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Clwyd |227,100
Dyfed |200,000
Gwent |245,300
Gwynedd |126,597
Mid Glamorgan |137,700
Powys |101,813
South Glamorgan |316,799
West Glamorgan |241,500
In many cases where a proposal involves participation by more than one agency, it has yet to be established how the funding will be apportioned. Some £96,000 has been allocated to the voluntary sector in respect of services being provided on an all-Wales basis.
School Nurses
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many secondary schools in each country in Wales are currently served by a school nurse based on the premises.
Sir Wyn Roberts : Information on the number of school nurses based on individual secondary school premises is not collected centrally. The numbers of secondary schools served by a school nurse in each county in Wales is as follows :
Number of secondary schools
served by a school nurse,
1988-89
|Number
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Clwyd |30
Dyfed |16
Gwent |17
Gwynedd |5
Mid Glamorgan |13
Powys |3
South Glamorgan |25
West Glamorgan |26
Wales |135
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make it his policy that a school nurse be provided at each secondary or high school in Wales.
Sir Wyn Roberts : This is a matter for determination locally.
Rural Housing
Mr. Gwilym Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he intends to issue planning guidance on land for low-cost housing in rural Wales.
Mr. Grist : There was an excellent and constructive response to the consultation which the Welsh Office carried out last year. Thirty-two local planning authorities and 16 other organisations wrote in reply to the Welsh Office letter and my right hon. Friend and I are grateful for the time and thought which they gave to the proposed planning guidance.
Most of the respondents supported the objectives of the guidance and agreed that in suitable places it would encourage the sale of land for low-cost housing at less than full residential value and hence reduce the cost of providing the accommodation itself. There were reservations about the degree of benefit, concern about possible adverse environmental effects of a large-scale growth of housing in rural communities and about the cost of servicing a proliferation of sites in villages, as well as many comments of detail.
My right hon. Friend has concluded that to complement existing policies for the provision of low-cost housing in rural areas planning guidance should be issued along the lines of the consultation paper. He recognises proper concerns about the environment and about design and will ensure that in the guidance the importance which he attaches to these will be emphasised. He will also take the opportunity to stress that the scale of provision which he envisages will not be great and certainly not such as to swamp any village with new houses or to put any community at risk because of overprovision of low-cost housing whose disposal is constrained to a low- priced local market. The guidance will be included in a comprehensive planning policy guidance note on land for housing. Meanwhile the Secretary of State takes the view that in considering planning applications for dwellings in rural areas local planning authorities may accept as a material consideration the fact that watertight arrangements are in place which will ensure that the proposed dwellings are available only to provide affordable accommodation for local people. The local planning authority will of course also have to take into account the provisions of the development plan and all other material considerations. In so doing, they will be expected to have regard to the environmental impact of the proposal on the community and to the need for sympathetic design as well as to the extent of the local housing need which the proposal sets out to satisfy.
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HOUSE OF COMMONS
Televising of the House
Mr. Allen : To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will list those organisations and individuals who can receive the television pictures of the House of Commons chamber, those who have terminated their receivers since the beginning of the experiment and those who have applied for a signal but have been refused.
Sir Geoffrey Howe : The list of organisations and individuals within the House and its outbuildings who receive a clean feed from the Chamber is as follows : Mr. Speaker ; Mr. Speaker's Secretary ; the Chairman of Ways and Means ; the Votes and Proceedings Office the Supervisor of Broadcasting ; and the Press Gallery, within which some broadcasting organisations have made their own separate arrangements. There are of course also monitors in each of the Division Lobbies.
In addition, I understand that some Government Departments have arranged through the Central Office of Information to take the clean feed, though this facility does not apply to Ministers' rooms in the House.
So far as organisations outside the House are concerned, all the main broadcasters within the United Kingdom,--the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky TV and BSB--are entitled under the terms of the first report of Session 1988- 89 of the Select Committee on Televising of Proceedings of the House to receive the clean feed. Westminster Cable TV has also been approved for this purpose. As regards foreign-based broadcasters, BBC and ITN make available on the daily Eurovision news exchange extracts from the clean feed of up to two minutes, while House of Commons Broadcasting Unit Ltd. has licensed WTN and Visnews to supply overseas customers with material from the House of Commons of not more than five minutes duration. In addition, House of Commons Broadcasting Unit Ltd. has licensed a large number of foreign broadcasters to take longer coverage, including :
Country |Broadcasting organisation
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Australia
|Channel 9
Canada |CBC
Germany
|ZDF
Hong Kong
|Asia TV
Ireland |RTE
Japan |NHK
United States
|CBS
|CNN
|C-Span
|NBC
House of Commons Broadcasting Unit Ltd. has also licensed the Press Association to provide newspapers with still photographs of the Chamber. These are made, using a freeze-frame technique, from a clean feed supplied for the purpose.
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There are a further 26 organisations, mainly in broadcasting or the press, who are already authorised to take a clean sound feed and who, on the basis of a policy decision taken by the Select Committee, are also entitled, without the need to seek separate permission, to take a clean television feed if they wish. I understand that very few of these organisations have in fact exercised their right to receive the television feed, although precise information about their identity is not readily available since as indicated, they do not need the approval of the Select Committee to do so. The full list of 26 is as follows :British Forces Broadcasting Service
Manx Radio
South African Broadcasting Corporation
National Public Radio (USA)
Radio stations affiliated to the National Association of Hospital Broadcasting Organisations
Scandinavian Broadcasting (Danish (DR), Finnish (YLE),
Norwegian and Swedish radio and television)
Voice of America
Falkland Islands Broadcasting
Associated Press Ltd.
IBS News Ltd.
Radio Television Hong Kong
Radio Basildon
London Broadcasting Co. Ltd. (who are authorised to supply the feed to national newspapers)
Israel Broadcasting Authority
Norddeutscher Fundfunk Hamburg
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Koln
Deutsche Welle, Koln
Wall Street Journal London Bureau
Reuters Ltd.
Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB)
Sound Productions (Overseas Promotions) Ltd.
TV Asahi
Christian Science Monitor
Telerate Europe/Gulf
Bank of England
New York Times London Bureau
I know of no case in which a person or organisation entitled to receive the clean feed has decided to stop doing so. Apart from the hon. Member, the only direct representation for the granting of a clean feed which the Select Committee has received and rejected was from the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Wallace), acting on behalf of his party.
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NORTHERN IRELAND
Extradition
Mr. Trimble : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether a request has been made at any time to the Government of the Republic of Ireland to implement article 2 of the European convention on the suppression of terrorism with regard to extradition between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Mr. Cope : At the last meeting of the Inter-Governmental Conference on 19 April, Ministers of both Governments commissioned officials to undertake a review of arrangements for dealing with fugitive offenders. We will continue to pursue these matters through the conference.
Social Security
Mr. McGrady : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps have been taken to improve the budgetary allocation in respect of the social fund to each of the social security offices in South Down.
Mr. Needham : This year's allocations to social security offices took greater account of the level of demand for social fund payments in each area. A copy of a paper describing the allocation formula is available in the Library.
Mr. McGrady : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the budgetary allocation to each of the social security offices in South Down in each of the years (a) 11 April 1988 to 31 March 1989, (b) 1 April 1989 to 31 March 1990, and (c) 1 April 1990 to 31 March 1991.
Mr. Needham : The information requested can be obtained from the Library.
Public Bodies (Losses)
Mr. Beggs : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish in statistical form the financial value of losses written off by each education and library board and each area health board in Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in each of the last seven years.
Mr. Cope : The information for the latest seven years available in each instance is as follows :
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Area health boards
Board |1982-83|1983-84|1984-85|1985-86|1986-87|1987-88|1988-89
|£ |£ |£ |£ |£ |£ |£
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Northern |45,102 |43,663 |46,568 |34,682 |45,711 |105,206|78,778
Southern |29,302 |116,817|21,445 |48,294 |137,260|87,317 |200,487
Eastern |224,852|177,355|114,550|123,710|117,135|101,753|397,693
Western |17,364 |32,828 |44,351 |9,894 |120,773|235,667|108,819
Area health boards
Board |1982-83|1983-84|1984-85|1985-86|1986-87|1987-88|1988-89
|£ |£ |£ |£ |£ |£ |£
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Northern |45,102 |43,663 |46,568 |34,682 |45,711 |105,206|78,778
Southern |29,302 |116,817|21,445 |48,294 |137,260|87,317 |200,487
Eastern |224,852|177,355|114,550|123,710|117,135|101,753|397,693
Western |17,364 |32,828 |44,351 |9,894 |120,773|235,667|108,819
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Northern Ireland Housing
Executive
|£
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1983-84 |798,829
1984-85 |758,451
1985-86 |1,149,130
1986-87 |1,459,219
1987-88 |1,601,077
1988-89 |1,194,274
1989-90 |1,216,838
Maternity Services
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is his policy on the integration of hospital-based maternity and community midwifery care ; whether he proposes to issue guidelines to health boards ; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. Needham [holding answer 19 June 1990] : In Northern Ireland there is an integrated hospital and community midwifery care service. The primary responsibility for deciding the most appropriate management arrangements which will ensure the continued provision of a high quality and cost-effective service rests with health and social services boards.
There are no proposals to issue any guidance.
Salmon
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many salmon were taken by commercial nets in the Foyle area by (a) drift nets, (b) draft nets, (c) fixed nets and (d) anglers in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
Mr. Peter Bottomley [holding answer 20 June 1990] : The information requested is as follows :
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|1980 |1981 |1982 |1983 |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989
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(a) Drift nets |29,822 |21,252 |37,165 |65,654 |18,299 |24,528 |32,280 |12,587 |17,321 |55,108
(b) Draft nets |16,438 |11,781 |20,304 |15,481 |10,292 |14,066 |12,709 |5,434 |16,176 |31,090
(c) Fixed nets |2,963 |1,748 |2,688 |2,117 |941 |1,927 |1,365 |462 |842 |330
(d) Anglers (declared catch) |1,134 |1,517 |2,125 |831 |379 |1,814 |1,172 |390 |960 |na
|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------
Total |50,357 |36,298 |62,282 |84,083 |29,911 |42,335 |47,526 |18,873 |35,299 |86,528
n.a Not available.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Terrorism
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish in the Official Report a table to show for each (a) police county and (b) police division, with breaks at each change of such administrative area, the number of deaths from terrorist action since 1 January 1969 until the latest available date, or as much of such information as is conveniently available to him.
Mr. Cope [holding answer 20 June 1990] : The following table details the total number of deaths due to the security situation in Northern Ireland since 1969. Figures have been compiled using current RUC divisional boundaries.
Deaths as a result of security situation 1 January 1969 to 31 May 1990 Division |Total --------------------------- A |323 B |430 D |632 E |49 G |62 H |418 J |135 K |189 L |171 N |282 O |62 P |44
SCOTLAND
Departmental Research (Expenditure)
Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total identifiable expenditure on research by his Department in each year since 1979 ; what proportion
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was awarded on a customer-contractor basis ; and what proportion of his total departmental budget was expended on research for each year.Mr. Rifkind : The information is in the following table. All of it was awarded on a customer-contractor basis.
£ million, cash
|Expenditure on |Percentage of
|research |departmental budget
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1979-80 |28.5 |1.6
1980-81 |35.7 |1.5
1981-82 |40.8 |1.6
1982-83 |42.8 |1.4
1983-84 |49.5 |1.8
1984-85 |53.3 |1.8
1985-86 |53.8 |1.7
1986-87 |53.4 |1.6
1987-88 |51.6 |1.5
1988-89 |54.6 |1.4
Local Government Finance
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he plans to take to encourage people entitled to transitional allowance and particularly pensioners to lodge claims both in 1989-90 and 1990-91 ; and whether he will consider an advertising campaign to that end.
Mr. Rifkind : The Scottish Office undertook an advertising campaign in the national press earlier this year and issued more than 150,000 leaflets explaining the scheme to local authorities and interested organisations. Additionally, most local authorities have made extensive efforts to encourage applications from pensioners and the disabled who may be eligible for increased relief under the scheme. We do not consider that any further action needs to be taken.
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Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the percentage of those entitled to transitional allowances on the poll tax in 1989-90 who have actually claimed.Mr. Rifkind : Ninety per cent. of those people estimated to be eligible for transitional relief should be identified automatically from local authorities' records. At this stage it is not possible to estimate the number of pensioners and the disabled who will receive increased relief for which application must be made.
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people in Scotland were liable to pay the poll tax in (a) 1989-90 and (b) 1990-91.
Mr. Rifkind : Returns from community charges registration officers indicate that, as at 5 September 1989, a total of 3,904,189 people were liable to pay the personal community charge. Comparable figures are not yet available for 1990, but in setting their community charges earlier this year, local authorities assumed that 3,887,531 people would be liable to pay the personal community charge in 1990-91. These figures include students, who are liable for only 20 per cent. of the community charge, but exclude those liable for collective or standard community charges.
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the number of second homes for each local authority, on the basis of information collected for the poll tax.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Information on second homes is not collected for the purpose of levying the community charges. The number of premises liable for the standard community charge for each district and islands council area as at 5 September 1989 is set out in the table.
|Number of standard
|charge premises
|September 1989
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Berwickshire |420
Ettrick and Lauderdale |372
Roxburgh |482
Tweeddale |235
Clackmannan |592
Falkirk |1,117
Stirling |1,876
Annandale and Eskdale |654
Nithsdale |886
Stewartry |872
Wigtown |846
Dunfermline |131
Kirkcaldy |441
North East Fife |1,731
Aberdeen |3,390
Banff and Buchan |2,005
Gordon |1,545
Kincardine and Deeside |1,260
Moray |2,060
Badenoch and Strathspey |1,021
Caithness |1,023
Inverness |1,350
Lochaber |916
Nairn |251
Ross and Cromarty |2,022
Skye and Lochalsh |868
Sutherland |1,033
East Lothian |2,273
Edinburgh |14,469
Midlothian |1,442
West Lothian |2,348
Argyll and Bute |5,085
Bearsden and Milngavie |257
Clydebank |910
Clydesdale |997
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |539
Cumnock and Doon Valley |780
Cunninghame |2,981
Dumbarton |1,620
East Kilbride |743
Eastwood |572
Glasgow |20,875
Hamilton |1,397
Inverclyde |1,869
Kilmarnock and Loudoun |1,092
Kyle and Carrick |1,502
Monklands |1,301
Motherwell |1,835
Renfrew |3,913
Strathkelvin |723
Angus |2,059
Dundee |4,699
Perth and Kinross |3,894
Orkney |700
Shetland |902
Western Isles |587
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Scotland Total |111,763
Hospital Laundering
Mr. Robert G. Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what capital expenditure has been incurred on the building of new national health service laundries and the renovation of existing laundry facilities over the last two years.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : No new laundries have been built in the last two years. Expenditure by health boards on renovating and upgrading laundries has been within their delegated expenditure limits. Details of this expenditure are not held centrally.
Mr. Robert G. Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what capital expenditure has been incurred by health boards on the purchase of new laundering and dry-cleaning equipment over the past two years.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : This information is not collected centrally.
Mr. Robert G. Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proportion of the capital expenditure incurred on the purchase of a new laundry and dry-cleaning machine and on the construction of new, and renovation of existing, laundry facilities over the past two years was for the creation of additional laundry capacity.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information requested is not held centrally. It is for individual health boards to determine what laundry facilities they require.
Housing
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the number of housing starts and completions in (a) Inverclyde district, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland as a whole in each quarter of 1988, 1989 and the first quarter of the current year.
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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The available information is set out in the following table. Figure for the period January to March 1990 are not yet available.Column 239
Housing starts and completions for years 1988 and 1989
Inverclyde Strathclyde Scotland
Year |Starts |Completions|Starts |Completions|Starts |Completions
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1988
Quarter 1 |30 |86 |2,280 |1,495 |5,208 |4,291
Quarter 2 |70 |37 |2,310 |1,954 |5,068 |4,494
Quarter 3 |27 |49 |1,671 |1,955 |4,488 |4,450
Quarter 4 |56 |29 |1,946 |2,147 |4,626 |5,020
1989
Quarter 1 |76 |49 |2,771 |1,946 |5,642 |4,707
Quarter 2<1> |156 |54 |2,930 |2,171 |6,058 |5,078
Quarter 3<1> |18 |51 |1,932 |2,170 |4,748 |4,679
Quarter 4<2> |86 |85 |2,112 |2,274 |5,090 |5,172
<1>Figures for Scotland include estimates.
<2>Figures for Strathclyde and Scotland include estimates.
Dog Fighting
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many prosecutions have been brought for dog fighting in Scotland during each of the last five years ; and by whom such prosecutions were brought.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Statistics on prosecutions for dog fighting are not separately identifiable in the Scottish Home and Health Department classification of crimes and offences.
Elderly People
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will list, by health board, the number of beds available in continuing care for elderly people in the national health service in Scotland.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The average number of available staffed beds for long term care of elderly patients, by health board is as follows :
Average available staffed beds year ending 31
March 1990
Health board |Number
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Argyll and Clyde |746
Ayrshire and Arran |610
Borders |192
Dumfries and Galloway |308
Fife |591
Forth Valley |515
Grampian |1,087
Greater Glasgow |1,599
Highland |392
Lanarkshire |853
Lothian |1,087
Orkney |51
Shetland |89
Tayside |652
Western Isles |108
Scotland |8,880
In addition, there was for all Scotland an average of 5,914 available staffed beds for geriatric psychiatry.
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will list, by health board, the number of beds in continuing care for elderly people which have been contracted out in Scotland.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth : The average numbers of available staffed beds in joint user and contractual hospitals for the year ending 31 March 1989, the latest date for which information is centrally available, were as follows :
|Number
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Argyll and Clyde |14
Greater Glasgow |24
Lanarkshire |54
Lothian |160
Scotland |252
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he is taking to ensure continuing care provision in the NHS for elderly people in Scotland.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The level of service provision is a matter for individual health boards taking account of local needs. The Government have endorsed the SHARPEN report "Scottish Health Authorities' Review of Priorities for the Eighties and Nineties" which gives the highest priorities to services for old people with dementia, in hospitals and in the community, and to care in the community with particular reference to services for elderly people.
Glasgow High Court
Mr. Allan Stewart : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to meet the future accommodation needs of the High Court in Glasgow.
Mr. Rifkind : Land has been purchased at the rear of the existing justiciary buildings, Glasgow, with a view to making provision for all the work of the High Court in Glasgow to be conducted on the Saltmarket site. Further preparatory work is in progress and court users and others will be consulted on the proposed provision in due course.
Redundancies
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list all notified redundancies in Scotland of more than 300 employees since 1979 giving the employer, date of announcement and number of jobs lost.
Mr. Rifkind [holding answer 13 June 1990] : Information cannot be provided in the precise form
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requested. The names of individual employers notifying redundancies to the Department of Employment are treated as commercial in confidence. Additionally, data on redundancies confirmed are unlikely to be complete, as employers are not obliged to advise the Department of Employment of the redundancies actually effected following notification. The remaining information sought is set out in the table.
Year |Redundancies |Number of |Redundancies
|notified |employees |confirmed
|(300 employees
|or more)
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1979 |29,515 |34 |<1>
1980 |19,003 |28 |<1>
1981 |25,081 |30 |<1>
1982 |23,292 |30 |<1>
1983 |18,210 |22 |11,948
1984 |11,243 |13 |7,691
1985 |10,030 |15 |8,262
1986 |8,612 |17 |4,370
1987 |7,806 |12 |4,618
1988 |8,121 |15 |2,661
1989 |19,203 |11 |4,866
<1>No information available.
Home Improvement Grants
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how the amount of the financial allocation for the new system of home improvement grants for the financial year 1991-92 will be determined.
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