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Mr. Jackson : The road transport industry training board uses all relevant sources of information including local knowledge from its training officers, trade and local press and information supplied by employers. These sources are used as the basis for enquiries to companies to ascertain if they are in-scope to the board's levy regulations. Payment of levy is based on statutory returns provided by in-scope companies.
Sky Television
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many work permits for Australian and New Zealand citizens have (a) been applied for and (b) been granted in respect of applications from Sky Television and British Sky Broadcasting in each of the past three years.
Mr. Jackson : No applications for a citizen of New Zealand has been made by either company in the last three years. Sky Television applied for and was granted one work permit in 1989 and one in 1990 in respect of Australian citizens.
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SCOTLAND
Schools
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the total capital expenditure on local authority schools in Scotland in each year since 1978, in cash and constant prices.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information is given in the table which has been compiled from local authority financial returns. The fall in expenditure in real terms during the period reflects a substantial and progressive decline in pupil numbers which has reduced the requirement for new school building.
Capital expenditure by local authorities on
schools
£ million
Year |At outturn|At 1989-90
|prices |prices
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1978-79 |51.885 |121.400
1979-80 |47.598 |95.448
1980-81 |52.391 |88.783
1981-82 |60.404 |93.350
1982-83 |52.378 |75.577
1983-84 |45.416 |62.635
1984-85 |45.945 |60.302
1985-86 |51.124 |63.634
1986-87 |46.672 |56.172
1987-88 |47.742 |54.492
1988-89 |59.392 |63.178
1989-90 |67.335 |67.335
The figures include expenditure on nursery, primary, secondary and special schools.
Outturn figures have been converted to 1989-90 prices using the GDP deflator.
River Pollution
Mr. Hood : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last met representatives of the Clyde Purification Board to discuss the likely effects of opencast mining in the Douglas valley ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : My right hon. Friend has not met representatives of the Clyde river purification board for this purpose and he has no plans to do so.
Discharges of trade effluent from opencast mines require the consent of the appropriate river purification board ; applications for consent are advertised in accordance with section 36(1)(a) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974. Any representations received about the likely effects of such discharges on the water environment are carefully considered by the board in deciding whether, and subject to what conditions, consent should be granted.
The Gulf
Mr. Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the numbers and categories of NHS staff who are being called up for military service in the Gulf ; and what assessment he has made of the consequences of this call-up on the finances of the NHS, and on the quality of service and waiting lists at hospitals.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : A total of 119 NHS staff in Scotland have been called up for military service in categories as follows :
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0 Category |Number ------------------------------------------------ Doctors |27 Nurses |74 Laboratory staff |4 Paramedical staff |4 Administrative/Clerical staff |4 Pharmacy staff |2 Ancillary staff |3 Ambulanceman |1
The call up will have some effect on the finances of the NHS but it is not possible to quantify at this stage.
The effect on quality of service and hospital waiting lists cannot readily be determined. The number of staff being called up is a very small percentage of the total and I would expect health boards to maintain the highest level and quality of service to patients.
Overseas Voters
Mr. Hood : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many former British residents living overseas have applied to be registered for voting in general elections for each constituency in Scotland under the Representation of the People Act 1989.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Information on overseas electors is not held centrally. The Government intend to obtain this information from electoral registration officers and to present it to Parliament early in 1991.
NHS Trusts
Mr. Sillars : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the latest list of hospitals in Strathclyde which are known to him or the relevant health boards to be considering trust status.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : All hospitals and other units within the national health service have been encouraged to consider the possibility of national health service trust status.
Health Service
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what are the executive powers of the health board general managers group ; and what is its relationship to himself and to the national health service chief executive ;
(2) on what basis the health board general managers group may jointly implement Whitley council agreements based on local health board flexibility ;
(3) for what reasons the health board general managers group is to use the HAY job evaluation system as part of the process of implementing advanced letter (PTB) 3/90 ; and if the decision is binding on all health boards in Scotland ;
(4) who authorised the health board general managers group to consider joint implementation of advanced letter (PTB) 3/90.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth : Health board general managers as a group have no executive powers and are not responsible for implementing Whitley council agreements ; the conclusions they may reach on the matters that come before them are not binding on individual health boards. The chief executive, with his senior colleagues, meets general managers regularly to discuss matters of mutual interest. Individual health boards will implement advance letter (PTB) 3/90, and will each consider whether there would be advantage in adopting the HAY job evaluation system for works and estates staff. The steps taken by individual health boards to implement the agreement in their areas will follow the procedures prescribed in the advance letter. Only health boards are authorised to implement Whitley council agreements which allow local health board flexibility.
Health Boards
Mr. Bill Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what financial allocations he has made to health boards for 1991-92.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : My right hon. Friend has allocated £2,505.735 million to health boards to meet their expenditure commitment on hospital and community health services in 1991-92. The figure includes £2,244.950 million to meet gross recurrent expenditure commitments, £208.575 million to meet gross capital expenditure commitments, £38.857 million for GP team staff £11.353 million for GP premises and £2 million for GP computers.
The allocation, taken with health board's own cash-releasing efficiency savings, gives an increase in available resources of 10.75 per cent. It amounts to an extra £225 million for health boards in Scotland.
There has been a substantial increase in the resources for nurse training and for HIV and AIDS related services and an additional moneys have been made available to help reduce junior doctors' hours.
Having adjusted for the movement of resources from revenue to capital to account for the new definition of capital, the gross capital amounts available to boards will be £208 million, representing a 10.8 per cent. increase over 1990-91. The capital allocation will continue the high level of investment in hospital building projects of recent years. Substantial investment will be made in major hospital projects now under construction including Ayr hospital, the St. John's hospital in Lothian, the Royal Cornhill hospital in Grampian, the Perth royal infirmary, Tayside, the Western Isles hospital in Stornoway, West Fife DGH phase II in Dunfermline, the spinal injuries unit at Southern general hospital, Glasgow and Udston hospital in Lanark. It will also provide the resources to progress new hospital developments at Oban, Campbeltown, Elgin, Peterhead and Crieff and for improvements to GP surgeries in highland and the island boards.
Details of individual board allocations are contained in the table :
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Health board allocations: 1991-92
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A further £59.140 million revenue, £22.797 million capital and £2.819 million general medical services will be distributed during the year for cardiac surgery, hospice funding, computer development and other specific initiatives.
Health Expenditure
Mrs. Margaret Ewing : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide (a) the total gross allocation to Scotland for health expenditure in the year 1991-92, (b) a breakdown of the revenue and capital allocation components of the total gross allocation and (c) a breakdown of the total gross allocation and the revenue and capital allocation components of it, for each of the regional health authorities.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The total gross allocation to Scotland for health expenditure in 1991-92 is £3,383 million, of which £3,148 million is for revenue expenditure. As regards revenue and capital allocations to individual health boards, I refer the hon. Member to my answer today to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker).
Hazardous Waste
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the extent of the importation of waste materials into Scotland during (a) 1987-88, (b) 1988-89 and (c) 1989-90 by major subject heading ; and if he will divide these data into hazardous, toxic or other waste.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Waste disposal authorities have reported imports of waste to Scotland for the calendar years 1987, 1988 and 1989 as shown in the following table. Imports of "toxic waste" are not separately identified but 942 tonnes of "other waste" --neither "special" nor "hazardous"--were imported from England and Wales in 1989, the only year for which such figures are available. "Hazardous waste" is defined in the Transfrontier Shipment of Hazardous Waste Regulations 1988, which govern movements of such waste into and out of Great
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Britain. "Special waste" is defined in the Control of Pollution (Special Waste) Regulations 1980, which relate to movements of such waste within Great Britain.
Year |Type of waste |Quantity
|(Tonnes)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1987 |Waste imported from outside Great Britain |15
|Special waste imported from England and Wales|<1>-
1988 |Hazardous waste imported from outside Great
| Britain |453
|Special waste imported from England and Wales|4,867
1989 |Hazardous waste imported from outside Great
| Britain |480
|Special waste imported from England and Wales|1,000
<1>Information not available centrally.
Scottish Homes
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give a breakdown of Scottish Homes sales under the rents to mortgage scheme in each of Scottish Homes district office areas from October 1989 to the nearest available date.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The information is set out in the table :
Position at 31 December 1990
Scottish Homes district office area |Sales
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Edinburgh |3
Lothian and Borders |28
Central |9
Fife |11
Grampian |17
Tayside |7
Highlands and Islands |4
Lanarkshire |2
Renfrew and Inverclyde |14
Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway |8
Glasgow North and East |6
Glasgow South |1
Glasgow West |1
|-------
Total |111
In addition, nine sales have been made to tenants of new town development corporations.
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what income Scottish Homes received in capital receipts from house sales in the third quarter of 1990-91 from (a) right-to-buy sales, (b) rents-to-mortgage sales, (c) sales under the portable discount scheme and (d) vacant possession sales.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The information is as follows :
|£ million
---------------------------------------------
Right to Buy sales |10.430
Rent to Mortgage sales |0.874
Portable Discount scheme |0.276
Vacant Possession sales |0.908
|---
Total |12.488
All the above figures include receipts from miscellaneous items such as building insurance and repair funds. Figures net of these miscellaneous items are not currently available for each type of sale.
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what income Scottish Homes has received from (a) enabling receipts, (b) stock disposal, (c) voluntary transfers, (d) house sales and (e) disposal of non-housing assets in the first, second and third quarters of 1990-91.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The information is set out in the table.
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Enabling Receipts |5.713 |3.229 |6.911 |15.853
Stock Disposal |0.613 |0.387 |0.306 |1.306
Voluntary Transfers |- |- |- |-
House Sales |5.131 |8.666 |12.322|26.119
Disposal of non-Housing Assets |0.024 |0.468 |0.037 |0.529
|--- |--- |--- |---
Total |11.481|12.750|19.576|43.807
Patents
Sir David Steel : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will bring forward proposals to simplify the laws concerning the protection of patents in Scotland and establish a Scottish patents court similar to the Patents county court in England.
Mr. Lang : The Scottish arrangements for patent litigation were most recently reviewed by a working party under the chairmanship of the hon. Lord Jauncey which concluded that the Court of Session should retain exclusive jurisdiction and that a number of changes should be made to the rules of court to streamline procedures, avoid unnecessary delays and reduce costs. These changes will shortly be brought into effect by the making of amendments to the rules of court. Patent law in the United Kingdom has recently been amended by parts V and VI of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has no proposals for further changes.
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School Leavers
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what are the latest figures available for the (a) number and (b) percentage of Scottish school leavers with no qualifications.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The number and the percentage of Scottish school leavers who left during session 1988-89 with no Scottish Certificate of Education qualifications were 8,623 and 11.9 per cent. respectively.
Crime Statistics
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide a table for recorded crime in Scotland comparable with that provided on 30 October 1990, Official Report, columns 477-80, on crime statistics in Strathclyde.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The information is available from Scottish Office Home and Health Department statistical bulletins. Information for the years 1980 to 1989 is published in the bulletin entitled "Recorded Crime in Scotland, 1989", and for the year 1979 is published in "Recorded Crime in Scotland, 1988". Copies of these bulletins are in the Library.
M8 (Lighting)
Mr. Graham : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to light the M8 motorway from the St. James intersection at Glasgow airport to Greenock.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : None.
Oil Pollution
Mr. Graham : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what it costs to clean up the oil spillage around the coast of the River Clyde resulting from the accident caused by the Argyle and Clyde health board ; and which bodies paid for this.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I will write to the hon. Member.
Business Rates
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his latest estimate of non-payment of business rates for the financial years 1989-90 and 1990-91 in Strathclyde region.
Mr. Allan Stewart : The information is not available centrally.
Procurator Fiscal Service
Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many vacancies and at what grades exist for professionally qualified staff in the procurator fiscal service.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : There are seven vacancies at legal assistant grade.
Courts Vacancies
Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many vacancies and at what grades exist for staff in the employment of Scottish courts administrations.
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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : On 14 January 1991, there were seven unfilled posts in the Scottish court service, three in the AO grade, two in the typist grades, and two in the support grades.Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many vacancies and at what grades exist for staff in the general department of the Court of Session.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : There are no vacancies at any grade in the general department of the Court of Session.
Civil Servants
Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many civil servants and at what grades are currently employed in the private offices of Ministers in the Scottish Office.
Mr. Lang : The information is as follows :
Grade |Number --------------------------------------- Grade 5 |1 Senior Executive Officer |1 Higher Executive Officer |2 Higher Executive Officer (Development) |3 Executive Officer |4 Adminstrative Officer |6 Personal Secretary |7 Typist |1
In addition, one special adviser is attached to my office.
Further Education Unit
Mr. Bill Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has completed his examination of the case for a Scottish further education unit ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Consideration of the case has now been completed and my right hon. Friend and I have decided to reconstitute the curriculum advice and support team--CAST--as a Scottish further education unit with effect from 1 April 1991. The new unit will continue to be located at Jordanhill college, but will have a wider remit than CAST to enable it to provide better support to further education colleges in implementing the Government's recent reforms of college management. It will also be well placed to meet new needs such as those arising from the completion of the single European market when greater labour mobility will have implications for vocational education and training.
In addition to core funding of £294,000 for 1991-92, a further £150,000 will be made available from 1 April 1991. From 1 April 1992 an additional £150,000 will be made available by the transfer of a proportion of the in-service training funding currently made to the Jordanhill college by the Scottish Office education department. I expect the new unit to liaise closely with the Scottish school of further education, Jordanhill college, and others active in further education in Scotland to meet our needs for a highly skilled work force.
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Education (Capital Expenditure)
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the allocated expenditure for local authority capital expenditure on education in Scotland in every year since 1979 at 1990-91 prices.
Mr. Michael Forsyth [holding answer 16 January 1991] : Details of consents to local authorities to incur capital expenditure on educational building are given in the table :
Capital consent allocations for educational building £ million at 1990-91 prices Year |Allocations ------------------------------------ 1979-80 |116.094 1980-81 |97.838 1981-82 |93.826 1982-83 |75.562 1983-84 |68.002 1984-85 |57.138 1985-86 |67.583 1986-87 |59.767 1987-88 |63.083 1988-89 |64.123 1989-90 |66.695 1990-91 |61.669
Fish Marketing
Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information he has on the grant of European Community or national funds for the marketing and processing of fisheries and aquaculture produce and the improvement of facilities at fishing ports under EC regulation 4028/86 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth [holding answer 18 January 1991] : Support for the processing and marketing of fisheries and aquaculture produce has been available until recently under EC regulation 355/77. Scottish companies have a high success rate : since the inception of the scheme over 130 awards have been made attracting 25 per cent. grant worth some £9 million. In the last round, 11 companies were awarded £1.1 million in December 1990. Successful projects also receive United Kingdom Government grant of at least 8 per cent. of project costs.
Regulation 355/77 is being replaced, but support will continue. Bilateral discussions with the European Commission on a Community support framework for the United Kingdom under EC regulation 4042/89 are at an advanced stage. Agreement is expected next month opening the way for EC grant aid for projects seeking to improve the marketing and processing of fisheries and aquaculture produce. Administrative arrangements for the new scheme are already in place with an EC grant rate of up to 30 per cent. being available for Scottish projects along with a national back-up grant of 5 per cent. United Kingdom companies may apply for grants for the improvement of facilities at fishing ports under EC regulation 4028/86. Two Scottish applications have already been successful in this regard and four new applications are with the Commission for consideration.
Museums and Galleries
Mr. Faulds : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will publish in the Official Report the attendance figures for 1990 reported by the national museums and galleries in Scotland, broken down into the
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individual institutions but including their outstations, with the figures in each case of the percentage increase or decrease on the attendance figures for 1989.Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : [holding answer 21 January 1991] : The information is as follows :
|1990 |Percentage
|Change
|since 1989
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National Galleries of Scotland |808,803 |+13.98
National Museums of Scotland |1,001,827 |+11.39
The national galleries of Scotland comprise the national gallery of Scotland, the Scottish national gallery of modern art and the Scottish national portrait gallery. The national museums of Scotland comprise the royal museum of Scotland buildings at Chambers street and Queen street,
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Edinburgh, the Scottish agricultural museum, the Scottish united services museum, the museum of flight and the Shambellie museum of costume.Local Government Finance
Mrs. Margaret Ewing : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list in the Official Report the total number of people registered for community charge payments in each regional authority for 1988-89, 1989- 90 and 1990-91 ; and if he will list the percentage changes in each case compared with the previous year's figures.
Mr. Allan Stewart [holding answer 21 January 1991] : The available information, obtained from returns by community charges registration officers, is set out in the table. The figures include students, who are liable for only 20 per cent. of the community charge, but exclude those liable for collective or standard charges. The October 1988 figures were provisional, and unavailable for some areas.
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|Percentage|Percentage
|change |change
|October |September |July |1988 to |1989 to
|1988 |1989 |1990 |1989 |1990
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Borders |82,840 |77,935 |78,285 |-5.9 |0.4
Central |n/a |206,389 |204,412 |n/a |-1.9
Dumfries and Galloway |110,859 |111,326 |111,434 |0.4 |0.1
Fife |253,500 |269,058 |259,961 |6.1 |-3.4
Grampian |377,766 |377,785 |373,581 |0.0 |-1.1
Highland |n/a |147,771 |148,270 |n/a |0.3
Lothian |589,209 |604,320 |578,982 |2.6 |-4.2
Strathclyde |1,786,017 |1,761,450 |1,737,284 |-1.4 |-1.4
Tayside |290,700 |295,490 |291,682 |1.6 |-1.3
Orkney |14,775 |14,329 |14,372 |-3.0 |0.3
Shetland |16,459 |16,021 |15,982 |-2.7 |-0.2
Western Isles |n/a |22,315 |22,165 |n/a |-0.7
All Scotland total |n/a |3,904,189 |3,834,410 |n/a |-1.8
n/a: Not available.
Electoral Registers
Mrs. Margaret Ewing : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the total number of electors registered in each Scottish parliamentary constituency for
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1988-89, 1989-90 and 1990-91 ; and if he will list the percentage changes which have taken place in each case compared with the previous year's figures.Lord James Douglas Hamilton [holding answer 21 January 1991] : The information is set out in the table.
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Constituency |Electoral |Percentage |Electoral |Percentage |Electoral |Percentage
|register |change |register |change |register |change
|1988 |1989 |1990
Aberdeen North |62,075 |-2.63 |60,604 |-2.37 |60,640 |+0.06
Aberdeen South |60,323 |-4.69 |58,946 |-2.28 |59,420 |+0.80
Angus East |61,643 |+0.07 |61,899 |+0.42 |62,136 |+0.38
Argyll and Bute |48,912 |-0.73 |48,695 |-0.44 |48,695 |-0.13
Ayr |67,063 |-0.24 |66,545 |-0.77 |66,545 |-0.04
Banff and Buchan |63,054 |+0.30 |62,829 |-0.36 |64,248 |+2.26
Caithness and Sutherland |30,978 |-1.72 |31,031 |+0.17 |30,701 |-1.06
Carrick, Cumnock and
Doon Valley |56,708 |-0.85 |56,343 |-0.64 |56,290 |-0.09
Central Fife |56,440 |-0.40 |56,183 |-0.46 |56,249 |+0.12
Clackmannan |49,127 |-0.92 |48,757 |-0.75 |48,902 |+0.30
Clydebank and Milngavie |50,128 |-1.37 |49,178 |-1.90 |48,365 |-1.65
Clydesdale |62,602 |+0.28 |62,456 |-0.23 |62,392 |-0.10
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |46,392 |+0.55 |46,345 |-0.10 |46,723 |+0.82
Cunninghame North |55,566 |+0.04 |55,262 |-0.55 |55,584 |+0.58
Cunninghame South |50,414 |-0.25 |49,931 |-0.96 |49,931 |-
Dumbarton |59,369 |-0.56 |58,328 |-1.75 |58,044 |-0.49
Dumfries |59,972 |-0.03 |59,962 |-0.02 |61,057 |+1.83
Dundee East |61,221 |-0.21 |60,394 |-1.35 |59,147 |-2.07
Dundee West |61,445 |-1.61 |60,246 |-1.95 |60,197 |-0.08
Dunfermline East |51,008 |-1.32 |50,894 |-0.22 |50,746 |-0.29
Dunfermline West |51,384 |-0.38 |51,412 |+0.05 |51,445 |+0.06
East Kilbride |63,956 |-0.07 |63,715 |-0..38 |64,206 |+0.77
East Lothian |65,542 |-0.09 |66,108 |+0.86 |67,524 |+2.14
Eastwood |62,839 |+0.20 |63,483 |+1.02 |64,083 |+0.95
Edinburgh Central |58,975 |-1.31 |57,069 |-3.23 |57,794 |+1.27
Edinburgh East |48,745 |-1.00 |47,802 |-1.93 |48,558 |+1.58
Edinburgh Leith |60,031 |-1.08 |58,984 |-1.74 |59,331 |+0.59
Edinburgh Pentlands |58,884 |+0.40 |58,538 |-0.59 |57,280 |-2.15
Edinburgh South |64,026 |-0.31 |62,452 |-2.46 |62,205 |-0.40
Edinburgh West |62,652 |-0.12 |61,172 |-2.36 |60,840 |-0.54
Falkirk East |52,737 |-0.57 |52,679 |-0.11 |52,514 |-0.31
Falkirk West |50,606 |-0.20 |50,506 |-0.20 |50,739 |+0.46
Galloway and Upper
Nithsdale |53,621 |-0.69 |53,481 |-0.26 |54,512 |+1.93
Glasgow Cathcart |48,767 |-2.14 |47,702 |-2.18 |46,861 |-1.76
Glasgow Central |50,867 |-1.33 |50,535 |-0.65 |49,943 |-1.17
Glasgow Garscadden |46,916 |-3.24 |44,828 |-4.45 |43,397 |-3.19
Glasgow Govan |50,190 |-1.88 |48,908 |-2.55 |48,089 |-1.67
Glasgow Hillhead |57,704 |-0.93 |56,718 |-1.71 |56,631 |-0.15
Glasgow Maryhill |52,039 |-1.72 |50,589 |-2.79 |49,316 |-2.52
Glasgow Pollock |50,829 |-2.29 |49,497 |-2.62 |48,317 |-2.38
Glasgow Provan |42,908 |-3.35 |41,086 |-4.25 |39,966 |-2.73
Glasgow Rutherglen |56,929 |-1.97 |55,695 |-2.17 |54,920 |-1.40
Glasgow Shettleston |53,883 |-0.63 |53,254 |-1.17 |52,973 |-0.53
Glasgow Springburn |50,489 |-3.21 |48,785 |-3.37 |47,612 |-2.40
Gordon |75,228 |+1.39 |75,534 |+0.41 |77,974 |+3.23
Greenock and Port Glasgow |57,339 |-1.97 |55,612 |-3.01 |54,564 |-1.89
Hamilton |63,167 |+0.02 |62,688 |-0.76 |63,127 |+0.70
Inverness, Nairn and
Lochaber |66,695 |-0.95 |67,262 |+0.85 |68,011 |+1.11
Kilmarnock and Loudoun |63,325 |-0.18 |62,834 |-0.78 |62,982 |+0.24
Kincardine and Deeside |64,398 |+0.28 |64,427 |+0.05 |65,492 |+1.65
Kirkcaldy |53,823 |-0.18 |53,626 |-0.37 |53,067 |-1.04
Linlithgow |60,584 |+0.95 |61,135 |+0.91 |61,786 |+1.06
Livingston |58,008 |+1.36 |59,533 |+2.63 |60,868 |+2.24
Midlothian |61,139 |+0.01 |61,089 |-0.08 |60,982 |-0.18
Monklands East |50,271 |-0.27 |49,533 |-1.47 |49,658 |+0.25
Monklands West |51,300 |-0.61 |50,450 |-1.66 |50,526 |+0.15
Moray |63,206 |+0.46 |62,838 |-0.58 |63,309 |+0.75
Motherwell North |58,331 |-0.36 |57,971 |-0.62 |58,112 |+0.24
Motherwell South |52,599 |-0.46 |51,704 |-1.70 |51,470 |-0.45
North East Fife |52,442 |-0.62 |52,310 |-0.25 |52,854 |+1.04
North Tayside |54,582 |+0.22 |54,367 |-0.39 |54,831 |+0.85
Orkney and Shetland |31,180 |-0.49 |31,116 |-0.21 |31,094 |-0.07
Paisley North |48,973 |-2.09 |48,213 |-1.55 |48,208 |-0.01
Paisley South |50,403 |-2.76 |49,595 |-1.60 |49,363 |-0.47
Perth and Kinross |63,957 |-0.01 |64,505 |+0.86 |64,669 |+0.25
Renfrew West and
Inverclyde |57,025 |+0.12 |57,234 |+0.37 |57,999 |+1.34
Ross, Cromarty and Skye |52,278 |-1.00 |53,062 |+1.50 |54,084 |+1.93
Roxburgh and Berwickshire |43,631 |-0.03 |43,484 |-0.34 |43,675 |+0.44
Stirling |58,715 |+0.47 |58,387 |-0.56 |58,429 |+0.07
Strathkelvin and Bearsden |63,296 |-0.45 |62,706 |-0.93 |62,339 |-0.59
Tweeddale, Ettrick and
Lauderdale |38,438 |+0.40 |38,773 |+0.87 |39,204 |+1.11
Western Isles |23,085 |-2.53 |23,097 |+0.05 |23,084 |-0.06
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Concessionary Travel
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) whether he will establish a nationwide scheme of assistance for retirement pensioners to travel at concessionary rates of 75 per cent. or 66 per cent. on road and rail transport in off-peak hours ; (2) whether he will establish a nationwide scheme of assistance for retirement pensioners to travel free on road and rail transport at off-peak hours.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 21 January 1991] : We have no plans to change the present arrangements. Local authorities already have adequate powers to provide travel concessions in their areas and there are schemes for free or cheap travel on local public transport in all areas of Scotland. Local authorities may, if they choose, act jointly with other local authorities to establish a scheme which would operate throughout their areas. British Rail and the main long distance coach operators also have their own travel concession arrangements.
ENVIRONMENT
Warwickshire County Council
Mr. Pawsey : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment on what basis his Department assessed Warwickshire county council to earn interest of £6.7 million as set out in the standard spending assessment for 1991-92.
Mr. Key : The basis of the assessment is set out in paragraphs 3.50 and 3.51 of the Revenue Support Grant Distribution Report (England) which was approved by the House on 18 January 1990. The assessment for interest receipts is calculated in proportion to an authority's standard spending assessment for all services, except the capital financing element.
Local Government Finance
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many people have been exempted from paying the community charge in each category of exemption in the Doncaster local authority area.
Mr. Key : The information returned by the local authority is as follows :
Numbers of persons exempt from community charge, 1 June 1990
|Number
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Severely mentally impaired |418
Patients whose main residence is a National Health
Service hospital |545
People whose sole or main residence is in a residential
care home, a nursing home, a private hospital or a
hostel providing care, who are receiving care |1,676
Aged 18 and in receipt of child benefit, or aged 18 or
19 and on full-time courses of further education |542
Members of religious communities |34
Others<1> |24
<1> People in detention, members of visiting forces, international
headquarters and defence organisations and their dependants,
including diplomats. These categories have been combined because of
the small numbers involved.
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a table of expenditure on city grant in 1989-90, showing final expenditure for the year broken down by standard region, with Greater London shown as a separate region.
Mr. Key : The information requested is as follows :
|£
-----------------------------------------------
East Midlands |3,368,489
London |695,633
Merseyside |279,238
Northern |1,762,354
North West |1,653,486
South West |16,387
West Midlands |2,957,808
Yorkshire and Humberside |760,632
|-----
Total |11,494,027
This excludes city grant in urban development corporations.
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide a table showing the expected income from the uniform business rate in 1990-91, broken down by standard regions with Greater London shown as a separate region and a similar table showing the level of income had no transitional arrangement been in place.
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