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Mrs. Chalker : The figure I gave in the House was based on gross public expenditure on overseas bilateral aid in 1989. The figure in the OECD report is based on new
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commitments of bilateral official development assistance in 1988. The two figures thus relate to different years and to different measures of aid flows.Rihand Power Station
Mrs. Clwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the offer of aid and trade provision aid to support phase 2 of the Rihand power station in India has expired ; and whether it will be renewed.
Mrs. Chalker : An offer of aid for stage II of the Rihand power station in India was made on 23 September 1988 subject to appraisal and approval of the project by the Overseas Development Administration. In subsequent exchanges with the Government of India, we have confirmed our interest and emphasised that approval of any aid funding would be subject to our satisfaction with the environmental, technical, financial and economic aspects of the project.
Development Assistance
Mrs. Clwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will show, in table form (a) the level of United Kingdom official development assistance in 1979 and 1989, in current and in constant 1989 prices, (b) the size of the aid budget in 1979, and 1990, in current and in constant 1990 prices and (c) the total gross public expenditure on overseas aid in 1979 and 1989 in current and in constant 1989 prices in all cases showing the percentage change.
Mrs. Chalker : The information is as follows :
|1979 |1989 |Percentage
|change on
|£ million |£ million |1979
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1. Net Official Development Assistance
Current prices |1,016 |1,578 |+55.3
Constant 1989 prices |2,099 |1,578 |-24.8
2. Net Aid Programme
Current Prices |825 |1,562 |+89.3
Constant 1989 prices |1,705 |1,562 |- 8.4
3. Gross Public Expenditure
Current prices |939 |1,788 |+90.4
Constant 1989 prices |1,940 |1,788 |- 7.8
Figures for 1990 are not yet available.
Source: British Aid Statistics. An explanatory note on the
definitions appears on pp v-ix of the 1990 edition.
Brazilian Amazon
Mrs. Clwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what aid money or other support has been given to the Indian co-ordinating group, CIOCA, in the Brazilian Amazon.
Mrs. Chalker : We are not aware of the organisation referred to by the hon. Member.
Aid Grants
Mrs. Clwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many grants of less than £500,000 have been paid or allocated from the aid programme in 1989 and 1990 ; how many grants of less
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than £100,000 have been paid or allocated from the aid programme in 1989 and 1990 ; and how many of these have been for projects in the Amazon region.Mrs. Chalker : Information is not available in the form requested by the hon. Lady. The relevant information that is readily available is as follows :
Forty-nine new financial aid commitments of less than £500,000 were made in 1989--comparable information for 1990 is not yet available--of which 19 were less than £100,000. None was for the Amazon region. Technical co-operation projects and projects under the joint funding scheme are not included in these totals ; but all technical co-operation projects in that region so far entered into during 1990 under the memorandum of understanding with the Brazilian Government are in excess of £500,000.
European Investment Bank
Mr. Carrington : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on guarantees on European investment bank lending entered into under the Lome conventions and on the procedures for notifying Parliament of these guarantees.
Mrs. Chalker : I have today laid before the House a minute giving details of such guarantees, and the procedure for notifying Parliament of them in the future. Copies have been placed in the Library of the House.
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
ISIS and the Institut Laue-Langevin
Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's contribution to (a) the ISIS particle accelerator and (b) the Institut Laue -Langevin at Grenoble.
Mr. Alan Howarth : In the financial year 1990-91, the United Kingdom will contribute £10.4 million to ISIS, and £9.9 million to the Institut Laue-Langevin.
Adult Relationships
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what provision is made within the core curriculum for preparation for marriage and adult relationships.
Mr. Atkins : Within the core curriculum, the national curriculum science order requires that pupils should know about the physical and emotional changes during adolescence and understand the need for responsible attitudes to sexual behaviour ; the processes of human conception ; and the factors necessary for the well-being of young children in the early stages of their development. More broadly, the National Curriculum Council has offered guidance to schools on the incorporation of such topics into the curriculum in its publications on cross-curricular themes : "Curriculum Guidance 5 : Health Education" and "Curriculum Guidance 8 : Education for Citizenship".
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Marriage Guidance
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will take steps to increase the tuition on marriage guidance counselling included in medical training courses.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The content of the undergraduate medical curriculum is a matter for individual institutions in the light of recommendations from the education committee of the General Medical Council.
Bedfordshire Schools
Mr. Madel : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the total amount of moneys that his Department is allocating to Bedfordshire county council for the maintenance and repair of school buildings for the year 1991-92 ; what is the amount allocated in the current financial year ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Fallon : Bedfordshire local education authority is to receive an annual capital guideline of £1.974 million in 1991-92, of which £1.833 million is related to schools, and an allocation of £0.6 million for projects at voluntary aided and special agreement schools. In the current year, Bedfordshire has received an ACG of £2.409 million-- £2.309 million is related to schools--and an allocation for VA and SA schools of £15,000. The authority can also use capital receipts and other sources such of funding, including its revenue budget, to support capital expenditure. However, the Government do not allocate to LEAs separately identified recurrent funds for repairs and maintenance : it is for each authority, and, under local management, its schools, to determine what proportion of the total recurrent funds available to them to allocate for that purpose.
Rural Schools Project
Mr. Amos : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the funding of the rural schools project.
Mr. Fallon : Since 1985 the Government have supported through education support grant expenditure totalling about £7.5 million on projects to improve the range and quality of the curriculum in rural schools in 14 local education authorities. In common with all education support grant programmes, support is limited to a finite period for these pilot projects. Support in 13 of the 14 local education authorities will have ceased by the end of the 1990-91 financial year. Because of a later start, support for Northumberland LEA will end in 1991-92. The programme is being evaluated by Leicester university with the aim of issuing to LEAs a report with recommendations by the end of this year.
Soccer Commissioner
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will take steps to establish an independent soccer commissioner to oversee the workings of the existing football authorities.
Mr. Atkins : The administration of association football is a matter for the football authorities.
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Nottinghamshire County Council
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what additional (a) loan sanction and (b) grant has been granted to Nottinghamshire county council for education purposes for the next financial year ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Eggar : The annual capital guideline for education for Nottinghamshire in 1991-92 is £5.167 million. The authority's credit approval, which sets the limit for its borrowing for the year, is calculated for all services and is £15.891 million. The proposed revenue support grant for the charging authorities within the area of the authority for 1991-92 is £146.8 million. As this is paid in support of all services, it is not possible to specify how much supports education expenditure. In addition to this general support, over £7 million of Nottinghamshire's education expenditure is to be supported through specific grants from the programme of grants for education support and training.
Youth Service
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science on the latest available figures, if he will set out for each local education authority (a) the level of expenditure on the youth service and (b) the standard spending assessment for the youth service.
Mr. Atkins : The latest year for which outturn expenditure is available is 1988-89. Table 1 shows the actual recurrent expenditure of each local education authority on youth and community services in 1988-89, with the exception of three authorities which failed to make a return. The standard spending assessment does not include a block of expenditure dedicated to the youth service alone, but makes allowance for this expenditure within the "other education services" block, which also allows for adult education. Table 2 shows the amount for each local education authority of the "other education services" block of the standard spending assessment for 1990-91.
Table 1 Expenditure by LEAs on the Youth Service, 1988-89 LEA |£ million ------------------------------------------- Barking |0.697 Barnet |0.966 Bexley |0.758 Brent |2.377 Bromley |0.894 Croydon |1.054 Ealing |1.804 Enfield |0.796 Haringey |n/a Harrow |0.648 Havering |0.845 Hillingdon |1.018 Hounslow |0.737 Kingston-upon-Thames |0.580 Merton |0.459 Newham |1.104 Redbridge |1.078 Richmond-upon-Thames |0.514 Sutton |0.517 Waltham Forest |1.336 ILEA |35.377 Birmingham |4.396 Coventry |1.095 Dudley |0.983 Sandwell |0.736 Solihull |0.430 Walsall |2.305 Wolverhampton |2.070 Knowsley |0.666 Liverpool |2.392 St. Helens |0.328 Sefton |0.843 Wirral |1.512 Bolton |1.057 Bury |0.916 Manchester |n/a Oldham |0.683 Rochdale |1.453 Salford |0.538 Stockport |0.598 Tameside |1.149 Trafford |0.677 Wigan |0.876 Barnsley |0.551 Doncaster |1.305 Rotherham |1.029 Sheffield |3.038 Bradford |3.127 Calderdale |1.103 Kirklees |1.426 Leeds |6.860 Wakefield |n/a Gateshead |0.722 Newcastle-upon-Tyne |0.659 North Tyneside |0.585 South Tyneside |1.855 Sunderland |1.010 Isles of Scilly |0.002 Avon |5.269 Bedfordshire |1.131 Berkshire |2.185 Buckinghamshire |2.370 Cambridgeshire |1.780 Cheshire |2.005 Cleveland |2.629 Cornwall |0.787 Cumbria |1.333 Derbyshire |5.066 Devon |2.913 Dorset |1.722 Durham |1.263 East Sussex |1.089 Essex |4.026 Gloucestershire |2.147 Hampshire |3.230 Hereford and Worcester |1.201 Hertfordshire |2.782 Humberside |3.839 Isle of Wight |0.467 Kent |2.708 Lancashire |5.179 Leicestershire |2.946 Lincolnshire |1.096 Norfolk |1.870 North Yorkshire |1.587 Northamptonshire |1.706 Northumberland |0.681 Nottinghamshire |5.233 Oxfordshire |1.325 Salop |1.788 Somerset |2.478 Staffordshire |2.599 Suffolk |2.124 Surrey |2.420 Warwickshire |1.434 West Sussex |1.599 Wiltshire |1.480 Note.-The figures are based on LEA Expenditure Returns to the Department of the Environment
Table 2 Other Services Block of the Education Component of the 1990-91 Standard Spending Assessments ------------------------------------- City of London |0.081 Camden |5.737 Greenwich |5.051 Hackney |7.525 Hammersmith |4.896 Islington |5.645 Kensington |4.208 Lambeth |9.294 Lewisham |6.459 Southwark |7.312 Tower Hamlets |6.320 Wandsworth |7.677 Westminster |5.846 Barking |2.793 Barnet |5.742 Bexley |3.023 Brent |7.786 Bromley |4.418 Croydon |6.183 Ealing |7.454 Enfield |5.112 Haringey |6.023 Harrow |3.445 Havering |2.980 Hillingdon |3.555 Hounslow |3.935 Kingston |2.054 Merton |3.124 Newham |6.101 Redbridge |4.061 Richmond |2.568 Sutton |2.399 Waltham Forest |5.496 Birmingham |24.201 Coventry |5.951 Dudley |4.201 Sandwell |6.065 Solihull |2.705 Walsall |4.689 Wolverhampton |5.809 Knowsley |3.441 Liverpool |11.000 St. Helens |2.639 Sefton |4.588 Wirral |6.073 Bolton |4.503 Bury |2.394 Manchester |11.484 Oldham |3.877 Rochdale |3.647 Salford |4.445 Stockport |3.773 Tameside |3.511 Trafford |3.298 Wigan |4.072 Barnsley |3.194 Doncaster |4.502 Rotherham |3.805 Sheffield |8.883 Bradford |9.371 Calderdale |3.130 Kirklees |6.288 Leeds |11.675 Wakefield |4.273 Gateshead |3.286 Newcastle |5.581 North Tyne |2.920 South Tyne |2.812 Sunderland |5.018 Isles of Scilly |0.027 Avon |13.037 Bedfordshire |8.013 Berkshire |10.220 Buckinghamshire |8.074 Cambridge |7.944 Cheshire |12.028 Cleveland |9.988 Cornwall |5.937 Cumbria |5.899 Derbyshire |12.082 Devon |13.235 Dorset |7.965 Duham |8.862 East Sussex |9.899 Essex |19.474 Gloucestershire |6.533 Hampshire |20.356 Hereford and Worcester |7.989 Hertfordshire |12.388 Humberside |13.047 Isle of Wight |1.720 Kent |19.977 Lancashire |21.194 Leicester |12.975 Lincolnshire |7.439 Norfolk |9.222 North Yorkshire |8.129 Northamptonshire |7.333 Northumberland |3.497 Nottinghamshire |15.882 Oxfordshire |6.885 Shropshire |5.184 Somerset |5.148 Staffordshire |12.762 Suffolk |7.114 Surrey |12.038 Warwickshire |6.040 West Sussex |8.410 Wiltshire |6.643
Grant-Maintained Schools
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether his Department has made any assessment of the likely administrative costs for individual local education authorities arising out of schools achieving grant-maintained status ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Eggar : LEAs should be able to make savings on administration where schools become grant-maintained. The overall effect on the expenditure of the authority will depend on the extent to which they make such savings.
Youth Work
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will set out, at 1990 prices, the level of support for voluntary organisations involved in youth work for 1987-88, 1988-89, 1089- 90, and 1990-91.
Mr. Atkins : The information requested is given in the table.
Department of Education and Science grants<1> to
voluntary youth
organisations
England £000s
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Recurrent grants |2,551.8|2,350.0|2,289.1|2,301.0
Capital grants |976.3 |531.8 |397.2 |651.0
Special grants<2> |nil |nil |nil |500.0
|---- |---- |---- |----
Total |3,528.1|2,881.8|2,686.3|3,452.0
<1>In 1990 real terms, applying the GDP deflator as at
November 1990.
<2>Interim funding of £500,000 per annum for 1990-91,
1991-92 and 1992-93 to the headquarters of London wide
education voluntary organisations following the abolition
of the ILEA.
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Iraqi Students
Mr. Wareing : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students from Iraq attended postgraduate courses at British universities and colleges of higher education in each of the years 1981 to 1990 inclusive.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The number of students from Iraq enrolled on post -graduate courses at British higher education institutions between 1980-81 and 1989-90 are as follows :
Academic |Universities |Polytechnics/|Total
year |Colleges
|of Higher
|Education
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1980-81 |1,225 |- |-
1981-82 |1,153 |45 |1,198
1982-83 |1,277 |54 |1,331
1983-84 |980 |38 |1,018
1984-85 |716 |37 |753
1985-86 |656 |42 |698
1986-87 |900 |51 |951
1987-88 |892 |50 |942
1988-89 |673 |51 |724
1989-90 |405 |<1>33 |-
<1> England and Scotland.
No figure is available for the number of students in polytechnics and colleges in 1980-81 and information is not available yet on the number in these institutions in Wales in 1989-90.
Geography
Mr. Anthony Coombs : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he intends to publish for consultation the draft order with attainment targets and programmes of study for geography in the national curriculum.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : I have today published for consultation a draft order with an associated document setting out attainment targets and programmes of study for geography in the national curriculum for pupils aged five to 16, as I am required to do by section 20(5) of the Education Reform Act 1988. Copies have been placed in the Library.
The draft order has been prepared following advice to me from the National Curriculum Council, in the light of its consultations on the proposals made by the former holder of my office and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. I am most grateful to the council for its advice.
I have accepted the bulk of the council's recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study as a basis for further consultation. The National Curriculum Council has recommended one major change to the structure of attainment targets in geography, reducing the total number of attainment targets from seven to five. I have accepted this change and believe that it will be helpful in reducing the assessment load on teachers.
However, I consider that the attainment targets should emphasise more strongly knowledge and understanding of aspects of geography and put less emphasis on assessment of skills which, however desirable, are not particular to geography, and less emphasis on the assessment of pupils' exploration of attitudes and values. I also consider that,
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for primary schools, the number of different places to be studied should be smaller than in the recommendations made to me. I have also made other minor changes to the Council's recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study. Therefore, in accordance with section 20(5)(a)(ii) of the Education Reform Act 1988, I have published a statement of my reasons for departing from the council's advice. Copies have been placed in the Library, with the draft order.The draft order and documents do not provide for a short course for pupils at key stage 4 who are not taking a geography GCSE. The National Curriculum Council has advised me on this, but I have decided to consider this advice further, particularly with a view to securing maximum flexibility for schools in determining the nature of such short courses. However, it remains my intention that there should be provision within the national curriculum for pupils at key stage 4 to take short geography courses and I shall in due course bring forward a further draft order accordingly.
The draft order for geography sets out a range of essential geographical skills ; maintains the emphasis on pupils' knowledge and understanding about places which was a central feature of the proposals issued in June ; and ensures that study of the environment remains central to the geography curriculum along with the study of physical and human geography.
The period for consultation on the draft order will end on 15 February 1991. I intend to make the final order in March 1991 in good time for schools to begin teaching national curriculum geography to pupils aged five, seven and 11 from the following autumn. The draft order applies only to England. My right hon. Friend will be publishing separately for consultation a draft order for geography in Wales.
History
Mr. Anthony Coombs : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he intends to publish for consultation the draft order with attainment targets and programmes of study for history in the national curriculum.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : I have today published for consultation a draft order with an associated document setting out attainment targets and programmes of study for history in the National Curriculum for pupils aged five to 16, as I am required to do by section 20(5) of the Education Reform Act 1988. Copies have been placed in the Library.
The draft order has been prepared on the basis of advice from the National Curriculum Council following consultation on the proposals made in July by the former holder of my office. The council's advice on attainment targets and programmes of study responds to a number of proposals and requests made by my predecessor. In the light of that advice, the proposed number of attainment targets has been reduced from four to three. The programmes of study are now set out in a simpler format, and are less detailed and prescriptive. The proposed core course of study for pupils aged 14 to 16 has also been redesigned by the NCC, along the lines indicated by my predecessor. I have made certain further changes, as explained in the letter to those being consulted, to make it clear that the focus of study of this unit should be the first half of the
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twentieth century. I believe that it is right to draw some distinction between the study of history and the study of current affairs.The curriculum requirements I am now proposing in this final stage of consultation will provide a sound basis for the acquisition of knowledge and understanding of British, European and world history. The attainment targets will ensure that knowledge, understanding and skills are rigorously assessed. The programmes of study will provide a clear framework of historical content to be taught while leaving teachers a degree of freedom in the design of schemes of work. I believe that this represents the successful outcome of a long period of consultation and public debate.
The period of consultation on the draft order will end on 15 February 1991. I intend to make the final order in March 1991 in good time for the schools to begin teaching national curriculum history to pupils aged five, seven and 11 from the following autumn. The draft order applies only to England. My right hon. Friend will be publishing separately for consultation a draft order for history in Wales.
Agricultural and Food Research Council
Dr. David Clark : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the research establishments and projects respectively which have been granted moneys from the Agricultural and Food Research Council ; and if he will list the amounts involved.
Mr. Alan Howarth [holding answer 20 December 1990] : The research institutes that have received grants from the AFRC to meet recurrent and capital expenditure in the year to 31 March 1991 are as follows, the amount of the grants also being shown :
C
|£'000
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Institute of Arable Crops Research |11,235
Institute of Animal Health |15,711
Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research |12,382
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research |10,512
Horticulture Research International |9,868
Institute of Plant Science Research |6,114
Institute of Food Research |16,249
Institute of Engineering Research |4,729
The AFRC currently makes approximately 1,069 research grants to some 64 higher education institutions, totalling approximately £52 million, of which about £15 million is allocated per annum. Full details are given in a detailed print out which I am sending to the hon. Member. Copies have been placed in the Library.
Further information relating to projects undertaken in AFRC institutes and higher education institutions supported by AFRC is included in the AFRC handbook 1990, copies of which have also been placed in the Library.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Traffic Fines
Mr. Cox : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if it is his intention to allow London borough councils to retain fine income from local road traffic offences to pay for improvements in road traffic schemes in their areas.
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Mr. Peter Lloyd : Revenue from fines for road traffic offences, like the revenue from other criminal penalties, is paid into the Consolidated Fund. However, the Road Traffic Bill provides that contravention of certain orders relating to parking places in London should no longer be a criminal offence and that local authorities should assume responsibility for enforcing these parking controls. Under the Bill, local authorities would retain income collected by way of penalty charges for infringements and would be able to use it for specified parking and traffic related purposes.Magistrates Courts (Staff)
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to extend the remit of the Parliamentary Commission for Administration to include investigation of complaints against magistrates courts staff ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. John Patten : I have not yet reached decisions on the future organisation of the service in the light of the report of the magistrates' courts scrutiny. It would not be sensible to consider the remit of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration in relation to magistrates courts service staff separately from the broader organisation issues.
Taylor Report
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has immediate plans to implement the Taylor report ; and if he has discussed with the Football League and Football Association the effects arising from the non-implementation of the report.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Lord Justice Taylor's final report on the Hillsborough stadium disaster made 76 specific recommendations, the great majority of which have now been implemented by the responsible authorities.
We have made it clear that the primary responsibility for the reduction of standing accommodation at football league grounds in accordance with the timetable proposed by Lord Justice Taylor rests with the clubs themselves. We have also indicated to the Football League and to the Football Association that we are prepared to accept variations from the interim timetable recommended by Lord Justice Taylor provided that there is realistic progress towards the dates by which the use of standing accommodation should be discontinued. We shall look to the Football Licensing Authority to advise us, in due course, whether progress towards all seated accommodation is satisfactory. The football authorities are well aware that enforcement powers are available, if it is not.
Mr. R. Jerrard
Sir Dudley Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will review the entitlement of Mr. R. Jerrard of Warwick for a long service and good conduct medal as an inspector in the City of London police.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The royal warrant which instituted the long service and good conduct medal offers no scope for discretion to award the medal to anyone who has served less than 22 years police service.
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Overseas Electors
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, on Tuesday 18 December, Official Report, columns 102-3, if he will now give the total number of overseas electors included in the 1991-92 register published by individual electoral registration officers on 28 November, together with numbers for each constituency and for each region of Scotland and county in England and Wales.
Mrs. Rumbold : Information on the number of overseas electors included in the draft electoral register is still being collated. We shall shortly make the figures known to the House.
Community Charge
Mr. Cox : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the number of people in each of the 32 London boroughs who have been summonsed for the non-payment of the community charge.
Mr. John Patten : Information is not available centrally on the number of people in each London borough who have been summonsed for non- payment of the community charge. However, the table shows the number of summonses heard at magistrates courts in the London area from April to September 1990, the latest date for which the information is available.
Number of community charge summonses heard at magistrates
courts in the London area April-September 1990
Magistrates court |Summonses
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City of London
Guildhall justice room |76
Inner London
Hampstead |1,500
Horseferry Road |2,962
South Western |1,671
Thames |3,070
Outer London
Barking |33
Barnet/Hendon |86
Bromley |7,187
Croydon |14,212
Ealing/Acton |590
Enfield |3,764
Havering |12
Feltham/Brentford |209
Kingston-upon-Thames |7,679
Wimbledon |422
Stratford/West Ham |6,600
Redbridge |575
Sutton |8,533
Waltham Forest |853
Mr. Cox : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the number of people who have been sentenced to a period of imprisonment by courts covering the Greater London area who have been summonsed for the non-payment of their community charge.
Mrs. Rumbold : The information for 1990 is not yet available.
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Police Training
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what training has been given by United Kingdom police officers to police officers in the Punjab region of India in the last five years to date ; what training has been received by police officers from the Punjab in the United Kingdom over the same period ; what was the nature of such training ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : There is no central record of any training having been given by United Kingdom police officers to police officers in India in the last five years.
Central records, which do not distinguish between officers from the Punjab and those from other parts of India, show that the following visits were made by Indian police officers to the United Kingdom for training purposes over this period.
1986
One officer visited the Metropolitan Police to discuss its organisation and structure.
1987
One officer visited the Metropolitan Police to discuss training. Two officers visited the Metropolitan Police, Ashford Police Training Centre and the Police Staff College, Bramshill.
One officer was attached to the Metropolitan Police and the Police Staff College to study training management.
1988
One officer visited the Metropolitan Police and the Police Staff College to discuss training.
One officer visited the Metropolitan Police to discuss the day-to-day operation of a police station.
One officer visited the Home Office, Metropolitan and West Midlands Police to discuss counter-terrorism.
One officer visited the Metropolitan Police to discuss the ability of the police to handle new problems.
1989
Two officers undertook a training attachment with the Police Staff College, and the West Yorkshire and Metropolitan Police forces. Four officers visited the Metropolitan Police CID Training School at Hendon.
Two officers visited the Metropolitan Police to discuss VIP security.
Four officers undertook a Criminal Records Computerisation Course at Merseyside and subsequent attachment to the Police National Computer Organisation.
One officer visited the Police Staff College, Metropolitan Police, Lancashire Constabulary, Kent Constabulary and West Yorkshire Police to discuss recruitment, training, promotion, computers, drugs and terrorism.
One officer visited the Metropolitan Police to discuss training methods and courses.
1990
One officer visited the Metropolitan Police to discuss the ways in which the police assist the courts.
One officer visited the Metropolitan Police and Ashford Police Training Centre to discuss anti-terrorist and general police training.
One officer attended the Overseas Command Course, Police Staff College, Bramshill.
In addition, in each of the last five years, 10 officers from the Indian police service have attended a specially designed overseas command course at West Yorkshire police force training school.
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what training has been given by United Kingdom police officers to police officers in Sri Lanka in the last five years to date ; what training has been received by Sri Lankan police officers in the United Kingdom over the same period ; what was the nature of such training ; and if he will make a statement.
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