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Mr. Cope : Data for each of the groups requested, on a comparable basis, is available only from the labour force survey. Preliminary estimates from the 1988 LFS are shown in the following table :
16 and 17 year olds-Northern region
Spring 1988, thousands and percent
|000's |Per cent.<3>
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(i) employees and self-employed in full-
time<1> employment |15 |16.2
(ii) on government employment and
training programmes |16 |17.2
(iii) unemployed<2> |11 |11.8
<1> Based on respondents own assessments, not on the number of hours worked.
<2> ILO/OECD definition.
<3> As percentage of all 16 and 17 year olds.
Source : 1988 LFS, Preliminary results. The LFS is a survey of private households based on a sample large enough to provide estimates at national and regional level. However, it cannot provide estimates for smaller areas, such as Durham.
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the number and percentage increase or decrease in employment in the United Kingdom and the European Community as a whole between 1979 and the latest year for which figures are available, giving the total, full-time employment and part-time employment separately.
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Mr. Lee : Employment estimates are not yet available for many EC countries after 1987. The changes in total civilian employment for the United Kingdom and the EC as a whole between 1979 and 1987 are shown in the table. A breakdown of these figures between full-time and part-time employment is not available.
Change in Civilian Employment: 1979 to 1987
|Thousand |per cent.
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United Kingdom |-19 |-0.1
EC12 |+701 |+0.6
Sources: United Kingdom (ED), Other EC
countries (EUROSTAT)
Youth Training Scheme
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give, for Great Britain and each training agency area or employment service or careers service area, the number of people of YTS eligible age, at the latest available date, registered with jobcentres or the careers service who were awaiting an offer of a YTS place.
Mr. Lee : Only local careers services hold information on the total number of young people awaiting the offer of a YTS place. There is no central record.
Training and Enterprise Councils
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if training and enterprise councils may vary the financial terms and conditions of trainees on (i) ET or (ii) YTS ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Cope : The detailed arrangements for ET and YTS under training and enterprise councils are currently under consideration. Announcements will be made in due course.
Construction Training
Ms. Harman : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the average earnings for construction workers in the various trades in the south-east London area over the last five years.
Mr. Nicholls : Information is not available at the level of detail requested.
Training (Accidents)
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the accident rate per 100,000 trainees on employment training.
Mr. Nicholls : The provisional rate for all accidents in employment training is 556 per 100,000 trainees.
TVEI
Mr. Martyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what plans he has for the expansion of the technical and vocational education initiative scheme.
Mr. Cope : The extension of the technical and vocational education initiative (TVEI) was announced in July 1986, setting aside £900 million over a ten-year period. Since 1987, 48 education authorities have already begun to introduce TVEI into their schools and colleges. Another 32 authorities will join this September and by the early 1990s, all schools and colleges will be participating and all pupils aged 14-18 should be influenced by TVEI.
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Tourist Attractions (Cornwall)
Mr. Mudd : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the top 20 tourist attractions in Cornwall in numbers visiting or attending ; and if he will indicate the numbers, in each instance, for the previous comparable year.
Mr. Lee : The English Tourist Board's annual survey of visits to attractions gives the following figures for Cornwall in 1987 and 1988 :
Number of visits
|1987 |1988
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Truro Cathedral |250,000|250,000
Mount Edgcumbe Country Park |- |200,000
St. Agnes Leisure Park |200,000|200,000
World in Miniature, Goonhavern |195,000|200,000
Dobwall's Theme Park |135,000|190,000
Newquay Zoo |143,482|186,000
St. Michael's Mount |172,975|175,815
Tintagel Castle |135,935|134,386
Tescan Ltd (Tannery) Redruth |- |112,000
Cotehele House |79,937 |81,456
Trelissick Garden, Nr Truro |69,522 |75,244
Pendennis Castle, Falmouth |63,412 |70,739
Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station |56,684 |63,000
Dairyland, Newquay |60,000 |56,940
Tintagel Old Post Office |49,673 |55,048
Trerice |53,241 |52,250
Callestock Cider Farm, Penhallow |21,544 |50,000
Monkey Sanctuary, Looe |53,700 |48,000
Padstow Tropical Bird Garden |30,000 |43,000
Charlestown Visitor Centre |38,700 |40,250
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Health and Safety
Mr. Terry Davis : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he intends to make any regulations to provide for annual reports published under the Companies Act 1967 to contain information about the arrangements for securing the health, safety and welfare at work of employees of a company and its subsidiaries as provided in section 79 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
Mr. Nicholls : My right hon. Friend has asked the Health and Safety Commission to advise him whether regulations should be made under section 235 of the Companies Act 1985 which replaced the 1967 Companies Act and section 79 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
Employment Training
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what organisations have been granted ET training agent contracts ; what were the planned volumes of trainees between September 1988 and March 1989 ; what are the planned volumes between April 1989 and August 1989 ; how many trainees have been referred to ET training agents ; and how many action plans have been agreed at the end of each month since September 1989, for each Training Agency area.
Mr. Nicholls [pursuant to his reply, 12 June 1989, c. 285-90] : I regret that there was an error in the original reply. The error is in table 2--Action plans completed by Employment Training training agents : September 1988 to March 1989. The figures provided for Northern region were monthly cumulative figures rather than in-month totals. The correct figures for the table are as follows :
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Action Plans completed by ET Training Agents: September 1988 to March 1989
Agreed Action Plans
Area Office |September 1988|October1988 |November 1988 |December 1988 |January 1989 |February 1989 |March 1989
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South East Region
Berkshire and Oxfordshire |242 |798 |0 |922 |514 |450 |418
Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire |219 |294 |763 |411 |429 |520 |500
Essex |227 |550 |525 |1,051 |632 |748 |989
Hampshire and Isle of Wight |411 |487 |679 |409 |717 |670 |772
Kent |32 |610 |1,159 |488 |714 |652 |596
Surrey |102 |223 |174 |615 |190 |0 |196
Sussex |0 |682 |900 |470 |555 |652 |695
London Region
Inner London North |505 |1,196 |1,545 |1,606 |1,651 |1,799 |2,090
Inner London South |510 |655 |616 |539 |645 |718 |736
London East |793 |735 |805 |670 |972 |1,117 |1,092
London North |732 |857 |935 |846 |858 |970 |996
London South |280 |320 |479 |340 |423 |542 |543
London West |591 |867 |811 |676 |900 |912 |952
South West Region
Avon |238 |361 |411 |327 |453 |506 |489
Devon and Cornwall |665 |692 |1,244 |795 |1,294 |615 |1,192
Dorset and Somerset |418 |478 |386 |332 |342 |516 |471
Gloucester and Wiltshire |357 |546 |560 |433 |390 |479 |536
West Midlands Region
Birmingham and Solihull |935 |1,026 |1,201 |756 |1,553 |1,685 |1,382
Coventry and Warwickshire |378 |617 |576 |322 |638 |812 |748
Dudley and Sandwell |818 |769 |899 |1,021 |978 |1,059 |1,416
Staffordshire |541 |906 |434 |1,145 |1,128 |929 |1,192
The Marches, Hereford/Worcester |0 |710 |677 |954 |406 |613 |1,330
Wolverhampton and Walsall |0 |1,055 |1,913 |308 |706 |821 |754
East Midlands and Eastern Region
Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire |502 |484 |520 |331 |400 |426 |362
Derbyshire |704 |742 |743 |501 |582 |677 |743
Leicestershire and Northamptonshire |499 |607 |604 |551 |718 |719 |736
Lincolnshire |192 |251 |267 |154 |296 |359 |313
Norfolk and Suffolk |586 |625 |652 |426 |753 |641 |961
Nottinghamshire |602 |909 |853 |669 |937 |923 |851
Yorkshire and Humberside Region
Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees |758 |944 |1,439 |911 |1,123 |1,186 |1,316
Humberside |858 |821 |791 |847 |949 |970 |938
North Yorkshire and Leeds |621 |826 |752 |743 |777 |1,035 |1,002
Sheffield and Rotherham |1,078 |1,387 |1,382 |961 |1,459 |1,236 |1,043
Wakefield, Doncaster and Barnsley |861 |1,154 |1,296 |990 |1,501 |1,547 |1,265
North West Region
Cheshire |809 |826 |901 |588 |773 |951 |699
Cumbria |267 |280 |406 |269 |315 |377 |373
Lancashire |937 |1,050 |955 |943 |1,090 |1,164 |1,279
Central Manchester |597 |685 |945 |936 |954 |984 |837
Greater Manchester North |395 |699 |711 |423 |821 |834 |894
Greater Manchester East |484 |904 |784 |488 |604 |875 |913
Merseyside |630 |1,386 |1,715 |1,504 |1,995 |2,315 |2,220
Northern Region
Cleveland |1,404 |1,229 |1,141 |799 |1,624 |1,764 |1,503
County Durham |1,027 |894 |897 |626 |1,014 |1,254 |1,060
Northumberland, North Tyneside and Newcastle |602 |962 |1,104 |849 |1,086 |1,258 |1,275
Sunderland, South Tyneside and Gateshead |1,356 |1,266 |1,325 |1,323 |1,349 |1,536 |1,488
Wales
Dyfed and West Glamorgan |524 |759 |922 |749 |909 |930 |949
Gwent |268 |348 |536 |282 |747 |779 |681
Gwynned, Clwyd and Powys |309 |458 |545 |546 |573 |679 |497
Mid and South Glamorgan |826 |935 |1,073 |856 |951 |1,302 |1,301
Scotland
Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway |550 |706 |895 |832 |802 |1,003 |826
Central and Fife |429 |459 |710 |603 |594 |832 |573
Glasgow City |828 |958 |1,263 |1,160 |1,198 |1,463 |1,915
Grampian and Tayside |937 |817 |825 |726 |918 |1,018 |1,267
Highlands and Islands |158 |207 |301 |351 |397 |400 |308
Lanarkshire |301 |649 |710 |480 |639 |800 |803
Lothian and Borders |604 |766 |1,269 |757 |805 |824 |940
Renfrew, Dumbarton and Argyll |339 |397 |607 |576 |770 |1,000 |1,122
Note: Some months show no agreed action plans because of computer difficulties. Action plans agreed in the months are recorded in subsequent months.
Table file CW890724.034 not available
Child Care
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, what measures he is taking to encourage the provision of child care facilities in the work place ; and what information he has on how many firms and Government offices currently provide such facilities.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 5 July 1989] : My right hon. Friend takes every opportunity to encourage employers to help employees combine work and family responsibilities. Work place nurseries are one possible way of helping parents with childcare although it will not necessarily be the most appropriate in all cases. Other possibilities include help with childcare costs in the local home area and rearrangement of working hours and holidays to fit in with school hours and terms.
My right hon. Friend does not have comprehensive information on the extent of employer-assisted childcare outside Government Departments but the indications are
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that such provision is growing. In the Civil Service 15 departments provide holiday play schemes for the children of their staff. Two new inter-departmental schemes began in Westminster during the spring 1989 half-term. In addition two schemes were launched by the DSS during the Easter holidays : one at the Elephant and Castle and one, with the Department of Employment, in Coventry. The Departments of Employment and Social Security have set up "care-parents" schemes and the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office are both developing nursery schemes for the under-fives.I also take a full part in the ministerial group on women's issues which is currently considering the whole question of childcare provision and which recently issued a five-point plan designed to pave the way for the provision of childcare to suit family needs.
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NORTHERN IRELAND
Army-Police Operations
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many helicopter flying hours were available during June in support of army police operations from Newtownbutler and Rosslea Royal Ulster Constabulary stations in south-east Fermanagh.
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many helicopter flying hours were required in support of the operation to dismantle the Lacky bridge permanent vehicle checkpoint.
Mr. Ian Stewart : It is not the practice to comment on operational matters of this sort.
Terrorist Activity (Fermanagh)
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people have died as a result of terrorist activity in south-east Fermanagh since 1970.
Mr. Ian Stewart : Since 1970, 30 persons are believed to have died as a result of terrorist activity in the south-east Fermanagh area.
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many terrorists have been convicted of murders in south-east Fermanagh since 1970.
Helicopters (Fermanagh)
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if there are any plans to increase the number of helicopter flying hours available for army-police operations to be carried out from Newtownbutler and Rosslea Royal Ulster Constabulary stations.
Mr. Ian Stewart : This is an operational matter for local security force commanders, in the light of the current terrorist threat and security force operations to meet that threat. If the threat increases in any given area, additional helicopter hours can be allocated to that area.
Lacky Bridge Checkpoint
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if the opinion of elected representatives or the community leaders in south- east Fermanagh was sought before dismantling the Lacky bridge permanent vehicle checkpoint.
Mr. Ian Stewart : Operational security matters are not normally the subject of advance public consultation but this matter was given careful consideration and consultation between the chief constable and the general office commanding in the light of all available information.
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what consultation was carried out with the Royal Ulster Constabulary concerning the dismantling of the Lacky bridge permanent vehicle checkpoint ; and what was the Royal Ulster Constabulary's response to the decision to dismantle.
Mr. Ian Stewart : As in all security issues this matter was the subject of careful consideration between the chief
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constable and the general office commanding. It is not the practice to comment on the details of consultations on security matters.Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what was the cost (a) to the Army and (b) to the Royal Ulster Constabulary of the operation to dismantle the Lacky bridge permanent vehicle checkpoint ;
(2) what would be, at current prices, the cost of re-establishing the Lacky bridge permanent vehicle checkpoint.
Mr. Ian Stewart : It is not the practice to comment on the cost of security operations. But there was no significant additional cost incurred by the Army during the operation to dismantle the Lacky bridge permanent vehicle checkpoint. The Royal Ulster Constabulary was not involved.
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when the Lacky bridge permanent vehicle checkpoint was dismantled ; and which elected representatives in Fermanagh and South Tyrone were notified from the Northern Ireland Office by letter or otherwise of the intention to do so.
Mr. Ian Stewart : The permanent vehicle checkpoint at Lacky bridge was dismantled between 4 and 7 July. It was my intention to speak to the hon. Gentleman prior to this happening but he became aware of it in advance from another source.
Checkpoints (Fermanagh)
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when permanent vehicle checkpoints were erected in south-east Fermanagh ; and how many terrorist murders have been committed in that area since that time.
Mr. Ian Stewart : Permanent vehicle checkpoints were erected in the south-east Fermanagh area in October 1980 ; since that time six murders are believed to have been carried out by terrorists.
Small Businesses
Mr. David Shaw : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the achievements of his Department and his policies in helping small businesses over the last 12 months compared with the previous 12 months ; and if he will publish the performance indicators by which his Department monitors those achievements and the statistical results of such monitoring.
Mr. Viggers : The Government are committed to maximising the contribution that small firms can make to strengthening the Northern Ireland economy. A major priority is to help the Province's small businesses to prepare for the completion of the single European market. The publicly funded local enterprise development unit (LEDU) offers support to firms employing up to 50 who are establishing or expanding their businesses. For the year ended 31 March 1989, LEDU achieved record levels of activity, surpassing for the eighth successive year the performance of previous years in terms of jobs promoted.
The main performance indicators used, and the results achieved for the past two years, are as follows --
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|1987-88|1988-89
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Number of jobs promoted |4,570 |5,004
Cost per job promoted |£4520 |£4518
Percentage public contribution to total |36 per |32 per
project cost |cent. |cent.
Trading Standards Officers
Mr. Nigel Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many trading standards officers there are in each local authority area.
Mr. Viggers : The trading standards service in Northern Ireland is a central Government function and is the responsibility of the Department of Economic Development.
Branch headquarters are located at Newtownbreda near Belfast and there are local offices in Armagh, Ballymena, Coleraine, Enniskillen, Londonderry and Newry. The inspectorate, known as trading standards officers, comprises 20 qualified staff including the chief inspector. Of these, 13 are located at headquarters and the remainder at the outstations.
Permanent Secretaries (Correspondence)
Rev. Ian Paisley : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the people whom he does not permit to correspond with the permanent secretaries of the various Northern Ireland departments.
Mr. Tom King : None. I should however be grateful if, in accordance with the normal well-understood practice, hon. Members who wish to raise with Northern Ireland departmental headquarters matters for which Ministers are responsible to Parliament would correspond with the appropriate Minister rather than with an official. I have requested permanent secretaries to draw this to the attention of an hon. Member if he is not following the usual procedure and to ask him to correspond directly with the responsible Minister. This will ensure that matters which are raised by constituents through their Members of Parliament receive the most prompt and proper attention.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Immigration
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each of the past five years, and the figure for the current year to date, of refusals to enter the United Kingdom in which primary purpose is part or the whole reason for (a) husbands, (b) wives, (c) fiance es and (d) fiance s seeking entry to join their partners with existing rights of stay in the United Kingdom, for each immigration post abroad.
Mr. Renton : The information requested is available only for posts in the Indian subcontinent and is given in the following table. Where the numbers are small, the figures for individual posts have been combined. Information on refusals which takes account of successful appeals is not compiled for periods shorter than 12 months.
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Spouses and fiance(e)s in the Indian sub-continent
refused<1> entry clearance to the United Kingdom solely
or partly
because the primary purpose of the marriage was to
obtain admission
to the United Kingdom
Number of persons
|<1>1984|1985 |1986 |1987 |1988
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New Delhi (including Calcutta)
Husbands |80 |50 |120 |110 |100
Fiances |320 |230 |270 |190 |170
Wives |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |10
Fiancees |- |- |20 |40 |50
Bombay (including Madras)
Husbands |60 |50 |110 |120 |100
Fiances |120 |150 |210 |160 |160
Wives |- |- |<2>- |10 |10
Fiancees |- |- |<2>- |20 |20
Dhaka
Husbands |20 |50 |30 |30 |80
Fiances |<2>- |<2>- |10 |<2>- |10
Wives |- |- |- |- |20
Fiancees |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>-
Islamabad (including Karachi)
Husbands |70 |50 |120 |270 |480
Fiances |310 |320 |350 |320 |430
Wives |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |10
Fiancees |- |- |<2>- |20 |<2>-
Total Indian sub-continent
Husbands |230 |190 |370 |530 |760
Fiances |750 |710 |840 |680 |770
Wives |- |- |10 |20 |40
Fiancees |- |- |30 |80 |80
<1>Data for 1984 relate to person refused initially;
data for subsequent years take account of successful
appeals.
<2>Five or fewer.
Mr. Fraser : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many immigration inspectors are employed by his Department and where each is based ; what is the comparable rank of (a) an immigration inspector and (b) officials taking decisions on deportation or leave to remain (i) in Lunar house and (ii) elsewhere within the Home Office ; and what grade officer was required to take a decision to make a deportation order before he delegated his deportation decision-making functions to immigration inspectors.
Mr. Renton [holding answer 17 July 1989] : On 30 June 1989, 52 immigration inspectors were in post at the following locations :
|Number
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Immigration Service Headquarters |10
Heathrow Terminal 1 |4
Heathrow Terminal 2 |4
Heathrow Terminal 3 |4
Heathrow Terminal 4 |4
Intelligence Unit, Harmondsworth |3
Technical Unit, Harmondsworth |1
Appeals Unit, Harmondsworth |1
Training Unit, Harmondsworth |1
Gatwick |4
Gatwick North |2
Isis House |2
Glasgow |1
Leeds Bradford Airport |1
Manchester |1
Birmingham |1
Harwich |1
Dover East |3
Dover West |2
Southampton |1
Cardiff |1
|---
Total |52
The level at which decisions are taken in immigration cases varies according to the complexity of the type of case. However, decisions to issue a notice of intention to deport under section 3(5)(a) of the Immigration Act 1971 may be taken by officials of at least inspector level in the immigration service (whose grade equivalent is senior executive officer) or at least higher executive officer level in the deportation section. Similar decisions under section 3(5)(b) and (c) may be taken at not less than senior executive officer level in the deportation section. Decisions to grant further leave to remain may be taken by officials of at least administration officer level in the Immigration and Nationality Department; and decisions to refuse leave to remain may be taken at not less than executive officer level. The levels at which decisions are taken in the deportation section remain the same as they were before the decision to delegate certain functions to immigration inspectors.
Privacy Committee
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what factors influenced the decision to limit the Privacy Committee's terms of reference to the problems of privacy caused by the press and media; what areas indicated in his original announcement of the Committee on 21 April, Official Report , column 593, are not included; and whether he will make a statement.
Mr. Renton : As I made clear in the debate on 21 April at column 593 the precise terms of reference of the committee to review privacy and related matters were then still under consideration. They have been limited to the press because it is the activities of some sections of that industry that have caused such wide concern recently, and because the Government considered that the review should be carried out speedily.
HIV (Prisons)
Mr. Key : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners are known to be HIV positive; and in which prisons they are held.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : On 30 June 1989, 63 prisoners were known to be HIV antibody positive from tests carried out before or after they came into custody. Of these prisoners, nine were located in establishments in the north region, 10 in the Midland region, five in the south-west region and 39 in the south-east region. For reasons of medical confidentiality, it is not our practice to disclose the number of current cases in individual establishments.
Mr. Key : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many tests for HIV antibodies were carried out in prisons in England and Wales in the last year for which figures are available ; and how many were positive ;
(2) what steps are taken to encourage prisoners to volunteer for HIV antibody testing ;
(3) what steps are taken to safeguard the confidentiality of the results of HIV positive antibody tests in prisons.
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Mr. Douglas Hogg : HIV antibody tests are freely available to prisoners, as they are to people in the outside community. Whether a test is advised in an individual case is a matter for the clinical discretion of the prison medical officer. In the 12 months ended 30 June 1989, 30 positive results were reported from tests carried out after the prisoners concerned came into custody. Negative results are not reported. Medical officers and their health care staff apply the normal rules of medical confidentiality to the test results and related diagnoses.
Mr. Key : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times the AIDS videos for (a) prison staff and (b) prisoners have been shown in each prison establishment in England and Wales since they have been available.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Information in the form requested is not available. The staff training video is shown to all new entrant prison officers, and governors have been set a target for the training year ending March 1990 of showing it to all operational staff who have not attended a showing previously. The minimum target for the same year for showing the educational video for prisoners to those who wish to see it is to arrange at least one showing to every prisoner who has been or is expected to be in custody for four weeks or longer.
Mr. Key : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if it is his policy to restrict the location and activities of HIV positive prisoners ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) what is the purpose of current viral infectivity restrictions in Her Majesty's prisons in England and Wales.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Our policy is to enable identified HIV antibody positive prisoners who are well to play as full a part in prison life as possible. However, having regard to the responsibilities of the prison service towards other prisoners and to staff, it has been thought right in the circumstances obtaining in England and Wales to enable medical officers to take precautions which may limit access to some regime activity. The main recommended restriction is location in single accommodation or communal accommodation shared with other identified HIV antibody positive prisoners. The medical officer may also restrict participation in activities which run the risk of physical injury such as work with machinery or sharp objects, and physical contact sports.
The system of viral infectivity restrictions (VIR), which is also applied to prisoners with other infective conditions, has a secondary purpose of enabling local management to disclose a prisoner's VIR status, but not the actual diagnosis, to operational staff who are considered to have a "need to know". Experience in England and Wales is that this practice has been valuable in giving psychological reassurance to staff.
Further guidance on the application of VIR is planned to encourage local management to place more VIR prisoners in non-specialised locations and to widen opportunities for participation in normal regime activity.
Mr. Key : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what arrangements are made for clinical and psychological monitoring and care of HIV positive prisoners in England and Wales ; (2) what arrangements are made for the continuing care of HIV positive prisoners after their release from prison ;
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(3) what counselling is available for HIV positive and AIDS prisoners.Mr. Douglas Hogg : The health care management of HIV antibody positive prisoners, including arrangements to ensure as far as possible that appropriate health care continues after release, is a responsibility of prison medical officers which they exercise in consultation with appropriate NHS specialists taking account of broad policy guidelines from the director of prison medical services. For the provision of counselling services they have access both to prison service staff who have been trained in HIV counselling and to outside agencies which provide such services.
The director of prison medical service plans to issue further guidance on the clinical care of HIV infected prisoners. The importance of psychological monitoring will be stressed.
Mr. Key : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his policy for the provision of care and support units for prisoners with AIDS-related illness.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : The need is recognised for medical facilities in each prison service region which will be capable of giving short or longer- term care and support to prisoners with AIDS, AIDS-related illness or other infectious illness, whose condition does not require admission to the specialised facilities of the National Health Service. A purpose-designed unit is planned for Brixton prison. Hospital accommodation with suitable facilities at other establishments will also be used to fulfil the care and support function.
Mr. Key : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the current programme for training of prison staff at all levels in relation to their responsibilities
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for the care of prisoners who have been diagnosed HIV positive, including those who may have developed AIDS-related illness.Mr. Douglas Hogg : Locally organised training programmes directed at operational staff provide basic health and safety information and ana understanding of the nature of AIDS and HIV infection at a level appropriate to their task of managing infected prisoners with no signs or symptoms of illness. Most training of health care staff is also arranged locally but will often include attendance at external courses and detachments to local NHS hospitals. External AIDS counselling courses have been attended by prison service staff from a variety of disciplines.
The director of prison medical services plans to develop further training programmes for medical officers and other health care staff tailored to their specific needs.
Immigration Offences
Mr. Darling : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many suspected immigration offenders against whom action was taken by officers in each month since January 1988, at (a) Isis house and (b) Harmondsworth were (i) alleged illegal entrants, (ii) the subjects of deportation orders, (iii) seaman deserters, (iv) overstayers, (v) people working in breach of conditions and (vi) claimed British nationality ; and how many in each category were served with notices of intention to deport (1) by officers within the immigration service and (2) by officials within the immigration and nationality department.
Mr. Renton : The available information is set out in the table :
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Isis House
|(i) |(ii) |(iii) |(iv) (v) |(vi)
|Illegal entrants |Deportation orders served|Seaman deserters |Overstayers and workers |Notices of intention to
|in breach |deport served on those
|in (iv and v)
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1988
January |97 |19 |- |48 |27
February |83 |12 |1 |50 |33
March |82 |19 |- |61 |33
April |82 |8 |1 |42 |25
May |103 |22 |3 |53 |42
June |82 |17 |- |52 |33
July |56 |5 |1 |49 |33
August |68 |13 |- |55 |49
September |57 |21 |- |65 |59
October |70 |16 |- |79 |69
November |93 |16 |2 |134 |128
December |72 |12 |- |119 |106
(i) (ii) (iii)(iv) (v) (vi)
to deport serv
those in (iv)
|(iv)|(v)
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1989
January |48 |19 |2 |61 |39 |61 |36
February |96 |12 |1 |68 |71 |66 |68
March |78 |17 |- |81 |28 |76 |27
April |99 |20 |2 |70 |30 |69 |28
May |67 |19 |- |59 |27 |58 |22
June |63 |17 |- |46 |20 |46 |15
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Immigration Service intelligence and investigation unit
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi)
IllegalDeportaSeaman OverstaWorkersNotices of intention
to deport served on
those in
|(iv) |(v)
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1988
January |73 |13 |0 |24 |25
February |72 |11 |0 |21 |36 |72 |0
March |99 |12 |1 |27 |34
April
May |253 |27 |0 |66 |63 |53 |0
June
July
August |208 |16 |1 |n/a |n/a |94 |(iv+v)
September
October
November |271 |20 |1 |n/a |n/a |185 |(iv+v)
December
1989
January |108 |5 |0 |37 |57
February |107 |7 |1 |63 |47 |153 |109
March |146 |8 |0 |54 |43
April |123 |8 |1 |35 |21
May |76 |13 |2 |41 |14 |99 |40
June |101 |10 |1 |27 |23
n/a=Not available.
Notes:
No figures are available to show the number of offenders who may
have claimed British nationality.
Column (ii) Some of those served with a deportation order may
also have been served with a notice of intention to deport
previously but no details are available.
Column (vi) All notices were served by members of the Immigration
Service either before 1 August 1988 on the authority of an
official in the Immigration and Nationality Department (IND), or
after 1 August 1988 on the authority of an Immigration Inspector
or an official within IND. The breakdown of information on a port
basis is not available and could not be obtained without
disproportionate cost.
Mr. Darling : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times in each month since January 1988, immigration officers at (a) Isis house and (b) Harmondsworth took action as a result of (i) police call-outs, (ii) denunciations, (iii) Home Office file inquiries, (iv) information provided by other Government agencies,
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(v) information arising from a major or middle tier operation and (vi) information arising as a consequence of another inquiry.Mr. Renton : The available information is set out in the table :
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Isis House
Offenders identified from the following sources:
[NL] |(i) |(ii) |(iii) |(iv) |(v)
[NL] |Police call-outs |Denunciations |Home Office files |Other inquiries and Government agencies|Major or middle tier operations
1988
January |80 |46 |17 |21 |-
February |80 |51 |15 |- |4,320
March |90 |67 |17 |- |12
April |71 |47 |11 |4 |-
May |70 |35 |20 |11 |45
June |85 |50 |16 |- |-
July |55 |30 |10 |6 |-
August |73 |43 |- |20 |-
September |100 |30 |7 |6 |-
October |100 |40 |15 |10 |-
November |170 |49 |20 |6 |-
December Information not available
1989
January |111 |13 |21 |3 |21
February |156 |38 |18 |2 |37
March |118 |29 |21 |36 |3
April |137 |26 |21 |40 |-
May |105 |34 |25 |15 |-
June |108 |19 |23 |12 |-
Notes:
Column (iv)-This column relates to both information derived from other Government agencies and from other inquiries.
Column (v)-Some of these cases were referred for action by the Immigration and Nationality Department headquarters-eg the figure of 4,320 relates to students enrolled at a college under investigation in February 1988.
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