To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will ensure that the enforcement provisions contained in the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 apply to all regulations for which his Department is responsible, past, present and future, and if he will make a statement.

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to him today by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the statutory instruments which his Department has sponsored in the last 12 months.

The 72 statutory instruments introduced by this Department in the past 12 months are as follows:

SIs completed during period 20 February 1994 to 20 February 1995
SI Number	Title
1994/470	The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Amendment) Regulations 1994
1994/500	The Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Increase Order 1994
1994/506	The Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1994
1994/523	The Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit (Subsidy) Order 1994
1994/527	The Income-related Benefits Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1994
1994/542	The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 1994
1994/544	The Social Security (Contributions) (Re-rating and National Insurance Fund Payments) Order 1994
1994/559	The Social Security Benefits Up-rating Regulations 1994
1994/561	The Statutory Sick Pay (Small Employers' Relief) Amendment Regulations 1994
1994/562	The Statutory Sick Pay (Rate of Payment) Order 1994
1994/563	The Social Security (Contributions) Amendment Regulations 1994

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what pilot project his Department intends to initiate at the central correspondence unit following the report by Coopers and Lybrand reviewing the support work within DSS headquarters; and if he will make a statement.

A review of support services in our headquarters offices in London recommended that the Department should pilot the use of more centralised teams to provide replies to correspondence from Members of Parliament and members of the public. A pilot project will start in April and will be evaluated in the autumn.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many claimants have won an appeal against refusal of income support under the habitual residence test.

The information is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what separate sub-categories are used under the habitual residence test to identify those people who are to be refused income support.

The habitual residence test applies to all income support claimants who satisfy the conditions of entitlement for that benefit. No separate sub-categories are used to identify those people who are refused income support because of the habitual residence test. As part of our monitoring of the change, we collect information on the numbers of British Citizens, European Economic Area nationals and others who pass or fail the test.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how much invalidity benefit was paid to (a) men and (b) women in the latest available year; and what is the latest available number of (i) male and (ii) female claimants.

The available information is in the table.

	IVB beneficiaries Percentage of incapacitated on 3 April 1993	Percentage of estimated annual IVB expenditure1
Men	1,156,000	78 per cent.
Women	424,000	22 per cent.
1 estimated invalidity benefit—IVB— paid in the final week of the 1992–93 statistical year.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many families currently receiving housing benefit have (a) one adult working, (b) two adults working and (c) three or more adults working, specifying the number of people aged 18 to 24 years

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security in which years the Comptroller and Auditor General decided to qualify his audit opinion of the supplementary benefit scheme before it was replaced by income support in 1988.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has never qualified his audit opinion of the supplementary benefit scheme before it was replaced by income support in 1988.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) what is the total amount of council tax benefit annually given to families with (a) one adult working, (b) two adults working and (c) three or more adults working, specifying the amount given to people aged 18 to 24 years in each category; and how much was given to single parents in category (a).(2) what is the total amount of housing benefit given annually to families with

[holding answer 16 February 1995]: The available information is set out in the table.each category includes: and how many single parents are included in

[holding answer 16 February 1995]: The available information, as at the end of May 1993, is set out in the table:

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many families currently receiving council tax benefit have (a) one adult working, (b) two adults working and (c) three or more adults working,

Number of families in receipt of council tax benefit where at least one adult is working
Thousands
Number of adults working	Total number of families	Number of people aged 18–24 in the family					Total number of people aged 18–24
		0	1	2	3	4
1	514	367	118	26	3	1	182
2	63	25	27	10	1	—	50
3 or more	10	3	2	4	1	1	14
Total	587	395	147	39	5	2	247

The number of single-parent families in receipt of council tax benefit, with one adult working is 137,000.

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will list the members of Lord Woolf's civil justice review committee and its working groups.

Lord Woolf is assisted in his inquiry into access to justice by a team of assessors. They are: John Bolton, solicitor and arbitrator; Dick Greenslade district judge; Rupert Jackson QC; Phillip Sycamore, solicitor; and Robert Turner, Master of the Queen's Bench Division. Professor Ross Cranston, professor of commercial law at the London School of Economics and specifying the number of people aged 18 to 24 years that each category includes: and how any single parents are included in (a).

[holding answer 16 February 1995]: The available information, as at the end of May 1993, is set out in the table:Political Science, is acting as academic consultant to the inquiry. Professor Richard Susskind has just been appointed as an information technology consultant.A sub-group comprising Master Turner and District Judge Greenslade, with representatives of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux and the National Consumer Council, is working on a single code of rules. Mr. James Rennie, a retired Parliamentary Counsel, has been engaged as draftsman.

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what assessment of legal needs in respect of (a) social security, (b) housing, (c) debt, (d) employment, (e) matrimonial law, (f) the Children Act 1989 and (g) immigration in different pats of the country his Department is making; and when he expects to publish these assessments.

For a number of years, the Legal Aid Board has been undertaking pioneering work in establishing methods for predicting legal need in some of these areas of work. Details of this work—which is continuing—are contained in the Legal Aid Board's annual reports. This work will need to be built upon as the ideas outlined by the Lord Chancellor earlier this year are developed further. The results of such work will be published in due course if it seems appropriate to do so.

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what proportion of those accepted for fast-stream entry for which his Department is responsible (a) in 1991, (b) 1992, (c) in 1993 and (d) in 1994 were women.

For information in respect of 1991 and 1992, I refer the hon. Member to the Civil Service Commissioners' Reports for 1991–92 and 1992–93 respectively. Copies of both reports are available in the Library of the House. In 1993 and 1994, there were 10 new fast-stream entrants to the Lord Chancellor's Department, as shown in the table.

Parliamentary question for written answer on Monday 27 February
Year	Number appointed	Females	Males
1993	6	2(Grade 7)	4
1994	4	3	1
Totals	10	5	5

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department when he plans to publish the report of Lord Woolf's review of the civil justice system.

The Lord Chancellor expects to receive the first report of Lord Woolf's inquiry into access to justice after Easter this year.

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what plans he has to establish a permanent standing committee on civil justice reform.

The Lord Chancellor has no plans at present to establish a permanent standing committee on civil justice reform.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what action he has taken to institute an inquiry into the Balibo killings of 16 October 1975.

We have no plans to institute an inquiry. The Australians took the lead at the time in investigating the deaths of five members of an Australian television team working in East Timor in October 1975. In view of the circumstances then prevailing in East Timor, there was no means of ascertaining the precise circumstances in which they died. No firm evidence was discovered of who was responsible for their deaths. It is most unlikely, at this distance from the events, that another inquiry would shed any new light on the matter.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what response his Department has made to the report of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights concerning the killings at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Rili in November 1991 and the subsequent investigation by the national commission of inquiry.

We welcomed Indonesia's decision to invite the UN special rapporteur to visit East Timor last July. With our EU partners we are considering his report, and Indonesia's response, at the present session of the UN Commission on Human Rights.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will place an English translation copy of the Interamerican Human Rights court ruling on the massacre of prisoners in the Peruvian El Fronton prison on 18 and 19 June 1987 in the Library.

We have not received a copy of the ruling. However, we shall try to obtain one in order to place it in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 3 February, Official Report, column 884, if the representations about banning of three journals by the Government of Indonesia were made privately.

Yes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what requests have been made to the Indonesian Government for information on the location and use of defence equipment exported from Britain.

Any such requests are made on a confidential basis. It is not our practice to disclose such exchanges.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if Her Majesty's Government will be presenting oral legal argument before the European Court of Justice in the action between the European Parliament and the Commission of the European Countries, case C-445/93, 18 March 1993, regarding the abolition of border controls.

We have submitted written observations to the ECJ in this case. An oral hearing has been requested by the Commission. In due course, we will receive notification of the date of that hearing.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to the Government of Surinam concerning the rights of indigenous and Maroon peoples to be consulted over land use divisions covering the areas in which they live.

I am not aware of any recent problem concerning the Maroon people in Surinam and we have received no other request to make representations on their behalf. However, if the hon. Member would care to write about his concerns, I would be happy to look into the matter.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many overseas students currently studying in the United Kingdom are in receipt of funding from his Department; and what expenditure this creates.

In the current financial year, ending on 31 March 1995, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is providing funding for some 11,500 overseas students studying in the United Kingdom. The total costs will be approximately £97.6 million.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will ensure the enforcement provisions contained in the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 apply to all regulations for which his Department is responsible, past, present and future, and if he will make a statement.

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given today by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the statutory instruments which his Department has sponsored in the last 12 months.

I shall write to the hon. Member shortly to provide him with a list of the 29 statutory instruments sponsored by my Department in 1994.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on how many occasions since 1979 his Department sought information from a recipient country on the location and use of defence equipment which was exported to that country from Britain.

Any such requests are made on a confidential basis. It is not our practice to disclose such exchanges with other Governments.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will authorise the United Kingdom permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors in Vienna to request that the agency investigates whether manufactured nuclear warheads were hidden from the IAEA investigation team which verified South Africa's non-nuclear status in connection with South Africa's application to become a member state of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed South Africa's non-nuclear weapon status in 1993. We have no plans to request another investigation.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 1 December to the hon. Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett), Official Report, column 897, if he will detail applications to join defence, security and/or security defence-related companies approved by his Department for employees who had left his Department of its agencies within the last two years.

I have been asked to reply.Since my answer of 1 December to the hon. Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett), the following applications from staff in my Department have been approved for employment with defence-related companies. Only one application to join a security company—an Air Vice Marshal to join TNT Express (UK) Ltd—has been approved during the last two years.

Company	Rank/Grade
Action Information (Management)	1 x Lt. Colonel
Aramark plc	1 x Captain
BAe plc	1 x Grade 3
BAe Sema Ltd.	1 x Commander RN
BMT Defence Services Ltd.	1 x Grade 7
Cray Systems Ltd.	1 x Lt. Colonel
Data Sciences (UK) Ltd.	1 x Squadron Leader
EDS Scicon Defence Ltd.	1 x HEO
	1 x SPTO
	1 x PTO
	1 x Lt. Commander RN
	1 x Major General
	1 x Group Captain
Hewlett Packard Ltd.	1 x Lt. Commander RN
Hiller Parker May and Rowden	1 x HEO
IBM (UK) Ltd.	1 x Group Captain
M L Douglas Equipment Ltd.	1 x HPTO
NPBI	1 x Colonel
Olin Ordnance	1 x HPTO
Pennine Services	1 x Major
Racal Radar Defence Systems Ltd.	1 x Squadron Leader
Siemens Plessey Electronic Systems Ltd.	1 x Grade 6

To ask the Lord President of the Council what proportion of those accepted for fast-stream entry for which his Department is responsible in (a) 1991, (b) 1992, (c) 1993 and (d) 1994 were women.

The Privy Council Office, which comprises only 38 staff, does not employ fast-stream entrants on their first civil service appointment.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what are the criteria used for classifying grant-maintained schools as private sector institutions for the purpose of national income accounts;(2) if he will make a statement on the status of

The national accounts are constructed by the Central Statistical Office in accordance with internationally agreed standards. Current practice is described in the CSO publication "United Kingdom National Accounts: Sources and Methods", third edition, available in the House of Commons Library.At present, grant-maintained schools, universities and colleges are all classified as private non-profit-making bodies serving persons. There is no difference in their national accounts status.The main criterion for determining whether an organisation is classified to the public or private sector is who controls it. Grant-maintained schools are classified to the private sector primarily because they are considered to be run independently by governors appointed by the private sector.CSO will he reviewing the sector classification of these bodies as part of a wider review to identify whether any changes are necessary to meet recently revised international standards.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the implications of his plans to stop the tax loophole between companies in banking groups in respect of discounted securities on housing associations which are partly financed by the use of discounted securities.

I assume that the hon. Gentleman has in mind the proposals at clauses 76 and 77 of the current Finance Bill. These are not directed solely at transactions between companies in banking groups, and I understand from representations that about a dozen housing associations have issued securities on discounted or indexed terms that they believe will be affected by my right hon. and learned Friend's proposal. It appears that these associations have given indemnities to the holders of their securities against the effects of changes to their tax treatment. It follows, if the clauses in question pass into law, that these borrowings and any further borrowings on similar terms will cease to offer reduced borrowing costs compared with more conventional borrowing. We have, however, proposed that existing borrowings by housing associations should not be subject to the new basis of charge until 1 April 1996. This will give the associations concerned a breathing space in which to rearrange their financial plans.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he and the Secretary of State for the Environment have made into how much of the private finance raised by the housing associations has been achieved via the use of discounted securities.

I understand from representations received and from press reports that about £130 million of borrowing in aggregate may have been raised by housing associations' issuance of discounted securities, and about a further £30 million by issuance of indexed securities which may also be affected by the measure I believe the hon. Gentleman has in mind. These figures total some 2.5 per cent. of estimated total private sector borrowing by housing associations.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has had discussions with the Secretaries of State for Health and for the Environment, following the Department of Health's approving the use of discounted securities for a housing association to finance low-rent accommodation for student nurses and junior doctors in 1989.

My right hon. and learned Friend took the views of ministerial colleagues fully into account in deciding to extend a degree of transitional protection to existing borrowings by housing associations.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it his policy (a) to amend his proposals to exempt housing associations in his proposed plan to curb tax avoidance with discounted securities and (b) to issue advice to the Housing Corporation and other relevant bodies on alternative means to raise private finance.

We have proposed amendments to this year's Finance Bill granting a degree of transitional relief for existing borrowings by housing associations. For the future, these bodies already know of alternative means of raising private finance to those affected by our Budget proposals, and have used them for the overwhelming majority of their borrowing.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for the Environment about ensuring that housing associations' issue of discounted securities will not be affected by any action to curb tax avoidance in respect of discounted securities between subsidiaries in a banking group.

My right hon. and learned Friend's proposal is not directed solely at transactions between subsidiaries in a banking group, and it is appropriate that securities issued by housing associations should come within its scope if they have the relevant characteristics. We have, however, concluded that it is appropriate to extend a degree of transitional protection to existing borrowings by housing associations.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the non-departmental public bodies sponsored by his Department which will (a) follow the pay arrangements of the sponsoring Department and (b) pursue an independent and separate route under the delegated pay option (i) from April 1995 and (ii) from April 1996.

None of the NDPBs sponsored by the Treasury falls into the categories listed. One NDPB follows its own pay arrangements; for the remainder, remuneration is on a fee paid basis.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what help is being given to home owners with negative equity.

The Bank of England estimates that the number of households with negative equity has fallen by over 44 per cent. since the end of 1992. The Government are pursuing sound economic policies designed to sustain economic recovery. That is the surest route to rising prosperity for all, including home owners who currently have negative equity.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the demolition of St. John's house in Bootle; how many civil servants are currently employed there; and what provision is being made for the continuation of their functions.

St. John's house in Bootle is occupied by 1,650 Inland Revenue staff and 200 Home Office staff. The building is in need of major refurbishment and staff have had to put up with poor working conditions for a number of years. Detailed option studies were undertaken by Property Holdings and the Inland Revenue to consider how the problems associated with the building could be resolved. Having considered all the options, including value for money, the decision has been taken to demolish the whole of St. John's house and to put in its place a new, but smaller, building which will house 850 of the existing occupants. The other 1,000 Inland Revenue staff will move to private leased accommodation elsewhere in Bootle. There are no plans to move work out of Bootle and the Inland Revenue remains committed to retaining a substantial presence in Bootle.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proposals he has for refunding VAT paid on sports supplies which have been purchased by non-profit-making sports clubs; if it is the responsibility of sports clubs to consult their members on how any refund should be used or distributed to its members; and what discussions he has had with HM Customs and Excise regarding the payment of (a) VAT and (b) VAT refunds.

In June 1994 Customs and Excise invited all non-profit-making sports clubs to claim repayment of VAT on certain sporting and physical education services supplied by them to members during the period 1 January 1990 to 31 March 1994. many of the repayments have now been made. Sports supplies purchased by clubs are generally not exempt from VAT.Whether or not sports clubs have a responsibility to consult members concerning allocation of the refunds is for the clubs and their members to determine between themselves. It is not a matter in which it would be appropriate for the Government or customs to intervene. VAT accounting arrangements fall within the statutory responsibilities of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise for managing the tax.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what arrangements are in place for the timing of payments of 12 per cent. tax to the Exchequer by the organisers of the national lottery; and what provision has been made of the payment of interest to the Exchequer.

Payments of lottery duty are made on the 15th of the month following the month in which the liabilities arises. There are no arrangements for the payment of interest to the Exchequer in relation to the lottery duty.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of job losses in the civil service in the next two years.

The statistical supplement to the "Financial Statement and Budget Report", published on 24 February, shows Departments' civil service staff plans as follows:

Outturn		Planned Figures
1993–94	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98
548,000	527,000	516,000	494,000	477,000

This accords with the expectation, announced in the civil service White Paper—Cm 2627—that numbers would fall significantly below 500,000 in the next few years.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what changes he plans to implement in the number and the location of Customs and Excise officers in Wales; and if he will make a statement;(2) how many Customs and Excise officers were based in Wales dealing with

[holding answer 24 February 1995]: As part of the implementation of the fundamental expenditure review, Customs and Excise currently plans the following changes in Wales which will take place over the next five years:

Locations	Officers at 23 February 1995	Officers at 31 March 2000
Cardiff	205	275
Merthyr	22	0
Newport	17	0
Swansea	96	40
Haverfordwest	12	0
Carmarthen	49	79.5
Bangor	0	18
Colwyn Bay	26	0
Pembroke Dock Excise	7	0
Aberystwyth	5	4
Newtown	6	0
Customs	98	47.5
Total	543	464

Over recent years, customs enforcement strategy has progressively moved away from a static presence at all ports and airports towards more flexible, better targeted checks operated by fast response teams. Accordingly, customs staff are deployed flexibly throughout Wales and it would not be in the public interest to identify their location in greater detail.Customs and Excise does not keep reports of local resource deployment for 1979. Its planning system does not easily allow it to identify staffing levels at a mid-point in the year and the figures in the schedule are, therefore, for fiscal years. The import control figures in the schedule include a small element of export freight resources which cannot easily be identified and excluded. Coastal surveillance is not a separately identified activity within Customs and Excise's operational planning system, so the figures requested under categories

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 14 February, Official Report, column 576, if he will itemise by year the level and number of frauds from each Department, indicating those involving (a) agencies and (b) non-departmental public bodies.

[holding answer 23 February 1995]: The data which are gathered centrally on fraud are used primarily as a means of promoting awareness of fraud risks, and to identify trends in the types of fraud committed. The data are not kept in the form requested in the question.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the nature of and the need for the proposed remedial work to Banbridge sewage treatment works contained in the May 1993 programme of the water service; and what is the current cost of that remedial work and the date on which the work is planned to start and be completed.

Two stages of improvements to Banbridge sewage treatment works were contained in the May 1993 programme.The first stage, costing an estimated £450,000, involves construction of a new inlet works and improvements to treatment units and the outfall. This work will commence in mid-March 1995 and is due for completion in early 1996. These planned improvements are required to replace and upgrade plant and to cater for increased loading on the works.The second stage will involve a further increase in the capacity of the works. This stage is currently programmed to commence in late 1997. The contract period is likely to be 1 year and current estimated cost is £500,000.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his answer of 15 February, Official Report, column 679–80, on what basis consultants were selected for the small firms employment scheme; and if he will list the experience and qualifications of those consultants.

The Fair Employment Commission formed a panel of consultants who were engaged under the small firms employment scheme to provide consultancy advice to companies. Applications for inclusion on the panel were invited from established management consultants or consultancy firms who had at least five years proven experience in human resources/personnel consultancy with specific expertise in one or more of the following areas: selection and recruitment systems: use of psychometric instruments; and promotion of equality of opportunity in employment.Applicants were also required to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Acts and the Fair Employment in Northern Ireland code of practice.Although information regarding the experience and qualifications of individual consultants is available, it could be provided in the form requested only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his answer of 7 February, Official Report, columns 167–68, and the answer of 1 December 1994 given by the Minister of State—the hon. Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram)—to the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Mr. Maginnis), Official Report, column 1326, if he will clarify the number of occasions on which Irish Government Ministers sought to influence the work of the Northern Ireland Boundary Commission, and the dates on which any meetings took place.

[holding answer 15 February 1995]: My answer of 7 February explained that at the intergovernmental conference held on 28 January 1994 the Irish side was advised that there were statutory procedures for interested parties to make representations in respect of the Boundary Commission's published provisional recommendations. The Government's practice is that details of their exchanges with the Irish Government remain confidential, but I can confirm that when the Irish side referred again to the issue at the intergovernmental conference held on 10 March 1994 they were reminded of the independence of the Boundary Commission. My hon. Friend the Minister's answer referred to both these occasions.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his answer of 7 February, Official Report, column 167, if he will list the occasions on which Northern Ireland constituency boundaries were raised by the Irish members of the Anglo-Irish intergovernmental secretariat after the publication of the provisional recommendations of the Northern Ireland Boundary Commission.

[holding answer 15 February 1995]: The Government's practice is that details of its exchanges with the Irish Government remain confidential. As is reflected by the communiqué issued following the intergovernmental conference on 28 January 1994, the Irish have been consistently advised that there are statutory procedures for interested parties to make representations in respect of the Boundary Commission's published provisional recommendations.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the throughput of abattoirs in each year since 1990, showing (a) overall units, (b) sheep, (c) pigs, (d) calves under six months and (e) bovines over six months.

[holding answer 22 February 1995]: The information requested is as follows:

Year	Livestock units	Sheep	Pigs	Bovines over six months
1990	968,400	754,608	1,085,647	498,717
1991	941,285	631,494	1,034,357	506,286
1992	958,569	970,891	963,914	498,565
1993	935,759	1,003,623	1,079,172	432,660
1994	922,269	803,472	1,089,777	444,229

Throughput of calves under six months was negligible. (Council directive 91/497/EEC).

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will consider the position of those charities which appear not to be approved in the disbursement of the moneys provided from that part of the receipts of the national lottery available for the support of good causes.

No. Within the framework of my general directions on the matters that should be taken into account, it is for the National Lottery Charities Board to determine its own priorities in relation to individual charities.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will ensure that the enforcement provisions contained in the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 apply to all regulations for which his Department is responsible, past, present and future; and if he will make a statement.

I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given to him today by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs in response to a similar question.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the statutory instruments which his Department has sponsored in the last 12 months.

A list of the 102 statutory instruments sponsored by the Home Office in the 12 months from February 1994 to January 1995 has been placed in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prosecutions have been undertaken under the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1984 for the last five years for which figures are available.

The number of prosecutions brought by the Data Protection Registrar for alleged offences under the Data Protection Act 1984 is as follows:

Year	Number
1990	30
1991	17
1992	27
1993	68
1994	32

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for asylum were received from citizens of the Ivory Coast in each month of 1994; how many have been (a) granted asylum and (b) refused; of those refused, how many have been given exceptional leave to remain; and how many are still awaiting determination.

The available information on nationals from the Ivory Coast is provided in the table. As at 31 December 1994, an estimated 1,150 applications for asylum from the Ivory Coast were outstanding.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures are in place within the European Community for the protection of employees in the workplace who may be subject to electronic surveillance without their prior authorisation or consent; and what legislation relates to the unlawful use of electronic monitoring equipment with respect to privacy and data protection.

As to the first part of the question, I am aware of no such measures. As to the second part, I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave to a question from him on 21 February, Official Report, column 158

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what investigations have been undertaken in relation to organisations involved in electronic bugging of offices or other workplace premises in the last 10 years.

No such records are held.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 21 February, Official Report, columns 158–59, if he will outline the nature and extent of complaints lodged with his Department in relation to the operation and practices of companies or organisations involving electronic surveillance services.

Advertisements offering information-gathering services, which may or may not involve electronic surveillance devices, attracted about 40 letters of complaint from hon. Members and others in 1994. The main point of concern was that confidential personal information could be obtained without authority and advertised for sale. The amendment to the Data Protection Act 1984 made by section 161 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 addresses this concern.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will release to solicitors acting for Mr. Colin Ivor Dunning the expert evidence referred to in the letter dated 11 January from his Under-Secretary of State to the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland.

I am arranging for this evidence to be sent to Mr. Dunning's solicitors without further delay.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the value of property stolen in theft by an employee in 1992, excluding the offence involving a pension fund referred to in table 2.20 of the 1992 "Criminal Statistics for England and Wales" Cm 2410.

Excluding the offence involving the pension fund, the value of property stolen was £55.7 million.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many detainees at Campsfield house detention centre are currently on hunger strike; and if he will make a statement.

On 23 February 1995, two detainees at Campsfield house were refusing meals; both were taking milk and water.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the annual cost to Her Majesty's Government of Campsfield detention centre.

The total cost to the immigration service of running its detention accommodation at Campsfield house in the financial year 1993–94 was £1,913,872.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 7 February, Official Report, columns 214–15, how many of the 188 cases under consideration at the beginning of 1995 had been with C3 division for (a) six months, (b) 12 months and (c) 18 months or longer.

Of the 188 cases under consideration with C3 at the beginning of 1995, 106 had been with the division for over six months, 38 for over 12 months, and 25 for over 18 months.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many deaths in the United Kingdom resulted directly from addiction to (a) heroin and (b) other drugs in each year since 1985.

The only clearly identifiable direct cause of death from addiction to drugs is from overdose, and the relevant information is contained in table 14 of the Home Office "Statistical Bulletin" entitled "Statistics of drug addicts notified to the Home Office, United Kingdom, 1993", a copy of which is in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what factors were taken into account before refusing a special grant to the chief constable of Gloucestershire for the exceptional costs of the Cromwell Street inquiry; and if he will make a statement.

Applications for special grant are considered against the following criteria: the expenditure must be exceptional, unforseen and of a scale likely to threaten the efficiency of the force.The application by Gloucestershire police authority was carefully considered against these criteria, taking into account advice from Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary, but was not judged to meet the criteria.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made in setting up regional drug action teams as set out in "Tackling Drugs Together".

"Tackling Drugs Together" is a consultation document. The Government are considering the responses to its proposals, which include the setting up of local drug action teams in 1995–96. Definite proposals will be published in a White Paper in the spring.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many restriction orders have been made under the Football Spectators Act 1989 in each year since its introduction.

Part II of the 1989 Football Spectators Act, which provided the courts with the power to make restriction orders to prevent certain convicted hooligans from travelling to key football matches outside England and Wales, came into force on 24 April 1990. The number of restriction orders is as follows:

Year	Number of orders
1990	19
1991	4
1992	2
1993	0
1994	1

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many restriction orders made under section 15 of the Football Spectators Act 1989 were enforced with regard to the Ireland v. England football match of 15 February.

Two.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what powers exist to enable him to restrain within the United Kingdom people subject to a restriction order preventing them from attending certain sporting events in the United Kingdom or overseas who seeks to breach that order even though they are not suspected of committing any other offence.

Section 15 of the Football Spectators Act 1989 gave the courts power to impose restriction orders on those convicted of football-related offences to prevent them from attending key matches outside England and Wales. Those subject to such orders are required to report to a police station—of their choice—usually at a time when such a match is taking place. It is an offence to fail to do so without good reason. There is no separate power to prevent a person subject to a restriction order from leaving the country at the stipulated time.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action was taken by the football unit of the national criminal intelligence service to reduce the likelihood of crowd violence in advance of the Ireland v. England football match on 15 February.

I refer the hon. Member to my written reply of 22 February, Official Report, column 234.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what records are kept, and what approval procedures are required, for the entry into the United Kingdom of members of non-NATO armed forces.

Separate records are not kept of the entry of members of non-NATO armed forces. Those coming for official duties or training who are subject to control under the Immigration Act must satisfy the immigration officer that they qualify under the immigration rules.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the extent of drug abuse in prisons.

Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many staff were employed and at what grades by the Greater Manchester probation service on 30 June 1992, 30 June 1993 and 30 June 1994;(2) how many court reports were completed by the Greater Manchester probation service during 1992 and 1993;(3) how many offenders were supervised by the Greater Manchester probation service on 30 June 1994.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshaw (Mr. Morris) and the hon. Member for Rochdale (Dr. Clark) on 21 February 1995, Official Report, column 157.