asked Her Majesty's Government:What research has been conducted or sponsored by the Home Office on the problems of particular groups of offenders in relation to alcohol consumption.

Some early work on this subject was reported in the Home Office Research Study No. 28, Some Male Offenders' Problems, published in 1975. This study examined, among other things, the drinking problems of a group of homeless offenders. The drinking habits of offenders in custody were examined in Home Office Research Study No. 66, Petty Persistent Offenders, published in 1981.A project is being carried out by the Home Office to evaluate the use of overnight shelters as a means of coping with drunkenness without resort to arrest; the British Crime Survey includes the self-reporting by respondents of their drinking habits and offending, which may allow some further analysis of the possible links between drinking habits and proneness to commit crime; and the Home Office Research and Planning Unit is investigating to what extent offences of violence are centred around licensed premises.

asked Her Majesty's Government:On what date Mr. Abdul Qayum Butt was transferred from the Queen's Building to the Ashford Remand Centre; what progress has been made by the UNHCR Representative in London on finding a third country willing to grant him asylum; and what is the maximum length of time they will detain Mr. Butt in Ashford, assuming that the efforts of the UNHCR are unsuccessful.

Mr. Butt was transferred from the Queen's Building to Ashford Remand Centre on 4th June 1982. I understand that the London Representative of UNHCR has referred the case to his Geneva headquarters, where it is being urgently considered. It is, as yet, too early to assume that the efforts of UNHCR will not be successful.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many prisoners were transferred from a dispersal prison to a local prison under the provisions of Circular Instruction 10/74 in each of the months of 1981, and in each of the months of 1982 so far; and whether, in view of the critical overcrowding of local prisons, they will ask governors to use the power given to them in this Circular sparingly, and with due regard to the position in the particular prison to which the inmate would be sent.

The information is as follows:

1981	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May	June
	5	4	4	16	3	3
	July	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
	7	5	5	14	5	4
1982	Jan.	Feb.	Mar.	Apr.	May
	6	5	10	6	10

Transfers under Circular Instruction 10/1974 do not have a significant effect on the overcrowding of local prisons, but the governor of a dispersal prison is required to confirm with the governor of the local prison that there are no exceptional problems that would make it impossible for the prisoner to be accommodated.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will publish in the

During the debate on the Third Reading in another place of the Criminal Justice Bill on 12th May, my honourable and learned friend the Minister of State indicated that the Government had concluded that a curfew order would not be workable as a separate penalty for young offenders, but that they would be considering instead whether provision might be made in the Bill for a curfew for juveniles within the framework of the supervision order. The Government have received the views of the following bodies on the proposal:

• Association of Directors of Social Services
• Association of County Councils
• Association of Metropolitan Authorities
• British Association of Social Workers
• Central Council of Probation and After-Care Committees
• Conference of Chief Probation Officers
• Greater London Council
• Justices' Clerks' Society
• Magistrates' Association
• National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders
• New Approaches to Juvenile Crime
• National Association of Probation Officers
• National Intermediate Treatment Federation
• National Youth Bureau.

The views of each body (often expressed at some length) would be difficult to summarise within the confines of a reply to a Question without risk of distortion. But the general response was that a curfew power was better incorporated into the framework of a supervision order rather than as a separate order. The Magistrates' Association strongly supported the proposal. Most of the other bodies expressed reservations of varying degrees of strength but, while some expressed outright opposition, others saw value in a curfew requirement as part of a "package" of activities.

asked Her Majesty's Government:When the report of the inquiry into Civil Service pay will be published.

The Government announced on 29th June 1981 the establishment of an independent inquiry, under the chairmanship of The Right Honourable Sir John Megaw, into the future arrangements for determining the pay of the non-industrial home Civil Service—(Vol. 422, cols. 8-13). The committee of inquiry have now submitted their report. The report was laid before Parliament today and is being published as a Command Paper later this afternoon. Copies are being made available in the Printed Paper Office.The Government are most grateful to Sir John Megaw and his colleagues for their work and for completing it so promptly. The Government intend to discuss the inquiry's recommendations with the Civil Service unions as soon as both sides have the opportunity to consider them fully.

asked Her Majesty's Government:

(a) whether they will publish a table showing the amount of alcoholic drink bought in the United Kingdom in each of the years since 1963, taking 1963 as 100 showing also the amounts of wine, cider and perry; spirits; and beer respectively and giving a similar series of total consumers' expenditure at constant prices over the same period;

(b) whether they will publish a table showing real personal disposable income per head; the real price of beer; the real price of spirits; the real price of wine, cider and perry and the real price of all alcoholic drink in each of the years since 1963.

The information currently available is listed below. It has not been possible to give the noble Lord the exact information which he asked for. But I will write to the noble Lord as soon as the outstanding information becomes available.CONSUMERS' EXPENDITURE AT CONSTANT PRICES1—Total2—Beer3—Spirits4—Wine, Cider and Perry

1975 prices, £ million
	1	2	3	4
1963	49,725	1,778	673	361
1964	51,274	1,860	726	407
1965	52,131	1,875	697	397
1966	53,184	1,935	723	429
1967	54,385	1,999	736	481
1968	56,026	2,064	788	534
1969	56,313	2,188	750	522
1970	57,814	2,265	880	547
1971	59,724	2,372	933	632
1972	63,270	2,447	1,062	719
1973	66,332	2,589	1,317	870
1974	65,113	2,590	1,408	894
1975	64,749	2,680	1,342	834
1976	64,815	2,738	1,312	888
1977	64,583	2,728	1,370	925
1978	68,222	2,803	1,487	1,023
1979	71,485	2,834	1,644	1,097
1980	71,477	2,721	1,553	1,093
1981	71,447	2,565	1,465	1,098

1963=100
	1	2	3	4
1963	100	100	100	100
1964	103	105	108	113
1965	105	105	104	110
1966	107	109	107	119
1967	109	112	109	133
1968	113	116	117	148
1969	113	123	111	145
1970	116	127	131	152
1971	120	133	139	175
1972	127	138	158	199
1973	133	146	196	241
1974	131	146	209	248
1975	130	151	199	231
1976	130	154	195	246
1977	130	153	204	256
1978	137	158	221	283
1979	144	159	244	304
1980	144	153	231	303
1981	144	144	218	304