asked Her Majesty's Government:What progress is being made in repair work at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital; what is the estimated total cost and how it is being met; and when it is expected that the hospital will be fully functioning again.

Preliminary site work is in progress. Re-building is planned to start in June 1981 and it is envisaged that the hospital will re-open in its new role in mid-1983. The cost of this development, including equipment, is estimated at £2·7 million at October 1979 prices of which £2·4 million will be met by the Department, and £0·3 million by voluntary subscription. The cost of providing any additional services will be met from voluntary funds.

asked Her Majesty's Government:What local authorities have designated one of their officers as access liaison officer, following the recommendation of the Silver Jubilee Committee on access by the disabled to public buildings; whether they will give the names of such officers; and whether they will list those local authorities who have not yet so designated one of their officers.

I regret that the information requested is not collected centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. However, I am aware that some local authorities have appointed access liaison officers, while others specifically encourage their planning officers to bear in mind the access needs of disabled people.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many applicants for special vouchers in India to whom vouchers were offered in 1980 did not take them up.

Figures for 1980 are not yet available. The papers of a number of applicants who have been interviewed have not yet been fully processed.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many voucher applications made in India in the first six months of 1975 were discontinued (

I regret that details are not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many voucher applications made in India in the second half of 1980, or during any other period for which this information is more readily available, were made by people listed as dependants by a previous or simultaneous applicant.

Precise figures are not available, but at least seven such applications were made in India in the second half of 1980.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many vouchers were issued to applicants in India in 1980 on a priority basis, i.e. before other applicants who had applied in the same month.

Two special vouchers were issued to applicants in India on an exceptional priority basis in 1980.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will list the medical conditions which are not infectious or contagious but by reason of which the issue of special vouchers to applicants in India was refused or delayed in 1980.

Precise details are not available. No special voucher applications in India were refused on medical grounds in 1980. A small number were referred for medical reasons including: Down's syndrome; epilepsy; mental subnormality; heart disorder; hypertension and glycosuria; phimosis and hydrocele; hernias; total aphasia; cataracts; and unstabilised diabetes.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many applications for entry clearance as visitors made in India in 1980 by United Kingdom passport holders who (

Figures available show that in 1980 100 United Kingdom passport holders in India were issued with entry clearance as visitors and 69 refused. Three of those issued and 14 of those refused had also applied for special vouchers.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they have anything further to add to the Answer given on 26th January to the Question in my name on the implementation of the provisions of the Helsinki Final Act during the last six months.

Further to my reply of 26th January (Official Report, Vol. 416, col. 617), I have to make a correction to the third paragraph, which should read:"The Moscow group is now reduced to five active members, four of whom signed an appeal to the Madrid conference. Others to have suffered in the past six months include Tatyana Velikanova, a veteran Moscow human rights activist; V. Stus, a Ukrainian Helsinki monitor; a fellow Ukranian monitor Heyko Matusevich; A. Ogorodnikov, a founder-member of the unofficial Christian seminar; Father G. Yakunin, a founder-member of the Christian Committee for the Defence of Believers' Rights in the USSR; and V. Bakhmin, a founder-member of the Working Commission to Investigate the Use of Psychiatry for Political Purposes".

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Information is not available for the dates specified. At 1st January 1979 there were 2,810 United Kingdom Civil Service industrials in Northern Ireland and at 1st January 1981 there were 2,523. There is no separate planned target for the number of industrial civil servants in post in Northern Ireland on 1st April 1984.House adjourned at six minutes past seven o' clock.