Written Answers
Parole Board
asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will list the names and qualifications of members of the Parole Board.
The Parole Board is appointed under Section 59 and Schedule 2 to the Criminal Justice Act 1967. The current membership is as follows.
Chairman:
Lord Windlesham, CVO, Minister of State, Home Office 1970–72: Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office, 1972–73; Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords 1973–74.
Persons who hold judicial office:
- Lord Justice Lloyd (Vice-Chairman), Lord Justice of Appeal.
- His Honour Judge D. D. Brown, Circuit Judge.
- Her Honour Judge M. Cohen, QC, Circuit Judge.
- The Hon. Mr. Justice Drake, Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division.
- His Honour Judge B. Griffiths, QC, Circuit Judge.
- The Hon. Mr. Justice McCullough, Judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division.
- Mrs. M. N. Norris, Solicitor, Recorder, North Eastern Circuit.
Registered medical practitioners who are psychiatrists
- Dr. N. E. Crumpton, MB, BS, DPM, FRC Psych, Consultant Psychiatrist, Broadgate Hospital, Hull.
- Dr. A. Folkson, MB, FRC Psych, DPM, Consultant Psychiatrist, visiting psychiatrist Lewes Prison.
- Dr. F. S. Hashmi, OBE, MB, BS, FRC Psych, DPM, Consultant Psychiatrist, All Saints Hospital, Birmingham.
- Dr. T. Kay, MB, Ch.B, MRC Psych, DPM, DMJ, Consultant Psychiatrist, Stanley Royd Hospital, visiting psychiatrist, Wakefield and Leeds Prisons.
- Dr. J. Le Gassicke, MB, FRCP, FRC Psych, Consultant Psychiatrist, St. George's Hospital, Morpeth.
- Dr. P. G. McGrath, CB, CBE, FRC Psych, Consultant Psychiatrist. Lately Physician Superintendant Broadmoor Hospital, 1956–1981.
- Dr. J. H. Orr, MB, Ch.B, FRC Psych, DPM, Consultant Psychiatrist. Formerly Director of the Prison Medical Service.
- Dr. D. F. Scott, MB, Ch.B, FRCP, DPM, Consultant in Charge, EEG Department, London Hospital, Whitechapel.
Persons having knowledge and experience of the supervision or aftercare of discharged prisoners
- Mr. C. S. Bagshaw, Assistant Chief Probation Officer, Essex Probation Service.
- Mr. G. Bevis, Chief Probation Officer, Cheshire Probation Service.
- Mr. C. Brown, Chief Probation Officer, Oxfordshire Probation Service.
- Mr. G. W. Ferry, Assistant Chief Probation Officer, West Midlands County Probation Service.
- Miss A. G. Hallam, OBE, Deputy Chief Probation Officer, South Yorkshire Probation Service.
- Mr. I. Gwynn Jones, Chief Probation Officer, Gwent Probation Service.
- Mr. R. Norman, retired as Chief Probation Officer Buckinghamshire in October 1983.
- Mr. E. P. G. Warburton, Chief Probation Officer, Durham County Probation Service.
- Mr. D. A. C. Woodward, Chief Probation Officer, Northamptonshire Probation Service.
Persons who have made a study of the causes of delinquency on the treatment of offenders
- Professor M. B. Davies, Professor of Social Work, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
- Dr. D. P. Farrington, Criminologist, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge.
- Dr. K. O. Hawkins, Criminologist, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford.
Other members
- Dr. D. I. Acres, OBE, JP, DL, Chairman of Council of the Magistrates' Association. Retired General Practitioner. Former member of Board of Visitors, Bullwood Hall.
- Mr. R. Barden, Principal of Northampton College of Further Education. Former member of Local Review Committee, Onley.
- Miss J. Barrow, OBE, Original member of the Community Relations Council. Member of the BBC Board of Governors.
- Mrs. L. M. Bennett, Director of Manpower Ltd. Panel member for Community Service Volunteer Youth Employment Programme.
- Dr. G. F. Birdwood, Medical Adviser to the Herts. and Beds. Standing Conference on Drug Misuse.
- Mr. R. S. Brown, JP, Vice Chairman of Wandsworth Council for Community Relations. Member of Industrial Relations Tribunal.
- Mr. N. F. Cairncross, CB, Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, until retirement in 1980.
- Mr. G. Cooke, CBE, retired Chief Education Officer, Lincolnshire.
- Sir James Crane, CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary until his retirement in 1982.
- Mrs. L. Deas, former Chairman of Local Review Committee, Gartree.
- Mrs. J. Forman Hardy, former member of Local Review Committees at Ranby and Lowdham Grange. Solicitor for the Supreme Court.
- Mr. G. W. Fowler, CB. Former Deputy Director General of the Prison Service.
- Mr. D. Gladwin, JP, Regional Secretary of the General Municipal Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union.
- Mr. J. R. Greenwood, QPM, former Chief Superintendent North Yorkshire Police.
- Mrs. C. Harman, former member of Race Relations Board/South Metropolitan Conciliation Committee; co-founder of Visitors Centre, Brixton Prison.
- Mr. A. K. Lewis, QC, Recorder, Wales and Chester Circuit.
- Lady Mayhew, former member of the Diplomatic Service. Examining member of the Civil Service Selection Board.
- Mr. B. B. Mitchell, Barrister.
- Mrs. C. Mitchell, Lecturer in Social Care. Former member of Local Review Committee, Preston.
- Mrs. S. Moore, Member Board of Visitors, Wandsworth. Former member of Local Review Committee, Wandsworth
- Mr. R. H. Pamplin, OBE, Ex-Secretary of the Police Federation. Member of the Parole Board from October 1977 until March 1978 when he resigned to join the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure.
- Mrs. A. Rich, JP, Chairman of the Sentencing of Offenders Committee, Magistrates' Association.
- Mr. T. Rowland-Hill, Administrator, Brookside Productions.
- Mrs. S. Scillitoe, former member of Local Review Committee Dartmoor. Founder of the Exeter Victim Support Scheme.
- Mrs. J. Slough, former member of Local Review Committee, Albany.
- Mr. C. Woodcock, former member of Local Review Committee, Hull.
The Miners' Strike: Criminal Offences
asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will list the types of offences in respect of which the 9,800 criminal charges were brought during the 52 weeks of the miners' strike.
The 10,372 criminal charges brought up to the 5th March are as follows:
Offence
| No. of Charges
|
| Murder | 3 |
| Assault causing grievous bodily harm | 39 |
| Assault causing actual bodily harm | 429 |
| Assaulting a police constable | 360 |
| Possessing an offensive weapon | 49 |
| Riot | 137 |
| Unlawful assembly | 509 |
| Affray | 21 |
| Conduct conducive to a breach of the peace (Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936) | 4,107 |
| Breach of the peace | 207 |
| Criminal damage | 1,019 |
| Criminal damage with intent to endanger life | 4 |
| Arson | 15 |
| Burglary | 31 |
| Theft | 352 |
| Handling stolen property | 1 |
| Obstruction of a police constable | 1,682 |
| Assault with intent to resist arrest | 19 |
| Breach of bail conditions | 32 |
| Obstruction of the highway | 640 |
| Reckless driving | 16 |
| Threats to kill | 5 |
| Threats/conspiracy to cause damage | 13 |
| Attempt (various offences) | 18 |
| Incitement | 1 |
| Intimidation (Section 7 of the Conspiracy and Protection of Properly Act 1875) | 275 |
| Unlawful imprisonment | 2 |
| Explosives offences | 3 |
| Drug offences | 1 |
| Railway offences | 20 |
| Drunkenness | 66 |
Two hundred and ninety-six minor and miscellaneous offences were also charged.
School Education: Cost Per Child
asked Her Majesty's Government:What is the average cost, including appropriate allowances for overheads, teacher training, and other expenses, of educating one child to school leaving age.
The estimated cost, at 1982–83 prices, is about £11,000 per pupil in the United Kingdom. This figure includes an arbitary apportionment for the cost of training teachers. It assumes that the child was first admitted to school at the age of rive years.
Aids: Research Funds
asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether, in view of the references made by the Earl of Caithness on 13th February 1985 (
Official Report, Columns 1982 and 1983), to the provision of additional funds to the Medical Research Council for research into AIDS, they will now state the level of funds for this purpose for the years 1984–85 and 1985–86.
The Medical Research Council have authorised grants for AIDS research at a total estimate of £369,000 of which £59,000 will be provided by my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Social Services. The grants authorised are for periods of two and three years; it is not possible to estimate expenditure for 1984–85 and 1985–86, as two of the grants have not yet incurred expenditure and their starting dates are unknown.
Environmental Grant-Related Expenditure 1985–86
asked Her Majesty's Government:What plans they have to make available the Department of the Environment publication
Grant-Related Expenditure 1985/86.
My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for the Environment has today placed copies of this document in the Library of the House. Copies have also been sent to every local authority in England and to the local authority associations.
Ncb (Enterprise) Ltd
asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will summarise the organisation and achievements to date of NCB (Enterprise) Ltd; how many former miners under 65 are unemployed in each region and could thus benefit from its work; and whether they are satisfied that the resources available to it match the scale of demand and will continue to do so.
NCB (Enterprise) Ltd has been in operation since October 1984. It has already established links with enterprise agencies throughout the British coalfields. In reply to some 140 applications for assistance so far received by the company, ten offers of financial support have already been made, two of which have so far been accepted.The figures requested by the noble Lord regarding former miners are not available, but men who take voluntary redundancy will receive full details of how NCB Enterprise can help, and details will also be advertised to attract any potential entrepreneurs, including former miners. The company is not confining the loans it makes to ex-miners: it will consider making loans to anyone who can increase employment where it is needed in the coalfields. The funds available to NCB (Enterprise) Ltd will be kept under review as the company's operations progress.
Un Decade For Women Conference, Nairobi
asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will now announce who will represent the United Kingdom at the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women in Nairobi on 15th-26th July.
I will lead the United Kingdom delegation. The deputy leader will be Dame Anne Warburton DCVO, CMG, United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the Office of the United Nations at Geneva. The delegation will also include my noble friend the Baroness Gardner of Parkes (United Kingdom Representative on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women). My noble friend the Baroness Platt of Writtle (Chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission), Mrs. Clark-Glass (Chairman of the Northern Ireland Equal Opportunities Commission), Mrs. Nancy Catchpole (Women's National Commission) and a small number of Government officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Home Office. Representatives from Dependent Territories will also be included.
Un Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment
asked Her Majesty's Government:When the United Kingdom will sign the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
The United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations signed the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on behalf of Her Majesty's Government on 15th March.
Bbc External Services
asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will tabulate, in real terms (i) the sums made available to the BBC External Services in each of the last 10 years, showing capital and current expenditure separately, (ii) the different languages broadcast in each year, and (iii) the average total number of hours broadcast each day.
The information is as follows:I. The sums made available, in real terms, to the BBC External Services in each of the last 10 years were as follows:
| Current | Capital | ||||
| Financial Year | broadcasting | monitoring | broadcasting | monitoring | Total |
| 1975–76 | 58.0 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 0.2 | 68.6* |
| 1976–77 | 55.9 | 5.4 | 7.4 | 0.2 | 68.9 |
| 1977–78 | 53.6 | 5.1 | 7.7 | 0.4 | 66.8 |
| 1978–79 | 55.5 | 5.5 | 4.6 | 0.6 | 66.1 |
| 1979–80 | 54.5 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 0.3 | 65.3 |
| 1980–81 | 59.0 | 4.9 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 70.5 |
| 1981–82 | 60.3 | 5.5 | 7.1 | 0.3 | 73.2 |
| 1982–83 | 61.4 | 5.5 | 10.4 | 0.3 | 77.6 |
| 1983–84 | 62.5 | 6.1 | 12.2 | 0.5 | 81.3 |
| 1984–85 | 64.3 | 5.9 | 10.0 | 0.9 | 81.1 |
| *£ million (in 1984–85 prices) | |||||
II. The following languages were broadcast by the BBC External Services throughout the last 10 years unless otherwise indicated:
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Bulgarian
| Burmese | |
| Chinese | Cantonese |
| Mandarin |
- Czech
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hausa
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian (to December 1981)
- Japanese
- Malay
- Maltese (to December 1981)
- Nepali
- Pashto (from August 1981)
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese (Europe and Africa)
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbo-Croat
- Sinhala (to March 1976)
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Somali
- Spanish (Europe) (to December 1981)
- Spanish (Latin America)
- Swahili
- Tamil
- Thai
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
English: World Service and alternative transmissions for Asia, Africa, and the Falklands.
III. The average total number of hours broadcast by the BBC External Services each day in each of the last 10 years was as follows:
| Year ended 31st March | Hours Broadcast: *Average Daily Total |
| 1975–76 | 100.64 |
| 1976–77 | 100.89 |
| 1977–78 | 101.57 |
| 1978–79 | 101.64 |
| 1979–80 | 102.29 |
| 1980–81 | 103.61 |
| 1981–82 | 102.29 |
| 1982–83 | 102.89 |
| 1983–84 | 103.04 |
| 1984–85 | 103.18 |
*The average daily total is based on the total hours broadcast in the last week of March in each year with the exception of 1984–85, for which the week ending 9th March has been taken. | |