asked Her majesty's Government:Whether they will state the total number of teachers at present registered as unemployed in Northern Ireland; and what are the numbers unemployed in each of the following categories:

At 10th December 1981, there were 1,212 unemployed teachers in the following categories:

	Male	Female	Total
Primary	39	395	434
Secondary (including grammar)	169	384	553
Further education, technical vocational and related	12	14	26
Other	81	118	199
	310	911	1212

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether the expenditure on maintenance, referred to in the Written Answer of 1st February 1982, includes allowances for travel between home and university, and if not what are the corresponding amounts involved including details for the academic year 1980–81.

The amount for maintenance given in my earlier reply to the noble Lord included a grant for travel costs related to students' attendance at their institutions. The cost of travel between home and university cannot be extracted without disproportionate cost.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will update the information provided in the Written Answer of 1st February 1982, on university study awards for Northern Ireland students for the academic years 1980–81 and 1981–82; and, if the information is not currently available for each of these years, whether they will indicate the earliest date by which it could be provided.

In the academic year 1980–81 the following awards were made to Northern Ireland students for courses at universities:—

	Awards
Universities in	Undergraduate	Postgraduate
(i) Great Britain	2,667	202
(ii) Republic of Ireland	636	17

The expenditure on these awards is estimated as:—

	Undergraduate		Postgraduate
	Fees	Maintenance	Fees	Maintenance
	£m	£m	£m	£m
(i) Great Britain	2·1	3·1	0·2	0·4
(ii) Republic of Ireland	0·4	0·8	0·02	0·04

Information on awards in the academic year 1981–82 will not be available until early next year.

asked Her Majesty's Government:At 1981 prices what was the total operating deficit of the Concorde services run by British Airways in 1980, what additional costs would have been payable in 1980 by British Airways if they were required to meet a reasonable proportion of the interest payable on the total of £1,126 million development costs of Concorde, and what was the total number of staff in British Airways (in terms of full-time jobs per year) employed in 1980 on Concorde services, including maintenance and other services.

The total operating deficit of British Airways' Concorde services in the financial year 1980–81 was £2.047 million. Because of the small size of Concorde's production run, it is not possible to make a meaningful estimate of what would be a reasonable proportion of Concorde's development costs for British Airways to bear. British Airways estimate that roughly 1,200 staff (in terms of full-time job equivalents) were employed during the year on Concorde, although the figure was subject to some fluctuation.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether the European Community will now recommend to OECD that the Soviet Union should be upgraded from the "intermediate" to the "relatively rich" category in the export credit Consensus thus emphasising their protest about Soviet involvement in preventing the Polish people from enjoying the greater measure of personal freedom which they had gained.

Yes, the European Community has now decided to recommend to other participants in the OECD export credit Consensus that the USSR should be re-classified in this way. Action in the field of export credits was one of the measures included in the declaration by NATO Foreign Ministers of 11th January.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether the reported sacking of Sir Richard O'Brien as chairman of the Manpower Services Commission and his replacement by a former political adviser to Sir Keith Joseph, indicates a change in Government policy.

The appointment of Mr David Young to take over the chairmanship of the Manpower Services Commission when Sir Richard O'Brien's term of office comes to an end in April this year does not represent a change in Government policy towards the Manpower Services Commission.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether the Secretary of State for Employment has been informed by

Information given to the department under the redundancy handling provisions of the Employment Protection Act 1975 is given in confidence.

asked Her Majesty's Government:For the National Health Service General Dental Services in England,

The following table provides the information requested in parts (1) to (3) of the noble Lord's Question:

Year	Total cost of General Dental Service (England)—gross	Patients' Charges, net of remissions and refunds	Proportion of cost of General Dental Service covered by patients charges percentage
	£ million	£ million
1975–76	200·8	31·9	15·9
1976–77	221·2	39·3	17·8
1977–78	229·9	51·2	22·3
1978–79	279·1	55·4	19·8
1979–80	336·4	69·6	20·7
1980–81	419·1	92·4	22·0
1981–82 estimated	491·6	117·6	23·9
1982–83 estimated	529·1	151·0	28·5

4. It is estimated that net income from charges will increase by some £33 million between 1981–82 and 1982–83; £27 million of this is an intended increase in real terms.5. The information requested is not readily available and could only be produced for past years with disproportionate cost and effort. The noble Lord will be aware that low income is only one of the grounds on which exemption or remission of charges is available and forecasts for the current and future years do not take account of the individual elements of exemption or remission.6. The charges in force when the present Government took office were introduced on 1st April 1977. The present level of charges, had they moved in line with the Retail Price Index, would be as shown in the table below:

	Charge with effect from 1st April 1977	1977 charges revalued to December 1981
Maximum charge for routine treatment	£5·00	£8·56
Special treatment (crowns, inlays etc.) charge per tooth	£10·00	£17·13
Maximum charges for dentures	£30·00	£51·38
Overall maximum charge for a course of treatment	£30·00	£51·38

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether in view of the unstable situation in the Horn of Africa, and the distress caused by the refugee problem in Somalia, they are prepared to take the initiative in promoting international mediation in that region.

Her Majesty's Government remain concerned over continuing tensions and the need to promote stability in the Horn of Africa. In this regard they believe the Organisation of African Unity is the body best suited to resolve disagreements between African states. Meanwhile they are participating substantially with humanitarian relief for refugees in Somalia, donating £3 million bilaterally this financial year. Our bilaterial aid programme for 1981–82 will be £1·5 million.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether it is by accident or design that the BBC's World Service can be clearly received in the United Kingdom; and whether they will give an assurance that the increasing numbers that regularly listen to this service will be able to do so after the modernisation programme has been completed.

The BBC World Service is designed for overseas reception. To broadcast it deliberately to the United Kindom would raise legal and financial difficulties. At present, listeners in Central and Southern England can hear the World Service on medium wave and those in Southern England on short wave. Audibility on medium wave may be confined to the South-East when a new medium wave transmitter replaces that at Crowborough later this year, but the position will not be known until transmissions begin. Short wave services will not be affected.

asked Her Majesty's Government:What area of Forestry Commission land has been sold since the passing of the Forestry Act 1981; what have been the proceeds of the sales; and to what purpose has the income been directed.

Sales of 634 hectares of woodland and plantable land have been completed since the passing of the Forestry Act 1981, realising a total sum of £474,336. In addition, a number of residential and other properties have been sold which could have been disposed of under the more limited powers which existed before the Act came into force.The sums received from all these disposals have been paid into the Forestry Fund in accordance with Section 42(4) of the Forestry Act 1967, and in due course will be transferred to the Consolidated Fund under the terms of Section 41 of that Act, as amended by Section 3 of the Forestry Act 1981, and accounted for as extra receipts on the Forestry Commission Vote. This will have the effect of reducing the Commission's call on the Exchequer for the management of its forestry enterprise.

to ask Her Majesty's Government:How many Home Civil Servants received awards of the several Orders of the British Empire and of the Imperial Service Orders respectively in the years 1979, 1980 and 1981.

The information is as follows:—

	1979	1980	1981
KBE/DBE	2	1	—
CBE	24	24	23
OBE	48	48	42
MBE	124	116	101
BEM	96	106	92
ISO	47	49	46

asked Her Majesty's Government:When they are going to advise Her Majesty that no further awards to the several Orders of the British Empire created during World War I in 1915 "For God and Empire", should be made.

There is no intention of doing so.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will list the tribunals from whose decisions there is no statutory right of appeal to the High Court on a point of law.

The proceedings of all inferior tribunals are subject to judicial review under Order 53 of the Rules of the Supreme Court. The noble Lord's question, however, refers to statutory rights of appeal. Here the position is as follows. The tribunals which are subject to the supervision of the Council on Tribunals and in relation to whose decision there is no statutory right of appeal to the High Court on a point of law fall into the following categories:

(a) Tribunals from which there is no statutory right of appeal;

(b) Tribunals from which a statutory right of appeal on a point of law does not lie to the High Court; and

(c) Tribunals from which a statutory right of appeal, not confined to a point of law, lies otherwise than to the High Court,

and are listed in the tables that follow. It would not be possible, without disproportionate expense, to deal with the numerous tribunals which are not subject to the council's supervision.

TABLE A

TRIBUNALS FROM WHOSE DECISIONS THERE IS NO STATUTORY RIGHT OF APPEAL

Arbitrators appointed under Schedule 6 to the Agricultural Holdings Act 1947,

Civil Aviation Authority (cases other than air transport licensing cases),

The Betting Levy Appeal Tribunal,

Appeal Committees constituted in accordance with Schedule 2 to the Education Act 1980,

Committees appointed in England and Wales for the purposes of Sections 20 or 21 of the Forestry Act 1967,

The Immigration Appeal Tribunal,

Persons appointed under Section 53(3) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979,

Tribunals constituted under Part II of the Food and Drugs Act 1955,

The Misuse of Drugs Tribunal in England and Wales constituted under Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971,

The Board of Referees appointed for the purposes of Section 26 of the Capital Allowances Act 1968,

The Tribunal established under section 4 of the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979.

TABLE B
TRIBUNALS FROM WHOSE DECISIONS THERE IS A STATUTORY RIGHT OF APPEAL ON A POINT OF LAW WHICH IS NOT TO THE HIGH COURT
Tribunal	Appeal on a point of law to
The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Arbitration Tribunal	Court of Appeal
Arbitration Tribunals established under Schedule 3 to the Industry Act 1975	Court of Appeal
Industrial Tribunals	Employment Appeal Tribunal

The Iron and Steel Arbitration Tribunal	Court of Appeal
The Lands Tribunal	Court of Appeal
The Social Security Commissioners	Court of Appeal
Medical Appeal Tribunals constituted for the purposes of Part III of the Social Security	Social Security
Act 1975	Commissioners
Supplementary Benefit Appeal	Social Security
Tribunals	Commissioners
The Transport Tribunal	Court of Appeal

TABLE C
TRIBUNALS FROM WHOSE DECISIONS THERE IS A STATUTORY RIGHT OF APPEAL WHICH IS NOT CONFINED TO A POINT OF LAW AND WHICH IS NOT TO THE HIGH COURT
Tribunal	Appeal to
The Civil Aviation Authority (air transport licensing cases)	Secretary of State
The adjudicators established under	Immigration Appeal
Section 12 of the Immigration Act 1971	Tribunal
Family Practitioner Committees and Service Committees of Family Practitioner Committees established under the National Health Service Act 1977	Secretary of State
The Controller of Plant Variety	Plant Varieties and
Rights	Seeds Tribunal
Local Valuation Courts constituted in accordance with Section 88 of the General Rate Act 1967	Lands Tribunal
Rent Assessment Committees established as Leasehold Valuation Tribunal in accordance with Section 142 of the Housing Act 1980	Lands Tribunal
The Licensing Authorities appointed under Part V of the Transport Act 1968	Transport Tribunal
The Traffic Commissioners appointed under the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981	Secretary of State
National Insurance Local Tribunals	Social Security
	Commissioners
The Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks	Patents Court

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will explain the purpose of recent changes affecting those in Britain eligible for loans from the European Investment Bank.

Private sector companies are free to borrow from the European Investment Bank without any Government restrictions. To facilitate such borrowing the Government run a scheme whereby certain borrowers can be protected from the exchange risk on the currencies lent by the European Investment Bank, in exchange for a premium. The Government announced on 30th November that the scheme (which applies also to borrowing from the European Coal and Steel Community) would be extended for two years to 31st December 1983 subject to a ceiling of £400 million on new cover provided; this represents a substantial increase from the earlier ceiling of £220 million for the two years 1980 and 1981.