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Stanborough ParkChiltern Open Air Museum
Model Village (Bekonscot)
Imperial War Museum (Duxford)
Wimpole Hall/Home Farm
West Midlands
Drayton Manor Park
Historic Coventry
Cathedral (Coventry)
Coombe Abbey Country Park
Weston Park
Cosford Aerospace Museum
Yorkshire and Humberside
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (Bradford) Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Doncaster Racecourse, Exhibition Centre and Leisure Park Elsham Country Park
Piece Hall (Halifax)
North West
Wigan Pier
Park Hall, Camelot
Martin Mere Wildfowl Trust
Lancaster Historic City
Morecambe Bay
Frontierland
Historic Carlisle
Borders Tourist Route to Edinburgh follow A7
West Pennine Moors
Last Drop Village
Hollingworth Lake
Liverpool Maritime City
Albert Dock
Southport
Pleasureland
Lord Street
Knowsley Safari Park
Tatton Park
Dunham Massey Hall
Quarrey Bank Mill
Blackpool
Stanley Park and Zoo
North Shore (Blackpool)
Derby Pool--Splashland
Illuminations (only when on)
Northern
Durham Historic Cathedral City
Beamish Museum
North Pennines and Weardale
Denotes directions to a tourist information point or centre. Notes
(1) Words in brackets are not included on the signs themselves, but explain the location of the signs for the purpose of this list. (2) Some destinations are combined on single signs.
(3) Alton Towers is shown on blue tourist signs in the North West, East Midlands and West Midland regions. These will be changed to brown signs in due course.
(4) Many tourist destinations are signed from trunk and "A" roads, for which there are no central records.
Luton Airport
Mr. Bright : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when his officials were last in touch with Luton borough council about the prospective sale of Luton international airport to private sector owners ; and what issues or problems were then discussed.
Mr. McLoughlin : I very much welcome the moves by Luton council to sell Luton airport to the private sector.
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My officials communicate regularly with officers of Luton borough council on a range of airport matters, including its possible sale. My hon. Friend will be aware that the council was recommended by its advisers to await the Civil Aviation Authority's advice to my right hon. Friend on airport and airspace capacity before holding detailed discussions with interested parties. Publication of the authority's advice is expected next month.Road Accidents
Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what information his Department holds on the incidence of accidents on stretches of three-lane carriageways where the centre lane may be used by vehicles travelling in either direction ; (2) if he has any plans to phase out three-lane carriageways where the centre lane may be used by vehicles travelling in either direction.
Mr. Atkins : In England wide single carriageways marked in three lanes but without indication of priority--double white lines--were dropped from the Department's standards for new trunk roads about 20 years ago. Many stretches of such carriageway then in existence have since been phased out and re-marked as two lanes. A few sections remain where they are judged to be safe and appropriate to prevailing traffic conditions. Information about such sections of local roads is for local highway authorities. While road accident statistics record the number of lanes they do not distinguish between those three-lane roads with double white lines and those without. The position in Wales and Scotland is a matter for my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales and for Scotland respectively.
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list all schools which had achieved grant-maintained status by 1 April 1990 showing for each (a) the total amount of public funding in 1990- 91 with all allocations under different heads, (b) the number of pupils, the age range and the number of pupils in each year group and (c) the total funding for each school under its last year of local education authority funding.
Mrs. Rumbold : The table below shows the full-year equivalent amounts of annual maintenance grant--AMG--received by the first 20 grant- maintained schools last year. Provisional figures for 1990-91 have been set at a standard notional 6 per cent. above these amounts. Calculations of final AMG figures for 1990-91 are now being finalised as the Department receives information from relevant local education authorities about their spending plans for the year.
The 1989-90 figures below do, in turn, reflect a 6.6 per cent. increase over what we estimate to have been LEA direct spending levels on these schools in 1988-89. In addition to AMG, schools receive small special purpose grants, for example to mirror what is available to LEAs under the Government's education support grant scheme.
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Grant-maintained schools
Annual maintenance grant (AMG) and pupil numbers for 1989-90
Pupil numbers<3>
Name of school<1> |Former LEA |Total AMG<2> |Total |Aged 11 |Aged 12 |Aged 13 |Aged 14 |Aged 15 |Aged 16 |Aged 17 |Aged 18 |Aged 19
|or under
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Audenshaw High |Tameside |1,222,998 |725 |141 |148 |146 |141 |149 |0 |0 |0 |0
Bacup and Rawtenstall |Lancashire |1,354,254 |741 |113 |105 |111 |118 |111 |91 |87 |5 |0
Bankfield High |Cheshire |1,008,831 |434 |64 |96 |70 |99 |105 |0 |0 |0 |0
Baverstock |Birmingham |1,700,068 |980 |223 |233 |175 |179 |170 |0 |0 |0 |0
Castle Hall Middle |Kirklees |618,989 |381 |<4>191 |83 |107 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Colyton |Devon |726,449 |433 |57 |47 |68 |78 |67 |62 |52 |2 |0
Heckmondwike |Kirklees |1,078,402 |565 |102 |92 |94 |89 |92 |60 |29 |7 |0
Hendon |Barnet |1,754,224 |836 |103 |125 |119 |166 |174 |101 |42 |6 |0
King's Grantham |Lincolnshire |1,230,509 |747 |114 |117 |118 |117 |106 |86 |83 |6 |0
London Oratory |ILEA<5> |3,372,123 |1,168 |177 |177 |180 |182 |166 |171 |90 |25 |0
Old Swinford |Dudley |1,029,967 |544 |56 |65 |88 |79 |85 |84 |83 |4 |0
Queen Elizabeth's |Lincolnshire |609,091 |329 |35 |47 |59 |55 |55 |47 |31 |0 |0
Queen Elizabeth's |Barnet |1,857,623 |1,036 |179 |180 |180 |172 |175 |82 |62 |6 |0
Queensbury |Bedfordshire |1,408,042 |637 |0 |0 |150 |182 |197 |65 |43 |0 |0
St. Francis Xavier |Liverpool |2,016,008 |1,008 |0 |177 |178 |183 |174 |161 |76 |55 |4
St. James's CE |Bolton |1,096,270 |662 |95 |116 |151 |143 |156 |1 |0 |0 |0
Skegness |Lincolnshire |1,051,865 |568 |51 |77 |81 |91 |99 |81 |81 |6 |1
Small Heath |Birmingham |1,746,432 |771 |151 |159 |118 |163 |177 |3 |0 |0 |0
Wilmington Girls |Kent |811,061 |451 |59 |74 |52 |82 |89 |53 |42 |0 |0
Wilson's |Sutton |1,393,670 |725 |120 |118 |120 |111 |118 |85 |53 |0 |0
<1>Eighteen schools began operating as grant-maintained from September 1989. A further two began doing so from January 1990.
<2>Full-year equivalent figures.
<3>Based on January 1989 figures, as used for 1989-90 AMG calculations.
<4>Includes 91 pupils under 11 as the school has a 9 to 13 age range.
<5>With effect from 1 April 1990, the relevant LEA became Hammersmith and Fulham.
NATIONAL FINANCE
Incomes
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the average income level of each 1 per cent. of the population with the highest incomes up to the total of 20 per cent. of the population with the highest incomes.
Mr. Lilley : Available information is given in the table. Estimates for 1990-91 are based on a projection of the 1987-88 survey of personal incomes and are provisional. Since some investment income from which tax is deducted at source is not reflected in the survey, these estimates are uncertain and more detailed estimates cannot therefore be given.
r
Average income of individuals liable to tax at
1990-91 levels of income
Group of individuals liable to tax<1> |Average income
|£ per annum
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Top 1 per cent. |97,000
Top 5 per cent. |51,000
Top 10 per cent. |39,000
Top 20 per cent. |30,000
<1>Husband and wife counted separately.
Enterprise Zones
Mr. Spearing : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what limit he can impose on the amounts that firms situated in enterprise zones may offset against any taxable benefit tied to that location in respect of their activities, or that of any of their subsidiaries making losses at locations outside that zone.
Mr. Lilley : The tax reliefs which are available to businesses in enterprise zones are governed by legislation and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has no proposals for any change in the rules.
Mortgage Arrears
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what information he has on the number of people six to 12 months in arrears on their mortgage repayments.
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Mr. Ryder : The latest available figures show that at end 1989 there were approximately 58,000 mortgage loans six to 12 months in arrears. This represents less than per cent. of total owner-occupied dwellings in the United Kingdom.
Gilts
Mr. Allen : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he plans the next issue of gilts.
Mr. Ryder : The Government's funding policy is as set out in annex A to chapter 2 of the 1990-91 "Financial Statement and Budget Report". Gilt issues and purchases will be made as this policy dictates.
Dublin Docks
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he plans to amend the designation of the Dublin docks area as a high-tax area for the purposes of the controlled foreign companies' legislation.
Mr. Lilley : The Inland Revenue maintains and publishes a list of countries, some of which are qualified in respect of particular provisions in their law, in which companies can operate without coming within the controlled foreign companies legislation. That list is kept under review and updated when necessary in the light of changes is the tax provisions of other countries.
Income
Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish in the Official Report the method by which he calculates personal real disposable income.
Mr. Lilley : Personal disposable income is calculated by deducting from total personal income before tax the sum of United Kingdom taxes on income, social security contributions, payments of the community charge, but not, in the past, payments of rates and transfers abroad. Real personal disposable income is derived by dividing personal disposable income by the consumers' expenditure deflator--the ratio of consumers' expenditure at current prices to consumers' expenditure revalued at constant
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prices. A description of the personal sector and of the methods of calculating the various compoenents of the personal disposable income calculation can be found in chapter 6, part A of the Central Statistical Office's "United Kingdom National Accounts : Sources and Methods".Parallel Currencies
Mr. Sedgemore : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he has discussed his proposals for parallel currencies with (a) the President of the European Commission and (b) the president of the Bundesbank ; whether he has any plans to do so before the intergovernmental conference ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lilley [holding answer 26 June 1990] : As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer said on 21 June in reply to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Richmond and Barnes (Mr. Hanley) at column 655, he will be discussing his proposals further with his colleagues in the European Community, over the coming weeks.
Mr. Sedgemore : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on his proposals for parallel currencies as outlined in his speech to the German Industry Forum.
Mr. Lilley [holding answer 26 June 1990] : I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer my right hon. Friend the Chancellor gave my hon. Friend the Member for Richmond and Barnes (Mr. Hanley) on 21 June, at column 655.
CIVIL SERVICE
Census
Mr. Skinner : To ask the Minister for the Civil Service what are the reasons for the Central Office of Information's decision to recruit a private advertising firm to undertake a publicity campaign to promote the April 1991 census ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Ryder : I have been asked to reply.
The census offices have commissioned the Central Office of Information to assist them in a publicity campaign to create public awareness of the 1991 census. The Central Office of Information will be handling this work in the same way as it handles work for other Government Departments. The Central Office of Information will be appointing an advertising agency, as it does for all Government advertising campaigns.
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Missions (Fax Machines)
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which missions abroad are fitted with fax machines.
Mr. Sainsbury : Most of our posts overseas are fitted with facsimile machines. I refer the hon. Member to the current edition of the "HM Diplomatic Service Overseas Reference List", a copy of which is in the Library of the House, which provides facsimile numbers in each case.
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Europe Day
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what contribution was made by Her Majesty's Government to Europe Day on 8 May.
Mr. Maude : My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister contributed a message to a volume prepared by the Jean Monnet Foundation to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Schuman plan.
The United Kingdom was represented at the ceremonies in Brussels for Europe Day on 8 May by Her Majesty's permanent representative to the European Communities.
China
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the Minister of State's visit to China in July represents any change in the policy of no high level contacts with China ; and if the visit's discussions will be limited to the question of Hong Kong.
Mr. Maude : It has always been accepted by our European partners that we have a special need to maintain contact and gradually to rebuild good working relations with China over Hong Kong. My visit is in pursuance of that aim. Details of the programme remain to be settled, but it is intended that the discussions should cover Hong Kong and other issues of common concern.
Republic of Ireland
Mr. Trimble : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the occasions, if any, at international conferences or meetings within the last five years when Her Majesty's Government have formally rejected or objected to the territorial claim over the United Kingdom contained in the constitution of the Republic of Ireland.
Mr. Hurd : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to a similar question on 20 June 1990. British delegates at all international conferences and meetings explicitly represent the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and this clearly demonstrates our position.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Football Clubs
123. Mr. Geraint Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what analysis he has made of the steps being taken by football clubs to implement the findings of the Taylor report.
Mr. John Patten : Analysis of responses to inquiries made last year of the police, fire authorities and local authorities, which are responsible for the issue of safety certificates, about implementation of the urgent recommendations of the interim report of the Hillsborough inquiry indicated that nearly all of them had then been implemented at football league grounds, as had many of the non-urgent recommendations. The majority of the safety
recommendations of the final report which are aimed at football clubs comprise recommendations which
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were in the interim report, with the exception of those on all seated accommodation. We shall be looking to the Football Licensing Authority to check the progress of clubs towards the introduction of all-seated accommodation at football league grounds.Scientific Expertise
Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what response he has made to the representations of Sir David Napley that scientific and forensic expertise ought to be made available to defences.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : My right hon. and learned Friend has received no direct representations from Sir David Napley on the availability of scientific and forensic expertise for the defence although we are aware of his recent newspaper article on the subject. The establishment of forensic science units independent of the Government is a matter for private initiative.
Dog Fighting
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many prosecutions have been brought for dog fighting in England in each of the last five years ; and by whom such prosecutions were brought ;
(2) how many prosecutions have been brought for dog fighting in Wales in each of the last five years ; and by whom such prosecutions were brought.
Mr. John Patten : Information collected centrally does not distinguish offences relating to dog fights from other offences under the Protection of Animals Act 1911.
Firearms
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has regarding the number of specialist civilian firearms officers employed by police forces to supervise the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 ; and what steps he is taking to promote their use.
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