asked Her Majesty's Government:How many people of either sex (specifying which) are entitled to the following benefits and what is the actual take-up:

Such information as is available is given in the tables below. The figures are rounded estimates, except those marked with an asterisk, which are the results of counts.The family benefits in Table 1 may be paid where there is a child aged four or under. The disablement benefits in Table 2 may be paid where there is a disabled child aged four, three or two, but not under two.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many (

At December 1980, the latest date for which information is available, there were approximately 100,000 men and 700,000 women, heading one-parent families, who were entitled to one-parent benefit. About 57,000 men and 380,000 women were receiving one-parent benefit.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many families are entitled to family income supplement (or are thought so to be) and how many take up their entitlement.

The number of families receiving family income supplement at 27th October 1981, the latest date for which figures are available, was about 124,000. It is not possible to say what percentage this represents of those families who might have been eligible at that date.The latest estimate of the take-up of family income supplement is in the explanatory note which the department produced on 6th July 1981. Copies of this note, which was headed "The take-up of family income supplement: note on the estimate derived from the Family Finances Survey", were deposited in the Library of the House.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many health centres are already established in the United Kingdom and how many are projected.

The latest available figures show the number of established health centres in the United Kingdom to be as follows:—

England	1,014 at 1 October 1981
Wales	94 at 1 October 1981
Scotland	143 at 30 September 1981
Northern Ireland	70 at 30 December 1981
Total	1,321

In the 1981–82 financial year, there are 54 proposed starts in England and none in Northern Ireland. Information on proposed starts in Wales and Scotland is not collected centrally.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many area health authorities do not have health centres established in their area.

One in England.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether all the functions now carried out by the Public Trustee could not be carried out by the private sector at lower cost.

The Public Trustee operates at no net cost to the Exchequer. A transfer of all his functions to the private sector would depend on satisfactory arrangements for the acceptance of the large number of inherently unprofitable small trusts as well as the more remunerative work. If my noble friend has any proposals to make to overcome the difficulty the Government would be willing to consider them.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many breath tests at the roadside to check on the presence of alcohol in the blood were carried out by the police in England and Wales under Section 8(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1972 in 1981, and what percentage of riders or motorists involved in accidents that figure represents.

In injury accidents, in the 12 months up to September 1981, it is provisionally estimated that breath tests were required of 38,400 drivers of motor vehicles in England and Wales under Section 8(1) or 8(2) of the Act. This represents 10·7 per cent. of all drivers involved in injury accidents. Comparable information is not available for damage-only accidents, nor yet for the remainder of 1981.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they have anything to add to the Answer given by the noble Lord, Lord Trefgarne, to the noble Lord, Lord Bruce of Donington, on Tuesday, 9th March 1982.

Yes. The balance sheets and accounts of the Export Credits Guarantee Department Trading Fund, together with the Comptroller and Auditor General's report thereon, were laid in typescript before another place only, on 2nd March. That action conformed with past practice, consistent over very many years, and is based on the interpretation of Section 5 of the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1921, as requiring presentation to another place only since it is a committee of that place (the Public Accounts Committee) that considers the accounts and reports in detail. As a result of the noble Lord's inquiries, the legal requirement is now being re-examined, and without prejudice to the outcome of that re-examination copies of the balance sheets, accounts and the report were laid before this House yesterday.The reason for the delay in presentation is explained in paragraphs 7 and 8 of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the accounts. Under normal circumstances, it is the practice to lay copies of the "Confidential Final Revise" prints of the accounts and publication of the final prints follows within a matter of days. In view of the delay this year and in order to lay before Parliament at the earliest possible moment, the balance sheets, accounts and report were laid in typescript at the same time as copy was sent to the printers. There will as a consequence he a longer interval than usual between laying and publication. I can assure the noble Lord, and the House, that every endeavour is being made to achieve publication at the earliest possible date.