asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will draw the attention of all Boards of Visitors to the remarks of Mr Justice Hodgson in the case of

Boards of Visitors have been encouraged to allow all those taking part in adjudications, including the prisoner charged, to sit during the proceedings. The recently issued Manual on the Conduct of Adjudications contains the following advice:

"unless the size of the room and other physical arrangements preclude this, arrangements should be made for all those taking part in the proceedings to be seated. The prisoner should be allowed facilities to make notes."

My right honourable friend the Home Secretary does not intend to issue further guidance to Boards of Visitors on this matter at the moment.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will make a statement about enquiries into the death of Miss Hilda Murrell.

The death of Miss Hilda Murrell in March 1984 following her abduction from her home in Shrewsbury is the subject of an investigation by officers of the West Mercia Constabulary which is continuing. To seek to assist in bringing this case to a successful conclusion the Chief Constable of West Mercia has invited an assistant chief constable of the Northumbria Police to review the investigation so far and to report back. The handling of this investigation is an operational matter for the chief constable about which, in the light of the considerable interest which it has generated, he has kept the Home Secretary informed.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether voluntary bodies, based in or operating in Northern Ireland, are eligible to receive help from funds administered by the Voluntary Services Unit and if not why not; and if so, how such moneys have been used in Northern Ireland in recent years.

Funds administered by the Voluntary Services Unit are provided in Class IX, Vote 7 of the Supply Estimates, which authorises expenditure in England and Wales only. An organisation based in England and Wales which is operating partly in Northern Ireland is eligible for consideration in the normal way, and the Community Projects Foundation (which receives a grant from the VSU) contributed towards the cost of a small community work consultancy at the Divis Flats, Belfast, which was undertaken in 1983 at the request of the local social services department.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many service stations it is planned to build on the M25, M11, M20, M23, M40, M50, M54, M18 and M180 respectively, and when they will be completed.

Up to 11 motorway service areas are programmed for M25, M11, M20 and M40. There are at present no firm proposals for M23, M50, M54, M18 and M180.Four service areas are planned for M25, and it is hoped that the one at South Mimms will be open by the time the motorway is completed, with the other three following as quickly as possible. On M11 it is hoped to open a service area at Birchanger by about early 1987. In addition, proposals are being developed for up to three sites on M20 and three more on M40.

asked Her Majesty's Government:What were the costs of subsidence in the coal industry in 1983 and 1984 and whether those costs were dealt with as an overhead for the industry as a whole or as a cost on individual pits.

The costs of subsidence in the NCB's accounts for 1982–83 and 1983–84 were £132m and £245m respectively. These subsidence costs were included in the operating costs of each individual pit.

asked Her Majesty's Government:What action they propose to take on the proposal of United Newspapers to launch a take-over bid for Fleet Holdings, the publishers of the

The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry will announce in due course the action he is to take.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether dispensing doctors will beat the responsibility for any clinical mishaps due to the quality of any generic drug whose manfufacturer cannot be traced.

For any medicinal product, including a generic product, to be marketed in the United Kingdom, the licensing authority has to be satisfied that the product is safe, efficacious and of good quality under the Medicines Act 1968. Dispensing doctors and pharmacists are responsible for ensuring that the drugs they dispense have so satisfied the licensing authority.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How much money has been provided each year for the "Opportunities for Volunteering Programme", since the programme started: how this money has been split between England, Wales and Scotland; and what is the provision for 1985–86.

Separate Opportunities for Volunteering schemes are operated in England and Wales, and grant in aid is paid to the Carnegie UK Trust to operate the related Unemployed Voluntary Action Fund in Scotland. The amounts made available for these programmes are as follows:

	England	Scotland	Wales
	£	£	£
1982–83	2,600,000	400,000	250,000
1983–84	5,000,000	540,000	107,000
1984–85	5,000,000	550,000	190,000
1985–86	5,000,000	520,000	190,000

asked Her Majesty's Government:When and by what means they will amend National Health Service General Practitioners' terms of service to make these compatible with the requirements of the limited list prescribing system which comes into force on 1st April.

The National Health Service (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Amendment Regulations 1985, which were laid on 1st March, made the necessary changes to general medical practitioners' terms of service. These regulations provide that general medical practitioners may not prescribe and community pharmacists may not dispense, at NHS expense, the drugs and other products listed in Schedule 3A. They also provide that dispensing doctors may not dispense any of these products at NHS expense, save that they may supply and charge for them to patients on their dispensing lists against a non-NHS prescription.