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(vi) Prostaglandin biosynthesis in the female reproductive tract. Interactions with steroid hormones and their antagonists. 5. Institute of Cancer Research, London
Project title
(i) Epidemiology and biostatistics in cancer research
(b) Grant holder in University Department
1. Dr. E. Chantler, obstetrics and gynaecology, Manchester university : Spermicides as a local control for HIV type I transmission.
PICKUP
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will provide, for the universities located in Scotland, disaggregated PICKUP full-time equivalents by vocational category for the academic years 1985-86 to 1988-89.
Mr. Jackson [holding answer 23 April 1990] : Information on PICKUP courses in universities is not available before 1987-88. Figures for 1987-88 and 1988-89 are as follows :
|c|Subject Group 1987-88|c|
University |Education |Medicine |Engineering |Agriculture |Biological |Administrative|Architec- |Language |Arts other |Total
|Dentistry |and |Forestry |and |Business and |ture and |Literature |than
|and Health |Technology |and |Physical |Social Studies|other pro- |and other |languages
|Vetinary |Sciences |fessional |area studies
|Science |and
|vocational
|subjects
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Aberdeen |0 |77 |2 |0 |5 |7 |0 |1 |4 |95
Dundee |0 |281 |29 |90 |18 |49 |0 |449 |0 |917
Edinburgh |10 |239 |6 |1 |21 |133 |1 |13 |17 |442
Glasgow |0 |0 |0 |1 |37 |21 |0 |2 |23 |84
Heriot-Watt |0 |0 |0 |0 |53 |50 |0 |0 |0 |104
St. Andrews |1 |59 |90 |0 |35 |49 |9 |57 |1 |300
Stirling |8 |80 |36 |0 |3 |5 |0 |2 |0 |133
Strathclyde |0 |0 |39 |0 |0 |55 |7 |8 |0 |109
Scotland |19 |736 |202 |91 |172 |370 |17 |533 |45 |2,185
|c|Subject Group 1988-89|c|
University |Education |Medicine |Engineering |Agriculture |Biological |Administrative|Architec- |Language |Arts other |Total
|Dentistry |and |Forestry |and |Business and |ture and |Literature |than
|and Health |Technology |and |Physical |Social Studies|other pro- |and other |languages
|Vetinary |Sciences |fessional |area studies
|Science |and
|vocational
|subjects
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Aberdeen |0 |64 |1 |5 |0 |9 |0 |5 |0 |84
Dundee |4 |262 |35 |21 |62 |53 |0 |163 |1 |601
Edinburgh |4 |81 |6 |1 |14 |86 |2 |91 |4 |290
Glasgow |6 |0 |0 |0 |110 |21 |2 |5 |2 |146
Heriot-Watt |0 |0 |0 |0 |34 |66 |0 |118 |0 |217
St. Andrews |1 |76 |78 |6 |49 |111 |14 |66 |0 |400
Stirling |0 |452 |47 |0 |3 |33 |0 |0 |0 |535
Strathclyde |0 |0 |59 |0 |16 |57 |2 |18 |0 |152
Scotland |15 |936 |225 |33 |288 |437 |19 |465 |7 |2,425
EMPLOYMENT
Departmental Expenditure
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total amount spent for each standard region and for Great Britain as a whole, in both cash and real terms, by his Department, the employment service and the Training Agency, formerly Manpower Services Commission, in each year since 1979-80 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Eggar : The information requested is not available for standard economic planning regions.
The total amount spent in cash terms by the Department of Employment is available from the appropriation accounts for the relevant year. (Volume 2, class IV for 1979-80, volume 4, class IV for each of the years 1980-81 to 1985-86 and volume 5, class VII for 1986-87 to 1988-89).
Real-terms expenditure can be derived by applying the GDP deflator to the cash total for the year in question.
Vocational Training
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement on the contribution made to employment in the United Kingdom by the European Communities European centre for the development of vocational training.
Mr. Eggar : The chief purpose of the European centre for the development of vocational training (CEDEFOP) is to support the work of the European Commission and others in promoting training at Community level. It does this through a programme to co-ordinate initiatives, by disseminating research and information and by proposing innovative means of tackling training issues across the Community. It therefore does not have a direct effect on employment in the United Kingdom beyond promoting the benefits of training.
Social Fund
Mr. John Garrett : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether there have been any delays by his Department in the allocations of the European social fund ; when decisions will be made in these allocations and whether allocations to the non-statutory sector will be equal to their funding from this source in 1989.
Mr. Eggar : The reform of the European Community's structural funds imposes an entirely new procedure for deciding ESF allocations in 1990, with many new tasks falling to Member States. My Departmment has been
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working with applicants to revise operational programmes according to the requirements set out in the European Commission's community support frameworks, so that the agreement of the Commission can be obtained. I will shortly be making proposals about allocations. As the European Commission is providing the United Kingdom with less money in 1990 than in 1989, no sector can be guaranteed the same allocation as last year.Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment in what month ESF programme funding has been paid out to voluntary organisations in each of the past 10 years.
Mr. Eggar : ESF payments have been made to voluntary organisations during the following months :
1987 : July, August, September, October, November and December. 1988 : Payments made in every month.
1989 : Payments made in every month.
1990 : January, February, March, April, to date.
These payments were for activities started in the same year, and for those completed in preceding years.
The same information in respect of earlier years before records were computerised, can only be provided at a disproportionate cost.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what conclusions he has drawn about the action of those voluntary organisations which have continued to run training programmes since January 1990 before being told whether they had ESF funding ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Eggar : My department informs all applicants to the European social fund that because of the European Community procedures for handling applications many applicants may need to start their projects without certainty of any ESF support. This has always been the case, and remains so following the reform of the Community's structural funds.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many training places with Scottish voluntary organisations supported by ESF funding are being provided in the current years.
Mr. Eggar : There have been no decisions announced regarding individual organisations' ESF support for 1990. Therefore I cannot say how many training places will be funded for the Scottish voluntary organisations this year.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when (1) he will issue application forms to voluntary organisations for the European social fund programme starting in 1990 ;
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(2) whether he has any proposals for improving the administration of ESF applications from voluntary organisations.Mr. Eggar : This is the first year of operation of the major reform of the Community's structural funds including the European social fund, and entirely new application procedures are being developed. My Department has been working with the European Commission and applicant organisations to determine these new procedures and hopes to be able to issue project application forms and guidance within the next month. As the new procedures are implemented, they will be reviewed in the light of experience.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if ESF money is used by the Government to subsidise benefit payments on the employment training programme.
Mr. Eggar : The ESF supports additional training places on the employment training programme. Of the various types of expenditure eligible for funding a small proportion is claimed for trainee allowances, which are over and above benefit entitlement.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what response he intends to make to the resolution sent to him by 40 voluntary member organisations in Scotland protesting about his administration of ESF funding to voluntary organisations.
Mr. Eggar : I will be responding in due course to the resolution sent by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when he anticipates he will pay money out to voluntary organisations for ESF programmes which started in January 1990.
Mr. Eggar : It is expected that first payments from the European social fund to projects will be available to all applicants during the summer, as has been the case in previous years prior to the reform of the Community's structural funds. The timing will however depend in large part on when the European Commission gives approval to operational programmes.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much money has been allocated by him to voluntary organisations for the ESF programme starting in January 1990.
Mr. Eggar : No decisions have been taken yet on the amounts of ESF to be allocated to any organisation in 1990.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many voluntary organisations withdrawing from training work have given reasons for their withdrawal ; and in how many cases the way the ESF funding is administered by his Department has been mentioned.
Mr. Eggar : I have no means of being able to establish comprehensive information about the numbers of voluntary organisations withdrawing from training work nor the reasons why. Any information which is available can only be extracted at a disproportionate cost and relates only to Government training schemes.
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Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make it his policy to guarantee to approve the training programmes of those voluntary organisations who have operated on the assumption that they will receive ESF money for programmes starting in January 1990.
Mr. Eggar : No guarantee of funding can be offered to individual applicants in advance of the approval by the European Commission of operational programmes and decisions about the eligibility of individual projects. No such guarantees have been given in previous years. Once projects are approved, however, expenditure from1 January 1990 will be eligible for support.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many training places were provided by Scottish voluntary organisations supported by ESF funding in 1989.
Mr. Eggar : In 1989, ESF assistance was approved for Scottish voluntary sector organisations to provide 3,272 training places. I cannot say how many of these places were taken up as the final claims for payment from all these organisations have yet to be received.
Training Projects, Lambeth
Miss Hoey : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are (a) the total number of trainee places cut for each employment training project in Lambeth, (b) the unit allocation per trainee to each employment training project under the new guidelines in Lambeth and (c) the unit allocation per trainee paid to each employment training project under their previous contracts and the amount claimed by each project in respect of child care and travel costs in the last financial year.
Mr. Nicholls : Information on employment training in respect of (a) is not available. Details of (b) and (c), unit allocations and amounts claimed in respect of child care and travel costs, are confidential to the Training Agency and individual ET training managers.
Training
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when training matters in England and Wales were brought within the ambit of the Parliamentary Commissioner.
Mr. Eggar : Training programmes in England and Wales run by the Government came within the jurisdiction of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration when the office was established in 1967.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will make it his policy to inform hon. Members of the amount that is being spent on the mainstream and non-mainstream of the employment training budget.
Mr. Nicholls : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish) on 3 May 1990 at column 639.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will make it his practice to inform hon. Members of how much use is being made of day care funding on the employment training scheme.
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Mr. Nicholls : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Fife, Central (Mr. McLeish) on 13 February 1990 at column 204.Training and Enterprise Councils
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what evidence he has of industry's response, in areas where TECs, are established, to the Government's incentives for financial contributions by companies to TECs.
Mr. Eggar : I have been greatly encouraged by the enthusiastic response that we have had from business leaders to setting up training and enterprise councils. The Government have offered matching funding up to £125,000 in a TEC's first operational year and will provide tax relief on company donations. I am confident that these measures will ensure that TECs are able to attract financial contributions.
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give, for employment training, output-related funding for training and enterprise councils, the target percentage of positive outcomes for Great Britain and each standard region in 1990-91 set out by the Training Agency.
Mr. Eggar [holding answer 3 May 1990] : The target percentage of positive outcomes for those leaving employment training for Great Britain and each training agency region in 1990-91 is shown in the following table.
|Percentage
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South-East |50
London |46
South-West |46
West Midlands |43
East Midlands |45
Yorkshire and Humberside |46
North-West |46
Northern |39
Scotland |41
Wales |47
Great Britain |44
Benefit Claimants
Mr. Frank Field : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what powers unemployment benefit officers have to suspend claimants' unemployment benefit and/or income support once an employment service councellor
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has raised doubts about the claimant (i) being available, (ii) actively seeking work or, (iii) the claimant is suspected of voluntary unemployment, prior to the decision of an adjudication officer.Mr. Eggar : Employment service officials have the power to make arrangements for payment only where there is no doubt about entitlement. Where doubts arise, they must refer the matter to an independent adjudication officer for a decision on whether unemployment benefit should be paid. Pending the adjudication officer's decision, it would be wrong to pay benefit if entitlement is in doubt. The only exception concerns cases where doubts arise about the availability for work of claimants already being paid unemployment benefit ; regulations provide specifically for payment to continue under those circumstances. Entitlement to income support is a matter for the Department of Social Security.
WALES
National Curriculum (Pupil Testing)
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the testing and assessment of children in Wales concerning the national curriculum.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : The Secretary of State for Education and Science and the Secretary of State for Wales wrote to the Chairman of the School Examinations and Assessment Council on 6 March and 9 April setting out the Government's views on the arrangements for assessing pupils at age seven, 11 and 14. Copies of this correspondence are available in the Library of the House.
At age 16, the main instrument of assessment will be the GCSE. Decisions on the arrangements to assess music, art and physical education will be made at a later date.
Private Schools
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what amount was paid in grants by his Department to each of the private schools in Wales in each year since 1979.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : Payments made to independent schools for fee remissions under the assisted places scheme are set out in the following table A. The scheme did not commence until 1981-82. In addition, the Department has paid grant under the direct grant scheme as set out in table B.
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|c|Table A|c|
|c|Assisted places scheme: Payment to schools|c|
|c|Financial years 1981-82 to 1989-90|c|
School |1981-82 |1982-83 |1983-84 |1984-85 |1985-86 |1986-87 |1987-88 |1988-89 |1989-90
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Christ College,Brecon |7,986.23 |21,443.90 |36,063.63 |48,289.45 |62,116.51 |95,473.37 |131,470.78 |155,404.79 |189,033.43
Howell's School,Denbigh |11,011.65 |37,883.95 |70,107.35 |96,156.03 |132,971.98 |179,033.86 |225,465.70 |243,740.40 |237,474.63
Howell's School,Llandaff |17,774.38 |57,094.30 |106,799.85 |144,940.27 |209,858.38 |274,274.74 |314,274.85 |319,099.95 |334,290.42
Llandovery College |3,737.60 |9,217.81 |19,615.84 |31,013.22 |38,279.65 |454,407.00 |55,732.49 |75,308.91 |92,650.75
Monmouth School (for Boys) |18,515.90 |52,035.40 |92,610.93 |134,170.47 |181,642.40 |233,684.75 |307,291.19 |277,352.49 |323,194.26
Monmouth School (for Girls) |9,644,70 |21,677.09 |37,072.44 |52,598.51 |68,760.75 |90,225.23 |109,297.62 |114,422.49 |128,010.24
Penrhos College, Colwyn Bay |5,108.80 |21,973.10 |38,489.50 |62,843.75 |81,089.97 |99,399.15 |140,459.21 |136,944.07 |156,617.49
Rydal School, Colwyn Bay |4,194,13 |38,206.67 |53,896.86 |56,864.75 |67,768.55 |93,274.00 |110,254.91 |112,767.80 |128,121.05
Lowther College<1> |23,709.08 |15,244.92 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |101,742.47 |274,777.14 |455,156.40 |626,876.45 |842,488.19 |1,519,772.10|1,394,246.75|1,435,040.90|1,589,392.27
<1>Lowther College closed in July 1982.
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|c|Table B|c|
|c|Grant to direct grant
schools|c|
|£
---------------------------------
1979-80 |<1>125,000
1980-81 |<1>68,000
1981-82 |<1>67,000
1982-83 |<1>20,000
1983-84 |10,000
1984-85 |10,000
1985-86 |11,000
1986-87 |19,000
1987-88 |13,000
1988-89 |15,000
1989-90 |16,000
<1>Included grant to former
direct grant schools which
subsequently become independent.
The only direct grant school remaining is TS Indefatigable, Anglesey.
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Government Training Schemes
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many young people are currently engaged on Government training schemes in Wales.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : At the end of March 1990 there were 22,665 young people participating in the youth training scheme in Wales.
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what was (a) the total civilian work force in employment in Wales, (b) the number of people employed in more than one job and (c) the number on Government- funded work-related training schemes for the years 1979-89.
Mr. David Hunt : The information requested is given in the following table :
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|c|Wales|c|
(000's)
|1979 |1980 |1981 |1982 |1983 |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989
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Civilian work force in employment in
June<1> |1,157|1,125|1,054|1,027|1,014|1,040|1,044|1,055|1,073|1,117|1,200
Persons employed in more than one
job<2> |17 |- |17 |- |19 |21 |22 |28 |33 |40 |45
Persons on work-related government
training schemes in June<3> |- |- |- |- |- |10 |10 |13 |18 |21 |31
<1> Defined as employees in employment, the self-employed and, from September 1983 onwards, participants on
work-related government training schemes.
<2> Spring labour force survey estimates produced biennially to 1983, and annually thereafter. These data
are subject to large sampling errors and are not directly comparable with published employment estimates.
<3> Included in <1>; not applicable before September 1983.
Job Clubs
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many job clubs there are in Wales.
Mr. David Hunt : There are currently 62 job clubs in Wales.
Welsh Office Financial Management
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether any further payments were made to the contractor responsible for the August 1986 contract to install in his Department a computerised management information system following the £1 million payment referred to in paragraph 3.25 of the National Audit Office report on the Welsh Office : Financial Management.
Mr. David Hunt : A payment was made to the contractor in January 1990 following delivery, installation, testing and acceptance of the finance systems which were the final component of the contract with the Welsh Office.
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales for how long the period of dual running of the manual and computerised financial management information systems persisted prior to the introduction on 1 April of the operational management system ; and whether the manual financial information system has now ended.
Mr. David Hunt : The new computerised financial information system was comprehensively tested between November 1989 and March 1990. During this period, its output was compared and reconciled with the partially computerised system which has now been superseded.
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Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether any further contractor was brought in to complete the contract originally awarded in August 1986 to install a computerised management information system into his Department referred to in paragrapn 3.24 of the NAO report, Welsh Office : Financial Management.
Mr. David Hunt : No further contractors were brought in to complete the contract referred to in the question.
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement concerning the name, address and other details of the contractor submitting the lowest tender to computerise his Department's management information system in August 1986 referred to in paragraph 3.24 of the NAO report, Welsh Office : Financial Management.
Mr. David Hunt : The company concerned was IBM United Kingdom Ltd., whose address is PO Box 41, Portsmouth.
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what assessment he has made of the cost impact of the delay in the installation of a computerised management information system to his Department.
Mr. David Hunt : The financial consequences of the delay in the installation of a computerised management information system were taken fully into account during negotiations with the contractor and were reflected in the settlement which was agreed with my Department. The details of that settlement are in confidence for commercial reasons.
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Welsh Office, Cardiff (Security)
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) when he anticipates completion of the high-security entrance porch to his Department's Crown building at Cathays park, Cardiff ;
(2) what is the estimated cost of the new high-security entrance porch to his Department's Crown building at Cathays park, Cardiff.
Mr. David Hunt : The Cabinet Office has advised a number of Government Departments, including the Welsh Office, on the security necessary to protect Government employees and property. It was recommended that the new Cathays park building of the Welsh Office, which is occupied by 2,000 members of staff of the Welsh Office and the Export Credits Guarantee Department, should have installed an electronic access control system. The installation is underway and I am informed that the anticipated cost will be £594,000 plus VAT, which will be met by Property Holdings (DoE).
The hon. Member has suggested in public statements that this security expenditure is being made to protect Ministers from public demonstrations, but I am sure that he will be aware that Welsh Office Ministers are located in the old Cathays park building, not the new one. Normally, such demonstrations as there are take place outside the old building, to which none of this expenditure relates. I am informed by Property Holdings (DoE) that the completion date of these security works will be July 1990.
Health Service
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) what is the name and full title of the new general manager of the Clwyd family health services authority ;
(2) if he will list the names of the new family health services authorities in Wales.
Mr. Grist : I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply given to the hon. Member for Wrexham (Dr. Marek) on 22 January 1990, at column 512. Family health services authorities will come into being later this year following passage of the National Health Service and Community Care Bill currently before the House and will replace the existing network of family practitioner committees.
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) what was the salary scale of the administrator of the Clwyd family practitioner committee ;
(2) what is the salary scale of the general manager of the Clwyd family health services authority.
Mr. Grist : The current salary scale of the administrator of Clwyd family practitioner committee is as follows :
£22,404
£23,301
£24,233
£25,202
£26,210
£27,258
The flat rate salary of the general manager of Clwyd family practitioner committee is £31,750.
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