asked the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, as representing the House of Commons Commission, if he will estimate the total accumulated additional cost of employing the necessary hourly paid staff of the Refreshment Department in each of the last two Sessions of Parliament when the House sat (a) between 10.30 pm and midnight and (b) between midnight and 2 am.

I have been asked to reply.In the 1981–82 Session, the number of occasions when the House sat between

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will make arrangements for the most recent edition of the McGraw-Hill publication Nucleonics Week to be made readily available to hon. Members in the Library.

I understand that it is not possible to obtain individual editions of Nucleonics Week which is available only through an annual subscription costing $1,000. It seems unlikely that the use made of the publication would justify this expense. Should any hon. Member wish to see a particular edition of the publication, however, the staff of the Library will make arrangements for one to be made available.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has any plans to provide incentives to mathematics teachers who have obtained an O-level in additional mathematics, or to make the passing of this examination a requirement for mathematics teachers; and if he will make a statement.

My right hon. Friend has no plans to stipulate an O-level in additional mathematics as a qualification for mathematics teaching. Under the criteria for the approval of initial teacher training courses promulgated in the Department's circular 3/84 all students training to teach mathematics should have studied, or be studying, the subject as a substantial component of a course of higher education. Courses of further training are available for serving teachers of mathematics who are inadequately qualified in the subject.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many state schools teach a non-language subject, such as history or geography, in a foreign language.

The information requested is not available centrally.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what has been the value of all central Government expenditure grants to Dundee university in each year since 1980–81; and if he will also express each figure at constant prices.

Total recurrent and capital grants paid to Dundee university, on the advice of the University Grants Committee and of the Computer Board, in the financial years 1980–81 to 1983–84 were as follows:

	£ million Cash	£ million Cost terms (1982–83 base)
1980–81
Recurrent	12·836	15·044
Capital	0·923	1·081
Total	13·759	16·126
1981–82
Recurrent	13·411	align="right">14·297
Capital	1·012	1·079
Total	14·434	15·376
1982–83
Recurrent	16·401	16·401
Capital	0·907	0·907
Total	17·308	17·308
1983–84
Recurrent	17·434	16·527
Capital	0·988	0·937
Total	18·422	17·464

The figures for the 1982–83 and 1983–84 financial years include specific grants for redundancy and early retirement compensation. The figures do not include research grants and contracts or any payments for services rendered. The figures for recurrent grant for 1982–83 and later years include increases in grant to offset the effects of reductions in the home undergraduate tuition fee.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what has been the number of teaching posts at Dundee university in each year since 1979.

The numbers of full-time and part-time academic staff at Dundee university in each year since 1979 were as follow:

	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83
Full-time staff wholly University financed	420	420	418	385
Other full-time staff	92	113	114	129
Total full-time staff	512	533	532	514
Part-time staff	30	28	25	32

asked the Secretary of State for Defence how many interpreters and translators of the Russian language are employed within the Royal Navy and its Reserve; what proposals have been made in respect of future numbers; and if he will make a statement.

About 50 serving Royal Navy personnel and about 20 Royal Naval Reserve personnel are qualified as Russian language interpreters or linguists. The new Defence school of languages at RAEC Beaconsfield, to be established on 1 January 1985, will provide a cost-effective means of ensuring a supply of suitably qualified personnel to meet our future requirements.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what are the duties of Her Majesty's ships and aircraft for the protection of fisheries in the Falkland Islands and dependencies and the surveillance of foreign fishing fleets in adjoining waters.

The duties of Her Majesty's ships and aircraft in the Falkland Islands and the Falkland Island Dependencies do not include fishery protection. The waters of the Falkland Islands protection zone are kept under surveillance, and this surveillance necessarily extends to any foreign vessels within the zone.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what has been the precentage rate of inflation as assessed by the specific defence deflator in the fiscal years 1982–83 and 1983–84; and what is his estimate for 1984–85.

The information requested is as follows:

Year	Increase over previous year per cent.
1982–83	7·8
1983–84	*5·9
* Provisional.

No assessment of the specific defence deflator for 1984–85 can yet be made.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether measures will be taken to remove mines from the Forth and to alert ships to the present danger.

Only inert, non-explosive mines are used for Royal Navy mine warfare practise exercises in the Forth. These constitute no danger to shipping.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether the British Army of the Rhine divisions train according to a common North Atlantic Treaty Organisation tactical doctrine; and whether this differs from the British Army tactical doctrine.

[pursuant to his reply, 11 June 1984, c. 360]: British Army of the Rhine divisions train according to a common North Atlantic Treaty Organisation tactical doctrine, as amplified by British Army tactical doctrine which is consistent with it.

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether it is North Atlantic Treaty Organisation doctrine that on the central front in Europe, army corps of individual nations would fight according to their own national doctrine in operations at corps level and below.

[pursuant to his reply, 11 June 1984, c. 359]: All national formations at corps level and below, which come under NATO command in Europe, would fight according to national doctrine, which is developed within, and is consistent with, agreed NATO doctrine.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement about assistance his Department is giving to those United Kingdom citizens owning land in Zimbabwe believed to have been expropriated by the Zimbabwe Government.

We are not aware of any cases involving the expropriation of land in Zimbabwe belonging to United Kingdom citizens.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has as to the number of black citizens or residents of the United Kingdom refused entry into France during the last 12 months.

Between 1 June 1983 and 30 May 1984, about 250 persons, not differentiated as to colour, who were travelling to France on no-passport excursion identity cards complained on their return that they had been refused admission.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he last discussed with the Council of Ministers of the European Economic Community the import of goods from the occupied area of northern Cyprus into Europe via the European Economic Community trade routes.

The Foreign Affairs Council last discussed the question of preferential access to Community markets for produce from northern Cyprus on 19 December last year.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what problems remain to be solved before the fisheries conservation policy for the sea area around the Falklands can be established; and if he will make a statement.

As my right hon. and noble Friend the Minister of State suggested in his answer to my noble Friend the Baroness Vickers in another place on 12 December 1983, licensing, policing and fisheries conservation are some of the factors which are being taken into account in the current consideration of a 200-mile exclusive fisheries limit for the Falkland Islands.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) how many British companies to date have received compensation for the loss of their properties and other assets in Uganda; whether he will list any which have obtained repossession; and if he will make a statement;(2) whether he has any information as the number of British Ugandan Asians who have been allowed

The Ugandan authorities advised us in March that 12 companies and estates had been returned, together with certificates of title, to their British former owners who had applied for their repossession under the provisions of the Ugandan Expropriated Properties Act 1982. In the case of the first eight properties listed, the companies and estates concerned are being operated on a joint venture basis with the Government of Uganda: in the final four cases the companies concerned were returned outright to their former owners. The list is as follows:

1. The Sugar Corporation of Uganda Ltd.,

2. The UGMA Engineering Corporation, and

3. The Cable Corporation of Uganda.

(These three corporations are owned by the British Asian Mehta group of companies.)

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he expects the verification committee of the Ugandan Government to report; and if he will make a statement.

The verification committee is charged under regulation 7 of the Uganda Expropriated Properties (Repossession and Disposal) Regulations 1983 (No. 6 of 1983) with preparing reports for the Minister of Finance on each application to repossess a property or a business which has been made under the provisions of the Uganda Expropriated Properties Act 1982. We understand that the committee also submits regular reports on its work to the Minister of Finance. We have not however, heard of the publication of any report on the committee's work.

asked the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State answering in respect of the Arts if Her Majesty's Government will acquire for the nation the dilly of Ernesto Che Guevara, which is due to be auctioned in London on 16 July; and if he will make a statement.

No.

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from Wales concerning possible changes to the Export Credit Guarantees Department arising from the work of the, Matthews committee; and if he will make a statement.

Several hon. Members representing Welsh constituencies have written to me about this matter following representations to them by members of the staff of ECGD or by the trade union side of the ECGD departmental Whitley council. I have invited views by 1 July about the report of the Matthews committee and a number of bodies have already given, or are expected to give, their views on its proposals.

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what representations he has received concerning the prosecution of the operators of illegal radio transmitters; and if he will make a statement.

Representations on the need for firm action against the operators of unlicensed broadcasting stations have been received from the Independent Broadcasting Authority, the Association of Independent Radio Contractors from Capital Radio and from members of the public.

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1) how many companies have received regional development grants in the Kirkcaldy and Dunfermline employment office areas in each year from 1979 to date;(2) what is the total amount of money paid out to companies in regional development grants and selective finance assistance in

I shall reply to the hon. Member as soon as possible.

asked the Prime Minister (1) what were the numbers of (a) special and personal advisers to Government Ministers and (b) the secretarial support staff for special and personal advisers to Government Ministers in 1978, 1979 and 1984;(2) how many Prime Ministerial advisers and support staff there were, broken down by category, in the years 1978, 1979 and 1984.

I shall reply to the hon. Member shortly.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will estimate the effect on the cost of the European Economic Community milk regime if there were no imports of New Zealand dairy products to the European Economic Community.

The immediate cost to the Community budget of exporting a quantity of butter equivalent to imports from New Zealand, minus revenue from the levy on these imports, is about 40 mecu at current rates. But I have made clear in my reply to my hon. Friend's other question today on this subject that the wider benefits of the New Zealand arrangement cannot be quantified.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Ynys Môn, Official Report, 17 May, column 226, what are the corresponding trade benefits in respect of the United Kingdom's agreement on the import of New Zealand dairy products to the European Economic Community.

The Community's arrangements for the import of New Zealand butter on special terms include agreement with New Zealand, as a major supplier to the world market, to co-operate in managing the world market for dairy products. The benefits of this co-operation are not quantifiable, but it is clear that it reduces the cost to the European Community of exporting Community surpluses.The arrangements for the import of New Zealand cheese were established in the context of the GATT, the trade benefits of which extend across many sectors of international trade and cannot be quantified.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what has been the average yield per dairy cow in each of the countries of the European Economic Community in each of the last eight years.

Figures showing the average yield per cow in each member state of the EEC for 1975 and 1978 to 1982 are set out in table 23 of the 1983 volume of "EEC Dairy Facts and Figures." Figures for 1976 and 1977 are set out in table 23 of the 1981 volume. Information for 1983 is not yet available.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what has been the average yield per dairy cow in each of the Milk Marketing Board areas in (a) England and Wales and (b) Scotland in each of the last eight years.

The information requested by the hon. Member on milk yields per dairy cow is set out in table 18 of "United Kingdom Dairy Facts and Figures 1983" published by the Federation of United Kingdom Milk Marketing Boards and available in the Library of the House. This table provides information up to 1982–83. Similar information for 1983–84 is not yet available.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, in his proposed outgoers scheme, milk sold to boards before the herd is sold will be deducted from any payment made to the producer.

No.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will compare the average retail price of one litre of milk with the average retail price of one litre of (a) mineral water, (b) soda water and (c) Indian tonic water, for each of the years 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and at the latest date available.

The average price of milk recorded in the Department of Employment's survey of retail prices is as follows. Neither this survey, nor the national food survey, separately identify the prices of mineral water, soda water or Indian tonic water.

Average retail price (p/litre)
1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984 (May)
25·3	29·0	32·6	35·5	37·0	37·0

asked the Secretary of State for Energy whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the average cost per therm to the Central Elecricity Generating Board of coal and heavy burning oil each year since 1970, the number of therms used in each case, and the saving to the generating board of using coal rather than oil as fuel for generating electricity.

I have asked the chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board to write to the hon. Member.The Scottish boards and the Northern Ireland Electricity Service are the responsibility of my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Northern Ireland.

asked the Secretary of State for Energy whether he will publish a table covering the years 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983, respectively, showing the total savings in United Kingdom primary energy consumed over this period, with the figures adjusted for movements in gross domestic product so as to demonstrate the actual energy saving per unit of output; and whether he will give his assessment of the main reasons for any energy savings shown to have occurred over the period.

[pursuant to his reply, 22 February 1984, c. 553–54]: The headings to the table contained in my original answer were incorrectly printed in Hansard. The answer, which now includes information for 1983, is as follows.

	1980 over 1979	1981 over 1980	1982 over 1981	1983 over 1982	1983 over 1979
(a) Change in primary energy consumption
(i) million tonnes of coal equivalent (mtce)	-22·1	-11·9	-3·6	+1·9	-35·7
(ii) percentage	-6·3	-3·6	-1·1	+0·6	-10·2
(b) Change in primary energy consumption per unit of GDP at 1980 prices and at factor cost
(i) tonnes of coal equivalent (tec) per £m of GDP	-70·0	-49·0	-51·5	-44·6	-205·1
(ii) percentage	-4·0	-3·0	-3·2	-2·9	-12·4

Over this period there was a rise of 2·5 per cent. in gross domestic product, and consequently the decline in primary energy consumption per unit of GDP was not fully reflected in the actual fall in consumption, as the difference between rows

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what current surveys are being carried out by which companies on behalf of his Department on the superstructure and bottom reinforcement bars of the M6 midland links motorway in the vicinity of junctions 5, 6 and 7; over what period; at what constructed cost; and when and how the results of such surveys will be published.

We are carrying out a number of investigations into concrete defects throughout the length of the elevated section of midland links. This was first reported in the press notice my midlands regional office issued on 26 August 1983 (WM256/83(M)).The work between junctions 5 and 7 on the M6 is being carried out by G. Maunsells and Partners who, together with W. S. Atkins and Partners, were appointed on 1 April 1983 to assist the Department when we took over direct responsibility for the below deck level maintenance and inspection of the midland links structures. A number of other specialist firms are assisting them in this work.The cost of these investigations and those extending over the whole of the midland links viaducts are expected to be in the order of £700,000. I hope to be able to give an interim report to the House on this work in the early part of 1985.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what evidence there is of above-average salt penetration to the viaduct superstructure of the M6 midland link motorway at junction 6; what steps are taken to monitor salt penetration and its effects; and in what form the results of such monitoring are published.

Monitoring of salt penetration and its effects is a part of the investigations being carried out by the consulting engineers and I expect to deal with it in the report I intend to make early in 1985. However, various courses are already under consideration for allaying the effects of salt penetration and for preventing contamination by salt-laden water along the midland links. Work is proceeding on the replacement of deck expansion joints as part of the normal resurfacing programme. As a further measure, drainage gutters will be provided to the deck expansion joints.

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he hopes to be in a position to inform dairy farmers when their appeals against their present quotas may be accepted; and if he will make a statement.

[pursuant to his reply, 14 June 1984, c. 573]: Regulations will be introduced shortly which will, among other things, lay down the arrangements for implementing the special case provisions. Application forms will then be made available so that individual producers who consider they have a valid claim for treatment as a special case can submit their applications to the Department of Agriculture at Dundonald house. A letter has been sent to producers advising them of the latest position.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the district valuer's estimate of the average cost per hectare of land bought or sold by local authorities for industrial and commercial purposes in Greater London.

This information is not available in the form requested. A range of values for industrial and warehouse development land, for the London area, is shown in the property market report, published twice-yearly by the Inland Revenue valuation office.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many prefabricated reinforced concrete houses which are likely to be subject to demolition under the Housing Defects Bill (a) are in the ownership of Southampton city council and (b) have been sold by Southampton city council.

The Housing Defects Bill provides for assistance to eligible owners of relevant interests in defective dwellings either by way of reinstatement grant or by way of repurchase. Decisions to demolish prefabricated reinforced concrete houses will be taken by private or local authority owners as and when the condition of individual houses requires, and the Department has no information on which to base the estimate sought by my hon. Friend.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what percentage of local authorities spending above grant-related expenditure allocation levels is attributable to personal social services expenditure.

It is not possible to produce a precise figure of the kind requested. However, it is estimated that approximately 8 per cent. of the excess of budgeted total expenditure over GRE for 1984–85 is attributable to personal social services.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the total level of expenditure identified by grant-related expenditure allocation for local authority social services departments in England.

The total of grant-related expenditure for personal social services in England for 1984–85 is £2,205 million.

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many separate items of correspondence have been received from members of the Cleveland community on the NIREX proposals to dispose of radioactive waste in Billingham; and of these how many expressed (a) approval, (b) opposition and (c) disinterest in the proposals.

Up to 13 June my Department had received approximately 350 letters about the interest of the

Number of local authority homes and places for the elderly and younger physically handicapped in Metropolitan district councils and London boroughs—1979–1983
	1979		1980		1981		1982		1983
Local authority	Homes	Places	Homes	Places	Homes	Places	Homes	Places	Homes	Places
Tyne and Wear
Gateshead	15	646	15	646	15	646	15	646	15	646
Newcastle-upon-Tyne	24	890	26	944	29	1,042	28	1,020	28	986
North Tyneside	9	399	9	397	10	470	10	472	10	468
South Tyneside	11	426	11	426	11	426	11	426	10	441
Sunderland	21	798	21	803	21	832	21	847	21	829
South Yorkshire
Bamsley	18	609	18	613	18	613	17	589	18	630
Doncaster	21	725	21	714	21	716	20	736	20	747
Rotherham	15	516	16	560	17	600	17	606	18	646
Sheffield	44	1,802	44	1,790	44	1,803	45	1,835	47	1,876
West Yorkshire
Bradford	35	1,432	36	1,468	38	1,484	37	1,452	37	1,453
Calderdale	19	661	19	656	19	668	19	668	19	685

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much aid has been given to Pakistan during 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983, respectively.

The following figures relate to calendar years:

	£'000
1979	27,698
1980	22,245
1981	24,613
1982	18,738
1983	16,612

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the number and location, by local authority, of places for the elderly in residential homes for each year since 1978.

The information for private and voluntary homes and places in each county was provided in my reply to the hon. Member for Burnley (Mr. Pike) on 2 March at columns 386–90. The information for local authority homes and places in each county was provided in my reply to the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) on 11 June at columns 378–82.To supplement those figures I give the comparable information for each metropolitan district and London borough.