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review of the whole rescue operation as part of its investigation and that the role of Thames division of the Metropolitan police will be covered in the chief inspctor's report.HOME DEPARTMENT
General Elections
Mr. Barry Fields : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what proportion of recycled paper is used in general elections by the returning officers ;
(2) how many reams or tonnes of paper are used for general election notices, regulations and ballot papers ;
(3) if he will estimate the increased consumption of paper required for the simplest form of proportional representation.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The information is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Some forms of proportional representation might require little or no increase in the volume of paper used at an election.
Crime Statistics
Mr. Ernie Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many deaths in England and Wales were as a result of assault with (a) a household axe, (b) a kitchen knife, (c) a Stanley knife and (d) a coal hammer in each year since 1980 ; (2) how many convictions for grievous bodily harm in England and Wales were as a result of assault with (a) a household axe, (b) a kitchen knife, (c) a Stanley knife and (d) a coal hammer in each year since 1980.
Mr. John Patten : Information on the exact weapon used is not collected for cases of homicide, although the table gives the number of homicides each year between 1980 and 1988 where the principle weapon was a "sharp instrument" or a "blunt instrument" ; the figures for 1989 are not yet available.
Information is not collected centrally on the type of weapon used in offences which lead to grievous bodily harm convictions.
Year |Sharp |Blunt
|instrument|instrument
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1980 |158 |62
1981 |175 |55
1982 |191 |68
1983 |150 |68
1984 |187 |76
1985 |180 |65
1986 |220 |67
1987 |202 |82
1988 |198 |49
Police Housing Allowances
Mr. Shersby : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish details of the new force housing allowance for each of the 43 police forces in England and Wales.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for fixing the new housing allowance lies with the police authority concerned. I understand that the standard housing allowances for federated ranks in those authorities which have fixed a figure are as follows :
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|£
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Avon and Somerset |1,914.81
Bedfordshire |2,451.84
Cambridgeshire |1,970.77
Cheshire |2,381.47
Cleveland |2,041.91
Cumbria |1,920.24
Derbyshire |3,069.72
Devon and Cornwall |2,680.08
Dorset |2,200.68
Durham |1,766.04
Dyfed-Powys |1,842.00
Essex |3,447.51
Gloucestershire |2,719.21
Greater Manchester |2,022.49
Gwent |2,543.80
Hampshire |3,249.60
Hertfordshire |2,880.00
Humberside |2,424.00
Kent |3,117.70
Leicestershire |2,346.00
Merseyside |1,818.11
Norfolk |2,579.31
Northumbria |1,513.42
North Wales |2,012.28
North Yorkshire |3,212.41
Nottinghamshire |2,244.00
South Wales |2,850.43
South Yorkshire |1,998.52
Staffordshire |1,935.40
Suffolk |3,181.44
Surrey |2,932.92
Sussex |2,425.28
Thames Valley |3,428.36
Warwickshire |2,937.69
West Mercia |2,560.00
West Midlands |2,206.99
West Yorkshire |2,293.46
City of London |4,133.77
Metropolitan |4,133.77
In Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Wiltshire a figure has not yet been finally fixed.
Kevin Taylor
Mr. Beith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 18 June to the right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris) Official Report, column 429, if he will name the independent senior officer appointed in respect of matters related to the case of Mr. Kevin Taylor.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The Police Complaints Authority announced on 19 July that Chief Superintendent Rothwell of the Merseyside police has been appointed to conduct this investigation, under its supervision.
Prisons (Suicides)
Mr. Grocott : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many males aged (a) 15, (b) 16, (c) 17, (d) 18, (e) 19 and (f) 20 years committed suicide or attempted suicide whilst in prison establishments in England and Wales during 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 and thus far in 1990.
Mr. Mellor : The number of male inmates between the ages of 15 and 20 who died by their own hand in prison service establishments in England and Wales in the years 1986 to 1990 is shown in the table. The figures in brackets give the number of cases where a verdict of suicide was returned at the coroner's inquest. Total figures for attempted suicides in prison service establishments have been held centrally since 1989--I would refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Cheltenham (Sir C. Irving) on 12 March at column 18 --but a breakdown of this information by age group is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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Death of 15-20 year olds at their own hand in prison custody 1986-90
Age Total
|15 |16 |17 |18 |19 |20
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1986 |- |- |- |- |4(2) |1(1) |5(3)
1987 |- |- |1(1) |1(1) |1(1) |4(4) |7(7)
1988 |- |- |2(2) |2(1) |3(3) |2(1) |9(7)
1989 |- |- |- |<1>4(3) |7(4) |- |<1>11(7)
1990 |<1>1(-) |- |- |<1>3(-) |<1>1(-) |- |<1>4(-)
<1> Inquests have yet to be held on the inmates who have died in 1990 and on one
of the 18-year-old inmates who died in 1989.
Police Forces (Annual Reports)
Mr. Wiggin : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which police forces have not yet published their annual report for the year ended 31 December 1989 ; and if the Chief Inspector of Constabulary has been informed of this.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : I understand that all police forces have now published their annual reports for the year ended 31 December 1989.
Juvenile Prisoners
Mr. Grocott : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many boys aged 15 and 16 years were being held in gaols in England and Wales on remand and after sentence on the latest available day.
Mr. Mellor : According to the records held centrally, on 30 April 1990, the latest date for which this information is
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readily available, 65 untried, 19 convicted unsentenced and 19 sentenced juvenile males were held in prisons and remand centres in England and Wales. Of these, 44 untried and 18 convicted unsentenced juveniles were held in remand centres for prisoners aged under 21.Mr. Grocott : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many boys aged 15 and 16 years were being held in (a) Hull, (b) Swansea and (c) Leeds gaol on the latest available day.
Mr. Mellor : The numbers held on 19 July were :
|Number
----------------------
Hull |12
Swansea |5
Leeds |0
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Hindley Remand Centre
Mrs. Wise : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are in custody at Hindley remand centre ; what recent significant changes there have been in this number ; and for how many prisoners it is intended.
Mr. Mellor : On Friday 20 July 1990, the latest date for which information is available, 420 people were held in custody at Hindley remand centre. The average population at the establishment in 1989-90 was 389, but since the disturbances at Manchester prison in April this year the population at Hindley has averaged around 429. The recent transfer of sentenced young offenders awaiting allocation from Hindley to Stoke Heath young offenders institution has relieved some of the pressure. Further relief is planned when some of the convicted, unsentenced young offenders held at Hindley are also transferred to Stoke Heath. This should happen within the next two weeks. The certified normal accommodation at Hindley remand centre is currently 312.
Prison Population
Mr. Squire : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the current ratio of prisoners to prison officers ; and what it was in 1979.
Mr. Mellor [pursuant to his answer, 12 July, 1990, c. 320] : The officer to inmate ratio on 1 June 1990 should read 1 : 2.201.
Metropolitan Police
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis on the steps being taken to halt the decline in applications from ethnic minorities to join the Metropolitan police ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 16 July 1990] : The Commissioner is committed to recruiting and retaining more members of ethnic minority communities. Earlier this year the height requirements for entry to the Metropolitan police, which represented above average heights in certain ethnic minority communities, were abolished. A pre-employment course has been introduced for candidates who have completed the selection process and who have the potential to be successful police officers but have narrowly failed the police initial recruitment test.
Research was undertaken to find out why people from ethnic minority communities may or may not want to join the police and what they think a career in policing may be like. The current multi-media advertising campaign which targets the recruiting effort towards ethnic minority communities drew on the results of this research. Further research is under way to find out why some officers from ethnic minority communities resign prematurely from the service.
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps are being taken by the Metropolitan police to encourage more women to join the force ; and what information he has regarding the representation of women in the higher ranks.
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Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 16 July 1990] : In March of this year the Metropolitan police and the Equal Opportunities Commission issued a report of their collaborative exercise. The exercise began in 1984 and continued for four years. It concentrated particularly on the recruitment, deployment and career prospects of women in the Metropolitan police.
The Commissioner is committed to ensuring that the Metropolitan police offers--and is perceived as offering--good career opportunities to all members of society. Since the abolition of the quota system, which limited women officers to 10 per cent. of force strength, in 1984 there has been a considerable increase in the recruitment of women ; 25 per cent. of recruits are now women.
The Commissioner is looking at ways of making the service more attractive to women, both to increase further the number of recruits and to improve retention. He has arranged research into job sharing and part-time working and more formal career breaks to enable women to raise families and still return to the service. The outcome of this research is under consideration.
The representation of women in the rank of chief inspector and above in the Metropolitan police is as follows :
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Strength on 31 De
|Women|Total
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Commissioner; Deputy Commissioner;
Assistant Commissioner |Nil |6
Deputy Assistant Commissioner |Nil |18
Commander |1 |38
Chief Superintendent |3 |168
Superintendent |6 |254
Chief Inspector |8 |496
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for information from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis on how many new recruits in Newham in 1989 were (a) from ethnic minorities, (b) women and (c) both ; and how many officers from the ethnic minorities there are stationed in Newham and at what ranks.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 16 July 1990] : The London borough of Newham is policed by West Ham and Plaistow divisions and the total number of new recurits posted to these divisions in 1989 was 53 of whom 12 were women ; none were members of ethnic minority communities.
On 15 July 1990 there were eight officers from ethnic minority communities serving on West Ham and Plaistow divisions : seven constables and one sergeant.
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps are being taken to put into practice the agreed consultation between the London borough of Newham and the Metropolitan police prior to the production of the Commissioner's Strategy report in January 1991 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 16 July 1990] : Each Metropolitan Police division prepares plans which highlight their objectives for the year. These help to inform the Commissioner's strategy statement. In Newham the chief superintendents from Plaistow and West Ham divisions discuss objectives with a sub-group of the police consultative group in that borough. Two councillors sit on the sub-group.
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Hong Kong
Mr. Channon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any proposals to give additional assurances to the spouses of British citizens resident in Hong Kong about their right of entry to the United Kingdom.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : All spouses of British citizens have the assurance that under the immigration rules they would be entitled to settle in the United Kingdom with that British citizen provided that :
(i) the primary purpose of the marriage was not to obtain admission to the United Kingdom ;
(ii) the parties to the marriage have met and intend to live permanently together ; and
(iii) the parties can maintain and accommodate themselves adequately without recourse to public funds.
In view of the concern felt by British citizens in the particular circumstances of Hong Kong about the position of their spouses if they died, we have given an assurance that the widow or widower of a British citizen resident in Hong Kong at the time of his death will be allowed to settle in the United Kingdom at any time, either before or after 1997, as if coming here as the spouse of a British citizen. To benefit from this assurance the widow or widower must still be resident in Hong Kong and not have remarried. In addition, we have decided that this assurance--which originally excluded those who were nationals of a third country--should now be available irrespective of the widow or widower's nationality.
We are in addition making arrangements whereby the spouse of a British citizen resident in Hong Kong may approach the Hong Kong immigration department with evidence of the marriage. The details will be noted in a register of non-British citizen spouses of British citizens and the spouse will be given a formal letter issued on my right hon. and learned Friend's behalf confirming that the holder is married to a British citizen. The letter will explain that the spouse is eligible to settle in the United Kingdom providing that the immigration rules requirements are met. It will also include an assurance that a later application for entry clearance will be given priority treatment in view of the information which has already been noted. We are still finalising the details of this, but we hope it will be possible to start providing this service very soon. I believe that the assurances we have given, and the new arrangements for recording and confirming spouse's details, should remove any fears which British citizens in Hong Kong may have had about their spouses' position and they need feel no reason to leave Hong Kong simply to secure their spouses' immigration status.
Police Interviews
Mr. Lawrence : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what are his plans for the introduction of video recordings of police interviews with suspects ;
(2) what are his plans for the introduction of video recording of police interviews with suspects.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : We have no such plans at present. Officials are keeping in touch with experimental schemes for the video recording of interviews with suspects which are being carried out in some police forces.
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Child Care
Mr. Leighton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has had with, and what representations he has received from, the CBI and individual employers, about the part they can play in providing child care.
Mr. Patten [holding answer 18 July 1990] : Home Office Ministers have not been directly involved in dicussions with employers about child care, nor has the Home Office received any representations from employers. The role of the Home Office, through the Ministerial Group on Women's Issues, which I chair, is to co-ordinate action by responsible Departments. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Employment has made known employers' views on child care when it has been considered at the ministerial group.
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
European School, Culham
Mr. Meale : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the likely liability of Her Majesty's Government for the funding of the European school at Culham in the financial years 1989-90, 1990-91 and financial years thereafter ; and if he will indicate the principal items of expenditure for each year and the number of pupils and staff at the school in the current year.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The cost of maintaining the European schools is shared between individual member states and the European Commission. In the case of the European school at Culham the Government are responsible for the costs of maintaining the school's premises and for the costs of the national salaries of the United Kingdom teachers which it seconds to the school. Premises costs in 1989-90 were £219, 000, and in 1990-91 are expected to amount to £456,000 ; costs in future years have yet to be settled. Salaries costs for United Kingdom teachers in 1989-90 were £346,000, and in 1990-91 are expected to amount to about £400,000 ; subject to national salaries increases for teachers in the United Kingdom, expenditure in future years is expected to be on the same pattern. There will be 827 pupils and 111 teaching staff, of whom 18 will be United Kingdom teachers, in the school at the start of the academic year beginning this September.
GCSE
Mrs. Beckett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what target the Government has for the percentage of 16 to 18-year- olds who will have five GCSEs at grade A to C or better or equivalent (a) in the current year and (b) by 1995.
Mrs. Rumbold : The Government's objectives are to promote a significant increase in attainments of this age group through the introduction of the national curriculum and improvements in the GCSE and other qualifications. It would not be appropriate in our view to establish quantified targets for such attainments. Such targets could imply that the Government have control over the outcome, which is not the case ; and there is a risk that their promulgation could lead to adjustments in the standards demanded, so that the targets would be reached on paper.
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It is for pupils themselves, their teachers and schools, to strive to achieve the highest possible success rate within the context set by Government policy.Attainment Statistics
Mr. Straw : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will publish tables for each local education authority and for England, giving the four benchmarks of attainment, adjusting the data to take account of socio-economic background in a manner consistent with statistical bulletins 12/83 and 13/84.
Mr. MacGregor : No. We have considered this, but adjustments to the attainment data to allow for socio-economic background would have to be based on data from the 1981 census of population, which would no longer accurately reflect the current position in all local education authorities.
Prosthetics and Orthotics Courses
Mr. Orme : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations his Department has received regarding the delay in funding prosthetics and orthotics courses at Salford and their consequences ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Jackson : My right hon. Friend received four letters earlier this year about proposals to establish courses in prosthetics and orthotics jointly at Salford university and Salford college of technology. It is for higher education institutions themselves to determine the priority they give to such developments, in consultation with the funding councils as appropriate.
Higher Education Corporations
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what plans he has to publish a guide to the law for governors of higher education corporations ; and if he will list the published guidance already available.
Mr. Jackson : My right hon. Friend has no such plans ; nor has he a list of existing guidance published elsewhere. It is for each individual higher education corporation governing body to conduct its own affairs within the framework provided by the relevant provisions in the Education Reform Act and the corporation's articles of government, and taking its own legal advice as necessary.
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information his Department records on the number of complaints and the frequency with which directions are issued under section 68 of the Education Act 1944 in respect of higher education corporations.
Mr. Jackson : Complaints in respect of higher education corporations are received, considered and, when a response has been made, placed on departmental files in the normal way.
Ministerial Speeches
Mr. Terry Davis : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many copies of the summary of messages from his recent speeches to teacher associations have been distributed to schools.
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Mrs. Rumbold : More than 76,500 copies of the Secretary of State's summary from recent speeches to teacher associations have been distributed to schools.
Student Loans
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what would be the estimated difference in cost to the Exchequer in financial years 1990-91, 1991-92 and 1992-93 of (a) the student loans scheme and (b) the grants system.
Mr. Jackson : The information is as follows :
<1>Costs of
|<2>Loans |<3>Grants
|scheme |scheme
£ million |£ million
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1990-91 |193 |222
1991-92 |227 |267
1992-93 |248 |304
Notes
<1> In academic years on the basis of
forecast student numbers underlying the
forecast of costs and savings
associated with the introduction of the
loans scheme published on 18 December
1989 at columns 36-40. Information on a
financial year basis is not available
in the form requested.
<2> Including the forecasts of loans
outlay, repayments and estimated
administration costs.
<3> On the hypothesis that what the
Government intend should be available
for each eligible student as loan will
instead be given as grant.
Teaching (Recruitment)
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proposals he has to recruit bright young people into the teaching profession ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Alan Howarth : Bright young people completing first degrees are an important source of teachers.
Initial teacher training bursaries are available to attract students to train to teach in shortage subjects. A number of innovative and more flexible courses are starting this autumn. The teaching as a career unit attends university careers fairs and places advertisements specifically designed to attract new graduates into teacher training. Young, first- degree students responding to the current national teacher advertising campaign are sent information packs specially compiled to meet their interests and needs. A work experience scheme in schools is being made available for students this September, and teaching taster courses will also be extended to undergraduates.
High Schools (Redundancies)
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement concerning the number of staff redundancies in high schools in England since 1 January 1989.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The employment and deployment of teachers is a matter for local education authorities and, following the introduction of local management of schools from April 1990, for governing bodies of schools with delegated budgets.
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Soviet and East European Studies
Mr. Pawsey : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will now make a statement on the recommendations of the Wooding report on Soviet and east European studies in higher education.
Mr. Jackson : The Government welcomed the proposal to review the state of Soviet and east European studies in British higher education, and is grateful to the Universities Funding Council for commissioning the review undertaken by a working party under the chairmanship of Dr. Norman Wooding. A copy of the report on that review has been placed in the Library. While some of the recommendations in the report are addressed to the Government, many of them are for consideration by individual higher education institutions, the agencies that fund them and other bodies. The Universities Funding Council issued the report to universities. I am sure that they will have examined carefully its conclusions and proposals as they prepared their academic plans for future years, taking into account both national priorities as well as local circumstances. The council will be responding to those plans when it decides how to allocate funding to each university. The Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council is engaged in similar planning and funding processes with its institutions.
The Department has been considering the recommendations to which it is proper for the Government to respond, and consulting other Government Departments and organisations.
Government funding is helping to develop Soviet and east European studies. The Prime Minister announced the creation of additional lectureships during her recent visit to the Soviet Union. The scheme will be administered by the British Council through a special advisory committee whose members will include Dr. Wooding. The sum involved will be in the order of £300,000 over the financial years 1991-92 to 1993-94. The aim is to establish up to 10 posts, with the costs to be shared with the higher education institutions and other sources including the private sector. I hope that this initiative will encourage higher education institutions to develop their provision in Soviet and east European studies.
In addition, both the Economic and Social Research Council--ESRC--and the British Academy are at present using a substantial proportion of their budgets to support activities in this field with the number of ESRC studentships in this subject area more than doubling over the past four years. There are currently 25 research postgraduates and 12 postgraduates on advanced courses being supported by council funds, and I understand that the council stands ready to award more studentships as suitable applicants come forward. In addition, the council is embarking on a major research initiative to investigate the economic, social and political changes occurring in eastern Europe, and is also funding 18 other projects in the field of Soviet and east European studies.
The total public funding made available to universities, polytechnics and colleges in 1990-91 is being increased by some 10 per cent. over the funding available in 1989-90, and should allow institutions to plan for growth in different areas, including Soviet and east European Studies. It will, however, continue to be for the institutions themselves, in consultation with the funding councils, to determine how such funding will best be distributed.
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The responsibilities of the funding councils for funding their respective institutions were given statutory effect through provisions of the Education Reform Act 1988. This Act also extended the university tradition of self-government and self-regulation to all higher education institutions. The processes for allocating public funds for higher education pay due regard both to the funding councils' responsibilities and to the institutions' autonomy in using the public funds at their disposal. As a consequence, the DES does not earmark funds for specific purposes such as Soviet and east European studies out of its general expenditure programme. Both the Government and the funding councils are adopting funding processes which avoid over-emphasis on central planning for higher education. The development of academic policy within individual institutions in the 1990s will be subject to a wider range of external influences. Student choice and the demands of employers will play a more important part. This approach is necessary to avoid past inefficiencies and produce a better match between national needs and the output of our educational system.For these reasons, it is not considered appropriate for the Government to set up the kind of central administrative body recommended in the Wooding report. A co-ordinating body which might help to define the market for Soviet and east European studies generally and encourage the involvement of the private sector may have a contribution to make, and I would hope that institutions would take the initiative in setting up such a body if they consider that their planning processes would be assisted by so doing.
I am sure that there is scope for greater collaboration between higher education institutions and industry in the field of Soviet and east European studies. The Wooding report hints at this and suggests some ways forward. There are now more opportunities for trade with the Soviet Union and the countries of central and eastern Europe than ever before. A growing number of business men are pursuing export and investment activities in eastern Europe and they should be made aware of the considerable expertise available in higher education which can help them to expand in these markets.
A network of language export centres has been set up to serve local businesses, and there are opportunities for sponsoring research and other activities in academic departments offering Soviet and east European studies.
Business men have often been reminded of the advantages of doing business in the language of the customer. If they make good use of the increasing number of students graduating in Soviet and east European studies, even more students will want to specialise in these subjects. And greater student demand will in turn prompt institutions to expand provision.
Finally, the Wooding report made some recommendations relating to the teaching of Russian in schools. The inclusion of a modern foreign language in the national curriculum and the Government's policy of diversifying first foreign language provision will help to rectify previous deficiencies in language learning generally. I am convinced that there will be more opportunities for learning modern languages such as Russian in our secondary schools as these policies take effect. Through various measures the Government are also addressing the shortage of language teachers and expanding the exchange programmes which involve teacher and pupil visits to the Soviet Union.
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All this should in time stimulate the demand for language teaching at the tertiary level, and work through to stronger provision for Soviet and east European studies in higher education.Medical Research Council
Mr. Rost : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the research projects and amount of funding by the Medical Research Council for each of the past five years, identifying those which relate to natural medicine.
Mr. Jackson [holding answer 17 July 1990] : Details of all the research projects supported by the Medical Research Council are listed in its handbook, published annually, copies of which have been placed in the Library of the House. Total expenditure by the council on research projects in the period 1985-86 to 1988-89 was :
|£ million
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1985-86 |117.9
1986-87 |123.5
1987-88 |132.7
1988-89 |146.2
An expenditure figure for 1989-90 will be available at the end of July. The council takes natural medicine to mean homeopathy. It has not supported any research relating to homeopathy in the last five years. In the general area of complementary medicine, the council has recently funded the trial of chiropractic treatment of low back pain. It is always willing to consider soundly based proposals in competition with other applications.
City Technology Colleges
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the criteria for deciding whether to approve the establishment of city technology colleges on sites occupied by existing schools at the time of application.
Mrs. Rumbold [holding answer 20 July 1990] : I refer the hon. Member to the paper "CTCs established in existing schools", which has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Recess (Members' Facilities)
Sir Geoffrey Finsberg : To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will list in detail the reductions to the services and facilities available to hon. Members which take place during the summer recess in both the main buildings and the Norman Shaw blocks.
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