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Written Answers To Questions

Thursday 4th July 1985

Prime Minister

Falkland Islands

Q9.

asked the Prime Minister if Her Majesty's Government will seek discussions with the Government of Argentina about fishing and related ecological problems, including conservation of Antarctic cod and the protection of black-browed albatrosses and rockhopper penguins in the area around the Falklands.

We are actively working for the establishment of a multilaterally-based fisheries conservation and management regime around the Falkland Islands. We are conscious of the wider conservation issues involved, and the Falkland Islands have comprehensive legislation in the sphere of conservation and protection of the environment.

Ec Internal Market (White Paper)

Q11.

asked the Prime Minister what consideration she has given to the White Paper on the completion of the internal market which was prepared by the European Commission at the request of the Fontainebleau summit; and if she will make a statement.

Much of the White Paper accords with our own objectives for the completion of the Common Market. The Milan European Council endorsed these objectives as a high priority. Some of the other Commission proposals such as those on tax approximation and the abolition of frontier controls involve obvious difficulties for all member states. The European Council remitted the question of tax approximation for further study by the Council of Ministers for Financial Affairs.

Human Tissue (Member's Correspondence)

asked the Prime Minister when she intends to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras about the buying and selling of human tissue.

I replied to the hon. Gentleman on 17 June 1985.

Engagements

asked the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 4 July.

This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House I shall be having further meetings later today.

Energy

Geothermal Energy Sources

asked the Secretary of State for Energy what are his proposals for future funding of research into geothermal energy sources.

In a statement to Parliament on 2 July in answer to a question by my hon. Friend on the review of renewable energy by the Advisory Council on Research and Development, I said that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy and I had accepted ACORD's advice to discontinue work on geothermal aquifers in order to concentrate resources into more promising technologies. The programme on geothermal hot dry rocks will continue and will be further reviewed when the present phase of the experiment at Rosemanowes in Cornwall is complete.

Magnox Reactors

asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will provide information on the thermal energy generated and spent fuel discharged by each of the Central Electricity Generating Board magnox reactors in the fiscal year 1984–85; and if he will update to 31 March the information on the allocation of plutonium produced in the Central Electricity Generating Board and South of Scotland Electricity Board magnox reactors given in his reply to the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy on 25 January, Official Report, columns 545–47.

The thermal output generated and spent fuel discharged for each of the CEGB's magnox stations in 1984–85 was as follows:

Station	Thermal output (Gwh)	Fuel Discharged (tonnes u)
Bradwell	7,084	69
Berkeley	3,568	25
Hinkley Point A	14,479	103
Trawsfynydd	12,025	98
Dungeness A	10,345	87
Sizewell	8,081	76
Oldbury	11,352	80
Wylfa	25,916	223

Information on plutonium production in CEGB and SSEB magnox reactors is currently being updated and will be provided shortly.

Nuclear Fuel

asked the Secretary of State for Energy what volume of spent irradiated nuclear fuel was imported for reprocessing at British Nuclear Fuel Ltd's Sellafield plant in 1984.

During the calendar yar 1984, 299 tonnes of irradiated magnox and oxide fuel (measured by the weight of uranium originally contained in the fuel) were imported for reprocessing at BNFL Sellafield.

North Sea Oilfields

asked the Secretary of State for Energy what was the total output of the North sea oilfields in 1984–85; how this output compares with that in the previous 10 years; and what are his Department's latest projections for future output.

Details of the total output of North sea oilfields, on a calendar year basis, are published annually in "Development of Oil and Gas Resources of the United Kingdom", copies of which are in the House of Commons Library. Appendices 8 and 16 of the 1985 issue provide the information sought.

Education And Science

Teachers (Statistics)

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many full-time and part-time teachers are 50 years old, or older; and what proportion they represent of the total number of teachers in each category.

In March 1984, the latest date for which information is available, there were 40,700 full-time qualified teachers in maintained nursery and primary schools in England and Wales; in maintained secondary schools there were 35,800 such teachers. They represented, respectively, 23·5 per cent. and 14·8 per cent. of all full-time qualified teachers in those types of school. The age distribution of part-time teachers is not readily available.

Hampshire Schools

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the schools in Hampshire visited by Her Majesty's Inspectorate and the dates of the inspections in each case.

The most recent information available is that for the spring term of 1985, and is as follows:

	Date of inspection
Hart Plain Middle	19 March
Hamble Primary	7 March
Hambledon First	24 January
Hythe Langdown Infants	12 February
Bursledon County Junior	20 March
Cowplain Wecock County First	25 January

	Date of inspection
Yateley Newlands Primary	13 February
Aldershot Newport Junior	10 January
Aldershot Newport Infants	11 January
Aldershot Park Junior	15 January
Aldershot Park Infants	15 January
Aldershot Belle Vue County Infants	17 January
Gosport Lee-On-Solent Junior	22 January
Gosport Haselworth	23 January
Gosport Woodcot County Primary	28 January
Gosport Lee-On-Solent Infants	8 March
Gosport Gomer Junior	24 January
Blendworth First	5 March
East Boldre Primary	16 January
Shedfield C. E. Primary	27 February
Aldershop St. Michaels C. E. Infants	17 January
Gosport Newtown C. E. Primary	31 January
Whitewater C. E. Primary	11 February
Waterlooville St. Peters R. C. Primary	6 March
Gosport Alverstoke C. E. Junior	7 March
Alton Eggars Comprehensive	14 March
Romsey Mountbatten Comprehensive	5 March
Alton Amery Hill Comprehensive	12 March
Hedge end the Wildern Comprehensive	4 March
Hythe Noadswood Comprehensive	20 March
Lymington Priestlands Comprehensive	11 March
Petersfield Comprehensive	13 March
Havant Warblington Comprehensive	22 January
Hayling Comprehensive	9 January
Purbrook Crookhorn Comprehensive	21 January
Fair Oak Wyvern Comprehensive	25 March
Dibden Purlieu Applemore Comprehensive	4 March
Winchester The Henry Beaufort Comprehensive	4 March
Havant Oak Park Comprehensive	23 January
Farnborough College (Sixth Form)	23 January
Gosport Bridgemary County Comprehensive	28 January
Southampton Oaklands Comprehensive	5 March
Aldershot All Hallows R. C. Comprehensive	22 February
Stanbridge Earls School	8 March
Yateley Hall	16 January
Drayton Manor	21 March
Allington manor	29 January
The Kings school	20 March
Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital School	7 February
Greenacres School	7 January
Limington House School	9 January
The Waterloo School	28 January

Universities (National Insurance Contributions)

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what recent representations he has received concerning changes in employers' national insurance contributions announced in the Budget as they affect universities; and whether he will make a statement;(2) whether he is yet in a position to announce his policy for university funding in the light of the Budget changes in employers' national insurance contributions; and whether he will make a statement.

My right hon. Friend has received representations from hon. Members, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and others about the cost to universities of the proposed changes in employers' national insurance contributions. The possibility of providing additional funds is under consideration and it is not yet possible to say when an announcement will be made.

Handicapped Students

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what provision his Department makes for the inspection of private colleges for special education of handicapped students and for the review of the level of their residential fees.

The decision to terminate by 1 April 1982 the former voluntary arrangements under which independent establishments of further education could apply to the Department for "recognition as efficient" was announced in the House on 11 November 1980, at column 131. Since 1982 there have been no arrangements for the inspection of such colleges. The Department has never been involved in the setting of fee levels at independent educational establishments.

Environment

Rate Support Grant

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when the 1985–86 rate support grant supplementary report will be published.

I have laid this report before the House today, together with the "Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report (No. 3) 1982–83".The 1985–86 report demonstrates the consequences for ratepayers in those areas where local authorities have exceeded their spending targets.Authorities were informed last December of their spending targets and of the grant holdback if they exceeded these targets. Despite this notice, a minority of authorities have chosen to overspend. They forgo £550 million of central Government grant as a result. Information about authorities spending plans for 1985–86 indicates they will over-run by £278 million the guidance I issued last December. £550 million is only 6·5 per cent. of the total of block grant of nearly £8,500 million, but for the ratepayers in the high spending areas the consequences of their authorities' decisions are severe.Despite the overspending by a minority of authorities, it is good that the excess this year is markedly less than in 1984–85. This is a tribute to the success of the Rates Act. The Act has curbed the extravagance of the most profligate local authorities which in the past have been able to rifle the pockets of their ratepayers ruthlessly and with impunity. As we promised, the Government have come to these ratepayers' rescue.The 1985–86 report also implements three established disregards, excluding from the calculation of grant holdback certain expenditure under the urban programme, on civil defence, and on schemes jointly financed with health authorities.The report also announces that a new disregard has been agreed for 1985–86, for expenditure incurred by a local authority in contributing to any appeal to help victims or their dependents following a disaster leading to loss of life. This will be implemented in a subsequent supplementary report when sufficient information of authorities' spending under this head is available. The Government announced this disregard on 17 May in response to requests from local authorities following the Bradford fire disaster.Three local authorities have so far failed to provide any information about their planned expenditure for 1985–86. I have therefore made estimates for Liverpool city council, Leicester City council and the London borough of Camden on the basis of the best information available to me. I shall reconsider these estimates when I have better information about these authorities' planned expenditure in 1985–86 and, if appropriate, make a further supplementary report for 1985–86.I intend that the 1982–83 third supplementary report should "close the books" in the light of audited outturn expenditure information for all local authorities in 1982–83. There is no change to the total of grant and holdback for 1982–83, but there are small changes within the total for all authorities.

Sulphur Emissions

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether the Government intend to sign the protocol on the reduction of sulphur emissions, which is expected to be agreed at the meeting of the executive body for the convention on long-range transboundary air pollution in Helsinki on 8 to 12 July, and so join the 30 per cent. club.

The Government fully share the general will in Europe to overcome the environmental problems associated with transboundary air pollution. We have announced our aim of achieving a further reduction in sulphur dioxide emissions of 30 per cent. from the 1980 levels by the end of the 1990s. This would represent a total reduction in United Kingdom emissions of 47 per cent. from the peak levels in 1970. The protocol takes no account of the substantial emission reductions achieved by the United Kingdom before 1980. The Government consider that it would be wrong to commit the United Kingdom to the levels of investment that would be required to guarantee a reduction in sulphur dioxide emission by 1993 of 30 per cent. on the 1980 levels and we shall not, therefore, be signing the protocol in Helsinki.

Water Metering

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects to make a statement on the report of the Watts committee on water metering.

After I have received the report and considered its implications. The committee awaits the results of work by consultants on the economics of metering and hopes to report soon thereafter.

Housing Revenue Accounts

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list all the local authorities in England and Wales which showed a surplus on their housing revenue account in each year since 1982.

Local authorities in England which made net transfers from their housing revenue accounts to their general rate funds are as follows. The information AS provided by local authorities in their housing subsidy claim forms. My Department does not collect information from local authorities in Wales.

County	Authority	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85 (estimate)
Greater Manchester	Bury				X
Merseyside	St. Helens		X
Tyne & Wear	South Tyneside				X
West Midlands	Dudley			X	X
Greater London	Barking & Dagenham		X	X	X
	Barnet		X
	Bromley	X	X	X	X
	Ealing		X	X	X
	Havering	X	X	X	X
	Hillingdon	X	X	X	X
	Kingston upon Thames		X	X	X
	Merton			X	X
	Redbridge			X	X
	Sutton		X	X	X
Avon	Wandsdyke			X	X
	Woodspring	X	X	X	X
Bedfordshire	South Bedfordshire			X
Berkshire	Bracknell	X	X	X	X
	Reading				X
	Slough	X	X	X
	Windsor & Maidenhead	X	X	X	X
	Wokingham	X	X
Buckinghamshire	Beaconsfield	X	X	X	X
	Wycombe	X
Cambridgeshire	East Cambridgeshire	X	X	X	X
	Fenland	X
Cheshire	Congleton	X	X	X	X
Cleveland	Stockton on Tees	X
Cornwall	Carrick		X	X	X
	Kerrier				X
	Penwith			X	X
	Restormel	X	X	X	X
Cumbria	Barrow in Furness			X	X
	South Lakeland	X	X	X	X
Devon	East Devon		X	X	X
	Exeter	X	X	X	X
	North Devon		X	X	X
	Plymouth				X
	South Hams		X	X	X
	Mid Devon				X
	Torbay		X	X	X
Dorset	Bournemouth	X	X	X	X
	Christchurch				X
	North Dorset	X	X	X	X
	Poole			X	X
	Purbeck				X
	West Dorset			X	X
	Wimborne	X	X	X	X
East Sussex	Brighton	X	X	X	X
	Eastbourne	X	X	X	X
	Hove	X	X	X	X
	Rother			X	X
Essex	Brentwood	X	X	X	X
	Castle Point	X	X	X	X
	Colchester	X	X	X	X
	Epping Forest	X	X		X
	Maldon			X	X
	Rochford	X	X	X	X
	Southend on Sea				X

County	Authority	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85 (estimate)
	Tendring	X	X
	Thurrock		X
Gloucestershire	Cheltenham	X	X	X	X
	Gloucester	X	X		X
	Tewkesbury		X	X	X
Hampshire	Basingstoke & Deane	X
	Gosport	X
	Havant	X		X	X
Hereford & Worcester	Hereford	X	X	X
	Leominster			X
	Worcester				X
Hertfordshire	Broxbourne		X	X	X
	Dacorum	X	X	X	X
	East Hertfordshire	X
	North Hertfordshire	X
	Three Rivers	X	X	X	X
Humberside	Glanford	X	X
Isle of Wight	South Wight		X	X	X
Kent	Ashford		X
	Canterbury	X
	Dartford		X
	Shepway		X	X	X
	Tonbridge & Mailing	X	X	X	X
	Tunbridge Wells		X
Lancashire	Blackpool	X
	Hyndburn				X
	Lancaster		X	X	X
	Rossendale			X
	West Lancashire		X	X	X
Leicestershire	Harborough	X	X	X	X
	Hinkley & Bosworth		X	X	X
	Melton			X	X
	Oadby & Wigston				X
Lincolnshire	Boston	X
	Lincoln	X
	South Holland				X
	South Kesteven				X
Norfolk	Breckland	X			X
	North Norfolk	X
	South Norfolk			X	X
Northamptonshire	South Northamptonshire	X	X	X	X
Northumberland	Castle Morpeth			X
North Yorkshire	Hambleton			X	X
	Scarborough			X	X
Nottinghamshire	Mansfield		X	X
	Rushcliffe		X
Oxfordshire	Cherwell		X	X	X
	South Oxfordshire	X	X	X	X
	Vale of White Horse	X	X	X	X
Salop	North Shropshire	X	X	X	X
	Shrewsbury & Atcham	X
Somerset	Sedgemoor	X
	West Somerset				X
Staffordshire	East Staffordshire	X	X
	Lichneld	X
	Newcastle under Lyme	X	X
	Staffs Moorlands	X	X	X	X

County	Authority	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85 (estimate)
Suffolk	Forest Heath	X
	Ipswich	X
Surrey	Elmbridge		X	X	X
	Epsom & Ewell	X	X	X	X
	Guildford	X		X
	Reigate & Banstead			X	X
	Runnymede	X	X	X	X
	Spelthorne	X	X	X	X
	Surrey Heath	X	X	X	X
	Tandridge		X	X	X
	Waverley	X	X	X	X
	Woking		X	X	X
Warwickshire	Stratford on Avon	X	X	X	X
West Sussex	Arun				X
	Chichester		X	X	X
	Horsham	X	X	X
	Mid Sussex	X		X	X
	Worthing		X	X	X
Wiltshire	West Wiltshire	X	X	X	X

Sporting Bodies (Grants)

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what grants have been paid to individual sporting bodies in each of the past 10 years; what grants are projected for the same bodies in 1986; and if he will make a statement.

	1975–76	1976–77	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85
	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£
CURRENT GRANTS TO ALL SPORTS
Angling
British Casting Association	—	—	250	342	228	414	1,274	1,127	511	1,044
National Anglers' Council	12,642	13,654	19,026	20,471	29,487	27,505	29,906	36,195	35,671	34,995
National Federation of Anglers	575	786	5,787	12,143	14,424	5,251	31,443	14,985	19,863	19,348
National Federation of Sea Anglers	5,300	7,764	8,545	10,212	11,769	18,509	14,676	16,225	18,120	17,703
Salmon & Trout Association	—	—	5,000	7,875	8,875	750	11,250	13,902	13,608	12,920
	18,517	22,204	38,608	51,043	64,783	52,429	88,549	82,434	87,773	86,010
Archery
Association for Archery in Schools	134	149	110	176	143	403	419	396	167	260
Grand National Archery Society	11,691	19,217	31,621	23,370	17,057	42,822	48,536	55,859	51,145	62,298
	11,825	19,366	31,731	23,546	17,200	43,255	48,955	56,255	51,312	62,558
Association Football
English Schools' Football Association	696	767	2,380	7,326	3,294	3,612	3,829	2,716	4,418	1,418
Football Association	7,375	11,625	14,618	14,390	17,166	19,625	9,500	—	—	—
Women's Football Association	3,542	4,742	4,825	5,369	8,734	12,625	14,746	19,575	19,905	24,850
	11,613	17,134	21,823	27,085	29,194	35,862	28,075	22,291	24,323	26,268
Athletics
Amateur Athletic Association	(103)	5,310	298	—	—	—	9,760	4,984	440	5,000
British Amateur Athletic Board	135,660	156,978	210,330	160,644	215,130	243,513	211,819	222,334	229,242	234,714
English Cross-Country Union	—	506	150	1,379	1,710	2,860	2,993	20,000	5,273	2,132
English Schools' Athletic Association	697	4,433	3,885	4,089	9,517	9,899	12,568	9,203	2,353	10,873
Women's Amateur Athletic Association	2,864	5,544	6,871	6,603	6,674	7,393	14,552	15,529	17,050	20,451
Women's Cross-Country Association	—	1,358	—	1,739	—	1,968	2,760	1,592	—	2,610
British Schools International Athletic Board	50	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
	139,168	174,129	221,534	174,454	233,031	265,633	254,452	273,642	254,358	275,780
Badminton
Badminton Association of England	48,927	39,134	71,528	74,788	88,089	102,797	111,418	131,562	142,456	180,000
English Schools' Badminton Association	1,099	2,456	8,089	4,527	6,439	10,574	6,899	9,185	6,780	10,008
	50,026	41,590	79,617	79,315	94,528	113,371	118,317	140,747	149,236	190,008

I have placed in the Library details of grants paid to individual governing bodies of sport by the Sports Council over the past 10 years. The council's budget for grants to governing bodies for 1985–86 and 1986–87 is £6·295 million and £7·587 million respectively. The breakdown between individual sports in those years has yet to be determined.

	1975–76	1976–77	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85
£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£
Ballooning
British Balloon & Airship Club	—	—	—	3,489	—	8,493	—	1,568	8,000	4,487
Baseball & Softball
British Amateur Baseball & Softball Federation	—	—	(23)	—	—	—	400	—	364	448
Basketball
British & Irish Basketball Federation	12,668	4,086	268	1,706	27,702	15,362	—	(1,440)	—	37,888
English Basketball Association	39,610	47,026	58,396	92,330	74,090	112,213	114,351	124,590	143,685	161,237
English Mini-Basketball Association	250	226	378	715	827	1,312	899	1,524	1,859	1,653
English Schools' Basketball Association	2,504	5,954	7,730	8,272	7,470	10,606	10,171	11,679	13,071	12,556
	55,032	57,292	66,772	103,023	110,089	139,493	125,421	136,353	158,615	213,334
Billiards and Snooker
Billiards and Snooker Control Council	7,750	9,541	12,354	12,462	15,270	20,810	15,538	26,634	20,943	18,332
Bobsleigh
British Bobsleigh Association	3,275	8,156	4,000	12,291	10,500	10,000	10,000	20,917	20,000	10,000
Bowls
British Crown Green Bowling Association	324	506	837	729	688	1,035	755	1,257	1,249	1,229
English Bowling Association	6,897	5,595	9,092	9,872	15,681	20,518	15,304	26,703	26,537	25,070
English Bowling Federation	381	619	1,612	3,126	4,267	4,854	4,271	5,502	5,623	5,816
English Bowls Council	—	—	—	525	62	11,500	6,000	5,295	19,463	25,000
English Indoor Bowling Association	4,707	5,451	8,550	8,143	10,099	13,799	12,258	15,290	15,845	16,399
English Women's Bowling Association	1,078	1,189	2,556	879	2,553	3,932	5,088	4,936	6,569	10,732
English Women's Bowling Federation	215	421	562	592	627	534	430	577	1,210	998
English Women's Indoor Bowling Association	544	680	609	542	994	1,180	1,119	1,620	1,620	2,025
	14,146	14,461	23,818	24,408	34,971	57,352	45,225	61,180	78,116	87,269
Boxing
Amateur Boxing Association of England	28,077	43,241	44,878	59,463	56,711	81,075	42,534	72,382	82,240	75,521
British Amateur Boxing Association	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	6,500
Schools' Amateur Boxing Association	1,126	1,272	2,272	1,140	1,140	2,654	1,470	4,864	3,412	4,580
	29,203	44,513	47,150	60,603	57,851	83,729	44,004	77,246	85,652	86,601
Canoeing
British Canoe Union	75,026	87,455	107,395	139,764	127,789	197,949	295,421	180,808	195,148	294,614
British Schools' Canoeing Association	500	465	340	302	398	142	—	—	—	—
	75,526	87,920	107,735	140,066	128,187	198,091	295,421	180,808	195,148	294,614
Caving
National Caving Association	2,700	4,513	5,703	5,800	6,736	9,816	9,342	10,871	6,120	16,311
Cricket
Cricket Council	15,660	27,409	24,450	36,260	48,756	76,877	85,691	86,510	96,913	90,166
English Schools' Cricket Association	1,509	1,962	8,146	7,115	7,995	9,795	10,547	15,995	11,214	13,470
Women's Cricket Association	9,826	9,358	19,511	11,107	11,454	16,378	20,942	10,090	18,566	27,454
	26,995	38,729	52,563	54,482	68,205	103,050	117,180	112,595	126,693	131,090
Croquet
Croquet Association	4,425	5,753	3,832	8,728	4,663	6,127	7,822	14,081	7,733	14,971
Curling
English Curling Association	—	1,187	1,343	—	1,365	1,839	3,312	846	4,862	3,118
Cycling
British Cycling Federation	29,020	23,823	52,939	71,169	73,144	63,156	178,518	221,908	106,696	109,912
British Cyclo-Cross Association	1,374	5,314	4,139	1,326	6,500	5,784	7,678	1,850	8,228	10,676
Cycle Speedway Council	220	682	1,170	1,228	1,476	8,068	705	1,822	2,589	17,103
Cyclists' Touring Club	3,400	3,400	3,400	3,400	3,400	2,550	2,225	9,524	5,481	11,064
English Schools Cycling Association	416	485	730	749	1,170	1,275	1,161	1,676	2,023	2,303
Road Time Trails Council	3,416	4,488	7,715	10,419	14,359	17,283	17,612	17,720	20,782	20,127
	37,846	58,192	70,093	88,291	100,049	98,116	207,899	254,500	145,799	171,185
Fencing
Amateur Fencing Association	52,029	63,677	60,677	82,931	118,200	68,390	114,577	121,758	128,597	123,885
Fives
Rugby Fives Association	—	1,000	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Flying
Royal Aero Club	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	759	—
Gliding
British Gliding Association	29,258	24,947	35,986	27,125	41,899	52,369	54,903	60,799	72,167	65,116

	1975–76	1976–77	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85
	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£
Golf
English Golf Union	1,607	(665)	1,067	2,025	2,684	5,647	5,823	5,388	12,061	6,323
English Ladies' Golf Association	75	1,051	6,013	3,990	4,166	5,704	7,037	5,894	6,251	10,407
English Schools' Golf Association	—	—	75	93	244	450	1,467	413	1,103	—
Golf Development Council	7,299	8,261	8,643	9,623	10,299	8,757	8,167	10,064	4,982	—
Golf Foundation	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	10,000	—	—
Ladies' Golf Union	—	604	20,761	24,011	31,827	30,381	36,447	41,509	37,744	37,572
Royal & Ancient GC of St, Andrews	452	5,184	243	3,855	—	1,848	5,696	2,308	1,920	3,084
	9,433	14,435	36,802	43,597	49,220	52,787	64,637	75,666	64,061	57,386
Gymnastics
British Amateur Gymnastics Association	64,530	78,846	51,120	102,103	124,290	104,219	47,701	101,719	104,877	141,142
British Schools' Gymnastics Association	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	12,200	12,200	9,437
English Schools' Gymnastic Association	4,184	3,364	9,990	5,700	11,169	10,848	6,987	(1,058)	85	626
	68,714	82,210	61,110	107,803	135,459	115,067	54,688	112,861	117,162	151,205
Handball
British Handball Association	6,427	8,564	12,810	18,719	31,351	29,592	30,877	42,820	55,004	59,777
Hang Gliding
British Hang Gliding Association	—	3,000	5,794	26,876	29,208	46,944	49,611	43,923	47,066	67,573
Hockey Field
All England Women's Hockey Association	18,277	16,254	23,503	23,065	30,802	44,498	22,064	46,222	22,354	57,349
English Schoolboys' Hockey Association	1,594	2,292	2,291	2,468	4,500	4,366	3,745	4,316	4,279	4,858
GB Men's Hockey Board	4,470	315	(435)	21,366	12,380	(14,129)	—	—	12,914	25,000
GB Women's Hockey Olympic Committee	—	1,772	2,763	3,425	5,580	1,797	6,575	—	7,433	1,297
Hockey Association	38,654	54,139	84,809	54,042	79,506	82,194	108,674	105,718	121,660	116,654
Home Counties Women's Hockey Board	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	150
	62,995	74,772	114,597	104,366	132,768	118,726	141,058	156,256	168,640	205,308
Hockey Ice
British Ice Hockey Association	5,585	5,835	850	—	8,567	11,859	6,448	3,775	13,911	17,914
Hockey Roller
National Roller Hockey Association of Great Britain	1,178	1,700	6,807	4,500	11,691	8,401	12,034	15,366	12,062	19,849
Judo ^*
British Judo Association	27,827	69,069	92,302	136,518	153,749	200,231	170,546	200,052	280,092	236,422
British Schools' Judo Association	200	1,571	550	2,226	2,355	4,061	3,247	5,689	8,849	1,193
	28,027	70,640	92,852	138,744	156,104	204,292	173,793	205,741	288,941	237,615
Lacrosse
All England Women's Lacrosse Association	12,553	9,584	13,361	32,766	22,899	12,924	15,239	30,280	18,626	23,227
English Lacrosse Union	2,030	4,478	13,448	7,788	5,567	7,248	17,648	10,117	8,865	17,741
GB Lacrosse Council	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	9,000
	14,583	14,062	26,809	40,554	28,446	20,172	32,887	40,397	27,491	49,968
Land Yachting
British Federation of Sand and Land Yacht Clubs	750	250	—	—	2,917	5,649	3,505	9,213	8,979	5,162
Lawn Tennis
Boys' School Lawn Tennis Association	387	299	455	457	485	286	—	—	—	—
British Schools' Lawn Tennis Association	—	—	—	—	—	673	1,422	2,375	3,251	3,249
Girls' School Lawn Tennis Association	462	451	481	567	844	297	—	—	—	—
Lawn Tennis Association	22,592	23,734	43,883	39,104	41,871	72,574	69,314	73,421	76,028	76,025
	23,441	24,484	44,819	40,128	43,200	73,830	70,736	75,796	79,279	79,274
Martial Arts
Martial Arts Commission	25,964	27,453	48,251	31,512	51,129	67,906	92,553	62,924	126,095	95,719
Modern Pentathlon
Modern Pentathlon Association of Great Britain	11,898	9,222	23,472	14,994	25,779	24,557	34,366	32,670	28,717	38,272
Motor-Cycling ^*
Auto-Cycle Union	4,000	2,172	9,406	2,382	1,250	—	8,330	25,815	9,760	40,004
Mountaineering
British Mountaineering Council	31,385	34,517	2,124	—	43,445	28,883	49,928	49,856	47,414	61,938
Mountain Leadership Training Board	—	—	13,596	—	11,916	—	—	—	—	—
Mountain Rescue Committee	—	—	1,500	—	—	3,000	—	9,359	865	3,641
Mountainwalking Leader Training Board	—	—	—	—	2,500	24,417	27,389	17,799	16,174	20,114

	1975–76	1976–77	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85
	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£
	31,385	34,517	41,220	—	57,861	56,300	77,317	77,014	64,453	85,693
Movement and Dance
British Amateur Dancers' Association	9,593	5,992	8,921	12,857	9,490	21,203	16,766	14,635	20,087	20,393
English Folk Dance and Song Society	28,320	34,498	39,535	45,727	35,047	52,683	52,273	56,034	50,694	61,857
Keep Fit Association	9,142	12,761	16,618	13,871	18,160	21,989	25,706	21,354	25,585	24,444
Margaret Morris Movement	750	734	1,673	2,276	2,544	7,841	7,250	9,067	10,916	13,969
Medau Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	5,131	5,115	6,381	6,290	7,230	9,091	6,999	8,718	8,877	8,605
Women's League of Health and Beauty	8,433	10,282	11,059	13,733	14,918	17,840	23,456	22,721	23,239	28,923
	61,269	69,382	84,187	94,754	87,389	130,647	132,450	132,529	139,398	253,121
Netball
All England Netball Association	21,866	23,315	25,174	32,306	24,752	37,724	52,273	51,445	44,394	53,104
English Schools' Netball Association	450	592	1,323	1,262	1,327	2,676	1,340	1,393	2,109	2,603
	22,316	23,907	26,497	33,568	26,079	40,400	53,613	52,838	46,503	57,707
Orienteering
British Orienteering Federation	38,612	29,471	39,796	52,628	55,314	60,396	97,933	76,528	46,503	57,707
Parachuting
British Parachute Association	19,672	27,420	41,327	29,541	46,692	56,050	58,140	60,273	65,465	62,637
Parascending
British Association of Parascending Clubs	—	—	—	—	—	650	1,594	—	3,770	14,332
Petanque
British Petanque Association	—	—	—	—	5,500	488	580	1,976	820	1,396
Riding
British Equestrian Federation	—	—	—	61,477	39,421	202,309	58,584	78,205	49,174	115,700
British Horse Society	34,765	26,230	110,147	29,704	28,660	69,308	61,048	58,642	59,880	62,378
Riding for the Disabled Association	6,050	13,767	13,718	15,499	25,451	15,704	14,706	9,129	7,228	5,439
	40,815	39,997	123,865	106,680	93,532	287,321	134,338	145,976	116,282	183,517
Rowing
Amateur Rowing Association	109,392	92,076	163,195	173,059	165,335	227,147	166,562	225,562	229,449	288,540
Rugby League
British Amateur Rugby League Association	3,900	19,054	44,326	29,997	40,431	47,303	76,811	80,522	63,122	61,623
English Schools' Rugby League	1,546	1,276	6,492	3,545	6,743	4,047	8,861	5,077	10,578	6,017
	5,446	20,330	50,818	33,542	47,174	51,250	85,672	85,599	73,700	67,640
Rugby Union
Rugby Football Schools' Union	—	3,361	5,894	1,765	20,500	7,961	5,161	12,500	6,691	6,691
Rugby Football Union	3,344	3,740	10,655	8,750	8,000	21,615	19,766	24,703	32,229	23,762
		7,101	16,549	10,515	28,500	29,576	24,927	37,203	38,920	30,453
Sailing
National School Sailing Association	998	1,402	1,770	2,636	2,026	1,645	2,021	2,128	2,232	2,576
Royal Yachting Association	72,205	67,601	108,349	150,353	154,588	123,008	98,460	125,303	243,960	145,961
	73,203	69,003	110,119	152,989	156,614	124,653	100,481	127,431	246,192	148,537
Shooting
Clay Pigeon Shooting Association	8,801	36,859	46,956	22,255	40,598	63,051	64,392	48,710	58,090	47,762
English Shooting Council	—	—	—	—	—	5,089	2,033	3,050	9,310	1,166
English Small-bore Shooting Union	—	—	—	—	437	—	—	—	—	—
English XX Club	—	—	—	—	202	—	—	—	—	—
Joint Shooting Committee for GB	19,567	4,837	6,112	30,000	1,046	4,244	(6,753)	26,711	—	—
National Air Rifle and Pistol Association	325	—	2,820	5,829	5,640	5,640	10,134	7,423	4,459	—
National Rifle Association	2,471	4,915	14,694	28,805	21,639	15,619	9,992	18,369	12,504	47,741
National Small-bore Rifle Association	5,803	11,228	39,027	21,595	19,278	62,383	46,392	52,868	67,897	82,028
	36,967	57,839	109,659	108,484	88,840	156,026	126,190	157,131	152,260	178,697
Skate Boarding
English Skateboard Association	—	—	—	5,750	8,000	6,697	3,666	5,382	2,127	5,627
Skating
National Skating Association of GB	39,215	60,107	83,765	81,321	100,673	137,103	133,656	105,543	270,038	167,371
Skiing
British Ski Federation	61,366	70,072	114,156	121,777	121,386	115,450	114,387	112,570	127,943	129,176
English Ski Council	—	—	—	—	27,566	43,225	35,416	71,931	57,118	57,793
	61,366	70,072	114,156	121,777	148,952	158,675	149,803	184,501	185,061	186,969

	1975–76	1976–77	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85
	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£
Squash Rackets
Squash Rackets Association	63,106	63,545	72,255	85,990	83,976	129,135	87,146	118,490	123,612	121,942
Women's Squash Rackets Association	8,985	15,061	16,280	29,160	26,749	42,115	44,325	46,809	53,704	50,954
	72,091	78,606	88,535	115,150	110,725	171,250	131,471	165,299	177,316	172,896
Sub-Aqua
British Sub-Aqua Club	63,445	73,677	82,252	90,017	91,370	137,617	139,368	109,262	87,423	107,681
Surfing
British Surfing Association	3,735	4,567	7,748	7,263	7,830	9,350	20,093	10,540	24,829	19,122
English Surfing Federation	—	—	—	—	—	2,500	—	—	—	—
	3,735	4,567	7,748	7,263	7,830	11,850	20,093	10,540	24,829	19,122
Swimming
Amateur Swimming Association	69,090	73,967	116,480	113,421	138,333	112,061	142,351	171,487	68,445	100,205
Amateur Swimming Federation of GB	—	—	—	14,116	10,000	29,422	6,595	52,971	22,192	69,890
English Schools' Swimming Association	1,008	976	3,780	2,391	6,557	1,171	4,554	6,617	3,633	7,016
National Association of Swimming Clubs for the Handicapped	—	700	—	750	—	1,088	—	—	—	—
	70,098	75,643	120,260	130,678	154,890	143,742	153,500	231,075	94,270	177,111
Table Tennis
English Schools' Table Tennis Association	1,497	1,659	2,080	2,334	2,687	1,889	2,885	3,087	3,158	3,914
English Table Tennis Association	51,270	130,071	89,761	63,556	84,832	112,822	120,795	136,906	135,203	142,759
	52,767	131,730	91,841	65,890	87,519	114,711	123,680	139,993	138,361	146,673
Tennis & Rackets
Tennis & Rackets Association	500	1,000	—	1,231	1,000	1,000	415	—	1,000	1,500
Tenpin Bowling
British Tenpin Bowling Association	30,116	18,033	20,362	23,650	29,520	25,046	29,790	38,339	40,284	35,802
Tobogganing
British Racing Toboggan Association	—	3,400	6,500	3,690	14,028	—	11,701	12,520	11,556	11,934
Trampolining
British Tramoline Federation	4,558	3,160	3,812	5,898	3,250	6,093	15,666	10,979	6,726	18,003
Tug-of-War
Tug-of-War Association	4,160	5,523	2,383	3,198	7,419	3,064	—	6,668	7,747	8,717
Volleyball
British Volleyball Federation	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1,000	—	—
English Schools' Volleyball Association	581	1,421	6,770	8,981	7,114	9,711	8,774	9,264	10,431	21,338
English Volleyball Association	18,084	25,301	58,762	43,493	56,279	73,516	92,421	87,523	60,438	87,687
	18,665	26,722	65,532	52,474	63,393	83,227	101,195	97,787	70,869	109,025
Water Skiing
British Water Ski Federation	66,588	58,630	79,020	98,828	112,447	128,052	160,130	177,726	122,726	241,822
Weight Lifting
British Amateur Weight Lifters' Association	31,034	33,652	45,097	38,372	52,592	59,592	75,400	69,368	77,962	131,553
Wildfowling
British Association for Shooting & Conservation	9,471	12,195	13,328	15,803	16,578	19,746	22,028	20,659	23,441	24,083
Wrestling
Schoolboys Olympic Wrestling Association	—	—	700	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
British Amateur Wrestling Association	6,343	3,352	13,110	11,609	17,586	27,745	14,320	49,905	27,299	37,000
English Olympic Wrestling Association	5,473	12,300	7,741	9,404	15,678	22,088	18,388	25,875	24,980	28,505
	11,816	15,652	23,189	21,013	33,264	49,833	32,708	75,780	52,279	65,505
Life Saving
Royal Life Saving Society	5,905	12,954	26,707	13,582	21,205	27,818	25,888	27,723	32,818	37,150
Surf Life Saving Association of GB	4,720	6,241	6,957	6,107	6,684	10,695	11,261	14,800	13,984	14,283
	10,625	19,195	33,664	19,689	27,889	38,513	37,149	42,523	46,802	51,433
Rambling
Ramblers' Association	5,265	6,577	7,912	9,929	13,709	14,525	19,616	22,741	25,016	24,739
Judo ^*
Scottish Judo Federation	—	—	—	3,811	5,000	1,000	(600)	—	—	—
Motor-Cycling†
Scottish Auto-Cycle Union	—	2,500	—	3,086	2,500	3,000	—	—	—	—

	1975–76	1976–77	1977–78	1978–79	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85
	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£	£
Totals	1,830,293	2,204,787	3,062,523	3,319,330	3,795,128	4,683,217	4,784,771	5,265,493	5,402,149	6,079,942
CURRENT GRANTS TO RELATED ORGANISATIONS
British Association for Sport in Colleges	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2,000
British Association of National Coaches	600	449	1,774	1,381	2,500	2,250	4,000	11,066	9,792	11,143
British Association of Sport and Medicine	—	—	—	840	—	—	—	115	—	588
British Association of Sports Sciences	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	135
British Colleges Sports Association	1,290	1,419	1,563	1,696	1,728	1,949	1,517	2,277	2,293	2,866
British Olympic Association	1,129	11,604	60,756	602	—	3,460	—	60,374	—	(60,000)
British Polytechnics Sports Association	—	—	2,500	1,875	2,500	2,819	2,281	3,208	3,317	4,146
British Society of Sports Psychology	4,821	—	—	(80)	—	(36)	—	699	—	—
British Sports Association for the Disabled	27,682	35,423	29,607	28,286	44,640	74,539	79,517	84,555	74,358	88,975
British Students Sports Federation	1,726	—	12,260	—	26,906	—	13,935	32,500	—	35,000
Central Council of Physical Recreation	58,826	78,478	75,717	86,601	92,476	153,228	150,213	223,032	187,688	300,000
Commonwealth Games Council for England	(10,896)	—	19,638	57,367	—	(16,570)	43,074)	56,538	(18,313)	—
Commonwealth Games Federation	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	670
Council of Europe (Development of Sport)	—	18,887	(828)	104	—	—	—	—	—	—
General Association of International Sports Federations	—	—	—	—	—	—	357	—	—	—
International Association of PE and Sport for Girls and Women	—	—	—	—	—	—	500	—	—	9,217
International Association for Sport Information	—	—	438	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
International Council for Sport Science & PE	—	3,183	—	—	—	156	—	2,287	—	—
International Federation of Adapted Physical Activity	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1,260	—	2,000
International Orienteering Federation	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	281
National Council for Schools Sports	20,070	698	760	6,851	10,216	992	768	5,196	1,408	7,365
National Playing Fields Association	18,500	21,375	24,323	25,597	25,487	30,902	32,055	34,274	36,271	35,765
On Line Information Co, Ltd,	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3,500
Physical Education Association of GB & NI	1,950	2,100	2,420	2,280	2,280	1,140	2,660	2,280	570	8,763
Sport & the Law Conferences	—	—	—	248	—	—	—	—	—	—
Sports Aid Foundation	1,117	25,512	425,000	—	—	—	1,931	6,588	9,680	16,413
Sports Documentation Centre	20,070	26,773	—	10,000	10,000	10,000	—	—	—	—
Sports Turf Research Institute	11,983	13,625	29,750	34,000	43,000	46,500	54,37,5	58,181	62,252	68,165
UK Sports Association for People with Mental Handicap	—	—	—	—	—	89	117	—	—	—
Universities' Athletic Union	3,450	3,549	3,906	4,000	4,000	4,397	3,551	5,052	5,083	6,366
Women's Inter-University Athletic Board	2,414	2,365	2,941	3,323	664	—	—	—	—	—
Individuals to Conferences	997	289	1,979	2,528	2,779	1,235	6,566	5,292	16,123	21,170
Totals	157,645	258,597	717,222	267,859	269,276	317,050	395,461	595,631	390,522	564,828
Grand Totals	1,987,938	2,463,384	3,779,745	3,587,189	4,064,404	5,000,267	5,180,232	5,861,124	5,792,671	6,644,770

Association Of County Councils

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has been notified by the Association of County Councils of any change in the composition of the association; and if he will make a statement.

I have no such notification, but this is a matter which falls entirely within the responsibility of the association.

Inner City Areas

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list in the Official Report the amounts of financial assistance, given in all forms, to inner city areas for 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984, respectively.

I shall write to my hon. Friend.

Water Authorities

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the actual capital expenditure in 1984–85 of each of the water authorities before allowing for grants and contributions; and if he will list these figures for the previous five years and give his best estimates for the years 1985–86, 1986–87 and 1987–88 before allowing for grants and contributions at either 1985–86 prices or estimated outturn prices for each of the authorities.

The information requested is as follows:

Capital Expenditure by Water Authorities in England and Wales^*(Excluding Land Drainage)
£million (out-turn prices)
	1979–80	1980–81	1981–82	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85†	1985–86‡	1986–87≑	1987–88≑
North West	83·5	85·8	89·5	108·3	132·1	145·0	158·2	170	184
Northumbrian	61·3	59·1	38·4	37·6	32·0	28·3	36·5	39	37
Severn Trent	80·9	101·0	97·2	110·5	114·8	107·1	119·2	122	130
Yorkshire	58·1	77·5	73·7	72·6	77·4	87·4	97·0	107	114
Anglian	64·6	80·3	94·0	91·2	113·5	99·0	95·3	107	109
Thames	70·6	79·0	80·1	95·7	113·3	102·9	109·0	119	126
Southern	46·1	47·1	51·0	49·9	58·3	56·6	61·4	64	67
Wessex	24·7	24·8	29·2	31·7	40·0	36·8	48·2	58	60
South West	18·5	21·7	21·2	25·4	29·6	38·5	38·0	38	41
Welsh	30·9	31·7	37·1	46·1	44·8	36·4	50·0	58	63
Notes
^* The source for these figures is monitoring returns to the Department. The figures differ slightly from those published in the water authorities annual accounts.
†Provisional figures.
‡Forecast.
≑ Indicative figures issued to authorities for planning purposes.

Broad Street Station

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether at any time Broad Street station has been recommended for listing by an investigator; and what professional advice was received by the Department on each occasion that the building was previously considered for listing in 1971, 1975 and 1981.

I shall answer this question shortly.

Solar Energy

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will take into consideration developments in the design of passive solar energy when revisions are next made to building regulations.

Allowance for passive solar gain is permitted for commercial and industrial buildings in the present regulations. After the new system of building control has been brought into operation later this year, the requirements for the conservation of fuel and power will be reviewed. This review will include consideration of developments in the design of passive solar energy.

Radionuclides (Sellafield)

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will update to calendar years 1983 and 1984 the information on discharges of radionuclides to sea from the Sellafield site given in National Radiological Protection Board Paper R171; and what proportion of the plutonium contained in the discharges made to sea from the Sellafield site up to 31 December 1984 is estimated to have originated in the magnox reactors of the Central Electricity Generating Board and South of Scotland Electricity Board.

[pursuant to his reply, 3 July 1985: The information requested for 1983 is given in the table. The equivalent figures for 1984 are not yet available.Figures for the proportion of liquid discharges from the Sellafield site from various sources were given in paragraphs 3.9 and 3.10 of the Black report, a copy of which is in the Library of the House. About 70 per cent. of the total alpha discharge is attributable to storage and reprocessing of magnox fuel from the Central Electricity Generating Board and South of Scotland Electricity Board nuclear power stations.

Bq discharged in 1983
Sr 90	Zr/Nb 95	Ru 106	Cs 134	Cs 137
2.04 E14	5.96 E14	5.53 E14	8·9 E13	1.2 E15
Ce 144	Pu 238	Pu 239	Pu 241	Am 241
2·4 E13	2·9 E12	8·2 E12	3·3 E14	2.2 E12

Transport

Airport Security

61.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he is satisfied with the security arrangements at British airports; and if he will make a statement.

British airports have achieved a good standard of security. All UK airport authorities have been asked to reinforce their efforts to ensure that security measures are fully complied with. My right hon. friend the Secretary of State for Transport last week held an urgent meeting with some of the major airport and airline interests represented on the National Aviation Security Committee to review security measures in the United Kingdom. I pressed the importance of the need for international co-operation on this matter at a meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation in Montreal last Thursday.

Motorists (Drink Problems)

62.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what steps he will take to aid the better identification of motorists with a drink problem.

A scheme for the identification of drivers with a possible drink problem has been in operation since May 1983. It applies to anyone disqualified twice within 10 years for driving with more than two and a half times the legal limit of alcohol in the body or, alternatively, once for driving at more than two and a half times the legal limit and once for failure to provide a specimen. Such offenders are investigated by the Secretary of State's medical adviser at the end of their second disqualification period and, if there is evidence of a drink problem, a driving licence is withheld until the person has demonstrated that his condition is under effective control.

I shall consider the scope for extending this scheme by, for example, lowering the threshold for investigation in the light of experience of these arrangements.

Blind People (Travel Facilities)

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will consider introducing arrangements for the county societies for the blind and local clubs to be involved during the planning stages of alterations to roads and railways.

British Rail already has a well developed system for consultation at both national and local level where alterations to the railway affect disabled people. Other railways, such as the Tyne and Wear Metro, have similar systems.My Department consults groups and organisations of all kinds where they are directly affected by national road proposals. Notification of road proposals is, however, normally made through national organisations. I shall be happy to include one or more national organisations representing blind people in the standard distribution list if they so wish.

Cycling

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what was the amount of money spent by his Department to promote cycling safety campaigns in 1983–84 and 1984–85.

Expenditure by the Department of Transport to promote pedal cycle safety in the years 1983–84 and 1984–85 was £845,600 and £1,058,000 respectively.

Vehicle Testing

asked the Secretary of State for Transport whether there is any statistical evidence that the Ministry of Transport test has not been sufficiently stringent to avoid road accidents caused by defective vehicles.

There is no recent evidence. A study by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory in the early 1970s showed that mechanical defects were a main contributory factor in about 8 per cent. of accidents. Since then the stringency of the test has been increased in a number of respects, for instance by requiring brakes to be examined on a roller brake tester rather than by a road test.

Railways (Safety)

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if, when he next meets the chairman of British Rail, he will raise with him the safety standards of the new class 455 electrical unit, with particular reference to the operation of the pneumatic sliding doors and fire prevention requirements; and if he will make a statement.

The safety standards of rolling stock on Brtish Railways is a matter for the British Railways Board. The Department's Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways has already raised with the board the disquiet felt by some passengers about the emergency evacuation arrangements in recent designs of electric multiple-unit trains, including the class 455. The board has to take into account the need for proper means of escape in an emergency and the need to protect passengers against the dangers of alighting on to lines which may be open to traffic and fitted with high-voltage conductor rails. Some improvements have already been made and the board is currently examining the whole question of emergency evacuation of sliding-door rolling stock.

Humberside Airport

asked the Secretary of State for Transport how many passengers departing for destinations abroad used Humberside airport during the last 12 months for which figures are available.

Humberside airport was used by 63,460 passengers on commercial international flights in 1984. Approximately half of these would be departing passengers.

Motorways (Construction Costs)

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what is the current average cost per mile of new motorway construction; and how this figure compares with five, 10, 15 and 20 years ago in historic and constant prices, respectively.

The information requested is as follows:

Year	Rural dual	Rural dual	Urban dual	Urban dual
	3-lane	2-lane	3-lane	2-lane
	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million
1964–65
Cash	0·6	0·5	2	2
Constant^*	—	—	—	—
1969–70
Cash	1	1	2	3
Constant	—	—	—	—
1974–75
Cash	2	1	5	4
Constant	5	3	13	10
1979–80
Cash	3	2	7	5
Constant	4	3	9	6
1984–85†
Cash	5	3	12	6
Constant	5	3	12	9
Constant prices at average 1982–83 prices, revalued using the roads output index.
^* Consistent indices for calculating constant prices for motorway building unavailable prior to 1974.
† Provisional.

Motorway construction costs per mile vary significantly depending on the standard and location of the road concerned. The figures in the table represent very broad average costs by type of motorway and do not reflect accurately the costs of building specific motorways at particular times. In addition to works expenditure, additional costs such as land acquisition may add between 20 and 30 per cent. to the costs of building motorways.

British Rail

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what new initiatives British Rail is taking on a national level to make known to passengers the facilities it offers, the standards it seeks to achieve, and the procedures customers should follow if the service does not satisfy them.

I understand that BR is today publishing a "Code of Practice" which it has prepared in conjunction with the Central Transport Consultative Committee. The code provides a general guide to rail travel and the standards of service the board aims to achieve.I think it is a good thing that the board is producing such a document, which I am sure its customers will find informative and useful. I believe BR plans to distribute copies to all Members of Parliament and the TUCCs, and that copies will be available at all BR stations and travel agents.

Attorney-General

Crown Court Appeals

asked the Attorney-General what is the estimated cost of court and staff time involved in a hearing in the Crown court of an appeal against sentence.

£80.

asked the Attorney-General what is the average cost to the legal aid fund of a legally aided hearing in the Crown court of an appeal against sentence.

The latest period for which figures are available is the last quarter of 1984. The average cost was then £177.

Bail Applications

asked the Attorney-General what is the estimated cost of an application for bail pending appeal to a judge in chambers.

Application is to the Crown court. The estimated cost is £40.

Northern Ireland

Tiger (Portavogie)

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he has received any complaints about a tiger in Portavogie; and if he is satisfied with the enclosure in which the tiger is presently housed; and if he will make a statement.

I have received no such complaints other than from the right hon. Gentleman. It is the responsibility of the district council to take action if it is felt that an animal is so kept as to constitute a public health nuisance. I understand there is no evidence at present to suggest that such action is necessary.

Nursing Homes

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a table showing the number of registered nursing homes and private clinics and the number of beds available in them in Northern Ireland.

Twenty-eight premises, providing 654 beds, are registered under the Nursing Homes and Nursing Agencies Act (Northern Ireland) 1971. Three of the premises, providing 114 beds, are registered as carrying out surgical procedures.

Hospital Inpatient Costs

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a table showing hospital inpatient costs by type of hospital, expressed in pounds per patient per week for Northern Ireland.

The information requested is as follows:

Type of Hospital	Cost per patient per week (year ended 31 March 1984)
	£
Acute	556
Mainly Acute	423
Partly Acute	354
Sub Acute	311
Mainly Long Stay	346
Long Stay	239
Maternity	590
Psychiatric (Mental Illness)	220
Psychiatric (Mental Handicap)	217
Tuberculosis and Chest	481
Teaching	657
Other	407

Housing Benefit

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will give the numbers of people in Northern Ireland in receipt of housing benefit; and how many of these are (a) pensioners, (b) housing executive tenants, (c) low-income recipients not in receipt of supplementary benefit and (d) householders in receipt of supplementary benefit.

The total number of housing benefit recipients at 15 March 1985 was just over 189,600. This included some

(a) 84,800 pensioners;

(b) 114,600 Housing Executive tenants;

(c) 67,400 persons not receiving supplementary benefit, and

(d) 122,200 householders in receipt of supplementary benefit.

Wales

Households

asked the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will publish household projections similar to those published by the Department of the Environment for England.

The current household projections for Wales have circulated already to all local authorities in Wales and are freely available on request. I am sending the hon. Gentleman a copy. The projections will also be published in the next volume of "Welsh Housing Statistics".

A55

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list in the Official Report the earliest and latest completion dates for each section of the A55 dual carriageway.

Individual schemes are provisionally programmed for a start within defined time bands, not on the basis of completion dates. My present assessment of progress with the A55 schemes now started, or in preparation is:

	Current Provisional Start Date^*	Approximate Length of Contract (years)
Holywell Bypass	Started October 1984	1½
Bodelwyddan Bypass	Started May 1985	2
Penmaenbach-Dwygyfylchi Improvement	Under Review	3¼
Llanfairfecham Bypass	January 1986–December 1988	2
Penmaenmawr Bypass	January 1986–December 1988	2½
Glan Conwy-Conwy Morfa (Conwy Crossing)	1986	4¼
Pen-y-Clip Tunnel	January 1986–December 1988	3½
Northop Bypass	January 1986–December 1988	2
Travellers Inn Improvement	January 1986–December 1988	1½
Rhuallt Hill Improvement	Post 1988	2
Aber Improvement	Post 1988	1½
^* Subject to the satisfactory completion of engineering design, statutory procedures, and the availability of resources.

Road Construction

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give the number of miles of new and improved roads in Wales which are under construction or have been completed since 1979 under schemes approved by his Department.

Since May 1979, 100 miles of new and improved roads have been completed in schemes costing £1 million or more, and 23 miles are presently under construction.

Forestry Commission

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list in the Official Report the names and locations of the woodlands for which felling licences for the conversion of the land to agriculture were issued in the Forestry Commission's north and south Wales conservancies, respectively, in the years 1982–83, 1983–84 and 1984–85.

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

Rate Support Grant

asked the Secretary of State for Wales when the rate support grant supplementary reports for 1983–84 and 1985–86 will be published.

I have today laid before Parliament the Welsh Rate Support Grant Supplementary (No. 2) Report 1983–84 which adjusts local authorities' grant entitlement for the year using final information on expenditure outturns and interest rates. This data shows that fewer authorities have exceeded their targets than at budget stage and that the gross overspend by authorities has fallen. As a result grant holdback is reduced from £12·6 million to £10 million.The report also makes consequential changes to the calsulation of grant related expenditure.My Department is sending local authorities copies of the report, and details of their revised grant entitlements.I propose to lay the first supplementary report for 1985–86 before the House on 9 July.

Trade And Industry

Inward Investment Unit

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many inward investment missions from the inward investment unit of his Department have been carried out to (a) the United States of America, (b) Japan and (c) the continental European Economic Community in the last (i) three years and (ii) five years.

The Invest in Britain bureau in ray Department does not carry out inward investment missions to overseas countries. Its main activities are, in consultation with diplomatic service posts and other promotional bodies in the United Kingdom, organising seminars and investment lunches and dinners overseas; dealing with individual prospective investors; United Kingdom coordination of inward investment promotion activities; and publicising overseas the attractiveness of the United Kingdom as a location for investment.

National Audit Office (Documents)

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, further to his answer of 20 June, Official Report, column 176, what safeguards exist to ensure that documents stamped "Not for National Audit Office Eyes" fall within the category agreed with the National Audit Office; and when this practice originated.

The internal audit branch of my Department whose reports are sent to the National Audit Office, review compliance with instructions for the correct classifications of such documents. The practice became established very many years ago with the knowledge of the then Exchequer and Audit Department.

Patents Office

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, further to his reply of 25 February, Official Report, column 10, about changing the status of the Patents Office, what provisos on the implementation of any change in status were specified by the 10 respondents; and what constituted necessity in the view of 30 respondents.

Ten of the respondents who favoured changing the status of the Patents Office did so provided that Patents Office fees were not substantially increased as a result of the change and/or that acceptable arrangements were adopted regarding the powers to be delegated to the office and regarding the constitution of its management board. Thirty respondents were prepared to accept a change of status if this were necessary to enable the office to respond better to user needs for new and improved services.

Lead Development Association (Exhibition)

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will arrange for an exhibition relating to the Lead Development Association to be displayed in the Upper Waiting Hall.

Yes. Arrangements have been made for such an exhibition in the Upper Waiting Hall to take place from 15 July 1985 to 21 July 1985.

Home Department

Sri Lankan Nationals

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now withdraw the visa requirement for Sri Lankan nationals.

No.

21.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to review the policy of requiring visas for Sri Lankan nationals wishing to travel from Sri Lanka to Britain.

The policy is being kept under review but my right hon. and learned Friend has no plans to withdraw the visa requirement for Sri Lankan citizens at present.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether Sri Lankan citizens, who are permanently resident in Britain, now have to obtain a re-entry visa if they wish to visit an overseas country; what regulations apply to citizens of other Commonwealth countries; and if he will make a statement.

All Sri Lankan citizens, except those who were settled in the United Kingdom at the coming into force of the Immigration Act 1971 and who qualify for readmission under paragraph 56 of the immigration rules (HC 169) require entry or re-entry visas. Citizens of no other Commonwealth country are subject to a general visa requirement, but depending on the purpose for which he is seeking entry a Commonwealth citizen may be required to obtain prior entry clearance in the form of an entry certificate.

Tamils

14.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Tamils have now arrived in the United Kingdom since 20 April; and how many have since been removed to Colombo.

Figures are readily available only from the beginning of May. Since then, some 1,345 Sri Lankan Tamils have arrived at United Kingdom ports and applied for asylum; one has so far been removed to Colombo.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Tamils who sought refuge in the United Kingdom during May are still in detention; why such Tamils were placed in detention; and if he will make a statement.

No Sri Lankan Tamil who sought asylum upon arrival in the United Kingdom during the month of May is now detained. A passenger seeking asylum on arrival is not normally detained pending resolution of his application unless he has no alternative accommodation or the immigration officer considers that he will not comply with such conditions of temporary admission as may be imposed upon him.

Wandsworth Prison

16.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will make a statement on conditions in Wandsworth prison.

Wandsworth shares the shortcomings, especially in sanitary provision, of Victorian prisons that have not been refurbished. It is, however, less overcrowded than most such prisons; its certified normal accommodation is 1,258 and on 29 June its population was 1,554.

Immigration Rules

18.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give an undertaking to publish draft immigration rules before major changes are introduced.

24.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give an undertaking to publish draft immigration rules before major changes are introduced.

No.

Public Order White Paper

19.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has had on his White Paper on public order.

We have received comments from a wide range of organisations and individuals; and a number of other organisations have indicated an intention to comment in the near future. Following is a list of those organisations which have commented to date:

The Anti-Aparheid Movement, the Association of British Insurers, the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Association of County Councils, the Association of District Councils, the City of Cardiff, the City of Coventry, the City of London Police Committee, the Engineering Employers' Federation, the Football Leagues, the Greater Manchester Council, the Guild of British Newspaper Editors, JUSTICE, the Legal Action Group, the London Borough of Camden, the London Borough of Croydon, the London Borough of Southwark, the Liverpool 8 Law Centre, the Magistrates' Association, the National Association of Probation Officers, the National Union of Public Employees, the Organisation of Private Tenants, the Police Federation, the Society of Civil and Public Servants, and the Society for Distributing Hebrew Scriptures. In Scotland comments have been received from the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents, the Department of Public Law at Aberdeen University and the Scottish Police Federation.

Young Offenders

20.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement about the effectiveness of the short, sharp shock treatment on young offenders.

The aim of the new detention centre regime is to be brisk, purposeful and properly geared to the short sentences involved, without either softness or brutality. I believe that this objective is being achieved.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what were the numbers of young people aged (a) 10 to 14 years, (b) 14 to 17 years and (c) 17 to 21 years, respectively, sentenced or apprehended for indictable offences in Wales in the last year for which figures are available; and how these figures compare with those for 1980, 1975 and 1970, respectively;(2) if he will give, for each county in England, the numbers of young people aged

(a) 10 to 14 years, (b) 14 to 17 years and (c) 17 to 21 years, respectively, sentenced

or apprehended for indictable offences in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will compare those figures with those for 1980, 1975 and 1970 respectively;

(3) if he will give, for each county in Wales, the numbers of young people aged (a) 10 to 14 years, (b) 14 to 17 years and (c) 17 to 21 years, respectively, sentenced or apprehended for indictable offences in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will compare those figures with those for 1980, 1975 and 1970, respectively;

(4). what were the numbers of young people aged (a) 10 to 14 years, (b) 14 to 17 years and (c) 17 to 21 years, respectively, sentenced or apprehended for indictable offences in England in the last year for which figures are available; and how these figures compare with those for 1980, 1975 and 1970, respectively.

The readily available information is published, for the latest year for which figures are available, in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary Tables, 1983", vol 3, in tables S3.3(B) — (D) for magistrates' courts and tables S3.5(b) — (D) for the Crown court; and in the corresponding supplementary tables for 1980 and supplementary statistics for 1970. Less detailed information is available for 1975 and is given in tables X and XII of the Command Paper for that year (Cmnd 6566).

Prohibited Drugs

22.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent steps he has taken to combat the importation of prohibited drugs.

The Government have taken a number of measures to curb the illicit importation of drugs. Most recently, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced the appointment of 50 more customs specialist drugs investigators.

Metropolitan Police (Expenditure)

23.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department to what extent he considered recent crime statistics for London when fixing the cash limit on the expenditure of the Metropolitan police.

My right hon. and learned Friend naturally has regard to statistical trends in recorded crime when determining what resources should be made available to the Metropolitan police, but there is no precise or automatic correlation between the two. The first priority in tackling crime is to ensure taht the considerable resources already made available to the police service by this Government are used to best advantage and that methods of prevention and detection are as effective as they can be made. A solution does not simply or necessarily lie in the provision of further resources.

Sex Discrimination

25.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on Government policy following the recent judgment by the European Court of Human Rights on sex discrimination.

26.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on Government policy following the recent judgment by the European Court of Human Rights on sex discrimination.

The Government are urgently reviewing the options for amending the immigration rules to comply with the court's judgment and will announce its decision as soon as possible.

Crime

27.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department which recent measures have been most successful in reducing crime.

We are taking action on a number of fronts, and it is difficult to relate changes in the level of crime to particular measures. But some of the crime prevention schemes which have been mounted locally with our encouragement have led to demonstrable reductions in the local incidence of crimes such as burglary.

35.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what reduction in recorded crime he estimates can be attributed to recent new Government policies.

In order to make such an assessment it would be necessary to estimate what the general level of recorded crime would have been if a particular policy had not been followed. There is no way of doing so reliably.

28.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the latest trends in the crime rates.

Recorded crime in England and Wales in the first quarter of 1985 was 3 per cent. higher than in the same quarter last year. Though any increase is unwelcome, this was a lower increase over the corresponding period of the previous year than in any recent quarter, and within the total there was a reduction of about 3 per cent. in the number of burglaries recorded.

Civil Defence Inspectorate

29.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to establish a civil defence inspectorate.

33.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to re-establish the home defence executive or a similar body with the powers of a civil defence inspectorate.

We have no plans at present; progress by local authorities on implementing the 1983 regulations is being maintained by visits from and meetings and correspondence with the Civil Defence Adviser to the Home Office and other officials. We will keep the need for a formal inspectorate under review.

Police Tactics (Manuals)

30.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to review manuals on police tactics.

Chief officers of police are reviewing the tactics used in public order situations as part of their reviews of police operations during the miners' dispute.

Civil Defence

31.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has for a comprehensive civil defence shelter and evacuation policy.

In the unlikely event of a nuclear attack no part of this country could be judged safe from all its effects and there is therefore no certain basis for an evacuation plan. The Government's plans currently rely on the implementation by local authorities of their plans made under the 1983 regulations, including the utilisation of buildings and other structures as public shelters and on people using and improving the protection already offered by their own homes. The matter is under review.

54.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what resources will be concentrated on planning for survival at community level for civil defence.

All civil defence planning is ultimately directed at the survival of communities and the people within them, and expenditure in the current financial year is expected to be £80 million. Responsibility for planning specifically at the community level rests with the county authorities and the GLC assisted by district and borough authorities and the support available from the co-ordinator of volunteer effort. Total expenditure by local authorities on civil defence planning is expected to be £15 million in the current financial year; a level of expenditure within that total for particular aspects of planning has not been set.

Drug Abuse

32.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on his Department's latest measures to combat drug abuse.

Government measures to combat drug misuse were set out in "Tackling Drug Misuse: A Summary of the Government's Strategy", which was published in March and a copy of which is in the Library. Subsequent initiatives have included an increase to £11·5 million in DHSS central funding for treatment and rehabilitation projects; the launch of an advertising campaign in England and Wales; the publication of a summary of English health authorities' plans for improving services for drug misuser; a scheme under the education support grant arrangements, costing up to £2 million in 1986–87, to enable each local education authority in England and Wales to appoint an officer to co-ordinate preventive action; and the appointment of 50 more Customs specialist drugs investigators.

Police And Criminal Evidence Act 1984

34.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will delay the bringing into force of the sections of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 due to come into force on 1 January 1986 until the 24-hour solicitor scheme is available throughout England and Wales.

The provisions of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 are not dependent on the prior existence of a 24-hour duty solicitor scheme throughout England and Wales.

London Policemen (Firearms)

36.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has had any discussion with the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis concerning the issuing of firearms to policemen in London.

Not in the recent past. But I am satisfied that the arrangements in the Metropolitan police on these matters fully reflect the guidelines issued in March 1983.

Young People (Sentencing Policy)

37.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will set up an inquiry into sentencing policy for young people.

No. The Criminal Justice Act 1982 introduced a new sentencing structure for young offenders, whose effects we are monitoring closely; but my right hon. and learned Friend has no further plans for major change in this area.

Railway Vandalism (Parental Responsibility)

38.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will seek to introduce legislation to ensure parental responsibility for children who throw objects on trains and railway tracks in use.

In the Criminal Justice Act 1982 we strengthened the courts' powers to bring home to parents their responsibilities by ordering them to pay fines, compensation or costs imposed on children under 17. We have no plans for further legislation on this point.

Alcohol Sales (Supermarkets)

39.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is satisfied with the working of the present law regulating the sale of alcohol in supermarkets, particularly in respect of young people.

Supermarkets with off-licences are subject to the licensing law in the same way as other off-licensed premises. Breaches of that law are a matter for the police and it is open to them or to any other person to oppose the annual renewal of a licence. I am not aware of any evidence to suggest that the operation of the present law at supermarkets causes particular problems.

Temporary Parole (Statistics)

40.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give statistics for the last five years for those prisoners given temporary parole within one year of the end of their sentences who failed to report back to prison.

Information in respect of 1984 is not yet available. The information which is available is as follows:

Year	No. of occasions when home leave and pre-parole leave granted^*	No. of prisoners reported as failing to return†
1979	5,383	297
1980	5,465	290
1981	5,222	285
1982	5,208	206
1983	4,893	194
^* Excludes youth custody centres, borstals and detention centres.
† Many of those reported as failing to return will have returned late.

Crime Prevention

41.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the latest steps he is taking to improve crime prevention.

Under the aegis of the Home Office standing conference on crime prevention working groups have been established to devise preventive measures against residential burglary; for improving car security; and to take forward the revision of guidelines for crime prevention panels. Reports of the working groups will be presented in November. A joint Home Office/Association of Chief Police Offices working party is carrying out a review of police crime prevention training needs and the role of the Home Office crime prevention centre. The Home Office crime prevention unit has a range of research projects in hand. The unit's report on property marking in south Wales, published last month, demonstrates how domestic burglarly can be reduced significantly; that project continues.

46.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to announce further measures to combat the increase in recorded crime.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given earlier today to a question from the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd).

Special Constables

42.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will estimate how many special constables will be serving in the United Kingdom during 1985.

Recruitment to the special constabulary is the responsibility of chief officers of police. There were 16,012 special constables in forces in England and Wales on 31 December 1984.

Police Custody

43.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is satisfied with current procedures to prevent deaths in police custody.

Yes. The consolidated circular to the police on crime and kindred matters provides guidance on the procedures to be followed in cases where a detained person appears to be ill or physically unfit, or to present special risk.

Hooliganism

44.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has considered the reintroduction of conscription as a means of reducing football and other forms of hooliganism; and if he will make a statement.

In her statement to the House on 3 June my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister set out the measures which are being taken to deal with football hooliganism, including the introduction of legislation to control the possession of alcohol at, or on the way to, football matches. We do not regard the reintroduction of conscription as being an appropriate way of dealing with this problem.

Metropolitan Police (Expenditure)

45.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what advice he receives independent of the Metropolitan police when he reviews its budget submissions; and by how much he reduced its submission for 1985–86.

My right hon. and learned Friend receives advice from the Department. He also has regard to views expressed by right hon. and hon. Members from time to time and by the local authority associations concerned at their regular November meeting on the estimates with the receiver for the Metropolitan police district.The Metropolitan police estimates for 1985–86, which he approved in February, were prepared by the receiver within limits set by him earlier in the financial cycle.

Concessionary Television Licences

47.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to change the system of concessionary television licensing.

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply gives to his question on 28 March at column 269.

Defendants (Compensation)

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will introduce legislation to establish a compensation scheme for defendants who are remanded in custody and subsequently acquitted.

The question in what cases compensation should be paid out of public funds to defendants acquitted at trial is within the scope of the current review of arrangements for compensation in this field. My right hon. and learned Friend hopes to be in a position to announce our conclusions later this year.

European Convention On Human Rights

49.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects to announce the Government's decision about how they intend to comply with the European convention on human rights in respect of husbands and fiancés.

As soon as possible.

Victim Support Schemes

50.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what percentage of central Government spending on law and order services is spent on funding victim support schemes.

Total estimated central Government expenditure on law and order services in England and Wales during the current financial year will be £1,087 million. The Department is making a grant to the National Association of Victims Support Schemes of up to £120,000, which represents approximately 0·01 per cent. of this total; and some £37 million (or 3·4 per cent. will be spent on compensating victims through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. In addition, an unquantifiable proportion of police resources is devoted to assisting the victims of crime.

Some local victims support schemes receive grants through the Manpower Services Commission, the Urban Programme and the DHSS "Opportunities for Volunteering" scheme, but such payments are not included in calculations of expenditure on law and order.

Identity Cards

51.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to seek to introduce identity cards; and if he will make a statement.

My right hon. and learned Friend has no plans to do so.

Licensing Laws

52.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many representations he has received following the publication of the preliminary report of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys' study of drinking in Scotland on the implications for policy on licensing laws in England and Wales.

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given earlier today to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Staffordshire, Moorlands (Mr. Knox).

Football Ground Safety

53.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in relation to football grounds, he will take steps to ensure that, where wooden stands exist on the terraces, these areas should be no smoking areas.

The extent to which restrictions on smoking might contribute to safety against fire risks in football stadia is a matter within the terms of reference of the Popplewell committee of inquiry and I will arrange for the hon. Member's suggestion to be brought to the committee's attention.

European Court Of Human Rights (Immigration Rules)

55.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many representations he has received about the decision of the European Court of Human Rights on Her Majesty's Government's immigration rules; and if he will make a statement.

We had received at 2 July about 125 written representations arising out of the Court's decision, the great majority in favour of maintaining firm immigration control. The Government are urgently reviewing the options for amending the immigration rules to comply with the court's judgment and will announce their decision as soon as possible.

Holloway Prison

56.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he proposes to publish the report on facilities in Holloway prison.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to questions from the hon. Members for Burnley (Mr. Pike) and Hammersmith (Mr. Soley) on 13 June at column 501.

Drug Squad Duties

57.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police officers are now wholly engaged in drug squad duties; and if he will make a statement.

Figures for the strength of force drug squads in England and Wales as at 1 January 1985 were provided in the reply given to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton) on 21 June at columns 395–96.

Popplewell Report (Football Grounds)

58.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has yet received Mr. Justice Popplewell's report on incidents at football grounds.

We hope to receive an interim report from Mr. Justice Popplewell during July, dealing mainly with the events at Bradford City and Birmingham football grounds on 11 May. Thereafter he will proceed with his final report as soon as possible.

Drug Trafficking

59.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has had about the measures currently being taken to inhibit drug trafficking.

We have received a number of letters expressing concern about drug trafficking and drug misuse. In reply we have emphasised the priority which the Government attaches to this problem and the range of measures which we have taken, including the provision this year of 160 new permanent Customs preventive posts and 50 more Customs specialist drugs investigators.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the numbers of persons charged with offences relating to drug trafficking in the Yorkshire and Humberside region during the past five years; and if he will break down this figure into areas within the Yorkshire and Humberside region.

The available information is given in the following table. Corresponding figures for 1984 are not yet available.

Persons proceeded against in the Yorkshire and Humberside region for trafficking^*in controlled drugs
Police force area	1980	1981	1982	1983
Humberside	10	22	20	11
North Yorkshire	8	20	10	16
South Yorkshire	14	24	43	27
West Yorkshire	63	60	66	78
Total	95	126	139	132
^* Offences of unlawful production of drugs other than cannibis, unlawful supply, possession with intent to supply unlawfully and unlawful import or export.

Heathrow (Jokes)

60.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis as to on whose authority a statement was issued by chief inspector Jim Hunt that travellers making jocular remarks about the security procedures at Heathrow would be arrested, charged and brought before the court; and if he will make a statement.

The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis tells me that in the course of a regular weekly briefing of the local press, the chief inspector in charge of operations at Heathrow airport, acting with the full authority of the commander of airport district, drew attention to the serious difficulties caused to airport staff and public by a sharp increase recently in the number of calls on the police to deal with suspected bombs. This has included a number of incidents where passengers handing in luggage for screening have claimed that it contained a bomb. Such highly irresponsible acts cause considerable alarm and distress to staff and public and, against the background of recent terrorist activity, all such incidents have to be checked out by the police. In view of this the chief inspector indicated that the police would, in appropriate cases, consider taking action against those making such claims.It is an offence under section 51(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 for a person to communicate any information which he knows or believes to be false to another person with the intention of inducing in him or any other person a false belief that a bomb or other thing liable to explode or ignite is present in any place or location whatever.

Frankland Prison

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what was the cost of installing a Zuckermann wood-working machine at Frankland prison;(2) whether the Zuckermann wood-working machine at Frankland prison has ever been used;(3) what assessment he has made of the cost of moving the Zuckermann wood-working machine out of Frankland prison; and if he will make a statement.

The machine was purchased in 1980 at a cost of £144,000. Additional costs of £6,000 were incurred in installing it. The cost of moving the machine, which has been used only for trial periods, would be in the region of £2,000. It is now clear that the machine cannot be used effectively in prison industries and that the decision to purchase it was based on an error of judgment about the market for furniture assembly work carried out in prisons. The machine has been offered for sale by tender.Financial and managerial performance in prison industries should be improved by the changes in control, managment and polices which my right hon. and learned Friend announced on 31 October at column

987.

Trials (Statistics)

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in 1983 and 1984, respectively, who were proceeded against in all courts were not subsequently convicted; and what percentage of the total number of people proceeded against this represented.

The information requested is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary Tables, 1983", vol. 1, table S1.1(A)— magistrates' courts and vol. 2, table S2. 1(A) — the Crown court. Corresponding information for 1984 is not yet available.

Privacy

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will deposit in the Library copies of all the papers prepared for the forthcoming Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development intergovernmental meeting on privacy.

All but two of the papers presented to the meeting remain, for the time being, internal to the OECD. I am arranging to deposit those two — a paper on freedom of information and one by the trade union advisory committee—in the Library.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if Her Majesty's Government will press for all future meetings of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development intergovernmental meetings on privacy to be open on an observer basis to the accredited representatives of responsible and interested international bodies, including the International Organisation of Consumer Unions.

The OECD has clear rules which limit the attendance of non-governmental bodies at its meetings. The business and industry advisory committee and the trade union advisory committee are, however, regularly invited to exchange views with OECD committees, and bodies seeking direct access to committee meetings are best advised to work through BIAC or through TUAC. The meeting on privacy held in Paris on 26 and 27 June was a routine one to review the implementation in member stales of the OECD guidelines on data protection. I understand that no further meeting of the privacy group is planned for at least 18 months.

Political Asylum

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many foreign nationals have successfully appealed against the initial refusal of political asylum in each year since 1979;(2) what, since 1979, has been the average time between the refusal of an application for political asylum in the United Kingdom and the end of appeal proceedings;(3) what, since 1979, has been

(a) the shortest and (b) the longest time between a refusal of an application for political asylum in the United Kingdom and the end of appeal proceedings.

I understand from the appellate authorities that no separate records of asylum appeals are maintained; the information requested is therefore not available.

Prison Population

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department by how many people the prison population has changed since Easter; and what was the figure for the same period after Easter in 1982, 1983 and 1984, respectively.

The increase or decrease in the prison population between Good Friday and the last Friday in June has been as follows:

Year	Increase or decrease	Number of weeks
1982	-113	^*11
1983	†-695	12
1984	-214	10
1985	+1,737	12
^* In 1982 population figures for Good Friday were not recorded centrally; figures for the previous Friday are used instead.
† During May 1983 there was a fall of about 1,000 in the number of young offenders in the prison population following implementation of Part 1 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has made contingency plans to relieve overcrowding in prisons in the event that the rate at which the prisons building programme is implemented proves inadequate to cope with the increase in the prison population; and if he will make a statement.

We naturally keep the adequacy of the prison building programme under review.

Wayland Prison

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the current population of Wayland prison.

Four hundred and seventy-five on 28 June.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what provision exists for workshops at Wayland prison.

Wayland prison has a workshop block of 8,100 square metres which will provide 281 workplaces for prisoners as follows:

	Workplaces
Industries
Laundry	35
Tailoring	120
Farms and Gardens Machinery Repair	30
Vocational Training
Welding	24
Motor Mechanics	12
Light Bodied Vehicle Repair	12
Industrial Cleaning	12
Construction Industry Training
Painting and Decorating	12
Electrical Installation	12
Bricklaying	12

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners participated in workshops at Wayland prison in the most recent convenient week; and what was their average working week.

There were 21 prisoners employed in the laundry at Wayland prison in the week ending 23 June 1985. The average working week was 25·3 hours. About six prisoners were also employed in assembling racking in the tailoring workship, which is not yet in operation.

Prisons

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans for the refurbishment of cells in local prisons have been cancelled or deferred since the beginning of 1985.

None.

Crime Statistics

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of crimes in England and Wales involving sex or violence in each of the last five years in which pornography was found to be a contributory factor.

The available information on offences of violence against the person and sexual offences recorded by the police is published annually in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales" (Tables 2.8 and 2.9 of the issue for 1983, Cmnd. 9349). Information is not collected centrally on whether pornography might have been involved.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of convictions in England and Wales in each of the five years for producing, publishing or distributing obscene material or for conducting obscene exhibitions.

The information available to me, which may be incomplete, is published annually under offence classification 86 in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, Supplementary Tables" — in Vol. 1, Table S1.1(A) for magistrates' courts and Vol. 2, Table S2.1(A) for the Crown Court. Information for 1984 is not yet available.

Drug Addicts

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many known class A drug addicts there were in England and Wales in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985, respectively; and if he will break the information down by county;(2) how many known class A drug addicts there were in Scotland in the years 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985, respectively; and if he will break the information down by county.

The available information on narcotic drug addicts notified to the Home Office relates to police force areas and is given, for the years 1980–83, in Tables 3.11 — 3.13 of "Statistics of the Misuse of Drugs, United Kingdom, Supplementary Tables 1983". Provisional figures for new addicts notified in 1984 by police force area were given in the reply to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Westminster, North (Mr. Wheeler) on 11 June 1985 at columns 394–395.

Black People (Wilmslow)

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the chief constable of Cheshire police about his policy concerning questioning of black people in Wilmslow.

I am informed that the chief constable of Cheshire's policy concerning the questioning of members of the public is to treat every person of whatever race or creed with courtesy and understanding.

Police (Discipline)

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each year since 1979 the number of appeals from police disciplinary hearings he received, the number of such appeals he referred to an appeal tribunal under the 1975 criteria, the number he referred to an appeal tribunal other than under the 1975 criteria, the number dealt with other than by reference to an appeal tribunal, the total and percentage where the original finding was upheld, where the original finding was reversed, where the original punishment was upheld and where the original punishment was reversed, respectively.

I shall reply as soon as possible.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give for each year since 1979 the number of charges laid under the Police Discipline Regulations in England and Wales arising from a complaint under section 49 of the Police Act and the number arising other than from such complaints, giving also the number of charges proved in each category.

The number of offences charged in England and Wales under the police discipline regulations

	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984
Resigned after disciplinary charge had been preferred but before proceedings completed	10	10	10	8	15	5
Resigned while under investigation for disciplinary matters	42	22	22	29	26	30
Under suspension at the time of resignation	12	11	12	12	10	4

Mr Peter Pickering

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his policy towards the case of Mr. Peter Pickering, a patient at Park Lane hospital, Merseyside, remains as stated in the Official Report on 9 April, columns 61–62.

Yes, my right hon. and learned Friend and I continue to take the firm view that Mr. Pickering is not fit for release into the community.

Community Service

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what totals have been allocated to the community service budget for each of the years since 1979; and what proportion this represents of probation service expenditure.

The allocation of resources to community service schemes is a matter for each area probation committee, and the information requested is not available centrally. Total local authority expenditure on the probation service has risen from £74 million in 1979–80 to an estimated £167 million in 1985–86, and a significant proportion of the real growth is due to the increasing use of the community service order. The number of ancillary workers, who are the staff mostly used to run community service schemes, rose over the same period rom 807 to 1,335, compared with a rise of 4,810 to 5,590 in the number of probation officers.

in respect of matters arising from complaints under section 49 of the Police Act 1964 and otherwise, together with the numbers proved are as follows:

	Arising directly out of Section 49 complaints		In other circumstances
	Total	Proved	Total	Proved
1979	233	164	1,283	1,143
1980	235	198	1,085	1,017
1981	231	183	1,220	1,120
1982	301	240	1,330	1,215
1983	258	197	1,236	1,120
1984	190	140	1,122	1,029

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for each year since 1979, how many Metropolitan police officers have (a) resigned after disciplinary charges have been preferred but before proceedings were completed, (b) resigned while under investigation for disciplinary matters and (c) were under suspension at the time of their resignation.

The information is included in the section on discipline in Chapter 2 (Personnel and Training) of the annual reports of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis but for convenience I summarise it as follows:

Stonehenge (Disturbances)

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons were (a) arrested and (b) charged in connection with grant disturbances at and near to Stonehenge; and the grounds of arrest and the nature of the charges; how many police officers and other were injured; and if he will make a statement.

[pursuant to his reply, 14 June 1985, c. 570]: I understand from the latest information available to the chief constable that, of the 482 arrests on 1 June 1985 and 161 arrests on other days between 31 May and 27 June the following action has so far been taken.

	Number
Charged	495
Not released: Released on police bail	77
Other^*	71
Total arrested	643
^* Includes 23 charge refused

32 cautioned2 warrant for arrest14 result not knownThe majority of charges are for public order offences; other charges include possession of controlled drugs, theft, criminal damage and assault. In the police operation on 1 June, 15 police officers and 16 others were reported injured though none seriously.

Immigration

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for entry clearance from (a) wives and children and (b) husbands and fiances were referred/deferred for inquiries at each post of the Indian Sub-continent for each year since 1977.

Applications for entry clearance referred or deferred^*in the Indian Sub-continent
	Number of persons
	Bombay	Delhi	Calcutta	Madras	Islamabad	Karachi	Dhaka	Total
Wives and children
1977	560	730	90	70	5,940	520	4,720	12,630
1978	640	740	50	90	5,820	240	3,540	11,130
1979	420	490	50	110	4,500	170	3,640	9,380
1980	500	460	70	+	5,170	180	6,170	12,560
1981	530	290	20	—	4,790	200	6,580	12,420
1982	370	250	40	—	4,460	70	4,800	9,990
1983	370	300	30	—	3,930	30	2,960	7,620
1984	390	250	70	—	3,820	20	3,000	7,540
†Husbands and fiances
1977	470	1,390	20	20	140	50	10	2,110
1978	400	640	20	40	200	30	10	1,350
1979	410	760	30	50	210	60	10	1,530
1980	220	1,020	10	10	440	80	+	1,790
1981	210	780	10	—	890	70	20	1,980
1982	190	320	+	—	410	20	20	960
1983	210	500	10	—	670	20	10	1,420
1984	280	250	10	—	1,100	40	10	1,700
+ 5 or fewer —Nil
^* Referred to the Home Office for decision or deferred for further inquiries
† Including husbands applying for entry clearance for immediate settlement under the 1977 immigration rules

Racial Discrimination

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many employers were prosecuted for discrimination under the Race Relations Act (a) between 1976 and 1979 and (b) between 1979 and 1984;(2) how many employers were prosecuted under the Sex Discrimination Act

(a) between 1975 and 1979 and (b) between 1979 and 1985.

[pursuant to his reply, 1 July 1985, c. 12]: Under both the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Race Relations Act 1976 complaints alleging unlawful discrimination in employment are dealt with under the civil law by applications to industrial tribunals. The available information about such applications is as follows:

Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (Source: Ninth Annual Report of the Equal Opportunities Commission 1984)
	Applications made to Industrial Tribunals	Cases heard
1 January 1976 to 31 December 1979	821	322
1 January 1980 to 30 December 1984	1,067	419
Race Relations Act 1976 (Source: Department of Employment Gazette)
13 June 1977† to 30 June 1979	510	254
July 1979 to 30 June 1981	^*758	340
1 January 1981 to 31 December 1984	^*936	425

[pursuant to the reply, 25 June 1985, c. 344–45]: The information requested is given in the following table:

^* From 1981, statistics have been collected in calendar years and there is therefore some double counting of the figures for the first half of that year.

† Date on which Act came into force.

The figures do not separately identify a small number of applications to tribunals in which the respondent is not an employer, (but is, for example, an employment agency, a vocational training body or a trade union).

Agriculture, Fisheries And Food

Illegal Fishing

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many persons have been proceeded against for offences relating to illegal fishing at sea in each of the past five years; of what nationality these persons were; and what was the average penalty imposed.

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

Zimbabwe (Beef Quota)

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what offer has been made by the EEC to Zimbabwe in relation to beef quota.

When in 1980 Zimbabwe acceded to the Lomé convention between the European Community and the African, Caribbean and Pacific States, she secured agreement to supply an annual quota of 8,100 tonnes of beef to the Community on the same concessionary basis as that already granted to other signatories. This provision remains part of the recently agreed Lomé III arrangements. Due to outbreaks of foot and mouth disease, however, Zimbabwe has been unable to secure the veterinary clearance necessary for exports to the Community to take place. Commission veterinarians have recently visited Zimbabwe and, subject to veterinary clearance being granted, exports may shortly be permitted to commence.

Social Services

Hospital Beds

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the number of National Health Service beds in the London borough of Wandsworth on 31 May, and the corresponding number on 1 July 1979.

Information is not available centrally on bed figures for the London borough of Wandsworth as its boundaries are not conterminous with those of the two district health authorities which serve the area — Wandsworth and Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton.The average daily number of available beds in Wandsworth health authority in 1984 was 2,534 (provisional) and the comparable figure for 1979 was 2,871. The number of inpatient cases treated per available bed rose from 15·2 in 1979 to 18·1 (provisional) in 1984.

Diet And Laundry Allowances

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many supplementary benefit claimants in Lancashire are receiving (a) special diet allowance and (b) special laundry allowance.

Information on special diet allowance and special laundry allowance is not available separately for claimants in Lancashire. Available information on claimants receiving these additions nationally in December 1983 is as follows:

	Number (Thousands)
Special Diet Allowance	445
Special Laundry Allowance	121

Source: Annual Statistical Enquiry 1983.

Doctors (Pay)

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he proposes to take any action on the structure of general practitioners' remuneration following the recent recommendations of the report of the Royal College of General Practitioners on a pay-incentive scheme for general practitioners, a copy of which has been sent to him; and if he will make a statement.

We welcome this constructive contribution to public discussion about future arrangements for general practice. I have invited representatives of the Royal College to discuss its consultation document with me later this month, including the proposal for a closer link between remuneration and performance. We are not yet ready to make any firm proposals for changes in the structure of general practitioners' remuneration.

Outpatient Waiting Lists

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the present average length of waiting lists for hospital outpatient appointments; and how this compares with the figure for each year since 1979.

This information is not at present collected centrally. The Health Services Information Steering Group has, however, recommended in its first report a new annual district return to be submitted centrally to record, by specialty, the number of patients waiting for an outpatient appointment. Health authorities have been asked to plan on the basis that the steering group's first report will be implemented by April 1987.

Notifiable Diseases

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will take steps to ensure that, when notifiable diseases are reported, a record is made of whether or not they have arisen in hospitals.

The notification form, a copy of which I am sending to the right hon. Member, already has provision for the recording of this information.

Hospitals (Infection)

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will take steps to estimate the cost of hospital acquired infection.

We have no plans to do so.

Mentally Handicapped People

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to the answer of 24 June, Official Report, columns 337–8, if he will publish on a regional basis such information as is collected centrally about funding arrangements for transfer of mentally handicapped people from hospitals to the community.

I regret that my earlier reply to the hon. Member contained, when printed, a typing error in the first sentence. The reply that I drafted stated:

"We do expect funds to transfer when responsibility for services for mentally handicapped people transfers from one authority to another."

We expect authorities to make financial provision to support the local developments they propose, and to take account of all the services required when drawing up their plans. We look for evidence that this is happening when we scrutinise review papers, plans and programmes. I am not convinced that production of a centrally compiled account of funding arrangements within individual regions would be helpful without an equally detailed account of the service developments proposed. But I shall bear the hon. Member's suggestion in mind.

Leukaemia

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what representations he has had in respect of making lymphema leukaemia a condition specified for exemption from prescription charges; and if he will make a statement.

Since 1 January 1985 we have received one letter from an hon. Member and one letter from a member of the public about exempting people who suffer with leukaemia from prescription charges. We have not received any representations on behalf of people who suffer from lymphema leukaemia.

Single Payments

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many single payments were awarded by appeal tribunals in 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984, respectively; and what was the average payment.

The number of appeals relating to claims for single payments is as follows:

Great Britain
Year	Number of appeals heard	Number of successful appeals
1981	21,453	4,879
1982	26,269	5,723
1983	29,691	7,036
^*†1984	8,706	2,068
^* 1 January 1984 to 31 March 1984.
† As a result of recent industrial action within the Department annual statistics for 1984 are not yet available.

Information regarding the average amount of single payments awarded by appeal tribunals is not available.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the average length of time taken to dispose of appeals for single payments in 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984, respectively.

Separate information on appeals for single payments is not available. The average length of time from lodgement of an appeal to initial hearing for all supplementary benefit appeals heard in Great Britain is as follows:

	Weeks
1981	6·8
1982	8·5
1983	9·4
^*1984	10·5
^* As a result of recent industrial action within the Department this figure is only for the first quarter.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the cost of administering appeals relating to single payments taking one week and each additional week to the maximum time taken to settle appeals in 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984, respectively.

This information is not available. A costing exercise last year estimated that £10·855 million was spent on supplementary benefit appeals work in 1983; this sum includes the cost of work on the 82,212 appeals lodged but resolved without a tribunal hearing, as well as the 60,567 appeals actually heard.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many single payments were made for maternity needs and for a new baby's needs in each year from 1981 to 1984; what is the average level of payment; and what is the average combined level of payment to each claimant.

The information requested on the maternity needs of new born or recently adopted children is:

	^*No. of single payments (to nearest thousand)	Average level of payment
1981	61,000	£43·35
1982	101,000	£53·61
1983	142,000	£59·91
^* Figures are from the Annual Statistical Enquiry and relate to single payments made during the 12 months preceding the date of the enquiry to persons still in receipt of supplementary benefit at the time of the enquiry, and do not, therefore, record all the single payments made during the year.

Payments to the mother to meet her own maternity needs for clothing and footwear are made under regulation 27 of the Supplementary Benefits (Single Payment) Regulations. That regulation also covers payments for clothing and footwear made for other reasons and no separate figures are available for the mothers' own maternity needs.

St George's Hospital

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps he is taking to seek to ensure that the former St. George's hospital, Hyde Park Corner, does not fall into further disrepair.

Temporary remedial work has been carried out following damage caused partly by the bad weather earlier this year. We will keep the need for further work under review and seek to ensure that this historic building does not deteriorate further. Twenty-four hour security is being maintained to combat possible vandalism.I am glad to say that lawyers are well advanced with work to bring to contract an agreement I have reached with the Grosvenor estate for the sale of our Department's interest in the site, following which I understand that the estate will be in a position to give effect to its plans to redevelop the site, including restoration of the Wilkins building.

Social Fund

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how the proposed social fund will cater for the needs of the terminally ill; and whether help from the proposed social fund will be by way of grant or only by loan.

We shall consider the range of circumstances where a payment might be made from the social fund to income support recipients to promote commmunity care, including cases where someone is terminally ill. Normally community care payments would be given as grants.

East Cumbria (Health Authority)

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the members of the East Cumbria area health authority; by whom they are nominated; and what is the period of their term of office.

We do not hold this information centrally. The responsibility for appointing members of East Cumbria health authority lies with Northern regional health authority and the appropriate local authorities. The hon. Member may therefore wish to obtain the information from the chairman of the regional health authority.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what correspondence he has had with the East Cumbria area health authority regarding the privatising of domestic services in the hospitals in the area.

East Cumbria health authority has received our circular on competitive tendering for domestic, catering and laundry services together with other related general communications. We have not corresponded with this health authority individually on this subject.

Drug Addiction

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what recent report he has received about the increase in drug addiction in the east midlands; whether he intends to make available additional funds to increase the number of beds in the unit to treat addiction in the east midlands; whether he will also provide funds to provide additional units elsewhere than Nottingham, and to increase facilities in addition for after-care and for family support; and if he will make a statement.

Information from health authorities covering the east midlands has been published in "Drug Misuse: Prevalence and Service Provision" (DHSS, June 1985), a copy of which is in the Library. It is for health authorities, in consultation with other service providers, to determine the level of provision for the treatment and follow up of drug misusers in their areas. Health authorities were invited to submit applications for central funding where they considered increased provision for drug misusers was necessary and central funding has recently enabled the Mapperley unit in Nottingham to open an outpatient and community centre. The Mapperley unit provides a specialist service for six districts. Applications under the initiative for funding of a counselling service in south Derbyshire and a community drug team in Leicestershire are being considered.

Child Abuse

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he proposes to issue a consultative paper setting out new guidelines on the role of local authorities in detecting and handling child abuse cases; and if he will make a statement.

[pursuant to his reply, 3 July 1985]: I have today placed in the Library copies of a consultative paper which outlined the follow-up action to be taken where serious child abuse has occurred. Such cases are very distressing for all those concerned with the care of the child. A great deal of care is and must be taken by people who face the conflicting demands of the need for children to be with their parents and the need to protect some children from the minority of parents who may harm them.All cases that do occur must be thoroughly investigated. The most immediate need is for management locally quickly to review its services to the family and the paper suggests joint action between the authorities concerned. This should not be delayed until any criminal proceedings are concluded. Follow-up action is equally important to assess the wider implications coming out of the review. We expect the authorities involved to inform the public of the outcome of this action. Subsequently, authorities will be able to describe to the court, if necessary, the action they have taken in terms both of inquiries and of changes to procedures and services.In most instances, further inquiries will then be unnecessary. There will, however, be a few cases where the authorities consider a further review, involving people from outside their areas, would be appropriate.The paper describes the arrangements which might be appropriate for such independent inquiries and suggests that, where the initial reviews have been properly carried out and the outcome published, the subsequent inquiries would normally be in private, although public inquiries are not ruled out. Whichever course is chosen, a report of the inquiry should be published.Comments on the consultative paper are invited by November 1985.

Scotland

Labour Statistics

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the level of increase in unemployment in the Bathgate travel-to-work area and his talks on this matter with West Lothian district council.

Between 10 May 1984 and 9 May 1985 the number of unemployed claimants in the Bathgate travel-to-work area increased by 341 (from 9,727 to 10,068). No talks on this subject have taken place between Ministers and West Lothian district council, but good progress is being made in implementing the recommendations in the Bathgate working party report.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the percentage number of people under the age of 23 years who are out of work in the employment area of Banff and Buchan.

The information is not available in the precise form requested. However, information on unemployed claimants in the local authority district of Banff and Buchan is available in the Library by the age categories of under 18, age 18, age 19 and age 20 to 24.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many men, women and young persons were in (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in the Banff and Buchan employment area in 1979 and in each succeeding year, with the latest available figures for the current year.

In the Banff and Buchan employment area, the estimated numbers of (a) full-time employees were 20,200 in 1978 and 19,900 in 1981 and (b) part-time employees were 5,200 in 1978 and 4,700 in 1981. The information is not available for the other years requested.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish figures for the number of pan-time employees in Scotland by sex and sector in each of the last five years.

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

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many (a) men and (b) women under the age of 21 years are unemployed in Scotland now; and how many were unemployed in each of the last five years for which records are available;(2) how many

(a) men and (b) women under the age of 24 years are unemployed in Scotland now; and how many were unemployed in each of the last five years for which records are available.

Information on unemployment in Scotland is available in the Library for recent years by sex for the age categories under 18, aged 18, aged 19 and aged 20 to 24. However, it is difficult to make a comparison with periods before 1982 because of the change in the basis of the count in October 1982 from registrants to claimants.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people in Scotland were in employment on 1 June; and how many of these were, respectively, (a) male and (b) female.

The seasonally adjusted number of employees in employment in Scotland at December 1984 is estimated to have been 1,935,000; of these, 1,054,000 were male and 881,000 were female. Estimates for later dates are not available.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many new entrants to the labour force there have been in each year since 1974; how many new entrants he estimates there will be in the current year and in each year until 1990; and if he will express the new Scottish entrants as a proportion of all entrants to the work force in Great Britain.

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

Agriculture Industry

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will make it his policy that in the future allocation of research and development funds to the agriculture industry, the basic research programmes are related to the needs of the industry and consumers; and if he will make a statement.

Our policy is, and will continue to be, directed towards meeting the needs of the industry and consumers.

Scottish Tourist Board

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland which items are included under the heading of other trading expenditure in the Scottish Tourist Board's accounts; by how much such expenditure under this heading has increased in the last year; what is the reason for the increase; and if he will make a statement.

Included under this heading are charges and commissions relating to the "Holiday Scotland" scheme. The associated revenue is shown under "other trading income". In addition, this heading includes charges for promotion and publications. In total the expenditure under this heading has increased year on year by £170,000. 1983–84 was the first year of the scheme and for 1984–85 the scheme was expanded and developed to realise its full potential. This is demonstrated by the fact that holidays taken through the scheme in 1984–85 were some 60 per cent. up on the previous year.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland by how much expenditure by the Scottish Tourist Board on hospitality and travel has increased over the last year; for what reasons; and if he will make a statement.

The figures published in the Scottish Tourist Board's accounts for 1984–85 show that expenditure by the board on hospitality and travel has increased by £57,000 over 1983–84. The board incurred additional travel costs in exercising the new power granted in the Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Act 1984; in undertaking increased marketing activity in the United Kingdom; and in co-ordinating the network of area tourist boards.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland by how much the grant-in-aid to the Scottish Tourist Board has increased for 1985–86; what are the reasons for the increase; what criteria he used in determining the precise amount of the increase; and if he will make a statement.

Grant-in-aid to the Scottish Tourist Board is likely to increase in 1985–86 by some £205,000 over 1984–85. This increase is related to the board's needs. In determining the level of grant-in-aid to the board my right hon. Friend has regard to the net cost of the activities proposed by the board in its annual budget estimates and to the pattern of past expenditure by the board. He also has regard to the competing funding requirements of other programmes within his responsibility.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland to what extent in determining the level of grant-in-aid for the Scottish Tourist Board he takes account of any surplus or deficit on its expenditure for the previous year; and if he will make a statement.

Significant deficits of grant-in-aid should not occur. Evidence of any surplus of grant-in-aid made available to the Scottish Tourist Board would form one of the factors which my right hon. Friend would take into account in determining the level of the board's grant-in-aid for the following year. I refer my hon. Friend to my earlier answer to him today.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the size of the surplus on the Scottish Tourist Board's accounts for 1984–85; and if he will make a statement.

The Scottish Tourist Board accounts on an accruals basis rather than a cash basis. Within that definition, the operating surplus on the board's accounts for 1984–85 is £39,000. This does not represent free cash funds in the hands of the board but has been deployed in financing movements in fixed and current assets after taking account of movements in liabilities. The total grant-in-aid for 1984–85 has been applied by the board in financing its activities.

Banff And Buchan (Youth Training)

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many young persons are at present engaged in youth training schemes in the Banff and Buchan employment area, on the last available figures for the current year.

The information is not available in the precise form requested. However, on 30 June, the latest date for which information is available, there were 405 young persons participating in the youth training scheme in the jobcentre areas of Banff, Fraserburgh and Peterhead, with a planned provision of 998 places for 1985–86 for the same areas.

Job Creation

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps have been taken to reduce the level of unemployment in the Banff and Buchan employment area; and if he will make a statement.

I refer my hon. Friend to my reply to his question of 26 March, at column 81.The Government's economic strategy, designed to keep inflation down and provide the conditions in which enterprise can flourish and industry can be competitive, forms the general framework within which more jobs can be created in Banff and Buchan as in the rest of the country. Also, the Government's full range of special employment and training measures continues to be available to people in the Banff and Buchan areas.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many new jobs he estimates have been created in Scotland in 1983 and 1984 by (a) incoming firms, (b) Scottish-based firms and (c) new companies.

Comprehensive information on jobs created is not available. In the years 1983 and 1984 respectively, 11,134 and 14,212 new jobs were associated with offers of selective financial assistance under section 7 of the Industrial Development Act 1982 for projects in Scotland. Of these totals 5,127 and 7,962 were associated with offers to overseas-owned companies.

Agricultural Research And Development

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what progress has been made with the review of the organisation and funding of agricultural research and development and advisory services in Scotland.

Comments on the consultation paper "A Strategy for Agricultural Research and Development" prepared by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland are currently being received and considered. A further consultation paper on the advisory services will be issued at a later date.

Dental Services

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the number of community dental officers per head of population in (a) the Lothian health board area, (b) the Glasgow health board area and (c) the Tayside health board area.

The whole-time equivalent number of community dental officers per head of population in each of the areas at 30 September 1984 is shown as follows:

Health Board	(Community Dental Officers) Whole-time equivalent per head of population
Lothian	1:12,347
Greater Glasgow	1:19,349
Tayside	1:15,968

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the number of hospital dentists per head of population in (a) the Lothian health board area, (b) the Glasgow health board area and (c) the Tayside health board area.

The whole-time equivalent number of hospital dentists per head of population in each of the areas at 30 September 1984 is as follows:

Health Board	Hospital Dentists^*
Lothian	1:15072
Greater Glasgow	1:11138
Tayside	1:8843
^* Whole-time equivalents per head of population.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the number of dental therapists in the community dental service per head of population in (a) the Lothian health board area, (b) the Glasgow health board area and (c) the Tayside health board area.

The whole-time equivalent number of dental therapists in the community dental service per head of population in each of the areas at 30 September 1984 is as follows:

Health Board	Dental Therapists^*
Lothian	1:57717
Greater Glasgow	1:244764
Tayside	Nil
^* Whole-time equivalent per head of population.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the number of dental hygienists in (a) the Lothian health board area, (b) the Glasgow health board area and (c) the Tayside health board area.

The whole-time equivalent number of dental hygienists in each of the areas at 30 September 1984 is as follows:

Health Board	Dental Hygienists^*
Lothian	12·4
Greater Glasgow	5·3
Tayside	5·0
^* Whole-time equivalent.

Licensing Laws

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has made a calculation of the effect on public expenditure as a whole of more liberal licensing laws.

I have no reason to believe that the more liberal licensing laws introduced by the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976 have had any significant effect on public expenditure.

Broadleaved Woodlands

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals the Forestry Commission has for further meetings with the Nature Conservancy Council and the countryside commissions to discuss the management guidelines for broadleaved woodlands outlined in the broadleaves in Britain review.

A further meeting has been arranged for 26 July.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many staff the Forestry Commission will be training in the appreciation of wildlife and landscape conservation in broadleaved woodlands in 1985–86 and 1986–87; how many man-days are proposed; what is the estimated cost of this training; and what assistance the Forestry Commission will be seeking from the Nature Conservancy Council and countryside commissions in respect of this training.

The need for such training will vary from one area to another and plans will be drawn up as a result of the local discussions to be held under the auspices of the Forestry Commission once the new broadleaves policy is launched. The necessary resources, which cannot be quantified at present, will be devoted to this task through a reallocation of training priorities. The Nature Conservancy Council and the countryside commissions will be involved in the training as appropriate.

Dog Licences

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what income was received from dog licences in Scotland in 1984–85; what was the cost of collection in that year; how many licences were issued; and if he has considered the introduction of a replacement scheme of licensing designed to recover the administrative costs.

Final figures for 1984–85 are not yet available. The estimated income received from dog licences in Scotland was £65,625 and the cost of collection was £249,550. This is based on an estimate of 175,000 licences.The Government are considering the responses to their consultation paper on the future arrangeements for dog licensing in Great Britain. The result of this consideration will be announced as soon as possible.

Electronics Industry

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many companies in Scotland are operating in the electronic manufacturing sector and how many in the research and development and software sectors; and what information he has as to how many of the electronic manufacturing firms also maintain research and development units in Scotland;(2) if he will publish a table showing the components of charge such as openings, expansions, contractions and closures, in terms of male and female employment and

number of units in the electronic sector since 1979

(a) for Scotland as a whole and (b) for each of the Scottish regions.

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

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many men and women, respectively, were employed in part-time positions in the electronics sector in Scotland in 1979 and in each subsequent year for which records are available.

The estimated numbers of employees in part-time employment in the electronics industry in Scotland were 100 males and 1,900 females in 1978 and 200 males and 1,300 females in 1981. Estimates for the other years requested are not available.

North Sea Oil And Gas

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people are currently employed in the Scottish oil sector and in subsidiary sectors operating in Scotland; and what were the figures in each of the last five years for which records are available.

Total employment in firms in Scotland identified by the Manpower Services Commission as being wholly related to North sea oil and gas activity is estimated to have been 60,983 in December 1984. This is the most recent estimate available. The estimates for June of the years 1979 to 1984 are:

June	Thousands	June	Thousands
1979	41·8	1982	58·3
1980	46·3	1983	63·3
1981	49·6	1984	64·0

Youth Training Scheme

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of youth training scheme trainees in Scotland in 1984–85 gained full-time jobs on completion of their training.

Precise information on the number of youth training scheme trainees subsequently taking up employment is not available. However, the results from the Manpower Services Commission's sample survey of 15 per cent. of young people who left the scheme between July and September 1984 suggest that some 55 per cent. of leavers in Scotland were in full-time employment some three months after leaving the scheme. That survey indicates a further 1 per cent. were in part-time employment, another 5 per cent. entered full-time education or training courses and a further 4 per cent. joined a different youth training scheme. The full results of the sample survey are available in the Library.

Regional Development Grant

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the average cost per job created by regional development grants in Scotland in each of the last 10 years for which records are available.

Before the commencement of the new scheme in November last year such grants were not linked to jobs. 269 offers of regional development grant under the new scheme totalling £13·5 million in grant have been made in Scotland since 29 November 1984. The number of new jobs promised by these offers was 4,056.

Wages

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the average annual wage of (a) full-time and part-time female manual workers in Scotland in 1979 and in each subsequent year for which records are available.

The estimates of average weekly earnings of female manual workers in Scotland for April of each year from 1979 to 1984 were published for full-time employees in table 13 of part A of the "New Earnings

	Percentage with weekly earnings less than:
	£50	£60	£70	£80	£90	£100	£110
Including overtime earnings
manual males	0·2	0·7	1·5	4·1	8·2	14·7	22·9
non-manual males	0·1	0·3	0·8	2·4	4·8	7·8	10·8
all males	0·2	0·5	1·2	3·4	6·8	11·7	17·7
manual females	1·4	8·6	21·7	37·1	54·7	69·5	81·9
non-manual females	0·8	2·3	7·1	18·6	30·7	42·8	53·1
all females	1·0	3·9	10·8	23·3	36·8	49·6	60·4
manual adults	0·5	2·1	5·3	10·3	16·9	24·9	34·0
non-manual adults	0·4	1·2	3·8	10·0	17·0	24·3	30·8
all adults	0·5	1·7	4·5	10·2	17·0	24·6	32·2
Excluding overtime earnings
manual males	—	—	—	—	—	23·2	36·0
non-manual males	—	—	—	—	—	8·7	12·2
all males	—	—	—	—	—	17·0	25·8
manual females	—	—	—	—	—	75·4	87·5
non-manual females	—	—	—	—	—	43·8	54·7
all females	—	—	—	—	—	51·8	63·0
manual adults	—	—	—	—	—	32·9	45·7
non-manual adults	—	—	—	—	—	25·3	32·3
all adults	—	—	—	—	—	28·8	38·5

Emigration

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his latest figure for the numbers who have emigrated from Scotland since 1979; and if he will estimate the numbers who emigrated from Scotland in 1984, or the most recent year for which figures are available.

The estimates, covering 1 July to 30 June in each case, are as follows:

Estimated net emigration from Scotland
	thousands
1979–80	16·3
1980–81	23·1
1981–82	14·9
1982–83	17·8
1983–84	9·1

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people he estimates will emigrate from Scotland in the current year and during the next five-year period.

Retrospective estimates of migration are made when certain data are available, and the estimate for the year to 30 June 1985 has not yet been

Survey" reports and for part-time employees in table 180 of part F of the "New Earnings Survey" reports. These volumes have been placed in the Library.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish (a) a table showing the proportion of full-time employees in Scotland, who, in the "New Earnings Survey 1984", are paid less than £50, £60, £70, £80, £90, £100 and £110 per week, respectively, when overtime earnings are included and (b) a table showing the proportion of full-time employees in the same area who are paid less than £100 and £110 when overtime earnings are excluded, for all males and females and subdivided into manual and non-manual males and females.

The information requested for full-time employees on adult rates whose pay was not affected by absence is set out in the table.prepared. Annual estimates of migration for future years are not prepared, but the most recent (1983 based) population projection, designed to illustrate possible levels of population in the longer term future, assumed a net migration loss of 15,000 per annum.

The Arts

Export Licences

asked the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State answering in respect of the Arts 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 half 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 institutions; 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 given in the table. Valuations have been omitted in two cases because of the owners' wishes that these should remain confidential

Description	Valuation	Outcome
	£
A drawing by Rembrandt "A view on the Amstel"	668,160	Licence suspended for four months. Purchased by the British Museum.
A drawing by Rubens "A man threshing beside a wagon"	779,520	Licence suspended for three months. Exported.
A drawing by Raphael "St. Paul rending his garments"	1,556,800	Licence suspended for four months. Exported.
A drawing by Raphael "Study for the Disputa"	670,000	Licence suspended for four months. Exported.
18th Century travelling canteen of Charles Edward Stuart	125,000	Licence suspended for three months. Purchased by The National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland.
A drawing by Raphael "Study of a man's head and a hand"	3,603,600	Licence suspended for six months, subject to review. Exported after two months.
Lippi et al: Drawings on a page of Vasari's "Libro de Disegni"	3,276,000	Licence suspended for six months, subject to review. Exported after two months.
Drawing attributed to Titian: "Extensive landscape with a nude woman"	414,960	Licence suspended for three months. Exported.
A drawing by Rubens "Three groups of Apostles in a Last Supper"	622,720	Licence suspended for three months. Exported.
A drawing by Rembrandt "Two Thatched Cottages"	365,440	Licence suspended for three months. Exported.
A drawing by Rembrandt "The Bulwark 'De Rose' and the Windmill 'De Smeerpot'"	522,640	Licence suspended for three months. Exported.
A drawing by Rembrandt "A farmstead by a stream"	393,120	Licence suspended for three months. Exported.
A drawing by Rembrandt "A sailing boat"	458,640	Licence suspended for three months. Exported.
A drawing by Van Dyck "Study for the entombment"	262,080	Licence suspended for three months. Exported.
The Farnley Book of Bird Studies by J. M. W. Turner	233,000	Licence suspended for four months. Purchased by Leeds City Art Gallery.
Michael Sweerts "The Plague at Athens"	1,145,038	Licence suspended for three months. Exported.
Four stereoscopic Daguerrotypes by Antoine Claude	12,000	Licence suspended for two months. Purchased by the Science Museum.
A drawing by Rembrandt "A view of Houtewaal"	436,800	Licence suspended for two months. Exported.
A Viking Sword in excavated condition	2,113	Licence suspended for three months. Purchased by Somerset County Museum.
A long case year going clock by Henry Hindley	10,750	Licence suspended for three months. Purchased by York City Museum.
A head figure of Meleager (also described as Actaeon with a hound)	14,000	Licence suspended for three months. Purchased by The Victoria and Albert Museum.
Bronze statue of Mercury by Alessandro Vittoria	—	Licence suspended for three months. Exported.
Beilby glass enamelled commemorative bowl	28,000	Licence suspended for three months. Purchased by Laing Art Gallery.
A Mock Charter Manuscript Composed by Queen Elizabeth I 1591	29,166	Licence suspended for three months. Exported.
Two Sèvres milk pails made for Marie Antoinette	143,000	Licences suspended for three months each until 12 September 1985.
	172,000
Design for Woburn Abbey library ceiling by William Chambers	15,000	Licence suspended for three months until 28 August 1985.
Mahogany Cabinet by Mackmurdo	25,000	Licence suspsended for two months until 28 July 1985
A painting by Mantegna "Adoration of the Magi"	8,247,500	Licence suspended for six months, until 12 December 1985, but subject to review after three months.
Bust of Lord Chesterfield by Roubiliac	—	Licence suspended for four months until 12 October 1985.

Allocation

asked the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State answering in respect of the Arts whether he will specify the allocations made to public institutions in the United Kingdom during the half year ended 30 June 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,

Item
1. Items allocated since 1 January 1985	To whom allocated
Calke Abbey (house, contents, land)^*	National Trust
Bonheaur du Jour by Martin Carlin	Bowes Museum
Geoffrey Keynes collection^*	Fitzwilliam Museum
	National Portrait
	Gallery
	British Museum
Collection of photographs associated with Lord Curzon (1859–1925)	The British Library
2. Items awaiting allocation	Date of acceptance
Bust of Lord Somers by Le Marchand	31 January 1985
Seneca epistles	24 October 1984
^* This offer carried a condition regarding its allocation which was honoured.

together with information, where applicable, as to the conditions or wishes expressed in the matter of allocation by testators or executors; and whether he will list the works of art and museum objects which are still awaiting allocation with the respective dates of their acceptance in satisfaction of capital transfer tax.

The information requested is as follows:

National Finance

Industrial Production

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each year since 1970 the annual increase in productivity of (a) the whole economy less oil and gas and production industries and (b) manufacturing industry.

The available information is as follows:

Output Per Person Employed
	Whole economy less production industries^*	Manufacturing industries
	Percentage change since previous year
1971	na	2·2
1972	1·9	5·7
1973	0·5	8·7
1974	-1·5	-1·5
1975	-1·7	-2·6
1976	1·3	5·3
1977	1·8	1·6
1978	2·6	0·9
1979	0·4	0·5
1980	-1·7	-3·9
1981	0·4	3·4
1982	2·6	6·3
1983	2·1	7·4
1984	1·1	4·8
na = not available
^* Production industries are defined as Divisions 1 to 4 of the 1980 Standard Industrial Classification and include oil and gas industries.

Football Pools

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the revenue income from fixed odds football pools in each of the five years from 1960 to 1965 and 1980 to 1985.

Fixed odds football pool betting was exempt from duty until 3 August 1964. Revenue in 1964–65 was £3·9 million. From 1980 to 1985 receipts were as follows:

Year	£ thousand
1980–81	36
1981–82	27
1982–83	6
1983–84	negligible
1984–85	negligible

Trustee Savings Bank Bill

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the Trustee Savings Bank Bill.

Yes. I asked Sir John Read, the chairman of the Trustee Savings Banks Central Board, to consider the implications of the amendments made at Report Stage in another place on 16 April and to respond to them. I am pleased to say that the TSBs have agreed to make a number of significant changes to their plans to take account of comments which have been made in the other place and elsewhere. Sir John Read has set out these further commitments in a letter to my right hon. Friend which is reproduced below. For their part, the Government will propose appropriate consequential amendments, as necessary, to the Bill.The Treasury will not exercise its power to initiate the reorganisation provided for in the Bill by making an order appointing the vesting day until it is satisfied that the TSBs have taken the appropriate steps to implement the undertakings which they have given in Sir John Read's letters of 6 December 1984 (reproduced in the White Paper) and 16 May 1985 (reproduced below).16 May 1985Rt. Hon. Nigel Lawson, M.P.Chancellor of the Exchequer,H.M. Treasury.Parliament Street,London, SW1P 3AG.Dear Chancellor,1. Since I wrote to you on 6 December 1984, there have been a number of developments in the TSB Group's preparations for the reorganisation and we have agreed to make some changes to our plans in the light of views expressed in Parliament, especially in the House of Lords debate on Report on 16 April 1985. I thought therefore that I should write to you again to put some further points on the record.

TSB Scotland

2. As you know, the Trustee Savings Banks Central Board and the Trustees of Trustee Savings Bank Scotland are unanimously of the view that TSB Scotland can, should and will continue to function as an independently managed Scottish bank within the Group. We are convinced that the future of TSB Scotland will be better assured as a member of the Group than as an entirely separate company without access to the common facilities and resources of the Group. However, we recognise that the fears which have been expressed on this point reflect genuine concerns felt in Scotland.

3. We are therefore glad that the Government has agreed to amend the Bill so as to put it beyond doubt that the four banking companies to which the Bill refers shall be registered, and so have their registered offices, in the territory in which they operate, i.e. England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands respectively. We understand that the concept of "head office", as opposed to "unregistered office", is not defined in statute; but we undertake that the head office of each of these banks will remain in the country in which it is registered. Once the business of the existing TSBs has been vested in these banking companies, a private Act of Parliament would in practice be required before the separate identity of any of these banks could be removed. Indeed, the need for a private Act will offer a new safeguard to regional and national interests, because under the present system in the Trustee Savings Banks Act 1981 TSBs have power to merge simply by the resolution of three-quarters of the Trustees without any kind of Parliamentary or indeed Government approval.

4. In addition, we are happy to give the assurance that, as appropriate, the articles of association of the new Group holding company and of the successor banking companies within the Group will provide for the following points:—

(i) The Annual General Meeting of TSB Group plc shall be held in Scotland and the registered office of the company shall be based there;

(ii) Each banking company shall have its own board of directors, with a minimum of ten and a maximum of fourteen. The initial boards will be drawn substantially from trustees of the present banks. Thereafter, with the exception of those members referred to in paragraph (iii) below, each board will appoint its own members, subject to the approval of the parent board, The articles will not provide for the parent board to appoint members of the individual banks' boards. Provision will be made for 75 per cent. of the board members to be normally resident in the country or territory of the bank;

(iii) Two members of the Board of each UK banking company shall be appointed by the governors of the TSB charitable foundation for its country or territory, subject to the approval of the bank board but not of the Group board. These two members will be expected to ensure that the interests of the country or territory concerned are fully represented in the board's deliberations;

(iv) The directors of each banking company will be order a responsibility to take into account not only the interests of its shareholders but also the interests of customers and staff, the bank's responsibilities under the Banking Act 1979 and the interests of the country or territory in which the bank is established;

(v) The Chairman of each bank board shall be appointed to the Group board. In addition, the Chief Executive of TSB England and Wales and the Chief Executive of TSB Scotland shall be appointed to the Group board;

(vi) The agreements to be entered into between TSB Group plc and each banking company providing that TSB Group plc will refrain from acting to reduce the net worth of the banking companies and setting out dividend policy in relation to them, shall not be changed without the agreement of two-thirds of the directors of the bank concerned.

5. We confirm that Trustee Savings Bank Scotland plc and Trustee Saving Bank Northern Ireland plc will apply to the Bank of England for separate recognition as banks under the Banking Act 1979. The business of TSB England and Wales will be vested in the present Central Trustee Savings Bank Limited which will change its name to Trustee Savings Bank England and Wales plc. As Central Trustee Savings Bank Limited is already a recognised bank, it will not be necessary for it formally to apply in its new name for recognition: We confirm that it will seek to maintain that status. It will of course follow that the board of each bank will be separately responsible for the direction of its banking business and, like all other banks in the UK, will be supervised by the Bank of England. Trustee Savings Bank Channel Islands Limited will apply for authorisation in the Channel Islands under local legislation.

TSB Charitable Foundations

6.I confirmed in my letter of 6 December 1984 that the TSB Group intended to proceed with the endowment of certain charitable foundations. These proposals have also been the subject of debate in Parliament. We are pleased that, in the light of those debates, you have agreed that the Government will propose an amendment providing for the TSB Central Board to arrange the establishment of charitable foundations and the vesting in them of shares in TSB Group plc. We undertake that the Central Board will establish a charitable foundation for each of England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. The Board will ensure that five per cent. of the share capital in TSB Group plc is distributed among these four foundations in proportion to the accumulated reserves of each of the existing TSBs.

7. These charitable foundations will enhance the TSBs' traditional role in contributing to the life of the community by assisting local needs of many different kinds. The foundations will therefore benefit the communities from which the TSBs have in the past drawn their customers. Clearly, the approach which the charities adopt will change from time to time as local needs and circumstances alter.

8. We have felt it appropriate that the foundations should hold "A" ordinary shares in TSB Group plc which entitle them to vote only on matters affecting their own interests. However, we now undertake that (as mentioned at paragraph 4(iii) above) each foundation (except in the case of the Channel Islands) will in addition be given a special share in the banking subsidiary operating in the same country or territory which will entitle it to appoint two directors to the bank board who will be expected to ensure that the interests of the country or territory concerned are represented in the board's deliberations.

Share Issue

9. Finally, I stated in my letter of 6 December 1984 that we plan to bring about the issue of shares to the public in a way which will achieve wide ownership of the new TSB Group among our customers and staff. We have undertaken to give customers and staff priority over a substantial tranche of shares. I can now add that in relation to the balance of shares we will seek to attract as many small investors as possible, whether or not they are at present customers of the TSB Group. For this purpose we are preparing a major communication programme to promote the widest possible ownership of TSB Group plc. We have set ourselves a target of over one million shareholders.

Yours sincerely,

Sir John Read

Chairman

Business Expansion Scheme

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many companies in Scotland benefited from assistance under the business expansion scheme in the last year for which records are available; and what proportion of (a) the total number of United Kingdom firms assisted and (b) the total United Kingdom payments made under the scheme were in Scotland.

I shall let the hon. Member have a reply as soon as possible.

Foreign And Commonwealth Affairs

South Africa (Nuclear Weapons)

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is Her Majesty's Government's most recent assessment of whether South Africa has acquired a nuclear weapons capability.

We have no conclusive evidence that South Africa has acquired a nuclear weapons capability.

South African Broadcasting Corporation

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many visits have been made to the British Broadcasting Corporation's external services in the last five years by personnel from the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

This is a matter for the management of the BBC external services. However, I understand that the BBC external services estimates that about 20 visits have been made to it in the last five years by personnel from the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what training the British Broadcasting Corporation external service has provided for South African Broadcasting Corporation staff in the last five years.

This is a matter for the management of the BBC external services. However, I understand that BBC external services has not provided any training for South African Broadcasting Corporation staff in the last five years.

Overseas Development

Aid

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will list the multilateral and bilateral aid commitments, including aid trade provision equivalent, of the United Kingdom for the last five convenient years; and whether he has comparable information for France, West Germany, Japan and the United States.

Commitments of multilateral and bilateral net official development assistance (ODA) for the years 1979–83 for the United Kingdom and the other donors are as follows.Commitments of aid trade provision funds from within the aid programme for the years 1979 to 1983 were as follows:

	£ million
1979	50·2
1980	23·2
1981	30·6
1982	117·2
1983	26·1

These ATP funds are normally used in association with ECGD guaranteed export credits in order to finance the British content of contracts in developing countries.The ways in which aid funds are used in order to achieve similar objectives to the aid trade provision differ substantially between donors. Statistics which identify separately financial packages provided by other donors and which are equivalent to the air trade provision are reported to the OECD Secretariat, and provided on a confidential basis to all OECD members, as part of the agreed effort to achieve transparency and greater discipline in this area. The statistics are not published.

Net Official Development Assistance (ODA) Commitments US $ million (Equivalent Sterling figures in brackets)
	Total ODA	Bi-lateral	Multi-lateral
1979
United Kingdom	2,479	1,965	515
	(1,168)	(926)	(243)
France	4,493	3,745	748
	(2,118)	(1,765)	(353)
FRG	5,204	4,015	1,189
	(2,453)	(1,892)	(560)
Japan	3,674	2,528	1,146
	(1,732)	(1,191)	(540)
USA	7,179	5,185	1,993
	(3,383)	(2,444)	(939)
1980
United Kingdom	2,449	1,459	990
	(1,053)	(627)	(426)
France	5,527	4,766	806
	(2,395)	(2,049)	(346)
FRG	6,278	4,667	1,611
	(2,699)	(2,006)	(693)
Japan	4,435	3,369	1,066
	(1,907)	(1,448)	(458)
USA	6,464	5,378	1,086
	(2,779)	(2,312)	(467)
1981
United Kingdom	1,954	1,000	954
	(964)	(493)	(470)
France	5,150	4,431	719
	(2,539)	(2,185)	(355)
FRG	4,649	3,467	1,182
	(2,292)	(1,710)	(583)
Japan	4,524	3,437	1,087
	(2,231)	(1,695)	(536)
USA	7,201	5,135	2,066
	(3,551)	2,532)	(1,019)
1982
United Kingdom	2,008	1,112	896
	(1,147)	(635)	(512)
France	5,142	4,358	785
	(2,938)	(2,490)	(448)
FRG	3,701	2,713	988
	(2,114)	(1,550)	(564)
Japan	4,398	3,622	775
	(2,513)	(2,069)	(443)
USA	8,232	6,112	2,120
	(4,703)	(3,492)	(1,211)
1983
United Kingdom	1,627	927	701

	Total ODA	Bi-lateral	Multi-lateral
	(1,073)	(611)	(462)
France	5,102	4,380	722
	(3,363)	(2,887)	(476)
FRG	3,234	2,271	963
	(2,132)	(1,497)	(635)
Japan	5,386	3,843	1,903
	(3,550)	(2,296)	(1,254)
USA	9,482	6,989	2,493
	(6,251)	(4,607)	(1,643)

Source:

OECD 1983 and 1984 Review: Development Cooperation: Efforts and Policies of the Members of the Development Assistance Committee.

Tsetse Fly

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what advice he has received on the ecological effect of the European Economic plans to participate in the scheme to eradicate tsetse fly from parts of central Africa.

Advice was received from my scientific staff and the tsetse research laboratory. This was based on a five-year study by the Tropical Development and Research Institute into the effects of aerial spraying of the chosen insecticide. We were concerned to ensure that the chemical control methods proposed would not cause damage to the environment, and for the same reason insisted on the need for strict planning of the use of land to be freed from infestation.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the policy of Her Majesty's Government towards the European Economic Community proposals to support the project to eradicate tsetse fly in parts of central Africa.

The Government supported a proposal which was approved in April 1985 to provide 19·15 million ecu (£11 million) from the European development fund for phase 1 of a tsetse and trypanosomiasis control programme in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Later phases, if approved, will include neighbouring states. Strict planning of the use of the land to be cleared of tsetse flies will be essential to avoid damage to the environment.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which pesticides are being supplied from the United Kingdom for use in the European Economic Community scheme to eradicate tsetse fly in central Africa.

British pesticide companies will supply synthetic pyrethroids for trials in the research component of the project. Most of the chemicals, however, will be purchased after an international invitation to tender in accordance with the procedures of the Lomô convention. No organo-chlorines will be used in the project. Endosulphan is to be used for aerial spraying and pyrethroid deltamethrin for fly traps.

Employment

Accident Rates

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what are the latest figures for the accident rate (a) on the youth training scheme and (b) on all forms of work.

The following table sets out the annual incidence rate for 1984–85 per 100,000 trainees on

Period	Average number in training	^*Accidents			Annual incidence rate per 100,000 trainees
		Fatalities	†Major Injuries	Minor Injuries	Fatalities	Major Injuries	Minor Injuries
1 April-31 March 1984	282,408	‡4	184	1,748	1·4	65·2	619·0
Notes
^* The manpower Services Commission's accident figures for the youth training scheme are compiled on a similar basis to those prepared by the Health and Safety Executive on employed persons. However, the Commission's figures will include a number of accidents, in particular road traffic accidents during scheme time and accidents to trainees in educational establishments, which may not have been reportable to the Health and Safety Executive had the individuals been employed.
‡ Major injuries are classified according to the severity criteria laid down in the Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurences Regulations 1980.
‡.During the period 1 January to 31 March 1985, one further fatality involving a youngster on the youth training scheme was notified to the Manpower Services Commission. Investigations to determine the exact causes of the incident and whether it would be reportable to the Health and Safety Executive had the youngster been employed are being carried out by the local enforcing authorities.

The provisional incidence rate for 1984 for occupational deaths and major injuries to employees reportable to health and safety enforcing authorities is 60·9 per 100,000 employees. An incidence rate relating to minor injuries is not available.There are difficulties in making direct comparisons between accident figures for the youth training scheme and statistics published by the Health and Safety Executive for the employed population generally. For example, the age mix is very different (the Health and Safety Executive does not publish separate accident figures for the 16–18 age group), and, in addition, the industry mix and time spent at the workplace may also differ.

Sports Grounds (Safety)

asked the Secretary of State for Employment whether the Health and Safety Executive has been consulted about proposals to improve safety at sports grounds.

The Health and Safety Executive may be consulted on proposals or see evidence from Government Departments; matters primarily concerning crowd control and public order are however outside the Executive's immediate field of responsibility.

Employee Consultation

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many companies have been studied by his Department with reference to the requirement under section 1 of the Employment Act 1982 to provide, in annual reports, information about what they have done to consult their employees; and what percentage of these have conformed with those requirements.

I refer the hon. Member to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Lincoln (Mr. Carlisle) on 10 June at column 362.

Racial Discrimination

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he has any proposals to seek to reduce racial discrimination in employment.

The Government are firmly committed to the elimination of all unlawful discrimination and to the promotion of equal opportunities in

the youth training scheme, separately for fatal, major and minor accidents, calculated on the basis of the average number of trainees in training.

employment for all workers regardless of race. The Commission for Racial Equality's code of practice gives practical guidance on how to achieve these ends and the Department's race relations employment advisers are giving priority to advising employers and trade unions on the implications of the code.

The Manpower Services Commission seeks to ensure equal access for people of different races to all its public employment and training services and also supports language training to improve the employment prospects of members of ethnic minorities.

In addition, the Department is playing a full part in implementing the Government's policy of ensuring equal opportunity in the Civil Service for people from the ethnic minorities, both at the recruitment stage and in their subsequent careers.

The reduction and elimination of racial discrimination in employment requires not only action by Government but also the support of employers, trade unions and the community in general.

Health And Safety Inspection

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state for each year from 1974 to the most recent available date, both nationally and for the Greater London council area (a) the total number of health and safety executive inspectors, as now defined, (b) the total number of workplaces they had to inspect, (c) the total number of workplaces they actually inspected, (d) the total number of prosecutions undertaken by the Health and Safety Executive and (e) the total number of accidents and incidents visited.

The information is not available in the form requested. The total number of Health and Safety Executive inspectors, and of factory inspectors in the area offices within the Greater London Council area from 1977 when these area offices were set up are set out in the following table. The other Health and Safety Executive inspectorates do not have any field staff in the London area.

	Numbers in post at 1 June:
Year	Inspectors in HSE (including those in headquarters)	Factory inspectors in HSE Areas 5 and 6 (Covering Greater London)
1977	1,384	85^*
1978	1,413	78^*
1979	1,425	90^*
1980	1,443	80^*
1981	1,380	87
1982	1,320	77
1983	1,272	75
1984	1,236	70
1985	1,259	74
^* Including some specialist inspectors subsequently relocated outside London while continuing to operate in London as well as surrounding areas.

The remainder of the information requested is unavailable or could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

Labour Statistics

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many persons are currently claiming unemployment benefit; how many of them are registered at (a) jobcentres and (b) careers offices; and what these figures represent as percentages of the overall unemployment figures.

On 13 June 1985 there were 3,057,190 unemployed claimants in Great Britain. On 11 April 1985, the latest date for which a figure is available, there were 163,690 unemployed persons registered at careers offices. On 7 June 1985 there were 499,252 persons registered at jobcentres. This latter figure may include a number of people seeking a change of employment and others who are not claiming unemployment benefit. Taking these two factors into account, giving an answer in percentage terms would deprive the answer of any real meaning.

asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish his latest estimate of the numbers (a) who leave youth training schemes before the completion of training, and for which reason and (b) who, on completion of youth training schemes, find employment; and if he will publish a table showing the proportion of entrants who find employment.

The following table shows the number and proportion of young people who left the youth training scheme between July and September 1984 before the completion of training:

1984	Number in training at month end (000's)	Number of early leavers in month (000's)	Early leavers as percentage of in training total
July	283·2	5·4	2
August	292·0	7·0	2
September	310·5	7·4	2

The Manpower Services Commission conducts a regular monthly survey of leavers from the scheme. Questionnaires are sent to a 15 per cent. sample of all leavers some three months after they leave the scheme. Results are placed in the Library. The latest analysis of reasons given by young people for leaving the scheme early relates to those who left between July and September

1984 and is as follows (the total comes to more than 100 per cent. because some young people gave more than one reason):

	Percentage of early leavers
Scheme had finished	2
Got a full-time job	49
Got a part-time job	3
Joined another YTS scheme	9
Ill	4
Scheme not providing training needed	13
Not happy on scheme	23
Pay was too low	19
Some other reason	22

The same survey shows that 62 per cent. of young people who completed training during the period July-September 1984 found employment.Information is not available on the proportion of entrants who find employment. However, the survey referred to shows that some 60 per cent. of young people leaving the scheme between July and September 1984 (the peak leaving period) went into employment.

Defence

Exercise Brave Defender

asked the Secretary of State for Defence whether local authority police committees will be notified in addition to the chief constables in the areas where Exercise Brave Defender is to take place.

This will be a matter for the chief constables concerned to decide.

Armed Forces (Retirement Statistics)

asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish in the Official Report tables showing the total numbers of officers and men of each rank-equivalent who retired during the periods (a) 1 April 1977 to 31 March 1978 and (b) 1 April 1983 to 31 March 1984, indicating the numbers of those (i) receiving a reduced pension because of premature retirement, (ii) who commuted a part of their pension and (iii) who have since died, distinguishing between those who have surviving widows and those who do not, and giving the total pension cost for the year 1984–85 in respect of those who retired during each of the specified periods.

The number of those who retired from whatever cause in the periods 1 April 1977 to 31 March 1978 and 1 April 1983 to 31 March 1984 and who were in receipt of pension on 31 March 1984 is as follows:

	1977–78		1983–84
Rank^*	Male	Female	Male	Female
Lt. General and above	22	—	8	—
Maj. General	47	—	26	—
Brigadier	67	1	75	2
Colonel	109	4	168	4
Lt. Colonel	408	2	432	7
Major	857	15	868	29
Captain and below	544	1	376	8
Warrant Officer I	1,040	5	824	7
Warrant Officer II	601	3	697	7
Staff Sergeant	2,518	10	2,030	9
Sergeant	1,681	8	1,563	10
Corporal	1,034	3	658	5

1977–78

1983–84

Rank

Male

Female

Male

Female

Lance Corporal and below

681

338

^* Including equivalent ranks in the RN and RAF.

Note:

Certain pensions associated with disability are borne on DHSS votes and are not included in the above table.

Answers to the specific questions at (i) to (iii) could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Royalties

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what discussions his Department has had with GEC Avionics about potential royalties to Her Majesty's Government in respect of supply of its airborne early warning system for Lockheed's Hercules C130 transport planes.

A basic agreement exists with the Company about charges for any commercial exploitation of their work on AEW but no detailed discussions have yet taken place specifically related to the possible C130 application.

Foreign Service Men (Training)

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what was the total income received from providing training for service men from overseas armed forces for each of the last three years for which figures are available; and, of this, how much is attributable to training Chilean service men.

The total estimated charges for training foreign and commonwealth personnel in the United Kingdom for each of the last three financial years are as follows:

	£ million
1984–85	32
1983–84	31·6
1982–83	22·8

Contained within these figures are elements which are not direct training charges but which are related to foreign and commonwealth training (for example, messing and accommodation).It is not our practice to reveal details of training provided for individual countries since this information is confidential between Her Majesty's Government and the Government concerned.

Volume 82: debated on Thursday 4 July 1985

Written Answers To Questions

Prime Minister

Falkland Islands

Ec Internal Market (White Paper)

Human Tissue (Member's Correspondence)

Engagements

Energy

Geothermal Energy Sources

Magnox Reactors

Nuclear Fuel

North Sea Oilfields

Education And Science

Teachers (Statistics)

Hampshire Schools

Universities (National Insurance Contributions)

Handicapped Students

Environment

Rate Support Grant

Sulphur Emissions

Water Metering

Housing Revenue Accounts

Sporting Bodies (Grants)

Association Of County Councils

Inner City Areas

Water Authorities

Broad Street Station

Solar Energy

Radionuclides (Sellafield)

Transport

Airport Security

Motorists (Drink Problems)

Blind People (Travel Facilities)

Cycling

Vehicle Testing

Railways (Safety)

Humberside Airport

Motorways (Construction Costs)

British Rail

Attorney-General

Crown Court Appeals

Bail Applications

Northern Ireland

Tiger (Portavogie)

Nursing Homes

Hospital Inpatient Costs

Housing Benefit

Wales

Households

A55

Road Construction

Forestry Commission

Rate Support Grant

Trade And Industry

Inward Investment Unit

National Audit Office (Documents)

Patents Office

Lead Development Association (Exhibition)

Home Department

Sri Lankan Nationals

Tamils

Wandsworth Prison

Immigration Rules

Public Order White Paper

Young Offenders

Prohibited Drugs

Metropolitan Police (Expenditure)

Sex Discrimination

Crime

Civil Defence Inspectorate

Police Tactics (Manuals)

Civil Defence

Drug Abuse

Police And Criminal Evidence Act 1984

London Policemen (Firearms)

Young People (Sentencing Policy)

Railway Vandalism (Parental Responsibility)

Alcohol Sales (Supermarkets)

Temporary Parole (Statistics)