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Mr. Cope : It is not the practice to divulge the content of discussions within Government, but the hon. Member will note that by that date Mr. Sampson had been appointed to head the Northern Ireland inquiry.
Housing
Mr. A. Cecil Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what were (i) the number and type of houses, (ii) the date of contract, (iii) the contract price and (iv) the final cost of Northern Ireland Housing Executive schemes (a) phase 6 RDA 1 project 2610263, (b) phase 1 RDA 89 project 2610376, and (c) phase 3 RDA 89 project 2610430.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : This is a matter for the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. We have been advised by the chief executive that project Nos. 2710376 and 2610430 relate to phases 1 and 3 in RDA 87 not RDA 89. On this basis the information requested is as follows : (a) Project 2610263 RDA 1 Phase 6 : (i) 56 dwellings comprising five 3-person bungalows, eight 3-person houses, ten 3-person flats, twenty-four 5-person houses and nine 7 -person houses ; (ii) 9 February 1987 ; (iii) £1,314,551.51 ; (iv) not yet available but anticipated to be £1,349,298.
(b) Project 2610376 RDA 87 Phase 1 : (i) 60 dwellings comprising five 3- person bungalows, fifteen 3-person houses, ten 3-person flats, fifteen 4- person houses, eight 5-person houses, six 6-person houses and one 7-person house ; (ii) 18 March 1985 ; (iii) £1,442,279 (Fluctuating Price Contract) ; (iv) not yet available but anticipated to be £1,742,754.
(c) Project 2610430 RDA 87 Phase 3 : (i) 41 dwellings comprising one 3- person bungalow, nine 3-person houses, fourteen 3-person flats, ten 4- person houses, and seven 5-person houses ; (ii) 26 May 1987 ; (iii) £1,028,050 ; (iv) not yet available but anticipated to be £1, 150,000.
Civil Servants
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information he has on the number of civil servants in Northern Ireland who (a) have made applications for and (b) are in receipt of (i) family credit and (ii) housing benefit.
Mr. Needham : I regret that no such information is available.
Income Support
Mr. Hume : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what figures are available to indicate what the overall cost in Northern Ireland would be of increasing the rate of income support for all single people under 25 years to the same rate as for those over 25 years.
Mr. Needham : The estimated weekly cost would be £265,000.
Mr. Hume : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what figures are available to indicate what the overall cost in Northern Ireland would be of extending entitlement to full income support to all those under 18 years of age in receipt of bridging allowance and special hardship allowance in Northern Ireland.
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Mr. Needham : The estimated weekly cost for those getting bridging allowance would be an extra £1,500. Young people entitled on severe hardship grounds already receive the full rate of income support.
Students (Benefits)
Mr. Hume : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what information is available to indicate the number and cost of student claims for housing benefit, unemployment benefit and income support/supplementary benefit in the past five years.
Mr. Needham : The information is available only for income support, and is as follows :
Summer vacation (1989) Number of |Amount paid claims |£ million ------------------------------------ 12,720 |2.15 Note:-Excludes claims from lone parent and disabled students. Source: 20 per cent. sample.
Life Sentences
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many prisoners in Northern Ireland prisons are serving a life sentence for (a) murder and (b) other crimes ; and of these how many are admitted members of (1) the Ulster Defence Association, (2) the Ulster Freedom Fighters, (3) the Ulster Volunteer Force, (4) the Red Hand Commando, (5) other Protestant paramilitary groups, (6) the Official Irish Republican Army, (7) the Provisional Irish Republican Army, (8) the Irish National Liberation Army, (9) other Roman Catholic paramilitary groups and (10) none of these, or as much of such information as is available to him.
Mr. Cope : A total of 379 prisoners are serving life sentences in Northern Ireland ; of these, 350 were convicted for murder and 29 for other very serious crimes. It is not possible to list the current paramilitary affiliation of these prisoners but at the time of conviction it was as follows :
|Numbers
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UDA |64
UFF |5
UVF |107
RHC |1
Other Loyalist |14
OIRA |Nil
PIRA |136
INLA |15
Other Republican |Nil
None |37
Mr. Corbyn : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the total number of life sentences received for crimes committed in Northern Ireland since 1974 ; and what was the average length of imprisonment served.
Mr. Cope [holding answer 20 February 1990] : The information is not available in the form requested. However, between 1974 and 1989, a total of 467 individuals were sentenced to life imprisonment (which were not subsequently quashed on appeal) by the courts in
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Northern Ireland. Of these, 63 had been released on licence at 31 December 1989 after serving an average of 13 years and eight months in prison.Republic of Ireland (Extradition)
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a table in the Official Report to show by organisation and date the number of persons who have been members of a proscribed organisation and have been extradited from the Irish Republic in each year since 1968, or as much of such information as is available to him.
Mr. Cope : Statistical material about extradition from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland has been collected by the RUC since 1971. The information is not available precisely in the form requested : records differentiate only between terrorist and non-terrorist cases. The information available is summarised in the table :
Persons extradited Year of |Terrorist |Non-terrorist return |offences |offences -------------------------------------------------------- 1971 |- |7 1972 |- |- 1973 |- |3 1974 |- |9 1975 |- |1 1976 |- |7 1977 |1 |8 1978 |- |15 1979 |- |8 1980 |- |12 1981 |- |5 1982 |- |18 1983 |- |10 1984 |2 |1 1985 |- |5 1986 |- |- 1987 |1 |- 1988 |2 |1 1989 |1 |-
DHSS Offices
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is his estimate of the number of (a) Roman Catholic and (b) Protestants in each of the following grades (i) administrative assistants, (ii) administrative officers, (iii) executive officers grade 2,(iv) executive officers grade 1, (v) staff officers in each of the following Department of Health and Social Services offices : (1) Strabane, (2) Omagh, (3) Londonderry,(4) Lisnakelly, (5) Limavady, (6) Coleraine and(7) Magherafelt.
Mr. Cope [holding answer 13 February 1990] : The Northern Ireland Civil Service has an equal opportunities monitoring system which contains information on the sex, religious affiliation and disability of its staff. Disclosure of information on the religious affiliation of Northern Ireland Civil Service staff is governed by a code of practice which stipulates that no statistical summaries will be produced which fall outside the categories of analyses agreed with the equal opportunities Whitley committee.
The most recent agreed analyses were published in October 1989 in the third report of the Northern Ireland Civil Service equal opportunities unit ; a copy of that report was placed in the Library.
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Terrorist Offences
Rev. Martin Smyth : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people charged with terrorist-type offences were employed in Government offices and in the SPED dwellings department of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
Mr. Cope [holding answer 14 February 1990] : I am not aware of anyone employed in Government offices being charged with terrorist-type offences. Under both the Northern Ireland and Home Civil Service codes, a civil servant is required to report to his Department if he is arrested and refused bail or if he is convicted. He is not required to report that he has been charged.
I am advised by the chief executive of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive that no person employed in the Executive's SPED department has been charged with terrorist-type offences.
Fishermen (Financial Aid)
Mr. McGrady : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what financial aid package will be provided by the Government to the fishermen on the County Down coast as a consequence of the inclement weather combined with the effect of the social security regulations introduced on 10 December 1989.
Mr. Needham [holding answer 19 February 1990] : Social security legislation provides for the payment of unemployment benefit in respect of weeks throughout which fishermen are unable to work because of inclement weather. Where fishermen are able to work only on certain days of a week, unemployment benefit is payable for the remaining days provided that the earnings for that week do not equal or exceed the lower earnings level for national insurance contribution liability. This is currently £43 a week. Income support may also be available to fishermen who work for less than 24 hours a week subject to the normal rules regarding income and capital. While I would sympathise with the difficulties caused by the recent adverse weather the Government have no plans to introduce special assistance for fishermen on the County Down coast.
Housing
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many dwellings or percentages of dwellings in Northern Ireland are at present (1) owned outright by the occupant, (2) have owners with a mortgage, (3) are rented from a private owner, (4) are rented from a public body and (5) other types of tenure ; and what were the percentages five, 10 and 15 years ago.
Mr. Peter Bottomley [holding answer 20 February 1990] : The information is not available in the form required. Details of housing stock by tenure are given in tables 2.2A and 2.2C of "Housing Statistics 88" published by the Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland). Copies of this publication are available in the Library.
The figures are given in the table for 1988, 1983 and 1978.
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Percentage of dwellings by tenure
|1988|1983|1978
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Owner Occupied |62 |57 |51
Rented from Northern Ireland Housing
Executive |33 |36 |39
Rented from Registered Housing
Association |1 |1 |-
Private rented and other |4 |6 |10
Figures available from the Northern Ireland continuous household survey published in the "Northern Ireland Annual Abstract of Statistics No. 7" which is available in the Library show 30 per cent. of dwellings were owned outright in 1987 compared with 32 per cent. in 1983.
Supplies and Services Boycott
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) if he will list in the Official Report those firms which have made it known by advertisement or statement in the press that they will not provide material to any firm which carries out work for the security forces in Northern Ireland and the date on which such advertisements or statements were published or as much of such information as is available to him.
(2) if he will list in the Official Report those firms which have made it known by advertisement or statement in the press that they will not carry out work for the security forces in Northern Ireland and the date on which such advertisements or statements were published or as much of such information as is available to him.
Mr. Cope [holding answer 20 February 1990] : No.
Constituency Boundaries
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the boundary commission for Northern Ireland intends to conduct any interim reviews of the Northern Ireland parliamentary constituencies ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Cope [holding answer 20 February 1990] : I understand that the commission has not yet decided its future programme of work.
NATIONAL FINANCE
Government Departments (Accounts)
Mr. Neil Hamilton : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Howell), of 22 January, Official Report, column 540 , when the format of commercial-style accounts produced by certain Government Departments will comply with the requirements of the Companies Acts.
Mr. Ryder : Government Departments which produce commercial-style accounts are as a general rule directed to meet the accounting and disclosure requirements set out in the Companies Acts, except where it would be impracticable to do so--for example, the disclosure of called-up share capital which has no counterpart in the central Government sector.
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Channel Tunnel
Mr. Charles Wardle : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what arrangements will be made for customs checks on the passengers using the Channel tunnel.
Mr. Ryder : Customs' overall approach has been to devise arrangements which best suit the different types of train while observing the need for economy in the use of public sector staff. There will be three types of passenger train using the tunnel : (
(a) shuttle services carrying private cars, coaches and ro-ro vehicles between Coquelles and Cheriton. For these, customs checks will be done at Coquelles before vehicles join the train, allowing them a free exit on arrival in the United Kingdom ;
(b) through trains bound for points beyond London. In accordance with the Channel Tunnel Act, Customs are planning for all checks to be performed on the train during the journey, subject to the operators providing satisfactory facilities and to the payment of any fees or charges that may be imposed ;
(c) capital-to-capital services terminating at Waterloo. Customs checks will be done at Waterloo station using the familiar airport-style red/green system.
Customs checks are highly selective in green channel systems, and only a very small percentage of passengers on the trains bound for Waterloo will experience any delay in their journey.
PRIME MINISTER
AIDS
Mr. Alfred Morris : To ask the Prime Minister if, pursuant to her reply to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe, on 18 January, Official Report, column 382, she will state the proportion of people with AIDS who are eligible for payments from the Macfarlane trust ; and if she will make a further statement.
The Prime Minister : At 31 December 1989, approximately 6 per cent. of people in the United Kingdom reported to have AIDS were haemophiliacs who may qualify for payments from the Macfarlane trust. The trust was set up with an ex-gratia payment from the Government in recognition of the wholly exceptional circumstances of people with haemophilia and HIV.
ENERGY
Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what will be the non-fossil levy on electricity prices to (a) industrial and (b) domestic consumers.
Mr. Baldry : The fossil fuel levy will be charged to licensed electricity suppliers as a percentage of their total leviable electricity sales revenue. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced on 12 February that the rate for 1990-91 would be 10.6 per cent.
Nuclear Fuels (Disposal)
Mr. Malcolm Bruce : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what studies his Department has carried out to compare the costs of dry storage with the costs of reprocessing and ultimate disposal of spent fuel from (a)
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Magnox, (b) advanced gas-cooled reactors and (c) pressurised water reactors and nuclear power stations ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Baldry : My Department has carried out no such studies. However, in May 1988, my right hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley), the then Secretary of State for the Environment, deposited in the Library of the House studies by the generating boards and by Ove Arup and Partners into the storage and disposal of spent Magnox fuel. The decision to reprocess spent fuel is taken by the owners of the fuel on safety, technical and economic grounds.
Liquid Petroleum Gas Tanks
Mr. Livsey : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if the Government have any plans to give grant aid for the removal of liquid petroleum gas tanks.
Public Relations
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy whether under its contract to provide public relations and marketing advice to his Department, Lowe Bell has direct dealings with the news media.
Mr. Wakeham : Contact with the news media is an integral part of the marketing of the forthcoming offers for sale in the privatisation of the electricity supply industry in England and Wales. Lowe Bell Communications will, if required, be in contact with the news media in its role as special marketing and public relations adviser to my Department.
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy whether, under its contract to provide public relations and marketing advice to his Department and the electricity supply industry, Dewe Rogerson has direct dealings with the news media.
Mr. Wakeham : Contact with the news media is an integral part of the marketing of the forthcoming offers for sale in the privatisation of the electricity supply industry in England and Wales. Dewe Rogerson will be in contact with the news media in its role as joint marketing and public relations adviser to my Department and the electricity industry.
Renewable Energy
Mr. Malcolm Bruce : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what information he has on the percentage of the energy research budget in each of the OECD countries that is devoted to the development and application of renewable energy techniques.
Mr. Wakeham : No figures are available for private sector expenditure on renewable energy in OECD countries. Statistics on Government expenditure on energy R and D are collected for member countries by the International Energy Agency. The percentages requested for such countries, given in the 1988 IEA review, are as follows :
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Percentage of Energy R and D Budget ( which in some cases includes expenditure on Nuclear R and D) committed to Renewable Energy Research and Development (1988) Country |Percentage ------------------------------------- Austria |16.63 Belgium |4.09 Canada |4.23 Germany |17.61 Greece |61.46 Italy |6.51 Japan |5.95 Netherlands |13.39 Norway |6.95 Portugal |26.07 Spain |33.71 Sweden |21.06 Switzerland |14.19 United Kingdom |5.40 United States |6.08
The United Kingdom percentage is rising and, in 1989, was about 6.5 per cent. Care must be exercised in using such international statistics since countries differ in their definitions. The figures are also influenced by the extent to which countries have nuclear programmes which, of their nature, involve large expenditure.
Nuclear Power
Mr. Malcolm Bruce : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what was the total output of British nuclear power plants as a percentage of total power generation for each month in 1989.
Mr. Baldry : The total output of electricity generated by nuclear power plants as a percentage of total generation in the United Kingdom public electricity supply industry for each month in 1989 was :
|Percentage
---------------------------------
January |24.4
February |22.5
March |21.9
April |21.9
May |27.4
June |26.5
July |23.8
August |23.9
September |24.8
October |21.1
November |19.4
December |<1>19.1
<1> Provisional.
Source: Energy Trends, Table 15.
Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors
Mr. Malcolm Bruce : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what were the load factors for the advanced gas-cooled reactors at (a) Hartlepool, (b) Heysham and (c) Dungeness, for each of the last 12 months ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Baldry : This is an operational matter for the CEGB.
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SCOTLAND
Scottish Development Agency
Mr. Allan Stewart : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list any projects in the Eastwood constituency which have received more than £100,000 in assistance from the Scottish Development Agency in the last five years.
Mr. Lang : No projects in the Eastwood constituency have received over £100,000 in assistance from the Scottish Development Agency in the last five years. However, in the period 1 April 1984 to 31 March 1989, agency expenditure in Eastwood has amounted to £457,000.
Non-domestic Rates
Mr. Allan Stewart : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what assessment he has made of the potential economic consequences of the removal of the present limitations on increases in non-domestic rates ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The fact that the increases in non- domestic rates in Scotland have been held to inflation during the current year has already benefited industry and commerce. They will benefit further next year by my right hon. and learned Friend's decision to reduce
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poundages by 6.25 per cent. below indexation as the first step towards a common business rate with England. The Labour party's proposal to return to local authorities freedom to set rate poundages would on the basis of experience inflict a significantly higher rate burden on Scottish business than borne by its competitors south of the border and would consequently damage Scotland's economic prospects. It would also remove any prospect of harmonisation of business rates in Great Britain, a prospect which has been welcomed both by the business community and the general public in Scotland.Rating Reform
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will list all the orders made under the Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Act 1987, including any subsequently revoked ; (2) if he will list all the paragraphs of orders made under the Abolition of Domestic Rates etc. (Scotland) Act 1987, including any subsequently revoked, which have been the subject of later amendment, substitution or insertion ; and if he will provide the derivation and the date of the coming into force of each alteration listed.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The information requested is as follows :
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Statutory Instrument |Statutory |Date of coming
|Instrument |into force
|number
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The Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 |1987/1489 |18 August 1987
Commencement Order 1987
The Non-Domestic Rates and Community Charges (Timetable) |1987/2167 |7 January 1988
(Scotland) Regulations 1987
The Non-Domestic Rates and Community Charges (Timetable) |1989/2436 |22 January 1990
(Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1989-these amend SI 1987/
2167 and revoke part of Schedule 2 to those regulations
The Abolition of Domestic Rates (Domestic and Part Residential |1987/2179 |8 January 1988
Subjects) (Scotland) Regulations 1987-now revoked
The Abolition of Domestic Rates (Domestic and Part Residential |1988/1477 |15 September 1988
Subjects) (Scotland) Regulations 1988-these revoke and replace
SI 1987/2179
The Housing Benefit (Social Security Act 1986 Modification) |1988/1483 |21 September 1988
(Scotland) Regulations 1988
The Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) Regulations 1988 |1988/157 |26 February 1988
-now revoked
The Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations |1988/1539 |1 October 1988
1988-these revoke and replace SI 1988/157
The Community Charges (Registration) (Scotland) (No. 2) |1988/1611 |1 October 1988
Amendment Regulations 1988-these correct mistakes in regulation
7 of and Schedule 3 to SI 1988/1539
The Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) |1988/631 |20 April 1988
Regulations 1988
The Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) |1988/1540 |1 October 1988
(Amendment) Regulations 1988-these amended regulations 2 and 3
of SI 1988/631, and are now revoked
The Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) |1989/1004 |1 July 1989
Amendment Regulations 1989-these amended regulations 3 of SI
1988/631, and are now revoked
The Standard and Collective Community Charges (Scotland) |1989/1476 |4 September 1989
Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1989-these revoke regulation 4 of
SI 1988/631
The Abolition of Domestic Rates (Domestic and Part Residential |1989/1477 |4 September 1989
Subjects) (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 1989
The Standard Community Charge (Scotland) Regulations 1989-these |1989/2437 |22 January 1990
revoke and replace regulation 3 of SI 1988/631, SI 1988/1540 and
SI 1989/1004
The Personal Community Charge (Students) (Scotland) Regulations |1988/632 |20 April 1988
1988-now revoked
The Personal Community Charge (Students) (Scotland) Regulations |1989/32 |3 February 1989
1989-these revoke and replace SI 1988/632
The Community Water Charges (Scotland) Regulations 1988 |1988/1538 |1 October 1988
The Community Water Charges (Scotland) Amendment Regulations |1989/2362 |15 January 1990
1989-these amend paragraphs 3 and 4 of SI 1988/1538
The Personal Community Charge (Exemption for the Severely |1988/1541 |1 October 1988
Mentally Impaired) (Scotland) Regulations 1988-now revoked
The Personal Community Charge (Exemptions) (Scotland) |1989/63 |9 February 1989
Regulations 1989-these revoke and replace SI 1988/1541
The Community Charges (Levying, Collection and Payment) |1988/1880 |22 November 1988
(Scotland) Regulations 1988
The Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) |1988/1889 |23 November 1988
(Scotland) Regulations 1988-these will lapse on 31 March 1990
The Community Charges (Information Concerning Social Security) |1989/476 |1 April 1990
(Scotland) Regulations 1989-these will replace SI 1988/1889 on
1 April 1990
The Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Regulations 1988 |1988/1904 |24 November 1988
The Local Government (Non-Domestic District Rates and District |1988/1963 |2 December 1988
Community Charge (Scotland) Regulations 1988
The Revenue Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1988-now revoked |1989/69 |12 January 1989
The Revenue Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1989-these revoke and |1990/130 |26 January 1990
replace SI 1989/69
Housing Benefit (Social Security Act 1986 Modifications) (Scotland) |1988/1483 |21 September 1988
Regulations 1988
The Abolition of Domestic Rates (Domestic (Domestic and Part |1989/241 |20 March 1989
Residential Subjects) (Scotland) Regulations 1989
The Community Charges (Deductions from Income Support) |1989/507 |8 April 1989
(Scotland) Regulations 1989
The Personal Community Charge (Exemption for the Severely |1989/2234 |29 December 1989
Mentally Impaired) (Scotland) Regulations 1989
The Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Regulations 1989 |1989/2462 |24 January 1990
The Revenue Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1990 |1990/131 |26 January 1990
Funerals
Sir David Steel : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what representations he has received about the 1989 Office of Fair Trading report entitled "Funerals" ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Rifkind : I have received no such representations.
Library Services
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the Government's response to the recent report on public library provision in rural Scotland ; and if he will introduce a rural public library incentive scheme to help local authorities to develop the service and meet new demands.
Mr. Lang : My officials recently met representatives of the Scottish Library Association and the Library and Information Services Committee (Scotland) for which the report was prepared. I shall consider the report's recommendation for a rural public library incentive scheme in the light of an evaluation of a comparable
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initiative in England, and other relevant factors. The report also calls for action by rural library authorities to improve services to meet the needs of rural communities.North East River Purification Board
Mr. Salmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will outline the detail of the letter his Department received from the clerk to the board of the North East river purification board, in October 1989, which intimated the board's intention to restructure its management organisation.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have nothing useful to add to the answer which I gave the hon. Member on 9 February 1990.
Acute Hospitals
Mr. Robin Cook : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the acute hospitals with fewer than 600 beds.
Mr. Rifkind : There are 149 NHS hospitals with fewer than 600 beds providing inpatient services in the acute, supra-area and special categories speciality groups. These
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are listed in the table. Fourteen hospitals which provide maternity services but no other inpatient acute services are excluded.
|Average
|available
|staffed beds
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Argyll and Clyde
Calton Hospital |33
Oban County Hospital |41
Dunoon and District General Hospital |103
Islay Hospital |27
McKelvie Hospital |17
Mid Argyll Hospital |48
Campbeltown Cottage Hospital |19
Victoria Hospital |23
West Highland Hospital |33
Vale of Leven District General Hospital |353
Victoria Infirmary Helensburgh |24
Rankin Memorial Hospital |57
Inverclyde Royal Hospital |424
Paisley Maternity Hospital |118
Ayrshire and Arran
Isle of Arran War Memorial Hospital |24
Ayrshire Central and Maternity Hospital |390
Lady Margaret Hospital |14
Ayr County Hospital |104
Heathfield Hospital |117
Seafield Sick Children's Hospital |47
Davidson Cottage Hospital |28
Ballochmyle Hospital |321
Borders
Coldstream Cottage Hospital |12
Knoll Hospital |36
Hawick Cottage Hospital |26
Kelso Cottage Hospital |20
Sister Margaret Cottage Hospital |7
Hay Lodge Hospital |50
Borders General Hospital |401
Dumfries and Galloway
Castle Douglas and District Hospital |30
Cresswell Maternity Hospital |69
Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary |405
Nithbank Hospital |77
Kirkcudbright and District Cottage Hospital |14
Moffat Cottage Hospital |18
Newton Stewart Hospital |27
Garrick Hospital |42
Dalrymple Hospital |56
Fife
Cameron Hospital |298
Forth Park Hospital |143
Hunter Hospital |27
Adamson Hospital |53
St. Andrews Memorial Hospital |37
Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital |75
Glenrothes Hospital |72
Dunfermline and West Fife Hospital |121
Milesmark Hospital |187
Dunfermline Maternity Hospital |62
Forth Valley
Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary |543
Stirling Royal Infirmary |415
Clackmannan County Hospital |23
Woodend General hospital |505
City hospital |228
Hyperbaric Centre |1
Royal Aberdeen Children's hospital |132
Arduthie hospital |21
Aboyne hospital |26
Aberdeen Maternity hospital |128
Kincardine O'Neill War Memorial hospital |9
Glen O'Dee hospital |60
Tor-na-Dee hospital |61
Roxburghe house |21
Jubilee hospital |46
Chalmers hospital |75
Dr. Gray's hospital |113
Greater Glasgow
Belvidere hospital |312
Canniesburn hospital |328
Glasgow Royal Maternity hospital |128
Ruchill hospital |217
Mearnskirk General hospital |308
Philipshill hospital |124
Royal Samaritan hospital |53
Rutherglen Maternity hospital |107
Duntocher hospital |25
Gartnavel General hospital |533
Glasgow Homeopathic hospital |20
Knightswood hospital |219
Royal Beatson Memorial hospital |6
RHSC Drumchapel |22
Royal Hospital for Sick Children |294
Queen Mother's hospital |134
Glasgow Western infirmary |590
Children's Home hospital |25
Highland
Dunbar hospital |16
Caithness General hospital |121
Lawson Memorial hospital |16
Culduthel hospital |28
Town and County hospital Nairn |26
Ian Charles hospital |14
Belford hospital |73
Mackinnon Memorial hospital |28
Portree hospital |13
Ross Memorial hospital |31
Nicolson Mackenzie hospital |15
Lanarkshire
Bellshill Maternity hospital |161
Victoria Cottage hospital |16
Monklands District General hospital |534
Kello hospital |16
Lady Home hospital |21
Lockhart hospital |30
William Smellie Maternity hospital |64
Hairmyres hospital |420
Stonehouse hospital |292
Beechmount hospital |19
Belhaven hospital |57
Eastern General hospital |350
East Fortune hospital |97
Edenhall hospital |157
Edington Cottage hospital |9
Northern General hospital |144
Roodlands General hospital |74
Western General hospital |597
Astley Ainlie hospital |257
Bruntsfield hospital |12
Chalmers hospital |80
City hospital |418
Elsie Inglis Maternity hospital |3
Liberton hospital |230
Longmore hospital |107
Princess Margaret Rose hospital |261
Royal Hospital for Sick Children |158
Simpson Memorial Maternity pavilion |161
Douglas House Annexe of RHSC |22
Bangour General hospital |453
Orkney
Balfour hospital |69
Eastbank hospital |62
Shetland
Gilbert Bain hospital |73
Tayside
Dundee Royal infirmary |311
Kings Cross hospital |194
Royal Victoria hospital |206
Dundee limb fitting centre |17
Bridge of Earn hospital |173
Perth Royal infirmary |329
St. Margarets hospital |16
Crieff cottage hospital |21
Aberfeldy cottage hospital |20
Irvine Memorial hospital |23
Blairgowrie cottage hospital |55
Meigle cottage hospital |12
Arbroath infirmary |70
Brechin infirmary |68
Forfar infirmary |65
Montrose Royal infirmary |47
Sunnyside Royal hospital |327
Stracathro hospital |312
Western Isles
Lewis hospital |85
Daliburgh hospital |21
Lochmaddy hospital |25
St. Brendan's hospital |5
Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances
Mr. Bill Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will now give details of the effects of the recently announced increases in hill livestock compensatory allowances, for eligible sheep and cattle, paid to farmers in the Highlands and Islands Development Board area.
Mr. Rifkind : I have made a scheme under the powers contained in section 4 of the Congested Districts Act 1987 which will increase the HLCA supplement on hill sheep within the HIDB area in line with those awarded in the less-favoured areas generally. The new rate of HLCA supplement will be raised to 64p. The rate for cows maintained on C grade farms within the HIDB area is increased by £1.18 to £70.36 to take account of recent devaluations in the green pound. The increases will apply from 1 January 1990 and their cost will be covered by the provisions already made for such supplements within the vote for agricultural support in Scotland (class XVI, vote 1).
Cash Limits
Mr. Allan Stewart : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he proposes to make any further changes to the cash limits for 1989-90 within his responsibility.
Mr. Rifkind : Yes. Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit for class XVI, vote 22, revenue and rate support grants, Scotland will be increased by £9,481,000 from £2,336,800,000 to £2,346,281,000 to cover adjustments in rate support grant payments for 1986-87, 1987-88 and 1988- 89.
Lothian Health Board
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for East Lothian on 5 February, if he will now give the
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detailed terms of reference of the inquiry into the finances of Lothian health board ; amd when he will publish the report.Mr. Michael Forsyth [holding answer 12 February 1990] : The independent inquiry into the financial position of Lothian health board is complete and the chief executive, NHS in Scotland is now working with the board to ensure that the necessary steps are taken to rectify the board's problems. I would be unhappy about publishing the report without the agreement of the health board.
Housing Benefit
Mr. McFall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much was paid in housing benefit to tenants in the private sector in Scotland in 1988-89 to cover domestic rate bills.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : I have been asked to reply.
I regret that actual expenditure information is not collected in the detail requested. It is estimated on the basis of the average weekly value of rate rebate in payment to private tenants on 31 May 1988 that the overall cost was about £13.75 million. This includes both cases where the tenant paid rates directly to the local authority and those where rates were included in the rent.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Eastern Europe
Mrs. Gorman : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what information he has on measures implemented by the Hungarian Government to establish a law of contract and property rights and on further measures planned by the Governments of Poland and Hungary.
Mr. Redwood : Hungarian law on contract and property rights is embodied in the 1959 civil code (as amended). Other relevant economic and legislative measures recently adopted in Hungary include the law on economic associations, the law on foreign investment, the transformation law and the law on the protection of state assets. As far as we are aware, no fresh legislation in this field is currently planned. Ministers recognise the need to make long leases available to inward investors.
We understand that Poland is currently drafting new legislation on the law of contract and on property rights in conjunction with a privatisation bill. But the process is at an early stage. The present law of contract is, we understand, governed by the civil code of 23 April 1964 (as amended). Expropriation of property is governed by a special act, published in 1985 in the state gazette. We are led to believe that this will shortly be amended.
Companies considering investment in Poland and Hungary are welcome to consult my Department's east European branch or the commercial sections of our embassies to obtain fuller details of relevant legislation.
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