asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what reply he has sent to a letter sent to him from the parents of children at the Gordon school, Gravesend, Kent, on its closure by Kent county council with the consent of his Department.

Neither I nor my right hon. Friend have received recent correspondence from parents of children at the Gordon school.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he is prepared to receive deputations led by hon. and right hon. Members about the future of individual colleges and universities; and if he will make a statement.

My right hon. Friend and I are always ready to receive deputations led by hon. and right hon. Members about matters within our responsibilities. In general, however, representations about the future of individual colleges and universities would be more usefully addressed in the first instance to the National Advisory Body for Public Sector Higher Education or to the University Grants Committee.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what progress he has made in his discussions on the recommendations in the Swann report that more teachers from minority groups should be recruited.

In his statement to the House on 14 March 1985, in column 452, my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) accepted the Swann recommendation that, without positive discrimination and without any reduction in the required level of qualification, an increase should be sought in the proportion of ethnic minority schoolteachers. In July 1985 the Department issued a consultation paper exploring possible ways to achieve this, to which responses have been received from 68 organisations and individuals. We are considering what further measures might now be taken. A representative working group set up by my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-East is considering whether acceptable arrangements could be devised for monitoring the ethnic composition of the school teacher force.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what progress he has made in the appointment in his Department in an advisory capacity of teachers with a primary or secondary school background.

My right hon. Friend has no plans to appoint teachers to his Department in an advisory capacity.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science which West Midlands education authorities have received grants for science teaching in primary schools.

No west midlands local education authority has yet received support through education support grants for science teaching in primary schools. From September 1986, Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton will receive funding under the education support grant programme for work on science and technology teaching in primary schools.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he will take to assist the Uganda Government as far as police training is concerned.

An offer to help with police training has been accepted by the Uganda Government and an adviser is currently visiting Kampala to assess the needs.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what aid he intends to give to the Uganda Government as far as provision of Land-Rovers is concerned.

Forty-two Land Rovers, financed by the British aid programme, are on order for the Uganda police force and 20 for the Uganda electricity board.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will detail the aid programmes in sub-Saharan Africa which have British Government support; and if he will make a statement.

In 1985 gross bilateral aid disbursements to sub-Saharan Africa totalled £285 million. The amounts to individual countries are as shown. In addition, substantial British aid funds are channelled through multilateral aid agencies and the European Community to support long-term development and disaster relief in Africa.

Gross bilateral aid to sub-Saharan Africa 1985
	(£'000)
Angola	164
Benin	187
Botswana	8,775
Burkina Faso	276

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what aid the British Government have provided to north-east Africa in terms of (a) farming, (b) irrigation and (c) hygiene improvement.

The Overseas Development Administration is currently involved in the following capital aid and technical co-operation projects in North-East Africa — Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan — in farming, irrigation and hygiene:

Country and Project	£000 Total ODA commitment
Farming
EGYPT
Cotton Pests	1,748
Alexandria University Farm	324
Agricultural Cooperatives	165
Cairo University Faculty of Agricutlture	21
SOMALIA
Juba Sugar factory	1,500
Provision of Veterinary Drugs	1,930
Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis eradication	1,600

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what proportion of total regional development grants has been paid to firms in the north-west region in 1979 and each subsequent year.

Most of this information has been published in the various annual reports on the Industrial Development Act. The details are as follows:

(A) Old regional development grants; payments in the North-West
	£ million
1979–80
Amount	58·7
Percentage of Great Britain	17·7
1980–81
Amount	105·7
Percentage of Great Britain	21·5
1981–82
Amount	143·4
Percentage of Great Britain	23·2
1982–83
Amount	97·3
Percentage of Great Britain	14·1
1983–84
Amount	83·0
Percentage of Great Britain	18·9
1984–85
Amount	79·9
Percentage of Great Britain	19·5

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many firms that have received regional development grants in the north-west in 1979 and each subsequent year have subsequently closed down or announced redundancies; and if he will give an estimate of the number of jobs involved.

These statistics are not monitored for old regional development grant and the cost of extracting them from the Department's records and other sources would be prohibitive. The Department is aware of 10 cases of closure — but fewer than 200 employees involved overall — among firms being paid under the new regional development grant scheme.

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he sent the United Kingdom submission on the regional development programme to the European Commission.

I now expect the United Kingdom's regional development programme to be submitted to the European Commission next month.

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on the bids received for Leyland Bus by the deadline of 26 June.

As I informed the House on 12 June, BL invited offers for Leyland Bus, on a tender basis, from the Laird Group, Aveling Barford and a Leyland Bus management consortium. Tenders have been received from all three. Details of the tenders are commercially confidential, but my right hon. Friend expects to receive a recommendation from the BL board shortly.

asked the Prime Minister if she will list the occasions since June 1979 when the United Kingdom has been found guilty in a case before (a) the European Court of Human Rights and (b) the European Court of Justice; and what was the subsequent action taken by the United Kingdom in each case.

I have been asked to reply.My right hon. Friend will reply to the hon. Gentleman shortly.

asked the Prime Minister if she will now make a statement on the review of legal aid funding.

[pursuant to the reply, 17 June 1986, c. 512]: I have been asked to reply.Copies of the report have today been placed in the Libraries of both Houses of Parliament. Further copies may be obtained, priced £5, from the Lord Chancellor's Department.The Government are grateful to the scrutiny team for the careful and thorough way it has gone about its task and welcomes the report as a useful basis for consideration of improvements in the efficiency of the legal aid scheme. Before decisions are taken on the recommendations, the Government would welcome comments on them. These should be sent to the Lord Chancellor's Department, Room 316, Neville House, Page Street, London, SW1 to arrive by 30 September 1986.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has any plans to introduce legislation to make milk pasteurisation and bottling plants on farms part of an industrial process for planning and rating purposes in Scotland; and if he will make a statement.

The present position as regards planning is that, under class V in schedule 1 to the Town and Country Planning (General Development) (Scotland) Order 1981, the carrying out on agricultural land having an area of more than 0·4 hectares and comprised in an agricultural unit of building or engineering operations requisite for the use of that land for the purposes of agriculture is development permitted without express planning permission. The Government take the view that an agricultural building is permitted development only if its intended use is ancillary to an agricultural activity carried out on the open land in that agricultural unit.Whether milk pasteurisation and bottling plants on farms are permitted development or require express planning permission will depend on the facts in any individual case and will be a matter for the planning authority in the first instance to determine.In a consultation paper on amendments to the General Development Order issued by my Department in January 1984 it was proposed that the wording of class V should be revised to make it clear that permitted development rights were allowed for agricultural buildings and engineering operations which are sited on an agricultural unit of 0·4 hectares or more and are needed for the furtherance of an agricultural activity on the unit. My right hon. and learned Friend is considering whether these changes should be included among the further amendments which will be made to the General Development Order, as announced in the White Paper "Building Businesses … not Barriers" (Cmnd. 9794, May 1986).The present position as regards rating is that agricultural lands and buildings as defined in the Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956 are not entered in the valuation roll. My right hon. and learned Friend has no plans to change this.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the results of the further monitoring of foodstuffs in Scotland likely to be affected as a result of the Chernobyl accident; and if he will make a statement on his conclusions about the testing.

I would refer the hon. Member to my right hon. and learned Friend's statement on 24 June. The results of the latest monitoring are being placed in the Library.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) when he expects to approve the second phase of the Dunfermline and West Fife, hospital; and when he expects its construction to be completed;(2) what he estimates to be the delays being caused to the Dunfermline and West Fife hospital phase two by the additional studies ordered into the feasibility of expansion at the Victoria hospital in Kirkcaldy: and when he expects those studies to be completed.

I shall consider Fife health board's proposals for phase II of West Fife district general hospital when the board submits a revised option appraisal study of acute hospital beds needs in the whole of Fife, which will take account of the results of the additional studies into the feasibility of further development at Kirkcaldy. I understand that these studies will be completed shortly. Meanwhile, I cannot say whether or when approval will be given, or when construction will be completed.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he expects to complete his study into the geographical distribution of leukaemia in young persons in Scotland with special reference to the Rosyth area.

Details of a preliminary report by the information services division of the Common Services Agency of the Scottish Health Service were given in a pursuant reply of 9 June to my hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame, North (Mrs. Currie), at column 33. That report included figures for leukaemia in the Rosyth area. Further analysis is taking place, and I understand that the information services division hopes to complete the study by the autumn.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish all the information from the recent routine monitoring of sheep thyroids in Caithness carried out by the isotopes section of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food central laboratory in Weybridge; what are the comparable figures for similar periods in previous years; and if he will make a statement.

As part of the routine surveillance in condition with the Dounreay nuclear establishment, samples of the thyroid glands of sheep slaughtered at Thurso are analysed at the central veterinary laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.Results for recent years were included in a report submitted by Her Majesty's Industrial Pollution Inspectorate as part of its evidence to the public local inquiry into the proposal to locate the European demonstration fast reactor reprocessing plant at Dounreay. That report was entitled: "Environmental monitoring for radioactivity around Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment, 1981–1985; HMIPI Production No. 3, 1986". I am arranging for a copy of the report to be placed in the Library.

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his estimate of the numbers of British fishing vessels engaged in monofilament net fishing in (a) North sea fishing grounds north of the Scottish border and (b) Scottish waters in each of the last three years; and what is his estimate of the value and volume of the catch landed in Scotland from such vessels.

[pursuant to his reply, 5 5, June 1986, c. 605]: No estimates are available for 1983. The estimates for 1984 and 1985 for Scottish vessels are:

Number of vessels	Weight of catch in tonnes	Value £
1984
*(a) 10	18	10,400
†(b) 30	54	28,000
1985
*(a) 13	9	7,200
†(b) 40	50	25,000
* Reliable information is not available about the number of other British fishing vessles fishing with monofilament nets in North sea fishing grounds north of the Scottish border and outside Scottish inshore waters. However in 1984, four English vessels landed 14 tonnes of demersal fish, valued at £ 11,000 at Scottish ports, In 1985, two such vessels landed 30 tonnes valued at £ 20,000. These vessels may have used multifilament rather than monofilament nets.
† There is no record of any landings at Scottish ports in 1984 or 1985 by other British fishing vessels fishing with monofilament nets in Scottish inshore waters.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will take steps to establish the office of a commissioner in Wales to deal with questions relating to the use of the Welsh language, and to investigate cases of alleged discrimination against persons asking to use the Welsh language in dealing with public authorities.

No.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales what is his Department's policy with regard to releasing statements to the press in the Welsh language or bilingually in Welsh and English.

Most departmental press notices are issued in English. However, where the subject relates specifically to the Welsh language, press notices are issued in Welsh as well as in English.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales what action he has taken to commission research into the effect of S4C on the use of the Welsh language; and if he will make a statement.

In its response to the second report from the Committee on Welsh Affairs "Report on Broadcasting in the Welsh language", Cmnd. 8469, the Government accepted the Committee's recommendation about the need for cost-effective research.In 1983 I commissioned the department of social theory and institutions at the University College of North Wales to undertake a feasibility study on the costs and methodology which could be employed in a possible full scale study. The Social Science Research Council was consulted prior to the commencement of the project and a member of the staff at the centre for mass communications research, University of Leicester acted as the Department's adviser during the course of the project.I have now received the report, a copy of which has been placed in the Library of the House.The complexities of the task were fully recognised by all from the outset, and I have concluded, with the benefit of expert advice, that a further long-term study at an estimated cost of £ 400,000 as recommended in the report could not be justified.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales what steps he is taking to monitor the radioactivity in beef in north Wales after the heavy rains of 2 May in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster; and if he will make a statement.

Tests carried out in Gwynedd and Clwyd since the Chernobyl incident have shown levels of radioactivity in beef below the internationally recommended action levels. Further tests are being made.

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland following the joint statements of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference on 17 June 1986, what will be the basis of consultation to establish if a local community desires a street name in the Irish language.

I am considering how local wishes might be ascertained. If a practical scheme can be devised, legislation will be necessary and would be subject to public consultation in the normal way.

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the origin of the detonator found in the 1,000 lb terrorist bomb which was defused on 22 June on the Newry-Warrenpoint road near the land frontier with the Republic of Ireland.

The detonator was manufactured in Canada.

asked the Secretary of State for Energy if, when he next meets the chairman of the National Coal Board, he will raise with him the board's practice with regard to the speed with which it pursues formal planning applications for new mine developments after the initial announcement of its intention to proceed, and the implications of this for planning blight in the areas affected; and if he will make a statement.

This is a matter for the National Coal Board, and I shall ask the chairman to write to my hon. Friend.

asked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make a statement about the meeting of the European Community Council of Energy Ministers which met on 3 June.

[pursuant to his reply, 20 June 1986, c. 653–4]: I am happy to announce the formal adoption of the decision establishing a new regime governing the payment of state aids to the coal industry. I welcome the agreement for a long-term stable European Community framework for the coal industry.

asked the Minister for the Arts whether, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Warley, East on 26 February, Official Report, column 593, he is now able to announce the publication of the report of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art covering the year ended 30 June 1985.

[pursuant to his reply, 24 June 1986, c. 94]: I am now able to announce that the report of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art covering the year ended 30 June 1985 has been published today. Copies are available in the Library of the House.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many official value added tax forms and explanatory leaflets are published in languages other than English: if he will list these languages; and what arrangements exist for staff to discuss problems with value-added tax officers in these languages.

Customs and Excise publish English and Welsh versions of the three statutory VAT forms. These are the forms for applying for VAT registration, the VAT return form and the final return form which is used when a business ceases to be registered for VAT. No other forms are produced in any language other than English: nor are the explanatory leaflets. However, the local VAT offices in those areas where Welsh:is spoken will always provide a Welsh-speaking officer to explain the VAT rules and procedures where necessary.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what part Her Majesty's Government play in the appointment of representatives of the European Commission in (a) European Community member states and (b) other states; and if he will make a statement.

Decisions about appointments of Commission representatives in member states and in other states are for the Commission.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if the United Kingdom recognises the present border between Poland and the German Democratic Republic de jure as well as de facto.

No. Successive British Governments have given de facto but not de jure recognition to the border between Poland and the German Democratic Republic. There has been no change in that position.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what further consideration Her Majesty's Government have given to signing the law of the sea treaty.

The period for signature of the law of the sea convention ended on 9 December 1984. Although it remains possible for us to accede to the convention at any stage, our fundamental objections to the proposed seabed mining regime remain.

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what efforts are being made by Her Majesty's Government to discover the cause of deaths amongst penguins around the Falkland Islands; and if she will make a statement.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food exceptionally granted licences in April and May

	1985 1st quarter	1985 2nd quarter	1985 3rd quarter	1985 4th quarter	1986 1st quarter
Afghanistan	3	7	3	2	2
Algeria	285	299	254	139	75
Antigua and Barbuda	0	0	0	0	0
Australia	0	0	0	0	0
Austria	18	14	10	6	8
Bahamas	5	4	3	1	1
Bahrain	166	167	174	114	17
Bangladesh	71	70	48	53	32
Barbados	58	68	38	39	61
Belgium	12	17	13	9	17
Bolivia	15	2	0	2	0
Botswana	2	2	9	2	1
Brazil	1,025	499	15	16	36
Brunei	29	53	48	33	36
Bulgaria	579	647	389	317	162
Burma	91	95	91	29	33
Cameroon	268	268	297	119	122
Canada	67	45	69	51	58
Chile	131	89	50	31	38
China	149	263	203	148	164
Colombia	92	68	22	17	8
Costa Rica	146	114	54	63	14
Cuba	473	408	129	8	14
Cyprus	532	178	35	37	28
Czechoslovakia	60	34	24	20	15
Denmark	0	1	0	0	1
Eastern Caribbean States	6	1	5	7	7

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a further statement about his Department's policy on unpaid parking fines incurred by members of diplomatic missions; and whether he will publish up-to-date figures held by his Department about the number of such fines incurred by individual diplomatic missions.

The improvements, mentioned in my replies of 15 November 1985 and 21 February 1986 to my hon. Friend following the stiffer measures which came into effect on I May 1985, have continued. Quarterly figures for the 12 month period ending 31 March 1986 are as follows. On the basis of the figures for the most recent quarter, the annual rate of illegal parking offences is now under 30,000 compared with over 108,000 in 1984. These figures represent good progress and demonstrate the Government's determination to honour the commitment in last year's White Paper on diplomatic privileges and immunities to

"reduce very substantially the present level of illegal parking by diplomatic vehicles".

They are also welcome evidence of co-operation by most of the Diplomatic Corps.Certain missions have brought about spectacular reductions in their parking figures. Many others have reduced their figures substantially but some are still too high. Now that missions have had adequate time to make practical arrangements to comply with our regulations we intend to intensify our efforts to persuade those which have not yet fallen into line to do so. The Government remain determined that persistent offenders who do not pay their fines shall be withdrawn or transferred.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what is the reason for the closure of the northbound access to the M1 at Hemel Hempstead; and when he expects the access to be re-opened.

The slip road has been closed as part of major renovation works on the M1 northwards from junction 8 to near Redbourn. The hard shoulder is acting at some times as a running lane and at others as part of the contractor's site. It would not be safe to allow vehicles to enter the motorway at this point. We hope to reopen the slip road on Friday 4 July. It will have to be closed again for about a week in early September during the last phase of the works.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he is in a position to make a statement on the outcome of his Department's consideration of the contested proposals for north-facing slip roads at an M11 interchange in the Debden estate of Loughton.

We have carried out a survey of the traffic implications of adding north-facing slip roads. We are considering the results in the light of the environmental consequences and will make an announcement in due course. If we decide to go ahead with proposals, they will be subject to the normal statutory procedures.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport what additional delay takes place for applicants for driving tests who indicate that they wish the examinations to take place in languages other than English; how many examiners are now able to hold examinations in languages other than English; which languages they are and how many examiners in Wales are now able to provide examinations in Welsh.

With the single exception of tests in Wales which applicants may choose to have conducted in Welsh, driving tests in Great Britain are conducted in English only. Applicants for whom this may pose difficulties can be accompanied on test by an interpreter. The Department currently employs six examiners who can conduct tests in Welsh. No separate records are kept of applications for tests in Welsh. Candidates for such tests should not normally have to wait longer than other applicants.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will set out the numbers of days between 1 April and 21 June on which there were interruptions to the Woolwich ferry service resulting from either mechanical or staffing difficulties.

Fifty.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport whether he proposes to extend wheelclamping within central London.

Yes. I have received requests from a number of local authorities in central London to adjust the boundaries of the clamping area. I propose to lay orders before Parliament shortly to designate further parts of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster, part of Camden, and the City of London for wheelclamping. At the same time I propose to lift the time limit on the existing clamping order.

asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the height of the central safety harrier on the M4 near junction 8/9.

While it would be premature, pending completion of police investigations, to come to conclusions about the causes of the accident near junction 8/9 on 23 June, I have no reason at this time to think that the height of the barrier was a material factor.

asked the Paymaster General what was the cost of running the Manpower Services Commission in each of the last three years; how many jobs were created as a result; and if he will make a statement.

Of the total Manpower Services Commission expenditure shown, approximately 84 per cent. related to grants and allowances to individuals and organisations; 15 per cent. to running costs; and 1 per cent. to capital expenditure.

Manpower Services Commission Expenditure†
	£ million
1983–84	1,769
1984–85	2,051
1985–86	*2,370
* (provisional)
† These figures include expenditure on behalf of the Department of Employment.

It is not possible to estimate the number of jobs created by the Manpower Services Commission. Although some programmes, such as the enterprise allowance scheme, create jobs directly, others do so only indirectly and figures are not available.

asked the Paymaster General how many places were available at skillcentres in: (a) the north-west region and (b) Lancashire in (i) 1979 and (ii) the latest date for which figures are available.

79,000 weeks of training were provided in the north-west region of the Skills Training Agency in 1985–86, 15,500 of them in Lancashire. Figures for 1979 are not available.Statistics on skillcentre training volumes have, since 1983, been kept in terms of training weeks provided, rather than places available.

asked the Paymaster General, how many jobs were available at jobcentres in (a) the north-west region and (b) the Burnley constituency in (i) May 1979, (ii) June 1983 and (iii) the latest date for which figures are available.

Vacancy figures are not available by parliamentary constituency. However, the following table shows the numbers of unfilled vacancies in the north-west region and at Burnley and Padiham jobcentres, which cover an area closely corresponding to the Burnley constituency.

Vacancies at jobcentres (excluding community programme)
	North West Region	Burnley and Padiham Jobcentres
May 1979	20,134	414
June 1983	14,633	239
May 1986	18,500	256

asked the Paymaster General how many people were employed in manufacturing industries in 1979 and each subsequent year in the north-west region.

The information is as follows:

Employees in employment in the manufacturing industries in the north-west region.
March of each year
Year	Number
1979	972,000
1980	933,000
1981	829,000
1982	768,000
1983	713,000
1984	690,000
1985	680,000
*1986	673,000
* The latest date for which an estimate is available.

asked the Paymaster General how many people were unemployed for more than one year in 1979 and each subsequent year in (a) the Burnley travel-to-work area and (h) the north-west region.

Following is the available information which is in the Library. The figures are affected by the 1983 Budget provisions which mean that certain older men, mainly aged 60 or over, no longer have to sign on to receive benefit, and by the change in the timing of compilation of unemployment statistics in March 1986. Larger discontinuities occurred in the local area statistics in 1982 and 1983, with the change in the basis of the count, the introduction of ward-based statistics and the revision of boundaries of travel-to-work areas. Therefore the figures are not directly comparable.

North-West Region—Burnley trawl-to-work area
	Number
Claimants—Unemployed for over 12 months
April 1983	173,517	—
April 1984	188,540	2,360
April 1985	201,547	2,411
April 1986	203,662	2,425

asked the Paymaster General if he will give details of job creating schemes (a) for the current year and (b) planned for 1987 in the Burnley, Pendle and Hyndburn constituencies.

The full range of employment, enterprise and training opportunities described in the "Action for Jobs" booklet is available to people living in Burnley, Pendle and Hyndburn. The only exception is the new career development loans initiative which we are piloting in four areas.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what percentage of persons under 21 years of age were being retained at Low Newton remand centre for periods up to one month, two months, three months, four months, five months, six months, seven months, eight months, nine months and over, on 15 May;(2) how many persons under the age of 21 years were being retained at Low Newton remand centre on 15 May.

The readily available information is given in the tables.

Estimated population*of untried and convicted unsentenced prisoners aged under 21 at Low Newton remand centre on 30 April 1986; by length of time since initial remand in custody
Length of time since initial remand in custody†	Percentage
UP to 1 month	46
Over 1 month up to 2 months	25
Over 2 up to 3 months	13
Over 3 up to 6 months	11
Over 6 months	4
All (235 persons)	100
* Based on records held centrally which are approximate; detailed checking of individual cases would involve disproportionate costs.
† Including any time which may have been spent on bail after the initial remand in custody or in custody in other establishments.

Estimated sentenced young offender population*of Low Newton remand centre on 30 April 1986: by length of time spent under sentence in any prison department establishment
Length of time under sentence†in any prison department establishment	Percentage
Up to 1 month	72
Over 1 month up to 2 months	10
Over 2 up to 3 months	5
Over 3 months	13
All‡ (60 persons)	100
* Based on records held centrally which are approximate: detailed checking of individual records would involve disproportionate cost.
† Excluding any time spent on remand in custody.
‡ Including fine defaulters.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what guidance he has given the chief constables of the Welsh police forces as to the use of the word "heddlu" as a description on police vehicles.

None.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make provision for any person being held in a prison or remand centre in Wales, or any person from Wales being held in a prison or remand centre in England when exercising their right to legal advice to be able to receive that advice in the Welsh language if they so desire.

Any person requiring legal advice in prison custody in England and Wales can be provided with details of Welsh-speaking solicitors listed in the appropriate Law Society regional directory of solicitors.

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the guidelines which he has issued to the police forces of Wales concerning the circumstances of their use of the Welsh language.

The code of practice for the detention, treatment and questioning of persons by police officers issued under section 66 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 makes provision for the interviewing by the police of persons who have difficulty understanding English or where the officer cannot speak the person's own language. The codes of practice have been made available in the Welsh language to chief officers of police in Wales.