asked Her Majesty's Government:What arrangements have been made within the Home Office Immigration and Nationality Departmeni to ensure that applications for British citizenship made by women whose husbands also had immigration applications pending, and which were previously "frozen", will now be returned to their correct place in the queue and will not be delayed.

The purpose of the present arrangements is to preserve the place of the application in the queue.

asked Her Majesty's Government:How many women patients are on the Wandsworth Health Authority's waiting list for inpatients and out-patients at the latest convenient date; and what were the numbers before the closing of the South London Hospital for Women.

Information available centrally on inpatient waiting lists does not provide a breakdown of the sex of the patient. With regard to out-patient waiting lists, we do not collect this sort of detailed local information centrally. The noble Baroness may therefore wish to seek information from the chairman of the Wandsworth Health Authority.

asked Her Majesty's Government:What was the outcome of the Council of Agriculture Ministers' meeting beginning on 2nd May; and whether they will make a statement.

My right honourable friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and my honourable friend the Minister of State represented the United Kingdom at the Council of Agriculture Ministers in Luxembourg from 2nd to 5th May. The main subject of the Council was the Commission's price proposals for 1985–86.After three days of discussion it became evident that it would not be possible to reconcile the divergent views of member states at this Council. In the light of the discussion, the Commission is considering whether any amendments to its orginal proposals should be made and the Council will resume discussion on Monday 13th May in Brussels.The Council decided that the marketing years for milk products, beef and veal, sheepmeat, dried fodder and cauliflowers should be extended until 19th May.

asked Her Majesty's Government:What changes there will be in milk quotas in England and Wales in 1985–86; and when these will be announced.

I regret that the delay in reaching agreement in the price fixing negotiations makes it impossible to make any announcement for the time being. Arrangements are in hand to inform individual producers of their quotas for 1985–86 as soon as possible once decisions on the price fixing have been reached.However, I am pleased to say that for 1985–86 small producers—that is, those with less than 200,000 litres of quotas—will have their quota brought back up to their base year production levels, which in the vast majority of cases will mean their level of production in 1983. This means that for about 40 per cent. of all producers we have wiped out last year's 9 per cent. reduction. I am also pleased to say that for 1985–86 exceptional hardship awards will be made at 100 per cent. of the amount awarded. This means that the two principal objectives of the outgoers' scheme have been achieved.Direct sellers with less than 200,000 litres will, like wholesale producers, be brought back to their base year level. Producers with both direct sales and wholesale quota will benefit from similar adjustments if the total of their two quotas is less than 200,000 litres. However, no producer's quota will be increased above 200,000 litres, and the adjustments will be tapered to avoid anomalies between producers just above or below the 200,000 litre level. Moreover, the increases will not be applied to development quota.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will list all development aid projects to which they contribute which relate solely or principally to maritime matters, such as to fishing, port construction, hydrography, shipping and navigation, shipbuilding, marine science, the exploration and exploitation of the continental shelf

Information regarding projects funded by the Overseas Development Administration and Commonwealth Development Corporation is as follows:

asked Her Majesty's Government:What conclusions they draw from the proceedings of the Northern Ireland Assembly Devolution Report Committee, and in particular from its two reports published in October 1984 and February 1985.

The Government welcome the committee's recognition in both its interim reports that any proposals for devolved government should be likely to command widespread acceptance thoughout the community. The Government look forward to receiving the committee's final recommendations in due course, and hope that they will meet this criterion.