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School Transport (Disabled)
Mr. Bowis : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what responsibilities a local education authority has for transport to school in cases where (a) the child is disabled, (b) both parents are or the sole parent is disabled and (c) one parent is disabled ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Butcher : In assessing a child with special educational needs under the provisions of the Education Act 1981, a local education authority is required to take into account any non-educational provision which may be necessary to enable the child to gain access to the curriculum. This includes the need for transport, which must be provided free to children whose needs require it.
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The law governing home to school transport for other children is laid down by section 55 of the Education Act 1944, as amended by section 53 of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986. Parents of children who do not qualify for free transport under section 55(1) may ask the LEA to exercise its discretion under section 55(2). Each case is considered on its merits in accordance with the policy of the authority. Section 55(2) applies as much to disabled parents as to other parents.Veterinary Schools
Mr. Robert Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will set out the number of veterinary schools in England and Wales and the amount of Government funds given to each in the last financial year.
Mr. Jackson : There are four veterinary schools in England and Wales. Funding for them is not earmarked within the block grant to their parent universities.
Expenditure
Mr. Oppenheim : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how much money each education authority spent during the latest year for which figures are available ;
(2) how much money each education authority spent per pupil for the latest year for which figures are available.
Mr. Butcher : The latest available information is for 1986-87 and is given in the table. The data for 1987-88 has been received from most authorities and is in the process of being analysed.
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Local education authority |Primary expenditure |Secondary expenditure |Primary cost per pupil |Secondary cost per pupil
|(£000) |(£000) |(£) |(£)
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Barking |13,428 |14,623 |1,010 |1,470
Barnet |22,111 |27,691 |1,060 |1,510
Bexley |15,042 |21,751 |915 |1,370
Brent |22,485 |23,465 |1,105 |1,805
Bromley |17,531 |24,971 |925 |1,420
Croydon |22,519 |28,750 |935 |1,535
Ealing |27,336 |20,702 |1,135 |1,650
Enfield |18,180 |24,422 |890 |1,380
Haringey |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Harrow |16,484 |15,951 |1,020 |1,600
Havering |16,804 |27,189 |905 |1,510
Hillingdon |17,248 |21,811 |1,000 |1,520
Hounslow |17,837 |20,181 |1,065 |1,505
Kingston-Upon-Thames |8,248 |12,252 |915 |1,530
Merton |8,075 |16,548 |950 |1,325
Newham |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Redbridge |14,847 |20,485 |935 |1,465
Richmond-Upon-Thames |8,973 |9,137 |1,000 |1,330
Sutton |9,049 |14,723 |855 |1,300
Waltham Forest |18,390 |25,719 |1,095 |1,915
ILEA |228,423 |267,983 |1,460 |2,345
Birmingham |79,083 |97,401 |835 |1,345
Coventry |23,725 |33,032 |910 |1,485
Dudley |21,960 |26,361 |830 |1,350
Sandwell |25,633 |31,856 |960 |1,410
Solihull |14,528 |21,290 |845 |1,280
Walsall |23,304 |32,155 |970 |1,430
Wolverhampton |21,824 |26,635 |985 |1,395
Knowsley |15,064 |18,309 |960 |1,515
Liverpool |42,123 |49,740 |980 |1,445
St. Helens |14,231 |20,211 |860 |1,340
Sefton |19,223 |27,700 |800 |1,275
Wirral |22,856 |30,524 |815 |1,280
Bolton |18,668 |25,003 |780 |1,230
Bury |11,242 |16,852 |795 |1,340
Manchester |39,971 |48,448 |1,020 |1,660
Oldham |18,396 |20,869 |870 |1,255
Rochdale |15,439 |24,643 |850 |1,460
Salford |17,080 |23,034 |840 |1,385
Stockport |18,581 |26,133 |805 |1,270
Tameside |17,542 |21,190 |910 |1,325
Trafford |13,523 |17,584 |855 |1,315
Wigan |23,111 |37,513 |860 |1,460
Barnsley |16,827 |23,015 |925 |1,325
Doncaster |24,698 |30,734 |980 |1,325
Rotherham |19,806 |25,649 |890 |1,230
Sheffield |42,999 |49,878 |1,060 |1,490
Bradford |33,447 |55,704 |945 |1,235
Calderdale |15,636 |19,239 |895 |1,330
Kirklees |28,315 |37,932 |875 |1,250
Leeds |43,042 |72,881 |905 |1,230
Wakefield |23,300 |31,551 |955 |1,290
Gateshead |16,580 |18,724 |980 |1,360
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne |20,381 |28,254 |1,020 |1,530
North Tyneside |14,348 |22,966 |995 |1,455
South Tyneside |12,650 |15,469 |965 |1,430
Sunderland |23,535 |29,347 |855 |1,305
Isles of Scilly |198 |280 |1,330 |2,205
Avon |61,396 |78,703 |850 |1,310
Bedfordshire |32,068 |57,332 |875 |1,250
Berkshire |47,560 |63,167 |845 |1,280
Buckinghamshire |48,713 |48,573 |845 |1,320
Cambridgeshire |42,736 |51,556 |815 |1,205
Cheshire |64,458 |88,656 |810 |1,235
Cleveland |47,632 |60,934 |890 |1,355
Cornwall |27,981 |37,487 |795 |1,175
Cumbria |35,560 |46,706 |915 |1,315
Derbyshire |65,292 |86,618 |875 |1,305
Devon |55,428 |75,465 |800 |1,225
Dorset |32,151 |50,312 |870 |1,190
Durham |46,919 |52,441 |920 |1,225
East Sussex |34,858 |46,952 |825 |1,235
Essex |97,210 |137,617 |820 |1,255
Gloucestershire |32,901 |44,985 |835 |1,260
Hampshire |98,524 |115,162 |825 |1,220
Hereford and Worcester |36,013 |62,091 |815 |1,180
Hertfordshire |66,576 |97,646 |870 |1,350
Humberside |60,831 |92,339 |915 |1,270
Isle of Wight |4,952 |12,168 |785 |1,150
Kent |84,843 |127,039 |760 |1,145
Lancashire |89,592 |120,712 |780 |1,255
Leicestershire |63,054 |91,834 |885 |1,390
Lincolnshire |35,044 |47,236 |795 |1,185
Norfolk |49,465 |55,767 |850 |1,230
North Yorkshire |42,998 |60,308 |850 |1,240
Northamptonshire |37,617 |58,560 |815 |1,250
Northumberland |16,132 |35,690 |840 |1,230
Nottinghamshire |72,276 |100,530 |935 |1,365
Oxfordshire |32,845 |50,752 |905 |1,350
Shropshire |26,541 |39,976 |850 |1,285
Somerset |25,232 |36,771 |780 |1,195
Staffordshire |69,558 |102,039 |880 |1,255
Suffolk |33,558 |58,509 |830 |1,165
Surrey |59,913 |63,151 |820 |1,260
Warwickshire |36,196 |36,347 |845 |1,220
West Sussex |37,688 |52,407 |785 |1,220
Wiltshire |35,330 |46,162 |850 |1,230
Notes:-These figures are based on LEA expenditure returns to DOE and pupil number returns to DES.
Mr. Oppenheim : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much the capital allocation was for each education authority for the latest year for which figures are available.
Mr. Butcher : I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given by my right hon. Friend to my hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn (Mr. Hargreaves) on 21 December 1988 at columns 287-90.
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Capital Allocation
Mr. Oppenheim : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much the capital allocation was per head of school population for each education authority for the latest year for which figures are available.
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Mr. Butcher : Following is a list of figures showing how much the capital allocation was per head of school population for each education authority for the year 1989-90.
Individual authorities' allocations are calculated not pro rata to population, but by assessing their capital expenditure plans, which they supply to the Department each year in a common form, against a consistent and well-publicised set of criteria.
|c|1989-90 Notional schools
capital allocation per head of
maintained|c|
|c|population|c|
LEA |£
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Barking |11
Barnet |25
Bexley |27
Brent |10
Bromley |19
Croydon |12
Ealing |8
Enfield |30
Haringey |68
Harrow |16
Havering |36
Hillingdon |21
Hounslow |16
Kingston |11
Merton |226
Newham |103
Redbridge |67
Richmond |30
Sutton |30
Waltham |275
ILEA |42
Birmingham |31
Coventry |55
Dudley |49
Sandwell |39
Solihull |21
Walsall |19
Wolverhampton |13
Knowsley |69
Liverpool |7
St. Helens |26
Sefton |39
Wirral |47
Bolton |29
Bury |24
Manchester |71
Oldham |38
Rochdale |62
Salford |107
Stockport |36
Tameside |21
Trafford |94
Wigan |26
Barnsley |7
Doncaster |15
Rotherham |15
Sheffield |26
Bradford |100
Calderdale |77
Kirklees |12
Leeds |61
Wakefield |60
Gateshead |33
Newcastle |38
North Tyneside |54
South Tyneside |134
Sunderland |44
Isles of Scilly |530
Avon |29
Bedfordshire |24
Berkshire |54
Bucks |84
Cambridge |58
Cheshire |22
Cleveland |53
Cornwall |90
Cumbria |71
Derbyshire |61
Devon |106
Dorset |36
Durham |24
East Sussex |99
Essex |65
Gloucester |78
Hampshire |35
Hereford and Worcester |26
Hertford |29
Humberside |53
Isle of Wight |96
Kent |39
Lancashire |65
Leicester |49
Lincoln |37
Norfolk |35
North Yorkshire |22
Northampton |40
Northumberland |19
Notts |21
Oxfordshire |44
Shropshire |79
Somerset |48
Staffs |31
Suffolk |66
Surrey |47
Warwick |21
West Sussex |21
Wiltshire |34
Expenditure
Mr. Oppenheim : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how much money per pupil each education authority received from the Government for the latest year for which figures are available ;
(2) how much money each education authority received from the Government for the latest year for which figures are available.
Mr. Butcher : The information requested is not available. Whereas specific grant payments for education activities made to each local education authority can be separately identified, the much larger block grant payment is not hypothecated to individual services, and it is not therefore possible in the case of multi-purpose authorities to separate the element of grant paid to support education from that paid to support other services.
Examinations
Mr. Oppenheim : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of school leavers in each education authority achieved two or more A-level passes in the latest year for which figures are available.
Mr. Butcher : The information is given in the table. The figures are presented as a three year average over the academic years 1984-85, 1985-86 and 1986-87, to reduce the effects of sampling error in the data relating to a 10 per
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cent. sample of school leavers. Sampling error is a particular problem for local education authorities with relatively small numbers of school leavers.
|c|Maintained secondary schools in England: aggregation of school|c|
|c|leavers and the proportion gaining two or more A-levels over the|c|
|c|academic years 1984-85, 1985-86 and 1986-87|c|
Local education |Numbers of school leavers|Percentage of school
authorities |(thousands) |leavers with two or more
|A-levels
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Barking |6.68 |4.6
Barnet |10.35 |25.4
Bexley |10.40 |11.5
Brent |8.68 |9.9
Bromley |10.27 |16.4
Croydon |12.88 |11.5
Ealing |9.77 |10.2
Enfield |10.40 |14.2
Haringey |6.05 |7.9
Harrow |6.01 |18.3
Havering |11.03 |11.7
Hillingdon |8.81 |10.3
Hounslow |8.31 |9.3
Kingston upon Thames |4.65 |16.1
Merton |6.13 |12.2
Newham |9.08 |4.6
Redbridge |8.29 |14.1
Richmond upon Thames |4.39 |0.0
Sutton |6.22 |21.2
Waltham Forest |7.19 |5.0
Inner London |73.43 |7.4
Birmingham |48.88 |7.6
Coventry |14.27 |8.5
Dudley |14.52 |6.9
Sandwell |14.54 |4.7
Solihull |10.82 |15.8
Walsall |14.87 |10.1
Wolverhampton |12.9 |7.2
Knowsley |7.98 |4.1
Liverpool |21.10 |9.2
St. Helens |8.87 |11.8
Sefton |13.77 |15.1
Wirral |15.47 |12.3
Bolton |12.93 |12.5
Bury |8.09 |14.3
Manchester |22.23 |10.0
Oldham |9.78 |6.6
Rochdale |9.38 |8.4
Salford |11.03 |10.9
Stockport |12.82 |13.8
Tameside |11.56 |9.3
Trafford |8.63 |14.9
Wigan |17.29 |9.4
Barnsley |11.28 |7.0
Doncaster |13.50 |10.0
Rotherham |13.54 |9.7
Sheffield |25.64 |9.5
Bradford |22.22 |9.6
Calderdale |9.01 |10.7
Kirklees |18.26 |11.0
Leeds |30.57 |10.5
Wakefield |16.09 |4.4
Gateshead |9.35 |8.1
Newcastle upon Tyne |10.32 |7.8
North Tyneside |8.85 |10.8
South Tyneside |7.14 |7.6
Sunderland |14.82 |6.8
Avon |37.28 |11.9
Bedfordshire |22.42 |12.3
Berkshire |29.00 |14.4
Buckinghamshire |24.90 |16.9
Cambridgeshire |24.31 |10.8
Cheshire |44.91 |13.3
Cleveland |29.60 |12.0
Cornwall |20.70 |10.4
Cumbria |21.55 |12.2
Derbyshire |43.65 |9.1
Devon |38.27 |8.8
Dorset |25.27 |11.1
Durham |27.86 |8.1
East Sussex |22.63 |13.8
Essex |66.24 |10.9
Gloucestershire |21.82 |13.0
Hampshire |66.78 |10.3
Hereford and Worcester |27.54 |12.7
Hertfordshire |43.45 |14.3
Humberside |41.81 |10.4
Isle of Wight |4.93 |8.7
Kent |65.93 |14.2
Lancashire |62.58 |7.7
Leicestershire |38.28 |13.3
Lincolnshire |24.93 |12.1
Norfolk |31.34 |8.3
North Yorkshire |29.25 |15.7
Northamptonshire |26.16 |10.0
Northumberland |12.90 |14.6
Nottinghamshire |46.85 |9.4
Oxfordshire |22.94 |14.1
Shropshire |19.32 |11.3
Somerset |17.79 |6.3
Staffordshire |48.29 |10.8
Suffolk |25.80 |10.6
Surrey |37.43 |18.0
Warwickshire |21.04 |13.4
West Sussex |27.20 |15.8
Wiltshire |21.43 |8.2
Mr. Oppenheim : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of school leavers in each education authority achieved five or more GCSE passes or equivalent qualifications, in the latest year for which figures are available.
Mr. Butcher : The information requested is not readily available but I shall reply to my hon. Friend as soon as possible.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Magistrates (Nottingham)
Mr. Allen : To ask the Attorney-General if he will list the names of the members of the local advisory committee which offers advice on the appointment of magistrates in the Nottingham area.
The Attorney-General : No. Advisory committees have until the end of 1992 to make their membership known. The Nottinghamshire advisory committee has not yet decided to do so.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Pensions
Mrs. Wise : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many retired people depend entirely on state benefits ; and how many depend on state benefits for 80 per cent. of their income.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : In 1986, just under 20 per cent. of all pensioner tax units received income only from state benefits ; 53 per cent. of pensioner tax units were in receipt of state benefits greater than or equal to 80 per cent. of their gross income.
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Source : Family expenditure survey 1986.1. A pensioner tax unit is a single person of state pension age or over, or a married couple where the man is of state pension age or over.
Mr. Robin Cook : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be the value of the state retirement pension in April 1989 if it had been uprated in line with prices since 1979.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The value of the state retirement pension in April 1989, based on annual upratings in line with prices since 1979, would be £41.70 for a single pensioner and £66.80 for a pensioner couple.
Income Support
Mr. Robin Cook : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how much income support or supplementary benefit was paid to people looking after elderly persons in each year since 1974-75, in cash and constant 1988 -89 prices, and how many people were paid the benefit in each year.
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Mr. Peter Lloyd : I regret that the information requested is not available. The supplementary benefit annual statistical inquiry identified only carers under pension age who cared for severely disabled people aged 16 years or more and who would otherwise have been required to be available for employment. The figures therefore included carers of people under pension age, and excluded carers who were not subject to the condition of availability for employment. The cost and numbers requested, for identified supplementary benefit carers, could be obtained but only at disproportionate cost. Information for income support, which will be available later this year, will not identify carers separately.
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, of 6 March, Official Report, column 446 , he will express the number of supplementary benefit/income support claimants for each region as an index figure with 1979 as the base.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The information is as follows.
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|c|Index of the number of claimants receiving supplementary benefit or income support: 1979 to 1988 (using 1979 as the base year)|c|
||10 |Year
Social security region |<1>1979 |1980 |1981 |1982 |1983 |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |<2>1988
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North Eastern |100 |112 |134 |151 |155 |164 |166 |170 |167 |146
London North |100 |112 |135 |152 |158 |167 |170 |174 |172 |141
London South |100 |109 |127 |144 |149 |158 |162 |167 |163 |133
Wales and South Western |100 |108 |127 |142 |145 |156 |158 |161 |156 |137
Midlands |100 |114 |142 |164 |170 |179 |181 |186 |181 |152
North Western |100 |110 |132 |150 |155 |163 |165 |170 |167 |149
Scotland |100 |109 |131 |149 |157 |167 |170 |187 |186 |169
<1>Figures for 1979 to 1981 are reworked data.
<2>Figures for 1988 are provisional and subject to amendment.
Sources: November/December quarterly count of cases in action, which include a number of cases where benefit payment has ceased but other action is continuing. Full figures set out in the reply on 6 March.
War Pensioners
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the total number of war pensioners.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : We calculate that there were 258,300 at the end of 1988. This number is made up of 197,800 war disablement pensioners, 57,500 war widows and 3,000 other dependants receiving a war pension.
Family Credit
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what steps he is taking to advise potential claimants of family credit that child-minding expenses may be deducted from earnings in assessing entitlements ; whether existing claimants of family credit have been so advised ; and whether his publications will be revised.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : There is no provision in legislation for child- minding expenses to be deducted from earnings in assessing family credit.
Invalid Care Allowance
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what steps he has taken to notify women who would be entitled to invalid care allowance on the basis of the settlement of case CG/15/1987 ; and whether he proposes to revise his Department's publications.
Mr. Scott : I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshaw (Mr.
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Morris) on 21 December at column 306. Any follow-up action which may be necessary will need to await the outcome of related cases currently before the social security commissioner and the Court of Appeal, also affecting the entitlement of women over pension age.Mobility Allowance
Mr. Crowther : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make it his policy to increase mobility allowance next month by an amount close to the current rate of inflation rather than that prevailing in September 1988.
Mr. Scott : No. Price increases from September 1988 to April 1989 will be taken into account at the next benefits uprating. Between November 1979 and April 1988 mobility allowance rose in real terms by 9.4 per cent. The estimated average number of people receiving mobility allowance has increased from 95,000 in 1978-79 to 530,000 in 1988-89.
Expenditure
Mr. Robin Cook : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security on what basis he calculates the levels of expenditure in table 15.8 of Cm. 615.
Mr. Scott : The levels of expenditure in table 15.8 were determined by a breakdown of the totals in table 15.1. The
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methodology is described in the footnotes. Forecasts throughout chapter 15 are consistent with the economic assumptions described in paragraphs 45-48.Chief Adjudication Officer
Mr. Forman : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security when he will publish the fourth annual report of the chief adjudication officer ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Nicholas Scott : The report which is being published today provides an authoritative account of the standards of social security adjudication. We welcome the report and the recognition that the replacement of supplementary benefit with income support, as part of our reform of the social security system, has produced encouraging signs for further improvements in the standard of adjudication. A copy has been placed in the Library.
Rating Reform
Mrs. Ray Michie : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list by district the income level at which a single person over 25 years of age with no savings would lose entitlement to a rebate from the community charge.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 8 March 1989] : These figures assume that the claimant is under pension age, is not disabled, is in full- time work and has no children. The tax and national insurance rates current at 9 March 1989 have been used in calculating gross income.
|c|Gross weekly earnings|c|
District council |£
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Berwickshire |64.43
Ettrick and Lauderdale |66.04
Roxburgh |66.04
Tweeddale |66.19
Clackmannan |78.39
Falkirk |70.14
Stirling |79.90
Annandale and Eskdale |67.43
Nithsdale |66.26
Stewartry |65.97
Wightown |66.41
Dunfermline |76.88
Kirkclady |77.64
North East Fife |80.95
Aberdeen City |76.73
Banff and Buchan |70.39
Gordon |68.53
Kincardine and Deeside |66.77
Moray |68.24
Badenoch and Strathspey |65.89
Caithness |64.43
Inverness |64.58
Lochaber |66.19
Narin |64.87
Ross and Cromarty |66.48
Skye and Lochalsh |64.43
Sutherland |61.65
East Lothian |89.10
Edinburgh City |91.81
Midlothian |87.59
West Lothian |86.84
Argyll and Bute |72.20
Bearsden and Milngavie |77.49
Clydebank |77.34
Clydesdale |77.94
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |71.90
Cumnock and Doon Valley |72.05
Cunningham |72.34
Dumbarton |77.49
East Kilbride |80.50
Eastwood |75.07
Glasgow City |78.69
Hamilton |76.43
Inverclyde |76.43
Kilmarnock and Loudoun |71.02
Kyle and Carrick |78.99
Monklands |76.73
Motherwell |78.54
Renfrew |77.03
Strathkelvin |77.64
Angus |76.43
Dundee City |81.11
Perth and Kinross |77.34
Islands Council
Orkney |52.27
Shetland |50.13
Western Isles |54.47
Housing Benefit
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what future provisions his Department is making to pay full housing benefit to tenants in receipt of housing benefit in private rented accommodation ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 9 March 1989] : The Government have given a firm commitment that housing benefit will continue to be available to help those on low incomes with their reasonable housing costs up to market rent levels.
However, housing benefit is not intended to enable claimants to occupy, at public expense, accommodation which the majority of people could not afford. The Government have therefore announced that they intend to introduce formal limits on benefit for properties at the top of the market, once sufficient information is available about the level of market rents.
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if his Department will be fully reimbursing all local authority resources paid out in housing benefit to private tenants under the Housing Act 1988.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 9 March 1989] : From April 1989, under the arrangements for subsidising local authorities' housing benefit expenditure, full subsidy at the rate of 97 per cent. will be payable, up to the level determined by the rent officer as representing a reasonable market rent, on housing benefit awarded to claimants with deregulated tenancies created under the Housing Act 1988. Benefit above that level will not attract subsidy unless the local authority has paid benefit, above the level of the rent officer's determination, to a person in a vulnerable group, when 50 per cent. subsidy will be paid. For housing benefit claims on deregulated tenancies created before April 1989, until such cases are referred to the rent officer, 97 per cent. subsidy will be payable on benefit awarded on rents up to the subsidy rent threshold for the area and 25 per cent. subsidy above that level. Housing benefit expenditure not met by direct subsidy is reflected in the rate support grant arrangements.
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EMPLOYMENT
Wages
8. Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of workplaces and workers were inspected by the wages inspectorate divisions covering the United Kingdom in the latest available year.
Mr. Cope : A total of 8.7 per cent. of the establishments on the wages inspectorate's register, covering 329,591 workers (an estimated 13.1 per cent.) were inspected in 1988. If the hon. Gentleman wishes I will arrange for divisional figures to be published in the Official Report.
19. Mr. Alan W. Williams : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of the full-time work force earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Wales.
Mr. Nicholls : There is no such thing as a Council of Europe decency threshold for a minimum acceptable level of earnings.
23. Mr. Turner : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the west midlands.
Mr. Nicholls : There is no such thing as a Council of Europe decency threshold for a minimum acceptable level of earnings.
27. Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time female workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the Wales.
38. Mr. Clelland : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time female workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the United Kingdom.
44. Mr. Eadie : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time female workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Scotland.
49. Mr. John Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time female workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the west midlands.
67. Mr. Allan Roberts : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time female workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Great Britain.
73. Ms. Mowlam : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time female workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the United Kingdom.
110. Mr. Cummings : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time
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female workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the northern region.125. Mr. Pike : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time female workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in (a) Great Britain and (b) the north-west region.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many, and what percentage, of full-time female workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Yorkshire and Humberside.
Mr. David Young : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many, and what percentage, of the full-time workforce earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Great Britain.
Mr. Nicholls : I refer the hon. Members to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Rutherglen (Mr. McAvoy) on 8 March 1989 at columns 569-70.
28. Mr. Boyes : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the United Kingdom.
53. Mr. Wareing To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Great Britain.
54. Mr. Graham To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Scotland.
71. Mr. David Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the south-east.
79. Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Wales.
98. Mr. Bidwell : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Greater London.
104. Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the east midlands.
106. Mr. Rowlands : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Wales.
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114. Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Greater London.
131. Miss Lestor : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the north-west.
155. Mr. Nigel Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in Scotland.
163. Mr. Clay : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the northern region.
173. Mr. Sean Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the north-west.
176. Mr. Meale : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many and what percentage of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the east midlands.
182. Mr. Ronnie Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many, and what percentage, of full-time male workers earned less than the Council of Europe's decency threshold in the latest available year in the northern region.
Mr. Nicholls : I refer the hon. Members to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Glasgow, Rutherglen (Mr. McAvoy) on 8 March 1989 at columns 569-70.
31. Mr. Eastham : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many work places were visited and how many of them were found to be illegally underpaying for the latest available year by the wages inspectorate divisions covering the United Kingdom.
39. Mr. Corbett : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many work places were visited and how many of them were found to be illegally underpaying for the latest available year by the wages inspectorate divisions covering the United Kingdom.
70. Dr. Reid : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many work places were visited and how many of them were found to be illegally underpaying for the latest available year by the wages inspectorate divisions covering the United Kingdom.
75. Mr. Ashton : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many work places were visited and how many of them were found to be illegally underpaying for the latest available year by the wages inspectorate divisions covering the east midlands.
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92. Mr. Heffer : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many work places were visited and how many of them were found to be illegally underpaying for the latest available year by the wages inspectorate divisions covering the north-west.
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