asked Her Majesty's Government:What are the present regulations governing advertising on BBC 1 and BBC 2.

Clause 12 of the Licence and Agreement between the Home Secretary and the BBC (Cmnd. 8233, 2nd April 1981) states that the corporation shall not without the prior approval of the Secretary of State receive money or any valuable consideration from any person in respect of the sending or emitting, or the refraining from sending or emitting, of any matter whatsoever by means of the stations or any of them, and shall not send or emit by any means thereof any sponsored programme. The BBC has not sought, and the Secretary of State has not granted, such approval.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they intend to seek the renewal of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1984.

A draft order was laid today under Section 14(10) of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1984. If the draft order is approved by Parliament, the Act will continue in force for a further 12 months. My right honourable friend the Home Secretary has received Sir Cyril Philips' report on the operation of the Act in 1985 and copies of both the report and his response to it have been placed in the Library and in the Printed Paper Office.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will consider, or have considered, extending the remit of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the National Health Service to include complaints involving clinical issues and judgments.

Following the report of the Select Committee on the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration in 1978 (1977–8 HC45), the Government considered this question carefully and decided that the Health Service Commissioner's remit should not be extended in this way. In 1981, the Government introduced a special procedure to deal with complaints concerning the clinical judgment of hospital doctors and dentists, based on a professional review of such cases by two independent consultants. The Government are currently reviewing that procedure with the relevant professional bodies but have no plans to reconsider the Health Service Commissioner's powers in this context.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether it is their intention to accept the recommendation in paragraph 8.29 of the Eleventh Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (Cmnd. 9675) that the operator licensing system for heavy goods vehicles should be supplemented by a system of registration for the operators of all vehicles, irrespective of weight, carrying controlled wastes for hire or reward.

As I announced on 11th December in response to a Question from the noble Lord (Hansard, cols. 337–8), the Government have proposed that all carriers of waste should be required to register with their local waste disposal authority. This proposal is in keeping with the general recommendation expressed in paragraph 8.29 of the Eleventh Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. Details of the scheme will be developed in consultation with the local authority associations and bodies representing industry.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether their proposal that handlers of waste should have to register with each waste disposal authority in which they have an operating centre (H.L. Debates, 11th December 1985, col. 339) will include any sanctions against handlers of waste who have committed environmental offences in connection with waste disposal.

It is not envisaged in this proposal that any sanction other than that imposed by the court would be applied to a registered waste handler who commits an offence under the Control of Pollution Act 1974. Details of the offence would, however, be noted on the register and would thus be available to any producer considering employing that particular handler's services.The Government have, however, also proposed that transport licensing authorities should be empowered to take such offences into account when considering whether to grant or renew a road haulier's operator's licence.

asked Her Majesty's Government:

My right honourable friend will be laying his report shortly. It will take into account advice received from the Countryside Commission and the Nature Conservancy Council.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether the Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate monitors air pollution over:

No. The responsibilities of the Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate and the Pollution Inspectorate for Scotland are limited to emissions into the atmosphere from works registered under Schedule 1 to the Health and Safety (Emissions into the Atmosphere) Regulations 1983.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will give the figures for European Community (

The following table gives the figures currently available. They refer to international sea-borne traffic of all countries which were members of the European Community at 31st December 1985. Definitions and coverage of such statistics vary between countries. There are no separate figures for ship-borne and sea-borne trade.

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will give the figures for British sea-borne trade (both imports and exports) for:

Figures are not available for all the years requested. Information on United Kingdom International sea-borne trade has been compiled regularly since 1965 and is given in the following table: