asked Her Majesty's Government:What is the length of time that persons applying for entry clearance at the end of the first quarter of 1981 at each of the posts in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are expected to wait before interview.

The information requested is given in the following table.Estimated time a person who applied for a first interview at the end of the first quarter 1981 may have to wait:

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will give the total number of refusals of admission to the United Kingdom on the recommendations of port medical inspectors in 1980; and within this total, the number refused on the basis of a radiological examination and on grounds of mental ill-health respectively.

In 1980, of some 17,000 persons refused leave to enter the United Kingdom, 193 were refused on medical grounds based on the recommendation of the port medical inspector; 127 of these persons were refused on the basis of a mental disorder; the number refused on the basis of a radiological examination could be made available only at disproportionate cost.

asked Her Majesty's Government:In how many cases, if any, has a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder been released on licence at an earlier date than that recommended by the judge at his trial.

Three, all in 1978. In accordance with the provisions of Section 61 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967, all three prisoners were released on the recommendation of the Parole Board and after consultation with the Lord Chief Justice and, where he was available, the trial judge.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How much of the £5 million announced on 1st April 1980 as available for "partnership building" of small workshop premises in the lesser assisted areas has been matched by private investment.

The following collaborative schemes have been announced for the English Industrial Estates Corporation to build and manage small factories in the assisted areas:

asked Her Majesty's Government:What steps are being taken through improved sex education in schools, and the greater use of voluntary advisory and counselling societies, to reduce teenage pregnancies, especially of girls under sixteen.

Schools are already responding in a variety of ways to the need for sound sex education, and a number of local education authorities have set up working parties to advise on ways in which existing programmes could be developed. My department has published general advice on sex education in the handbook Health Education in Schools, and we are also considering the possibility of issuing supplementary guidance on this subject.I place particular importance on the role of parents, and on co-operation and consultation between parents and schools. The requirement in the Education (School Information) Regulations 1981 that local education authorities should inform parents about the manner and context in which schools provide sex education will foster that co-operation.I understand that the Department of Health and Social Security makes a number of grants to voluntary bodies in relation to advice and counselling on contraception but that none of these is specifically directed to teenage pregnancies or the under-sixteens. The most relevant of these grants—to the Brook Advisory Centres—is currently under review.House adjourned at three minutes before seven o'clock.