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teaching or work with children or young persons under the age of 19, on grounds of misconduct, in accordance with the Education (Teachers') Regulations 1982. Copies of the list are held on a confidential basis by local education authorities and certain other employers and national bodies concerned with the employment of teachers or workers with children or young people.Column 477
Year Number of persons TotaNumber
included on list 99 from li
categorised by type of
misconduct
|(1)|(2)|(3)|(4)|(5)
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1970-71 |55 |3 |19 |4 |2 |83 |19
1971-72 |49 |8 |7 |2 |4 |70 |6
1972-73 |53 |2 |10 |3 |3 |71 |14
1973-74 |21 |1 |3 |- |1 |26 |9
1974-75 |44 |1 |7 |- |- |52 |14
1975-76 |32 |- |5 |1 |5 |43 |7
1976-77 |30 |2 |3 |- |3 |38 |10
1977-78 |22 |1 |- |1 |1 |25 |11
1978-79 |16 |1 |1 |1 |4 |23 |10
1979-80 |31 |1 |4 |- |1 |37 |6
1980-81 |29 |- |4 |1 |4 |38 |4
1981-82 |34 |2 |7 |- |2 |45 |7
1982-83 |28 |1 |7 |- |3 |39 |1
1983-84 |25 |2 |5 |- |7 |39 |6
1984-85 |35 |2 |6 |- |1 |44 |6
1985-86 |31 |7 |9 |- |4 |51 |3
1986-87 |47 |7 |10 |- |1 |65 |8
1987-88 |28 |7 |2 |3 |7 |47 |6
Categories:
1. Sexual misconduct.
2. Drugs cases.
3. Financial cases.
4. False claims as to qualifications.
5. Others.
University Lecturers (Pay)
Mr. Redwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when was the last independent review of university lecturers' pay ; what it recommended ; and to what extent its findings have been implemented.
Mr. Jackson : Since 1970 the pay of university lecturers has been settled by negotiations between employers and employees under an independent chairman. The last such settlement was in 1987 : it provided for pay rises of 16.6 per cent. with effect from 1 December 1986 and a further 7.4 per cent. with effect from 1 March 1988. Those increases have been implemented.
Urban Programme
Mr. Gordon Brown : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is his provision for the urban programme for 1988-89 and for the next three years at cash prices and at 1987-88 constant prices.
Mr. Rumbold : My right hon. Friend has made provision for education projects under the urban programme of :
£ million
|Cash |1987-88 prices
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1988-89 forecast outturn |44 |41
1989-90 plans |45 |42
1990-91 plans |46 |43
1991-92 plans |47 |44
Under-fives
Mr. Gordon Brown : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the relevant current expenditure on schools for under-fives in 1988-89 and for the next three years.
Mrs. Rumbold : Information for local authority actual spending on education in 1988-89 is not yet available. Provisional outturn spending on under-fives in 1988-89 is £495 million, a 25 per cent. increase in cash over spending in 1986-87. The Government's plans for spending in 1989- 90 provide for £536 million to be spent on the under-fives, a further cash increase of over 8 per cent. over provisional outturn in 1988-89. The information requested on spending on under-fives beyond 1990 is not available.
Schools (Opting Out)
Mr. John Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he expects to be able to make his first decisions about the applications by schools to opt out under the Education Reform Act 1988.
Mr. Butcher [holding answer 23 January 1989] : The first schools have now published proposes for grant-maintained status, and a number of others are preparing to do so. My right hon. Friend will determine such proposals as quickly as the statutory procedures and his consideration of all the relevant factors permit.
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WALES
Hospital Equipment
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list those hospitals in Wales which have (i) echo cardiagrams, and (ii) lithotripsy machines ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Grist : Information on the acquisition of echo cardiagram equipment by NHS hospitals in Wales is not held centrally. No NHS hospital in Wales has yet acquired a lithrotripter. The Welsh Office is currently considering proposals for the provision of a lithotripsy service in Wales.
Education (Special Needs)
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement concerning his plans to safeguard the schooling of children with special needs.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : The Education Act 1981 and the Education Reform Act 1988 make comprehensive provision to safeguard the schooling of children with special educational needs. The Department is also issuing this week for consultation a draft circular on procedures for assessments and statements of special educational needs.
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what assessment he has made of the impact of the
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Education Reform Act upon the professional activity of those teachers engaged at primary and secondary school level in the special needs section ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Wyn Roberts : The Education Reform Act offers the opportunity for a significant improvement in the provision made for children with special educational needs. The entitlement of all children to a basic curriculum from five to 16, together with the extensive flexibility which the Act provides for this to be tailored to the needs of individual children, sets a framework which should encourage a better educational experience for many children with special needs. Further work is being undertaken to provide their teachers, with helpful guidance in the light of the Act.
Pupil-teacher Ratios
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table in the Official Report showing pupil-teacher ratios in schools in each Welsh local education authority by type of school for the latest available date for which such information is available ; and if he will give the figures for the previous 10 years.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : Pupil-teacher ratios within maintained schools are shown by type of school in the following tables :
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Special schools<1> Welsh counties |1977-78 |1978-79 |1979-80 |1980-81 |1981-82 |1982-83 |1983-84 |1984-85 |1985-86 |1986-87 |1987-88 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clwyd |8.6 |7.3 |8.5 |8.6 |8.6 |8.4 |8.5 |8.2 |7.9 |7.7 |7.2 Dyfed |7.6 |7.2 |7.5 |7.5 |7.2 |7.2 |7.5 |6.7 |6.8 |6.8 |6.7 Gwent |8.4 |8.9 |8.6 |8.3 |8.5 |7.8 |7.1 |7.2 |7.3 |7.6 |6.8 Gwynedd |7.7 |6.9 |7.7 |7.8 |<2>7.7 |7.6 |7.0 |6.6 |6.9 |7.3 |7.3 Mid Glamorgan |10.2 |7.8 |7.9 |8.1 |8.5 |8.6 |<2>8.4 |8.0 |7.9 |7.7 |7.4 Powys |7.6 |7.2 |7.3 |6.5 |5.9 |6.5 |6.5 |6.3 |5.7 |6.1 |6.0 South Glamorgan |7.4 |7.0 |7.0 |7.2 |7.0 |6.7 |6.5 |6.1 |6.2 |6.1 |6.2 West Glamorgan |7.3 |7.0 |7.3 |7.1 |7.3 |7.3 |7.2 |6.9 |6.2 |6.1 |5.9 <1> At January for each academic year. <2> Estimated figure.
Special schools<1> Welsh counties |1977-78 |1978-79 |1979-80 |1980-81 |1981-82 |1982-83 |1983-84 |1984-85 |1985-86 |1986-87 |1987-88 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clwyd |8.6 |7.3 |8.5 |8.6 |8.6 |8.4 |8.5 |8.2 |7.9 |7.7 |7.2 Dyfed |7.6 |7.2 |7.5 |7.5 |7.2 |7.2 |7.5 |6.7 |6.8 |6.8 |6.7 Gwent |8.4 |8.9 |8.6 |8.3 |8.5 |7.8 |7.1 |7.2 |7.3 |7.6 |6.8 Gwynedd |7.7 |6.9 |7.7 |7.8 |<2>7.7 |7.6 |7.0 |6.6 |6.9 |7.3 |7.3 Mid Glamorgan |10.2 |7.8 |7.9 |8.1 |8.5 |8.6 |<2>8.4 |8.0 |7.9 |7.7 |7.4 Powys |7.6 |7.2 |7.3 |6.5 |5.9 |6.5 |6.5 |6.3 |5.7 |6.1 |6.0 South Glamorgan |7.4 |7.0 |7.0 |7.2 |7.0 |6.7 |6.5 |6.1 |6.2 |6.1 |6.2 West Glamorgan |7.3 |7.0 |7.3 |7.1 |7.3 |7.3 |7.2 |6.9 |6.2 |6.1 |5.9 <1> At January for each academic year. <2> Estimated figure.
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Special schools<1> Welsh counties |1977-78 |1978-79 |1979-80 |1980-81 |1981-82 |1982-83 |1983-84 |1984-85 |1985-86 |1986-87 |1987-88 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clwyd |8.6 |7.3 |8.5 |8.6 |8.6 |8.4 |8.5 |8.2 |7.9 |7.7 |7.2 Dyfed |7.6 |7.2 |7.5 |7.5 |7.2 |7.2 |7.5 |6.7 |6.8 |6.8 |6.7 Gwent |8.4 |8.9 |8.6 |8.3 |8.5 |7.8 |7.1 |7.2 |7.3 |7.6 |6.8 Gwynedd |7.7 |6.9 |7.7 |7.8 |<2>7.7 |7.6 |7.0 |6.6 |6.9 |7.3 |7.3 Mid Glamorgan |10.2 |7.8 |7.9 |8.1 |8.5 |8.6 |<2>8.4 |8.0 |7.9 |7.7 |7.4 Powys |7.6 |7.2 |7.3 |6.5 |5.9 |6.5 |6.5 |6.3 |5.7 |6.1 |6.0 South Glamorgan |7.4 |7.0 |7.0 |7.2 |7.0 |6.7 |6.5 |6.1 |6.2 |6.1 |6.2 West Glamorgan |7.3 |7.0 |7.3 |7.1 |7.3 |7.3 |7.2 |6.9 |6.2 |6.1 |5.9 <1> At January for each academic year. <2> Estimated figure.
Special schools<1> Welsh counties |1977-78 |1978-79 |1979-80 |1980-81 |1981-82 |1982-83 |1983-84 |1984-85 |1985-86 |1986-87 |1987-88 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clwyd |8.6 |7.3 |8.5 |8.6 |8.6 |8.4 |8.5 |8.2 |7.9 |7.7 |7.2 Dyfed |7.6 |7.2 |7.5 |7.5 |7.2 |7.2 |7.5 |6.7 |6.8 |6.8 |6.7 Gwent |8.4 |8.9 |8.6 |8.3 |8.5 |7.8 |7.1 |7.2 |7.3 |7.6 |6.8 Gwynedd |7.7 |6.9 |7.7 |7.8 |<2>7.7 |7.6 |7.0 |6.6 |6.9 |7.3 |7.3 Mid Glamorgan |10.2 |7.8 |7.9 |8.1 |8.5 |8.6 |<2>8.4 |8.0 |7.9 |7.7 |7.4 Powys |7.6 |7.2 |7.3 |6.5 |5.9 |6.5 |6.5 |6.3 |5.7 |6.1 |6.0 South Glamorgan |7.4 |7.0 |7.0 |7.2 |7.0 |6.7 |6.5 |6.1 |6.2 |6.1 |6.2 West Glamorgan |7.3 |7.0 |7.3 |7.1 |7.3 |7.3 |7.2 |6.9 |6.2 |6.1 |5.9 <1> At January for each academic year. <2> Estimated figure.
Second Homes
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what estimates he has as to the number of second houses liable for community charge in each district council area.
Mr. Grist : The Welsh Office is presently consulting on where the boundary between domestic and non-domestic properties should be drawn and thus which properties should be subject to the standard community charge. It is therefore not yet possible to provide the figures requested. General information on second homes is, however, available, and table 2.7 of the 1986 Welsh intercensal survey, a copy of which is in the Library, provides estimates of their distribution among districts. These figures can only provide a broad indication of this distribution as they are derived from a sample survey of about 60,000 Welsh households and there are some difficulties in distinguishing between second homes and other categories of housing in a general survey of this type.
Retirement Homes
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list for the Pembroke constituency the number of registered places in residential homes for the elderly in (a) each local authority home and (b) each privately owned home ; and if he will indicate in each case the number of beds provided for people requiring nursing care.
Mr. Grist : The information requested is given in the following tables.
Private Homes for the Elderly in the Pembroke Constituency as at
31 March 1988
Home |Number of Residential|Number of Nursing
|Places |Places<1>
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Bangeston Hall |27 |-
Ridgeway Home for the Elderly |25 |20
Glenwood House |16 |-
Parc-y-Llyn |11 |15
Montrose |12 |-
Nightingales |10 |-
Cartref |24 |-
Brooklands |7 |-
Rostley |8 |-
Apley Lodge |8 |-
Maesteg House |6 |2
Rosehill Country Home |17 |-
Belvedere Residential Home |15 |-
Ashdale Residential Home |30 |-
Lynnefield |6 |-
Canterbury House |12 |-
Castle View |12 |-
Woodfield House |15 |-
<1> Registered with the health authority under Part II of the Registered Homes Act 1984.
Nursing places are not included in the residential places shown in this table.
Private Homes for the Elderly in the Pembroke Constituency as at
31 March 1988
Home |Number of Residential|Number of Nursing
|Places |Places<1>
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Bangeston Hall |27 |-
Ridgeway Home for the Elderly |25 |20
Glenwood House |16 |-
Parc-y-Llyn |11 |15
Montrose |12 |-
Nightingales |10 |-
Cartref |24 |-
Brooklands |7 |-
Rostley |8 |-
Apley Lodge |8 |-
Maesteg House |6 |2
Rosehill Country Home |17 |-
Belvedere Residential Home |15 |-
Ashdale Residential Home |30 |-
Lynnefield |6 |-
Canterbury House |12 |-
Castle View |12 |-
Woodfield House |15 |-
<1> Registered with the health authority under Part II of the Registered Homes Act 1984.
Nursing places are not included in the residential places shown in this table.
Environmental Research
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was Welsh Office expenditure on environmental research in Wales in each year since 1979 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Grist : The information is as follows :
|£000s cash
---------------------------------
1979-80 |93
1980-81 |80
1981-82 |126
1982-83 |165
1983-84 |187
1984-85 |205
1985-86 |270
1986-87 |887
1987-88 |367
The increase in expenditure in 1986-87 was due to payments for studies relating to : the redevelopment of Cardiff bay, the staging of a national garden festival in Wales, and the intensive monitoring of sheep and other agricultural produce following the Chernobyl accident in 1986.
Environmental Health Services
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the total expenditure on local authority environmental health services in Wales and the number of environmental health officers employed, in each year since 1979 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Grist : Expenditure on local authority environmental health staff and the staff employed in each financial year since 1979-80 is shown in the following table :
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$ ------------------------------------ 1979-80 |12,373|508 |1,258 1980-81 |16,142|746 |1,253 1981-82 |18,111|608 |1,235 1982-83 |20,368|580 |1,238 1983-84 |22,011|750 |1,292 1984-85 |23,093|721 |1,407 1985-86 |24,312|609 |1,353 1986-87 |25,511|1,071 |1,342 <1> In March each financial year.
Information on the number of Environmental Health Officers alone is not held centrally.
Doctors (Working Hours)
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many junior hospital doctors work (a) more than 104 hours a week in (i) Wales, (ii) Clwyd health authority, (iii) East Dyfed health authority, (iv) Gwent health authority, (v) Gwynedd health authority, (vi) Mid Glamorgan health authority, (vii) Pembrokeshire health authority, (viii) Powys health authority, (ix) South Glamorgan health authority, and (x) West Glamorgan health authority and (b) more than 112 hours a week in (i) Wales, (ii) Clwyd health authority, (iii) East Dyfed health authority, (iv) Gwent health authority, (v) Gwynedd health authority, (vi) Mid Glamorgan health authority, (vii) Pembrokeshire health authority, (viii) Powys health authority, (ix) South Glamorgan health authority, and (x) West Glamorgan health authority.
Mr. Ian Grist : Information about the hours worked by junior hospital doctors is not available centrally. The numbers of junior doctors who are contracted for the standard working week and to be available on standby or on-call together totalling more than 104 hours is eight out of a total of approximately 1,400 junior doctors in Wales.
Exhaust Emissions
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what estimate he has of the scale of pollution in Wales from road vehicle emissions of (a) carbon monoxide, (b) hydrocarbons, and (c) nitrogen oxides ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : Information about emissions from road vehicles is not held in this form but total United
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Kingdom figures are published annually in the Department of the Environment's "Digest of Environmental Protection and Water Statistics".Nitrogen dioxide figures can be taken as an adequate indicator of the level of road vehicle pollution. A United Kingdom wide survey of Nitrogen dioxide made for the Department of the Environment by Warren Spring laboratory in 1986 showed levels in Welsh cities to be generally below the average for the United Kingdom.
Noise Pollution
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what information he has on the number of noise pollution complaints received by environmental health officers in Wales ; what are the sources of that noise pollution ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Grist : The information is not maintained centrally.
Water Pollution
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the number of water pollution incidents in Wales for each year since 1979 and the sources of that pollution ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Grist : The annual reports of the Welsh water authority, copies of which are in the Library, contain some references to the number of pollution incidents affecting water in the Welsh water authority's area.
The detailed information is not held centrally, so I have asked the chairman of the Welsh water authority to write to the hon. Gentleman.
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what are the numbers of lakes in Wales without fish due to pollution or acid rain ; what steps he is taking to improve the situation ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Grist : There is no definite evidence to show that any lake in Wales has become fishless because of the effect of acid rain. However, it is generally accepted that acidic deposition can bring about the acidification of lakes in areas with sensitive strata. The Welsh Office, with the Department of the Environment, funds an extensive programme of research with the aim of assessing the relative contribution which air pollution, afforestation, land type, land use and practice makes to the acidification of Welsh lakes and the effect that acidification has on fish populations.
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what are the latest waiting list figures for (a) in-patients for each Welsh health authority, (b) in-patients for each Welsh health authority (i) waiting more than one month for an urgent operation and (ii) waiting more than one year for a non-urgent operation and (c) out-patients.
Mr. Grist : All the information requested by the hon. Gentleman is contained in the 10th issue of the "Welsh Hospital Waiting List Bulletin," a copy of which is in the Library.
PRIME MINISTER
President Bush
Q27. Mr. Latham : To ask the Prime Minister when she next expects to meet President Bush.
The Prime Minister : I met Mr. Bush in November. On present plans, we shall next meet at the economic summit in Paris.
Ash-cum-Ridley
Q66. Mr. Dunn : To ask the Prime Minister if she has any plans to pay an official visit to Ash-cum-Ridley.
The Prime Minister : I have at present no plans to do so.
Food
Q72. Mr. Devlin : To ask the Prime Minister if she will transfer all responsibility for matters relating to food to the Ministry of Health.
The Prime Minister : I refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Holland with Boston (Sir R. Body) on 17 January 1989, at column 128.
Engagements
Mr. Barry Field : To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 24 January.
Mr. Hind : To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 24 January.
Mr. McLoughlin : To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 24 January.
Mr. Cran : To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 24 January.
Mr. Harry Greenway : To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 24 January.
Mr. Sumberg : To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 24 January.
Mr. Pike : To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 24 January.
Mr. Ian Taylor : To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 24 January.
Mr. Stern : To ask the Prime Minister if she will list her official engagements for Tuesday 24 January.
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The Prime Minister : This morning I had meetings with Ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in the House, I shall be having further meetings later today.
Windscale Fire 1957
Mr. McGrady : To ask the Prime Minister if she will now review the decision not to release all the documents in respect of the fire at Windscale in 1957.
The Prime Minister : The release of public records is governed by the requirements of the Public Records Acts. I have nothing to add to the replies that I gave the hon. Gentleman on 19 January 1988 at column 597 and to the hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) on 14 January 1988 at column 353.
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
Aid (Cash Limits)
Mr. Sims : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what change has been agreed in the 1988-89 cash limits for overseas aid.
Mr. Chris Patten : Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary spring supplementary estimate the cash limit for the overseas aid vote (class II, vote 5) will be increased by £51,204,000 from £1,223,114,000 to £1,274,318,000. The change includes allowance for the increase in the overall provision for overseas aid announced on 14 November 1988 (at column 371). Voted provision is being further increased by £1,400,000 for emergency assistance provided in the current financial year following the earthquake in Armenia. The increase will be charged to the reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure. The running costs limit for the Overseas Development Administration within the voted provision will be reduced by £1,000 to £42,932,000. This decrease will be matched by an increase in the running costs limits for the Office of the Minister for the Civil Service (class XX, vote 1) and reflects the transfer of costs for recruitment under the direct entry grade 7 competition, 1988.
CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
Parliamentary Questions
Mr. French : To ask the right hon. Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioner, how many oral parliamentary questions he has answered by written reply because the question was not reached at Question Time, for the most recent year for which figures are available.
Mr. Alison : In 1988, of a total of 38 oral questions, 10 were answered as written replies because the question was not reached in the time allotted.
Clergy
Mr. John Marshall : To ask the right hon. Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners, if he will make a statement about the number of (a) clergy who are likely to retire and (b) ordination candidates during the next 15 years.
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Mr. Alison : It is estimated that the number of clergy retiring over the next 15 years will average 410 per year. Taking into account the numbers likely to move in and out of the parochial ministry in mid career, it is estimated that to produce a stable total number of full-time male clergy over the same period would require an ordination rate of about 375 a year. This would represent an increase over the recent steady average, which is about 320 a year. However, any shortfall could be made up, at least in part, by the increased numbers of women entering the ministry.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Land Registry
Mr. Anthony Coombs : To ask the Attorney-General what is the number of (a) the Land Registry Office's backlog of substantive searches, (b) its backlog of preliminary searches and (c) the extra staff who have been taken on to deal with the backlog.
The Attorney-General : The total number of applications held at the Land Registry at the various stages of processing at the end of December 1988 was 1,171,402. Preliminary searches have always received priority. 90 per cent. of these searches are processed within four working days. Since April 1988 over 2,000 staff have been recruited and trained. An additional authorisation in August of 900 posts was approved to meet the high intakes.
Viraj Mendis
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Attorney-General what estimates he has as to the cost of court proceedings in the case of Mr. Viraj Mendis.
The Solicitor-General : The costs of court proceedings in the case of Viraj Mendis include the costs of Mr. Mendis's original application to the Queen's Bench Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal, and his two recent applications for judicial review relating to his deportation to Sri Lanka. He received legal aid for all these applications.
The fees payable to Mr. Mendis's legal advisers have not yet been finally assessed by the court. The legal aid administration has not, therefore, yet received any claims in respect of those costs. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has provided details of the legal costs incurred by the Home Office, in answer to a question from the hon. Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon) on 23 January 1989.
CIVIL SERVICE
Parliamentary Questions
Mr. French : To ask the Minister for the Civil Service how many oral parliamentary questions he has answered by written reply because the question was not reached at Question Time, for the most recent year for which figures are available.
Mr. Luce [holding answer 19 January 1989] : In 1988 a total of 60 questions were tabled to the Minister for the Civil Service, of which 18 received a written reply. These figures do not include oral questions which were subsequently withdrawn, unstarred or transferred to other Departments.
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THE ARTS
Parliamentary Questions
Mr. French : To ask the Minister for the Arts how many oral parliamentary questions he has answered by written reply because the question was not reached at Question Time, for the most recent year for which figures are available.
Mr. Luce [holding answer 19 January 1989] : In 1988 a total of 222 questions were tabled to the Minister for the Arts, of which 186 received a written reply. These figures do not include oral questions which were subsequently withdrawn, unstarred or transferred to other Departments.
Museums and Galleries (Attendances)
Mr. Faulds : To ask the Minister for the Arts whether he will publish in the Official Report the attendance figures for 1988 reported by the national museums and galleries in England for which he is responsible, broken down into the individual institutions but including their outstations, with figures in each case of the percentage increase or decrease on the attendance figures for 1987.
Mr. Luce [holding answer 16 January 1989] : The estimated number of visitors during 1988 to the 11 national museums and galleries for which I am responsible are as follows :
|Estimated attendance in|Percentage change from
|1988 |1987
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British Museum |4,172,472 |+4.1
British Museum (Natural History) |1,671,380 |-16.4
Imperial War Museum |1,086,587 |-8.3
National Gallery |3,228,153 |-9.5
National Maritime Museum |707,399 |+60.0
National Museum and Galleries on
Merseyside |1,525,672 |+14.8
National Portrait Gallery |638,595 |+8.1
Science Museum |3,861,433 |-18.4
Tate Gallery |<1>2,091,267 |+20.0
Victoria and Albert Museum |1,430,637 |+2.3
Wallace Collection |157,524 |-6.3
|------- |-------
Total |20,571,119
<1> Figure includes Tate Gallery Liverpool which opened in May 1988.
NATIONAL FINANCE
Competitive Tendering (Merit Pay)
Mr. Sean Hughes : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether there have been any instances of rewarding staff through merit pay for carrying through a successful competitive tendering exercise.
Mr. Brooke : Merit pay is awarded by individual Departments and the information requested is not available centrally. Personal salary details, as opposed to the pay rate for the job are, however, normally confidential to the individual concerned.
Developing Countries (Debt)
Sir John Stanley : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the information relating to official
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debts by all developing countries outstanding at the end of 1987 in the same format as that given as at the end of 1986 to the hon. Member for Eccles (Miss Lestor) on 18 April 1988, Official Report, columns 328-30.Mr. Lawson : I regret that this information is not yet available.
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Oil and Gas (Taxes and Royalties)
Mr. Salmond : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table, similar to table 18 on page 72 of the current edition of "Development of Oil and Gas Resources of the United Kingdom", showing taxes and royalties attributable to United Kingdom and United Kingdom continental shelf oil and gas, at constant prices.
Mr. Lilley [holding answer 23 January 1989] : The figures are as follows :
Taxes and Royalties attributable to United Kingdom and UKCS oil and gas (and gas levy) at 1978-79 <1>prices
£ million
Financial Year |1978-79 |1979-80 |1980-81 |1981-82 |1982-83 |1983-84 |1984-85 |1985-86 |1986-87 |1987-88
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Royalty |289 |537 |716 |917 |1,000 |1,117 |1,365 |1,092 |471 |490
Supplementary Petroleum
Duty |- |- |- |1,331 |1,468 |- |- |- |- |-
Petroleum Revenue
Tax<2> |183 |1,228 |1,740 |1,570 |2,006 |3,529 |4,039 |3,384 |609 |1,120
Total Corporation tax
before ACT set-off |93 |214 |246 |447 |319 |514 |1,365 |1,545 |1,372 |680
ACT set-off |40 |67 |70 |177 |124 |252 |696 |573 |579 |340
Mainstream CT |53 |147 |176 |270 |196 |262 |669 |972 |792 |340
Total<3> Revenues |565 |1,979 |2,703 |4,265 |4,793 |5,160 |6,769 |6,021 |2,451 |2,290
Gas Levy |- |- |- |252 |289 |306 |281 |279 |264 |245
<1> By reference to movements in the GDP deflator.
<2> Includes Advance Petroleum Revenue Tax (APRT).
<3> Constituent figures do not add up due to rounding.
SCOTLAND
Fisheries
Mr. Canavan : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will make a statement on the up-to-date situation regarding the application for a Loch Awe Protection Order under the Freshwater and Salmon Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1976.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : On 26 September 1988 the consultative committee on freshwater fisheries decided that it could not recommend that the Secretary of State should grant proposals for statutory protection of freshwater fishing rights in Loch Awe, Loch Avich and the River Avich.
My right hon. and learned Friend is currently considering whether to accept or to reject the proposals or to hold a local inquiry in the light of the consultative committee's advice, the views of objectors and the comments of the proposers. A decision will be announced as soon as possible.
Conservation
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he proposes to take to limit the amount of compensation paid to farmers and landowners to prevent them damaging areas of special conservation interest.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : While my right hon. and learned Friend makes payments to facilitate the conservation of certain areas, compensation payments in relation to sites of special scientific interest are made by the Nature Conservancy Council from funds provided by the Department of the Environment.
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