To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission if he will establish the full cost of the National Audit Office study into the type 23 frigate and the common new generation frigate indicating what proportion of that cost is represented by the part of the study which was reported to Parliament in the NAO report "Procurement Lessons for the Common New Generation Frigate", HC 692, Session 1994–95. [21655]

The National Audit Office's work on the type 23 frigate programme is not complete. Further information will be reported to the Public Accounts Committee later this year.

To ask the Chairman of the Public Accounts Commission if he will estimate the cost of all NAO full studies into defence matters since 1987 which have not been reported to Parliament. [21654]

The Comptroller and Auditor General reports to Parliament all National Audit Office defence studies when they are complete. In accordance with the long-standing and traditional practice of external auditors, he may also provide audit advice direct to audited bodies as subsidiary outputs to promote value for money and good stewardship of public resources.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many women are pursuing legal claims against the Argyll and Clyde health board in respect of the mis-reading of cervical smear slides at the Inverclyde royal hospital; and if he will make a statement; [21663](2) how many compensation claims against the Argyll and Clyde health board's cytology service at the Inverclyde royal hospital, Greenock

A total of 16 legal claims are being pursued by women against Argyll and Clyde health board as a result of the mis-reading of cervical smear slides at the Inverclyde royal hospital. Eight claims have been settled and negotiations are under way to achieve a settlement in the other eight cases, two of which have been, or will be, given interim settlements.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland which former public sector research establishments in his Department have been privatised since 1979; and which public sector research establishments in his Department are currently undergoing reviews with a view to placing them in the private sector. [21946]

The Scottish Office has not privatised any public sector research establishments since 1979.As part of their response in September 1995 to the report of the multi-departmental efficiency scrutiny of public sector research establishments, the Government announced their intention to conduct a series of prior options reviews of public sector research establishments. My right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade announced on 26 January 1996 the timetable for the reviews, which are due to be completed by the end of this year. The establishments covered include the five Scottish agricultural and biological research institutes—the Hannah research institute, the Macaulay land use research institute, the Moredun research institute, the Rowett research institute and the Scottish crop research institute—the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency and the Fisheries Research Services. Under the prior options procedure, all options, including privatisation, rationalisation or continuing with the current arrangements, have to be examined rigorously.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement about prior options reviews of the Hannah research institute and the Moredun research institute. [24066]

The Government's response to the report of the multi-departmental efficiency scrutiny of public sector research establishments announced a series of prior option reviews. As part of this series, the Scottish Office Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries Department will conduct prior options reviews of the Hannah research institute and the Moredun research institute.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list each European social fund and European regional development fund allocation by (i) name, (ii) expenditure and (iii) area made for objective 1 projects in the highlands and islands on 2 February. [22210]

The list of approved projects has been provided with an indication of which local enterprise company area each project falls within. As the information requested is somewhat lengthy, I have arranged for the information to be placed in the House Library.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans exist for a fair play consortium in Scotland; and if he will make a statement. [22538]

A fair play consortium for Scotland was established early this year. The initiative is led by the Equal Opportunities Commission (Scotland) and supported by Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what is the average cost to public funds of each job created or protected in the tourist industry by grants awarded by Highlands and Islands Enterprise; [22658](2) what is the average cost to public funds of each job created or protected in the skiing industry by grants awarded by Highlands and Islands Enterprise. [22659]

As the information requested relates to the operational activities of Highlands and Islands Enterprise, I have asked the chairman to write to the hon. Member.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the electorates of each of the new parliamentary constituencies in Scotland as at 16 February. [22652]

The information is as follows:

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what guidelines are currently in force in his Department and its executive agencies relating to competitive tendering and the use of single negotiated tenders; on what grounds single negotiated tenders can be used; and what procedures are in place within his Department to ensure that the use of single negotiated tenders in competitive tendering processes is justified in all cases. [22857]

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to his question on 19 March, Official Report, column 166. Single negotiated tenders are acceptable only in exceptional circumstances such as where there is effectively no choice of contractor—for example, for reasons of compatibility—or where such action is judged to offer economic advantages; or where there is extreme urgency to provide or restore a service.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many contracts for goods or services have been awarded by his Department and its executive agencies on the basis of single negotiated contracts in each of the last three years; if he will list the companies involved and the value of the contract in each case; what percentage this represented of contracts awarded by his Department and its agencies after competitive tendering; and, in each case, why the contracts were awarded on the basis of a single negotiated tender. [22873]

The information requested is not recorded centrally within the Department, and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the cost of answering parliamentary questions in each Session since 1989–90. [22905]

This Department does not calculate the data requested, and they could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what changes he intends to make to the cash limits for 1995–96 within his responsibility. [24065]

The non-voted cash limit Scottish Office/LA1, which covers local authority non-housing capital expenditure, is to be increased by £10,500,000 from £599,303,000 to £609,803,000. There will be an increase in net capital allocations to meet a fall in anticipated European regional development fund receipts and to meet the effect of severe weather. This increase is fully offset by a reduction of £5,000,000 in the non-voted cash limit SO/ERDF from £120,025,000 to £115,025,000 and a reduction in roads and transport class XIV, vote 2 amounting to £5,500,000 so that it will not add to the planned total of public expenditure.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many (a) clinical nurse managers and (b) practice development nurse posts are to replace the existing 74 ward sister and charge nurse posts employed by Renfrewshire Healthcare NHS trust. [21731]

[holding answer 20 March 1996]: Ward sister and charge nurse posts in Renfrewshire Healthcare NHS trust will, on implementation of the trust's revised nursing management and organisational structure, be replaced by 46 clinical nurse manager posts and six practice nurse development posts.These changes will enable the number of nursing posts involved in direct patient care to increase from 210 to 230.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the national health service bodies sponsored by his Department which are subject to (a) investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner, (b) scrutiny by the Audit Commission, (c) scrutiny by the National Audit Office, (d) statutory provisions for open government, (e) performance indicators and (f) provisions under the citizens charter. [21831]

[holding answer 21 March 1996]: All the 47 NHS trusts, 15 health boards and five special health boards in Scotland are subject to investigation by the health service commissioner and scrutiny by the National Audit Office. They are also all subject to scrutiny by the Accounts Commission, the equivalent body in Scotland to the Audit Commission England and Wales. Those bodies are subject to any statutory provisions for open government and provisions under the citizens charter which may be relevant to them and to any performance indicators as may be deemed appropriate.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the latest annual (a) inflation, (b) unemployment, (c) growth rate and (d) balance of payments figures for each of the members of the European Community. [22062]

The latest comparable data for these inquiries are set out in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development publication "Main Economic Indicators", which is available in the House of Commons Library.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) by what means the differing traditions in Northern Ireland are represented on the 1996 Northern Ireland £1 coin; [22011](2) who was the designer of the 1996 £1 coin for Northern Ireland. [21983]

The design shows a gold collar of the first century BC, found at Broighter, County Londonderry in 1896, an ornate cross of the style used in the old Celtin Church of Britain, and the flower of the yellow pimpernel which flourishes around Lough Neagh. The designer is Mr. Norman Sillman.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the United Kingdom percentage share of exports of manufactures by the main manufacturing countries in terms of volume for each year since 1985. [22965]

The data requested are set out in the table.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his estimate of the United Kingdom percentage share of exports of manufactures by the main manufacturing countries giving the figures in United States dollars for each quarter since 1992. [22960]

The data requested are set out in the table.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what factors underlay the scale of the rise in exports of manufactures in the fourth quarter of 1995 relative to the fourth quarter of 1994. [22958]

The growth of exports of manufactures depends on a number of factors, such as the growth of world trade, the competitiveness of British exports and the degree of spare capacity.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what were (a) the Bank of England and (b) the Treasury forecasts two years ago of the rate of inflation in February 1996. [22962]

Neither the Bank of England nor the Treasury publishes monthly forecasts of inflation. The Bank of England publishes its quarterly forecasts for inflation in its inflation reports. The Treasury publishes its forecasts in the "Financial Statement and Budget Report" and in the "Summer Economic Forecast". Copies of all these documents are available in the House of Commons Library.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer under which section of which Act owners of domestic properties were given the right to alter the insurer of their home from the one specified by their building society as mortgagee. [19514]

[holding answer 7 March 1996]: The practice of building societies allowing borrowers to alter the insurers of their homes flows form the code of practice on the linking of services which the Building Societies Association brought into effect on 1 January 1988. It does not depend on any statutory underpinning.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of the population of working age in (a) 1979 and (b) 1995 was accounted for by (i) full-time employees of more than six months' duration, (ii) full-time self-employed persons, (iii) full-time employees of less than six months' duration, (iv) full-time temporary employees, (v) those in part-time employment, (vi) the unemployed and (vii) those who are economically inactive. [22579]

[holding answer 25 March 1996]: Comparable information is available from the labour force survey for 1984 and 1995:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the total annual revenue yield from stamp duty on property purchases, for the latest year for which the information is available. [22829]

[holding answer 26 March 1996]: The yield from stamp on all land and property—other than shares—was £783 million in 1994–95, of which an estimated £520 million was due to residential property transactions.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his estimate of the additional tax revenues which would accrue to the Exchequer for each of the next five years if the annual rate of growth of gross domestic product in the United Kingdom were to be 0.25 per cent. per annum higher than assumed in the forecasts contained in the "Financial Statement and Budget Report 1996–97"; and if he will make a statement. [22761]

[holding answer 26 March 1996]: Tax revenues as a ratio of GDP vary automatically with cycles in economic activity. The alternative projection below uses the relationship set out in HM Treasury occasional paper No. 4 "Public Finances and the Cycle":

To ask the Prime Minister what plans he has to pay an official visit to the North Tayside constituency. [21636]

I have at present no plans to do so.

To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 28 March. [21966]

To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 28 March. [21967]

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

To ask the Prime Minister (1) what was the spending per head of population on health provision in (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) England in each of the last five years; and what is the projected spending in the current financial year per head of population in each country; [22948](2) what percentage of patients in

The information is as follows:

To ask the Prime Minister if he has yet received the annual report of the Intelligence and Security Committee in accordance with the Intelligence Services Act 1994; and if he will make a statement on the membership of the Committee. [23957]

I have received the first annual report of the Intelligence and Security Committee and am presenting it to Parliament today. Copies are also being placed in the Libraries of both Houses. I am grateful to the Committee for the careful and thorough way in which it has carried out its work. Certain portions of its report contained material which fell within the provisions of section 10 of the Intelligence Services Act 1994, and which has accordingly, after consultation with the Committee, been deleted from the published report.The House will wish to be aware that, following consultations with the Leader of the Opposition and in accordance with section 10 of the Intelligence Services Act, I have appointed the right hon. Lord Blaker as a member of the Committee to succeed the right hon. Lord Howe of Aberavon who has indicated his wish to step down from the Committee. I am very grateful to Lord Howe for the part he has played in the Committee's work.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many incidents the fire brigades in Cheshire attended in (a) 1980, (b) 1990 and (c) 1995; and if he will make a statement; [22407](2) how many incidents the fire brigades in Crewe and Nantwich attended in

The available information is given in the following table. The information for Crewe and Nantwich is not available centrally.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to publish his White Paper on sentencing. [22666]

We plan to publish the White Paper very shortly.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 12 March, Official Report, columns 536–37, what plans he has to review the use of Gatsometer speed cameras on trunk roads; and if he will make a statement on the results of the police procedures for assessing the effectiveness of this equipment. [22669]

The deployment of speed cameras is an operational matter for the chief officer of police for the area concerned and the highway authority. The effectiveness of the cameras is being assessed in a cost-benefit study which has been commissioned by my Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what restraint measures were used in the case of Mr. Ibrahima Sey; and if he will make a statement. [22495]

This case has been referred to the Police Complaints Authority. It would not be right for me to comment at this stage.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which companies have been granted licences under section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968 to handle, distribute, store or manufacture electro-shock batons in the last five years. [22969]

Section 5(1)(b) of the Firearms Act 1968 prohibits the possession, purchase, acquisition, manufacture, sale and transfer of electric shock weapons without the authority of the Secretary of State. No company has been granted or has held authority under this section specifically in respect of electric shock weapons in the last four years. No current authorities are in place in respect of electric shock weapons. Information about the granting of authority for that purpose in earlier years could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police forces in Britain have acquired electro-shock batons, for any purpose, including as samples, in the last five years; and if section 5 firearms licences have been granted in relation to these items. [22968]

The Home Office does not collect information on this subject. I understand that a survey by the Association of Chief Police Officers of electric shock devices held by police forces in England and Wales in February 1995 found that 22 had obtained electric shock shields and, in some cases, cattle prods for use against ferocious dogs. Police forces do not require licensing or authorisation under the Firearms Act 1968 in relation to these articles.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will rescind the alien registration certificate granted to Artyom M. Tarasov, holder of Dominican Republic passport No. 0311705 issued on 19 February 1991, and Soviet diplomatic passport No. 0035492. [23051]

I am aware of no reason to depart in this case from the requirement to register with the police, as provided for in paragraph 325 of the immigration rules.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons have been convicted of organising cock fighting tournaments in each year since 1987. [22956]

The information requested cannot be identified separately from other summary offences.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many publicly funded CCTV cameras have been reported stolen; and if he will make a statement. [23138]

This information is not collected centrally.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the total finances made available, by source, for each fire service in England and Wales, as indicated from returns from local authority budget setting for each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [23139]

Returns from local authorities showing expenditure on fire services do not provide the requested information about the source of revenue spending. Local government revenue settlement resources are, in general, not hypothecated to specific services such as fire.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what decision he has made in respect of the application for asylum made by Abiodun Igbinidu from Nigeria; and if he will make a statement. [23142]

Abiodun Igbinidu's application to stay in the United Kingdom was refused on 1 August 1995 and his appeal was dismissed on 15 November. Leave to appeal to the tribunal was subsequently refused on 29 November. Further representations and evidence on Mr. Igbinidu's behalf have been submitted. His application is being given further consideration and a decision will be made as soon as possible.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on farm watch crime prevention schemes. [23145]

The Government recognise that the most effective response to rural crime is a partnership between the police and the local community. We encourage crime prevention schemes which enable members of the public—with the support of the local police—to do something positive in the fight against crime.We believe that over 500 farm watch schemes across England and Wales can make a significant impact on crime in the countryside.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the estimated number of people involved in farm watch crime prevention schemes.[23146]

There are over 500 farm watch schemes across England and Wales. These vary in size; information on the number of people involved is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list each of the specific topics for which an application was received by his Department under each round to date of the police research group programme and indicate (a) which was successful and (b) the amount of money agreed in respect of each successful application. [23012]

[holding answer 27 March 1996]: Phase 1 of the Home Office police research group's police operations against crime programme was launched in 1993. One hundred and forty-one applications for research funds were received under this round, and 19 were successful. Phase 3 was launched in 1995, producing 113 applications, of which 12 were successful. In both phases, some applications covered the same topic. The following tables list each of the applications received under each of these phases of the programme. Applications for research topics were not invited under phase 2 of the programme, which commissioned work to develop specific topics begun under phase 1. All costs shown exclude value added tax and travelling and subsistence expenses.

• Unsuccessful applications
• Evaluation of Operation Gemini II
• Managing crime: a sequential analysis
• Detective profiling
• Policing of firearms crime
• Evaluation of crime response strategy
• Examination of practice and procedure of witness interviews
• Evaluating the performance of investigators
• Truancy and impact on high volume crime in West Yorkshire
• Partnership initiatives: multiple victims
• Quick response alarms in clearing crime
• Interviewing children with 'particular needs'
• Cognitive investigative interviews: quality control
• Strategies to counteract high volume crime
• Good practice review of criminal intelligence systems
• Evaluation of contribution of current intelligence practices to detecting/reducing crime
• Detective skills and personality characteristics facilitating advanced investigative interviews
• Review and evaluation of victims of crime follow up procedure
• Detecting deception
• Resource management—managing demand
• Presenting information
• Witness intimidation: consequences and prevention
• Qualitative issues in meeting public expectations
• Preparing/presenting information to the Crown Prosecution Service
• A holistic approach to high volume crime on estates
• Primary detection of autocrime/burglary
• Burglary at people's homes: improving detection
• Cross border trafficking in stolen motor vehicles
• Property-oriented strategies to reduce crime
• Estates policing in high crime residential areas
• Evaluation of targeted policing at locational hot spots
• Reducing repeat calls for service at single locations
• Review of strategic approach to high volume crime
• Development and implementation of new CID strategy
• Development of effective crime management systems and processes
• Work investigating and processing a sample of crimes
• Effective detection of residential burglaries
• Appraisal of the Warwickshire crime desk
• Burglary dwellings in Merseyside: E2 sub-division
• High volume crime
• Managing demand and the investigative process
• Identification of good practice and benefits from the use of surveys
• Junior wheels project
• Plymouth administrative services unit
• High volume crime management
• Role of stolen vehicle squads
• Tourists as victims of crime
• Making the best use of crime analysis information
• Major crime investigation: strategy, tactics and operational policies
• Responding to burglary: strategies and resources
• Managing burglary and car crime: offence patterns
• Models for managing volume crime
• Estates policing evaluation
• Police evidence: credibility and presentation
• Police information systems and their contribution to prevention/detection of crime
• Crime control functions of multi-agency policing
• Campus crime
• Development of successful strategies to combat high volume crime
• Review of Bumblebee
• Surrey Safe Shops
• Evaluation of burglary strategies
• Management framework for crime prevention
• Processes for gathering information in crime detection
• Drug related problems and response: Greater Manchester Police
• Management skills for reduction in high volume crime
• Resource management: responding to crime
• Practical geographical analysis of large volume crime
• Making the best use of crime analysis information
• Effects of Sheehy on police performance and morale
• Study of police
• Drug-related crime and the police response
• Investigative strategies for residential burglary
• Policing with CCTV: developing its future potential
• Indicators to evaluate police anti-drug activities
• Methods for improving crime manager performance
• Resource management: organisational issues
• Managing the investigative process
• Managing demand
• Evaluation of video evidence for robberies
• Increasing arrest rates for burglaries
• Selecting effective detectives
• A strategic approach to firearms incidents
• Divisional crime desks: flow of crime solving information
• Operation Bumblebee: public and police perceptions
• Multi agency approach to organised crime
• Effectiveness of Operation Bumblebee
• Target hardening
• Reducing lost days at court
• Methods of handling witnesses
• Understanding and resolving organisational issues of centralisation and devolution
• Effective management of interfaces with other bodies
• Resource management priorities
• Employing civilians in surveillance teams
• Review of minor office crime
• Catalysing new strategic thinking to address local crime
• Review of communications of individual research findings
• Resource allocation decisions in CIDs
• Countering ambush defence in serious investigations
• Developing of a new criminal investigation management system
• Evaluation of burglary control and prevention
• Fear of crime and car park design
• Examination of the policing of racial attacks
• Cross border crime and inter-force collaboration
• Detection of serious crime against homosexuals
• Central or specialist units dealing with crime
• Use of forensic evidence in investigation of burglary
• Evaluating Metropolitan Police's evidence project (EPIC)
• Incidence and migration of burglary and autocrime
• Computer aided targeting: response to high volume crime
• Resource implications of different types of police activity
• Research consultancy to No. 5 region
• Review of factors affecting the ability and willingness of officers to cultivate informants
• Prevalence of informant handling among specialist and non-specialist Met. Police officers
• Assessment of interview practice in child abuse cases
• Improving and refining video child witness interviews
• Strategic crime management and improving service delivery
• Linguistic model of eliciting/interpreting responses of victims
• Schools liaison: best practice for the 1990s
• Burglary investigation process
• Workload planning in the police service
• Intelligence process review: from Basic Command Unit to mid-tier
• Effect of the right to silence
• Using squads effectively

• Unsuccessful applications
• The impact of crime upon small business
• Controlling crime in shopping centres: public policing or private security
• An investigation of firearms officers' memory for firearms incidents
• An evaluation of cognitive interview training
• Targeting offenders: proactive intelligence gathering and processing
• Review of drugs intelligence procedures
• Local area policing as a vehicle for integrated crime management
• Evaluating police response to commercial burglary: a good practice guide
• The targeting of offenders
• Development of effective tasking and coordinating strategies for area management teams
• The community impact of drug law enforcement strategies
• An analysis of the targeting and displacement of violent crime
• The targeting of sexual offenders
• Police perceptions of nature and extent of organised crime in UK
• An evaluation of the Basic Command Unit system of policing
• Impact of limited tenure policies on investigation of serious crime
• Review of the strategic management and effectiveness of volunteers supporting proactive policing
• Police/juvenile crime: strategic resource model for multi-agency partnerships
• Police resource deployment and crime control strategies
• The impact of arrest and prosecution on domestic violence
• Development of a national intelligence-driven police/prison liaison model for organised crime
• Effectiveness of police arrangements for dealing with domestic violence
• Police response to guidance on tenure
• Maximising the effectiveness of tenure policy
• Assessment of cross-border crime/police issues in English Channel region
• Impact of tenure on police operations
• The development of a demand management strategy for the police service
• Intelligence for proactive policing by shire forces: Cumbria case study
• Impact of female street prostitution for growth of crime and drugs
• Crime against businesses: victimisation and crime prevention on Merseyside
• The investigation of major and serious violent crime
• Investigating organised crime in London
• The firearms market in the UK
• Measuring the nature, extent and effect of computer and microchip theft
• Analysis of commercial computer theft, and development of risk profile
• Impact of mobile telecommunications on the commissioning and execution of crime
• The benefits and costs of proactive policing
• Preventing violence in pubs and clubs
• The replacement of arrested street-level drug dealers
• Prioritising the investigation of serious and criminal gangs
• Offender—directed investigations and resource management Thresholds in child protection investigation
• Police strategies to tackle burglaries against commercial premises
• Proactive approaches to 'shoplifting'
• Intelligence from crime scene imagery
• A study into the completeness and availability of fraud information
• Evaluation of Toiler Lane proactive crime management model Application of tenure policies and practices
• Disrupting the distribution of stolen electrical goods: phase I in Suffolk
• Burglary from commercial premises of information technology: a comparison of force strategies
• Resourcing crime-related work: good practice in workload allocation
• Credit card abuse/fraud: can businesses help improve police detection?
• Networks against crime: investigation into organised computer based crime
• Investigation of child sexual abuse: criteria in police decision-making
• Criminal intelligence in prisons
• The deployment of detectives
• The impact of tenure on police operations
• Caravan thefts
• Art and antique theft
• The security of Post Office counters
• Diverting drug misusers from the criminal justice system: evaluation of a rural multi-agency strategy
• Examining dynamics of repeated victimisations of domestic dwellings
• Examining dynamics of repeated armed robbery involving commercial premises
• Violent crime on Merseyside: evaluation of proactive policing Organised crime: a literature review
• Evaluating special policing initiative against organised high value car theft
• Targeting criteria: research on drugs enforcement in Kent
• Comparative, process approach to evaluating measures against organised crime
• Careers of organised criminals and the structuring of organised crime in England/Wales
• Improving usefulness of forensic science in investigation of volume crime
• The implication of changes in retailing
• Intelligence issues in `civilianisation' of drugs enforcement in the Metropolitan Police
• An operational BCU model for multi-agency action on community safety
• Shoplifting: the effects of changes in location/organisation of retail shopping
• A strategic approach to targeting offenders
• The impact of deploying proactive resources against targeted offenders
• Impact of tenure on police operations
• Succeeding with integrated proactive policing
• Organised crime: the theft of stolen high value vehicles
• Potential of commercial business analysis models against organised crime
• Impact of models of resource allocation on service strategy and performance
• Evaluation of investigations into female sexual assaults: Northumbria

Notifiable offences recorded by the police by malice force area and offence group
England and Wales 1995	Number of offences
Police force area	Total	Violence against the person	Sexual offences	Robbery	Burglary	Theft and handling stolen goods	Fraud and forgery
Avon and Somerset	152,885	7,643	1,026	1,582	34,111	82,456	4,017
Bedfordshire	51,104	1,911	294	664	11,026	27,285	1,781
Cambridgeshire	67,652	2,755	430	352	14,267	38,290	1,369
Cheshire	73,202	3,487	574	316	18,155	34,326	2,639
Cleveland	79,719	2,961	279	487	23,536	36,488	1,481

• Police responses to computer-related theft from non-residential premises
• How different models of proactivity affect resourcing of crime-related work
• Impact of tenure policy on police operations/implications for resource management
• Investigating and detecting street robbery
• Managers' use of crime pattern analysis system in resource allocation
• The development of effective proactive policing schemes
• Targeting schemes: what works?
• Business Watch Schemes: a three site review
• The 'Counter Action' initiative: an evaluation
• Tagging vehicles: asset tracking to combat theft and fraud
• Local crime analysis: good practice in proactive policing of robbery and drug street crimes
• The role of middle managers in the police
• The security of filling stations
• Tackling non-residential repeat burglary
• Improving the effectiveness of crime prevention in the planning system
• Measuring and evaluating performance in the detection of organised crime
• Measuring/evaluating performance of inter-agency approaches to violent crime
• Evaluation of police response to violent crime in an interagency context
• Assessing admissibility/sufficiency of evidence in child abuse prosecutions

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded in each borough by the Metropolitan police within each category of crime in 1995; how many incidents of theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle and of theft from a motor vehicle were recorded in each borough; how many of the burglaries recorded in each borough were in a dwelling; and how many were in another building. [22701]

[holding answer 27 March 1996]: I will write to the hon. Member.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many crimes were recorded by each police force in England and Wales within each category of crime in 1995; how many incidents of theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle and of theft from a motor vehicle were recorded by each force; how many of the burglaries recorded by each police force in England and Wales in 1995 were in a dwelling; and how many were in another building. [22700]

[holding answer 27 March 1996]: The information requested is contained in the following table.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects to receive advice from the special panel he constituted to consider the future of Greenwich hospital. [23540]

In answer to the hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Clifton-Brown) on 19 December, Official Report, column 1107, I announced that I had invited a group of distinguished experts to advise me on the expressions of interest in, and on the future use and management of, the Royal Naval college, Greenwich, which I hold for the benefit of the Crown charity, Greenwich hospital.The advisory group has submitted its interim report. I am most grateful to its members for the way in which they have addressed the issues so far. I am placing in the Libraries of both Houses copies of the report, amended only to protect matters of commercial confidentiality.Much detailed work remains to be done to secure the future of the site, but, with the support of my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for National Heritage and for the Environment-the latter as Minister with responsibility for London—I am pleased to be able to announce that I have accepted the central recommendations of the advisory group that, in the event of non-defence occupancy of the Royal Naval college:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when the star window upgrade to the Nimrod R.1 is expected to be completed. [22353]

All the star window equipment for the Nimrod R.1 has been delivered. It is not my Department's policy, however, to provide detailed information on specific operational capabilities.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many unmanned aerial vehicles are in service with United Kingdom armed forces; and which service arms have operational control over them. [22588]

There are currently no unmanned aerial vehicles in operational service with the armed services. However, some 440 unmanned aerial vehicles are used at various Ministry of Defence ranges as targets or for target towing. They are operated by the Royal Navy, the Army or the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, or by contractors on behalf of the armed services.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many contracts for goods or services have been awarded by his Department and its executive agencies on the basis of single negotiated contracts in each of the last three years; if he will list the companies involved and the value of the contract in each case; what percentage this represented of contracts awarded by his Department and its agencies after competitive tendering; and, in each case, why the contracts were awarded on the basis of a single negotiated tender. [22868]

For the statistical information requested, I refer the hon. Member to my reply to him of 19 March, Official Report, columns 124–25. The information sought in respect of individual non-competitive contracts could be produced only at disproportionate cost. I have asked the chief executives of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and of the Meteorological Office to write to the hon. Member in respect of their procurement activity in the period for which he seeks information.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the letter of 11 March from the Minister of State for the Armed Forces, what was (a) the highest individual payment, (b) the lowest (c) the average of the asbestos-related compensation payments made to civilian employees of his Department from 1987 to the end of 1995. [22941]

In accordance with normal legal practice, the level of payments varies greatly accordingly to individual factors such as the person's loss of income, and the number and age of his dependants. The highest individual compensation payment made on behalf of my Department to a civilian employee or ex-employee in respect of an asbestos-related claim during the period in question was £298,080. The lowest was about £1,500. The average settlement—the total amount of compensation paid during the period divided by the number of claims paid—was £18,165; this figure includes claimants' legal costs.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on what date his Department last deployed anti-personnel land mines for operational use. [23260]

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given in reply to a question from the hon. Member for Newport, West (Mr. Flynn) on 22 November 1995, Official Report, column 174.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many anti-personnel land mines British forces have deactivated to date as part of their United Nation implementation force duties in Bosnia. [23261]

Under the terms of the Dayton agreement, the clearance of mines is the responsibility of the parties. IFOR's role is limited to monitoring their work, except where there is a serious threat to life or clearance is essential to IFOR's own operations. In accordance with this, British forces have deactivated some 160 anti-personnel mines.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement concerning the impact of anti-personnel land mines on the duties carried out by British forces in the United Nations implementation force in Bosnia; and what conclusions his Department has drawn from the prevalence of anti-personnel mines in Bosnia. [23263]

Land mines continue to pose a hazard to IFOR forces in Bosnia, but steps have been taken to reduce the risks. All UK service personnel who deploy to Bosnia undergo mine awareness training and our contribution to IFOR includes personnel who are specially trained in explosive ordnance disposal. The damage caused by the indiscriminate use of anti-personnel mines in Bosnia reinforces our determination to press for tighter international controls on the use and export of these weapons.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what are the implications of the European Communities (Employment in the Civil Service) Order 1991 for service in the regular or reserve armed forces of the Crown. [229191

The European Communities (Employment in the Civil Service) Order 1991 has no direct effect on service in the regular or reserve armed forces of the Crown.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement about defence agency status for the pricing and quality services organisation. [238121

I have decided that the pricing and quality services organisation should be considered as a candidate for defence agency status under the status steps initiative. The agency review process provides an opportunity to align more closely the provision of essential services to customer needs. Once complete, it will establish a framework that allows a much sharper focus on the need for those services, together with pressure to improve performance through the development of clear and rigorous targets.Currently, there are four discrete business units within PQS:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement about defence agency status for the Army individual training organisation. [239581

The Army individual training organisation will become a defence agency of the Ministry of Defence on 1 April 1996. The aim of the AITO is to provide the appropriate numbers of well-trained and motivated individuals to meet the operational requirements of the Army. The headquarters of the AITO will be at Upavon, Wiltshire alongside the headquarters of the adjutant general who will be the owner of the agency on behalf of the Secretary of State. The agency will control 32 separate training centres throughout the United Kingdom and have a staff of 6,315 military and 4,546 civilian personnel.The AITO chief executive, a major general, who will also be the Army's director general of individual training, will be required to build upon the current organisation's reputation for providing the Army with highly trained personnel while, at the same time, achieving greater efficiency effectiveness and value for money.The chief executive has been set the following key targets for the first year of operation:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those of his Department's advisory non-departmental public bodies which (a) the Government are required to consult prior to legislative proposals and (b) the Government are required to publish their response to advice supplied by them. [218541

[holding answer 21 March 1996]: The Government are not required to consult with any of the non-departmental public bodies within my Department prior to legislative proposals.The Review Board for Government Contracts reports annually on the profit formula for non-competitive Government contracts and this advice is published. The Government make their response to this available to the House in a parliamentary written answer.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans she has to allow the voluntary youth service sector more access to public funding. [23279]

The Department has increased its grants to national voluntary youth organisations by 6 per cent. to £9.1 million for the next three years. This has allowed us to fund a larger number of programmes—nearly 70—which promote the personal and social education of young people.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what money has been given for capital expenditure by the Schools Funding Council; and what facilities it has been spent on at (i) Ravenswood; (ii) Bullers Wood, (iii) St. Olave's, (iv) Newstead Wood and (v) Crofton junior schools in the London borough of Bromley. [22130]

This is a matter for the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked the chairman of the funding agency to write to my hon. Friend with the information he has requested.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the parliamentary constituencies which have selective local education authority and grant-maintained schools within their boundaries. [22916]

The 163 local education authority and grant-maintained schools which classify themselves as selective in the 1995 performance tables are located in the following parliamentary constituencies:

• CONSTITUENCY
• Altrincham and Sale
• Ashford
• Aylesbury
• Batley and Spen
• Beaconsfield
• Bexleyheath
• Birkenhead
• Birmingham, Hall Green
• Birmingham, Northfield
• Birmingham, Perry Barr
• Birmingham, Small Heath
• Bournemouth, East
• Bridgwater
• Bristol, West
• Buckinghamshire
• Canterbury
• Carshalton and Wallington
• Chelmsford
• Cheltenham
• Chesham and Amersham
• Chipping Barnet
• Colchester, North
• Colchester, South and Maldon
• Dartford
• Davyhulme
• Dorset South
• Dover
• Enfield-Edmonton
• Faversham
• Finchley
• Folkestone and Hythe
• Gainsborough and Horncastle
• Gloucester
• Grantham
• Gravesham
• Halifax
• Hendon, South
• Holland with Boston
• Honiton
• Ilford, North
• Kent Mid
• Kingston upon Thames
• Lancaster
• Lindsey, East
• Maidstone
• Medway
• Old Bexley and Sidcup
• Orpington
• Plymouth Drake
• Poole
• Reading East
• Ribble Valley
• Rossendale and Darwen
• Rugby and Kenilworth
• Salisbury
• Shropshire North
• Skipton and Ripon
• Slough
• South Hams
• Southend, East
• Southend, West
• Stamford and Spalding
• Stratford-on-Avon
• Stretford
• Stroud
• Sutton and Cheam
• Sutton Coldfield
• Thanet, South
• Tonbridge and Malling
• Torbay
• Tunbridge Wells
• Walsall, South
• Wanstead and Woodford
• Wirral, South
• Wirral, West
• Wolverhampton, South-West
• Wycombe

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when the Employment Service annual performance agreement for 1996–97 will be published. [23955]

Today, I have placed copies of the 1996–97 Employment Service annual performance agreement in the Library. The new targets will require the Employment Service to build on this year's extremely good performance and, in the light of the introduction of the jobseeker's allowance in October this year, will be especially challenging. I have set a demanding target of placing a record 1.97 million unemployed people in jobs in the 12 months from April. Related targets for placing long-term claimants and people with disabilities are higher than ever before. I have set the Employment Service no specific target for combating fraud this year because, from April, responsibility for that area of work moves to the Benefits Agency, which has its own target, published in its business plan.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will place in the Library a list of the schools to be admitted to the assisted places scheme. [23956]

We intend to admit 63 new schools to the scheme, offering 1,111 assisted places for entry in September 1996. I am placing a list in the Library. These additional places form part of the expansion of the scheme which my right hon. Friend announced in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Mrs. Lait) on 29 February, Official Report, columns 667–68.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what are the implications of the European Communities (Employment in the Civil Service) Order 1991 for service in departmental agencies; and if he will list the posts and agencies affected. [22917]

The implications of the European Communities (Employment in the Civil Service) Order 1991 for service in departmental agencies in the home civil service are that, since 21 May 1991, they have been able to employ EC (now EEA—since the European Economic Area Act 1993) nationals, and certain non-EEA family members, in any of the posts which do not constitute employment in the "public service" within the meaning of article 48(4) of the EC treaty.All departmental agencies in the home civil service are affected by the order. The agencies—98 (plus Customs and Excise and Inland Revenue which operate on next steps lines), employing some 355,000 staff—were listed in "Next Steps Review 1995", copies of which were placed in the Library of the House on 26 February 1996. Since publication, one agency—the Defence Accounts Agency-1,770 staff—has ceased to exist and the following four have been launched.

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what are the implications of the European Communities (Employment in Civil Service) Order 1991 for a person born and resident in Northern Ireland but holding a passport issued by the Republic of Ireland in respect of employment in the public and civil service; and if he will list all the posts, Departments and agencies affected. [22924]

Persons born and resident in Northern Ireland, but holding a passport issued by the Republic of Ireland, provided they still hold British nationality, are eligible for employment in almost any post in the home civil service in the same way as any other British national. Those who surrender British nationality in favour of Irish citizenship will, from 1 June 1996, under the arrangements I announced on 1 March 1996, Official Repot, column 771, come within the ambit of the European Communities (Employment in the Civil Service) Order 1991; they will be eligible, together with nationals of other EC (now EEA—since the European Economic Area Act 1993) member states and certain members of their families, for appointment to approximately 390,000 posts in the home civil service—75 per cent. of all posts—which do not constitute employment in the "public service" in EC treaty terms. These posts are spread across all home civil service Departments and their agencies and could be listed only at disproportionate cost.

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister if he will list the cost and number of items of equipment and furniture that (a) have been stolen and (b) are otherwise unaccounted for from the Office of Public Service and its agencies in each of the past five years, listing by name any such items valued at £5,000 or more, and showing information technology material separately. [21704]

Details of the cost and, where known, the number of items of equipment and furniture recorded as having been stolen or otherwise unaccounted for from the Cabinet Office, including the Office of Public Service and its agencies are as follows:Within this period, the only item valued at £5,000 or more stolen or otherwise unaccounted for was a Compaq Systempro file server valued at £10,000 which was stolen from the information technology system branch in the Horse Guards road building during 1992–93.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what legal action the Government are taking against (a) the insurers of the Braer and (b) the international oil compensation fund in respect of the Braer disaster. [21482]

Under the international convention which establish the international oil pollution compensation fund, which are implemented in United Kingdom legislation in the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, rights to compensation are extinguished unless legal action is commenced within three years of the date on which the pollution damage occurred. The Government have initiated a legal action against the owners and third party liability insurers of the Braer and the international oil pollution compensation fund to protect the Government's claim for compensation for eligible costs incurred by the Department of Transport and the Scottish Office following the Braer incident.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer of 7 March 1996, Official Report, column 309, if he will make a statement on the measures taken by his Department to assess whether aircraft are operated in accordance with international safety standards. [21362]