To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many heavy goods vehicle drivers were prosecuted or convicted of exceeding the 60 mph speed limit on motorways in each of the last five years.

The information collected centrally on proceedings and findings of guilt for speeding offences relating to goods vehicles does not include the type of road where the offence occurred or the particular limit which applied to the vehicle concerned. The available information is published annually in "Offences Relating to Motor Vehicles England and Wales, Supplementary Tables" (table 5 of the issue for 1986), copies of which are in the Library. Figures for 1987 will be published later this year.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to bring the unified custodial sentence for young offenders proposed in the Criminal Justice Bill into operation; and if he will make a statement.

Provided the relevant provisions in the Criminal Justice Bill secure parliamentary approval by the summer recess, it is our intention to implement the new sentence from 1 October this year.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a further statement on the steps being taken to prevent persons entering the United Kingdom illegally via the East Anglian coast.

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer which I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Mr. Irvine) on 23 June at column 1244. In East Anglia, as elsewhere, the local police, immigration service and customs representatives liaise closely to counter illegal entry.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of arrests either inside or outside football arising from all League matches, Football Association challenge cup. Littlewoods cup, Simod cup and Sherpa van trophy for the whole of the 1987–88 football season.

The police collect statistics centrally for Football League matches only. The total number of arrests at those matches in the 1987–88 football season was 6,147.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of the support of the African National Congress for recent terrorist attacks in South Africa against non-Government targets, he will make use of his powers under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act to exclude members and officials of the African National Congress from the United Kingdom.

The power to make exclusion orders under part II of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1984 may by virtue of section 3(6) be exercised only in respect of persons concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism designed to influence public opinion or Government policy with respect to affairs in Northern Ireland.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the arrangements for prisons to pay local authorities money in lieu of rates; and what will be the arrangements under the community charge.

This is a matter for my right hon. Friends the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for the Environment, but I understand that the rating of Government property department in the Treasury pays a contribution in lieu of rates on Crown properties including prisons; and that under the arrangements proposed in the Local Government Finance Bill now before Parliament the Government intend to continue to pay a contribution in lieu of rates on non-domestic Crown buildings.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when it is proposed to make a decision upon an application from the West Midlands police authority for a grant towards the cost of converting a former city of Birmingham children's home at Valencia croft, Castle vale, into a police office.

West Midlands police authority was asked last month for further information about the cost of the proposed building work and the lease of the property. When we receive this, we will consider the application along with others from police authorities, in the light of the available resources.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he intends to take any measures to restrain expenditure in 1989–90 by the six joint police authorities and seven joint fire and civil defence authorities.

A number of initiatives are being taken to improve value for money in the police and fire services. In the particular circumstances of the joint authorities I do not consider it appropriate to designate any of them for precept limitation in 1989–90. I do, however, expect them to continue to exercise restraint in their spending, and to have regard to efficiency, effectiveness and economy in the delivery of satisfactory levels of service.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) for each police area, how many crimes of violence against the person were reported, and how many successful detections there were, for the last year for which figures are available; and in each case what was the percentage change since 1978;(2) for each police area how many cases of burglary there were for the last year for which figures are available; what were the number of cases of successful detections; and what was the percentage change on the figures of burglary and the detections since 1978;(3) how many cases of theft or handling of stolen goods in each police area there were for the last year for which figures are available; what was the successful detection rate; and what was the percentage change in such crimes and detection since 1978;

Table 1 Notifiable offences recorded by the police which were cleared-up by offence group and police force area
England and Wales 1978				Number of offences
Police force area	Violence against the person	Burglary	Theft and handling stolen goods	Fraud and forgery	Criminal damage1
Avon and Somerset	1,477	3,173	13,537	2,580	1,000
Bedfordshire	922	1,541	6,497	1,411	440
Cambridgeshire	723	2,096	9,636	2,022	443
Cheshire	1,119	3,085	9,410	799	769
Cleveland	1,127	3,535	10,456	1,825	778
Cumbria	592	1,532	5,983	1,100	561
Derbyshire	1,434	2,798	8,344	2,255	618
Devon and Cornwall	1,617	2,676	11,488	1,845	864
Dorset	411	1,303	6,557	2,545	446
Durham	1,071	2,373	7,764	1,046	594
Essex	1,474	3,267	13,398	2,309	886
Gloucestershire	400	1,502	5,055	681	410
Greater Manchester	3,624	11,703	40,912	7,819	3,213
Hampshire	1,659	4,137	16,770	3,949	1,322
Hertfordshire	943	2,122	10,801	3,177	665
Humberside	2,173	3,296	11,405	961	959
Kent	1,381	3,513	12,329	2,337	963
Lancashire	1,718	4,944	15,900	2,447	1,187
Leicestershire	1,138	3,047	9,898	1,310	757
Lincolnshire	790	1,461	5,881	544	447
London City of	107	195	654	241	80
Merseyside	2,503	11,641	26,869	1,897	1,468
Metropolitan Police District	7,883	12,686	65,264	19,036	4,738
Norfolk	356	1,742	6,601	1,175	471
Northamptonshire	892	1,730	6,513	1,125	430
Northumbria	2,130	12,949	27,743	2,139	1,698
North Yorkshire	810	1,686	6,627	1,438	497
Nottinghamshire	2,865	7,151	19,402	2,125	1,378
South Yorkshire	2,369	5,558	16,559	1,782	1,068
Staffordshire	2,043	2,869	10,407	1,472	946
Suffolk	671	1,108	5,840	1,150	517
Surrey	751	1,576	6,813	1,975	587
Sussex	1,581	3,242	14,915	3,060	1,183
Thames Valley	1,760	5,095	18,006	3,695	1,233
Warwickshire	434	1,203	3,513	552	330
West Mercia	1,429	3,193	8,967	1,538	742
West Midlands	3,563	11,166	29,618	4,103	2,053
West Yorkshire	4,261	16,205	32,684	3,122	2,310
Wiltshire	528	1,268	5,306	1,069	301
Dyfed-powys	475	750	3,868	941	443
Gwent	830	1,675	6,679	1,140	554

[holding answer 27 June 1988]: The numbers of notifiable offences recorded by the police in 1978 and 1987 are published, by offence group, in respectively table 32 of "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1978" (Cmnd 7670) and table 7 of Home Office statistical bulletin, issue 6/88. Copies of these publications are available in the Library. The corresponding numbers of offences cleared up in 1978 and 1987 are given in the following two tables; the figures for 1987 will he published in "Criminal Statistics, England and Wales, 1987" later this year.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department in how many petty sessional divisions, 5 per cent. or less of remanded defendants were remanded in custody; in how many petty sessional divisions over 25 per cent. of remanded defendants were remanded in custody; and what was the national average proportion of remanded defendants who were remanded in custody in each of 1986 and 1987.

[holding answer 30 June 1988]: The latest complete information is for 1985 and was published on 13 April 1987 in Home Office statistical bulletin 7/78 "The Use of Custodial Remand By The Courts", copies of which are in the Library. On average 13 per cent. of defendants remanded for all offences in 1985 were remanded in custody; there were nearly 80 petty sessional divisions in which over 25 per cent. of remanded defendants were recorded as remanded in custody, whereas in over 110 petty sessional divisions only 5 per cent. of remanded defendants were remanded in custody.

To ask the Attorney-General when he next expects to discuss with the Director of Public Prosecutions the progress of the further inquiries by the City of London police into telephone calls made by Dr. Frank Skuse during his appearance as a witness at the Birmingham pub bombing appeal.

Tomorrow, Friday 8 July 1988

LCD receipts £000s	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91
	outturn	outturn	outturn	outturn	outturn	outturn	estimated outturn	plans	plans
Totals:	87,521	108,355	120,768	130,448	151,593	159,966	166,156	170,152	174,029
Comprising: (main elements)
Supreme Court Fees	28,065	34,936	37,877	41,704	43,185	46,989	50,050	51,254	52,421
County Court Fees	55,014	64,994	71,132	78,387	91,498	96,358	102,635	105,103	107,498
Recovery from Home Office	734	707	689	707	720	614	724	741	758
Other Receipts	48	106	116	78	156	362	350	358	367
Recovery from NILO	2,180	2.413	3,227	3,408	4,373	4,187	3,328	3,408	3,486
Lands Tribunal Fees	23	30	59	82	86	125	135	138	141
Public Trust Office	—	4,378	4,229	4,023	3,876	3,773	3077	3,151	3,223
Recovery from N.I.F.	—	—	132	660	680	790	712	729	746
Court of Protection Fees	—	—	—	—	6,337	5,828	4,492	4,600	4,705
Legal Aid Misc Admin	46	17	19	19	21	21	15	15	16
VAT Refunds	—	—	353	363	574	775	638	653	668

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the cost to public funds of scrapping and reprinting the Health Education Authority's teaching pack on HIV and AIDS; for what reasons this was done; if he will ensure that future editions include lists of agencies and helplines; and if he will make a statement.

My reply to the hon. Member for Bolton, South-East, (Mr. Young) on 28 June explained why the Government asked for certain changes to be made to the Health Education Authority's pack. I understand that the HEA has yet to establish the costs of making these changes. The retention of existing lists of agencies and helplines in future editions would be a matter for the HEA.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will provide information on

To ask the Attorney-General when Mr. and Mrs. Harold W. Tombs, 3 Highfield drive, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands B73 5HR, who were told by Her Majesty's Land Registry that their application reference WM 411308 would take an average of 39 weeks to complete assuming that no requisitions abhz, on 10 August 1987, may now expect their application to be completed.

At the request of Mr. and Mrs. Tombs' solicitors the deeds were returned to them on 1 July. The application can be completed as soon as the deeds are re-lodged with the Gloucester district land registry.

To ask the Attorney-General if he will provide a detailed breakdown for the years 1982–83 to 1990–91, by nature of item and functional area of charge, of the receipts to the Lord Chancellor's Department's programme classified as charges for the purposes of the public expenditure survey.

The information is as follows:the numbers of mentally handicapped children leaving ESN(S) schools for each year from 1978–79 to 1986–87; and if he will publish data on the expected numbers leaving in each of the five years from 1987–88.

I refer the hon. Member to my reply of 12 April at column 13.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are his criteria for determining increases in capital expenditure by local education authorities; and how he has applied those criteria in respect of Kent in each of the last four financial years.

In formulating capital allocations for local education authorities, priority is given to committed expenditure, new projects to meet population growth and new projects to remove surplus places in the schools sector and to committed expenditure and equipment purchases in further and higher education. In accordance with these priorities. Kent's total capital allocations for the last four financial years are:

	£000's
1985–86	5,209
1986–87	6,405
1987–88	7,841
1988–89	7,588

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what action his Department takes to ensure the preservation of regional accents and dialects; how much he spends on this each year; and how many officials in his Department are employed in this area.

The recent report of the Kingman committee proposed that all pupils should acquire a command of standard English alongside intelligible use of regional dialects and accents. My right hon. Friend has asked the English working group to build on relevant Kingman committee recommendations for national curriculum purposes, and he will consider the other recommendations in the light of the public response and the working group's advice. No expenditure is incurred, and no officials are employed, by my Department specifically on the preservation of regional accents and dialects.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps he proposes to take to restrain the expenditure of the Inner London education authority.

I have today laid a report before the House designating the Inner London education

Additional allocations
Local Education Authority	Allocation			Institution(s) project allowed for
	1988–89 (£ thousands)	1989–90 (£ thousands)	1990–91 (£ thousands)
Barnsley	133	—	—	Upgrading nursery provision at 4 schools. Improve music facilities at Edward Sheerien School. Security measures at 5 secondary and 15 primary schools.
Birmingham	138	96	—	Provide indoor toilet facilities at 5 primary schools. Improvement work at Broadway School. Security measures at 10 schools.
Bolton	200	—	—	Energy conservation measures at secondary schools. Security measures in some inner city schools.
Bradford	615	440	—	Improvement work at Grange Road First, Waverley Middle, All Saints CE First, Lilycroft Nursery, Fairfax Upper, and Hutton Middle Schools. Bradford and Ilkley Community College.
Cheshire	62	2	—	Security provisions at Runcorn Norton Priory County Comprehensive.
Cleveland	102	55	—	Improvement work at Thornaby CE and West View Primary Schools, Gillbrook, Stapylton, Norton and Brierton Secondary Schools.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will now distribute the additional capital allocations for inner city areas for 1988–89 which he announced on 24 March.

Forty local education authorities have today been informed of their supplementary allocation of prescribed capital expenditure for 1988–89. These authorities have satisfied me that they would be able to make particularly effective use of an additional allocation for inner city projects. The allocations and the projects which they are intended to cover are as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he is now able to announce the names of those he proposes to appoint as university commissioners once the Education Reform Bill receives Royal Assent.

The appointment of Lord Fraser of Tullybelton as chairman of the university commissioners was announced last week. I am now very pleased to announce the names of the other commissioners:

Lord Butterworth, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Warwick.

Mr. Alan Gregory CBE, formerly Chairman of BP Oil Ltd.

Sir James Munn, Chairman of the Training Commission.

Professor David Williams, President of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

I am grateful to this distinguished group of people for their willingness to accept appointment as commissioners. I am sure that they will command the confidence of the entire British university system. I shall appoint them formally when the Bill receives Royal Assent.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the overall additional estimated costs that will be incurred by local authorities as a result of the implementation of the provisions of the new Education Reform Bill.

[pursuant to her reply, 24 June 1988, c. 732–33]: I regret that the figure of £270 million referred to in line 5 of column 733 should have read £207 million. The corrected answer is therefore as follows:The cost of the progressive implementation of the measures in the Education Reform Bill for schools and further education will vary from authority to authority according to developments already under way. Some redirection of recurrent and capital resources will be required. My right hon. Friend has announced proposals for the education support grants programme in 1989–90 which include some £65 million new expenditure related to the Bill's provisions for financial delegation and the national curriculum. A significant part of the programme of in-service training grants, currently supporting expenditure of £207 million, will be directed towards the implementation of the Bill's provisions in 1989–90 and subsequent years. There will also be implications for capital programmes within the Government's plans to enable local education authorities and voluntary bodies to spend more than £750 million on improving school buildings between now and 1990–91. The Government has set aside £65 million over the next three years mainly for the development and administration of assessment procedures, for which local authorities will not be charged fees. The Bill's provisions for the transfer of funding responsibility for polytechnics and colleges to central Government will lead to a reduction in spending and grant for local authorities of some £800 million from 1989–90.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what steps he is taking to ensure that the burning of fossil fuels is undertaken in such a way as to abate carbon dioxide emissions.

	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91
	outturn	outturn	outturn	outturn	outturn	estimated outturn	plans	plans	plans
									£ million
	(Note 1)							(Note 2)
Selective assistance to individual firms and undertakings	—	—	—	-0·1	-0·1	-0·1	-0·1
Nuclear R & D3	-57·5	-67·4	-52·6	-61·9	—	—	—
Non Nuclear R & D	-0·3	-0·2	-0·1	-0·2	-0·2	-0·3	-0·5
Energy Efficiency	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0·1
Other central and miscellaneous services	-15·8	-19·9	-19·7	-20·6	-24·0	-25·9	-26·2
Total	-73·6	-87·5	-72·4	-82·8	-24·3	-26·3	-26·9	-27·2	-28·5

I am informed that it is generally accepted that the abatement of carbon dioxide gas (CO₂) by post combustion processes is not considered to be economically feasible. CO₂ abatement can be achieved by switching to fuels which contain less carbon, for example, from coal to natural gas, by using non-fossil fuel energy resources, for example, nuclear, hydroelectricity and other renewable energy technologies and by increased energy efficiency. The Government's commitment to continued diversity of fuel supply, including a sizeable non-fossil fuel component, is helping to control United Kingdom CO₂ emissions. My Department is carrying out R and D into renewable energy technologies which should contribute to abatement in the future.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if, under his privatisation proposals, electricity generated from municipal and industrial waste will be classified as non-fossil-fuelled generating capacity.

Although the details are still under discussion, I propose that when the non-fossil fuel obligation is set, waste should be classified as a non-fossil fuel, in line with other renewable sources and nuclear energy.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will provide a detailed breakdown for the years 1982–83 to 1990–91, by nature of item and functional area of charge, of the receipts to his programme classified as charges for the purposes of the public expenditure survey.

The breakdown of receipts classified as charges for the purposes of the public expenditure survey in my Department's programmes are shown in the table (by programme as set out in table 6.1 of the public expenditure White Paper, Cm. 288-II). The figures, with the exception of those indicated in note 4 to the table, are consistent with those given in the answer from my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 27 May 1988 at columns 375–76. They relate to receipts in respect of programme expenditure; receipts in respect of running costs expenditure are not included.

To ask the Prime Minister if she has any plans to make an official visit to a cricket match at Lord's cricket ground.

I have at present no plans to do so.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will make a statement on the measures taken since the February meeting of the European Council to implement the proposals for agriculture agreed at that meeting.

Regulations have been agreed for the introduction or extension of stabilisers in all the main agricultural commodity regimes and for the introduction of set-aside. The improved budget discipline arrangements agreed by the European Council have also entered into legal force, and have governed the 1988 price-fixing. Regulations have also been agreed providing for the depreciation over five years of existing stocks and the depreciation in the year of entry of new stocks.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 7 July.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 7 July.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 7 July.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 7 July.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 7 July.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 7 July.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 7 July.

To ask the Prime Minister' if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 7 July.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 7 July.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 7 July.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Thursday 7 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 the House, I shall be having further meetings later today. This evening I am presiding at a dinner in honour of the recently retired Secretary General of NATO, Lord Carrington.

To ask the Prime Minister what was the size of the supplementary finance for the European Economic Community agreed at the recent Council meeting; and if this spending will fall to be included within the new financial limits agreed for European Economic Community spending in 1988.

On 24 June, the member states confirmed that intergovernmental agreement to provide supplementary finance of up to 7·1 becu (some £5 billion) to help finance the 1988 Community budget, pending entry into force of the new Council decision on the Community's own resources. The United Kingdom's contribution will be up to some 1·1 becu (around £750 million), though this will be substantially offset by extra receipts and abatement. Payments under the intergovernmental agreement will be non-repayable advances of sums due when the new own resources decision enters into force. Total financing for the 1988 budget will be within the new own resources ceiling of 1·2 per cent. of Community gross national product (an increase of some 25 per cent. on the current ceiling). Indeed, it will be within the annual sub-ceiling for 1988 of 1·15 per cent. of gross national product.

To ask the Prime Minister what were the reasons for Her Majesty's Government agreeing to duties on coal and steel imports being included within own resources at the recent Council meeting; and what is the estimated total of such duties.

The exclusion from own resources of duties under the European Coal and Steel Community treaty had been an anomaly, and the Government accepted that it would be sensible to treat them as own resources like all other duties and levies on imports from third countries. This will not add to the total resources available to the Community, the Council having also agreed a comprehensive ceiling covering all own resources. Payments of coal and steel duties are likely to be around 100 mecu in 1988 for the Community as a whole, of which the United Kingdom share is estimated to be around 10 per cent.

To ask the Prime Minister what were the reasons for Her Majesty's Government's agreement to the adjustment in the Fontainebleau abatements in the new own resources agreement of the Council; and if she will make a statement.

The Government's aim was to secure an agreement that left us no worse off than we would have been with the continuation of the Fontainebleau abatement system and the present structure of own resources. We were therefore prepared to accept that the amount of our abatement should be adjusted to take account of the effect on the United Kingdom of the changes in the structure of own resources. The overall effect of these changes is that the Fontainebleau system remains intact, as I told the House on 15 February at column 707.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will make a statement outlining the procedures contained in the February European Council agreement to ensure that the proposed agricultural guidelines of expenditure are not breached.

There are several regulations now in place to reinforce the guideline. Stabilisers have been introduced for the main commodities. An early warning system has been set up to provide monthly reports on expenditure trends for each commodity with a requirement on the Commission and Council to take appropriate counter measures if an overspend threatens. Depreciation must take place regularly to prevent a build-up of overvalued stocks. Finally the annual price-fixing settlement must respect the guideline.

To ask the Prime Minister if she will list the countries she has visited in Central and South America since 1979; and which Ministers have visited Nicaragua since 1979.

I visited Mexico in October 1981. My right hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley), then Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, visited Nicaragua in 1980.

To ask the Prime Minister what contacts have been made between representatives of Her Majesty's Government and representatives of the Contra forces during the past 12 months; and if she will make a statement.

A representative of the Contras called on officials in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office at his request on 29 October 1987. He was informed of our consistent support for a peaceful, negotiated settlement of the problems in Central America.

To ask the Prime Minister what information was available to her before she endorsed the American navy's right to reply during the incident in the Gulf on 3 July in which an Iranian passenger aircraft was shot down.

We were in touch with the Americans throughout the day of 3 July. My statement naturally took into account these contacts and the content of statements by President Reagan and the chairman of the American joint chiefs of staff.

To ask the Prime Minister whether she will publish in the Official Report her public comments made when the Russians shot down a Korean airliner.

I sent a message of condolence to President Chun on 2 September 1983. The British representative at the UN made a statement in the Security Council on the same day, a copy of which has been deposited in the Library of the House.There is no comparison between the Soviet shooting down of KAL007 in September 1983 and the tragic loss of the Iranian airliner on 3 July. This latest incident took place in an area of hostilities where military action was actually taking place and the United States Navy warned the aircraft. In the case of KAL007, no hostilities were taking place and there was no clear evidence that the airliner was warned.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give a county by county breakdown of where the 3,572 marked sheep were remonitored between 28 September 1987 and 1 June 1988.

Between 28 September 1987 and 1 June 1988 blue-marked sheep could be sent for slaughter only if remonitoring had confirmed that they presented no danger to public health and they had been identified as eligible for slaughter by a distinctive ear-tag.The areas in which the 3,572 marked sheep were remonitored in Scotland in this period are as follows:

Region	Number of sheep
Borders	154
Central	824
Dumfries and Galloway	1,926
Fife	306
Grampian	32
Lothian	66
Strathclyde	210
Tayside	54
	3,572

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will consider setting up a number of centrally administered pilot projects to provide funds to tackle financial and social deprivation in rural areas of Scotland.

No. My right hon. and learned Friend and I are not at present aware of any evidence which would suggest that the needs of rural areas would be better met through centrally administered projects as proposed than through encouraging close co-operation at local level between those public bodies concerned with securing the economic and social development of rural Scotland.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent representations he has received regarding access to the west coast mackerel stock.

There have been no recent representations on access to western mackerel, but this is a matter which has been extensively discussed between Ministers and the fishing industry.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what are the results of the annual census of

Education Authority Schools (including nursery and special schools)
	1988		1987
	Number	As percentage of pupils present	Number	As percentage of pupils present
Pupils present on Census day	729,505	—	729,869	—
Pupils taking school meals
—on payment	184,780	25·3	186,191	25·5
—free	145,219	19·9	143,194	19·6
—total	329,999	45·2	329,385	45·1
Pupils bringing own food on school premises	98,488	13·5	82,971	11·4

A detailed statement of the returns from education authorities from which these national figures are derived is being placed in the Library.

	Primary		Secondary
	1988 Per cent.	1987 Per cent.	1988 Per cent.	1987 Per cent.
Pupils taking school meals	50·0	50·0	41·8	41·7
Pupils bringing own food	20·6	17·9	5·3	4·1

All authorities provide the fixed traditional two-course The figures are as follows: meals and cafeteria style meals, with the latter accounting for 37 percent of all meals served.

	1988				1987
	Paid	Free	Total	Per cent, of pupils present	Paid	Free	Total	Per cent, of pupils present
Pupils taking fixed meals	97,635	109,937	207,572	28·5	97,926	107,593	205,519	28·1
Pupils taking cafeteria meals	87,145	35,282	122,427	16·8	88,265	35,601	123,866	17·0

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what specific measures he is taking to encourage and help management and staff to purchase Scottish Citylink Coaches Ltd. when it is privatised.

I refer the hon. Member to the replies given to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Shettleston(Mr.Marshall) on 28 June at column 178

Number of birds
Year	Golden Eagle		White-tailed Eagle		Buzzard
1981	Dumfries and Galloway	1	Highland	1	Strathclyde	1
	Grampian	1			Tayside	2
	Highland	2			Grampian	1
					Highland	1
1982	Strathclyde	1			Dumfries and Galloway	1
	Tayside	1			Strathclyde	13
	Highland	4			Borders	1
					Tayside	2
					Highland	3
1983	Strathclyde	1			Tayside	6
	Highland	1			Grampian	3
					Highland	11

The information is as follows:The following table shows, as percentage of pupils attending their respective sectors, those primary and secondary pupils taking meals or bringing their own food.The figures are as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give, in respect of each region, the total number of reported deaths of golden eagles, white-tailed eagles and buzzards by unnatural causes in each year since the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 came into force.

The numbers of deaths of golden eagles, white-tailed eagles and buzzards from other than natural causes (excluding accidental deaths), as confirmed by the wildlife incident investigation service, in each of the years from 1981 to date in Scotland are given in the table.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland to what effect he has received advice from the Nature Conservancy Council arising from the recent deaths of birds of prey caused by poisoning; and if he will make a statement.

I deplore the disregard for the law shown by individuals who lay poisoned baits as a method of pest control. The line of action pursued by officials is in accordance with the longstanding views of the Nature Conservancy Council on the unlawful killing of birds of prey. Every case is investigated with a view to initiating prosecutions wherever possible, and continuing efforts are made to persuade landowners and occupiers to take steps to ensure that no person in their employ does anything which is illegal under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.

Public expenditure: Charges 1982–83 to 1990–91—Scotland Programme1 2
	1982–83 outturn	1983–84 outturn	1984–85 outturn	1985–86 outturn	1986–87 outturn	1987–88 estimated outturn	1988–89 Plans	1989–90 Plans	1990–91 Plans
	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million	£ million
Agriculture, fisheries and food
Other agriculture, food services and support for the fishing industry	-7	-6	-3	-3	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2
Total agriculture, fisheries and food	-7	-6	-3	-3	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2
Industry, energy, trade and employment (tourism only)
Promotion of tourism	-2	-3	-1	-1	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2
Total industry, energy, trade and employment (tourism only)	-2	-3	-1	-1	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2
Roads and transport
National roads system	-1	-1	-1	-1	-1	-2	-2	-2	-2
Local roads	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2	-2
Total roads and transport	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3	-3

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what research has been conducted into less toxic or non-toxic alternatives to the pesticide Nuvan.

The Scottish Salmon Growers Association recently commissioned the institute of aquaculture at the University of Stirling to conduct research on alternative treatment methods to control sea lice infestation at salmon farms.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide a detailed breakdown for the years 1982–83 to 1990–91, by nature of item and functional area of charge, of the receipts to his programme classified as charges for the purposes of the public expenditure survey.

The information requested is given in the table.