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We want the resources deployed in the YTCs to be better used to provide a higher quality and more cost-effective service. This might be achieved by unifying the service at its current level of 70 available places on the Birmingham site. Conclusions will be made public by the end of the year.Blood Supplies
Mr. Robin Cook : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will give for each region the units of blood supplied to private hospitals for each year since 1979 ;
(2) how many units were handled by the blood transfusion service in each year since 1979 by regional transfusion service.
Mr. Dorrell [holding answer 26 June 1990] : The available information is given in the tables. Data giving units of blood supplied to private hospitals were not collected prior to 1982. Figures essentially for years before 1987, are likely to be incomplete because regional transfusion centres were not always informed of issues from hospital blood banks.
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Number of units of blood issued to non-NHS hospitals and clinics by blood transfusion centres in England and Wales-1982 to 1988
Blood transfusion centre |1982 |1983 |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988
Northern |0 |2,236 |1,739 |1,722 |1,678 |1,360 |879
Yorkshire |0 |0 |950 |1,589 |2,443 |6,432 |2,116
Trent |331 |102 |2 |0 |20 |546 |2,662
East Anglia |2,078 |1,864 |1,690 |1,758 |1,655 |1,441 |3,502
North West Thames |14,580 |19,439 |22,413 |21,512 |21,955 |24,127 |24,202
North East Thames |6 |0 |0 |0 |127 |2,620 |3,357
South East and South West Thames |9,141 |10,174 |10,433 |13,885 |17,857 |16,350 |19,134
Wessex |0 |257 |1,342 |2,333 |2,523 |5,879 |4,301
Oxford |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |4,359 |0
South Western |1,259 |1,241 |4,338 |4,032 |2,315 |3,658 |3,008
West-Midlands |2,628 |3,512 |3,601 |4,431 |10,154 |9,086 |5,095
Mersey<1> |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |1,362 |1,438
North Western |1,414 |1,961 |2,724 |3,065 |3,313 |5,302 |6,058
Wales<2> |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |1,839 |209
|------ |------ |------ |------ |------ |------ |------
England and Wales |31,437 |40,786 |49,232 |54,327 |64,040 |84,361 |75,961
<1> Covers Mersey regional health authority and North Wales.
<2> Covers South and Mid Wales.
Figures may be unreliable as the data submitted by many of the transfusion centres are incomplete.
For the years 1979 to 1981 the following figures relate to the number of donors reporting at blood transfusion centres. From 1982 onwards the figures are those of actual donations received.
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Transfusion centre |1979 |1980 |1981 |1982 |1983 |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988
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Northern |139,797 |145,938 |144,880 |134,392 |133,039 |131,947 |133,544 |128,321 |120,878 |122,267
Yorkshire |147,875 |157,078 |155,653 |143,626 |152,874 |154,905 |149,128 |146,119 |134,463 |133,088
Trent |146,554 |153,587 |163,187 |162,229 |166,362 |174,425 |169,680 |174,976 |186,605 |197,746
East Anglia |90,954 |93,350 |93,406 |84,629 |86,275 |87,650 |86,393 |90,012 |91,536 |92,195
North West Thames |184,273 |187,042 |197,504 |180,644 |183,033 |189,246 |190,048 |199,731 |193,372 |192,004
North East Thames |169,066 |169,238 |170,966 |145,472 |145,241 |136,647 |138,875 |136,722 |135,439 |142,716
South East and
South West Thames |268,240 |277,720 |285,737 |256,589 |301,029 |302,097 |282,738 |277,696 |268,585 |282,188
Wessex |89,376 |95,584 |96,902 |90,030 |93,889 |95,719 |94,088 |93,990 |95,931 |95,484
Oxford |123,565 |125,859 |128,299 |115,997 |118,822 |119,689 |111,129 |104,609 |104,537 |107,805
South Western |182,513 |186,274 |186,808 |172,462 |171,678 |170,859 |168,169 |175,570 |180,057 |182,008
West Midlands |194,823 |199,051 |201,019 |195,332 |193,048 |200,128 |199,389 |199,290 |199,320 |216,485
Mersey |123,059 |129,680 |123,433 |115,478 |119,604 |117,589 |121,642 |123,190 |112,659 |108,387
North Western |190,029 |202,523 |209,886 |179,351 |179,844 |181,638 |180,133 |181,587 |176,843 |176,328
Wales |94,360 |97,112 |98,051 |82,763 |91,102 |96,087 |94,104 |96,637 |94,091 |92,109
England and Wales |2,144,484 |2,220,036 |2,255,731 |2,058,994 |2,135,840 |2,158,626 |2,119,060 |2,128,450 |2,034,316 |2,140,810
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TRANSPORT
Railway Inspectorate
Mr. Hayward : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he has reached conclusions on the future location of the railway inspectorate.
Mr. Parkinson : I have now completed my consultations with my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Employment and the chairman of the Health and Safety Commission. It has been agreed that an agency agreement should be made with the commission for the discharge of my railway safety functions and for the transfer of the railway inspectorate to the Health and Safety Executive, where its identity would be maintained. These arrangements will come into effect in the autumn.
Bicycles
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what practical steps he has introduced to encourage the use of bicycles as an alternative to cars in urban areas.
Mr. Atkins : Both car use and cycling are matters of personal choice. Cycling remains one of the least safe modes of transport, so our main role must be to help make it safer. People will then feel freer to cycle and will be more prepared to allow their children to do so.
My Department continues to promote safer cycling through the publication of technical advice and guidance based on our research and application studies. We have announced recently changes in the criteria for transport supplementary grant under which local highway authorities will be able to bid for grants for local safety schemes, which can include cycling provision. This is in addition to the cycle elements of major highway and traffic management schemes which will still be eligible for grant.
Car Journeys
Mr. Tony Lloyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment he has made of the impact on traffic speeds in London and other urban areas if the number of car journeys were to decrease by 10 per cent.
Mr. Atkins : Traffic speeds in urban areas are influenced by a number of factors such as road and junction capacity, parked vehicles, signal timings, roadworks, time of day and weather conditions. Other things being equal, a reduction of 10 per cent. in car traffic might lead to an increase in peak-hour speeds of between 5 and 20 per cent.
Northolt Airport
Mr. Harry Greenway : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) if, pursuant to his answer of 13 July, Official Report, column 347, he will estimate the implications of increased use of Northolt airport for aircraft noise in the area of the airport and increased road congestion to, from and around the airport ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) if he will meet a deputation of local residents and the hon. Member for Ealing, North to discuss the future of Northolt airport ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. McLoughlin : We have no proposals to increase the use of Northolt by civil aircraft, so estimates of possible
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effects would be speculative. A civil enclave is a separate issue. I am, of course, always willing to meet my hon. Friend.Public Inquiries
Mr. Mudd : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the annual expenditure of his Department on public local inquiries in each of the last 10 years, indicating the date, the cost and the duration of each inquiry.
Mr. Atkins : In 1989, the last full year for which information is available, 30 inquiries into trunk road schemes were held. Details available are as follows :
Scheme |Date |Duration
|(days)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
A41 Chester improvement |17 January |2
A595 Egremont bypass |6 February |3
A12 Capel St. Mary |14 February |1
A47 Norwich southern bypass |21 February |4
A3 Milford bypass |21 March |9
A5 Telford - Shrewsbury bypass |4 April |5
A523 Macclesfield relief road |11 April |2
A259 Guestling Thorn diversion |18 April |4
A49 Weaverham diversion |26 April |5
A422 Alcester |2 May |1
A6 Burton Latimer bypass |6 June |1
A259 Dymchurch |13 June |2
A66 Bowes bypass - County
boundary |20 June |2
A6 Improvement Derby |20 June |1
A65 Gargrave bypass |4 July |14
A339 Basinstoke northern bypass |4 July |1
A38 Alrewas - Barton |14 July |4
A40 Gipsey Corner |18 July |17
A590 Dalton-in-Furness bypass |9 September |5
A59 Mellor Brook bypass |26 September|4
A516 Etwall bypass |23 October |3
A47 East Dereham |31 October |2
A1 Gatenby Lane Leeming |7 November |10
A568 Widnes eastern bypass |8 November |4
M5 Warnden - Strensham |21 November |7
A12 Hackney Wick - M11 |21 November |29
A31 Stoney Cross junction |21 November |10
A1 Tempsford |28 November |8
A41/A421 Bicester bypass |28 November |3
A27 Crossbush bypass |12 December |3
Accurate costs to the Department of these inquiries, including consultants' fees and costs, are not identified separately from total scheme preparation cost. Costs of the elements such as inspectors' costs, which can be identified, and details of previous years' inquiries could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
River Thames (Accident Procedure)
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if the emergency accident procedure known as POLACAP was immediately put into effect on the night of 20 August 1989 after the collision of the Bowbelle and the Marchioness on the River Thames.
Mr. McLoughlin : The conduct of emergency procedures following the accident was examined in the investigation carried out by the marine accident investigation branch, and will be covered in the chief inspector's report when it is published.
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list all the emergency exercises carried out under the Port of London authority combined accident procedure in recent years.
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Mr. McLoughlin : The emergency exercises carried out under the Port of London authority combined accident procedure in recent years were :June 1986--PLAFIRE
October 1987--PLAFIRE
May 1988--NEPTUNE
Marine Craft
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many Government inspectors there have been, in each of the last 10 years, inspecting (a) pleasure craft and (b) non-pleasure craft for seaworthiness.
Mr. McLoughlin : The number of Department of Transport surveyors in marine offices available to carry out such inspections in each of the last 10 years was as follows :
Date |Number --------------------------- 1 April 1981 |168 1 April 1982 |165 1 April 1983 |171 1 April 1984 |172 1 April 1985 |157 1 April 1986 |146 1 April 1987 |138 1 April 1988 |127 1 April 1989 |122 1 April 1990 |122
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many (a) pleasure craft and (b) non-pleasure craft using the River Thames have had their seaworthy licences withdrawn in each of the last 10 years.
Mr. McLoughlin : Some 135 passenger vessels operating on the River Thames are required to be periodically surveyed and certificated by the Department of Transport to ensure compliance with relevant safety provisions. Any serious deficiencies detected during random inspections must be corrected before the vessel is allowed to operate. In the past 12 months four vessels have had their certificates temporarily invalidated.
Larger non-passenger vessels are also subject to periodic survey and certification as well as random inspections. It is normal practice to detain a vessel found to have serious deficiencies until they are corrected rather than withdraw certificates. In the past 12 months four vessels were detained.
Detailed information for earlier years is not readily available.
Airline Regulations
Mr. Denis Howell : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the international regulations that govern the actions of police on a national airline or in national airspace.
Mr. McLoughlin : The Tokyo convention of 14 September 1963 sets out the powers of the commander of an aircraft to protect the safety of the aircraft and its passengers and to maintain order on board, whilst the aircraft is in flight. It is a matter for the commander, and the law of the aircraft's state of registry, to regulate the use of the police for this purpose.
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Investment
Sir William Shelton : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list, year by year from 1974 to the present, with estimates for the next five years, the total investment by central Government in roads and London Underground in the Greater London area, and roads and British Rail countrywide.
Mr. Freeman : It is not possible to provide all the figures requested. No planning figures have been agreed for the period after 1992- 93 and allocations for investment in roads in London are made only one year ahead. It would be possible to identify the total investment by central Government in roads in Greater London before 1982-83 only at disproportionate cost.
£ million
Investment in
|<1>Roads |<2>London |<3>National|<4>British
|in |Underground|roads in |Rail
|London |England
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1974-75 |n.a. |36 |286 |124
1975-76 |n.a. |43 |403 |171
1976-77 |n.a. |50 |393 |200
1977-78 |n.a. |44 |313 |214
1978-79 |n.a. |47 |330 |245
1979-80 |n.a. |65 |408 |300
1980-81 |n.a. |78 |478 |337
1981-82 |n.a. |91 |568 |310
1982-83 |30 |82 |684 |269
1983-84 |21 |110 |651 |277
1984-85 |20 |143 |726 |404
1985-86 |54 |168 |754 |412
1986-87 |85 |187 |794 |411
1987-88 |88 |274 |908 |543
1988-89 |62 |264 |935 |590
1989-90 |118 |371 |1,296 |715
Plans
1990-91 |131 |546 |1,758 |1,052
1991-92 |n.a. |711 |1,818 |1,258
1992-93 |n.a. |812 |1,920 |1,421
n.a.=not available.
<1>Central Government expenditure on new construction and the
improvement of motorways and trunk roads in Greater London. Includes
costs of works, land and design supervision but excludes maintenance
expenditure.
<2>Funds for investment in London Underground Limited are allocated by
London Transport (LT). Prior to 1984-85, the Greater London Council
were responsible for funding LT. Figures up to and including 1983 are
for calendar years. Expenditure on Jubilee Extension and Dockland Light
Railway is included.
<3>Gross capital spend by central Government on national roads in
England only.
<4>Covers Great Britain. Includes investment in BR Engineering Ltd., BR
Maintenance Ltd., Freightliner, Road Transport Organisation and BR
Property Board but excludes expenditure on continuously welded rail
which is now classified as maintenance. Figures up to and including
1983 are for calendar years. The figure for 1984-85 covers a 15-month
period; the 12-month equivalent was £323 million.
Merchant Ships
Sir John Farr : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what was the increase in United Kingdom merchant shipping tonnage for 1989.
Mr. McLoughlin : There was no increase.
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Unroadworthy Vehicles
Mr. Waller : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many deaths and serious injuries each year can be attributed to the use of unroadworthy vehicles.
Mr. Atkins : The police complete a standard accident report form called STATS19 for each personal injury accident that occurs on public roads. The information requested is not recorded on the STATS19 accident report form and is therefore not available.
Road Safety
Mr. Waller : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will give the number of (i) deaths, (ii) serious injuries and (iii) slight injuries relating to passengers on (a) stage carriage services and (b) other bus and coach services which occurred in the last three years for which figures are available, expressed in terms of number per million passenger miles.
Mr. Atkins : The police complete a standard accident report form called STATS19 for each personal injury accident that occurs on public roads. The information requested--subdividing buses and coaches into stage carriage services and others--is not recorded on the STATS19 accident report form and is, therefore, not available. Casualty rates for all public service vehicles, whether or not in stage operation, are given in table 26 in "Road Accidents Great Britain", a copy of which is in the Library.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Colin Wallace
13. Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what response he has sent to the letters about Kincora which he has recently received from Colin Wallace.
Mr. Cope : The letters will be replied to shortly.
Investment
14. Mr. Robert G. Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on inward investment in Northern Ireland.
Mr. Needham : Northern Ireland has achieved its best-ever year for inward investment since the Industrial Development Board was formed in 1982. A total of 14 projects were secured promoting almost 2,000 new jobs.
38. Mr. Ian Bruce : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the progress of inward investment in the Londonderry area and the jobs created.
Mr. Needham : Of the 14 new inward investment projects secured by the Industrial Development Board in 1989-90, three have chosen to locate in Londonderry, promoting 620 new jobs.
43. Mr. Andy Stewart : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the current levels of private sector investment in Belfast.
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Mr. Needham : I am pleased to report that private investment in Belfast has increased dramatically in recent years. In the city centre alone, major projects completed in the past five years, under way or programmed total £573 million. In addition, during the past five years the Industrial Development Board has backed industrial projects with a total planned investment of £177 million.
Government
15. Mr. Gow : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what proposals he has for the better government of the Province.
Mr. Brooke : The Government would consider any proposals likely to prove stable and durable which would command widespread support and provide an appropriate role for both sides of the community.
Local Government
16. Mr. Bill Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he has any plans to introduce local government structures and responsibilities in Northern Ireland.
Mr. Brooke : Local government structures and responsibilities already exist in Northern Ireland. The Government would give serious consideration to any workable proposals for more local involvement in the government of Northern Ireland, if they seemed likely to command widespread acceptance. However, in their talks with us, the Northern Ireland parties have indicated their support for the establishment of a form of locally accountable administration for Northern Ireland as a whole.
Legislation (Amendment)
17. Mr. John D. Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what proposals he has to extend to Northern Ireland legislation the same provisions in respect of amendment as exist for Great Britain and United Kingdom legislation.
Mr. Brooke : If the right hon. Gentleman has any proposals, he knows that I should be happy to discuss them with him.
UK-Irish Relations
18. Mr. Canavan : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether he expects to discuss United Kingdom-Irish relations at his next meeting with representatives of the Government of the Republic of Ireland.
Mr. Brooke : At my next meeting under the Anglo-Irish Agreement with representatives of the Government of the Republic of Ireland, I expect to discuss the range of issues which normally arises at such meetings, just as I did on 17 July.
Labour Statistics
19. Mr. Summerson : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the current levels of employment in Northern Ireland.
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Mr. Needham : At March 1990, the latest date for which figures are available, there were an estimated 524,840 employees in employment. This is the highest figure for March since 1980.32. Mr. Cryer : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the latest unemployment figures for Northern Ireland.
Mr. Needham : At 14 June 1990, the latest date for which figures are available, there were 95,055 unemployed claimants in the Province, representing 13.6 per cent. of the work force. Seasonally adjusted unemployment has fallen for 17 consecutive months and is at its lowest level for over eight years.
Blood Transfusion Service
20. Mr. Butler : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on his plans for the development of the blood transfusion service.
Mr. Needham : Final approval has now been given to a new £7.7 million blood transfusion centre on the Belfast city hospital site. Construction of the new centre, which will be purpose built and will provide the most modern and up-to-date facilities, is expected to start early in 1992 and should be completed within two years.
Multiple-handicap Young People
21. Rev. Martin Smyth : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what provision is being made in Northern Ireland for the education of children and young people with visual and audio multiple handicap.
Dr. Mawhinney : At the pre-school stage, support from the education sector can take the form of assistance to parents at home by teachers from special schools or from the peripatetic teaching service, or by attendance of the child at a nursery school or unit. Toy and book libraries are also available.
Provision for children of compulsory school age is made at primary or secondary schools or in special units attached to such schools, or in special schools. In addition, a support service based in the Jordanstown school advises schools in the field of visual impairment and this is supplemented by the board's peripatetic service which provides a support and counselling service for children with hearing difficulties.
Anglo-Irish Agreement
22. Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the future of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
34. Mr. Pawsey : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he has any plans to amend the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
Mr. Brooke : I refer the hon. Member and my hon. Friend to the answer I gave earlier today to the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner).
25. Mr. Grocott : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement concerning the discussions to find an agreement for transcending the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
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Mr. Flannery : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the trilateral talks to find an agreement to transcend the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
Mr. Riddick : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the talks he is holding with various political parties in Northern Ireland and the Eire Government.
Mr. Brooke : I refer the hon. Members and my hon. Friend to the answer I gave earlier today to my hon. Friend the Member for Berkshire, East (Mr. MacKay).
40. Mr. Corbett : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he next hopes to meet the Foreign Secretary of Ireland to discuss the workings of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
45. Mr. McAvoy : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he next expects to meet the Foreign Secretary of the Republic of Ireland to discuss the workings of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
Mr. Brooke : I expect to meet the Irish Minister of Foreign Affairs at the next meeting of the intergovernmental conference which is likely to take place within the next few weeks. We are likely to discuss the normal range of issues falling under the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
Security
23. Mr. Duffy : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the security situation in Northern Ireland.
41. Mr. Molyneaux : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the security situation in Northern Ireland.
Mr. Brooke : I refer the hon. Member and the right hon. Member to the answer which I gave earlier today to the hon. Member for Liverpool, Mossley Hill (Mr. Alton).
General Practitioners' Lists
24. Mr. A. Cecil Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what proposals the Government are considering to give patients the right of appeal when removed from general practitioners' lists.
Integrated Education
26. Mr. Charles Wardle : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the development of integrated education.
Dr. Mawhinney : Since the coming into effect last February of the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, a number of schools have approached the Department of Education for advice about integrated status.
The Department of Education has received proposals for the establishment of two new grant-maintained integrated schools and three existing independent integrated schools are also seeking that status. In addition, seven existing grant-aided schools have begun the procedures to achieve either grant-maintained or controlled integrated status.
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Devolution
27. Mr. Barry Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what representations he has received regarding the devolution of powers to the Province from Westminster ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Brooke : I have been engaged in discussions since January with the main constitutional parties in Northern Ireland. These discussions have, in part, considered how progress might be made towards a transfer of powers from Westminster to locally elected representatives. I have also received, from time to time, representations from various organisations and individual members of the public.
Making Belfast Work"
28. Mr. Cran : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the progress being made under his Department's "Making Belfast Work" initiative ; and what resources have so far been committed to it.
Mr. Needham : The "Making Belfast Work" initiative was launched in July 1988 to reinforce, through specifically targeted programmes, the efforts being made to address the economic, educational, social and environmental problems in the most disadvantaged areas of Belfast. The initiative is delivered under a strategy published in January 1989, which is designed to address problems of unemployment, lack of skills, low educational achievement, poor health and a bad environment.
More than 100 separate projects--large and small--were operational during 1989-90 ; of these, more than 80 are being continued or expanded in the current financial year in addition to 40 new projects which have been introduced. There are encouraging signs of progress ; for example in 1989- 90 LEDU, the Local Enterprise Development Unit--Northern Ireland's small business development agency--promoted 1, 100 jobs in the "Making Belfast Work" areas, a trebling of its performance prior to the initiative ; almost 3,000 people were placed in jobs or training by eight local job clubs and new job markets in the Falls and Shankill areas ; the Whiterock further education centre had around 2,000 people enrolled on 80 different courses ; almost 1, 000 people undertook open learning training ; and there were significant improvements in immunisation uptake rates, particularly in north and west Belfast. Particularly encouraging is the fact that during 1989-90 unemployment fell in virtually every ward in the initiative area, and the recently announced Springvale project is an exciting opportunity for a major economic regeneration initiative in the heart of north and west Belfast.
A total of £92.5 million has been provided for the initiative for the period 1988-89 to 1992-93, of which £10 million was spent in 1988-89, £15 million in 1989-90 and for which £22.5 million is available in each of the years 1990-91, 1991-92 and 1992-93. This is in addition to the extensive resources already allocated to Departments' mainstream programmes in the "Making Belfast Work" areas.
Maintaining and accelerating the progress achieved to date requires a comprehensive and sustained effort involving the Government, the private sector and the local community.
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