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Description : Trust Fund agreement to use UNIDO as management agent for industrial sector.Status : Commenced April 1990.
Title : Book Presentation Programme
Description : Provision of essential books to
libraries/educational institutes--administered by the British Council.
Status : To be implemented.
Cost : £100,000 a year.
Title : Solidarity Economic Foundation
Description : Equipment for Gdansk centre.
Status : Completed March 1990.
Cost : £20,000.
Title : English Management Advisory Service
Description : Pilot programme to increase us‡33seage and quality of English by Polish Businessmen, involving establishment of a resource centre in Warsaw and a team of peripatetic trainers/advisers to work with regionally based Polish institutes and trainers. Status : Started September 1990.
Cost : £530,000.
Title : Management Training
Description : Contribution towards one year training programme in all aspects of International freight forwarding for two Polish trainees.
Status : Started July 1990.
Cost : £20,000.
Title : Polish Access to English
Description : Assistance to Ministry of Education to achieve a sustainable English Language teacher training programme through provision of :-- planning support for development of strategy ; EL teacher training ; curriculum development ; materials/equipment for new colleges.
Status : Started August 1990.
Cost : £454,000.
Title : Assets and Liabilities Restructuring
Description : One year secondment of member of Barclays Bank to assist Minister of Finance in analysis and restructuring of State banks.
Status : Started August 1990.
Cost : £45,000.
Title : Ministry of Industry--Industrial Restructuring Fund Description : Six month attachment of United Kingdom expert to upgrade the structure and management of the Industrial Restructuring Fund.
Status : Started July 1990.
Cost : £85,000.
Title : Stock Exchange Training
Description : Six month attachment for five Polish trainees with a firm of traders on the London Stock Exchange.
Status : To be implemented.
Cost : £105,000.
Title : Ealing Language Courses
Description : Two six week English Language training courses for Polish Vice-Ministers.
Status : Started July 1990.
Cost : £45,000.
Title : Accountancy Training Project
Description : Intensive five year programme of accountancy training in Poland.
Status : To be implemented.
Cost : £4,093,000.
Title : Police Training
Description : Project identification visit.
Status : Completed June 1990.
Cost : £4,000.
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Title : Polish Publishing HouseDescription : Four week secondment of United Kingdom expert to State Scientific Publishers (PWN) to advise on restructuring. Status : To be implemented.
Cost : £15,000.
Title : Coal Industry Training
Description : Additional training in colliery management techniques--two follow-up courses in United Kingdom ; six courses in Poland.
Status : Underway.
Cost : £186,000.
Title : Insurance Consultancy
Description : Restructuring of Polish State Insurance Company. Status : To be implemented.
Cost : £300,000.
Title : Assistance to Krakow Veterinary Hygiene Institute Description : Visit to United Kingdom institutions by 12 Veterinary Officers.
Status : Due to start October 1990.
Cost : £40,000.
Title : Overlay cellular telephone network
Description : Provision of consultancy advice on tender evaluation procedures.
Status : Started September 1990.
Cost : £42,000.
Title : Training of Polish Diplomats
Description : Training for 6 weeks of 10 students at the Diplomacy Acadamy of London (Polytechnic of Central London).
Status : Started October 1990.
Cost : £50,000.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Community Charge
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the poll tax benefit case load, as at 31May, for (a) Coventry, (b) Warwickshire and (c) each standard region.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as all the information becomes available.
Invalid Care Allowance
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans he has to raise the level of invalid care allowance to the level of other income maintenance benefits.
Mr. Scott : The Government are committed to increasing invalid care allowance in line with movements in the retail prices index.
Refugee Monitoring
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) when the refugee monitoring and review programme was started at Woodgrange Park house, Forest Gate, London ; and how many refugee cases were then in the office ;
(2) what method of identifying refugee status was used when fraud section staff inspected files at Woodgrange Park house, Forest Gate, London ;
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(3) how many fraudulent claims have been discovered through the refugee monitoring and review programme at Woodgrange Park house, Forest Gate, London.Mrs. Gillian Shephard : No system of monitoring and controlling claims from refugees has been used at Woodgrange Park house. Consequently, there has been no such identification of fraudulent claims. Normally statistics are not held on the number of claims from refugees, but in order to assess the resources needed to deal with an influx of claims, a special count was made on 19July 1990. Identification of these claims was made in the normal way from claim forms, and as a result a total of 1,200 claims from refugees was identified on that date.
Pensioners
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the number of men over retirement age ; and what number are in receipt of means-tested benefits.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : In mid-1988 there were approximately 3.5 million men over age 65 in Great Britain. Of these an estimated 1.1 million were in receipt of an income-related benefit.
Hostels
Mr. Carrington : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what arrangements he has made to transfer the money made available by the October 1989 changes in hostel dwellers' benefit entitlements to alternative funding sources.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : In line with the announcement made by my right hon. Friend the former Secretary of State on 16 March 1989 at columns 546-54, funds will be transferred from the Department of Social Security as follows :
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Department |Allocation
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Department of the |For local authority social ser-
Environment (for the |vices departments in England
Department of Health)
Home Office |For probation, bail and after
|care hostels
Scottish Office |For local authority social work
|departments in Scotland
Welsh Office |For all relevant hostels in Wales
In addition, a small proportion of the available total will be retained by the Department of Social Security for the Resettlement Agency.
The other Departments concerned will be initiating discussions about consequent arrangements for hostel funding from April 1991 with local authorities and other interested parties. Details of temporary payments currently being made to hostels by the Department of Social Security are being provided to these Departments to inform their discussions.
Mr. John Pattinson
Mr. Franks : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security when he expects the Medical Appeal Tribunal in Liverpool to arrange another hearing for Mr. John Pattinson, case no. L195/5/90, who first made a claim for industrial injury in 1983.
Mr. Scott : I have written to my hon. Friend.
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Benefit Payments (Reviews)
Mr. Pendry : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish the returns from each local office requested in circular RD TECH 100/90, showing the number of payments made and the total amount paid to claimants as a result of reviews following the commisioners' decisions CIS/144/89 and CIS/180/89.
Mr. Scott : Returns received up to and including 11 October 1990 are shown in the table.
Local Office |Number of |Amount
|payments
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Aberdeen South |1 |363.99
Aberystwyth |0 |-
Airdrie |9 |15,857.42
Arbroath |0 |-
Ashington |37 |12,838.00
Ashton-under-Lyne |18 |31,342.81
Balham |12 |9,689.82
Barnet |1 |366.80
Barnsley (East) |76 |26,027.84
Barnstaple |0 |-
Barrow-in-Furness |29 |10,480.60
Basildon |82 |27,929.20
Basingstoke |0 |-
Bathgate |0 |-
Birmingham (Erdington |30 |12,801.83
Birmingham (Northfield) |38 |12,884.17
Birmingham (Perry Bar) |28 |10,743.45
Birmingham (Sparkhill) |19 |11,959.38
Birmingham (Washwood Heath) |44 |18,677.90
Blackpool (South) |12 |4,538.71
Blackwood |38 |12,223.40
Blyth |35 |11,361.45
Bolton |15 |6,266.70
Boston |3 |1,074.20
Bournemouth |2 |838.40
Braintree |19 |31,508.33
Bridgend |4 |1,332.36
Bridgwater |0 |-
Bristol (Central) |2 |681.20
Bristol (East) |0 |-
Bristol (West) |0 |-
Burnley |29 |4,343.70
Buxton |1 |213.34
Campbeltown |2 |618.20
Cannock |2 |516.80
Chester |10 |3,376.41
Chester le Street |4 |4,319.40
Chesterfield |84 |78,827.79
Clydebank |10 |16,652.83
Colwyn Bay |1 |340.60
Coventry (East) |41 |13,797.76
Cowdenbeath |0 |-
Crawley |0 |-
Crewe |2 |3,623.61
Croydon |0 |-
Deeside |24 |n/k
Derby (Becket Street) |31 |40,979.59
Derby (Heritage Gate) |20 |6,864.40
Derby (London Road) |38 |n/k
Dewsbury |39 |13,979.04
Diss |2 |3,913.25
Dolgellau |0 |-
Doncaster (East) |1 |393.00
Doncaster (West) |12 |4,611.20
Dudley (North) |23 |11,126.58
Dumbarton |2 |428.08
Dumfries |0 |-
Dunfermline |0 |-
Durham |22 |7,846.55
Eastbourne |2 |759.80
Edinburgh (East) |1 |183.40
Edinburgh (South) |0 |-
Edinburgh (West) |0 |-
Elgin |3 |1,837.00
Epsom |0 |-
Exeter |1 |635.10
Folkestone |2 |733.60
Fort William |0 |-
Galashiels |37 |63,546.01
Glasgow (Anniesland) |24 |8,714.23
Glasgow (City) |2 |883.40
Glasgow (Laurieston) |0 |-
Glasgow (Partick) |7 |4,818.72
Glasgow (Provan) |44 |20,717.45
Glasgow (Rutherglen) |15 |8,883.35
Goole |0 |-
Gravesend |0 |-
Great Yarmouth |1 |336.14
Guildford |0 |-
Harlow |7 |1,384.20
Harrow |0 |-
Havant |1 |340.60
Hereford |0 |-
Houghton le Spring |1 |290.29
Hove |1 |314.40
Huddersfield |30 |10,537.53
Hull (East) |29 |34,000.00
Hyde |12 |3,658.40
Ilkeston |0 |-
Johnstone |5 |1,514.03
Keighley |2 |786.00
Kidderminster |4 |1,362.40
Kings Lynn |0 |-
Kingston upon Thames |0 |-
Lancaster |13 |3,623.10
Launceston |0 |-
Leamington |4 |1,336.26
Leeds (East) |0 |-
Leeds (North West) |1 |1,942.00
Leeds (North) |0 |-
Leeds (South) |0 |-
Leicester (Lower Hill Street) |19 |6,101.39
Leicester (Norton Street) |0 |-
Leigh |0 |-
Lichfield |5 |1,321.23
Lincoln (Newland) |0 |-
Lincoln (Orchard Street) |31 |11,609.41
Liverpool (City) |1 |150.00
Liverpool (Edgehill) |1 |238.44
Liverpool (Huyton) |0 |-
Liverpool (West Derby) |0 |-
Llanelli |37 |12,444.18
London (Battersea) |5 |1,425.83
London (Hendon) |1 |162.50
London (Highgate) |3 |2,557.30
London (Peckham) |0 |-
London (Poplar) |0 |-
London (Shoreditch) |0 |-
London (Streatham) |2 |2,774.75
London (Wandsworth) |6 |11,829.95
London (Wimbledon) |2 |2,338.16
Loughborough |2 |406.94
Lowestoft |9 |6,612.85
Macclesfield |1 |1,993.00
Manchester (Cheetham) |3 |2,101.32
Manchester (Failsworth) |6 |7,451.95
Manchester (Longsight) |17 |22,630.78
Manchester (Rusholme) |12 |20,925.25
Mansfield |145 |62,284.89
Merthyr Tydfil |32 |9,953.92
Middlesborough |88 |34,637.70
Milton Keynes |0 |-
Mitcham |0 |-
Motherwell |2 |786.00
Neath |5 |1,703.00
Newbury |0 |-
Newcastle Upon Tyne (St. James) |54 |20,539.80
Newtown |1 |340.60
North Shields |11 |16,717.49
Northallerton |8 |2,474.34
Northwich |0 |-
Norwich (Chantry) |2 |732.31
Nottingham (Shakespear Street) |5 |1,788.28
Nottingham (Station Street) |13 |4,824.54
Nuneaton |38 |18,272.63
Oban |6 |1,819.59
Oxford |2 |733.60
Pembroke Dock |0 |-
Penrith |2 |890.80
Perth |8 |1,980.60
Peterlee |11 |3,930.00
Pontypridd |1 |314.40
Port Glasgow |18 |29,255.14
Porth |4 |1,446.22
Preston (North) |0 |-
Preston (South) |9 |n/k
Reading |8 |14,335.83
Redcar |19 |11,846.44
Rhyl |55 |15,268.40
Romford |1 |340.60
Rotherham (North) |0 |-
Salford (North) |0 |-
Scarborough |25 |8,063.94
Scunthorpe |8 |10,327.95
Sheffield (North West) |3 |1,021.80
Skipton |0 |-
Smethwick |19 |6,336.53
South Shields |22 |11,735.51
Southampton |1 |829.70
Southend on Sea |30 |10,349.00
St. Austell |0 |-
Stanley |10 |12,800.79
Stockport (North) |0 |-
Stockton |71 |25,625.06
Stoke on Trent (South) |0 |-
Stroud |0 |-
Sunderland (North) |26 |8,436.22
Sunderland (South) |31 |9,822.05
Sutton In Ashfield |46 |28,374.60
Swansea |0 |-
Telford |1 |393.00
Truro |1 |235.80
Twickenham |1 |1,968.20
Wallsend |13 |1,297.42
Walsall (East) |42 |13,021.40
Walsall (West) |48 |14,701.14
Warrington |9 |3,432.20
Watford |0 |-
Wath On Dearne |18 |6,209.40
West Bromwich |2 |1,466.14
Weymouth |3 |969.40
Wick |0 |-
Wilmslow |1 |3.75
Wolverhampton North |2 |753.65
Worksop |88 |32,948.70
Wrexham |60 |20,739.94
Yeovil |2 |686.05
York |1 |314.40
Unidentified |2 |786.00
Unidentified |1 |340.06
|------- |-------
Total |2,501 |1,267,979.65
Social Fund
Ms. Mowlam : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many applications for review were received during the period April 1989 to March 1990 inclusive in respect of (a) social fund community care grants, (b) social fund budgeting loans and (c) social fund crisis loans, by each of his Department's local offices at Eston, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Stockton, and how many of each of these applications for review resulted in revised decisions.
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Mr. Scott [pursuant to his reply, 23 July 1990, columns 88-89] : Some of the information given in the table was found to have been misinterpreted. The corrected information is as follows :
|Applications |Decisions
|recieved |revised
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Eston
Community care grants |98 |23
Budgeting loans |251 |57
Crisis loans |9 |4
Hartlepool
Community care grants |163 |38
Budgeting loans |270 |57
Crisis loans |9 |3
Middlesbrough
Community care grants |569 |158
Budgeting loans |771 |295
Crisis loans |44 |13
Stockton
Community care grants |520 |164
Budgeting loans |561 |173
Crisis loans |17 |6
Redcar
Community care grants |127 |49
Budgeting loans |162 |48
Crisis loans |4 |2
Some of the revised decisions will refer to review applications made in a previous period and decisions may not have been made on some of the review applications made in the period shown.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Bingo Clubs
Mr. Moate : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received in support of relaxing present restrictions on advertising licensed bingo clubs ; what consideration he is giving to this question ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Since the reply by my right hon. and learned Friend to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Mr. Pawsey) on 19 March at column 455, we have received a further 25 letters from hon. Members about the controls on the advertising of licensed bingo clubs.
I understand that in April the Bingo Association of Great Britain resumed discussions with the Gaming Board for Great Britain on the scope, if any, for some partial relaxation of the controls on bingo club advertising, and that the board hopes soon to be in a position to report, for our consideration, its advice in light of these discussions.
Public Interest Immunity Certificates
Mr. McNamara : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in the Official Report the number of occasions in the past 10 years when public interest immunity certificates have been issued concerning matters before coroners and other courts preventing members of police forces and others within the remit of his Department from attending such courts, and to prevent such courts from hearing details of operations ; indicating which operations were involved and how many individuals were covered by such certificates.
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Mr. Waddington : There is no systematic record kept centrally of all cases in which public interest immunity is claimed in respect of police forces and others within the responsibility of the Home Office and it would not be possible to provide the information sought except at disproportionate cost.FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Public Interest Immunity Certificates
Mr. McNamara : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in the Official Report the number of occasions in the past 10 years when public interest immunity certificates have been issued concerning matters before coroners and other courts preventing officials of his Department and others within the remit of his Department from attending such courts, and to prevent such courts from hearing details of operations, indicating which operations were involved and how many individuals were covered by such certificates.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : It would not be possible to provide the information sought except at disproportionate cost.
Sri Lanka
Mr. Fraser : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations have been made to the Government of Sri Lanka about human rights violations in that country, including harassment and murder of lawyers.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : We have made our concern about human rights known to the Sri Lankan Government on many occasions, both bilaterally in London and in Colombo, and together with our European partners.
Conventional Forces
Mr. O'Neill : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his reply of26 July, Official Report , column 538, when he expects the high-level task force to complete its examination of further limitations on the offensive capabilities of conventional armed forces beyond those currently under negotiation at the CFE talks ; and if he will place a copy of their report in the Library upon completion.
Mr. Waldegrave : The London summit declaration set out the alliance's position that once a CFE treaty has been signed follow-on talks on the basis of the same membership and mandate should begin with the aim of building on the current agreement including measures to limit manpower in Europe. There is now agreement on this in Vienna and the HLTF is currently preparing the alliance's negotiating position. The London declaration also undertook to seek new conventional negotiations within the CSCE framework in the 1990s on further far-reaching measures to limit the offensive capability of conventional armed forces in Europe so as to prevent any nation from maintaining disproportionate military power in Europe. The HLTF will be formulating a detailed position for these talks.
A copy of the London summit declaration has been placed in the Library. The contents of HLTF papers are, however, classified.
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