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House Passes
Mr. Allen : To ask the Lord President of the Council how many House passes are currently issues for each of the categories of pass.
Mr. Wakeham : For reasons of security, it is not possible to provide this information.
Mr. Allen : To ask the Lord President of the Council how many passes are available for research assistants with access to the Library ; and how many hon. Members have (a) one, (b) two or more and (c) none of these passes issued on behalf of their staff.
Mr. Wakeham : The Services Committee has ruled that a maximum of 200 places are available for right hon. and hon. Members' research assistants who may have access to the main House of Commons Library. The breakdown is as follows :
(a) 196
(b) 2
(c) 450
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will give the number of photo-passes to the Press Gallery held by staff of each Government Department.
Mr. Wakeham [holding answer 9 March 1989] : The latest pass office figures show that a total of six photo-passes have been issued to departmental press officers giving them access to the Press Gallery on a permanent basis. A breakdown is as follows :
|Number
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Prime Minister's Office |2
Central Office of Information |2
Home Office |1
Ministry of Defence |1
In addition, 160 departmental press officers hold photo-passes which enable them to apply, on a day-to-day basis, for a pass to admit them to the Parliamentary Press Gallery when their official duties require it. A breakdown is as follows :
|Number
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Prime Minister's Office |4
Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food |3
Cabinet Office |3
Customs and Excise |2
Ministry of Defence |14
Department of Education
and Science |9
Department of Employment |16
Department of Energy |14
Department of the Environment |17
Foreign and Commonwealth
Office |7
Department of Health }
Department of Social } |16
Security }
Home Office |18
Northern Ireland Office |1
Office of Fair Trading |1
Scottish Office |1
Department of Trade and
Industry |22
Department of Transport |3
Treasury |6
Welsh Office |3
WALES
Capital Allocations
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give the capital allocations for each Welsh county and district for each year since 1981 and capital allocations hypothecated to particular services between 1981-82 and 1984-85.
Mr. Peter Walker : [pursuant to his reply, 2 March 1989, c. 300] : Owing to a typing error an incorrect figure was quoted ; the full reply is as follows.
The information requested is given in the following tables. Capital allocations shown for 1988-89 and 1989-90 are provisional. Allocations form only part of local authority capital investment capacity. Gross spending provision (excluding provision for law and order services) for all district and county councils in Wales for 1989-90 is £450 million, an increase of 8.2 per cent. over 1988-89.
Column 703
|c|Local authority capital allocations 1981-82 to 1989-90|c|
£000
Local authority |1981-82 |1982-83 |1983-84 |1984-85 |1985-86 |1986-87 |1987-88 |1988-89 |1989-90
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Alyn and Deeside |3,528 |4,018 |3,788 |3,245 |3,242 |3,567 |3,938 |2,710 |2,774
Colwyn |2,590 |3,862 |3,127 |2,675 |2,595 |2,360 |2,831 |2,250 |2,365
Delyn |2,266 |3,543 |4,200 |4,461 |4,087 |4,801 |3,077 |2,512 |2,823
Glyndwr |1,393 |1,957 |2,656 |1,770 |1,986 |1,983 |1,903 |1,809 |1,616
Rhuddlan |1,861 |2,464 |2,597 |2,077 |1,972 |2,265 |4,211 |4,192 |2,995
Wrexham Maelor |5,767 |6,480 |5,357 |5,724 |5,399 |7,936 |7,717 |5,921 |7,080
Carmarthen |2,940 |4,311 |8,924 |4,125 |3,547 |3,933 |4,432 |3,057 |3,109
Ceredigion |2,728 |4,381 |5,135 |3,316 |2,755 |3,158 |3,494 |2,858 |2,868
Dinefwr |1,009 |1,717 |2,743 |1,694 |1,456 |1,651 |1,867 |2,224 |1,885
Llanelli |3,895 |5,710 |5,395 |4,204 |3,175 |3,349 |3,919 |3,357 |4,187
Preseli |2,007 |2,699 |4,663 |4,170 |3,282 |2,891 |3,306 |3,267 |2,590
South Pembrokeshire |1,428 |2,825 |4,443 |3,439 |2,978 |2,803 |5,067 |3,287 |2,196
Blaenau Gwent |5,265 |12,111 |12,176 |8,315 |6,727 |10,197 |12,870 |8,629 |10,933
Islwyn |3,474 |5,692 |5,899 |5,130 |5,625 |9,324 |8,209 |7,681 |4,439
Monmouth |2,110 |3,563 |5,176 |4,026 |3,942 |3,854 |4,157 |2,703 |2,779
Newport |8,357 |13,750 |11,038 |7,996 |8,418 |9,713 |9,262 |7,642 |6,928
Torfean |3,441 |5,329 |5,266 |4,696 |4,665 |6,253 |7,000 |6,311 |5,319
Aberconwy |2,076 |2,223 |2,575 |1,942 |1,877 |1,908 |2,357 |1,987 |3,645
Arfon |3,583 |3,810 |4,207 |3,356 |2,692 |2,761 |3,411 |3,750 |3,210
Dwyfor |1,086 |1,508 |3,460 |2,114 |1,435 |2,225 |2,539 |2,000 |1,464
Meirionnydd |1,625 |1,692 |5,175 |2,475 |1,313 |1,452 |1,728 |1,942 |1,665
Ynys Mon |1,954 |3,162 |6,559 |2,945 |3,701 |4,617 |4,847 |3,725 |2,973
Cynon Valley |2,767 |3,520 |5,035 |4,216 |3,680 |4,831 |6,793 |7,213 |4,984
Merthyr Tydfil |3,941 |6,006 |5,616 |3,806 |3,111 |5,116 |6,179 |5,090 |5,477
Ogwr |5,354 |7,881 |7,419 |6,016 |5,481 |6,051 |8,493 |6,805 |5,475
Rhondda |5,521 |7,117 |13,745 |8,943 |8,558 |10,959 |12,738 |17,771 |12,706
Rhymney Valley |5,162 |7,770 |6,856 |5,766 |6,238 |8,544 |10,648 |10,131 |6,595
Taff Ely |6,377 |10,201 |10,133 |5,886 |5,049 |5,782 |7,696 |5,751 |5,148
Brecknock |1,745 |1,602 |3,043 |1,715 |2,066 |3,444 |3,270 |1,689 |2,120
Montgomeryshire |1,411 |1,608 |3,685 |1,782 |1,741 |1,921 |2,119 |2,118 |2,171
Radnor |889 |1,497 |1,758 |1,108 |970 |1,109 |1,426 |1,187 |1,042
Cardiff |17,029 |19,559 |24,792 |19,551 |15,924 |19,094 |21,060 |17,933 |15,289
Vale of Glamorgan |5,082 |5,730 |7,776 |4,687 |3,903 |5,224 |5,981 |4,517 |4,031
Port Talbot |2,262 |2,489 |2,674 |2,315 |1,899 |3,509 |4,389 |3,843 |3,544
Lliw Valley |3,486 |4,569 |4,447 |3,782 |3,155 |3,692 |4,069 |3,638 |3,608
Neath |2,165 |5,239 |4,802 |2,779 |3,123 |3,731 |4,417 |3,978 |3,512
Swansea |9,398 |18,845 |17,957 |14,112 |10,788 |12,317 |12,563 |12,234 |10,418
Clwyd |8,561 |9,507 |12,653 |12,014 |12,249 |14,092 |16,649 |16,797 |12,840
Dyfed |8,967 |13,184 |11,175 |9,110 |11,369 |16,615 |16,594 |15,455 |16,948
Gwent |20,677 |29,506 |24,855 |21,437 |13,000 |17,582 |21,466 |18,479 |24,019
Gwynedd |7,124 |10,989 |7,222 |8,354 |11,528 |8,565 |9,197 |7,907 |7,903
Mid Glamorgan |18,624 |19,350 |17,193 |19,985 |17,102 |22,708 |24,077 |23,111 |26,648
Powys |5,304 |6,314 |4,634 |3,730 |3,904 |6,950 |7,111 |6,055 |6,110
South Glamorgan |18,080 |21,457 |19,395 |14,068 |23,008 |26,764 |32,411 |29,607 |18,132
West Glamorgan |12,398 |13,787 |11,949 |11,071 |14,389 |19,233 |20,124 |18,163 |22,247
Total Districts |136,972 |200,440 |234,297 |170,359 |152,455 |188,325 |213,983 |189,570 |150,841
Total Counties |99,735 |124,094 |109,076 |99,769 |106,649 |132,509 |147,629 |135,589 |130,033
Total Wales |236,707 |324,534 |343,373 |270,128 |259,104 |320,834 |361,612 |323,286 |300,810
|c|Capital allocations hypothecated to services 1981-82|c|
£000
Local Authority |Education |Transport |PSS |Housing |Other Services |Urban Programme |Total Allocation
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Alyn and Deeside |0 |229 |0 |2,520 |685 |94 |3,528
Colwyn |0 |0 |0 |1,610 |980 |0 |2,590
Delyn |0 |0 |0 |1,350 |590 |326 |2,266
Glyndwr |0 |47 |0 |1,000 |346 |0 |1,393
Rhuddlan |0 |0 |0 |850 |1,011 |0 |1,861
Wrexham Maelor |0 |43 |0 |3,230 |1,881 |613 |5,767
Carmarthen |0 |0 |0 |2,030 |870 |40 |2,940
Ceredigion |0 |0 |37 |1,740 |934 |17 |2,728
Dinefwr |0 |0 |0 |850 |159 |0 |1,009
Llanelli |0 |0 |85 |1,950 |1,476 |384 |3,895
Preseli |0 |0 |0 |1,740 |267 |0 |2,007
South Pembroke |0 |0 |0 |1,140 |213 |75 |1,428
Blaenau Gwent |0 |241 |0 |4,010 |385 |629 |5,265
Islwyn |0 |312 |0 |2,280 |674 |208 |3,474
Monmouth |0 |0 |0 |1,850 |260 |0 |2,110
Newport |0 |702 |0 |6,500 |545 |610 |8,357
Torfaen |0 |34 |0 |2,890 |359 |158 |3,441
Aberconwy |0 |0 |0 |1,420 |656 |0 |2,076
Arfon |0 |1 |0 |2,500 |892 |190 |3,583
Dwyfor |0 |0 |0 |770 |316 |0 |1,086
Meirionnydd |0 |0 |0 |1,020 |605 |0 |1,625
Ynys Mon |0 |16 |0 |1,370 |533 |35 |1,954
Cynon Valley |0 |0 |0 |2,430 |248 |89 |2,767
Merthyr Tydfil |0 |306 |0 |2,704 |773 |158 |3,941
Ogwr |0 |106 |0 |4,530 |645 |73 |5,354
Rhondda |0 |118 |102 |4,310 |458 |533 |5,521
Rhymney Valley |0 |353 |14 |3,650 |948 |197 |5,162
Taff Ely |0 |37 |87 |5,830 |374 |49 |6,377
Brecknock |0 |0 |0 |1,110 |635 |0 |1,745
Montgomeryshire |0 |31 |0 |950 |430 |0 |1,411
Radnor |0 |0 |0 |640 |249 |0 |889
Cardiff |0 |881 |0 |10,690 |5,050 |408 |17,029
Vale of Glamorgan |0 |0 |0 |3,200 |1,881 |1 |5,082
Port Talbot |0 |97 |0 |1,800 |261 |104 |2,262
Lliw Valley |0 |0 |0 |2,760 |726 |0 |3,486
Neath |0 |0 |0 |1,720 |393 |52 |2,165
Swansea |0 |320 |0 |6,674 |2,067 |337 |9,398
Clwyd |3,521 |3,499 |585 |0 |623 |333 |8,561
Dyfed |2,743 |4,792 |578 |0 |725 |129 |8,967
Gwent |3,758 |12,988 |723 |0 |3,003 |205 |20,677
Gwynedd |2,271 |2,685 |413 |0 |1,536 |219 |7,124
Mid Glamorgan |8,609 |6,167 |1,122 |0 |2,517 |209 |18,624
Powys |2,269 |2,338 |303 |0 |394 |0 |5,304
South Glamorgan |2,559 |13,898 |692 |0 |632 |299 |18,080
West Glamorgan |5,050 |3,623 |765 |0 |2,956 |4 |12,398
Total Districts |0 |3,874 |325 |97,618 |29,775 |5,380 |136,972
Total Counties |30,780 |49,990 |5,181 |0 |12,386 |1,398 |99,735
Total Wales |30,780 |53,864 |5,506 |97,618 |42,161 |6,778 |236,707
|c|Capital allocations hypothecated to services 1982-83 £000
Local Authority |Education |Transport |PSS |Housing |Other Services |Urban Programme |Total Allocation
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Alyn and Deeside |0 |13 |0 |2,873 |784 |348 |4,018
Colwyn |0 |0 |0 |2,342 |1,520 |0 |3,862
Delyn |0 |0 |0 |1,681 |1,135 |727 |3,543
Glyndwr |0 |100 |0 |1,581 |276 |0 |1,957
Rhuddlan |0 |0 |0 |1,273 |1,191 |0 |2,464
Wrexham Maelor |0 |0 |0 |3,616 |1,592 |1,272 |6,480
Carmarthen |0 |0 |0 |3,823 |484 |4 |4,311
Ceredigion |0 |0 |52 |3,635 |693 |1 |4,381
Dinefwr |o |o |o |1,278 |239 |200 |1,717
Llanelli |0 |0 |100 |3,104 |772 |1,734 |5,710
Preseli |0 |30 |0 |1,783 |771 |115 |2,699
South Pembroke |0 |0 |0 |2,365 |300 |160 |2,825
Blaenau Gwent |0 |0 |0 |10,172 |853 |1,086 |12,111
Islwyn |0 |0 |0 |4,685 |460 |547 |5,692
Monmouth |0 |0 |0 |2,917 |595 |51 |3,563
Newport |0 |578 |0 |10,956 |1,075 |1,141 |13,750
Torfaen |0 |0 |0 |4,370 |670 |289 |5,329
Aberconwy |0 |0 |0 |1,708 |515 |0 |2,223
Arfon |0 |0 |0 |2,936 |417 |457 |3,810
Dwyfor |o |6 |o |1,119 |383 |0 |1,508
Meirionnydd |0 |0 |0 |1,289 |403 |0 |1,692
Ynys Mon |0 |0 |0 |2,471 |681 |10 |3,162
Cynon Valley |0 |0 |0 |2,830 |552 |138 |3,520
Merthyr Tydfil |0 |25 |0 |2,885 |2,418 |678 |6,006
Ogwr |0 |113 |0 |6,197 |1,037 |534 |7,881
Rhondda |0 |212 |0 |5,546 |681 |678 |7,117
Rhymney |0 |236 |0 |6,211 |934 |389 |7,770
Taff Ely |0 |5 |55 |7,020 |3,121 |0 |10,201
Brecknock |0 |0 |0 |1,283 |319 |0 |1,602
Montgomeryshire |0 |0 |0 |1,292 |276 |40 |1,608
Radnor |0 |0 |0 |1,376 |121 |0 |1,497
Cardiff |0 |997 |0 |13,607 |4,100 |855 |19,559
Vale of Glamorgan |0 |0 |0 |4,812 |895 |23 |5,730
Port Talbot |0 |0 |0 |1,842 |647 |0 |2,489
Lliw Valley |0 |0 |0 |4,078 |491 |0 |4,569
Neath |0 |0 |0 |4,118 |762 |359 |5,239
Swansea |0 |0 |0 |10,760 |7,397 |688 |18,845
Clwyd |4,016 |2,750 |184 |0 |2,314 |243 |9,507
Dyfed |3,726 |6,545 |720 |0 |1,705 |488 |13,184
Gwent |4,211 |22,370 |1,163 |0 |1,700 |62 |29,506
Gwynedd |2,108 |2,660 |712 |0 |5,050 |459 |10,989
Mid Glamorgan |9,046 |7,745 |1,022 |0 |1,245 |292 |19,350
Powys |2,726 |2,770 |319 |0 |499 |0 |6,314
South Glamorgan |4,214 |14,430 |1,087 |0 |1,033 |693 |21,457
West Glamorgan |4,048 |4,740 |851 |0 |4,143 |5 |13,787
Total Districts |0 |2,315 |207 |145,834 |39,560 |12,524 |200,440
Total Counties |34,095 |64,010 |6,058 |0 |17,689 |2,242 |124,094
Total Wales |34,095 |66,325 |6,265 |145,834 |57,249 |14,766 |324,534
Column 709
|c|Capital allocations hypothecated to services 1983-84|c|
Local authority |Education |Transport |PSS |Housing |Other services |Urban programme |Total allocation
|£000 |£000 |£000 |£000 |£000 |£000 |£000
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Alyn and Deeside |0 |0 |0 |2,922 |462 |404 |3,788
Colwyn |0 |0 |0 |2,483 |594 |50 |3,127
Delyn |0 |0 |0 |2,025 |1,357 |818 |4,200
Glyndwr |0 |0 |0 |2,345 |311 |0 |2,656
Rhuddlan |0 |0 |0 |1,189 |1,408 |0 |2,597
Wrexham Maelor |0 |0 |0 |3,833 |787 |737 |5,357
Carmarthen |0 |0 |0 |8,160 |652 |112 |8,924
Ceredigion |0 |0 |0 |4,478 |657 |0 |5,135
Dinefwr |0 |0 |0 |2,334 |211 |198 |2,743
Llanelli |0 |0 |82 |3,745 |984 |584 |5,395
Preseli |0 |0 |0 |3,526 |477 |660 |4,663
South Pembroke |0 |0 |0 |3,804 |274 |365 |4,443
Blaenau Gwent |0 |0 |0 |10,236 |843 |1,097 |12,176
Islwyn |0 |90 |0 |5,215 |415 |179 |5,899
Monmouth |0 |0 |0 |4,643 |472 |61 |5,176
Newport |0 |60 |0 |9,137 |1,331 |510 |11,038
Torfaen |0 |0 |0 |4,370 |621 |275 |5,266
Aberconwy |0 |0 |0 |2,006 |569 |0 |2,575
Arfon |0 |0 |0 |3,469 |418 |320 |4,207
Dwyfor |0 |35 |0 |3,032 |393 |0 |3,460
Meirionnydd |0 |0 |0 |3,282 |1,804 |89 |5,175
Ynys Mon |0 |530 |0 |5,260 |650 |119 |6,559
Cynon Valley |0 |0 |0 |4,323 |451 |261 |5,035
Merthyr Tydfil |0 |132 |0 |3,993 |1,034 |457 |5,616
Ogwr |0 |78 |0 |5,870 |1,202 |268 |7,419
Rhondda |0 |105 |0 |12,030 |816 |794 |13,745
Rhymney Valley |0 |205 |0 |5,465 |811 |375 |6,856
Taff Ely |0 |58 |0 |8,886 |1,077 |112 |10,133
Brecknock |0 |0 |0 |2,851 |192 |0 |3,043
Montgomeryshire |0 |0 |0 |3,393 |292 |0 |3,685
Radnor |0 |0 |0 |1,593 |165 |0 |1,758
Cardiff |0 |2,038 |0 |17,835 |3,915 |1,004 |24,792
Vale of Glamorgan |0 |0 |0 |5,333 |2,219 |224 |7,776
Port Talbot |0 |50 |0 |1,982 |377 |265 |2,674
Lliw Valley |0 |0 |0 |3,992 |410 |45 |4,447
Neath |0 |0 |0 |3,892 |419 |491 |4,802
Swansea |0 |0 |0 |11,365 |5,520 |1,072 |17,957
Clwyd |4,746 |5,460 |820 |0 |759 |868 |12,653
Dyfed |3,817 |5,044 |720 |0 |1,324 |270 |11,175
Gwent |5,430 |16,199 |1,040 |0 |1,565 |621 |24,855
Gwynedd |2,035 |3,517 |716 |0 |747 |207 |7,222
Mid Glamorgan |7,391 |7,527 |852 |0 |1,149 |274 |17,193
Powys |2,102 |2,073 |194 |0 |257 |8 |4,634
South Glamorgan |4,557 |11,923 |741 |0 |1,600 |574 |19,395
West Glamorgan |4,247 |4,943 |1,476 |0 |1,283 |0 |11,949
Total Districts |0 |3,382 |82 |184,297 |34,590 |11,946 |234,297
Total Counties |34,325 |56,686 |6,559 |0 |8,684 |2,822 |109,076
Total Wales |34,325 |60,068 |6,641 |184,297 |43,274 |14,768 |343,373
Capital allocations hypothecated to services 1984-85 £'000s
|Other |Special |Urban |Total
Local Authority |Education |Transport |PSS |Housing |Services |Projects |Programme |Allocation
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Alyn and Deeside |0 |0 |0 |2,234 |370 |0 |641 |3,245
Colwyn |0 |0 |0 |2,089 |475 |0 |111 |2,675
Delyn |0 |0 |0 |1,459 |731 |900 |1,371 |4,461
Glyndwr |0 |0 |0 |1,521 |249 |0 |0 |1,770
Rhuddlan |0 |0 |0 |951 |1,126 |0 |0 |2,077
Wrexham Maelor |0 |0 |0 |3,746 |630 |0 |1,348 |5,724
Carmarthen |0 |0 |0 |3,571 |539 |0 |15 |4,125
Ceredigion |0 |0 |0 |2,790 |526 |0 |0 |3,316
Dinefwr |0 |0 |0 |1,414 |169 |0 |111 |1,694
Llanelli |0 |0 |66 |2,737 |787 |0 |614 |4,204
Preseli |0 |0 |0 |2,862 |382 |250 |576 |4,170
South Pembroke |0 |0 |0 |2,323 |219 |350 |547 |3,439
Blaenau Gwent |0 |0 |0 |6,238 |674 |0 |1,403 |8,315
Islwyn |0 |0 |0 |4,499 |332 |0 |299 |5,130
Monmouth |0 |0 |0 |3,599 |378 |0 |49 |4,026
Newport |0 |0 |0 |6,554 |734 |0 |708 |7,996
Torfaen |0 |0 |0 |4,002 |497 |0 |197 |4,696
Aberconwy |0 |0 |0 |1,635 |307 |0 |0 |1,942
Arfon |0 |0 |0 |2,940 |334 |0 |82 |3,356
Dwyfor |0 |0 |0 |1,800 |314 |0 |0 |2,114
Meirionnydd |0 |0 |0 |1,352 |1,123 |0 |0 |2,475
Ynys Mon |0 |0 |0 |2,350 |520 |0 |75 |2,945
Cynon Valley |0 |0 |0 |3,090 |361 |0 |765 |4,216
Merthyr Tydfil |0 |0 |0 |2,521 |827 |0 |458 |3,806
Ogwr |0 |0 |0 |5,011 |962 |0 |43 |6,016
Rhondda |0 |0 |0 |7,468 |653 |0 |822 |8,943
Rhymney Valley |0 |240 |0 |4,412 |649 |0 |465 |5,766
Taff Ely |0 |20 |0 |4,999 |862 |0 |5 |5,886
Brecknock |0 |0 |0 |1,321 |154 |0 |240 |1,715
Montgomeryshire |0 |0 |0 |1,548 |234 |0 |0 |1,782
Radnor |0 |0 |0 |976 |132 |0 |0 |1,108
Cardiff |0 |1,881 |0 |12,557 |3,132 |0 |1,981 |19,551
Vale of Glamorgan |0 |0 |0 |3,080 |1,375 |0 |232 |4,687
Port Talbot |0 |0 |0 |1,586 |302 |0 |427 |2,315
Lliw Valley |0 |0 |0 |3,220 |328 |0 |234 |3,782
Neath |0 |0 |0 |2,064 |335 |0 |380 |2,779
Swansea |0 |16 |0 |9,073 |3,282 |500 |1,241 |14,112
Clwyd |3,797 |6,174 |500 |0 |607 |0 |936 |12,014
Dyfed |3,054 |4,059 |600 |0 |1,059 |0 |338 |9,110
Gwent |4, 344 |14,418 |850 |0 |1,252 |0 |573 |21,437
Gwynedd |1,628 |5,390 |400 |0 |598 |0 |338 |8,354
Mid Glamorgan |5,513 |11,551 |1,200 |0 |919 |500 |302 |19,985
Powys |1,682 |1,742 |100 |0 |206 |0 |0 |3,730
South Glamorgan |3,646 |7,527 |600 |0 |1,280 |0 |1,015 |14,068
West Glamorgan |3,398 |5,437 |1,000 |0 |1,126 |0 |110 |11,071
Total Districts |0 |2,157 |66 |125,592 |25,004 |2,100 |15,440 |170,359
Total Counties |27,062 |56,298 |5,250 |0 |7,047 |500 |3,612 |99,769
Total Wales |27,062 |58,455 |5,316 |125,592 |32,051 |2,600 |19,052 |270,128
Column 711
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Public Record Office
Mr. Beggs : To ask the Attorney-General if he will list the scales of charges for services provided by the Public Record Office to commercial genealogists.
The Attorney-General : The Public Record Office does not distinguish between commercial genealogists and other users in respect of fees and charges made for services it provides. The full range of fees currently charged, under section 2(5) of the Public Records Act 1958, is set out in the Public Record Office (Fees) Regulations 1988 (1988 No. 1385).
THE ARTS
Sponsorship (Tobacco Companies)
Mr. Wheeler : To ask the Minister for the Arts what information he has on the current annual total of sponsorship of the arts by tobacco companies ; if he will list these individually and in relation to other commercial sponsorship ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Luce : The total amount of sponsorship in 1988-89 by tobacco companies is not known. The business sponsorship incentive scheme has brought £5.7 million new sponsorship to the arts in the current financial year, of
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which £3,000 has come from tobacco interests. Arts organisations are free to decide what sponsorship to accept.Libraries (Charges)
Mr. Robert B. Jones : To ask the Minister for the Arts whether he intends that under his proposed new regulations library authorities should be able to charge students resident or studying within their areas to reserve books relevant to their studies ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Luce [holding answer 9 March 1989] : As I said in my statement on 8 February at columns 987-88, I intend in the proposed regulations to give library authorities discretionary power to charge any person for obtaining and notifying the availability of an item reserved, subject to a limit which I shall prescribe. Subject to that limit on which I shall in due course consult, authorities will have total freedom to decide whom to charge and what concessions to give.
Museums
Mr. Fisher : To ask the Minister for the Arts whether he will publish a table showing attendances of all the national museums in each of the last five years.
Mr. Luce [holding answer 8 March 1989] : The estimated number of visitors in each of the last five years to the 11 national museums and galleries (including their outstations) for which I am responsible is as follows :
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Estimated attendances
|1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988
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British Museum |3,467,044 |4,142,092 |3,869,639 |4,007,885 |4,172,472
British Museum (Natural History) |3,022,254 |3,354,351 |3,239,685 |1,999,130 |1,671,380
Imperial War Museum |1,365,888 |1,291,435 |1,175,834 |1,184,959 |1,086,587
National Gallery |2,936,926 |3,156,725 |3,182,365 |3,566,568 |3,228,153
National Maritime Museum |600,000 |600,000 |380,099 |442,005 |707,399
National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside |- |- |<1>1,163,304|1,328,844 |1,525,672
National Portrait Gallery |581,395 |516,148 |624,520 |590,841 |638,595
Science Museum |4,510,103 |4,607,852 |4,824,906 |4,732,784 |3,861,433
Tate Gallery |1,265,605 |996,565 |1,153,355 |1,742,156 |<2>2,091,267
Victoria and Albert Museum |2,079,204 |2,067,202 |1,439,636 |1,398,688 |1,430,637
Wallace Collection |177,613 |178,770 |170,797 |168,109 |157,524
|------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |20,006,032 |20,911,140 |21,224,140 |21,161,969 |20,571,119
<1>The Office of Arts and Libraries became responsible for NMGM in 1986 following the dissolution of the Merseyside County
Council. Figures for previous years are unavailable.
<2>Figure includes Tate Gallery Liverpool which opened in May 1988.
NATIONAL FINANCE
HMSO
Mr. McLoughlin : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to his written answer of 14 December 1988, Official Report, column 584, what financial and performance targets he has set Her Majesty's Stationery Office for 1989.
Mr. Lilley : My right hon. Friend has today laid a further Treasury minute setting HMSO the financial target for 1989 of achieving a profit after interest in current cost accounting (CCA) terms of £1.7 million. This compares with a CCA profit after interest of £0.8 million actually achieved in 1987-88.
I have also set various performance targets designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness with which HMSO delivers its services. These are :
|1987-88 |1989
|Actual |Target
|per cent. |per cent.
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Value for money
Paper and stationery |6.54 |8.0
Office machinery |10.39 |11.5
Printing and binding |5.03 |8.9
Service and quality
Supply
Stock catalogue items |87.00 |90.00
|within 5 working |within 5 working
|days |days
Publications
Dispatch of orders by |Average of 6 days|90.00
mail |within 5 working
|days
Print procurement
Orders delivered to time
vital |97.00 |100.0
overall |93.00 |95.0
Delivered without fault |99.30 |100.0
Production
Jobs delivered to time
basic |94.00 |100.0
other |92.00 |95.0
Delivered without fault |99.00 |100.0
Computers (Security)
Miss Emma Nicholson : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has any records of unauthorised entry into his Department's computer files.
Mr. Brooke : The Treasury has no evidence of any unauthorised entry or attempted unauthorised entry into the Department's computer files.
Miss Emma Nicholson : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether security of Treasury computer files is regularly checked for breaches by computer hackers.
Mr. Brooke : The Treasury takes all forms of security (including computer security) very seriously. The Department regularly reviews the security measures in place.
Consumers (Cost of Living)
Mr. Gordon Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide an index for the cost of living for consumers based on the retail price index but excluding indirect taxes, including value added tax, excise duties and rates, measured at December each year from 1973 to 1979 taking the value of the index as 1979 equals 100.
Mr. Lilley [holding answer 9 March 1989] : The following are estimates of the movement in the RPI excluding VAT, excise duties and rates measured at December each year. Information before 1974 is not available.
December 1979=100
|Index
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1974 |51
1975 |62
1976 |72
1977 |80
1978 |87
1979 |100
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Consumers (Consultations)
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what arrangements there are for consulting British consumers on the work and decisions of his Department.
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Mr. Eggar : The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is in regular touch with a large number of individuals and groups which use our services and have an interest in the issues the Department handles.
DEFENCE
Low-level Flying, East Lothian
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) if he will make a statement on the speed, height and purpose of the low- level flights over Giffard, East Lothian, at (a) 2.30 pm on 6 February, (b) 3.35 pm on 8 February, (c) 11.50 am on 9 February, (d) 10.55 am and 12 noon on 10 February and (e) and 2.45 pm on 16 February ;
(2) if he will make a statement on the speed, height and purpose of the low -level flight over grid reference 66.8 x 45.9 near Pencaitland, East Lothian, at 8.20 pm on 15 February ; and if he will also explain his policy for such flights during hours of darkness.
Mr. Neubert : Military aircraft are authorised as a matter of routine to carry out low-level flying training in the areas mentioned at heights no lower than 250 ft and at speeds normally not exceeding 450 knots. Pilots must be capable of operating in darkness and therefore some strictly limited night flying is necessary. Policy is that low-level flying training should be completed before 11 pm wherever possible because my Department recognises that aircraft noise can be particularly intrusive at night.
Military Bases (Security)
Mr. Sheerman : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many military bases in Britain employ private security firms to (a) guard entrances to the bases and (b) in any other capacity.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : Private security firms are employed at 27 military bases. It would not be in the interests of security to disclose the precise nature of the tasks which they perform.
HMS Gannet (Helicopter Flight)
Mr. Wilson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if, pursuant to his reply of 27 February, Official Report, column 42, to the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North, he will name the three local residents taken on board a naval helicopter from HMS Gannet, and the criteria governing their selection for this facility.
Mr. Neubert : I will write to the hon. Gentleman.
Radioactive Waste Conference (Gloucester Hotel)
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) officials of his Department, (b) officials from the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston and (c) officials from the Royal Naval Establishment at Devonport attended the conference on radio active waste at the Gloucester hotel on 22 and 23 February.
Mr. Sainsbury : Thirteen Ministry of Defence officials attended the conference on radio-active waste. Ten were from the atomic weapons establishment at Aldermaston and two from the naval base at Devonport.
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Nuclear Submarines
Mr. Cartwright : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects the next Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine to be brought out of service.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : No firm decision has yet been taken on when the next Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine will be brought out of service.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Social Fund
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what percentage of the social fund budget for the year has been spent to date.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Information relating to expenditure of the social fund budgets for the period to 31 January 1989, the latest for which firm figures are available, is in the national summary tables placed monthly in the Library.
Transitional Payments
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security when transitional payments will cease ; and what will take their place.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : We have already announced that housing benefit transitional payments will be reduced by £2 a week from 10 April 1989, the date of the uprating of Social Security benefits. For those in receipt of £2 a week or less, the payments will terminate on that date. Some payments will have ceased during the year because of a change in the applicant's circumstances. Housing benefit transitional payments were introduced to help vulnerable groups at the changeover to the new scheme in April 1988. This help was intended to be only transitional and it was made clear at the outset that transitional payments would be withdrawn in due course, for example, as other benefits increased.
Funeral Payments
Mr. Hind : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security when, pursuant to his reply to the right hon. Member for Stoke on Trent, South (Mr. Ashley), Official Report, column 294, he will lay the regulations needed to extend eligibility for social fund funeral payments.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : I have today laid before Parliament the Social Fund Maternity and Funeral Expenses (General) Amendment Regulations 1989. These regulations will extend eligibility for help with funeral expenses under the social fund to people who qualify for community charge rebate in Scotland from April 1989 and community charge benefit in England, Wales and Scotland from April 1990.
Pensioners (Earnings)
Mr. Nigel Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be the cost of (a) ending the earnings limit to pension entitlement and (b) raising the earnings limit to £100 per week.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 28 February 1989] : The estimated public expenditure costs of (a) abolishing
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the retirement pension earnings rule and (b) increasing the level of permitted weekly earnings to £100 would be £355 million and £40 million respectively in 1989-90.These estimates are based on 1989-90 benefit rates, and do not take account of tax effects.
Transitional Protection
Mr. Darling : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will indicate (i) the number of claimants who were awarded transitional protection following the implementation of the Social Security Act, (ii) the number of claimants who are still in receipt of transitional protection within each category and (iii) the number of claimants whose overall benefit will not rise on uprating day as a result of transitional protection.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 6 March 1989] : Precise information is not available for income support claimants. An estimated 1.4 million income support claimants were awarded transitional protection when that benefit was introduced in April 1988. Estimated numbers in the categories used in the technical annex to the White Paper on the reform of social security (Cmnd. 9691), still receiving transitional protection at the end of March 1989 are as follows :
|Number
-------------------------------------------------------------
Pensioners 80+ |170,000
Pensioners aged 60-79 |340,000
All pensioners |510,000
Persons receiving the disability premium |30,000
Lone parents |160,000
Couples with children |30,000
Others |470,000
|-------
Total |1,200,000
An estimated 3.9 million income support claimants will receive a benefit increase at this year's uprating ; approximately 570,000 are expected not to receive an increase.
To date 176,529 people have received housing benefit transitional payments and 149 have received income support transitional payments from the transitional payments unit in Glasgow. At 1 March 1989, 169, 409 applicants were still receiving housing benefit transitional payments and 59 were receiving income support transitional payments, broken down into the following categories :
|Housing benefit|Income support
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Pensioners |128,546 |25
Families with children |19,796 |25
Sick and disabled |11,585 |9
Widows |8,636 |-
Industrial Injury Benefit recipients |454 |-
War Pensioners |392 |-
An estimated 1,200 people receiving housing benefit transitional payments and 59 people receiving income support transitional payments are expected to receive no overall increase in their benefit income at uprating.
Sixty-five former family income supplement claimants received a protected amount following the change to family credit. A small proportion may still be receiving it. No one will still be receiving protection by the time of the April uprating.
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Income Support
Mrs. Mahon : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) what would be the additional cost in Halifax if full uprating was awarded to all those in receipt of income support irrespective of payment of transitional additions ;
(2) how many claimants in Halifax were awarded a transitional addition in April 1988 ; and how many of these will as a result receive this April (a) reduced uprating and (b) no uprating ; (3) what percentage of the following categories of claimants in Halifax in receipt of income support will receive no increase in their benefit payments as a result of this year's uprating because of the effect of transitional additions (a) pensioners, (b) persons in receipt of a disability premium, (c) single parents, (d) unemployed married, (e) unemployed single, (f) unemployed with children and (g) others.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) on 6 March at column 445.
Mrs. Beckett : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what the additional cost of uprating would have been if full uprating was awarded to all those in receipt of income support irrespective of payment of transitional additions.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : [holding answer 6 March 1989] : Precise information is not available. The estimated additional cost would have been around £70 million.
HEALTH
Protein Fractionation Centre
Mr. Steel : To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the medicines inspectorate has recently visited the protein fractionation centre ; and if he is satisfied that this manufacturing facility has adequate accommodation to justify the issue of a manufacturing licence.
Mr. Freeman : I refer the right hon. Member to the reply to him yesterday by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland.
Consultation Exercises
Mr. Pike : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the cost in (a) real and (b) cash terms for each of the last five years to his Department and its predecessors producing and distributing printed material pertaining to consultation exercises on matters within his present responsibilities as (i) Green Papers and (ii) White Papers.
Mr. Freeman : Green and White Papers are generally published by HMSO. The Department, as did its predecessor the Department of Health and Social Security, purchase the number of copies they require of each paper for distribution internally, and to certain other recipients, from HMSO. The information on the costs of such purchases can be produced only at disproportionate cost. Records of distributions are not retained and retrospective distribution costs cannot therefore be calculated.
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Counterfeit Products
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps, following the product recall in respect of the import of counterfeit Zantac tablets, his Department is taking to ascertain the extent of penetration of these or other counterfeit products into use by patients in the United Kingdom ;
(2) what safeguards he is now preparing under the product licences (parallel imports) scheme to ensure that there is no repetition, in the case of any other product, of the importation of counterfeit Zantac tablets, apparently of Greek origin ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Mellor : No evidence has appeared to show that any such counterfeit tablets actually reached United Kingdom pharmacists or patients.
Tests carried out on retained samples suggested that all supplies with the suspect batch number distributed within the United Kingdom may have been genuine. A batch of counterfeit Zantac tablets was rejected by a parallel importer and returned to his Greek suppliers. These counterfeits were accordingly discovered under existing safeguards.
Surveillance operations already carried out by the Department include a sampling and testing programme by the medicines inspectorate, requirements for licensed importers to verify the identity of each batch of imported material and close co-operation with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society inspectors.
We are still investigating the background to the counterfeit material and will be considering whether any changes may be necessary to the United Kingdom parallel import scheme. We also maintain close co-operation with our colleagues in the European Community.
Life Support Systems
Miss Emma Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measures are undertaken to protect intensive care or other patients from electronic interference in the normal operation of automated life support systems in the light of patient deaths in France.
Mr. Freeman : Patients are fully protected by the requirement that all such equipment in use in the NHS is constructed to the standard of BS 5724 (IEC 601-1) and the manufacturers are subject to approval under the Department's manufacturer registration scheme. Our central defect centre has no reports of difficulties arising of the kind experienced in France.
Child Abuse (Greenwich)
Mr. Cartwright : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent representations he has received about allegations of sexual and other abuse of children at homes run by the London borough of Greenwich ; and what action he is taking in the matter.
Mr. Mellor : The attention of the Department has been drawn to a number of alleged matters of serious concern in community homes in the London borough of Greenwich. The social services inspectorate has discussed these issues with senior officers of the council and has been assured that all allegations are thoroughly investigated by the authority. The inspectorate also discussed the action
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being taken following its report on the management review of residential child care in the borough in 1987 and will continue to monitor the situation.AIDS
Mr. Marlow : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set out the numbers by country of birth for each of the last three years for the following categories as recorded by the Parkside health authority (a) AIDS patients, (b) HIV positive patients and (c) drug dependency patients.
Mr. Mellor : We do not hold this information centrally. My hon. Friend may wish to contact the chairman of Parkside health authority for this information.
Ms. Harman : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the total budget spent on AZT for each of the years for which figures are available ; and what the estimated budget for AZT for the next five years will be.
Mr. Mellor : We do not hold information centrally on the total costs of prescribing Zidovudine (formerly known as AZT). Some general practitioners are known to be prescribing the drug, but information about these prescriptions is not yet available. Zidovudine is also prescribed in the hospital service. In 1988-89, a total of £58.6 million has been made available to health authorities in England specifically as a contribution to the extra costs in providing AIDS and HIV related services, including the cost of Zidovudine. This figure will increase in 1989-90 to nearly £130 million.
Under-fives
Mr. Bradley : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish a table showing by local authority area the latest figures for (a) estimated population of up to four-year-olds, (b) local authority day nursery places provided and (c) full-time equivalent local authority day nursery places provided.
Mr. Mellor : The latest information on estimated population of children aged up to four years old and local authority day nursery places provided in each local authority in England are published in "Children's Day Care Facilities at 31 March 1987, England", copies of which are available in the Library.
We cannot identify the number of full-time equivalent local authority day nursery places provided in figures we collect centrally.
Travelling Expenses
Mrs. Mahon : To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he intends to amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses in Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988, so that he can deal with the cases of people wanting help with National Health Service costs stockpiled at Newcastle.
Mr. Mellor : I intend to lay regulations amending the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations, to take effect from 10 April. The amendments will apply only to claims made after that date. Claims currently stockpiled will be assessed under the existing regulations when the problem referred to in my reply to the hon. Member on 7 March, at column 491, has been resolved.
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Sight Tests
Mr. Barry Field : To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the new arrangements for sight testing are to come into effect.
Mr. Mellor : I have today laid two sets of regulations. The first will extend the National Health Service voucher scheme for glasses. The second will restrict National Health Service sight tests to the following groups :
Children under 16
Full time students under age 19
People or their partners who are receiving Income Support or Family Credit
People entitled to full remission of National Health Service charges
The registered blind or partially sighted
Those who are prescribed complex lenses
Diagnosed diabetic and glaucoma sufferers
Parents, brothers, sisters and children age 40 and over of glaucoma sufferers.
Financial assistance will be available through the voucher scheme towards the cost of their sight test for those on low income who are not eligible for a National Health Service test.
The regulations will also extend the current voucher scheme to provide help for adults with the cost of the repair or replacement of their spectacles where the loss or damage was the result of the person's disability, injury or illness.
We are consulting further on regulations which will set out the duties to be undertaken when a person's sight is tested.
I would like to make it clear that the second set of regulations to which I have referred does not impose a new charge for sight testing : it simply removes the National Health Service subsidy from people other than those in the groups listed in the table.
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