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Mr. Wyn Roberts : There is no definitive list of estuarial crossings in Wales readily available. The following crossings are tolled :
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|River estuary
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Cleddau Bridge |Cleddau
Penmaenpool |Mawddach
Barmouth Bridge (footbridge) |Mawddach
Penrhyndeudraeth |Dwyryd
Porthmadog |Glaslyn
Road Improvements, Pembroke
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will detail all road improvement schemes currently under construction in the former county of Pembroke together with their cost and target date for completion.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : Three schemes are currently under construction :
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Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give details of all road improvements completed by the Welsh Office in the former county of Pembroke in each year since 1979, together with the cost of each scheme.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : Major schemes completed since 1979 are as follows :
Year and schemes |Cost
|(£ million)
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1979 A477 Castell Heli bridge |1.4
1984 Kilgetty-Stepaside by-pass |14.2
1987 A40 Pengawse hill diversion |3.9
1987 A40 Treffgarne quarries |1.2
1988 A40 Haverfordwest relief road phase I |9.3
In addition a number of smaller schemes have been completed on the A40, A477, A4076 and A40/A487 at a total cost of some £6 million.
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Local Authorities Land Holdings
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the total amount of vacant land held by each Welsh local authority, the percentage this represents of each local authorities total land holding and as a percentage of the total land within each authority's area, and the estimated value of the vacant land held by each local authority together with the measures being taken by his Department to encourage local authorities to release such land.
Mr. Grist : Information on local authorities' total land holdings and on the value of registered land is not available centrally. Information summarising the Department's land registers could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Measures to encourage the disposal or bringing in to use of authorities' vacant land include incentives for disposal available under the capital and revenue finance systems, the public accessibility of the land register and of individual owners' registers, publicity given to the public right to order disposal, and in appropriate cases directions under section 98 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 to take steps to dispose of particular sites. We are currently considering what further measures might be appropriate to reduce the amount of public sector vacant land.
Welsh Language
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what information he has as to the number and percentage of people in Wales whose first language is (a) Welsh and (b) English ; and how many in each case speak only one language.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : Information is not collected in the form requested in that the census does not ask about a person's first language or any language other than English or Welsh. However of the 2.6 million people, aged three and over, usually resident in Wales at the time of the 1981 census, 503,549 or 19 per cent. were recorded as Welsh speaking and of these 21,283 or 0.8 per cent. were recorded as not speaking English.
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what extra resources are to be made available to recruit and train additional staff to teach through the medium of Welsh to meet the requirements of the new national curriculum in Wales.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : A wide range of measures have been introduced to increase the supply of both Welsh medium teachers and teachers of the Welsh language. These include :
(i) the Welsh teacher training incentive supplement scheme introduced in 1988 on a trial basis to attract Welsh speaking graduates to train for Welsh-medium secondary teaching by making a supplementary grant of £1,200 available. This pilot scheme is to be extended for a further two years and will include primary courses ; (
(ii) increasing the amount of money available for LEA in-service training for Welsh from £233,000 to £900,000. This comprises the training of teachers transferring from English-medium to Welsh-medium teaching and teachers with limited knowledge of Welsh who wish to teach it as a second language within the national curriculum. (
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(iii) support for the athrawon bro' mobile teaching force which will be worth some £1 million in 1990-91 and will have an increasingly important role to play in preparing primary school teachers for the demands the national curriculum imposes ; ((iv) £116,000 being made available to four local authorities in Wales under the teacher recruitment category of the education support grant scheme to support the development of schemes to increase the recruitment of former teachers and mature entrants to teaching. The overall objective is to improve the recruitment of Welsh and Welsh-medium teachers in primary schools and the recruitment of teachers in shortage subjects including Welsh and Welsh-medium teachers in secondary schools ;
(v) new criteria for the training of primary teachers requires all initial teacher training institutions in Wales to provide opportunities for students to learn the Welsh language while they are training to become primary teachers and to have instruction in the methodology of teaching the language. As an interim measure the Department is providing £110,000 to institutions to enable them to provide additional Welsh language instruction. In the longer term institutions will look to their funding bodies to provide the necessary funds.
(vi) grant support of £47,000 to enable Trinity college, Carmarthen to develop courses for the teaching of Welsh to infant teachers and juniors teachers. In addition, grant of £29,000 has enabled the North East Wales institute to develop a training course for Welsh-speaking secondary teachers who are not at present teaching the language to enable them to do so.
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he intends to lay the draft measure dealing with the subject of a new Welsh Language Act submitted to the Welsh Office by the Welsh Language Board in November 1989.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : The draft Bill proposed by the Welsh Language Board is currently receiving detailed consideration.
Asthma
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the funding agencies responsible for financing research into asthma and other related illnesses in Wales since 1986.
Mr. Grist : Research into asthma is carried out at the asthma research unit based at Sully hospital. Funding for this unit is made available from the South Glamorgan health authority. The Medical Research Council is the main Government agency for the promotion of medical and related biological research in England and Wales ; their remit extends to research into asthma.
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give the amounts, on an annual basis, allocated by the Government for research specifically into asthma in Wales since 1986.
Mr. Grist : Asthma research is currently being conducted at the asthma research unit funded by South Glamorgan health authority. No other research specifically into asthma in Wales has been funded by this Department since 1986. Research into asthma has, however, been supported under the joint England and Wales programme of health research, some under the auspices of the medical research council.
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Paediatricians
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the number of paediatricians engaged permanently by the area health authorities in Wales, who have undertaken specific and specialised training in the detection and treatment of respiratory diseases in young children.
Mr. Grist : At 30 September 1988 there were 39 consultants and 101 junior hospital doctors , excluding locums, employed by health authorities in Wales in paediatric specialties . Respiratory disease in young children form a very substantial part of the illness treated by paediatricians, all of whom undertake specific training in the detection and treatment of these diseases.
Includes house officers, senior house officers, registrars, senior registrars, associate specialists and senior hospital medical officers.
The specialties of paediatrics, paediatric neurology and paediatric surgery.
Contaminated Land
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when it is planned to update the register of contaminated land in Wales.
Mr. Grist : The need to update the Welsh Office survey of contaminated land will be considered in the context of the response to the Environment Committee's first report recommendation to require local authorities to compile their own registers.
Flooding
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list any measurements currently being made of average sea levels in Wales ; and whether these can be compared with similar measurements made in previous years.
Mr. Grist : A national tide gauge network, capable of accurately measuring mean sea levels, was set up more than 30 years ago and has been continually maintained and updated since then. The network is operated and data is collected by the Proudman oceanographic laboratory of the natural environment research council with funding by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Scottish Development Department.
Four of the 32 gauges are located in Wales, at Holyhead, Fishguard, Milford Haven and Swansea while others at Hilbre Island, Avonmouth and Ilfracombe provide data relevant to Wales. In addition, there are several other tide guages around the coast from which intermediate data can be obtained.
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list those coastal regions of Wales believed to be most vulnerable to inundations of sea water in the event of breaches of sea defences.
Mr. Grist : All coastal regions that lie below the highest sea level in their vicinity are at some risk of being inundated by sea water in the event of breaches of sea defences. The most significant such areas in Wales are parts of the north Wales coast, the Caldicot and Wentlooge levels and lands bordering the major estuaries, for example, Afon Glaslyn, Afon Mawddach, Afon Dyfi and Lougher inlet.
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Sewerage
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if it is planned to review the question of ownership and adoption of sewerage systems serving existing and planned private housing developments in Wales.
Imported Waste
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he has any plans to instruct all importers of waste material which is intended for disposal in Wales to provide publicly-available details of the pedigree and exact chemical composition of the material concerned.
Mr. Grist : Control over the disposal of imported waste material is the responsibility of waste disposal authorities.
Teachers
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what measures are to be taken to improve the recruitment of graduates into the teaching profession and to stem the further loss of men and women leaving the profession.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : We have introduced a number of measures to ensure that teaching remains an attractive career for graduates. The bursary scheme to attract students in the shortage subjects is being extended this year to include modern foreign languages. The bursaries have been increased from £1,300 to £1,500 with that for physics increased to £2,000. "Taster" courses are being run for mature people and others to encourage entry or return to teaching. These courses include seminars on subject content and delivery in teaching and information sessions on pay, conditions and career opportunities. £116,000 is being made available to four LEAs in Wales to support the development of schemes to increase the recruitment of former teachers and mature entrants to teaching. TASC (teaching as a career) has been established to promote teaching as a career and improve recruitment practices among local education authorities and initial teacher training institutions. One of the key areas addressed by the Interim Advisory Committee on School Teachers' Pay and Conditions was the issue of attracting graduates. The IAC recommendations mean that the starting salary for a good honours graduate will be at least £10,500.
Labour Statistics
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his maximum and minimum estimate of the number of people in Wales in part-time employment who are counted twice in the employment totals.
Mr. Peter Walker : Labour force survey estimates of the number of people in part-time employment and with a second job, which are subject to large sampling errors, suggest that there were about 18, 000 such persons in 1989. Maximum and minimum estimates are not available.
Radioactivity
Dr. David Clark : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the number of (a) farms, (b) sheep and (c) acres currently subject to post-Chernobyl restrictions ; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. Peter Walker : Restrictions affect approximately 416 holdings, 300,000 sheep and 210,000 acres in Wales.Dr. David Clark : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) if he will list the number of sheep sampled for radioactivity in each county in Wales for (a) 1986, (b) 1987, (c) 1988, (d) 1989 and (e) to date in 1990 ; and if he will make a statement ; (2) if he will list the number of sheep sampled for radioactivity in Wales for (a) 1986, (b) 1987, (c) 1988, (d) 1989 and (e) to date in 1990 including the number of sheep with levels of radioactivity (i) over 4,000 bq/kg, (ii) 3,000 to 3,999 bq, (iii) 2, 000 to 2,999, (iv) 1,000 to 1,999, (v) 500 to 999, and (vi) below 499 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Walker : The results of my Department's monitoring of sheep for radioactivity, including live-monitoring of sheep leaving the restricted area in north Wales, are published regularly and copies placed in the Library of the House. Some of the published information is in the form requested by the hon. Gentleman. Where it is not, it could be put in the form requested only at
disproportionate cost.
Dr. David Clark : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many sheep have been monitored for radioactivity in slaughterhouses in each county in Wales in each year since 1986 ; how many were found to be above the 1,000 bq/kg limit ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Walker : A pilot programme of monitoring sheep carcasses at slaughterhouses has been in operation in north Wales since March 1989. In Clwyd some 2,300 have been monitored and in Gwynedd some 4, 500 ; all were below 1,000 bq/kg.
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
Single-sex Schools
Mr. Norris : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if, in respect of each of those local education authority maintained single -sex secondary schools in Merseyside and Greater Manchester which have been closed since 1985, he will list (i) the gender of pupils, (ii) the maintaining local authority and (iii) the number of pupils on roll at the most recent convenient date before closure.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The maintained single-sex secondary schools in Merseyside and Greater Manchester which have closed since 1985 and the number of pupils on roll before closure are as follows :
|c|Maintained single-sex secondary schools in Merseyside|c|
|c|and Greater Manchester which have closed since 1985|c|
Pupils on roll in January
preceding closure date
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Merseyside
Knowsley
Knowlsey St. Kevins R.C. Boys<1> |803 |3
Liverpool
Anfield County Comprehensive |1,075 |-
Alsop Boys Comprehensive |1,002 |-
Collegiate Boys Comprehensive |522 |-
Liverpool Institute Boys High |396 |-
Hillfoot Mey Boys Comprehensive |519 |-
St. Helens
Campion R.C. High School |318 |-
West Park R.C. High School |661 |-
Wirral
Bebington Boys Secondary School<1> |557 |-
The Henry Meoles School<1> |759 |-
Bishop Challoner R.C. High School<1> |573 |-
Greater Manchester
Manchester
St. Marks R.C. High School<1> |609 |-
St. Pius R.C. High School<1> |535 |-
Stockport
Stockport School<1> |989 |3
Trafford
Stretford Grammar for Boys<1> |316 |-
Urmston Grammar for Boys<1> |377 |-
<1> Closed for the purposes of amalgamation.
|c|Maintained single-sex secondary schools in Merseyside and Greater|c|
|c|Manchester which have closed since 1985|c|
Pupils on roll
in January preceding
closure date
Girls' schools |Girls |Boys
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Merseyside
Knowsley
Knowsley St. Gregory's R.C. girls<1> |612 |-
Liverpool
Stanley Park girls comprehensive |960 |-
Aigburth Vale girls comprehensive |634 |-
Liverpool Institute girls high |301 |-
Queen Mary girls comprehensive |1,015 |-
St. Helens
Mount Carmel R.C. high |320 |-
Notre Dame R.C. high |773 |-
Sefton
St. Augustine's R.C. high<1> |369 |-
Wirral
Bebington girls secondary school<1> |823 |4
Okley school<1> |612 |-
The Marian R.C. high school<1> |512 |-
Greater Manchester
Manchester
The Hollies R.C. high school |<1> |739
St. Joseph's R.C. high school<1> |444 |-
Stockport
Priestnall school<1> |889 |-
Urmston girls grammar<1> |487 |-
Stretford girls grammar<1> |435 |-
Closed for the purposes of amalgamation.
Education Costs
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the average cost, per student across all subjects, of education (a) in United Kingdom universities as a whole, (b) in United Kingdom
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polytechnics as a whole, (c) in Scottish universities, (d) in English universities, (e) in Welsh universities, (f) in English polytechnics and (g) in the Polytechnic of Wales.Mr. Jackson : Non-university higher education in Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. I shall reply to the hon. Member on the other parts of his question as soon as possible.
International Baccalaureate Examination
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has as to the number of (a) independent, (b) local authority and (c) grant-maintained schools which offer pupils the international baccalaureate examination ; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Rumbold : This information is not collected centrally.
City Technology College, Brighton
Mr. Straw : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what price was paid by the city technology college trust for the purchase of the site for the proposed city technology college, Brighton ; and how much of this price was paid for or guaranteed by public funds.
Mr. MacGregor : A sum of £2.3 million net, excluding legal expenses, has been paid from public funds for the acquisition of the proposed CTC site in Brighton. The site is held by the CTC trust.
Mr. Straw : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what undertakings were given by Mr. Ivor Revere, managing director of Greenleaf Planters, a subsidiary of South Weald Properties, in respect of his financial support for the proposed city technology college at Woodingdean, Brighton ; what sum or sums he pledged ; and what has been paid over.
Mr. MacGregor : Mr. Revere undertook to donate£1 million in support of the Brighton CTC. Mr. Revere has now withdrawn from his original undertaking without having made any payment.
Mr. Straw : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on progress towards the establishment of a city technology college at Woodingdean, Brighton.
Mr. MacGregor : The proposal to establish a city technology college in Brighton is under review because of the withdrawal of the principal sponsor. I hope to make a statement shortly.
City Technology Colleges
Mr. Straw : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what checks are made of the bona fides of potential donors to city technology colleges.
Mr. MacGregor : The CTC trust has the responsibility of identifying and putting forward potential sponsors. Detailed discussions then take place between the Department, potential sponsors and the CTC trust. If the project is to proceed, written heads of agreement are thereafter established.
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ENERGY
Electricity Privatisation
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy whether he is receiving or has received advice on the electricity privatisation from any accountancy firm, which has been criticised by the Department of Trade and Industry inspectors.
Mr. Baldry : I have nothing further to add to the answers given to the hon. Member by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on 19 December 1989 and 21 February 1990.
Nuclear Power Stations
Mr. Bermingham : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will outline the proposals that exist for the reorganisation of the four state- owned companies operating nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Baldry : My right hon. Friends, the Secretaries of State for Energy and for Scotland announced proposals on 9 November 1989 to create separate nuclear generating companies from the assets of the CEGB and SSEB. Both companies, Nuclear Electric plc and Scottish Nuclear Ltd., were successfully vested at the end of March this year. There are no plans to change the present ownership of any of the nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom.
Electricity (Distribution Companies)
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy (1) what consultation he has had with large industrial users of electricity about a review of the 15 per cent. upper limit of the distribution companies' market share that can be captured by National Power and PowerGen before 1994 ;
(2) if he intends to review the 15 per cent. upper limit on the market share of (a) all, (b) any one or (c) any group of the 12 electricity distribution companies that can be captured by National Power and PowerGen from 1990 to 1994.
Mr. Baldry : The application, enforcement or amendment of licence conditions are a matter for the Director General of Electricity Supply under the appropriate provisions of the licences and the Electricity Act 1989.
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he has consulted the Director General of the Office of Electricity Regulation on the possibility of raising or reviewing the 15 per cent. upper limit on each of the 12 electricity distribution companies' market, that can be captured before 1994 by National Power and PowerGen.
Mr Baldry : My right hon. Friend has discussed various aspects of the new regulatory regime with the Director General of Electricity Supply on a number of occasions.
SCOTLAND
Local Government Finance
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list local authorities' expenditure by service for each Scottish region from 1979-80 to the most recent estimates available, at constant prices and in percentage terms.
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Mr. Rifkind : I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply which I gave on Monday 23 April 1990.Scottish Pride
Mr. Allan Stewart : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what consultations he has had on the report by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland entitled "The Scottish Pride Study";
(2) what steps he has taken to ensure that the commercial relationship between the Scottish Milk Marketing Board and Scottish Pride meets the requirements of European Community legislation ; and if he will make a statement ;
(3) when he expects to make a decision on the report by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland, entitled "The Scottish Pride Study", which was placed in the Library on 18 May 1988.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland published a report on the commercial activities of the Scottish Milk Marketing Board in May 1988, investigating in particular the extent to which the activities were on an equal footing with those of the independent dairy companies, as required by European Community legislation. My noble Friend the Minister of State has since met the chairman of the Scottish Milk Marketing Board and the president of the Scottish Dairy Trade Federation to discuss the report, and officials of the Department have also held discussions with the two bodies concerned. These discussions are continuing.
Ambulance Service
Mr. Wilson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the number of non-white personnel currently employed by the Scottish ambulance service.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Information about the number of non-white personnel is not available.
Waste Disposal
Mr. Andrew Welsh : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will identify the location and status of waste disposal sites in Scotland by waste disposal authority, waste type, town, location of facility, name of facility and land size.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : District and islands councils as waste disposal authorities maintain public registers which provide up-to-date information on waste disposal activities in Scotland. The full data requested are not held centrally.
A survey by the Scottish Development Department in 1989 indicated that licences and council resolutions had been issued in respect of 835 waste disposal facilities in Scotland. Of these, 700 licences and resolutions related to landfill sites and the balance to other operations such as incinerators, transfer stations, baling plants and civic amenity sites.
The table gives the number of open and closed landfill sites and other types of facility for each waste disposal authority.
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Landfill sites Other waste
District/Islands council |Open |Closed |disposal
|facilities
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Berwickshire |3 |0 |0
Ettrick and Lauderdale |5 |2 |0
Roxburgh |3 |0 |0
Tweeddale |1 |1 |0
Clackmannan |7 |3 |1
Falkirk |19 |5 |9
Stirling |8 |0 |1
Annandale and Eskdale |3 |3 |2
Nithsdale |6 |0 |1
Stewartry |10 |2 |0
Wigtown |9 |0 |1
Dunfermline |19 |6 |2
Kirkcaldy |17 |6 |1
North East Fife |10 |2 |4
Aberdeen |16 |4 |6
Banff and Buchan |19 |10 |6
Gordon |12 |4 |1
Kincardine and Deeside9 |7 |0
Moray |9 |2 |5
Badenoch and Strathspey |2 |2 |0
Caithness |7 |1 |1
Inverness |1 |1 |2
Lochaber |8 |2 |0
Nairn |0 |0 |0
Ross and Cromarty |5 |3 |0
Skye and Lochalsch |3 |0 |0
Sutherland |8 |0 |3
East Lothian |10 |6 |1
Edinburgh |13 |15 |7
Midlothian |9 |12 |0
West Lothian |19 |14 |3
Argyll and Bute |1 |0 |2
Bearsden and Milngavie |0 |0 |1
Clydebank |1 |3 |1
Clydesdale |8 |3 |0
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |9 |6 |1
Cumnock and Doon Valley |3 |3 |1
Cunninghame |16 |7 |8
Dumbarton |5 |1 |4
East Kilbride |10 |1 |2
Eastwood |3 |1 |2
Glasgow |17 |24 |16
Hamilton |10 |0 |3
Inverclyde |4 |4 |4
Kilmarnock and Loudoun |4 |3 |2
Kyle and Carrick |4 |3 |1
Monklands |6 |6 |1
Motherwell |8 |3 |7
Renfrew |17 |15 |3
Strathkelvin |13 |5 |1
Angus |11 |6 |0
Dundee |6 |3 |4
Perth and Kinross |24 |8 |4
Orkney |15 |4 |2
Shetland |6 |0 |3
Western Isles |7 |0 |5
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Education Service
Mr. Allan Stewart : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has for local education and business partnerships and for the teacher placement service in Scotland.
Mr. Rifkind : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has announced today the Government"s decision to support local education business partnerships across the country. This will build on the work already done under the enterprise and education initiative, TVEI and compacts in Scotland. The
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teacher placement service is also to continue, and arrangements for its future administration will be developed together with those for local partnerships.Partnerships involve local education and business interests in work that brings schools and other education institutions, industry and commerce closer together for the benefit of young people and the economy. I propose to ensure that these arrangements are built wherever possible on existing partnership work in Scotland. Our approach will be slightly different from that in England and in Wales to reflect the different circumstances affecting education and business links. I intend to invite interested parties, including the local enterprise companies if they wish, to submit proposals to lead and co-ordinate partnership activity in their areas. My aim will be to ensure the selection of the body with the most appropriate experience and best equipped to deliver a service effectively in each area. The Industry Department for Scotland will continue to be closely involved in the development of these arrangements. There will be a development phase over the next 12 months in which my colleagues and I will collaborate closely. Support will come initially from the Department of Trade and Industry. With the formation of partnerships from April 1991 responsibility will pass to the Department of Employment's Training Agency with the Industry Department for Scotland maintaining a close involvement.
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Bail Applications
Mr. Wilson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of cases in which bail was (a) applied for and (b) granted, by sheriff court area, in each of the past five years.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : This information is not held centrally.
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