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Al Yamamah Contract

Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what sums his Department has paid to British Aerospace and other United Kingdom defence contractors to make up the deficit in the Al Yamamah contract as a result of the reduction in the price of Saudi Arabian oil.

Mr. Alan Clark : None.

Ambulance Duty

Mr. Amess : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether any additional payments are to be made to service personnel engaged on ambulance duty over the Christmas and new year period.

Mr. Archie Hamilton : It has been decided that additional welfare benefits will be made available for those service personnel deployed on ambulance duties who are on duty or confined to barracks on Christmas day, Boxing day or new year's day. Welfare funds will be specially supplemented by £15 per head to allow units to provide extra Christmas and new year fare and entertainment. These are not cash payments to individuals, as emergency duties are something that have to be accepted in service life, but an enhancement of welfare funds to enable some


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additional comfort to be provided. In addition, each person will be allowed two extra free private telephone calls, and where service personnel are required to split their leave and make two journeys home, the cost of the second will be met.

Atomic Weapons Establishment

Mr. O'Neill : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether companies that are either partially or fully foreign owned will be allowed to bid for the management contract for the atomic weapons establishment.

Mr. Neubert [holding answer 11 December 1989] : Bids will be invited for the management contract at AWE from United Kingdom-based prime contractors who are also able to satisfy United Kingdom national security requirements.

Mr. O'Neill : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the total amount of overtime that has been paid out at the atomic weapons establishment sites at (a) Aldermaston, (b) Burghfield, (c) Cardiff and (d) Foulness in each year for the last 10 years.

Mr. Neubert [holding answer 18 December 1989] : The total amount of overtime paid out at the AWE sites during 1987-88 was :


AWE sites   |£ million          

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Aldermaston |6.5                

Burghfield  |0.8                

Cardiff     |0.6                

Foulness    |0.5                

Figures for previous years on the same basis are not readily available.

Mr. O'Neill : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the budget for the compliance director at the atomic weapons establishment will be the responsibility of the chief executive of that establishment.

Mr. Neubert [holding answer 18 December 1989] : Financial arrangements for the compliance office will ensure its independence from the contractor.

Mr. O'Neill : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether the safety division of the atomic weapons establishment will be retained after the introduction of private contractors at the atomic weapons establishment.

Mr. Neubert [holding answer 18 December 1989] : I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 11 December at column 528.

EDUCATION AND SCIENCE

Accountancy Firms

Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether the accountancy firm advising the Government on the student loan scheme has at any time since June 1979 been (a) criticised by Department of Trade and Industry inspectors or (b) criticised by any disciplinary committee of the accountancy profession for lacking in professional conduct, efficiency or competence.


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Mr. Jackson : The accountancy firm advising the CLSB and, subsequently, the Student Loans Company Limited was criticised by the Department of Trade and Industry inspectors in 1982 and 1983 and under the profession's disciplinary scheme in 1983. The accountancy firm advising the Government has not been criticised by Department of Trade and Industry inspectors ; a predecessor firm to the one advising the Government was criticised in 1983 under the accountancy profession's joint disciplinary scheme.

Special Educational Needs

Mr. Thurnham : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many children with special educational needs are currently at schools (a) in the north-west and (b) in the Bolton education authority area ; and what is the cost to the authority of providing the special education which they need.

Mr. Alan Howarth : The number of pupils with special educational needs in maintained schools in (a) the north-west and (b) Bolton in January 1989 were as follows :


                                  |North-West|Bolton               

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 (i) Pupils in maintained special                                  

     schools                      |15,209    |464                  

(ii) Pupils with statements of                                     

     special educational needs in                                  

     maintained ordinary schools  |6,375     |124                  

Information on the cost of special education which relates directly to the above figures is not available centrally.

Korean Language Departments

Mr. Neil Thorne : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many British universities have Korean language departments ; which they are ; and how many (a) first degree and (b) postgraduates they produced in 1988 ;

(2) how many British universities teach Korean subjects ; which universities they are ; and what are the subjects they teach.

Mr. Jackson : Several institutions offer oriental language and area studies, although none has a separate Korean department. The School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) offers Korean as half of a joint first degree and, like the university of Sheffield, offers Korean at post-graduate level and as a subsidiary subject in a first degree. Centrally available figures are not sufficiently disaggregated to show the number of such first or post-graduate degrees awarded.

Accountancy

Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proportion of Britain's university and polytechnic graduates make a career in accountancy.

Mr. Jackson : The 1988 survey of first destinations of graduates shows that 52,936 new first degree graduates of United Kingdom universities and polytechnics in England and Wales were recorded as entering United Kingdom


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employment. Of these, 4,836 or 9 per cent. went into accountancy. Separate information from the 1987 labour force survey shows that 18 per cent. of all graduates employed in Great Britain were working in industry division "Banking, finance and insurance" which, includes accountancy.

Incentive Allowances

Mr. Cartwright : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many teachers are employed by each local authority in England ; how many teachers are in receipt of an incentive allowance for each local authority in England ; what percentage this is of the total employed by each local authority ; and how many teachers in receipt of an incentive allowance in each local authority in England hold allowances that are (a) incentive A, (b) incentive B, (c) incentive C, (d) incentive D and (e) incentive E.

Mrs. Rumbold : No information is at present available about the number of teachers with incentive allowances in September 1989. The Government's present plans assume the award of 174,600 allowances to teachers in ordinary schools in September 1989. Of these 38 per cent. (66,000) are A allowances, 30 per cent. (52,900) Bs, 11.5 per cent. (20,000) Cs, 15 per cent. (26,000) Ds and 5.5 per cent. (9,500) Es. If allowances were awarded in line with the Government's assumptions some 40 per cent. of primary and over 55 per cent. of secondary teachers paid on the main scale in England and Wales will have been in receipt of an allowance this September. Information from various sources suggests that the number awarded in previous years has been broadly in line with the Government's assumptions.

Student Loans

Mr. Hanley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his written answer of 22 November, Official Report, column 5, whether he now proposes to guarantee the obligations of the Student Loans Company Limited as described in the departmental minute laid before the House on that date.

Mr. John MacGregor : A departmental minute was laid before the House on 22 November, describing the contingent liability which would arise if I were to guarantee the obligations of the Student Loans Company Limited under an agreement to lease and a lease on premises in Glasgow. That minute has now been before the House for 14 sitting days. Right hon. and hon. Members expressed an objection to the minute, in early-day motion 55, dated 23 November. The hon. Member for Blackburn has explained the nature of that objection during debates in Standing Committee B. I have considered his arguments. I am now satisfied that it is right in principle to seek to locate the Student Loans Company Limited in Glasgow, on the assumption that a suitable lease can be negotiated. If, therefore, I am asked by a landlord to guarantee the obligations of Student Loans Company Limited under an agreement to lease and a lease, and if I am satisfied that it would be appropriate to do so, I shall give such a guarantee.


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Capital Expenditure

Mr. Baldry : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on capital expenditure on schools and further education establishments in 1990-91, including the voluntary aided sector.

Mr. MacGregor : Local education authorities have today been informed of their annual capital guidelines for 1990-91, and of the allocations for capital spending by the governors of voluntary-aided and special agreement schools in their areas. These figures amount to a big increase in local authorities' borrowing power for education capital expenditure and in grant for the governors of voluntary aided schools.

Annual capital guidelines (ACGs) for education under the new system of local authority finance will total £485 million compared with allocations of £352 million in 1989-90 under the old system ; £410 million is available for schools, £65 million for further and higher education and £10 million for other educational services. In 1988-89 allocations for schools totalled £318 million and those for colleges totalled £34 million while allocations for other educational services were included on the larger "other services" block distributed by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment. Within the schools sector I have given priority to new projects designed to :

provide new school places in areas of population growth implement cost- effective schemes to remove surplus places and continue remedying deficiencies in existing school buildings. I have therefore distributed £76.5 million to allow more new projects to be added to the special programme of school improvements started two years ago. This represents a four and a half times increase over the sum so distributed last year.

Within the further and higher education sector I have given priority to new major building projects, where the ACGs allow for nearly 90 per cent. of local authorities' requirements. Allocations for minor works and for equipment each exceed £6 million. The ACGs are not grants and do not themselves give authorities the power to borrow money for capital purposes. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment will issue credit approvals to each authority which will give authorisation to borrow. ACGs include a small element in respect of spending from capital receipts on top of the spending that can be financed by borrowing. In addition authorities will be able to spend further sums from capital receipts and from their revenue budgets if they so choose. Local authority expenditure, including that on loan charges resulting from capital expenditure, is assisted by central Government through revenue support grant.

I am also announcing increased allocations for spending on building projects by the governors of aided and special agreement schools. I have authorised 59 new starts for major projects with first year costs in 1990- 91 totalling £12.9 million, and minor work totalling £5.4 million, an increase in new work overall of 17 per cent. on last year. In addition, I have accepted more than twice as many projects as last year on to the design list to enable detailed costed plans to be drawn up. I pay direct grant aid on this work of 85 per cent.


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Lists of annual capital guidelines and allocations to individual local authorities, together with lists of major new projects at voluntary aided schools accepted for a start in 1990-91, are as follows :


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Local Education Authority                                                       |£000s                                                                          |£000s                                                                                                                                                          

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Barking and Dagenham                                                            |485                                                                            |1,940                                                                                                                                                          

Barnet                                                                          |888                                                                            |912                                                                                                                                                            

Bexley                                                                          |1,242                                                                          |437                                                                                                                                                            

Brent                                                                           |687                                                                            |394                                                                                                                                                            

Bromley                                                                         |1,684                                                                          |80                                                                                                                                                             

Croydon                                                                         |1,061                                                                          |1,066                                                                                                                                                          

Ealing                                                                          |889                                                                            |93                                                                                                                                                             

Enfield                                                                         |1,315                                                                          |344                                                                                                                                                            

Haringey                                                                        |1,132                                                                          |2,336                                                                                                                                                          

Harrow                                                                          |1,073                                                                          |0                                                                                                                                                              

Havering                                                                        |5,881                                                                          |357                                                                                                                                                            

Hillingdon                                                                      |1,140                                                                          |232                                                                                                                                                            

Hounslow                                                                        |539                                                                            |0                                                                                                                                                              

Kingston upon Thames                                                            |268                                                                            |26                                                                                                                                                             

Merton                                                                          |3,608                                                                          |449                                                                                                                                                            

Newham                                                                          |5,572                                                                          |0                                                                                                                                                              

Redbridge                                                                       |1,577                                                                          |314                                                                                                                                                            

Richmond Upon Thames                                                            |1,390                                                                          |505                                                                                                                                                            

Sutton                                                                          |2,974                                                                          |612                                                                                                                                                            

Waltham Forest                                                                  |6,661                                                                          |0                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

City of London                                                                  |0                                                                              |0                                                                                                                                                              

Camden                                                                          |1,421                                                                          |1,097                                                                                                                                                          

Westminster                                                                     |380                                                                            |110                                                                                                                                                            

Greenwich                                                                       |3,849                                                                          |0                                                                                                                                                              

Hackney                                                                         |2,605                                                                          |71                                                                                                                                                             

Hammersmith and Fulham                                                          |1,047                                                                          |452                                                                                                                                                            

Islington                                                                       |1,079                                                                          |38                                                                                                                                                             

Kensington and Chelsea                                                          |2,145                                                                          |4,775                                                                                                                                                          

Lambeth                                                                         |1,480                                                                          |411                                                                                                                                                            

Lewisham                                                                        |1,232                                                                          |52                                                                                                                                                             

Southwark                                                                       |5,429                                                                          |1,186                                                                                                                                                          

Wandsworth                                                                      |1,677                                                                          |26                                                                                                                                                             

Tower Hamlets                                                                   |7,778                                                                          |632                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Birmingham                                                                      |10,494                                                                         |1,172                                                                                                                                                          

Coventry                                                                        |1,962                                                                          |453                                                                                                                                                            

Dudley                                                                          |3,608                                                                          |632                                                                                                                                                            

Sandwell                                                                        |1,647                                                                          |176                                                                                                                                                            

Solihull                                                                        |1,511                                                                          |1,191                                                                                                                                                          

Walsall                                                                         |1,369                                                                          |50                                                                                                                                                             

Wolverhampton                                                                   |783                                                                            |0                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Knowsley                                                                        |2,080                                                                          |169                                                                                                                                                            

Liverpool                                                                       |9,742                                                                          |4,487                                                                                                                                                          

St. Helens                                                                      |5,066                                                                          |128                                                                                                                                                            

Sefton                                                                          |4,176                                                                          |1,527                                                                                                                                                          

Wirral                                                                          |3,354                                                                          |304                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Bolton                                                                          |802                                                                            |137                                                                                                                                                            

Bury                                                                            |815                                                                            |641                                                                                                                                                            

Manchester                                                                      |3,062                                                                          |744                                                                                                                                                            

Oldham                                                                          |3,429                                                                          |184                                                                                                                                                            

Rochdale                                                                        |4,078                                                                          |669                                                                                                                                                            

Salford                                                                         |3,899                                                                          |327                                                                                                                                                            

Stockport                                                                       |1,300                                                                          |472                                                                                                                                                            

Tameside                                                                        |1,410                                                                          |20                                                                                                                                                             

Trafford                                                                        |9,448                                                                          |292                                                                                                                                                            

Wigan                                                                           |4,378                                                                          |699                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Barnsley                                                                        |1,883                                                                          |0                                                                                                                                                              

Donaster                                                                        |860                                                                            |215                                                                                                                                                            

Rotherham                                                                       |1,589                                                                          |0                                                                                                                                                              

Sheffield                                                                       |2,428                                                                          |120                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Bradford                                                                        |9,731                                                                          |1,150                                                                                                                                                          

Calderdale                                                                      |1,514                                                                          |204                                                                                                                                                            

Kirklees                                                                        |1,216                                                                          |144                                                                                                                                                            

Leeds                                                                           |2,562                                                                          |7,107                                                                                                                                                          

Wakefield                                                                       |5,394                                                                          |145                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Gateshead                                                                       |1,082                                                                          |57                                                                                                                                                             

Newcastle upon Tyne                                                             |1,564                                                                          |597                                                                                                                                                            

North Tyneside                                                                  |1,265                                                                          |835                                                                                                                                                            

South Tyneside                                                                  |1,894                                                                          |51                                                                                                                                                             

Sunderland                                                                      |1,883                                                                          |6                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Isles of Scilly                                                                 |221                                                                            |0                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Avon                                                                            |5,653                                                                          |2,311                                                                                                                                                          

Bedfordshire                                                                    |2,409                                                                          |15                                                                                                                                                             

Berkshire                                                                       |4,500                                                                          |438                                                                                                                                                            

Buckinghamshire                                                                 |4,544                                                                          |763                                                                                                                                                            

Cambridgeshire                                                                  |13,229                                                                         |58                                                                                                                                                             

Cheshire                                                                        |5,814                                                                          |1,736                                                                                                                                                          

Cleveland                                                                       |3,329                                                                          |0                                                                                                                                                              

Cornwall                                                                        |6,522                                                                          |1,201                                                                                                                                                          

Cumbria                                                                         |7,930                                                                          |654                                                                                                                                                            

Derbyshire                                                                      |14,653                                                                         |1,132                                                                                                                                                          

Devon                                                                           |12,984                                                                         |465                                                                                                                                                            

Dorset                                                                          |3,853                                                                          |4,847                                                                                                                                                          

Durham                                                                          |4,924                                                                          |277                                                                                                                                                            

East Sussex                                                                     |8,613                                                                          |1,725                                                                                                                                                          

Essex                                                                           |13,895                                                                         |529                                                                                                                                                            

Gloucestershire                                                                 |7,917                                                                          |923                                                                                                                                                            

Hampshire                                                                       |13,325                                                                         |3,664                                                                                                                                                          

Hereford and Worcester                                                          |6,248                                                                          |1,081                                                                                                                                                          

Hertfordshire                                                                   |6,526                                                                          |202                                                                                                                                                            

Humberside                                                                      |9,004                                                                          |508                                                                                                                                                            

Isle of Wight                                                                   |1,912                                                                          |87                                                                                                                                                             

Kent                                                                            |16,210                                                                         |2,756                                                                                                                                                          

Lancashire                                                                      |18,524                                                                         |4,970                                                                                                                                                          

Leicestershire                                                                  |11,154                                                                         |459                                                                                                                                                            

Lincolnshire                                                                    |7,387                                                                          |125                                                                                                                                                            

Norfolk                                                                         |2,880                                                                          |184                                                                                                                                                            

North Yorkshire                                                                 |4,105                                                                          |69                                                                                                                                                             

Northamptonshire                                                                |6,182                                                                          |0                                                                                                                                                              

Northumberland                                                                  |1,961                                                                          |194                                                                                                                                                            

Nottinghamshire                                                                 |3,716                                                                          |1,036                                                                                                                                                          

Oxfordshire                                                                     |3,751                                                                          |1,920                                                                                                                                                          

Shropshire                                                                      |6,319                                                                          |120                                                                                                                                                            

Somerset                                                                        |4,837                                                                          |1,562                                                                                                                                                          

Staffordshire                                                                   |6,375                                                                          |1,068                                                                                                                                                          

Suffolk                                                                         |7,921                                                                          |256                                                                                                                                                            

Surrey                                                                          |3,718                                                                          |819                                                                                                                                                            

Warwickshire                                                                    |1,507                                                                          |1,097                                                                                                                                                          

West Sussex                                                                     |3,633                                                                          |2,527                                                                                                                                                          

Wiltshire                                                                       |6,256                                                                          |767                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Voluntary aided and special agreement schools 1990-91. Major named projects

LEA and schools

Camden

St. Mary's, Kilburn

Hammersmith and Fulham

Sacred Heart

Kensington and Chelsea

Sion Manning Roman Catholic

Barnet

St. Agnes Roman Catholic Primary

Bromley

Chislehurst

Enfield

St. Georges Church of England, Freezywater

Merton

St. John Fisher Roman Catholic Primary

Richmond upon Thames

Holy Trinity

Coventry

Blue Coat School Church of England

Knowsley

St. John Fisher Roman Catholic

St. Aidan's Roman Catholic Primary, Huyton

Liverpool

St. John Almond

Sefton


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Much Woolton Roman Catholic Primary

Salesian (Savio) Phase IV

St. Luke's Roman Catholic Halsall

St. John Stone/Ainsdale Roman Catholic

Doncaster

Hatfield Travis Church of England

Salford

St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary

Stockport

St. Peter's Roman Catholic Primary

Wigan

Tyldesley Boothtown Holy Family Roman Catholic Primary Sunderland

St. Michael's Primary

Bradford

Baildon Church of England

Leeds

Christ the King Roman Catholic

Holy Family Roman Catholic

St. Francis Roman Catholic

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic

Holy Name Roman Catholic

Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic

Avon

St. Stephen's Church of England Primary

Berkshire

English Martyrs Roman Catholic, Reading

Buckinghamshire

St. Paul's Roman Catholic Secondary

Cheshire

Westbrook Church of England

Marton Whitegate Church of England Primary

Prestbury Church of England Primary

Cumbria

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary, Barrow

Devon

Cuthbert Mayne Phase II

Dorset

St. Clement and St. John Church of England

Essex

Bishop Wilson (New School) Springfield

Dovercourt All Saints Church of England

Gloucestershire

St. Mary Roman Catholic, Gloucester

Ann Cam Church of England Primary, Dymock

Hampshire

Hedge End Roman Catholic Primary (New School)

St. Anne's Roman Catholic Primary

Hereford and Worcester

Blessed Edward Oldcorne St. Paul's Church of England Primary, Hereford

Hertfordshire

St. Clement Danes, Chorley Wood

Kent

St. George's, Sheerness

Ashford St. Mary's Phase II

Lancashire

St. Helens Church of England Primary, Overton

St. Albans Roman Catholic, Blackburn

Christ Church Church of England, Lancaster

St. John's, Church of England Primary, Nelson

Nottinghamshire

St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Primary, Mansfield

Oxfordshire

Blessed George Napier Roman Catholic

Somerset

New Church of England School

St. Augustine's of Canterbury, Taunton

Staffordshire

St. Thomas' Church of England Primary

St. Peter's Roman Catholic, Cobridge

Suffolk

St. James Church of England Middle

VOLUNTARILY AIDED AND SPECIAL AGREEMENT SCHOOLS DESIGN LIST 1990-91 LEA and Schools Bexley

St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Primary

Bolton


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