in the year amounting to some £328,000. An allocation of £140,000 for this year has been made for the following schemes:

• Dudley—Priestfield railway line—£60,000
• Pendeford 2B, phases I and II—£66,000
• Bowker Street—£2,000
• Rooker Street—£10,000
• Goresbrook Quarry—£2,000

Eleven schemes were either ineligible or insufficiently prepared. The remainder could not be accommodated within current resources and there is no prospect of making extra funds available to the council this year.A further scheme for Wolverhampton put forward by the West Midlands county council, the reclamation of Stafford Road gas works, has been separately approved at a cost of £430,000 in 1982–83.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he intends to bring into force the remaining sections of part II of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he intends to bring the remaining sections of part II of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 into force.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he intends to bring the remaining sections of part II of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 into force.

My right hon. Friend will publish a commencement order soon to bring section 46 into force and hopes to be able to make a commencement order relating to sections 29 to 31 before the summer recess. He intends to give effect to sections 32 and 41 as soon as financial guidelines for management agreements have been published.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will expedite the publication of financial guidelines for management agreements under section 50 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to obviate the difficulties caused to the Nature Conservancy Council and the owners and occupiers of land in areas of special scientific interest by the delay.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) when he intends to publish the financial guidelines for management agreements as required by section 50 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981;(2) whether, in view of the fact that the delay in the publication of financial guidelines for management agreements under section 50 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is causing increasing difficulties for the Nature Conservancy Council and the owners and occupiers of land in areas of special scientific interest, he will take steps to expedite their publication.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) when he intends to publish the financial guidelines for management agreements under section 50 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981;(2) if, in view of the difficulties for the Nature Conservancy Council and the owners and occupiers of land in areas of special scientific interest, caused by the delay in the publication of financial guidelines for management agreements under section 50 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, he will take steps to expedite their publication.

Complex issues are involved in preparation of the guidance required by section 50(2) of the Act, but I am not aware of any undue difficulties caused by the delay. It is our intention to publish draft financial guidelines as soon as possible as the basis for a widespread public consultation.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what are his criteria for approval of bodies under the assured tenancy scheme; and what bodies have so far been approved.

Bodies seeking approval under the assured tenancy scheme must satisfy my right hon. Friend that the applicants are reputable bodies which will manage homes for renting efficiently, responsibly and with proper regard for the welfare of their tenants and will also carry out satisfactorily their statutory and contractual obligations as landlords. Applicants will need to demonstrate that they meet these criteria by providing information and references in respect of any existing lettings, and of their future plans for letting under the assured tenancy scheme. There are two application forms, available from the Department, for bodies seeking approval—one for use by housing associations and the other for use by all other bodies.The following bodies have already been approved:

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the capacity, both private cars and industrial traffic, which each motorway at present constructed was designed to take in terms of numbers and weight; and if he will compare this with the capacity each is carrying at the present time.

I regret that the information requested is not available except at disproportionate cost.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what methods his Department uses to evaluate reliability of construction of motorways.

The methods used to assess the reliability of the materials and construction methods used in the construction of motorways are described in the 1976 edition of the Department's specification for road and bridgeworks together with amendments issued subsequently.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish a table showing how each motorway has stood up to specifications since its construction.

I regret that the information requested is not available except at disproportionate cost.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish information on any comparison his Department has made on the construction performance of motorways in the United Kingdom compared with the other major industrial countries, including the United States of America.

My Department has not made any comparison of the construction performance of motorways in the United Kingdom with those of other countries because the information on traffic loading, terrain and weather conditions to which each is subject, and which is needed to make meaningful comparisons, is not published by any country.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish a table showing the construction cost per mile of United Kingdom motorways compared with each of the countries in the European Economic Community expressed in £ sterling.

The cost of constructing motorways is dependent upon the amount and nature of the earthworks, the bearing strength of the ground, the amount of bridgeworks, and the land costs involved in each case. These costs vary substantially along the length of every motorway so that comparisons based upon cost per mile are very imprecise and potentially misleading to a high degree, whether this comparison is made within the United Kingdom or between the countries of the EEC. Cost and construction data needed to make meaningful comparisons between EEC countries are not published.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will compare motorway repair costs per mile in each of the countries in the European Economic Community and state the basis of any comparison.

I cannot compare motorway repair costs per mile of each of the EEC countries because the information needed to make comparisons is not published by the countries concerned.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport how much he estimates will be spent on the construction of cycle paths in the current financial year.

This information is not available. County councils have been asked to include details of their cycling proposals in their transport policies and programmes for 1983–84, which are due for submission by 30 July.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will take steps to ensure, in the event of heavier lorries being permitted, that they shall be restricted to major roads and that all practicable steps shall be taken, at least in the case of small rural towns, to divert such traffic on to bypasses or ring roads, with a view to avoiding damage to buildings in such towns.

Regardless of any changes in permitted lorry weights, it is the responsibility of local highway authorities to make full use of their existing wide powers to restrict heavy lorries to the routes most suitable to them. My right hon. Friend has recently issued a circular urging them to make more extensive use of these powers, and he has also said that he will pay particular regard to this aspect of a county council's policy in deciding how much expenditure to accept for transport supplementary grant.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for England and for Wales, respectively, the amount of European Economic Community aid in each of the past three years under main headings indicating what proportion was additional to funds provided from the Exchequer.

It is not possible to give a complete breakdown of receipts from the European Community budget on a regional basis. Total United Kingdom receipts from the Community in each of the past three calendar years are shown in the following table. All of these receipts were financed from the Community budget and were thus additional to amounts provided from the Exchequer.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will set out for each of the years 1971 to 1981 the cost of each of (a) the total European Community budget, (b) the European Commission (staff pay), (c) the European Commission (other), (d) the European Assembly and (e) the Council of Ministers, expressed as an absolute £ sterling amount, as an indexed amount with the basis 1971 = 100 and as a percentage of the total Community budget for the year to which it refers.

The information requested is given in the following tables:

Year	Total budget		Index
			1971 = 100
			1978 = 100†
	Mua*/Mecu	£m
1971	3,908·8	1,628·7	100
1972	4,327·6	1,803·2	110·7
1973	5,134·5	2,139·4	131·4
1974	5,225·0	2,177·1	133·7
1975	6,268·3	2,611·8	160·4
1976	8,470·6	3,529·4	216·7
1977	9,584·3	3,993·5	245·2
1978	†l2,362·7	8,207·9	†100
1979	14,447·0	9,338·4	113·8
1980	16,182·5	9,684·9	118·0
1981	18,434·0	10,183·7	124·1

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the total yield of income tax in the last tax year for which figures are available, and the total costs of collection of that tax.