To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what are the Government's intentions for HMSO and the other agencies for which he is responsible. [37635]

I have appointed Coopers and Lybrand to consider urgently the options for the future of HMSO, with a view to privatisation provided that satisfactory arrangements can be made for the future provision of services to Parliament. The future of HMSO has been uncertain for too long and I am anxious to set in place quickly arrangements which will secure the long-term interests of the taxpayer as well as HMSO's staff and customers, among whom Parliament is particularly important. I believe that these interests are most likely to be secured by privatisation of all but a very small part of HMSO. Consultation is under way with the House authorities about the safeguards necessary to ensure the future provision of the services which Parliament receives from HMSO. I shall be making an oral statement to the House as soon as these consultations are sufficiently advanced and we have received advice from our financial advisers and decided on the way forward.The Government intend to sell Chessington Computer Centre as a single viable business in a way which will ensure that it retains its reputation for the provision of high quality services to Government Departments and the wider public sector. Freedom from the constraints of operating within Government will make Chessington better able to serve existing customers and to attract new customers in wider markets. I believe that this is the best way to secure the long-term interests of the taxpayer as well as those of the staff and customers of the business. I have appointed KPMG Corporate Finance to assist with the sale of Chessington. Formal expressions of interest for the business will be sought early in the new year.I have also appointed Coopers and Lybrand to advise urgently on ways of increasing private sector involvement in the Occupational Health and Safety Agency, Recruitment and Assessment Services, the Central Office of Information and the Civil Service College. My aim is not only to secure savings for the taxpayer, but also to maintain the best interests of the agencies' customers and staff.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, how many outsourcing contracts were granted by his Department or agencies in each year since 1990, indicating the nature and value of each contract; and if any additional work was added and of what value to (a) Hoskyns/Cap Gemini Segeti, (b) AT and T Istel, (c) EDS, (d) Sema Group, (e) Datasolve, (f) ITN Net, (g) Andersen Consulting, (h) Centre File, (i) BIS, (j) Telecom Capita, (k) ICL, (l) Digital Equipment, (m) CFM, (n) Siemens, (o) Nixdorf, (p) CMG and (q) Logica. [36966]

The nature of current outsourcing contracts let by my Department and agencies since 1990 with the firms listed is set out in the table. Individual contract values, representing the total anticipated cost of the contracts, have been aggregated to preserve commercial confidentiality. The estimated total value of the contracts is £5,239,149. Further information is available only at disproportionate cost.

	Outsourcing contracts
(a) Hoskyns/Cap Gemini Segeti	Management of project risk. Software services.
(b) AT & T Istel	Software, connection and training and line rental. Viewdata information service.
(d) Sema	Maintenance and support for hardware.
(i) BIS	Training call-off contract.
(k) ICL	Support for corporate strategy. Software services. Hardware maintenance (2 contracts).
(l) Digital	System maintenance.
(n)/(o) Siemens/Nixdorf	Call-off contracts for Personal Computers.
(q) Logica	Technical support to review Government Data Network (GDN) security policy.
	Government Telecommunications Network (GTN) Managed Network Services Agreement.
	Open Systems Environment (OSE) advice and profiles (3 contracts).
	Strategic Consultancy services.
	Consultancy support for performance monitoring.
	Technical support to assist Telecommunications staff.
	Central Support Staff audit of GDN billing system.
	Review of GDN security policy.
	IT System supply and support contracts.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister (1) what plans he has to market test the civil service pension scheme; and if he will make a statement; [37296](2) what provision has been made for in-house bids from civil servants to administer the civil service pension scheme; and if he will make a statement. [37295]

An order will be laid, under the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994, in the next parliamentary Session to enable Departments to market test administration of the civil service pension scheme. I intend to make a further statement on the matter at that stage.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how the Government are responding to the House of Lords Select Committee report on sustainable development, published on 18 July. [37942]

The Government published their response to the Lords Select Committee report on sustainable development on 12 October. We did so in

Year(1 April to31 March)	Fatal injuries		Non-Fatal major industries (c)		Over three-day injuries (d)		Total
	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)	(a)	(b)
1991–92	46	7	495	39	1,308	213	1,849	259
1992–93	45	6	525	49	1,361	164	1,931	219
1993–94	37	4	593	53	1,246	142	1,876	199

(a) Agriculture and horticulture sector. (b) Forestry.(c) As defined under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations—RIDDOR—but chiefly amputations, serious fractures and other injuries causing hospitalisation.(d) An injury causing incapacity for normal work for more than three days and reportable for employed and self-employed persons only.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on his departmental ruling on the applicability of the waste management licensing regulations as applied to liquid effluent treatment plants. [36776]

On 1 May 1994, the Government brought into force a new waste management licensing system under part II of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. On 25 July 1995, I announced that we had decided to extend from 31 July 1995 to 31 March 1996 the transitional arrangements made for the introduction of certain requirements of the new system. The Waste Management Licensing (Amendment No.2) Regulations 1995 give effect to this decision.Whether or not the operation of a liquid effluent treatment plant needs a licence must be determined on the facts of the case. The effect of the 1995 regulations is that, where a licence is necessary, operators of treatment plant will have until 31 March 1996 to apply for a licence.In the meantime, we are considering whether a case may be made for the exemption of some treatment plant from licensing. In doing so, it is necessary to have regard to the terms of article 11 of the amended EC framework directive on waste and the need to ensure that waste is treated without causing environmental pollution or harm to human health.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what discussions he has had with the local authority associations about the area cost adjustment; and if he will make a statement. [37941]

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the number of recorded accidents in the farming and forestry industry in each of the last three years; and how many have been fatal. [37134]

The table shows the total number of fatal and other accidents in the agriculture and horticulture and forestry sectors reported to all enforcing authorities between 1991–92 and 1993–94.

I met leading members of the local authority associations on 16 October. The local authority representatives whom I met are considering my proposals for an independent review of the adjustment. The aim would be to establish a method of carrying out the adjustment which commanded the widest degree of acceptance among authorities in all parts of the country, had a sound conceptual basis and was practical to apply.I proposed that the review should be steered by a leading academic. It should also have someone knowledgeable about local government finance, nominated by the local authority associations, and someone familiar with central Government processes, nominated by the Secretary of State. Research would be commissioned to assist the review in its work. We would seek a report from the review in June 1996.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when the Government's response to the Environment Select Committee's report on "The Environmental Impact of Leisure Activities" will be published. [37943]

Our response is being published today, as a supplementary memorandum, to the Committee's report on "The Environmental Impact of Leisure Activities".We welcome the Committee's report, and we are pleased to note the general thrust of the Committee's findings. We share its view that there is no evidence that tourism and leisure pose a serious, immediate or intrinsic threat to the environment. Nevertheless, we acknowledge the need for effective management to take account of potential impacts. These impacts are most likely to be felt and be best resolved at the local level, taking account both of the diversity of the countryside and the knowledge and experience of local communities.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement about the security implications of using hire car companies to transport Government Ministers rather than directly employed drivers. [37149]

[holding answer 16 October 1995]: Ministers, in the main, are provided with cars and drivers through the Government car service. All GCS drivers are security cleared to an appropriate level.During busy periods, the Government car service will sometimes use private companies under contract. In all cases, drivers have the necessary security clearances. Very occasionally, to meet unusual requirement, a private company may be employed which is used so infrequently that security clearances are not justified. In such cases, the involvement of a Minister is not advertised to the company in advance. No substantive security implication therefore arises.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 25 April, Official Report, column 471, if he will make a progress statement on the research work being undertaken in renewal areas by Austin Mayhead and Co. Ltd. for his Department. [37477]

The research has now been completed and a draft final report is due to be delivered to the Department by Austin Mayhead on 31 October.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what arrangements have been made for the provision of daily transcripts to be made available to (a) participants and (b) outside interested parties of the proceedings of the public inquiry into the application by UK Nirex to construct a rock characteristics laboratory in connection with its nuclear waste repository development programme which began in September in Cumbria. [36753]

The arrangements for the public inquiry into the appeal by UK Nirex Ltd. are matters for the Planning Inspectorate agency and Cumbria county council. I have asked the agency's chief executive to write separately to the hon. Member.

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make an assessment of the operation of the system by which European regional development funds are filtered through to local authorities and other organisations; and what currently available tables he has for take-up of European development funds by the United Kingdom, in percentages, in relation to other member states. [37279]

Grants are decided and offered by Government Departments after a procedure, agreed by a monitoring committee for the area concerned, which includes scoring applications against project selection criteria and consultation with members of the committee, for example in working groups.The projects selection criteria have only recently been introduced. I will make an assessment in due course.The European Commission's most recent annual report on the implementation of the reform of the structural funds includes tables for commitments and payments for the period 1989–1993. These show that the UK committed all allocations from the European regional development fund. Payments to the UK made by the end of 1993 were 86.8 per cent., 68.1 per cent. and 76.3 per cent. of these commitments for objectives 1, 2 and 5(b) respectively. Payments for the Community as a whole were 86.2 per cent., 71.3 per cent. and 77.0 per cent. Payments can continue until the end of 1995.

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what percentage of total regional development grants in the last five years have been allocated to each English and Welsh county and to Scotland. [35725]

The information requested, based on offers of regional selective assistance accepted between 1 April 1990 and 31 March 1995, is as follows:

	Per cent.
England
Cambridgeshire	0.10
Cheshire	1.09
Cleveland	2.16
Cornwall	1.50
Cumbria	0.86

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the total regional development grant per head allocated to each English and Welsh county and Scotland in the last five years; and what was the English average. [36724]

The information requested, based on offers of regional selective assistance accepted between 1 April 1990 and 31 March 1995, is as follows:

	Grant per head £
England
Cambridgeshire	2.11
Cheshire	16.04
Cleveland	55.05
Cornwall	45.05
Cumbria	24.91
Derbyshire	1.32
Devon	14.29
Dorset	1.94
Durham	48.36
East Sussex	0.28
Essex	0.60
Gloucestershire	2.21
Greater London	0.30
Greater Manchester	19.43

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what percentage of the United Kingdom assisted area population resides in Devon and Cornwall. [36723]

The percentage of the UK assisted area population resident in Devon and Cornwall is 5.03 per cent.

To ask the President of the Board of Trade when he expects to receive the report of Lord Justice Scott on the inquiry into arms sales to Iraq; and if he will make a statement. [37110]

[holding answer 16 October 1995]: I understand from Sir Richard Scott that he has virtually finished the section of his report dealing with prosecutions arising from exports to Iraq in the period 1984 to 1990. He is currently completing the writing of his recommendations chapter.I understand that the inquiry is engaged in seeking comments on criticisms of individuals made by Sir Richard Scott in the prosecutions section of the report. When Sir Richard has received those comments, he will consider them and, as appropriate, revise the report.

To ask the President of the Board of Trade what discussions are taking place between the Director General of Fair Trading, the newspaper wholesalers and the National Federation of Retail Newsagents in relation to newspaper carriage charges. [36953]

There have been no such discussions involving the Office of Fair Trading since the Director General of Fair Trading announced his decision on 21 August not to refer the wholesale distribution of newspaper to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission.

To ask the Prime Minister what are his priorities for the remaining period of his premiership. [36028]

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the speech that I made on 13 October, a copy of which is available in the Library of the House.

To ask the Prime Minister how many outsourcing contracts were granted by his Department or agencies in each year since 1990, indicating the nature and value of each contract; and if any additional work was added and of what value to (a) Hoskyns/Cap Gemini Segeti, (b) AT and T Istel, (c) EDS, (d) Sema Group, (e) Datasolve, (f) ITN Net, (g) Andersen Consulting, (h) Centre File, (i) BIS, (j) Telecom Capita, (k) ICL, (l) Digital Equipment, (m) CFM, (n) Siemens, (o) Nixdorf, (p) CMG and (q) Logica. [36996]

[holding answer 16 October 1995]: For this purpose my office is part of the Cabinet Office. I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary, Office of Public Service on 16 October 1995.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne, Central (Mr. Cousins) of 17 March, Official Report, column 735, if he will now make it his practice to release historic details of nuclear weapons numbers in the United Kingdom arsenal. [36840]

Information on the size of our nuclear forces since the 1970s was published in the Statement on the Defence Estimates 1995, Cm 2800, pages 38–39. We have no current plans to release further details of our nuclear weapons numbers.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what progress has been made on the sale of Rosyth naval base; and if he will make a statement. [37738]

I have now received the results of the recent tender exercise for the sale of the naval base. After careful analysis, and the submission of revised bids following further discussions with all the complaint bidders, the tender submitted by the Rosyth 2000 consortium was judged to be the best offer in terms of producing convincing business plans for the regeneration of the area and representing a fair return to the taxpayer for the sale of the base. The consortium has been selected as our preferred tenderer and our negotiations with the company will now continue to ensure a smooth transition of the naval base to civilian use by the end of March 1996. I am confident that Rosyth 2000 has the expertise and financial resources to sustain the regeneration of the area that we all wish to see.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what key performance targets have been set for the Military Survey defence agency for 1995–96. [37877]

The Military Survey defence agency key targets for 1995–96 are:

(1) To complete the endorsed in-year production programme, recognising that this may be impacted upon by unforeseeable, higher priority operational and emergency requirements.

(2) To implement by 31 March 1996 those three-year review study recommendations applicable to the agency, to include the development of customer agreement procedures.

(3) To implement by 31 March 1996 the military survey fundamental review redesign report, stage 1, part 2.

(4) To implement by 1 April 1998 a capability to support a specified geographic requirement package; initially to have costed the geographic implications for the Department by 31 March 1996.

(5) To improve the work unit cost of the production programme by 31 March 1996 by 3 per cent., in accruals terms, from an agreed 1 April 1995 baseline.

These key targets take forward much of the work of previous targets and prominence is given to the agency's core outputs. They also drive the management reforms possible because of agency status. More detail on these reforms, including those applicable to the agency and fundamental reviews, are contained in the agency's 1994 annual report, copies of which will be placed in the Library of the House shortly.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the proposed capital allocation for roads in the Angus unitary authority for the years 1996–97, 1997–98 and 1998–99. [36456]

Capital allocations for roads and transport for the new unitary authorities in Scotland, including Angus, have still to be determined for these years.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the capital allocation for roads in Tayside region in each year since 1983, at 1994 prices. [36405]

The annual roads and transport capital allocations for Tayside regional council since 1982–83 at 1994 prices are set out in the table.

£ million
Year	Allocation	1994–95 prices
1982–83	6.50	11.68
1983–84	6.97	11.97
1984–85	8.20	13.41
1985–86	8.00	12.40
1986–87	8.25	12.42
1987–88	8.20	11.72
1988–89	7.50	10.04
1989–90	8.40	10.51
1990–91	8.50	9.85
1991–92	9.50	10.36
1992–93	9.10	9.54
1993–94	9.00	9.16
1994–95	8.85	8.85
1995–96	8.20	7.96

Some capital allocations prior to 1995–96 include in year supplementary allocations.

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department whether he plans to implement recommendations in the Law Commission's report on Transfer of Land—Obsolete Restrictive Covenants, Law Com. No. 201. [37634]

Due to concerns about the potential costs to the public of using the scheme recommended by the Law Commission, and following careful consideration of representations from the public in this regard, it is not the Government's intention to implement the commission's recommendations. However, the matter will be kept under review following implementation of the commission's recommendations in Law Com. No. 127 for a scheme of land obligations.

To ask the Chairman of the Administration Committee if he has considered an application for an exhibition relating to the work of the Henley management college to be displayed in the Upper Waiting Hall.

I understand that, under procedures agreed by the Administration Committee, arrangements have been made for the exhibition to be held in the Upper Waiting Hall from Monday 13 November to Friday 17 November 1995.

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many jobs were created or safeguarded as a result of regional selective assistance granted to companies in Ynys Môn in each year since 1990. [36654]

The information is not available in the precise form requested. Regional selective assistance offers accepted between 1 July 1990 and 30 September 1995 where some payments have been made are forecast to create or safeguard 521 jobs. To date, 343 jobs have been accounted for.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish his assessment of the significance of emotional disturbance among young people as a factor associated with inmates of detention centres, indicating his estimate of the proportion of the cost accounted for by such young people; and if he will make a statement. [36631]

Detention centres and youth custody centres were replaced by young offender institutions in 1988.Two studies have been commissioned by the Home Office into the mental health of sentenced and unsentenced prisoners. Both include findings on young males in prison, although data on young females were not collated separately from data on adult females. The report of the first study was published in May 1991 under the title "Mentally Disordered Prisoners". The report of the second study, "Mental Disorder in Remand Prisoners" was received by the Home Office in late September 1995.The 1990 study showed that 33 per cent. of sentenced young male offenders in the sample group were diagnosed as suffering from some form of psychiatric disorder, including harmful or dependant misuse of substances. The corresponding figure for unsentenced young male offenders in the 1995 study was 53 per cent. of the sample group.No figures are available on the cost of maintaining inmates with emotional or mental health problems, as opposed to those without such problems.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment his Department has made of the reduction in fire deaths attributable to the installation of smoke alarms. [37133]

None. However, United Kingdom fire statistics for 1993 reveal death rates for fires in dwellings which are discovered by smoke alarms are lower than those which are not discovered by smoke alarms; three deaths per 1,000 fires compared with nine deaths per 1,000 fires.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when he authorised the office of the prisons ombudsman to refuse to investigate complaints which are received in a prisoner's own handwriting. [37195]

Complaints to the prisons ombudsman are never rejected because they are hand-written. The vast majority of complaints received by the prisons ombudsman are in the prisoner's own writing and are carefully considered to see whether they are eligible for investigation within the terms of the ombudsman's remit. It is, of course, helpful to the ombudsman's office if handwritten letters are legible. The ombudsman also accepts complaints from prisoners written in foreign languages. The detailed procedures are set out in the document, "The Prisons Ombudsman: A Note on Arrangements" a copy of which is available in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement about the trends in domestic burglaries in London since the inception of Operation Bumblebee. [37170]

I understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that prior to the launch of Operation Bumblebee in June 1993, the number of domestic burglaries recorded for the financial year 1992–93 was 127,611. A total of 15,136—11.8 per cent.—of these offences were cleared up. By 31 March 1995 the number of recorded burglaries had fallen to 106,558, while the number of crimes cleared up had risen to 20,666—19.4 per cent.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) 15 (b) 16 and (c) 17-year-old-boys were remanded into custody during (i) 1990, (ii) 1991 and (iii) 1992. [37186]

The available information on the number of 15 to 17-year-old boys received on remand into prison service establishments in England and Wales is given in the tables. The age split requested is not available for 1990–1991. This information is also published in successive volumes of "Prison statistics, England and Wales"—table 3.9 of the 1992 edition (Cm 2581) and table 2.6 for earlier years. Copies of these publications are available from the Library.

Table 1: Receptions of male remand prisoners, aged 14–20 into Prison Service establishments in England and Wales 1990–1992
	Age		Total aged under 21
Year	14–16	17–20
19901	1,240	18,517	19,575
19911	1,164	19,077	20,241
1 Only age split available.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many young people aged (a) 12 to 14 and (b) 15 to 16 years were held in custody on remand in (i) local authority accommodation, (ii) prison services accommodation and (iii) any other venue in 1994 and in each of the previous five years. [36261]

The available information on the number of young persons remanded to local authority accommodation in England is published by the Department of Health in "Children accommodated in secure units"—reference A/F 94/21, table 10. This information is presented on a financial year basis with the last report covering the year ending 31 March 1994. The available information on the number of 14 to 16-years-olds received on remand into prison service establishments in England and Wales is given in the table. No age split is available for 1989–1991.This information is published in "Prison statistics, England and Wales", table 3.9 of 1992 and 1993 editions, Cms 2581 and 2893, copies of which are available in the library. No information is available for young persons held in any other venue.

Receptions of 14, 15 and 16 year old remand prisoners into Prison Service establishments in England and Wales 1989–1994
	Age
Year	314	15	16	Total
19891	—	—	—	1,476
19901	—	—	—	1,243
19911	—	—	—	1,168
1992	4	377	721	1,102
1993	0	454	907	1,361
19942	0	634	1,103	1,737
1 No age split available.
2 Provisional figures.
3 Following implementation of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 in October 1992, 14 year old boys may not be remanded to Prison Service establishments.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the number of farms of the size (a) 1 to 25 hectares, (b) 26 to 50 hectares, (c) 51 to 75 hectares, (d) 76 to 100 hectares, (e) 101 to 150 hectares, (f) 151 to 200 hectares and (g) 201 or more hectares for (i) the last available year and (ii) 1985. [36430]

Statistics for England from the June agricultural census for the years 1985 and 1994 are shown in the table:

Holding size (hectares)	1985	1994
0.1 to 0.9	4,405	4,001
1.0 to 25.9	68,839	72,352
26.0 to 50.9	28,188	25,980
51.0 to 75.9	16,233	15,169

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many outsourcing contracts were granted by his Department or agencies in each year since 1990, indicating the nature and value of each contract; and if any additional work was added and of what value to (a) Hoskyns/Cap Gemini Segeti, (b) AT and T Istel, (c) EDS, (d) Sema Group, (e) Datasolve, (f) ITN Net, (g) Andersen Consulting, (h) Centre File, (i) BIS, (j) Telecom Capita, (k) ICL, (l) Digital Equipment, (m) CFM, (n) Siemens, (o) Nixdorf, (p) CMG and (q) Logica. [36959]

[holding answer 16 October 1995]: Since 1990, no outsourcing contracts have been granted by the Department or its agencies to any of the companies listed. Consequently, there has been no additional work.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessment he has made of the dangers to cod, haddock and plaice stocks in the North sea of the pollutions of hydrocarbons in drilling wastes discharging from rigs [37292]

There have been a number of recent studies which examined the levels of hydrocarbons and taint in fish. These show some evidence that oil residues are present but no evidence of taint. There are no dangers to cod, haddock or plaice stocks in the North sea arising from drilling wastes.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what are the mortality rates from (a) cervical, (b) breast, (c) lung and (d) bowel cancer in (i) England and (ii) other OECD countries. [36618]

This information is shown in the table.

Provisional mortality rates for England 1993
Description	ICD91 code	Crude death rate (per 100,000)
Malignant neoplasm of the bowel	152,153,154	31.3
Malignant neoplasm of the lung	162	62.9
Malignant neoplasm of the female breast	174	49.3
Malignant neoplasm of the cervix uteri	180	5.6
1 International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what are the mortality rates from all cancers in (a) England and (b) other OECD countries. [36617]

This information is shown in the table.

Provisional mortality rates for England 1993
Description	ICD91 code	Crude death rate (per 100,000)
Malignant neoplasms	140–208	270.7
1 International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision.

The latest available data for other Organisations of Economic Co-operation and Development Countries can be found in the "World Health Statistics Annual 1993", copies of which are available in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance his Department gives to trusts in relation to charging junior doctors for hospital accommodation when they are required by their contract to be resident on call. [37220]

The terms and conditions of service for hospital medical and dental staff (England and Wales) handbook includes the provisions for charges for residence for junior doctors whether they are compulsory resident practitioners or voluntary resident practitioners. From 1 April 1995 the ceiling on lodging charges for voluntary resident practitioners was removed. AL(MD)4/95, which announced this change, was issued on 12 June 1995 and contains guidance for employing bodies on the provision of accommodation for hospital medical and dental staff, including compulsorily resident practitioners.Copies of both documents are available in the Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the total cost of travel expenses claimed by civil servants using their own vehicles for official business in each of the last five years in his Department; and what would have been the saving in the last year if the maximum rate that could be claimed was set at the lowest rate. [36370]

This information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is his Department's assessment of the potential value of a national awareness week focusing on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and similar conditions; and if he will make a statement. [36648]

I am advised that it is unlikely that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder would benefit from presentation in this way.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each of the last three years (a) the total amount estimated to have been spent on mental health treatment and (b) the total amount estimated to have been spent in treating children diagnosed as suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, indicating in each case the percentage of each item as a proportion of the total health budget; and if he will make a statement. [36651]

The available information on the amount spent on mental health treatment is shown in the table.Information on the amount spent on treating children diagnosed as suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is not available centrally.

	Mental illness expenditure cash prices£ million	Mental illness expenditure 1993–94 prices£ million	Mental illness as a proportion of total hospital and community health services expenditure Percentage
1991–92	2,185.3	2,341.8	11.58
1992–93	2,350.30	2,422.2	11.56

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will issue guidelines to assist head teachers and social workers in providing for the medical problems of hyperactive children; and if he will make a statement. [36652]

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder who are regarded as having special educational needs should be assessed on an individual basis by a team of appropriately trained professionals, as provided for in the code of practice on the identification and assessment of special educational needs issued last year by the Department for Education and Employment and the Welsh Office.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is his assessment of the linkage between long-term addictive tendencies and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; and if he will make a statement. [36656]

Some research suggests that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder may have an increased risk of developing further problems later in childhood and in adolescence, including substance abuse. The nature of any such linkage is, however, not yet clear.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what advice his Department provides for adoptive parents who discover that their adopted child is affected by attention deficit disorder or similar condition; and if he will make a statement. [36657]

Advice for parents, whether adoptive or otherwise, is a matter for professional consideration in each individual case.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the appropriateness of conventional family therapy in the case of families in which one or more children are affected by attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. [36658]

Family therapy may play a part in a comprehensive treatment programme which may also include medication and other interventions. With young children and in milder forms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, family therapy may be an appropriate and effective approach on its own—for example, if focused on enhancing parenting skills and helping the child learn strategies to improve concentration.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of women whose treatment by radiotherapy after breast cancer has led to major permanent injuries; what plans he has to pay compensation in these cases; and what compensation has been paid in each of the last five years. [37224]

No estimate has been made but the Department of Health is working with Rage Breast, a patient support group representing women who have had radiotherapy for breast cancer which has led to major permanent injuries. There are no plans to pay compensation in these cases, nor has any compensation been paid in the last five years. We sympathise fully with those suffering as a result of any medical side effect; however, we consider that compensation by the national health service is appropriate only when there is evidence of medical negligence. The Government's position remains that the basis for seeking compensation should be by proof of negligence through the courts.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the "Pocket Guide to the NHS in London" cost to write, publish and distribute; how many copies have been produced; and to whom and to which organisations it has been distributed. [37424]

A total of 15,000 copies of the "Pocket Guide to the NHS in London" have been produced at a total cost of £26,000. The guide has been distributed to a wide range of organisations and individuals in London including health authorities and trusts, hon. and right hon. Members, community health councils, general practices, local authorities and the media. The response to the guide has been overwhelmingly favourable with many requests for additional copies.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent on purchasing care from non-NHS providers by fundholders, trusts, heath authorities and in total in each year since 1990. [37425]

The table details expenditure on purchasing care for 1991–92, 1992–93 and 1993–94 for general practitioner fundholders, national health services trusts, health authorities and in total. Figures for 1990–91 are not available.

Purchase of health care from non-NHS providers (England) 1991–92 to 1993–94
£ thousands
	1991–92	1992–93	19943–94
GP fundholders	3,698	13,127	29,899
NHS trusts	12,204	45,436	50,386
Health authorities	194,471	210,558	277,716
Total	210,373	269,121	358,001

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the Government intend to respond to the second report of the Health Select Committee on London's Ambulance Service, HC 20; and if he will make a statement. [37633]

Copies of the Government's response to the Health Committee's report on London's Ambulance Service have been laid before the House today.

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage what targets she has set for the executive agencies in her Department. [37739]

The following targets have been set for 1995–96:

• For the Historic Royal Parks agency
• Financial Targets:
• Commercial Surplus—£7.4 million
• Call on the taxpayer: £6.7 million
• Visitor Satisfaction Measures¹
• Visitors' average ratings of:
• Value for Money—0.7 to 1.0
• Enjoyment—above 1.4
• Helpful and friendly staff—above 1.4
• Efficiency Target:
• Savings on running costs—2 per cent.

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage what is the total income received to date (a) in tax revenue, (b) in money for distribution to good causes since the start of the national lottery and (c) in interest received on money prior to expenditure being incurred by the distribution boards. [37487]

[holding answer 16 October 1995]: For the period 22 November 1994 to 30 September 1995, £410.7 million has been paid in duty levied on the national lottery. For the same period, £1,093 million has been paid to the national lottery distribution fund for distribution to good causes and £30.7 million of interest has accrued to the fund as a whole.

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage whether the interest on the lottery income earmarked for distribution by the National Lottery Charities Board is being added, automatically and in full, to the money available for future distribution by that board; how the money is being held; and under what rules it is to be released to the board. [37484]

[holding answer 16 October 1995]: Pending draw down by the distributing bodies, proceeds available from the national lottery are held in the national lottery distribution fund. Funds are invested and balances calculated for each distributing body. The NLDF investment account is revalued before each transaction, either receipt or draw down of funds—for payment of grants or expenses—and interest is apportioned in full to each body. Funds are normally drawn on a monthly basis, in accordance with procedures agreed between the Department of National Heritage, the National Debt Commissioners and the distributing bodies.

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will show (a) the income earmarked for distribution by the National Lottery Charities Board from the income in each month since money started to flow from the national lottery, (b) the cumulative total held in respect of the NLCB at an appropriate point in each month, (c) how much of that total is held respectively (i) by the Treasury, (ii) by his Department or (iii) in any other fund and (d) the rate of interest and the total cash figure earned each month from the sums held. [37483]

[holding answer 16 October 1995]: The National Lottery Charities Board is allocated one fifth of the money generated by the national lottery for the national lottery distribution fund. Since 22 November 1994, £217.4 million has accrued to the charities board, which is an average of £20.7 million per month. All money paid into the fund, not immediately required for distribution, is paid over to the National Debt Commissioners and invested by them in accordance with Treasury directions. Interest is accrued on the fund as a whole and apportioned to each distributor. To date, £30.7 million of interest has accrued to the fund as a whole, of which £6.3 million is attributable to the charities board.

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will show (a) the income received in taxation in respect of each month since such income started to flow from the national lottery, (b) the total income from distribution to good causes received in respect of each month since such income started to flow, (c) the proportion and sum earmarked for distribution by the National Lottery Charities Board from each month's income, (d) the sums actually disbursed by the Treasury each month, indicating the amounts within the total passed to the Home Office and direct to the National Lottery Charities Board, (e) the amount of interest earned each month on the sums held by the Treasury for future distribution by the National Lottery Charities Board and (f) the cumulative monthly total including interest held by the Treasury for each month since the income commenced. [37486]

[holding answer 16 October 1995]: The national lottery distribution fund is maintained under the control of the Secretary of State for National Heritage. All money paid into the fund not immediately required for distribution, is paid over to the National Debt Commissioners and invested by them in accordance with Treasury directions.

Let by	Activity	Name of successful bid	Won by in-house bid
1992–93
DNH	Computer equipment and related services	SEMA Group Ltd.	No in-house bid
Historic Royal Palaces	Banqueting House Security	Royal British Legion Attendants Company	No in-house bid
1993–94
DNH	Consultancy for advice on competitive tendering of works management functions	Watts and Partners	No in-house bid
DNH	Reprographics	Williams Lea FM	No in-house bid
DNH	Central typing and secretarial	Manpower plc	No in-house bid
DNH	Mailroom	Security Despatch Group	No in-house bid
DNH	Security	Royal British Legion Association	No in-house bid

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if he will list those parts of his Department or departmental agencies which were privatised without an in-house bid; if he will indicate the expertise which was absent in his Department or departmental agencies which prevented an in-house bid taking place; which future parts of his Department or departmental agencies he intends to privatise; and which of them do not have the necessary in-house expertise to mount an in-house bid. [29432]

[pursuant to the reply, 20 June 1995, c. 177–82]: I regret that there was an omission from the reply given by my right hon. Friend the then Secretary of State. Following is the complete answer that should have been provided.Since it was formed in April 1992, my Department and its agencies have contracted out the activities listed. As a newly formed Department, central services had been supplied by former parent Departments and thus there were no existing staff to mount an in-house bid. In order to concentrate on its core policy tasks it was decided to contract out these activities. Activities contracted out in the past and planned for the future, are as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage (1) how much money has been already promised from the millennium fund in each English and Welsh county; [36719](2) how many individual projects have applied for funding from the millennium fund in each English and Welsh county. [36720]

This is a matter for the Millennium Commission. I shall reply to the hon. Member in my capacity as chairman of the Commission and place copies of my reply in the Libraries of the House.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what advice he will be giving the Department of the Environment following the meeting and correspondence between the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight and Mr. Orchard of the Department of Employment about the data in the new earnings survey and the Isle of Wight and the area cost adjustment formulae. [35989]

I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave him in my letter dated 28 July, a copy of which is available in the Library.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement about the rights of individual members of the public to make complaints to any of the appropriate ombudsmen about services or projects funded through the private finance initiative in his Department. [36823]

For Treasury and other Chancellor's Departments, members of the public have the same rights to make complaints of alleged maladministration to the relevant ombudsman concerning a project funded through the private finance initiative as they would have had if the project had been publicly financed.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he had made of the cost to the Exchequer of profit-related pay for each of the last three years; and what is the estimate for this financial year. [37161]

Estimates of the cost of income tax relief for profit-related pay schemes in 1994–95 and 1995–96 are published in table 1.6 of Inland Revenue Statistics 1995, a copy of which is in the Library. Estimates for other years can be found in earlier editions.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many outsourcing contracts were granted by his Department or agencies in each year since 1990, indicating the nature and value of each contract; and if any additional work was added and of what value to (a) Hoskyns/Cap Gemini Segeti, (b) AT and T Istel, (c) EDS, (d) Sema Group, (e) Datasolve, (f) IT Net, (g) Andersen Consulting (h) Centre File, (i) BIS, (j) Telecom Capita, (k) ICL, (l) Digital Equipment, (m) CFM, (n) Siemens, (o) Nixdorf, (p) CMG and (q) Logica. [36956]

[holding answer 16 October 1995]: The following outsourced contracts have been awarded:

(e) Datasolve—Since 1990 Datasolve has provided a hot-site contingency service for the Water Executive mainframe. As this is the only outsourced contract with this company its value cannot be disclosed for reasons of commercial confidentiality.

(f) IT Net—Two separate contracts for system software and support for the Department of Economic Development.

• 1994–95: £193,613 main contract
• 1995–96: £25,560 main contract
• No additional work was added to the contracts.]

(i) BIS—Two Separate contracts were awarded for consultancy support.

• 1993–94: £19,500 main contract
• 1994–95: £5,040 main contract

(k) ICL—a hardware support contract was awarded in respect of the Valuation and Lands Agency computer system, a financial computer system for the Water Executive, road maintenance and traffic accident systems for the Roads Service. As 1994–94 was the only year when more than one contract was in operation the cost of the contracts for other years cannot be disclosed for reasons of commercial confidentiality.

• 1994–95: £249,2178 main contract
• No additional contract work was added to the contracts.

(l) Digital—An office automation system for the DOE NI. The cost cannot be disclosed because of commercial confidentiality.

(m) CFM—Contracts for the provision of a computer bureau and associated services for NICS Departments and the NIO, data capture for agricultural area aid applications, an accounting system for the Department of Agriculture NI, mainframe computer services for DHSS NI, file storage for the NI Child Support Agency, child benefit payments and giro reconciliation for the Social Security Agency contract programmers and a print and dispatch service for the Rate Collection Agency and a mainframe management contract for the Department of Economic Development.

	Main contract £	Additional £
1991–92	3,520,000	27,000
1992–93	6,128,000	364,000
1993–94	6,146,859	578,000
1994–95	5,706,109	322,125
1995–96	5,162,516	200,000

(q) Logica—A software support contract for the Valuation and Lands Agency and the provision and maintenance of a mainframe for the Department of Economic Development.

	Main contract £	Additional £
1991–92	162,008	137,801
1992–93	246,400	169,173
1993–94	279,300	3,412
1994–95	233,380	58,500
1995–96	229,548	—

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, following the 25 per cent. rise above estimates in tender costs for house building in Northern Ireland in the current year, what plans he has to provide emergency extra funding for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. [37388]

None. However, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive can, along with other important public expenditure programmes, bid for any resources which

	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995 to 11 October
Department of Agriculture	45	65	52	63	62	56
Department of Economic Development	45	79	71	54	44	36
Department of Education	22	28	24	25	20	13
Department of Environment	183	224	244	210	208	166
Department of Finance and Personnel	2	9	10	6	6	4
Department of Health and Social Services	131	106	154	121	117	91
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland	25	18	22	23	29	17
Medicines Act 1968, 1971 made jointly by Great Britain and Northern Ireland Departments	11	8	20	10	22	4

Because a number of statutory rules, regulations and orders are made by more than one Department the figures when broken down by Department are greater than the overall total.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if the prior options study of the business development service has been completed; and what was the outcome of the study. [37873]

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the policy of the Northern Ireland Department of Education in respect of whether the national anthem is sectarian. [37362]

The Government's policy remains that the national anthem should be played on ceremonial occasions. Its use on other occasions is a matter for the relevant authorities in each case.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on what grounds the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland issued instructions that the national anthem should not be played when Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited Northern Ireland to open the new Lagan bridge in Belfast. [37360]

No instructions were issued either by the Department of the Environment or my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many statutory rules, regulations and orders have been made in total, and by each Northern Ireland Department, over the last five years. [37393]

The total number of statutory rules, regulations and orders made by my right hon. and learned Friend and Northern Ireland Departments over the last five years is as follows:

• 1990: 426
• 1991: 506
• 1992: 536
• 1993: 463
• 1994: 478
• 1995 to 11 October: 362

The breakdown by Department is as follows: