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Protection of Military RemainsDrainage Rates (Disabled Persons)
Prevention of Oil Pollution
Highways (Amendment)
*Agricultural Holdings
*Armed Forces
Gaming (Amendment)
Road Traffic Regulation (Parking)
*Statute Law (Repeals)
*European Communities (Amendment)
*British Shipbuilders (Borrowing Powers)
Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship)
*British Council and Commonwealth Institute Superannuation *Insolvency
*Company Directors Disqualification
*Public Trustee and Administration of Funds
*Family Law
*Parliamentary Constituencies
1986-87
*Advance Petroleum Revenue Tax
*Teachers' Pay and Conditions
*Local Government Finance
*Social Fund (Maternity and Funeral Expenses)
Licensing (Restaurant Meals)
Deer
Gaming (Amendment)
*Immigration (Carriers' Liability)
*Pilotage
*Norfolk and Suffolk Broads
Prescriptions (Scotland)
*Chevening Estate
Local Government Act 1986 (Amendment)
Billiards (Abolition of Restrictions)
*Territorial Sea
*Diplomatic and Consular Premises
*Housing (Scotland)
*Parliamentary and other Pensions
*Consumer Protection
*Irish Sailors and Soldiers Land Trust
1987-88
*British Shipbuilders (Borrowing Powers)
*Dartford-Thurrock Crossing
*Income and Corporation Taxes
Consumer Arbitration Agreements
Malicious Communications
Land Registration
Companies (Audit Committees)
*Rate Support Grants
*Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions)
*Road Traffic Offenders
*Road Traffic
1988-89
*Petroleum Royalties (Relief) and Continental Shelf
*Security Service
*Official Secrets
Control of Smoke Pollution
Common Land (Rectification of Registers)
International Parliamentary Organisations (Registration) Weights and Measures (Amendment)
*Representation of the People
Dangerous Dogs
Licensing (Amendment)
*Extradition
*Continental Shelf
*Prisons (Scotland)
*Statute Law Repeals
*Opticians
Mr. Amess : To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the number of occasions in each of the parliamentary Sessions from 1970 to 1989 when (a) the House of Lords carried amendments to (i) private Members' Bills and (ii) Government Bills against the advice of the Government, (b) such amendments were accepted by the Government
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in the House of Commons and (c) the amendments were reversed in the House of Commons and (1) the reversal was accepted by the House of Lords or (2) the House of Lords insisted on their amendments.Sir Geoffrey Howe : I shall write to the hon. Member.
Members' Allowances
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will list in pounds sterling the amount of (a) office costs allowance and (b) second home allowance unclaimed by hon. Members in the years 1988-89.
Sir Geoffrey Howe : Estimate provision included in the House of Commons Members' salaries etc vote for (a) office costs allowance (OCA) and (b) additional costs allowance (ACA) in 1988-89 was £14, 683,000 and £5,174,000 respectively.
The total claimed and paid to Members in the year in respect of OCA was £14,568,579.36, and for ACA £5,384,650.53.
It is not the practice to provide detailed listings of individual Members' claims.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Earthquakes
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list by location and date, the number of earthquakes that have been recorded during the last 10 years ; on what seismographic scale ; what damage was recorded ; and what research is being carried out by his Department into earthquakes.
Mr. Needham : Northern Ireland has not recorded any earthquakes above magnitude 2.5 on the Richter scale in the last 10 years. Research into earthquakes in the United Kingdom is carried out by the British Geological Survey.
Childhood Leukaemia
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list by year to date, and by health authority, the number of incidences of childhood leukaemia that have been reported following the Chernobyl accident ; and what was the reported number in 1980 and 1986.
Mr. Needham : The information is not available in the precise form requested. Such data as are available are given in the table.
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Notification of leukaemia (0 to 14 years)
|1980 |1986 |1987
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Health and Social Services Boards
Eastern |5 |4 |4
Northern |4 |5 |2
Southern |1 |0 |7
Western |7 |2 |5
|-------|-------|-------
Northern Ireland total |17 |11 |18
Mulder Milk Quota
Mr. McCusker : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he hopes to redistribute to farmers in Northern Ireland the excess of the Mulder milk quota.
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Mr. Peter Bottomley : Additional milk quota of 15 million litres has been allocated to eligible Northern Ireland applicants under the terms of EC regulations 764/89 and 1033/89. There are no proposals for further allocations.
Parliamentary Questions
Mr. Fisher : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) oral and (b) written questions were asked of his Department in 1988-89.
Mr. Cope : A total of 310 oral and 1,207 written questions to date.
Mr. Fisher : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many written parliamentary questions he refused to answer in the parliamentary Session 1988-89.
Mr. Cope : Fifteen, up to and including 13 November 1989.
Mr. Fisher : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many written parliamentary questions to him in Session 1988-89 received answers that the information (a) was not available, (b) was not separately recorded, (c) was not centrally recorded, (d) was not recorded in Government statistics and (e) could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Cope : The information is as follows :
|Number
--------------------------------------------------------------
Not available |<1>76
Not separately recorded |4
Not centrally recorded |8
Not recorded in Government Statistics |0
Could only be provided at disproportionate cost |<1>48
|---
Total |106
These figures are for the 1988-89 Session up to 13 November
1989.
<1> 30 questions were not available and could only be
provided at disproportionate cost, and these are counted in
both figures.
Mr. Fisher : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the cost to his Department of answering parliamentary (a) oral and (b) written questions in the parliamentary Session 1988-89.
Mr. Cope : This information is not available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Statistics
Mr. Fisher : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether his Department has discontinued (a) the collection or (b) the publication of any statistics since 1979.
Mr. Cope : A number of published statistical series have been discontinued since 1979. I will write to the hon. Member with details.
AIDS
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people have died from AIDS in the Province in the last three years.
Mr. Needham : Over the past three years seven people in the Province are known to have died from causes associated with AIDS.
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Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the number of people suffering from AIDS in the Province at the latest available date.
Mr. Needham : At 10 November 1989 a total of 14 people in the Province had been diagnosed as having AIDS.
Tobacco Industry
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the number of employed persons in the tobacco industry in the Province (a) at the latest date and (b) five years ago.
Mr. Needham : I will write to the hon. Member.
Brewing Industry
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the number of people employed in the brewing industry in the Province (a) at the latest date and (b) five years ago.
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Mr. Needham : I will write to the hon. Member.
Local Enterprise Development Unit
Mr. Mallon : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the total amount of financial aid offered by LEDU to companies in each district council area in Northern Ireland in each of the five years since the unit was formed.
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