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Mr. Tom King : The Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights, which is an independent body, stated in its report on fair employment (Cm. 237) that it had commissioned from the Policy Studies Institute some research on housing patterns and policies. I am advised that this research is not yet complete.
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Health Service (Grading)
Mr. Robin Cook : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many nursing and midwifery staff from each of the old grades have been assimilated to each of the new grades in the clinical grading structure by each health board.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden (Mr. Galbraith) on 20 January 1989 at column 338 .
Rating Reform
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) whether he will introduce regulations that oblige charging authorities to inform community charge payers that the extract of the community charge register containing their names and addresses can be inspected and copied by debt collectors, police, Government Departments and mail order companies ;
(2) whether any of his recent publications informing community charge payers about the new financial arrangements for Scotland tells them that the extract of the community charge register containing their names and addresses can be inspected and copied by debt-collectors, police, Government Departments and mail order companies.
Mr. Lang : I refer the hon. Member to my reply of 10 January to his earlier question. I do not consider that any further formal notification or other guidance to individuals of the present position as regards inspection of the register is required.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what arrangements his Department has made to allow community charge payers the option of whether they can remove their names from the extract of the community charge register available for public inspection.
Mr. Lang : Any registered person in respect of whom there is reasonable cause to believe that he or she is, or may be, at risk of physical violence or threats of physical violence can apply to the appropriate community charges registration officer to have his name excluded from the parts of the register open to public inspection.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will introduce regulations that bring the same arrangements for the inspection of the extract of the community charge register as outlined by his right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Official Report , column 493, 14 November 1988 and Official Report , column 426, 28 November 1988.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what representations he has received relating to the collection of the date of birth of every community charge payer ; and whether any of those representations object to indiscriminate collection of dates of birth.
Mr. Lang : The requirement was included in response to representations made by local authority practitioners
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during the passage of the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987. A number of individuals and organisations have made representations against it.Mrs. Ray Michie : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make it his policy to publish a full list of the community charge figures set by each council as soon as the figures are available, setting out the district, regional or island and water community charge for each area and in equivalent terms the forecast of these figures he published on 4 November 1988 and the figures which would have resulted without safety net adjustments to the revenue support grant.
Mr. Lang : I intend to publish in due course a full list of personal community charges and to set alongside these details of each authority's planned expenditure increase over the present year. This will allow community charge payers to see in appropriate cases the extent to which their charges are inflated by overspending. Dr. Cunningham : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what land he has designated under paragraph 11 of schedule 1A to the Abolition of Domestic Rates (Scotland) Act 1987 ; and how many persons he estimates will be exempt from community charge as a result of any such designation.
Mr. Lang : Following discussions with the Ministry of Defence it is proposed to designate Glencorse and Milton Bridge camps near Penicuik as places where the pattern of residence of army personnel is so transient as to make individual registration for the personal community charge impracticable. A contribution equivalent to the personal community charge for the area will be required from service personnel who are solely or mainly resident in the camps in respect of each day of their residence. The Ministry of Defence will then pay the levying authority an amount equal to the total of the personal community charges. It is estimated that at any one time there will be about 100 service men resident in the camps.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will introduce regulations to specify that the date of birth of community charge payers need be collected only when there are two or more people living at the same address with the same name and initials.
Mr. Lang [holding answer 22 December 1988] : Section 13(1)(d) of the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987, as amended by the Local Government Finance Act 1988, requires that the community charges register must specify the date of birth of each person registered in it. There is no power to remove this requirement by regulations.
Local Authorities (Staff Increases)
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in the Official Report for each local authority in Scotland the staff increases they have experienced in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The information requested is contained in the joint manpower watch quarterly returns which are compiled jointly by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Scottish Office. Copies of these quarterly returns are available in the Library.
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Set-aside
Dr. David Clark : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many applications and registrations he has received under the set-aside scheme (a) within and (b) outside, less favoured areas ; and within each category how many applications he has received for (i) permanent fallow, (ii) rotational fallow, (iii) farm woodland and (iv) non agricultural use.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave on 19 December 1988 to the hon. Member for Angus, East (Mr. Welsh) at columns 81-82. Provisional figures indicate that about 31 per cent. of the land in Scotland proposed for set-aside has less-favoured area classification, that is, about 5,000 hectares with the total of 16,183 hectares.
Dr. David Clark : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many applications and registrations he has received under the set-aside scheme on a county by county basis ; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth : I refer the hon. Member to the two replies which I gave on 19 December 1988 to the hon. Member for Angus, East (Mr. Welsh) at columns 81-82.
Departmental Expenditure
Mr. Salmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing his Department's actual expenditure since 1979-80 and planned expenditure to 1991-92 (a) in cash terms, (b) in constant 1988- 89 prices and (c) as a percentage of the United Kingdom planning total.
Mr. Lang : The information is given in the table. Column (d) shows the ratio of Scottish "block" services to comparable expenditure in England, and is more meaningful than column (c) as the United Kingdom planning total includes expenditure in Scotland on services, for example defence and social security, which are not included in my right hon. and learned Friend's responsibilities. The figure for 1991-92 in column (d) is not available pending decisions on individual programmes.
Scotland programme in cash terms, constant 1988-89 prices and as a percentage of the United Kingdom planning total
|(a) |(b) |(c) |(d)
|Cash |Constant prices |(a) as a percentage of |Block services as a
|the United Kingdom |percentage of comparable
|planning total |services in England
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1979-80 |4,552 |8,492 |5.9 |14.4
1980-81 |5,383 |8,478 |5.8 |14.4
1981-82 |5,841 |8,375 |5.6 |14.9
1982-83 |6,509 |8,710 |5.7 |14.7
1983-84 |6,842 |8,757 |5.7 |14.5
1984-85 |7,114 |8,667 |5.5 |14.0
1985-86 |7,215 |8,340 |5.4 |14.5
1986-87 |7,732 |8,649 |5.6 |14.7
1987-88 |8,212 |8,725 |5.6 |14.7
1988-89 |8,506 |8,506 |5.4 |14.7
1989-90 |8,970 |8,540 |5.4 |14.3
1990-91 |9,140 |8,410 |5.1 |14.2
1991-92 |9,680 |8,650 |5.1 |-
Higher Education
Mr. Salmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the proportion of school leavers in Scotland who continued into (a) university education and (b) other higher education for each year since 1979.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information for each year since 1979 is not readily available. The most recent information from the biennial Scottish young people's survey relating to the destination of school leavers was published by the Scottish Education Department in its statistical bulletin "School Leavers' Destinations (No 12/E1/1988)" published in December 1988 which is available in the Library.
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Colleges of Education
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many staff are employed in each of the Scottish colleges of education (a) on part-time contracts, (b) re-employed after taking premature retirement compensation under the appropriate PRC scheme and (c) those in category (b) who were granted PRC on grounds of redundancy.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : According to information provided by the colleges, the numbers of staff currently employed in each of the categories is as follows :
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|(a) |(b) |(c)
|on part-time contracts|re-employed after |those in column b
|receiving PRC |re-employed after
|receiving redundancy
|compensation
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Craigie |2 |None |-
Jordanhill |5 |None |-
Moray House |1 |None |-
Northern |12 |8 |4
St. Andrew's |5 |None |-
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what changes he proposes to make in the negotiating machinery for salaries and conditions of service of staff in centrally funded colleges of higher education ; and what steps will be taken to protect the negotiating rights of staff.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Cumbernauld and Kilsyth (Mr. Hogg) on 24 June 1988 at column 749 .
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many staff are employed by colleges of education on a freelance basis in the provision of in-service education for Scottish teachers.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth : The Department does not collect information about the colleges' use of self-employed individuals.
Nursery Education
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the total expenditure on nursery education in each of the years 1977- 78 to 1987-88 in cash terms and in real terms based on 1987-88 prices using the gross domestic product deflation (i) in Scotland and (ii) for each local education authority area.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The following tables show the available information on nursery expenditure in cash and real terms by education authority for the period requested.
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£'000
Highland Lothian Strathclyde Tayside Orkney Shetland Western Isles
|(a) |(b) |(a) |(b) |(a) |(b) |(a) |(b) |(a) |(b) |(a) |(b) |(a) |(b)
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1977-78 |53 |120 |1,860 |4,225 |6,957 |15,803|522 |1,186 |0.3 |0.7 |<1>- |<1>- |39 |89
1978-79 |91 |187 |2,237 |4,590 |5,994 |12,299|746 |1,531 |0.5 |1 |12 |25 |41 |84
1979-80 |157 |276 |2,640 |4,635 |7,204 |12,649|902 |1,584 |2 |4 |34 |60 |53 |93
1980-81 |187 |277 |3,355 |4,973 |8,831 |13,091|1,096 |1,625 |3 |4 |45 |67 |67 |99
1981-82 |213 |287 |3,803 |5,132 |10,105|13,636|1,238 |1,671 |2 |3 |43 |58 |84 |113
1982-83 |322 |406 |4,552 |5,733 |11,046|13,912|1,289 |1,623 |11 |14 |47 |59 |74 |93
1983-84 |328 |395 |4,770 |5,746 |11,839|14,261|1,462 |1,761 |14 |17 |45 |54 |88 |106
1984-85 |310 |355 |4,612 |5,288 |12,133|13,912|1,400 |1,605 |15 |17 |45 |52 |44 |50
1985-86 |316 |344 |4,996 |5,435 |13,371|14,546|1,542 |1,678 |15 |16 |50 |54 |<1>- |<1>-
1986-87 |334 |352 |5,411 |5,697 |14,179|14,927|1,650 |1,737 |18 |19 |52 |55 |<1>- |<1>-
1987-86 |385 |385 |5,871 |5,871 |16,603|16,603|1,884 |1,884 |25 |25 |57 |57 |<1>- |<1>-
<1> Not shown separately.
Source: local financial returns.
Notes:
1. Column (a) represents cash outturn, column (b) real terms calculated by applying GDP deflator, base year
1987-88.
2. Figures cover local authority current expenditure on nursery education. Information on capital expenditure is
not broken down by educational sector.
3. Where figures are not available this is because authorities' returns have not broken down expenditure between
the various sectors.
£'000
Highland Lothian Strathclyde Tayside Orkney Shetland Western Isles
|(a) |(b) |(a) |(b) |(a) |(b) |(a) |(b) |(a) |(b) |(a) |(b) |(a) |(b)
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1977-78 |53 |120 |1,860 |4,225 |6,957 |15,803|522 |1,186 |0.3 |0.7 |<1>- |<1>- |39 |89
1978-79 |91 |187 |2,237 |4,590 |5,994 |12,299|746 |1,531 |0.5 |1 |12 |25 |41 |84
1979-80 |157 |276 |2,640 |4,635 |7,204 |12,649|902 |1,584 |2 |4 |34 |60 |53 |93
1980-81 |187 |277 |3,355 |4,973 |8,831 |13,091|1,096 |1,625 |3 |4 |45 |67 |67 |99
1981-82 |213 |287 |3,803 |5,132 |10,105|13,636|1,238 |1,671 |2 |3 |43 |58 |84 |113
1982-83 |322 |406 |4,552 |5,733 |11,046|13,912|1,289 |1,623 |11 |14 |47 |59 |74 |93
1983-84 |328 |395 |4,770 |5,746 |11,839|14,261|1,462 |1,761 |14 |17 |45 |54 |88 |106
1984-85 |310 |355 |4,612 |5,288 |12,133|13,912|1,400 |1,605 |15 |17 |45 |52 |44 |50
1985-86 |316 |344 |4,996 |5,435 |13,371|14,546|1,542 |1,678 |15 |16 |50 |54 |<1>- |<1>-
1986-87 |334 |352 |5,411 |5,697 |14,179|14,927|1,650 |1,737 |18 |19 |52 |55 |<1>- |<1>-
1987-86 |385 |385 |5,871 |5,871 |16,603|16,603|1,884 |1,884 |25 |25 |57 |57 |<1>- |<1>-
<1> Not shown separately.
Source: local financial returns.
Notes:
1. Column (a) represents cash outturn, column (b) real terms calculated by applying GDP deflator, base year
1987-88.
2. Figures cover local authority current expenditure on nursery education. Information on capital expenditure is
not broken down by educational sector.
3. Where figures are not available this is because authorities' returns have not broken down expenditure between
the various sectors.
Pupil Numbers
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the number of pupils attending (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each of the years 1978-79 to 1987-88 inclusive.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth : The numbers of pupils (in thousands) in education authority schools at September of each year are set out in the table.
|Primary |Secondary
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1978 |569.1 |410.4
1979 |545.2 |410.2
1980 |518.5 |407.8
1981 |492.6 |404.6
1982 |468.0 |399.1
1983 |448.0 |390.4
1984 |437.5 |376.1
1985 |435.5 |360.6
1986 |433.5 |344.4
1987 |430.9 |327.2
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Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the total number of pupils in S5 and S6 and as a percentage of all in the age group for each year 1979-80 to 1987-88 inclusive and for each local education authority area.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The figures for pupils aged 16 and 17 in all schools at September of each of the years for which information is available and the figures for each education authority at September 1987 are set out in the table :
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|Pupils aged 16 |Pupils aged 17 |Pupils aged 16 as a |Pupils aged 17 as a
|percentage of population|percentage of population
|aged 16 |aged 17
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1979 |47,080 |16,550 |51.5 |18.4
1980 |49,810 |17,160 |53.9 |19.0
1981 |51,560 |19,840 |54.3 |21.3
1982 |51,080 |20,680 |57.0 |21.9
1983 |50,550 |20,060 |56.3 |22.6
1984 |49,970 |19,540 |56.6 |21.9
1986 |48,550 |19,230 |58.8 |22.6
1987 |48,890 |19,420 |59.5 |23.7
Borders |830 |370 |52.5 |23.3
Central |2,630 |1,000 |59.5 |22.5
Dumfries/Galloway |1,300 |580 |54.3 |25.0
Fife |2,950 |1,350 |54.2 |23.6
Grampian |4,920 |1,920 |61.3 |25.3
Highland |2,010 |900 |60.7 |28.1
Lothian |7,080 |3,140 |64.2 |28.3
Strathclyde |22,550 |8,060 |58.8 |20.8
Tayside |3,900 |1,770 |62.1 |28.9
Orkney |200 |100 |64.0 |34.3
Shetland |180 |80 |45.1 |23.5
Western Isles |350 |160 |64.2 |28.9
The ages of the pupils are as at December and of the population as at June of each year.
Figures for 1985 are not available due to industrial action by teachers.
School Books Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the total expenditure on text
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andlibrary books in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools at the end of each year since 1978-79 in cash terms and in real terms, using 1987-88 prices.Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information requested, taken from local authority financial returns, is as follows :
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Expenditure on text and library books
£ million
Year |Primary |Secondary|Primary |Secondary
at outturn prices at 1987-88 prices
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1978-79 |2.584 |3.411 |5.302 |6.999
1979-80 |2.994 |3.944 |5.257 |6.925
1980-81 |3.026 |3.790 |4.486 |5.618
1981-82 |3.026 |3.953 |4.348 |5.334
1982-83 |3.290 |4.004 |4.444 |5.043
1983-84 |4.027 |5.214 |4.851 |6.281
1984-85 |4.178 |5.173 |4.791 |5.931
1985-86 |3.882 |4.857 |4.223 |5.284
1986-87 |4.734 |5.740 |4.984 |6.043
1987-88 |5.031 |5.975 |5.031 |5.975
(provisional)
Over the same period expenditure per pupil in primary and secondary schools increased in cash and in real terms.
Pig Farming Mrs. Margaret Ewing : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the information he has on the number of pig farmers that have gone into liquidation in Scotland in the past 12 months.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth : Information is not available centrally on the number of pig farmers going into liquidation. The number of holdings with at least 500 pigs rose from 199 in June 1987 to 209 in June 1988.
Mrs. Margaret Ewing : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the subsidies that Scottish pig farmers currently receive from the Government.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The Government pay no subsidies directly to pig farmers. However, there are
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Community measures which assist the industry : export refunds to the USA and Canada were substantially increased in December 1987 and private storage aids were made available from February to July 1988. In addition, we secured in the course of last year's price fixing negotiations a reduction in the pigmeat monetary compensatory amount which, combined with the strengthening of sterling, has had the effect of reducing this to zero as from 1 January 1989.Mrs. Margaret Ewing : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information he has on the effect of the failure of the United States of America soya bean crop on the Scottish pig industry, and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The price of soya bean meal rose last summer because of the drought in the United States of America and this led to feed compounders increasing their pig ration prices. However, pig prices increased significantly towards the end of the year to stand at their highest level for 30 months in December 1988. This has helped to offset the effect of the increased feed prices.
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Housing Support Grant
Mr. Nigel Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what is the percentage change in equivalent housing support grant for Edinburgh for each year from 1978 to 1989-90 ;
(2) what is the percentage change in equivalent housing support grant for Edinburgh for each year from 1978 to 1989-90 adjusted for inflation ;
(3) what is the percentage change in equivalent housing support grant for Scotland for each year from 1978 to 1989-90 ;
(4) what is the equivalent housing support grant figure for Edinburgh for each year from 1978 to 1989-90 ;
(5) what is the equivalent housing support grant for Scotland for each year from 1978 to 1989-90 ;
(6) what is the equivalent housing support grant for Scotland for each year from 1978 to 1989-90, adjusted for inflation ;
(7) what is the equivalent housing support grant for Edinburgh for each year from 1978 to 1989-90, adjusted for inflation ;
(8) what is the percentage change in equivalent housing support grant for Scotland for each year from 1978 to 1989-90, adjusted for inflation.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The information is shown in the following table :
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Housing support grant |<1>1978-79 |1979-80 |1980-81 |1981-82 |1982-83 |1983-84 |1984-85 |1985-86 |1986-87 |1987-88 |<2>1988-89 |<3>1989-90
payments
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Edinburgh
1.1 Actual payments
(£ million) |- |11.269 |12.518 |7.869 |2.328 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
1.2 Percentage increase on
previous year |- |- |+11.1 |-37.1 |-70.4-100.0 |- |- |- |- |- |-
2.1 Percentage adjusted using
GDP deflators (£ million) |- |22.074 |20.701 |11.847 |3.271 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
2.2 Percentage increase on
previous year |- |- |-6.2 |-42.8 |-72.4-100.0 |- |- |- |- |- |-
Scotland
3.1 Actual payments
(£ million) |- |213.4 |228.2 |161.9 |104.6 |72.1 |67.2 |64.2 |44.5 |41.9 |54.6 |60.4
3.2 Percentage increase on
previous year |- |- |+6.9 |-29.1 |-35.4 |-31.1 |-6.8 |-4.5 |-30.7 |-5.7 |+30.3 |+10.5
4.1 Percentage adjusted using
GDP deflators (£ million) |- |418.0 |377.4 |243.7 |147.0 |96.9 |86.0 |77.9 |52.2 |46.8 |57.4 |60.4
4.2 Percentage increase on previous year |- |- |-9.7 |-35.4 |-39.7 |-34.1 |-11.3 |-9.4 |-32.9 |-10.5 |+22.7 |+5.3
<1> Information not readily available.
<2> Provisional.
<3> Estimated.
Tied Housing
Mrs. Ray Michie : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many police officers are residing in tied housing at present.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : As at 31 December 1987, the latest date for which information is readily available, 2,266 police officers in Scotland occupied housing owned or rented by police authorities. This represented 16.8 per cent. of the total police strength.
Forestry Commission Land (Sales)
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what guidelines have been issued (a) to the Forestry Commission and (b) from the Forestry
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Commission to each of its conservancies on procedures to be followed on the sale of Forestry Commission land and plantations.Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The then Secretary of State for Scotland, the right hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Younger), wrote to the chairman of the Forestry Commission on 28 May 1981 stating that the Commissioners would be responsible for selecting areas for disposal and setting out the main considerations which Forestry Ministers would wish them to take into account in the selection process ; the letter was reproduced as appendix V to the commission's 1981-82 annual report. On 8 November 1984, the Secretary of State announced changes to the Forestry Commission's disposals objectives
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in a written reply in the House ( Official Report, columns 6-7 ) ; this announcement was reproduced in the commission's 1984-85 annual report at appendix V.Instructions have been given to each of the commission's conservancies which embody the above, as well as a statement on the commission's policy and practice on disposals which was published as appendix VI to its 1984-85 annual report.
Copies of the Forestry Commission's annual reports are held in the Library of the House.
Lennox Castle Hospital
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has any plans to allocate additional monies to the Greater Glasgow health board in order to fund improvements at Lennox Castle hospital ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I refer the hon. Member to my announcement today giving my approval to plans submitted by Greater Glasgow health board in November 1988 for the redevelopment of Lennox Castle hospital at a cost of £4.56 million. This follows the opening in May 1988 of two upgraded villas and two new 12 bed intensive care units at a cost of £4.4 million.
US Submarines (Coolant Discharge)
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what effect the discharging of radioactive primary coolant by United States' submarines has had on radioactivity levels in the Holy Loch since 1960.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Holy Loch has been monitored regularly both by the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food since the United States base was established. The results have confirmed that any radioactivity present in the environment arising from the operation of the base has been small and of low significance in radiological terms.
Further Education
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the total number of 16 to 18 year-olds in non-advanced further education and as a percentage of all in that age group for each year from 1979-80 to 1987-88 inclusive and for each local education authority area.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information requested is not readily available in the form requested.
Regional Assistance
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give for regional selective assistance the total number of applications (a) received and (b) processed from 1 April 1988 to 31 December 1988 ; the total amount paid out in that period and the total estimated expenditure for the year 1 April 1988 to 31 March 1989.
Mr. Ian Lang : The information requested is shown below for the period 1 April to 31 December 1988.
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Regional Selective Assistance
|Totals £ million
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Number of applications received |188.0
Number of applications processed |171.0
Payment authorisations made |23.5
The provision of the financial year 1988-89 is £60.4 million. Expenditure under this scheme is normally concentrated in the last quarter of the financial year.
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total estimated expenditure on regional development grant and regional selective assistance in each of the years 1988-89, 1989-90 and 1990-91.
Mr. Lang : The provision for regional development grant and regional selective assistance for the financial year 1988-89 is £60.3 million and £60.4 million respectively. Figures for 1898-90 and 1990-91 will be published in the Scottish Commentary in February 1989.
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give for regional development grants (a) the number of applications outstanding on 31 March 1988, (b) the number of those applications processed by 31 December 1988, (c) the number currently outstanding and (d) the total amount of money paid out since 31 March 1988 in regional development grants to those applications.
Mr. Lang : The figures requested for applications in Scotland under the revised regional development grant scheme are as follows :
|Totals
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Number of applications outstanding at 31 March: |5,117
Number of these processed by 31 December: |3,297
Number still outstanding at 19 January: |1,678
Payment authorisations made by 19 January on
these applications: |£13.1 million
Glasgow District Court
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the numbers of cases reported to the procurator fiscal for possible prosecution in the Glasgow district court and the percentage which were marked "no proceedings" for the latest period for which such figures are available.
Mr. Rifkind [holding answer 19 January 1989] : A total of 54,819 cases were reported for possible prosecution in Glasgow district court in 1988. No proceedings were instructed in 16,213 cases (30 per cent.).
Cumbernauld Development Corporation
Mr. Norman Hogg : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish in the Official Report the names of the persons appointed to serve on the board of Cumbernauld development corporation, along with the date of their original appointment and the date their appointment terminates.
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