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Written Answers to Questions
Wednesday 4 July 1990
TRANSPORT
Oil Spillage, West Coast
59. Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what emergency provisions have been made to cover the event of an oil spillage off the west coast of Scotland.
Mr. McLoughlin : Because it is impossible to predict where or when a tanker accident may occur, the marine pollution control unit's (MPCU) contingency plan consists of highly mobile resources on short-notice standby positioned at various locations around the United Kingdom, from where they can be deployed quickly to the west coast of Scotland or any other part of the United Kingdom that may be threatened by a major oil spillage.
Local authorities on the west coast of Scotland all have their own contingency plans for dealing with coastal pollution and can call on advice and assistance from the MPCU, which in a major spillage would co-ordinate onshore clean-up operations as well as directing offshore activities. This is to ensure a fully integrated response. The MPCU is this year holding its annual major counter-pollution exercise off the west coast of Scotland to test the effectiveness of plans to deal with an oil spillage in that area. The exercise will take place on 4 and 5 July in the North Minch and will involve local authorities in both the Isle of Lewis and the Scottish mainland.
Disability
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will state what steps he intends to take following the report of the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee on access for disabled people to buses and coaches ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Freeman : The committee worked closely with my Department in drawing up its "Recommended Specification for Buses Used to Operate Local Services", published in June 1988. This includes features such as lower steps, textured and colour-contrasted handrails, bus stopping signs, step edge markings, and bell pushes which can be reached by seated passengers.
Among other initiatives to promote the use of the specification, my Department has produced a video, "Welcome Aboard", illustrating the features recommended by the committee and demonstrating the benefits to passengers with disabilities.
The main DPTAC recommendations have also been proposed by my Department for inclusion in a draft EC directive on bus and coach construction.
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Motorway Construction
Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many miles of motorway are (a) being planned and (b) under construction for the Greater Manchester county.
Mr. Atkins : A total of 31 miles of new motorway are being planned. In addition we plan to widen 25 miles of existing motorway. No new motorways are currently under construction in Greater Manchester.
Roads, Devon
Mr. Speller : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) when the South Molton information signs will be erected on the north Devon link road ;
(2) if he will visit north Devon to inspect the north Devon link road one year after completion ;
(3) when the 60 mph restriction signs will be erected on the north Devon link road ; and if he will make a statement upon the provision of emergency telephones along this road.
Mr. Atkins : The application for information signs on the link road near South Molton is being considered, but the road safety implications of additional signs are a cause for concern. I have no plans to visit the link road. Nor have I any plans to install 60 mph speed limit signs on the road. The national speed limits already apply : there are reminder posters about the limits at the picnic areas, and reminder signs in the laybys.
New-style emergency phones are being installed by the RAC and AA (with a contribution from the Department). I understand that these will be operational very shortly.
ENVIRONMENT
Ozone-depleting Chemicals
Ms. Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list those chemicals which he has assessed to be safe substitutes for ozone-depleting chemicals.
Mr. Trippier : Discussions are taking place today and tomorrow in Brussels on the package of tests which will be necessary for the assessment of the substitutes for ozone-depleting chemicals.
Recycling
Mr. Atkinson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has any proposals to encourage and support small businesses to establish a door-to-door collection service for the recycling of metal cans ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : The Environmental Protection Bill contains a range of measures which will assist and promote the segregation of waste for recycling. Collection authorities will have a duty to draw up recycling plans and when doing so be required to liaise with all relevant organisations in their areas, including private sector companies. Waste disposal authorities will be required to pass to collection authorities the savings that accrue because refuse has been recycled rather than passed to
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them for disposal--and this may be passed on to benefit both voluntary groups and small businesses. Other provisions of the Bill will allow authorities to specify environmentally favourable options for waste disposal, such as recycling, even if they are not the cheapest in financial terms. Stricter controls on waste disposal by landfill and other means will increase their costs and so make recycling more attractive. The forthcoming White Paper on the environment will set out our further plans for recycling. The Government are also working with local authorities to develop projects like recycling city in Sheffield and Cardiff where segregated collection systems are being carried out on a trial basis and which can, when fully evaluated, be used as models for future practice. We shall be providing comprehensive advice to local authorities to assist them in the development of recycling projects.National Rivers Authority
Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received about the level of funding of the National Rivers Authority.
Mr. Trippier : I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 5 June to the hon. Member for Dewbury (Mrs. Taylor) at column 489 .
Letting of Rooms
Mrs. Gorman : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what recent representations he has received about the statutory provisions applying to residents who wish to let out a room or rooms in their home ; and if he has any plans to reform the law.
Mr. Michael Spicer : The Department receives the occasional letter from hon. Members and the public about the statutory provisions applying to residents who wish to let out a room or rooms in their home. Changes were made in the Housing Act 1988 which completely deregulated such lettings. We have no plans to make any further changes to the legislation.
House Purchase Incentive Scheme
Mr. Fraser : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when the Department first made available £200,000 to Lambeth council for the cash incentive scheme for tenants wishing to buy properties in the private sector.
Mr. Michael Spicer : My officials wrote to Lambeth on 27 March 1990 giving approval in principle to a cash incentive scheme in 1990-91 for which £200,000 in supplementary credit approvals will be available as part of the Government's homeless initiative. The supplementary credit approvals will be issued as grants are actually paid out.
Warrington and Runcorn Development Corporation
Mr. Hoyle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment which contracts were awarded by Warrington and Runcorn development corporation to business ventures on the basis of competitive tendering.
Mr. Chope : No contracts were awarded by Warrington and Runcorn development corporation to business ventures on the basis of competitive tendering.
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Mr. Hoyle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his reply of 27 June to the hon. Member for Warrington, North, how the value of services provided to Warrington and Runcorn development corporation by business ventures was assessed in order for the corporation to make appropriate reductions for the use of its property ; how the rentable value of that property was assessed by Warrington and Runcorn development corporation ; and which business ventures made use of Warrington and Runcorn development corporation property for 30 months.
Mr. Chope : The basis of the fees paid to business ventures by Warrington and Runcorn development corporation was that they should not exceed the costs which the corporation would have had to bear if the function had remained in-house. The fees payable were initially based on payroll costs and direct expenses and were exclusive of accommodation costs. Thereafter, as the business ventures began to undertake work for other clients, the corporation reduced its fee payments to reflect the use made of its accommodation in providing these services. The engineering business venture, involving a merger with Rendel Palmer and Tritton, made use of corporation accommodation for 30 months.
Mr. Hoyle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answers to the hon. Member for Warrington, North of 27 June, what were the three largest redundancy payments made to Warrington and Runcorn development corporation staff who joined business ventures employed by the corporation ; and to which officials they were paid.
Mr. Chope : The three largest redundancy payments made to staff of Warrington and Runcorn development corporation who joined business ventures were as follows :
|£
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Chief Estates Officer (Runcorn) |45,328
Chief Engineer |44,264
Chief Legal Officer |43,507
World Cup Hooliganism
Mr. Pendry : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many representations his Department has received on the subject of deportations from Italy for alleged hooliganism at the World Cup tournament ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Moynihan : As of 3 July my Department had received 12 representations concerning the sending home of British citizens during the World Cup.
Waste Collection
Mr. Boscawen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how he intends that local authorities should charge for waste collected from mixed domestic and commercial property ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : The Collection and Disposal of Waste Regulations 1988 for simplicity define all waste arising from mixed hereditaments (now known as composite hereditaments)--that is, properties which are partly residential and partly used for trade or business--as commercial waste. Waste collection authorities do not
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charge for the collection of domestic waste, but may make a reasonable charge for commercial waste. However, circular 13/88 suggests that authorities, in setting the level of their charges, should recognise that some waste arises from the residential part of a composite property. We consider that all authorities should, once they have received a request to collect commercial waste from such properties, collect or empty free of charge at least one refuse sack or dustbin per week per property and should be prepared to consider alternative or additional arrangements on an individual basis.Water Metering
Mr. Hague : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects the results of the national water metering trials to be available ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Trippier : The second interim report on the national metering trials has been published by the water industry today and I have placed a copy in the Library.
Use of rateable values as a basis for water charges ceases to be lawful from April 2000. Water companies will have to decide what alternative method of charging to adopt for the future ; and metering--which is being adopted for many new properties, which do not have a rateable value--is one of the options being considered. Because it relates the size of a customer's bill to the
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amount of water used, it has been seen as potentially the fairest way of charging. But general metering will involve considerable expenditure, as the report demonstrates.The trials have now been under way for about 18 months and, in the majority of cases, customers have been charged on their consumption of water for about a year. The full results will not be known until the trials have been completed in about two years' time. In the meantime a considerable amount of information has been collected about the costs and problems of installing meters and this has been assembled in the second interim report.
The report provides valuable information which will contribute to the debate on what future methods of charging the industry should adopt. This will be carried forward by the consultation paper which the Director General of Water Services intends to issue later this year.
Local Government Finance
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, further to his reply to the hon. Member for Wentworth (Mr. Hardy) on 25 June, Official Report, columns 44-46, if he will detail the specific grants given to Bradford, Wandsworth and Westminster.
Mr. Chope [holding answer 2 July 1990] : The information, as given on the local authorities' 1990-91 budget returns, is as follows :
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Specific Grants 1990-91
|Bradford |Wandsworth |Westminster
|(£000) |(£000) |(£000)
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Rent Allowance Grant |13,201 |12,273 |17,600
Mandatory Student Awards Grant |9,593 |7,807 |1,700
Community Charge Benefit Grant |12,121 |5,160 |4,780
In-Service Teacher Training |1,507 |484 |347
Education Support |733 |511 |246
Training Agency (TVEI) |1,877 |102 |50
Work Related Further Education |0 |586 |350
Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council |0 |601 |0
Social Services Training |0 |80 |95
Aids and HIV |0 |39 |0
Magistrates' Courts |1,929 |0 |0
Probation |2,483 |0 |0
Civil Defence |0 |6 |2
Commonwealth Immigrants |6,553 |2,241 |1,642
Housing Benefit Administration |1,250 |1,165 |860
Home Insulation Grant |7 |2 |0
Improvement Grants and Area Improvement Grants |7,420 |7,344 |4,294
Urban Programme |2,541 |1,220 |138
Expenses of Rent Officers |0 |0 |972
Careers Service Strengthening |241 |73 |50
Sheltered Employment |168 |114 |39
European Community Grants |0 |5 |0
Transitional Relief Grant |2,911 |1 |20
Transitional Relief Preparatory Costs Grant |8 |0 |0
Transitional Relief Administration Costs Grant |89 |64 |0
Other |0 |0 |331
|------- |------- |-------
Total |64,632 |39,878 |33,516
Football (Arrests)
Mr. Pendry : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will list the 92 Football League clubs together with the total season's attendance for Football League matches, total number of arrests made at such matches and the number of arrests as a percentage of the total attendance, for the seasons 1987-88 and 1989-90 ;
(2) if he will publish a table showing the total attendance at Football League matches in England and
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Wales, the total number of arrests at such matches, and the number of arrests as a percentage of the total attendance, accurate to four decimal places, for the seasons 1987-88, 1988-89 and 1989- 90.Mr. Peter Lloyd [pursuant to his reply, 19 June 1990, c. 483] : The Association of Chief Police Officers is today publishing figures supplied by individual police forces relating to attendances and arrests at Football League matches in England and Wales during the season 1989-90.
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These figures are some guide to the level of offences committed at such football matches. The figures do not record the outcome or seriousness of the cases involved. Figures for individual clubs relate to arrests at the home ground in question, involving supporters of any club.Total figures for the last three seasons are :
|1987-88 |1988-89 |1989-90
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Attendances |17,968,965|18,366,143|19,360,194
Arrests |6,106 |6,185 |5,945
Arrests as percentage of attendance |0.0340 |0.0337 |0.0307
This indicates a 5.4 per cent. rise in attendances and a 3.9 per cent. fall in arrests between 1988-89 and 1989-90 : overall a reduction of 8.9 per cent. in arrests as a proportion of attendances.
Figures for individual clubs over the last three seasons are :
Season 1987-88
|Attendances |Number of | Arrest as
|arrests |percentage of
|attendances
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Aldershot |70,642 |39 |0.06
Arsenal |598,059 |153 |0.03
Aston Villa |403,836 |308 |0.08
Barnsley |168,339 |55 |0.03
Birmingham |188,722 |101 |0.05
Blackburn |211,120 |79 |0.04
Blackpool |96,935 |36 |0.04
Bolton |114,778 |21 |0.02
Bournmouth |168,757 |149 |0.09
Bradford |285,509 |197 |0.07
Brentford |105,430 |72 |0.07
Brighton |205,263 |34 |0.02
Bristol City |225,861 |21 |0.01
Bristol Rovers |84,753 |18 |0.02
Burnley |144,770 |90 |0.06
Bury |58,997 |5 |0.01
Cambridge |52,896 |29 |0.05
Cardiff |101,752 |43 |0.04
Carlisle |51,282 |27 |0.05
Charlton |173,629 |14 |0.01
Chelsea |408,538 |271 |0.07
Chester |580,096 |22 |0.04
Chesterfield |61,239 |21 |0.03
Colchester |40,607 |0 |0.00
Coventry |350,165 |194 |0.06
Crewe |51,828 |21 |0.04
Crystal Palace |215,496 |78 |0.04
Darlington |50,374 |5 |0.01
Derby County |343,107 |86 |0.03
Doncaster |43,223 |28 |0.06
Everton |555,692 |24 |0.00
Exeter |56,264 |83 |0.15
Fulham |116,454 |99 |0.09
Gillingham |106,260 |32 |0.03
Grimsby |76,541 |66 |0.09
Halifax |39,358 |38 |0.10
Hartlepool |48,972 |21 |0.02
Hereford |50,712 |28 |0.06
Huddersfield |150,334 |126 |0.08
Hull City |157,507 |38 |0.02
Ipswich |258,037 |99 |0.04
Leeds Utd |443,094 |184 |0.04
Leicester |223,049 |31 |0.01
Leyton Orient |90,322 |8 |0.01
Liverpool |791,977 |33 |0.00
Luton |161,884 |1 |0.00
Manchester City |428,655 |35 |0.01
Manchester United |783,099 |38 |0.00
Mansfield |90,894 |21 |0.02
Middlesbrough |321,219 |110 |0.03
Millwall |185,165 |44 |0.02
Newcastle |419,742 |149 |0.04
Newport |40,261 |35 |0.09
Northampton |126,578 |11 |0.01
Norwich |313,904 |32 |0.01
Notts County |144,824 |56 |0.04
Notts Forest |384,648 |130 |0.03
Oldham |147,995 |19 |0.01
Oxford |218,632 |105 |0.05
Peterborough |71,881 |15 |0.02
Plymouth |226,152 |29 |0.01
Portsmouth |324,780 |282 |0.09
Port Vale |88,126 |22 |0.02
Preston |139,998 |20 |0.01
QPR |265,813 |91 |0.03
Reading |150,352 |20 |0.01
Rochdale |44,903 |32 |0.07
Rotherham |84,107 |47 |0.05
Scarborough |70,504 |146 |0.21
Scunthorpe |74,405 |46 |0.06
Sheffield United |223,960 |60 |0.03
Sheffield
Wednesday |395,519 |90 |0.02
Shrewsbury |108,202 |68 |0.06
Southampton |290,617 |208 |0.07
Southend |79,320 |3 |0.00
Stockport |52,154 |17 |0.03
Stoke City |211,234 |57 |0.03
Sunderland |400,760 |80 |0.02
Swansea |100,957 |10 |0.01
Swindon |209,800 |67 |0.03
Torquay |67,434 |21 |0.03
Tottenham |517,970 |74 |0.01
Tranmere |76,847 |53 |0.07
Walsall |128,153 |47 |0.04
Watford |291,464 |43 |0.01
West Bromwich |222,261 |132 |0.06
West Ham |396,473 |149 |0.04
Wigan |86,776 |4 |0.01
Wimbledon |159,691 |49 |0.03
Wolverhampton |226,964 |132 |0.06
Wrexham |51,539 |17 |0.03
York |62,902 |62 |0.10
Season 1987-88
|Attendances |Number of | Arrest as
|arrests |percentage of
|attendances
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Aldershot |70,642 |39 |0.06
Arsenal |598,059 |153 |0.03
Aston Villa |403,836 |308 |0.08
Barnsley |168,339 |55 |0.03
Birmingham |188,722 |101 |0.05
Blackburn |211,120 |79 |0.04
Blackpool |96,935 |36 |0.04
Bolton |114,778 |21 |0.02
Bournmouth |168,757 |149 |0.09
Bradford |285,509 |197 |0.07
Brentford |105,430 |72 |0.07
Brighton |205,263 |34 |0.02
Bristol City |225,861 |21 |0.01
Bristol Rovers |84,753 |18 |0.02
Burnley |144,770 |90 |0.06
Bury |58,997 |5 |0.01
Cambridge |52,896 |29 |0.05
Cardiff |101,752 |43 |0.04
Carlisle |51,282 |27 |0.05
Charlton |173,629 |14 |0.01
Chelsea |408,538 |271 |0.07
Chester |580,096 |22 |0.04
Chesterfield |61,239 |21 |0.03
Colchester |40,607 |0 |0.00
Coventry |350,165 |194 |0.06
Crewe |51,828 |21 |0.04
Crystal Palace |215,496 |78 |0.04
Darlington |50,374 |5 |0.01
Derby County |343,107 |86 |0.03
Doncaster |43,223 |28 |0.06
Everton |555,692 |24 |0.00
Exeter |56,264 |83 |0.15
Fulham |116,454 |99 |0.09
Gillingham |106,260 |32 |0.03
Grimsby |76,541 |66 |0.09
Halifax |39,358 |38 |0.10
Hartlepool |48,972 |21 |0.02
Hereford |50,712 |28 |0.06
Huddersfield |150,334 |126 |0.08
Hull City |157,507 |38 |0.02
Ipswich |258,037 |99 |0.04
Leeds Utd |443,094 |184 |0.04
Leicester |223,049 |31 |0.01
Leyton Orient |90,322 |8 |0.01
Liverpool |791,977 |33 |0.00
Luton |161,884 |1 |0.00
Manchester City |428,655 |35 |0.01
Manchester United |783,099 |38 |0.00
Mansfield |90,894 |21 |0.02
Middlesbrough |321,219 |110 |0.03
Millwall |185,165 |44 |0.02
Newcastle |419,742 |149 |0.04
Newport |40,261 |35 |0.09
Northampton |126,578 |11 |0.01
Norwich |313,904 |32 |0.01
Notts County |144,824 |56 |0.04
Notts Forest |384,648 |130 |0.03
Oldham |147,995 |19 |0.01
Oxford |218,632 |105 |0.05
Peterborough |71,881 |15 |0.02
Plymouth |226,152 |29 |0.01
Portsmouth |324,780 |282 |0.09
Port Vale |88,126 |22 |0.02
Preston |139,998 |20 |0.01
QPR |265,813 |91 |0.03
Reading |150,352 |20 |0.01
Rochdale |44,903 |32 |0.07
Rotherham |84,107 |47 |0.05
Scarborough |70,504 |146 |0.21
Scunthorpe |74,405 |46 |0.06
Sheffield United |223,960 |60 |0.03
Sheffield
Wednesday |395,519 |90 |0.02
Shrewsbury |108,202 |68 |0.06
Southampton |290,617 |208 |0.07
Southend |79,320 |3 |0.00
Stockport |52,154 |17 |0.03
Stoke City |211,234 |57 |0.03
Sunderland |400,760 |80 |0.02
Swansea |100,957 |10 |0.01
Swindon |209,800 |67 |0.03
Torquay |67,434 |21 |0.03
Tottenham |517,970 |74 |0.01
Tranmere |76,847 |53 |0.07
Walsall |128,153 |47 |0.04
Watford |291,464 |43 |0.01
West Bromwich |222,261 |132 |0.06
West Ham |396,473 |149 |0.04
Wigan |86,776 |4 |0.01
Wimbledon |159,691 |49 |0.03
Wolverhampton |226,964 |132 |0.06
Wrexham |51,539 |17 |0.03
York |62,902 |62 |0.10
Season 1987-88
|Attendances |Number of | Arrest as
|arrests |percentage of
|attendances
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Aldershot |70,642 |39 |0.06
Arsenal |598,059 |153 |0.03
Aston Villa |403,836 |308 |0.08
Barnsley |168,339 |55 |0.03
Birmingham |188,722 |101 |0.05
Blackburn |211,120 |79 |0.04
Blackpool |96,935 |36 |0.04
Bolton |114,778 |21 |0.02
Bournmouth |168,757 |149 |0.09
Bradford |285,509 |197 |0.07
Brentford |105,430 |72 |0.07
Brighton |205,263 |34 |0.02
Bristol City |225,861 |21 |0.01
Bristol Rovers |84,753 |18 |0.02
Burnley |144,770 |90 |0.06
Bury |58,997 |5 |0.01
Cambridge |52,896 |29 |0.05
Cardiff |101,752 |43 |0.04
Carlisle |51,282 |27 |0.05
Charlton |173,629 |14 |0.01
Chelsea |408,538 |271 |0.07
Chester |580,096 |22 |0.04
Chesterfield |61,239 |21 |0.03
Colchester |40,607 |0 |0.00
Coventry |350,165 |194 |0.06
Crewe |51,828 |21 |0.04
Crystal Palace |215,496 |78 |0.04
Darlington |50,374 |5 |0.01
Derby County |343,107 |86 |0.03
Doncaster |43,223 |28 |0.06
Everton |555,692 |24 |0.00
Exeter |56,264 |83 |0.15
Fulham |116,454 |99 |0.09
Gillingham |106,260 |32 |0.03
Grimsby |76,541 |66 |0.09
Halifax |39,358 |38 |0.10
Hartlepool |48,972 |21 |0.02
Hereford |50,712 |28 |0.06
Huddersfield |150,334 |126 |0.08
Hull City |157,507 |38 |0.02
Ipswich |258,037 |99 |0.04
Leeds Utd |443,094 |184 |0.04
Leicester |223,049 |31 |0.01
Leyton Orient |90,322 |8 |0.01
Liverpool |791,977 |33 |0.00
Luton |161,884 |1 |0.00
Manchester City |428,655 |35 |0.01
Manchester United |783,099 |38 |0.00
Mansfield |90,894 |21 |0.02
Middlesbrough |321,219 |110 |0.03
Millwall |185,165 |44 |0.02
Newcastle |419,742 |149 |0.04
Newport |40,261 |35 |0.09
Northampton |126,578 |11 |0.01
Norwich |313,904 |32 |0.01
Notts County |144,824 |56 |0.04
Notts Forest |384,648 |130 |0.03
Oldham |147,995 |19 |0.01
Oxford |218,632 |105 |0.05
Peterborough |71,881 |15 |0.02
Plymouth |226,152 |29 |0.01
Portsmouth |324,780 |282 |0.09
Port Vale |88,126 |22 |0.02
Preston |139,998 |20 |0.01
QPR |265,813 |91 |0.03
Reading |150,352 |20 |0.01
Rochdale |44,903 |32 |0.07
Rotherham |84,107 |47 |0.05
Scarborough |70,504 |146 |0.21
Scunthorpe |74,405 |46 |0.06
Sheffield United |223,960 |60 |0.03
Sheffield
Wednesday |395,519 |90 |0.02
Shrewsbury |108,202 |68 |0.06
Southampton |290,617 |208 |0.07
Southend |79,320 |3 |0.00
Stockport |52,154 |17 |0.03
Stoke City |211,234 |57 |0.03
Sunderland |400,760 |80 |0.02
Swansea |100,957 |10 |0.01
Swindon |209,800 |67 |0.03
Torquay |67,434 |21 |0.03
Tottenham |517,970 |74 |0.01
Tranmere |76,847 |53 |0.07
Walsall |128,153 |47 |0.04
Watford |291,464 |43 |0.01
West Bromwich |222,261 |132 |0.06
West Ham |396,473 |149 |0.04
Wigan |86,776 |4 |0.01
Wimbledon |159,691 |49 |0.03
Wolverhampton |226,964 |132 |0.06
Wrexham |51,539 |17 |0.03
York |62,902 |62 |0.10
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
Rural Schools
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what special funding he proposes to small rural schools to assist delivery of the national curriculum.
Mrs. Rumbold : We are giving local education authorities specific grant support for the introduction of the national curriculum. There will be support for some £120 million expenditure this financial year, rising to nearly £170 million expenditure next financial year. This is in addition to the general revenue support grant funding which local authorities receive in support of spending. It is for authorities to decide how much to spend to help small rural schools to deliver the national curriculum.
Technical and Vocational Education Initiative
Mr. Jack : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has received from Lancashire about the extent to which schools in the county will be affected by plans to extend the technical and vocational education initiative.
Mrs. Rumbold : My right hon. Friend has received no representations about this.
Teachers' Pay
Mr. Hind : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has reached any conclusions on the future composition and organisation of the pay negotiating body ; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Rumbold : My right hon. Friend is now considering the responses of the teacher unions and employers to his proposals for new permanent pay negotiation machinery. He will announce his conclusions in due course.
Mr. Skinner : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he next expects to meet representatives of teachers' trade unions regarding pay and conditions of service ; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Rumbold : My right hon. Friend has met representatives of the teacher unions on a number of occasions, and would expect to hold similar meetings in the future.
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LEA Staff
Mrs. Gorman : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many (a) teaching staff and (b) non-teaching staff were employed by local education authorities in each of the years 1960, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1980, 1985 and the latest date for which figures are available ; and what was the number of pupils on roll in each year listed.
Mr. Alan Howarth : Figures are given in the table. Information prior to 1970 is not readily available.
Full-time equivalents of teacher staff and pupils on roll in nursery,
primary and secondary schools maintained by local education
authorities in England in January 1970-1989
Thousands
|Teacher |Pupil |<1>Non-teaching
|numbers |numbers | staff
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1970 |328.7 |7,514.2 |n/a
1975 |417.6 |8,458.1 |409.4
1980 |438.1 |8,183.1 |400.0
1985 |405.3 |7,201.6 |361.8
1989 |397.4 |6,761.7 |381.3
n/a Not available.
<1> Figures in this column relate to all non-teaching education staff employed
by local authorities in England, not to nursery, primary and secondary schools
alone. All figures relate to March of each year.
Local Management of Schools
Sir David Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a list of education authorities with the percentage of their budget which is allocated in 1990-91 for local management of schools and the percentage retained as a centrally retained resource overhead.
Mrs. Rumbold : I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest (Mr. Norris) on 5 February 1990 at column 451.
School Meals
Mr. Clay : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the latest figures showing how many children take (a) school meals and (b) free school meals broken down into primary, secondary and special schools ; and what proportion of children present they make up in each case.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The information requested for maintained schools in England for January 1989 is as follows :
|Total number of | As a percentage|Total meals |As a percentage
|school meals | of all pupils |provided free | of all pupils
|provided |on roll |on roll
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Primary<1> |1,835,516 |46 |515,395 |13
Secondary |1,104,875 |38 |235,270 |8
Special |66,319 |71 |28,466 |31
<1> Includes nursery schools.
Schools Budget (Administration)
Mr. Oppenheim : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science for each county council local education authority, what percentage of the total schools budget, excluding capital expenditure, is spent on administration.
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Mrs. Rumbold : My right hon. Friend is still receiving budget statements prepared under section 42 of the Education Reform Act from local education authorities. As soon as he receives the great majority of returns the information requested will be published.Postgraduate Grants
Mr. Batiste : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he expects existing differentials in postgraduate studentship rates to continue ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. MacGregor : During the current academic year the main studentship rate set by the research councils under the schemes which they run has been £600 higher than that under the state studentship scheme run on my behalf by the British Academy. Following representations from the British Academy and others I have today agreed that the rates under the state studentship scheme should be increased for the coming academic year to bring them in line with those currently available under the research councils' schemes. I have also today accepted advice from the Advisory Board for the Research Councils, that some of the as yet unallocated funds within the science budget for 1991-92 should be allocated to help finance a £400 increase in the main studentship rate with effect from April 1991. I have invited the board's advice on how the planned increases in postgraduate awards fit within an overall strategy for postgraduate training and on the quantitative evidence about applications, enrolments, wastage and completion on which the strategies of the individual councils are based. So that scarce resources can be directed to areas of greatest need, I have informed the board that I would expect the councils to consider possibilities for the differentiation in future of studentship award rates, by year of study, by subject or type of training, or by geographical areas. I have invited the British Academy to proceed in the same fashion in relation to any further increase over and above that approved today.
Art and Music
Mr. Pawsey : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he intends to set up working groups to recommend attainment targets and programmes of study for art and music within the national curriculum for England and Wales ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. MacGregor : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales and I are today establishing working groups for art and music. The members of the groups are :
Art Working Group
Chairman:
Proffessor Colin Renfrew Master of Jesus College, Cambridge; Professor of Archaeology,
Cambridge
Members:
Giles Auty Art Critic, The Spectator
Gilroy Brown Head Teacher, Foundry JMI School,
Birmingham
Robert Clement Adviser for Art and Design, Devon
County Council
David Derrick Head Teacher, St Clement Dane's C
of E Primary School, Westminster
Gillian Figg Lecturer in Art Education, West
Glamorgan Institute of Higher
Education
Toby Jackson Head of Education, Tate Gallery,
Liverpool
Professor Leslie. R. Perry Emeritus Professor, University of London Institute of Education,
formerly Professor of the
Philosophy of Education at Kings
Collge, London
Peter Riches Head of Faculty of Creative Studies,
Eggbuckland School, Plymouth
Ray Smith Practicing Artist
Merrick Taylor Managing Director, Motor Panels
(Coventry) Ltd.
Lady Marina Vaisey Member of Fine Arts Advisory
Committee, British Council; mem-
ber of Crafts Council; art critic,
Sunday Times. Broadcaster
Music Working Group
Chairman:
Sir John Manduell CBE Principal, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
Members:
David Adams Head of music, Sawston Village
College, Cambridge
Dr. Kevin Adams Head of Music, Maesteg
Comprehensive School, Mid
Glamorgan
Michael Batt Freelance Musician and Composer
Michael Brewer Director of Music, Chetham's
(independant Specialist music)
School, Manchester
Philip Jones, CBE Principal, Trinity College of Music
Gillian Moore Education Officer, London
Sinfonietta
Professor George Pratt Head of Music Department,
Elburton Primary School, Devon
Julian Smith Director, W.H. Smith & Sons Ltd.
John Stevens ex-LEA Senior Staff Inspector for
music, and ex-HMI. Director of
Education, Trinity College of
Music from September 1990
Christine Wood Lovely Music, Tadcaster (specialist
suppliers of music to schools
The groups will advise on the attainment targets and programmes of study for art and music to be included within the national curriculum in England and Wales. We are grateful to the chairmen and members for having agreed to serve on the groups. An announcement on a working group for physical education will be made very shortly.
Copies of the terms of reference for the art and music working groups have been placed in the Library. These make clear that the attainment targets and programmes of study will not be prescribed in as much detail as for other foundation subjects.
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