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Two Traditions Group
Belfast
The Moderator
Presbyterian Church in Ireland
President of the Methodist Church in Ireland
Dr. R. H. A. Eames LLB PhD
Church of Ireland Archbishop and Primate of all Ireland His Eminence Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich
Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland
The Chief Officer
Belfast Harbour Police
The Chief Officer
Larne Harbour Police
Chief Executive
Northern Ireland Airports
HM Customs and Excise
London
HM Customs and Excise
Belfast
The Secretary
Northern Ireland Committee
Quaker Peace and Service
The Director
Northern Ireland Branch CBI
The Dean
Faculty of Law
Queen's University of Belfast
Ministry of Defence
Home Office
Scottish Home and Health Department
All Northern Ireland Government Departments
Belfast Education and Library Board
Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland
Bar Library
Belfast
Law Lecturer
University of Ulster
The Secretary
Foyle Fisheries Commission
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Probation Board for Northern IrelandClerks of the following District, Borough and City Councils : Limavady
Omagh
Hillsborough
Strabane
Derry
Magherafelt
Ballycastle
Newry
Bangor
Antrim
Belfast
Newtownards
Coleraine
Armagh
Cookstown
Ballymena
Portadown
Ballymoney
Downpatrick
Banbridge
Dungannon
Enniskillen
Carrickfergus
Larne
Director of Administration
Council Offices
Ballyclare
Director of Environmental Health Services
Belfast City Council
The Principal Environmental Health Officers of the following Committees :
Western Group Public Health Committee--Omagh
Northern Group Public Health Committee--Ballymena
Eastern Group Public Health Committee--Upper Castlereagh Belfast Southern Group Public Health Committee--Armagh
Strangford Lough
Mr. Hanley : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many applications have been made for consents to carry out notifiable operations in the Strangford Lough area of special scientific interest ; and in how many cases consents have been granted.
Mr. Peter Bottomley : To date, 45 applications have been made. In 36 cases consents have been issued and in two cases consents were not actually required. Three consents are expected to be given shortly and four cases are as yet unresolved.
I am pleased to note that 22 of the applications were verbal. Landowners and occupiers are taking full advantage of this less formal approach which was introduced by article 10 of the Nature Conservation and Amenity Lands (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1989.
The Sunday Times
Mr. McNamara : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether any current officials of his Department or others involved in security force operations in Northern Ireland requested permission to give evidence on behalf of The Sunday Times in the libel action brought by Mr. T. Murphy and Mr. P. Murphy ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Cope [holding answer 18 April 1990] : No.
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Lough Foyle
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the minimum depth of water in the shipping channel to Lisahally dock in Lough Foyle.
Mr. Peter Bottomley [holding answer 26 March 1990] : The answer is 6.5 metres.
Kincora Boys Home
Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he hopes to complete his consideration of the issues raised by the Channel 4 television programme of 28 March on Kincora.
Mr. Cope [holding answer 2 April 1990] : I have studied the transcript of the Channel 4 News programme. I note that there were some statements by Mr. Mike Taylor which are not consistent with what I understand to be the content of his 1982 statement to the police. If he has anything to add to his 1982 statement, he should give it to the police.
For the remainder, the transcript contains no new material. As the Terry report confirmed, rumours about the homosexual tendencies of one member of the staff at Kincora reached the police in Northern Ireland during the 1970s but this did not amount to substantive evidence of homosexual abuse of boys at the hostel. Sir George Terry in his published conclusions refers, against the background of intense contemporary terrorist activity, to
"an understandable inability to recognise that extremely vague information which arose in 1974, if probed thoroughly, may well have revealed that which was finally discovered in [the] 1980 investigations"
but adds :
"I do not consider that an earlier investigation would reasonably have been prompted on the basis of the information available " A full account of such rumours, which are known to have come to the attention of social services, is contained in the Hughes report. Rumours that a man may have homosexual tendencies are not by themselves a basis for criminal or disciplinary action against him. However, if anyone believes that they have substantive new evidence which is relevant, they should give it to the police.
Stevens Inquiry
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many soldiers from the Ulster Defence Regiment who were arrested in connection with the Stevens inquiry but who were not charged with a scheduled offence have subsequently had to move home for security reasons.
Mr. Cope [holding answer 23 March 1990] : I understand that 10 such soldiers have moved house, or plan to do so.
HEALTH
Nuclear Weapons Testing
Mr. John Evans : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish in the Official Report the correspondence between himself and Mr. Chazov, Minister of Public Health of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, about nuclear weapons testing.
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Mr. Kenneth Clarke : I have placed copies of the relevant correspondence in the Library.
South Manchester Health Authority
Mr. Bradley : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the average cost per head of spending in the National Health Service for the South Manchester district health authority in each of the past 15 years (a) in cash terms and (b) in real terms.
Mr. Freeman : Figures of average annual expenditure per head of resident population for the South Manchester health authority for the years since its establishment on 1 April 1982 are shown in the table :
Revenue expenditure per head of resident population
Hospital and community health services (HCHS)
|£ (cash) |£ (at 1989-90
|prices)
--------------------------------------------------------
1982-83 |388 |559
1983-84 |416 |572
1984-85 |434 |568
1985-86 |453 |563
1986-87 |473 |569
1987-88 |518 |591
1988-89 |571 |608
Sources:
(a) Annual accounts of the South Manchester Health
Authority-1982-83 to 1988-89 (latest available). (b)
Mid-year estimates of resident population-1982 to 1988 (
Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys).
Notes:
1. The figures have been expressed at 1989-90 prices by
the use of the gross domestic product deflator.
2. HCHS includes hospital, community health and other
services provided by the health authority. Capital
expenditure and expenditure on family practitioner
services is excluded; the latter expenditure is
accounted for by family practitioner committees (FPCs)
and cannot be attributed to particular districts.
3. People do travel across district boundaries for
treatment and resource allocations reflect the pattern
of service provision locally. The population figyres
used make no allowance for people resident in one
district who recieve treatment in another or for the
difference in morbidity and age/sex structure of
particular populations.
4. Prior to 1 April 1982 the Authority's predecessor
health district formed part of a larger area health
authority and in such cases district based figures were
not collected centrally.
Distinction Awards
Mr. Corbyn : To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has met the chairman of the Central Advisory Committee on Distinction Awards to discuss progress towards a more open system, as advocated by the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration in April 1988.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : Discussions have taken place between the chairman of the advisory committee on distinction awards and the Department of Health's officials and with the British Medical Association about ways to make the awards system more open and better understood. Further information about the operation of the awards system, following the changes proposed in the Government's White Paper "Working for Patients" will be available later this year.
GP Budgets
Mr. Andrew Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether any general practitioners' practices have expressed an interest in holding their own budgets.
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Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Wyre Forest (Mr. Coombs) on 14 March at column 280Acute Operations
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the current average waiting time for acute operations in (a) England and (b) Cornwall.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : The median waiting time for patients who underwent surgery in the year ending March 1989 was seven weeks for England and nine weeks for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly.
Source : Hospital Episode Statistics 1988-89
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