asked Her Majesty's Government:What is the total amount paid or payable to the Cunard Steam-Ship Company and/or subsidiary or associated companies in respect of participation of all kinds in the Falklands Islands operation.

The amounts of the sums paid as compensation for the requisition of any particular ship to support the operation of the task force in the South Atlantic or to any particular company as a result of such requisitions are being treated as confidential to the companies concerned.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many applications for British visas were lodged by Polish citizens during the first six months of 1982, how many of these applications were granted, how many refused, and how many are still pending.

Four thousand, nine hundred and five visa applications were received and 2,801 visas granted in Warsaw during the first six months of 1982. Information is not available on the number of cases outstanding from applications lodged in this period; but in the following three months a further 4,042 applications were received, and there are now 2,120 visa applications outstanding. Information on the number of refusals is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

asked Her Majesty's Government:If they will withdraw the British Ambassador to Israel.

No. We must make the best use of our contacts with the Israeli Government in order to get across our ideas on how progress towards a lasting settlement in the Middle East might be made.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many staff were in post on 1st April 1982 in (

The staff in post at 1st April were:

(a) Ministry	12,504½*
(b) Agricultural Development and Advisory Service (ADAS)	5,057½*
(c) Staff giving face-to-face advice to farmers	2,284
*Part-time staff count as ½ units

ADAS has played its part in contributing to the manpower savings required of the Ministry of Agriculture. While there have been reductions in face-to-face contact with farmers on the administration of capital grants and other statutory activities, the level of face- to-face advisory work is being maintained. Substantial numbers of front-line advisers have been recruited this autumn, notably in the Agriculture Service.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether a recommendation that doctors co-operate with the military and police to kill the seriously injured following a nuclear attack so as to put moribund millions out of their misery was suppressed by the Faculty of Community Medicine at ministerial or departmental request; and if this was not the case, whether they will make it clear that it is their policy that these matters should be publicly discussed so that the electorate may be made fully aware of the consequences of a military policy based on nuclear weapons.

My department has made no attempt to suppress any recommendations made by the Faculty of Community Medicine on the medical aspects of nuclear war plans. The Government welcome every opportunity for open discussion of the threat, the precautionary measures available to the public and the cost implications to the individual or to the nation of adopting them. An informed public will be much better able to judge what is necessary, feasible and desirable in the civil defence field.House adjourned at half-past eight o'clock.