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Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total number of Health and Safety Executive staff in each year since 1975.
Mr. Nicholls : The total number of permanent staff employed by the Health and Safety Executive in each year since 1975 is as follows :
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|Number
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1 August
1975 |2,937
1 April
1976 |3,282.5
1977 |3,917
1978 |4,104.5
1979 |4,170
1980 |4,110
1981 |3,884
1982 |3,712
1983 |3,593
1984 |3,563.5
1985 |3,616
1986 |3,585
1987 |3,526
1988 |3,410
1989 |3,449
1 October
1989 |3,526.5
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the numbers of (a) factory inspectors and (b) agricultural inspectors who left the Health and Safety Executive in each year since 1975.
Mr. Nicholls : Information on the numbers of factory and agricultural inspectors who left HSE since July 1979 is as follows. Information is not available before 1976 and for 1976 to June 1979 could be obtained only at dispropoprtionate cost.
|Factor inspectors |Agricultural inspectors
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<1>1979-80 |27 |7
1980-81 |32 |8
1981-82 |53 |9
1982-83 |22 |7
1983-84 |26 |5
1984-85 |28 |8
1985-86 |30 |7
1986-87 |35 |7
1987-88 |45 |5
1988-89 |38 |5
<1>Figures cover July 1979 to March 1980 only.
The figures include inspectors who resigned, transferred to other Civil Service posts or retired.
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the level of funding to the Health and Safety Executive in each year since 1975, expressed at 1975 price-levels.
Mr. Nicholls : The level of gross financial provision to the Health and Safety Commission and Executive for each year since 1975, expressed at the 1974-75 price level, is as follows :
|£
|000s
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1974-75 |13,320
1975-76 |22,701
1976-77 |26,802
1977-78 |28,203
1978-79 |27,555
1979-80 |27,796
1980-81 |31,275
1981-82 |31,257
1982-83 |30,224
1983-84 |31,339
1984-85 |30,566
1985-86 |30,521
1986-87 |29,831
1987-88 |30,395
1988-89 |30,092
For consistency, the figures have been adjusted to remove funds provided during 1981-82 to 1984-85 for HSE's dispersal to Bootle ; and to remove provision in earlier years for the industrial air pollution inspectorate which transferred to the Department of Environment in 1987.
Agricultural Inspectors
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number and location of agricultural inspectors covering the east of Scotland area in each year since 1975.
Mr. Nicholls : Information on agricultural inspectors' location, corresponding to the Scotland east area, is available only from 1 April 1985 and is as follows :
Number of Agricultural inspectors in:
|Edinburgh|Aberdeen |Inverness|Dundee<1>|Total
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April
1985 |5 |2 |2 |1 |10
1986 |6 |3 |2 |1 |12
1987 |7 |4 |2 |1 |14
1988 |7 |4 |2 |- |13
1989 |7 |4 |2 |- |13
October
1989 |6 |4 |2 |- |12
<1> HSE's Dundee office closed on 31 March 1988
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the total numbers of agricultural inspectors in post in each year since 1975 for (a) Scotland and (b) the United Kingdom.
Mr. Nicholls : Numbers of agricultural inspectors in Scotland and Great Britain are as follows :
Agricultural inspectors in:
|Scotland |Great Britain
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1 March
1977<1> |n/a |191
1 April
1977 |17 |187
1978 |15 |186
1979 |16 |190
1980 |18 |187
1981 |17 |176
1982 |15 |166
1983 |17 |159
1984 |16 |154
1985 |16 |162
1986 |18 |163
1987 |21 |166
1988 |20 |158
1989 |19 |165
1 October
1989 |18 |167
<1>Agricultural inspectors joined HSE from MAFF from
March 1976 with the field force being in place in March
1977.
Notes:
1. Figures for Northern Ireland are a matter for my
right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern
Ireland.
2. Totals for Great Britain include inspectors in the
inspectorate's and in HSE's headquarters engaged on
line management work or contributing to international
and national policy or standards work.
Factory Inspectors
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the number and location of factory inspectors concerning the east of Scotland area in each year since 1975.
Mr. Nicholls : The earliest date for which figures are available for factory inspectors in HSE's Scotland east area is 1 November 1976. Details of inspectors' location within the area before 1985 are not available. The available information is as follows :
Number of factory
inspectors in:
|Edinburgh |Aberdeen |Dundee<1> |Total in Scotland East
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1
November
1976 |- |- |- |26
1 April
1977 |- |- |- |29
1978 |- |- |- |31
1979 |- |- |- |32
1980 |- |- |- |33
1981 |- |- |- |31
1982 |- |- |- |32
1983 |- |- |- |27
1984 |- |- |- |25
1985 |18 |5 |3 |26
1986 |16 |4 |3 |23
1987 |16 |4 |3 |23
1988 |16.5 |4 |- |20.5
1989 |19.5 |4 |- |23.5
1 October
1989 |21.5 |5 |- |26.5
<1> HSE's Dundee office closed on 31 March 1988.
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the total number of factory inspectors in post for (a) Scotland and (b) the United Kingdom in each year since 1975.
Mr. Nicholls : Numbers of factory inspectors in Scotland and Great Britain are listed. HSE does not enforce health and safety legislation in Northern Ireland.
Factory inspectors in:
|Scotland |Great Britain
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1 July
1975<1> |n/a |557
1 January
1976 |53 |568
1 April
1976 |54 |624
1977 |60 |676.5
1978 |64 |695.5
1979 |65 |742
1980 |67 |759.5
1981 |64 |735
1982 |62 |678
1983 |55 |654.5
1984 |51 |627
1985 |53 |652
1986 |48 |623
1987 |45 |621.5
1988 |46.5 |592.5
1989 |46 |604
1 October
1989 |51 |619
<1>HSE figures for factory inspectors in Great Britain
became available from July 1975, and for Scotland from
January 1976.
n/a=not available.
Totals for Great Britain include inspectors in the inspectorate and in HSE's headquarters engaged on line management work or contributing to international and national policy or technical standards.
Workplace Accidents
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were (a) the total number of accidents, (b) the total number of fatal accidents, and (c) the total number of major accidents reported at workplaces in (i) Scotland and (ii) the United Kingdom in each year since 1975.
Mr. Nicholls : The available information for injuries reported to Her Majesty's factory and agricultural inspectorates and to the local authorities in Scotland and Great Britain as a whole is given in the tables. Figures for Northern Ireland are a matter for my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Figures for the periods 1975- 80, 1981-85 and 1986 onwards are not comparable owing to changes in reporting arrangements.
Year Numbers of reported
occupational injuries<1>
to employees in Scotland
resulting in
|death<2> |major injury<3> |absence from work of over
|2 days<4>
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1975<5> |55 |n/a |22,833
1976<5> |49 |n/a |26,789
1977<5> |67 |n/a |28,213
1978<5> |59 |n/a |25,999
1979<5> |72 |n/a |24,157
1980<5> |49 |n/a |21,732
1981 |57 |1,233 |39,277
1982 |57 |1,239 |35,115
1983 |55 |1,169 |n/a
1984 |47 |1,162 |n/a
1985 |37 |1,176 |n/a
1986-87<6> |41 |1,878 |13,958
1987-88 |37 |1,824 |14,827
Year Numbers of reported
occupational injuries<1>
to employees in Great
Britain resulting in
|death<2> |Major injury<3> |absence from work of over
|3 days<4>
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1975<7> |461 |n/a |247,909
1976<7> |423 |n/a |246,509
1977<7> |390 |n/a |248,828
1978<7> |433 |n/a |269,123
1979<7> |433 |n/a |250,465
1980<7> |411 |n/a |210,290
1981 |351 |11,079 |259,252
1982 |370 |11,084 |327,805
1983 |370 |11,270 |n/a
1984 |362 |11,853 |n/a
1985 |321 |12,112 |n/a
1986-87<6> |307 |18,764 |143,152
1987-88 |308 |18,347 |146,773
n/a-not available
<1>Injuries notified under the Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, 1980 (NADOR) for 1981 to 1985,
and the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, 1985 (RIDDOR) for later years. Data for the years
1975-1980 are based on reports made under various legislation.
<2>Includes fatal injuries to members of the public arising from work activity in respect to those fatal injuries reported to
local authorities 1981-1985.
<3>The category of major injury was first introduced by NADOR. The definition of a major injury was widened by RIDDOR.
<4>For 1975-80 injuries notified directly to HSE under various health and safety at work legislation. For 1981-82, injuries
resulting in claims for industrial injury benefit. From 1983-85 figures are not available as industrial injury benefit ceased in
1983. From April 1986 injuries reported by employers under RIDDOR.
<5>For Scotland, injuries in 1975-80 are those reported to factory inspectorate only.
<6>Year from 1 April 1986 when RIDDOR came into force.
<7>For Great Britain, injuries reported in 1975-80 are those to factory and agricultural inspectorates only.
Workplace Inspections
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the total numbers of workplace inspections conducted by the factory inspectorate in (a) east of Scotland area, (b) Scotland and (c) the United Kingdom in each year since 1975.
Mr. Nicholls : The information is not available in the form requested for the years 1975 to 1984. The following table shows the number of preventive inspection visits carried out by the factory inspectorate in the east of Scotland area, Scotland and Great Britain since 1 April 1985 :
Date |East of Scotland|Scotland |Great Britain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1 April-31 March) 1985-86 |5,375 |9,209 |90,081 1986-87 |5,142 |8,778 |94,308 1987-88 |5,750 |10,409 |100,815 1988-89 |5,169 |8,935 |101,141
Figures for Northern Ireland are a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Adult Earnings
Mr. Winnick : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many adults in full-time employment in the west midlands currently earn less than £120 per week.
Mr. Nicholls : It is estimated from the new earnings survey that about 13 per cent. of adults in full-time employment in the west midlands, whose earnings were not affected by absence, earned less than £120 in April 1989.
Staff Shortages
Mr. Crowther : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what instructions have been given to reduce the length of new claims interviews in unemployment benefit offices as a result of staff shortages.
Mr. Eggar : An average time of 40 minutes is allowed for each new claim interview. No national guidance has been issued advising that the interview length be shortened.
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During the summer period some offices experienced peaks in the number of claims made and had to resort to a shorter interview followed up at a later date by a second interview.Bridging Allowance
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many (a) 16-year-olds and (b) 17-year-olds in (i) Scotland and (ii) the United Kingdom are in receipt of a bridging allowance ; and what proportion of those who had exhausted their entitlement to a bridging allowance still had not secured a training place under the youth training scheme.
Mr. Nicholls : On the 12 October, the latest date for which figures are available, 1,385 young people were in receipt of YTS bridging allowance in Scotland and 8,096 in Great Britain. Separate arrangements apply in Northern Ireland.
The guarantee to young people under 18 who are not in full time employment or education of a suitable YTS place continues to be met nationwide. At the end of September 110,821 YTS places were unfilled out of the 500,000 YTS places in contract.
Disabled People (Quotas)
Mr. Wareing : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many firms in (a) manufacturing industry, (b) the service sector and (c) the construction industry are adhering to the quota system in the employment of disabled people ; and what percentage of the firms in each of these groups they represent.
Mr. Eggar : The information requested is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Wareing : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he has any plans to make changes in the quota system as it affects the employment of disabled people.
Mr. Eggar : The quota scheme is amongst the matters being considered in the internal review of services to people with disabilities which my Department has been undertaking, the results of which will be made known as soon as possible.
Training
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what information he has on the level of employer investment in training employees, net of salaries ;
(2) what information he has on the level of employer spending on training of employees, net of salaries, in each of the European member states.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 2 November 1989] : It is estimated that employers in Great Britain spent £2.8 billion on non- labour costs on training in 1986-87. This figure is based on a survey of employers' training activities carried out in 1987. The survey included agricultural firms with less than 10 employees and the armed services. The estimated expenditure for all employers, including staff costs, was £18 billion. Figures are not available on this basis for other member states.
The EC labour costs survey shows expenditure on training by employers in the production and construction
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industries in member states as a percentage of labour costs. The figures are shown in the table and exclude salaries except for apprentice wages.
|Per cent.|Per cent.|Per cent.|Per cent.
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Ireland |1.3 |1.4 |0.4 |0.3
Luxembourg |0.5 |0.7 |0.4 |0.1
Belgium |0.4 |0.4 |1.0 |1.0
Netherlands |0.4 |0.1 |0.6 |0.4
Italy |0.3 |0.4 |0.2 |0.2
Training Schemes (Safety)
Mr. Patchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will take steps to ensure that all people on training schemes are (a) covered by health and safety legislation relevant to their industry, (b) fully insured and (c) provided with safety clothing and footwear.
Mr. Nicholls [holding answer 3 November 1989] : I have nothing to add to the reply that I gave to the hon. Member for Wentworth (Mr. Hardy) on 17 October 1989 at columns 57-58.
DEFENCE
Vietnamese Refugees
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what measures are taken by the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force to detect and intercept vessels carrying intended immigrants from Vietnam to Hong Kong.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : Responsibility for the detection and interception of Vietnamese boat people attempting to enter Hong Kong rests with the Royal Hong Kong marine police. Royal Navy patrol craft occasionally assist in the detection task as part of their general patrol duties in Kong Kong waters. Vietnamese boat people vessels detected by the Royal Navy are immediately notified to the Hong Kong civil authorities for them to take further action.
Service Women (Job Opportunities)
Dr. Woodcock : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will outline the steps being taken to increase job opportunities for women in the Army, Navy and the Royal Air Force.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : The Army plans to increase job opportunities for women in line with the recommendations of the report on the study into the long term role and employment of women in the Army, which identified 6,000 additional posts in the Regular Army and 4,000 posts in the Territorial Army that could be opened to women. The RAF is increasing the number of women in ground trades from 5,000 to 7,000, some 10 per cent. of the total ground trades trained strength, over the next five years and has begun recruiting women as pilots and navigators for non-combat roles. The Royal Navy is currently reviewing the possible future employment of the Women's Royal Naval Service and we expect to make an announcement around the end of the year.
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AWACS Verification
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what are the policy and development implications of the renewed open skies verification regime for the sale and use of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation airborne warning and control system.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : A great deal of work remains to be done on the open skies initiative and it is too early to draw any conclusions on how it might be put into effect.
Ethnic Recruitment
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on what date he received the report on the study into ethnic minority recruitment in the armed services and on what date he will make a statement about it.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : The report on the study into ethnic minority recruitment to the armed services was received on 11 July 1989. The report is under consideration within the Ministry of Defence and an announcement will be made shortly.
Racial Discrimination
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what evidence he has of racial discrimination in the armed forces.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : There is no evidence to substantiate claims of racial discrimination in the armed forces. The armed forces are subject to the Race Relations Act 1976 and no form of racial discrimination is tolerated. Complaints of racial discrimination brought by members of the armed forces are fully investigated under the redress of grievance procedures of the service disciplinary Acts.
UDR Offences
Mr. Mallon : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give details for each of the years from 1980 to 30 September 1989 of (a) full-time members and (b) part-time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment serving in Northern Ireland who have (i) voluntarily resigned having been involved in an offence, (ii) been discharged having been convicted of an offence and (iii) had their engagements terminated following the commission of an offence, but before trial ; and what was the nature of the offence in each case.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : I am afraid that information dealing with the period prior to 1985 can be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The following information covers both the permanent cadre and the part-time element of the UDR :
(i) voluntary resignations having been involved in an offence 16 (ii) discharges having been convicted and awarded custodial sentences, including suspended sentences 54
(iii) it is not our policy to terminate an individual's engagement before he has been tried and convicted of an offence, although there were three cases where the individuals did not apply to re-engage when their current engagements terminated while they were under investigation or on remand.
Information on the nature of each offence is not readily available.
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Regular Army Offences
Mr. Mallon : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give details for each of the years from 1980 to 30 September 1989 of members of the Regular Army serving in Northern Ireland, who have (a) voluntarily resigned having been involved in an offence (b) been discharged having been convicted of an offence and (c) had their engagements terminated following the commission of an offence, but before trial ; and what was the nature of the offence in each case.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : Members of the Regular Army serving in Northern Ireland apart from the UDR are not allowed to resign voluntarily after having been involved in an offence. On the second part of the hon. Member's question, separate records are not kept for discharges of soldiers convicted of offences committed in Northern Ireland. It is not our policy to discharge soldiers who are accused of committing offences before they have been tried and convicted.
UDR Re-vetting
Mr. Mallon : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what are the circumstances in which current and future members of the Ulster Defence Regiment will be re-vetted in light of paragraph 5 of the joint statement issued following the meeting of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference on 18 October.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : There is a range of circumstances in which it would be appropriate to carry out screening reviews. However, it would not be appropriate to give details and I therefore have nothing to add to my answer of 19 October to the hon. Member for Strangford (Mr. Taylor) at column 256 .
Lance Missile
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) by how much the operational life of the Lance missile could be extended by a programme of refurbishment ;
(2) when the Lance missile will come to the end of its effective operational life.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : It is general practice to keep the performance of all weapon systems under review. On current estimates it is believed that the Lance missile will be unsustainable beyond the mid 1990s.
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence by how much the recent refurbishment of the rocket motors to the Lance missile has extended its effective operational life.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : The recent refurbishment was designed to maintain operational effectiveness throughout the missile's planned operational life ; it was not intended to extend the operational life.
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1989", vol. 1, p. 51, fig. 12, how many Lance missiles are deployed to accompany the 88 Lance launchers.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : The number of Lance missiles deployed in Europe is classified information.
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Tornado Missiles
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many (a) Tornado GRIs and (b) Tornado F3s are currently deployed in frontline service ; how many are in reserve ; and how many are in storage.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : Nine squadrons of Tornado GR1 and four squadrons of Tornado F3 are currently in operational front line service. The precise numbers of the operational aircraft and reserves are classified. Eight early production Tornado F3s are in storage at RAF St. Athan awaiting modifications. No Tornado GF1s are in storage.
Royal Navy Ships
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many Royal Navy destroyers and frigates are currently permanently available to fulfil NATO roles.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : All Royal Navy destroyers and frigates are declared to NATO, although at varying levels of readiness and availability. Precise details are classified.
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many, and what type of, Royal Navy ships are regularly committed to patrolling the Gulf and Indian ocean area.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend, the Member for Norwich, North (Mr. Thompson) on 18 July 1989 at column 79. We have no commitment to patrolling in the Indian ocean.
Combat Aircraft
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) pursuant to the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1989", volume 1, p. 47, how many of the combat aircraft on each side are (a) air defence fighters, (b) reconnaissance aircraft and (c) electronic warfare aircraft ;
(2) pursuant to the "Statement on the Defence Estimates 1989", volume 1, p. 46, how many of the combat aircraft on each side are (a) air defence fighters, (b) reconnaissance aircraft and (c) electronic warfare aircraft.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : Many modern combat aircraft are designed to be capable of performing several different roles. For this reason, it would be misleading to break down the figures as requested.
BAOR
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment his Department has made as to the likely effects on the British Army of the Rhine of the use of nuclear artillery shells by United Kingdom forces against WTO forces.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : It is not our practice to comment on operational matters of this kind.
Merchant Ships
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment his Department has made as to the minimum number and capacity of the United Kingdom's merchant ships needed to meet the wartime requirements of the United Kingdom's armed forces.
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Mr. Archie Hamilton : The defence requirement for merchant shipping in crisis and war is very carefully assessed and regularly reviewed. The details of this particular requirement are classified.
Conventional Forces
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what figures his Department has provided to the conventional forces in Europe negotiations regarding the numbers and types of the United Kingdom's armed forces ; and whether he will make these available to Parliament.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : The most recent figures for United Kingdom equipment holdings are contained in the NATO publication "Conventional Forces in Europe : The Facts", dated November 1988, a copy of which is in the Library of the House. NATO has proposed a formal exchange of data as part of a CFE treaty, but no such exchange has yet taken place.
SS21
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's assessment as to the accuracy, circular error probability, of the Soviet SS21.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : It is not our practice to give this type of information, although the SS21 is considerably more accurate than the FROG missile which it is replacing.
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's latest assessment of the number of Soviet SS21 launchers deployed in Europe.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : Since 1981, well over 200 Soviet SS21 launchers have been deployed in Europe west of the Urals.
Trident
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's assessment as to the financial savings that would accrue from a cancellation of the fourth Trident submarine in 1991.
Mr. Neubert : The position remains as set out by MOD officials in evidence to the Select Committee on Defence in response to a question raised by the Clerk to the Committee on 11 May 1989, and published in its report, "The Progress of the Trident Programme" (Defence Committee Fifth Report HC 374, 21 June 1989).
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's assessment as to the yearly running costs of maintaining (a) a three-boat Trident force and (b) a four-boat Trident force.
Mr. Neubert : It is too early to state with any precision the likely running costs of the Trident force, other than to say they are not anticipated to be significantly different from those for Polaris.
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the number of warheads that each Trident D5 missile is assumed to carry according to the counting rules adopted in the START negotiations.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : In their joint summit statement of December 1987, the United States and Soviet
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Governments confirmed their assumption that the Trident II missile would be deployed with eight warheads. The United Kingdom Government, which is not, of course, a party to the START negotiations, has already stated that the United Kingdom deploys a maximum of 128 warheads per submarine.Soviet Short-Range Missiles
Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's assessment as to the number of Soviet short-range nuclear missiles that accompany the 1,450 short-range nuclear launchers deployed by the Warsaw pact in Europe, west of the Urals.
Mr. Archie Hamilton : It is not our practice to give this type of information.
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