asked Her Majesty's Government:How many people currently hold amateur wireless licences.

The number of United Kingdom citizens holding radio amateur licences on 12th July 1978 was 23,671.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many complaints (or prosecutions) were recorded last year of illegal use of wireless transmitters,

Information about the number of complaints concerning illicit use of radio is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate expense. During 1977 there were 22 prosecutions for the unlicensed use of radio transmitting equipment in the amateur wavebands, and five prosecutions for unlicensed use in the 27 MHz band.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether the USAF will operate their KC-135s out of Fairford to the standard of British Civil Airworthiness Requirements, which specify a 3 per cent. rate of climb for one engine out on the WAT limit.

At the normal take-off weight at which the USAF will operate the KC-135 in peacetime, the aircraft will achieve a gradient of climb singificantly better than the British Civil Airworthiness Requirements in all segments of the take-off flight path.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they are studying the increase in mackerel catches, particularly off the South-West of England, and whether they are aware of the scale of mackerel apparently for the purposes of industrial reduction ot Soviet factor ships; whether they approve this sale; by what date it is expected that this trade will be regulated; and by what date it is expected that all Soviet fishing and fishery related vessels will require licences to operate in British and other EEC Member States' waters.

United Kingdom fishing for mackerel has been subject since September 1977 to licensing controls introduced to avoid overfishing. Under these controls special arrangements were introduced to monitor and regulate the quantities of mackerel landed or transhipped by United Kingdom fishing vessels to Soviet and other foreign vessels off the South-West during the 1977–78 fishery were processed for human consumption. These transhipments represented a valuable export trade.Fishing by Soviet vesesls within the fishery limits of EEC Member States has been subject to licensing since 10th February 1977. Following the breakdown in the talks on a fisheries agreement between the EEC and the Soviet Union all licences for Soviet fishing vessels were withdrawn from 12th October 1977. Soviet fishing vessels are no longer permitted to fish within British or other EEC Member States' fishery limits. There are at present no plans to make the activities of other Soviet vessels within EEC Member States' fishery limits subject to licensing.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they have referred any part of the English law of insurance to the Law Commission for their advice.

The Lord Chancellor has invited the Law Commission to consider the effect on the liability of an insurer, and on the rights of an insured, of: