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Mr. French : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has any plans to disperse Civil Service manpower to the South Western region.
Mr. Brooke : As I announced to the House on 9 February 1989, at columns 751-52, individual departments are reviewing the location of their work with a view to finding locations offering easier labour markets and better value for money, and departmental Ministers will be announcing their decisions.
Sir John Farr : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the rate of exchange between the United Kingdom and Canada at present ; and what it was one year ago.
Mr. Lilley [holding answer 5 July 1989] : At close of business on 5 July the exchange rate was C$2.0570/£ against C$1.9252/£ a year ago.
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list all LINK schemes so far approved with the expenditure on each and the location of sites at which the research is carried out.
Mr. Forth : To date, 17 LINK programmes have been approved, with total expected expenditure of nearly £245 million. The list gives approved expenditure for each programme.
Project selection under these announced programmes is still at an early stage, but already agreement has been reached with 60 collaborators from industry and the universities ; these are also listed.
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Participants in Link ProjectsIndustry
AB Electronic Components
Allied Breweries
Amersham International
Bass
Beaconsfield Instruments Ltd.
Beechams
British Petroleum
British Biotechnology
Campden Food & Drink RA
Chell Instruments
Courtaulds
Cray Instruments & Control
Dalgety-Spillers
Enzymatix
Express Foods
Flour Milling & Breadmaking RA
Foxboro
Ford Motors
Glaxo
Guinness
Heinz
IFTEL Automation
Imperial Chemical Industries
International Biosynthetics
Lyons Bakeries
Lyons-Tetley
Pedigree Petfoods
Pfizer
Phillips
Queensgate Instruments
Quest International
Rank Taylor Hobson
SBP
Schlumberger
Shell
SIFAM
Smiths Industries
Spillers
STC
Tealgate
Thorn-EMI
Whitbread
Science Base
Universities of :
Kent
Warwick
Exeter
Leicester
Surrey
Leeds
Manchester
Hull
Southampton
Strathclyde
Liverpool
Oxford
Nottingham
Bradford
Durham
University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology. AFRC (Institute of Grassland & Animal Products).
Food Research Institute.
Link programmes |Government funding|Private sector |£ million |£ million --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Molecular Electronics |10.0 |10.0 Advanced Semiconductor materials |12.0 |12.0 Industrial Measurement Systems |10.8 |10.8 Eukaryotic Genetic Engineering |2.3 |2.4 Nanotechnology |7.5 |7.5 Biotransformations |2.0 |2.0 Personal Communications |6.4 |6.4 Selective Drug Delivery and Targeting |1.5 |1.5 Construction, Maintenance and Refurbishment |1.5 |1.5 Food Processing Sciences |7.0 |7.0 Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration |1.5 |1.5 Optoelectronics |15.0 |15.0 Design of High Speed Machinery |10.0 |10.0 Structural Composites |20.0 |20.0 Biochemical Engineering |7.5 |7.5 Protein Engineering |4.8 |4.8 New Catalysts and Catalytic processes |2.5 |2.5 |--- |--- |122.3 |122.4
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) what is the value of the EEC telecommunications initiative programme ; and how much he expects to be spent in Britain ;
(2) which regions of the United Kingdom are participating in the EEC telecommunication initiative ; and if he will list the projects, with their programme spend value, in each region.
Mr. Atkins : The policy towards telecommuni-cations in Europe adopted by the Council of Ministers is of significant value to the United Kingdom as a major influence on the liberalisation of European telecommunications markets.
If the hon. Member has in mind direct financial receipts, the only EEC telecommunications initiative to provide funding on a regional basis is the Special Telecommunications Action for Regional Development (STAR). Northern Ireland, alone in the United Kingdom, qualifies for support under this programme, and has been allocated 25 mecu--about £16.9 million--of the 780 mecu--about £527 million--total programme funding.
The only other exclusively telecommunications EEC initiative involving the provision of financial assistance is the Research and Development in Advanced Communications Technologies in Europe (RACE) programme of collaborative R and D projects. Total expenditure authorised by the Council of Ministers on the definition and main phases is 571 mecu--about £386 million. Of the 541 mecu allocated so far United Kingdom companies and other bodies may be expected to receive 161 mecu--about £105 million.
Mr. Hardy : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what proportion of the following items sold in Britain in 1988 were imported (a) colour television sets, (b) electric toasters, (c) micro wave cookers, (d) goods vehicles, (e) cameras, (f) personal computers, (g) ball point pens, (h) pocket combs, (i) tooth brushes, (j) crockery, (k) cutlery and (l) saucepans.
Mr. Atkins : The available information is shown in the table.
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Imports as a percentage of the United Kingdom market<1> |Percentage ---------------------------------------------------- Colour television sets |39 Micro wave cookers |58 Goods vehicles<2> |40 Ceramic table and kitchenware |20 Cutlery |56 Saucepans |21 <1>For all except goods vehicles, the percentage is calculated as 100* imports/United Kingdom market with the United Kingdom market defined as United Kingdom Market=Manufacturers' sales plus Imports less Exports All figures are expressed in current price terms. <2>Based on United Kingdom registration. Sources: DTI, SMMT.
Mr. Gould : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many jobs have been created in each task force area ; how many were not funded by temporary employment programmes, including the employment training schemes ; how many led to full-time and permanent, longer than one year, employment ; how many were in effect self-employment ; and how many went to black and ethnic minority groups.
Mr. Newton [holding answer 10 July 1989] : The information sought about the breakdown of jobs created by task forces is not available in the form requested, nor could it be practically obtained by the task forces. However, the table gives estimates of total anticipated jobs and training places created, and businesses helped directly by projects in each task force since inception.
|Jobs created |Training places created|Businesses assisted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bristol |307 |1,034 |572 Coventry |379 |1,784 |83 Doncaster |536 |2,424 |1,372 East Birmingham |127 |1,319 |77 Handsworth, Birmingham |849 |1,069 |361 Hartlepool |301 |2,130 |590 Chapeltown/ Harehills, Leeds 111 822 93 Leicester |606 |1,148 |260 Middlesbrough |432 |2,080 |60 Moss Side, Manchester |247 |3,229 |120 North Kensington |820 |2,500 |85 North Peckham |500 |3,600 |1,463 Nottingham |308 |1,855 |269 Preston |655 |1,315 |483 Rochdale |72 |890 |810 Spitalfields |232.5 |2,140 |324 Wolverhampton |408 |600 |115 |--- |--- |--- Total |6,890.5 |29,939 |7,137
Separate records on ethnic minority jobs are not kept. However, the evaluation report on the Handsworth task force, prepared by PA Cambridge Economic Consultants--available in the House Library--noted that 69 per cent. of the jobs created by the task force, at the time of writing the report, were taken up by members of ethnic communities (paragraph 7.2.3).
Mr. Gould : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what criteria have been used to select inner city areas for task force status.
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Mr. Newton [holding answer 10 July 1989] : A range of criteria are used including the levels of local long-term unemployment, other indicators of deprivation and the ethnic minority proportion of the population. Task forces must also be located within the 57 urban priority areas.
Mr. Gould : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what has been the total expenditure on inner city task forces in each year since their inception ; how much of that expenditure has been provided from private sources ; and how much has gone to national organisations and how much to local community organisations.
Mr. Newton [holding answer 10 July 1989] : Over £100 million has been committed to task force areas since their inception. The table shows total committed spend on task force projects by calendar year-- the figures for 1986 are included in the 1987 total as they were not separately collected. Besides the financial contribution shown in the table, the private sector also provides other assistance such as secondees, advice, loan of premises/equipment etc.
(£'000) |1986-7 |1988 |<1>1989|Total ------------------------------------------------------- Total spend committed |35,254 |53,347 |14,103 |102,704 Task Force contribution |12,701 |20,207 |5,632 |38,540 Private sector contribution |4,591 |9,215 |2,336 |16,142 Public sector contribution |17,962 |23,925 |6,135 |48,022 <1> To 31 March 1989.
Committed expenditure is counted for the year in which the project has received approval to go ahead, although not all the money may be spent in the same year. We do not keep separate information on how much money has gone to national or local organisations.
Mr. Roy Hughes : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what has been the total cost of the advertising campaign for the enterprise initiative ; and what has been the average cost per take-up.
Mr. Forth : Expenditure on advertising the enterprise initiative since January 1988 has been about £19 million. The enterprise initiative covers a number of schemes and services for firms and there is no single measure of take-up which would justify the calculation of an average cost.
Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many sites in Wales are authorised to discharge radioactive liquid waste to the public sewer.
Mr. Peter Walker : There are currently 55 authorisations under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 to dispose of liquid radioactive waste. The authorisations prescribe discharge into drainage systems which could include public sewers.
Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report a list of those
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premises in Wales registered under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 being monitored by a commercial company on behalf of Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution.Mr. Peter Walker : The following sites are subject to monitoring by a contractor as part of the national environment monitoring programme conducted by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution.
1. Trawsfynydd nuclear power station, Gwynedd.
2. Wylfa nuclear power station, Gwynedd.
3. Amersham International plc, South Glamorgan.
4. Cilgwyn quarry waste disposal site, Gwynedd.
None of the above sites is subject to registration under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960, although the first three are subject to authorisation under the Act.
Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report the number of premises in Wales registered under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 ; and if he will separately distinguish how many are sited in each parliamentary constituency.
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