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to the cost of lighthouse authorities. But, whatever the outcome of the feasibility study, I would not envisage any changes in 1989-90.Aircraft Safety
Sir Ian Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) how many tests have been conducted since 1986 in aircraft requiring certification in the United Kingdom to demonstrate the current requirement that all passengers and crew should be able to leave the aircraft through 50 per cent. of the exits in 90 seconds ; (2) how frequently examinations are conducted of civil aircraft on the British register to ensure compliance with the provision that a minimum distance of 12 in is observed between seats on either side of safety exits.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : Matters concerning aviation safety are the statutory responsibility of the Civil Aviation Authority. As the questions require detailed technical answers, I suggest that my hon. Friend contacts the chairman of the CAA direct.
Southwold Harbour
Mr. David Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects his Department to resolve its consideration of the navigation and coast protection interests relating to the repair scheme for Southwold harbour put forward by Waveney district council ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Portillo [holding answer 20 February 1989] : This application gave rise to a number of problems which took time to resolve. Consideration has now been completed and a consent to the repair works, with a modification, will be issued shortly.
Road Haulage
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what are the figures from 1976 to 1987 on goods lifted by road.
Mr. Peter Bottomley [holding answer 20 February 1989] : Estimates of total goods lifted by road between 1976 and 1987 are shown in the table. The figures include work done by heavy goods vehicles (over 3.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight) and also by small commercial vehicles (less than 3.5 tonnes gross vehicle weight). These figures are also published in "Transport Statistics Great Britain 1977-1987" (tables 1.13 and 7.3).
|c|Tonnes (million) lifted by road: Great
Britain: 1976-1987|c|
|million tonnes
---------------------------------------------
1976 |1,505
1977 |1,419
1978 |1,491
1979 |1,487
1980 |1,383
1981 |1,286
1982 |1,376
1983 |1,349
1984 |1,395
1985 |1,451
1986 |1,476
1987 |1,542
Heavy Lorries
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what are the total numbers from 1976 to 1987 for lorries over 7.5 tonnes, over 16 tonnes, over 24 tonnes, over 32.5 tonnes and over 38 tonnes.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : The information requested is shown in the table, but with a number of qualifications. No information was collected on goods vehicles over 38 tonnes prior to 1983. Since then only about 50 have been identified each year. Information is available for goods, vehicles over 32 tonnes but not for those over 32.5 tonnes. Before 1982, information was not available for vehicles over 7.5 tonnes, so the number over 8.5 tonnes has been included in the table. There have been a number of changes in tax class definitions and in the vehicle census methodology, which make some of the earlier figures less reliable.
|c|Heavy goods vehicles currently licensed in Great Britain|c|
|c|1976 to 1987|c|
Thousands
|>7.5 tonnes|>16 tonnes |>24 tonnes |>32 tonnes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1987 |289 |227 |138 |83
1986 |284 |218 |131 |79
1985 |285 |212 |127 |76
1984 |291 |212 |127 |78
1983 |294 |208 |124 |75
1982 |299 |206 |125 |76
1981 |<1>328 |214 |128 |75
1980 |<1>361 |236 |144 |90
1979 |<1>369 |234 |138 |88
1978 |<1>361 |223 |128 |50
1977 |<1>357 |215 |119 |67
1976 |<1>374 |147 |89 |<2>-
<1> >8.5 tonnes.
<2> Not available.
Roads (North Devon)
Mr. Speller : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the road construction projects which were started and completed since 1959 in north Devon in the areas adjacent to Barnstaple, Ilfracombe and South Molton.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : The following trunk road schemes were started and completed since 1979 in the areas adjacent to Barnstaple and South Molton. There are no trunk roads in the vicinity of Ilfracombe.
A39 Severn Brethren Bank, Barnstaple
A39 Yelland Improvement
A39 Improvement at Higher Road, Fremington
A361 Improvement at East Kerscott, Swimbridge
A361 Stags Head junction improvement, Filleigh
A361 New Moor Cross, Bishops Nympton
A361 Improvement at Aller Cross, South Molton
A361 Improvement at Woodside, Newton
A361 Improvement at Haache Lane, South Molton
A361 Layby at Swimbridge
A361 Mini-roundabout, Victoria Road, Barnstaple
A361 Visibility improvement, Taw Vale, Barnstaple.
Details of trunk road schemes prior to 1979 are not available. Devon county council has details of its own roads.
US Federal Aeronautical Administration
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many security bulletins he received from
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the United States Federal Aeronautical Administration in the last 12 months ; and what action was taken in each case.Mr. Peter Bottomley : The Department received 26 such bulletins during 1988, most of them containing a wide variety of specific and general information. This information was collated with other information received. All identifiable threats emerging from the collated information were subjected to the assessment process my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State described to the House on 10 January ; and, when appropriate, the relevant provisions in the aviation security programme were adjusted accordingly.
Rail Freight
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what are the average costs per tonne from 1976 to 1987 of (a) a tonne of rail freight and (b) a tonne of road freight.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : The only available estimates are from total user expenditure on road and rail freight expressed as an average per tonne lifted. The table shows average expenditure per tonne lifted for road and rail freight in current prices (cash) and in 1987 prices. Such simple expenditure comparisons between road and rail give a misleading picture of the comparable costs of the two modes because of the different types of freight carried services provided. Rail freight consists of mainly bulk commodities ; full train loads accounting for over 90 per cent. of tonnes lifted. By comparison, road freight is largely concerned with individual loads often of several different commodities for several destinations--bulk loads accounting for about 35 per cent. of tonnes lifted.
|c|Estimates of average expenditure per tonne
lifted for road and rail|c|
|c|freight-United Kingdom|c|
Expenditure (£ cExpenditure (£, 1987
per tonne liftedprices<1>) per tonne
lifted
------------------------------------------------
|Road |<2>Rail|Road |<2>Rail
1976 |6.1 |2.3 |16.1 |6.2
1987 |17.2 |4.7 |17.2 |4.7
<1>Adjusted by using implicit GDP estimates of
deflation.
<2>Includes parcels traffic.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Mental Handicap Nurses
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many mental handicap nurses from each of the old grades have been assimilated to each of the new grades in Northern Ireland ; and whether he will list them by board.
Mr. Needham : The information requested is not held centrally. However all mental handicap nurses in Northern Ireland who were subject to the new clinical grading criteria have been assimilated to the new grades.
Social Security Payments
Mr. Hume : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information he has on the numbers of single parents claiming income support at each social security
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office in Northern Ireland in 1988 and the number of single parents who claimed supplementary benefit in each social security office in 1985, 1986 and 1987.Mr. Needham [holding answer 13 February 1989] : Reliable information is not available in the form requested. The available information is as follows :--
|c|(ii) Income support<1>|c|
Social Security Office |1988<1>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Andersonstown |1,382
Antrim |880
Armagh |306
Ballymena |624
Ballymoney |320
Ballynahinch |125
Banbridge |313
Bangor |527
Carrickfergus |457
Coleraine |742
Cookstown |226
Corporation Street |1,912
Downpatrick |301
Dungannon |398
Enniskillen |413
Falls Road |1,657
Holywood Road |1,143
Kilkeel |104
Knockbreda |637
Larne |341
Limavady |271
Lisburn |765
Londonderry |2,147
Lurgan |636
Magherafelt |358
Newcastle |124
Newry |658
Newtownabbey |751
Newtownards |434
Omagh |485
Portadown |404
Shaftesbury Square |811
Shankill |789
Strabane |569
Total |22,010
<1>Represents the numbers of single parents under pension age
excluding those receiving a disability premium.
|c|(ii) Income support<1>|c|
Social Security Office |1988<1>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Andersonstown |1,382
Antrim |880
Armagh |306
Ballymena |624
Ballymoney |320
Ballynahinch |125
Banbridge |313
Bangor |527
Carrickfergus |457
Coleraine |742
Cookstown |226
Corporation Street |1,912
Downpatrick |301
Dungannon |398
Enniskillen |413
Falls Road |1,657
Holywood Road |1,143
Kilkeel |104
Knockbreda |637
Larne |341
Limavady |271
Lisburn |765
Londonderry |2,147
Lurgan |636
Magherafelt |358
Newcastle |124
Newry |658
Newtownabbey |751
Newtownards |434
Omagh |485
Portadown |404
Shaftesbury Square |811
Shankill |789
Strabane |569
Total |22,010
<1>Represents the numbers of single parents under pension age
excluding those receiving a disability premium.
Supplementary Benefits
Mr. Hume : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information is available on the numbers and total value of supplementary benefit single payments made in each social security office in Northern Ireland from 1 January to 10 April 1988 and from 11 April 1988.
Mr. Needham [holding answer 20 February 1989] : The available information is as follows :
|c|Single payments from 11 April 1988 to 31 December 1988|c|
Social security office |Number |Amount £
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Andersonstown |4,018 |739,192.15
Antrim |2,831 |253,469.08
Armagh |3,607 |455,148.99
Ballymena |1,518 |157,518.65
Ballymoney |1,115 |123,647.61
Ballynahinch |128 |15,018.83
Banbridge |1,721 |193,304.54
Bangor |332 |36,870.38
Carrickfergus |437 |40,372.32
Coleraine |2,224 |260,900.73
Cookstown |1,891 |387,125.35
Corporation St. |6,714 |842,364.54
Downpatrick |1,006 |109,188.11
Dungannon |3,876 |1,152,194.82
Enniskillen |4,750 |731,233.13
Falls Road |5,756 |658,433.29
Holywood Road |3,231 |480,851.84
Kilkeel |553 |69,136.21
Knockbreda |1,096 |97,950.85
Larne |522 |53,626.13
Limavady |1,845 |262,925.72
Lisburn |1,918 |263,779.80
Londonderry |11,069 |2,330,529.55
Lurgan |4,391 |744,725.25
Magherafelt |2,915 |802,960.59
Newcastle |686 |78,371.09
Newry |9,423 |1,016,837.59
Newtownabbey |2,244 |188,745.75
Newtownards |638 |81,780.30
Omagh |3,121 |672,624.40
Portadown |2,811 |312,845.44
Shaftesbury Square |2,475 |253,196.47
Shankill |815 |71,894.19
Strabane |3,073 |654,481.35
|---- |------
Totals |94,750 |14,593,245.04
Note: The figures are incomplete because of industrial action at some Social Security
Offices.
|c|Single payments from 13 January 1988 to 8 April 1988|c|
Social security office |Number |Amount £
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Andersonstown |4,483 |706,194.39
Antrim |5,447 |452,190.87
Armagh |3,922 |385,629.44
Ballymena |3,260 |284,980.33
Ballymoney |1,590 |186,416.38
Ballynahinch |443 |43,035.03
Banbridge |2,408 |226,343.31
Bangor |1,442 |138,717.03
Carrickfergus |1,494 |137,838.02
Coleraine |2,736 |288,248.64
Cookstown |1,665 |314,563.92
Corporation Street |8,050 |861,205.41
Downpatrick |1,479 |158,985.96
Dungannon |2,049 |362,457.16
Enniskillen |1,993 |185,052.32
Falls Road |8,232 |841,834.82
Holywood Road |4,304 |364,150.08
Kilkeel |691 |83,290.10
Knockbreda |2,109 |173,064.98
Larne |2,279 |174,394.66
Limavady |2,856 |299,271.32
Lisburn |4,940 |609,194.36
Londonderry |4,006 |546,109.94
Lurgan |3,714 |577,274.86
Magherafelt |2,080 |359,551.61
Newcastle |1,285 |101,220.30
Newry |7,697 |867,909.56
Newtownabbey |1,458 |122,407.21
Newtownards |762 |80,194.29
Omagh |2,130 |293,522.55
Portadown |2,865 |291,234.31
Shaftesbury Square |6,695 |585,880.59
Shankill |3,605 |331,627.87
Strabane |1,948 |306,526.26
|------ |------
Totals |106,117 |11,740,517.88
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AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he has had any discussions with the Irish Minister of Agriculture regarding the occurrence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the Republic of Ireland, and on the possibility of bovine spongiform encephalopathy infected products being imported into the United Kingdom ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Donald Thompson : I have not discussed the recent case of BSE in the Republic of Ireland with its Minister of Agriculture. However, there is contact at official level, including between veterinarians, in relation to this issue. The Republic is shortly to introduce legislation which will require the compulsory slaughter and destruction of all animals affected with BSE. This is in line with the precautionary measures adopted here last August.
Listeria
Mr. Kennedy : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will specify the number and occurrence of warnings which have been issued to United Kingdom cheese producers over the past 12 months concerning possible incidence of listeria infection ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Ryder [holding answer 16 February 1989] : Where listeria contamination has been found, local staff, working closely with environmental health officers, have taken action directly with the producers concerned to eliminate the problem. Detailed analysis of all such occurrences are not readily available.
EMPLOYMENT
Bonnybridge Employment Office
Mr. Canavan : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what attempt he has made to assess the opinion of unemployed people before proposing to close the part-time employment office at Bonnybridge.
Mr. Lee : The Secretary of State has not sought to assess the opinion of unemployed people in Bonnybridge because the office that he proposes to close is a small part-time unemployment benefit office outhouse which is open only two hours per week.
Wages Councils
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of responses to the consultation document on wages councils received (a) by the closing date and (b) after the closing date ; and whether those received after 3 February will be considered.
Mr. Nicholls : Three hundred and three responses were received by the closing date and 68 subsequently. Replies received shortly after 3 February are being taken into account.
Employment Training
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give a breakdown by region and
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travel-to-work area of the numbers of participants on the old community programme, and indicate how many in each case have transferred to the employment training programme and how many have declined to do so.Mr. Nicholls : The information is not available in the precise form requested. The following table gives the number of filled places on the community programme (excluding managers and supervisors) nationally and by region on 2 September 1988. At the end of December 1988, the latest date for which information is available, it is estimated that more than 9,000 people had transferred from the community programme to employment training. The number who have declined to do so is not available.
|c|Filled places (excluding managers and
supervisors) on the|c|
|c|community programme at 2 September
1988|c|
|Numbers
------------------------------------------
South East |7,100
London |11,100
South West |10,400
West Midlands |20,500
East Midlands and Eastern |13,000
Yorkshire and Humberside |20,600
North West |29,200
Northern |25,100
Wales |16,400
Scotland |25,500
|-------
Great Britain |179,000
Labour Force Survey
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will state the figures from the 1988 labour force survey showing, according to the International Labour Organisation/Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development measures of unemployment, the number of (a) men, (b) women and (c) all unemployed, the number not in the claimant count, and the number of claimants ; what are the comparable figures according to the labour force measure of unemployment ; in both cases, what are the changes since spring 1987 ; and what is the claimant count both unadjusted and seasonally adjusted for 1988.
Mr. Lee : Results from the 1988 labour force survey are not yet available.
Health Workers
Ms. Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement about the health of workers employed in the manufacture of disposable nappies styled superabsorbent.
Mr. Nicholls : I am not aware of any specific health problems among these workers.
Legionnaire's Disease
Mr. Hannam : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will draw up a licensing system for all wet cooling tower air conditioning installations in urban areas to assist the locating of potential sources of legionnaire's disease.
Mr. Nicholls : Such a licensing procedure would be of limited value in locating the source of outbreaks of legionnaire's disease. The existing system of controls based
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on general powers under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and guidance material is adequate to deal with the problem of legionnaire's disease. The Health and Safety Commission and Health and Safety Executive will, however, be keeping this matter under review.Earnings
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information he has about the number of people in full-time work who earn less than two thirds of median male earnings by standard region.
Mr. Nicholls : The information available from the distribution of gross weekly earnings which most closely spans the figure for two-thirds of median full-time adult male earnings in Great Britain is provided in the table :
|c|Proportion with gross weekly earnings less than £140 and £150, by|c| |c|standard regions of Great Britain|c| |c|Full-time adult employees whose pay was not affected by absence,|c| |c|April 1988|c| Per cent. Standard region |Less than £140 per week|Less than £150 per week ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- South East |17.7 |21.9 East Anglia |27.2 |32.7 South West |29.5 |35.1 West Midlands |28.6 |33.9 East Midlands |29.6 |35.5 Yorkshire and Humberside |28.8 |34.3 North West |28.4 |33.8 North |28.7 |34.3 Wales |30.9 |36.1 Scotland |30.9 |36.9 Source: New Earnings Survey.
Job Clubs
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the average cost per job entry for each unemployed person finding work through (a) a jobcentre job club and (b) an agency job club for the latest available year.
Mr. Lee : During the period 1 April 1988 to 30 December 1988, the average cost for an unemployed person finding work through a jobcentre job club was £249. In the same period, the average cost per job entry for an agency job club was £396.
Figures on a comparable basis are not available prior to 1 April 1988.
Wages Councils
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of workers covered by visits from the wages inspectorate was shown as being paid below the relevant wages council rate for the latest available year.
Mr. Nicholls : In 1988 9.1 per cent. of workers whose pay was checked by visit were found to be underpaid. This cannot be taken as indicating the general level of compliance with wages council orders because the inspectorate concentrates its visits on establishments where underpayment is more likely to be found.
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Tourism
Mr. Bermingham : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when he expects to publish a Green Paper on tourism ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lee : The tourism review report is currently under consideration. An announcement will be made in due course.
Training Agency (Research)
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the reasons why the Training Agency does not undertake specific research into the opinions of employers about courses provided by individual managing agents ; and if he will institute such research.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 20 February 1989] : As part of its evaluation of YTS, the training agency seeks the opinion of employers through a range of surveys and studies, targeted external market research and local monitoring of schemes including work experience placements. In addition, training agency welcomes comments from individual employers about their experience in participating in YTS whether on local or more general aspects.
ENVIRONMENT
Toxic Waste
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the current level of imported toxic waste that travels through Yorkshire and Humberside ; what proportion remains within the three counties of Yorkshire ; if he will list in each of the three counties of Yorkshire the number of toxic waste sites that accept imported toxic waste ; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : Statistics on imported waste are not collected centrally in a manner that allows the question to be answered exactly.
The figures available to Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution indicate that some 19,273 tonnes of waste were imported into the United Kingdom via ports in Humberside in the calendar year 1987. This waste was destined for disposal in Greater Manchester, west midlands, Essex and Gwent. All this waste was destined for either specialised treatment or incineration. Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution has no record of any waste disposal site in the three counties of Yorkshire which received imported toxic waste during that period.
Greenhouse Effect
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish a table showing his assessment of the disaggregated contribution made to the increase since 1979 in greenhouse effect cases from (a) the electricity generating sector, (b) transport, (c) agriculture and (d) the industrial sector ; and if he will make a statement on his Department's policies to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases from United Kingdom sources.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : Emissions of carbon dioxide for each year since 1977 for the different sectors will be
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given in the Department's "Annual Digest of Environment Protection and Water Statistics", to be published later this month. Copies will be placed in the Library of the House.The Government are actively supporting the international efforts to tackle the greenhouse effect, which is a global problem. Our policy is to press ahead with improving our scientific understanding of the greenhouse effect and meanwhile to take actions to mitigate it which are justifiable on additional grounds. We have called for a cut of at least 85 per cent. in worldwide emissions of CFCs by the turn of the century. To take this proposal forward my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will participate in a conference next month which is to be hosted by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on "Saving the ozone layer".
Local Government Finance
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has to exemplify the figures for a system of local government finance based on capital value rates plus local income tax, in the proportions of 80 : 20, respectively, as they might apply in Cambridgeshire.
Mr. Gummer : Figures illustrating the impact of a system of capital value rates plus local income tax were placed in the Library on 23 June 1988. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has undertaken to illustrate the impact of such a system in any particular case described by an hon. Member.
London Docklands
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will give a breakdown of the total value of all future public expenditure currently committed for the London docklands urban development area under the following headings (i) expenditure on improvements to the A13, (ii) expenditure on new roads, including the docklands highways, (iii) expenditure on the dockland light railway including planned extensions, (iv) expenditure on other transport infrastructure and (v) other committed expenditure ;
(2) if he will give a breakdown of the total value of all public expenditure incurred by Government to date in the London docklands urban development area under the following headings (i) total expenditure by the London Docklands Development Corporation, including grant-in-aid, (ii) other expenditure incurred by his Department, including urban development grant, derelict land grant, city grant and Inner Urban Area Act moneys, (iii) total expenditure by the Department of Transport on new roads, road improvements, the docklands light railway, including the Bank extension and any other transport infrastructure, (iv) total Government expenditure incurred by the Isle of Dogs enterprise zone, including rates foregone and capital allowances claimed and (v) all expenditure incurred by any other Government Departments.
Mr. Trippier : I will write to the hon. Member.
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give details of projected grant-in-aid to the London Dockland development corporation for each year for the next five years.
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Mr. Trippier : The Government currently plan to make the following grant in aid available to the London Docklands development corporation :
Financial year |£ million --------------------------------------------- 1989-90 |86 1990-91 |104 1991-92 |94
No provision has been made for 1992-93 and beyond at present.
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make publicly available any research undertaken for or by either the Government or the London Dockland development corporation on changes in land or property values in the London docklands urban development area since 1981.
Mr. Trippier : The Department has not commissioned such research. Relevant information is held by the LDDC, but is commercially confidential.
Mr. Leighton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what arrangement the London Docklands development corporation has with the London borough of Newham to deal with training ; how many people are in docklands-related training in Newham, categorised by age, gender and ethnicity ; and what are the targets for future years ;
(2) how many jobs have been created by the London Docklands development corporation in the London borough of Newham ; and how many of them went to Newham residents ;
(3) pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Newham, North-East of 14 February, what specific steps the London Docklands development corporation has taken to ensure jobs in docklands go to Newham residents.
Mr. Trippier : I will write to the hon. Member.
Mr. Leighton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the job description, powers and responsibilities of Ms. Dru Vestey of the London Docklands development corporation.
Mr. Trippier : Director of the corporation's royal docks area team.
Mr. Leighton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what arrangements the London Docklands development corporation has with industrial training boards for training.
Mr. Trippier : The LDDC works closely with the relevant industrial training boards, on industrial training initiatives and projects. A particularly close relationship is enjoyed with the construction industry training board, which is a member of the Tower Hamlets training co- ordination group set up jointly by the LDDC and the borough council.
Mr. Leighton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what arrangements the London Docklands development corporation has with developers for training.
Mr. Trippier : Where appropriate, the LDDC as landowner or local planning authority encourages developers to participate in the improvement of training in docklands, for example by providing direct contributions to or facilities for training initiatives.
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Mr. Leighton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will take steps to make available minutes of member level meetings between the London borough of Newham and the London Docklands development corporation to hon. Members.
Mr. Trippier : No. The availability of minutes of meetings is a matter for the two bodies concerned.
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the total amount of land receipts received by the London Docklands development corporation each year since 1981 ; and to what ends these receipts have been put.
Mr. Trippier : The London Docklands development corporation has reported the following receipts from the sale of land :
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