asked Her Majesty's Government:What reply they have sent to the representations from the Electricity Supply Trade Unions Council, following the independent survey commissioned by the council which indicated that 67 per cent. of consumers believe the electricity industry should remain in public ownership and that 83 per cent. are satisfied with the existing service.

The Government have not received any such representations.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will give details of the street parking spaces in London reserved for foreign heads of misssions at their residences and offices respectively, including the number of such spaces reserved in each case.

The provision of diplomatic parking spaces is a matter for the Greater London Council and local authorities. I understand that in the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, where the majority of diplomatic missions are situated, there are 172 authorised parking spaces outside diplomatic missions and 37 outside residences.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Why, as UN Resolutions to which they arc party prohibit the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons, they continue to threaten to use them, and whether they will detail the circumstances in which they would carry out the threat.

We have not supported any resolutions passed by the United Nations deneral Assembly (which are not in any event obligatory) which prohibit the use or threatened use of nuclear weapons; and the United Nations Security Council has not passed any resolutions in this sense. With regard to the second part of his question, I would refer the noble Lord to the reply given by my noble friend Lord Trefgarne, the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, to the noble Lord. Lord Beswick on 7th March (cols. 1441–3).

asked Her Majesty's Government:Why, as the Hague Convention makes it illegal to attack civilian populations, the Geneva Convention prohibits conspiracy to commit genocide and its 1977 protocol prohibits long-term damage to the environment, they are accumulating the means of contravening both these conventions.

We are not acting as the noble Lord suggests.

asked Her Majesty's Government:What representations they have made, and with what result, to the French Government concerning their apparent offer of substantial support to the Tenneco Group to transfer work now carried out by Case Tractors at Meltham and Leigh to various establishments in France in apparent contravention of EEC rules and practice.

I understand that the European Commission has asked the French authorities for detailed information on the package of French Government support allegedly made available following the Tenneco/Case acquisition of the International Harvester tractor operations in France.

asked Her Majesty's Government:If the 1985 Triennial Review proceeds on its normal course, how many points will be lost in English primary and secondary schools, and what effect that will have on the number of scale posts in those schools.

This department does not hold information which would enable it to ascertain the effect of the Triennial Review on the number of scale posts in primary and secondary schools. It is for local education authorities to calculate the change in point scores in each of their schools arising out of the 1985 Burnham Triennial Review. Where a school falls into a lower points score range, there are various provisions in the Burnham document designed to ensure that staffing changes take place gradually. This is in recognition of the fact that the duties and responsibilities of schools cannot decline at the same rate as their pupil numbers.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they have studied the Royal Society report on

I understand that my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science awaits the advice of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils on this matter. That advice is likely to reach him later in the autumn.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Which health authorities in England have had their district management structures approved by the DHSS in 1985;Which health authorities have included in their post-Griffiths structure a Chief or District Nursing Officer at district level who is managerially responsible for the nursing services;Which health authorities will have a Chief or District Nursing Officer with executive responsibility for nursing and responsibility for giving professional nursing advice to the district health authority; andWhether they agree with the statement made by the North East Thames Regional Health Authority that "there is no justification for a role as professional leader" in nursing in City and Hackney Health Authority.

District management structures are approved by the relevant regional health authority. Some 125 districts have had their structure approved in this way. We have made it clear that all health authorities must have a senior nurse accountable for professional matters and with direct access to the authority. The title of the post will vary between authorities dependent on the post-holder's other responsibilities. On matters of day-to-day management the nursing officers will be accountable to the general manager.

asked Her Majesty's Government:What action they propose to take following the comments of Judge Llewellyn Jones at Bristol Crown Court on 19th July in a case in which he ordered that the defendants' names should not be published and in which a local authority social services department was alleged to have returned a baby to parents accused of ill-treating him while he was under a care order.

The judge's comments were concerned with the return of a baby to his parents before their trial. We have inquired into the case. This very young baby was committed to care following alleged ill-treatment by his parents. The local authority social services department decided it was in the baby's best interests for him to return home as soon as possible and they provided intensive help for the parents to this end. Due to the time that elapsed before the case came to court, rehabilitation was completed before the trial. Following the judge's comments the social services department has undertaken a review of its handling of the case. We await the report of this review and will consider any implications.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will set out in the

The information requested is set out in the following table:NUMBERS OF BRITISH ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL CONVICTED IN MILITARY AND CIVIL PROCEEDINGS ON DRUG-RELATED OFFENCES 1980–84.

	All Services	RN/RM	Army	RAF
1980	153	100	39	14
1981	202	100	70	32
1982	122	36	69	17
1983	190	61	114	15
1984	336	44	149	143

Details of types of drugs involved in the above cases are not available; however, more than 90 per cent. of the RAF's and some 80 per cent. of the Navy's convictions were for offences involving cannabis only. A detailed breakdown of ranks is not available as such statistics are not kept; however, only one officer (Army 1982) has been convicted during the period.