asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether it is their intention that, in future, individuals applying for judicial review of a decision to remove or deport shall be detained for immediate removal after the table review and before the completion of the application by way of a hearing in open court.

The normal practice is not to remove a person while there is an outstanding application for judicial review or for leave to make such an application of which my department is aware. When a table application has been rejected, however, there is no outstanding action before the courts until the application is renewed orally before a judge of the High Court or the Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Pursuant to their Answer to Lord Dean of Beswick's Question about the 46 people holding the office of councillor and chairman of a regional or district health authority, if they will publish the names of the persons and authorities concerned, together with their political affiliations where known.

The available information is as follows. As chairmen are appointed for their personal qualities and not to represent any sectional interest we do not consider it necessary to keep up-to-date information on their political affiliations.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they can reconcile paragraph 123 of the Defence Estimates 1982, which stated, "The Trident D5 Programme will cost on average about £500 million a year over 15 years" and the Written Answer given by Mr. Butler to Mr. Alton (H.C. Deb 18th January 1985, col. 255), which stated, "The procurement period for the Trident system is currently assessed at about 20 years", with the answer given to Lord Bruce-Gardyne on 24th January (H.L. Deb. 24th January 1985, col. 383), which stated, "The procurement period of acquisition remains as it has always been".

The procurement period for Trident II has remained unaltered at about 18 years since the Government's decision to purchase Trident II was made in March 1982. In announcing the decision, Sir John Nott indicated that the programme would stretch "over the next 18 years" [H.C. Deb, 11th March 1982, col. 979]. The period of 18 years has been restated since, notably in March 1982 in evidence to the House of Commons Defence Committee [H.C. 266, page 12, Q.74], and by my right honourable friend the Minister of State for the Armed Forces in the Recent Navy Debate [H.C. Deb, 29th November 1984, col. 1128.]The Statement on the Defence Estimates for 1982 gave a comparison of the cost profiles of the Tornado and Trident programmes over representative 15-year periods, and their impact on the defence budget. The graphs used made it quite clear that fifteen years was not the total length of the procurement in either case. Averaging the total estimated cost of Trident II of £7,500 million at September 1981 prices and at £1=$1.78 over the same illustrative period showed the relatively small proportion of the defence budget expected to be absorbed in the purchase of the system.The reference by Ministers to a procurement period of about 20 years, notably by my right honourable friend the Minister of State for Defence Procurement, also reflects the work undertaken on the Trident I system before the announcement to proceed with Trident II was made.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they have read the register of historic gardens compiled by the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England and whether this is intended to lead to the imposition of new statutory controls on such gardens.

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for the Environment has received copies of the first 10 sections of the register of parks and gardens of special historic interest which were published by the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England in December. These first volumes demonstrate admirably the purely informative nature of the register, which has no statutory force. I can confirm that the Government have no intention of extending the statutory provisions for the listing of buildings to include gardens appearing in the register or otherwise identified as of special interest.

asked Her Majesty's Government:

The full report of the Small Scales Digital Map Data User Needs Study has now been published, and I have placed a copy in the Library. Copies are generally available from Ordnance Survey, Southampton.