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Sir George Young : I have today arranged for the information to be placed in the Library.
As at 1 April 1990, rent arrears owing to all English housing authorities amounted to some £360 million,(7.8 per cent. of the total rent collectable.) This is an increase of 12 per cent. compared with the figure at 1 April 1989. The 10 authorities with the worst arrears represent 37 per cent. of the total ; their level of arrears ranges from about 18 per cent. of the rent collectable, in Camden, to about 45 per cent., in Brent. London accounts for 46 per cent. of the national total ; total London arrears are £165
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million and nine of the 10 worst authorities are in London ; but I am glad to see that seven London boroughs have reduced the amount of rent outstanding to them.The figures are an indictment of too many authorities for their poor management and, while a third have improved their performance and deserve commendation for this, the figures show that far too many are not acting upon the advice on rent collection given by the Department and the Audit Commission.
The three poorest performing authorities are those that turned in the worst performance last year. In Brent, Lambeth and Southwark, tenants between them owe over £60 million worth of rent. Since the introduction of the new housing finance system in April 1990, the cost of arrears are borne by the tenants who do pay their rent. If some tenants do not pay, either rents generally will go up or the level of service will fall. Authorities are also required to account to their tenants for their housing management by publishing indicators of their performance, from April this year onwards. I expect tenants to demand major changes in authorities' policies towards non -payers, and to put pressure on them to ensure that arrears of this magnitude become a thing of the past.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Birmingham Pub Bombings
Mr. Mullin : To ask the Attorney-General (1) what consideration was given to seeking an order to restrain former Chief Superintendent George Reade from going to Australia prior to the hearing of the appeal of the six men convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) when he was first made aware that former Chief Superintendent George Reade was proposing to travel to Australia ; and what undertaking he sought as regards Mr. Reade's availability for inquiries relating to the appeal of the six men convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings.
The Attorney-General : This case remains under consideration by the courts. I will write to the hon. Member after the appeal has been determined.
Mr. Mullin : To ask the Attorney-General what was the cost to public funds of sending Devon and Cornwall police officers to Australia to interview former Chief Superintendent George Reade.
The Attorney-General : The Director of Public Prosecutions has arranged for the chief constable of the Devon and Cornwall police to write to the hon. Member giving the information requested.
Pre-trial Issues
Sir John Wheeler : To ask the Attorney-General if he will make a statement concerning the inter-agency working group on pre-trial issues.
The Attorney-General : The Lord Chancellor, the Home Secretary and I have received a report from the working group on pre-trial issues which makes a number of detailed and far-reaching recommendations for improvements in the processing of criminal cases to the point of trial.
We welcome the report as a valuable basis for action in consultation with the CPS, the police, the courts, and other organisations and bodies with a direct interest in the
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implementation of the recommendations. We have appointed a steering group of officials to carry forward implementation of the report and to undertake these consultations in order to establish the resource implications of the proposals made, and to provide by the summer recess a costed action plan for implementation.Copies of the report have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses and sent to the Select Committee on Home Affairs which last year conducted an inquiry into the impact on the criminal justice system of the establishment of the CPS and made many recommendations which the working group has carried forward.
CIVIL SERVICE
Disabled Employees
Mr. Allen : To ask the Minister for the Civil Service what steps he is taking to promote the meeting of legal quotas for employing disabled people in Government Departments ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Renton : All Departments and agencies aim to employ a 3 per cent. quota of registered disabled staff. My Department has introduced a range of initiatives, outlined in the code of practice on the employment of people with disabilities in the civil service, to help Departments and agencies to achieve this. The annual report on progress will be published next month in the magazine "Independent". Copies will be placed in the Library of the House.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Human Rights
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the incorporation of the European convention on human rights into United Kingdom law.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : We have no plans to propose legislation to incorporate the European convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms into domestic law. We are committed to, and support, the principles of human rights in the convention, but we believe that it is for Parliament rather than the judiciary to determine how these principles are best secured.
Magistrates Courts
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what assessment he has made of the efficiency of magistrates courts' committees ; and if he will make a statement ;
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(2) if he has received any representations on the report of the scrutiny team concerning magistrates courts ; and if he will make a statement ;(3) whether his Department has any plans to reform the financial administration of magistrates courts ; and if he will make a statement ;
(4) if he will make a statement on his Department's response to the scrutiny report on magistrates courts' services.
Mr. John Patten : No decisions have yet been reached on the proposals for reorganising and financing the magistrates' courts service contained in the scrutiny report on the service. We have received views from the representative organisations of the service, magistrates courts' committees, individual members of the service and other interested parties. We are considering these views in the light of the assessment by independent consultants last year of the costs of implementation.
Community Charge
Mr. Meale : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will give the number of court actions which have so far been undertaken in the Mansfield court area for the non-payment of the poll tax ;
(2) if he will give the number of court actions which have so far been undertaken for the non-payment of the poll tax by petty sessions division area.
Mr. John Patten : The available information, which is provided by justices' clerks on a clerkship basis, is placed in the Library as soon as possible after its collation. Information for the period 1 April to 30 September 1990 is already in the Library and for the period 1 October to 31 December 1990 will be placed in the Library this week.
Immigration
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many outstanding cases there were for October, November, December 1990 and January 1991 under the headings of (a) naturalisation, (b) registration, (c) refugees, (d) asylum seekers, and (e) general immigration ; and what was the number of new casework applications in each of those areas for each month.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The number of outstanding cases and intakes in the immigration and nationality department by the categories requested is as follows :
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Nationality
|Naturalisation<1>|Registration<1> |General |Asylum and
|immigration |related
|casework<1><2> |casework<1><3>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Outstanding cases
October |63,553 |24,485 |20,910 |29,936
November |64,818 |23,853 |21,931 |32,566
December |63,597 |22,677 |21,765 |35,304
January |61,331 |21,859 |20,919 |37,666
Intakes
October |1,645 |969 |30,656 |6,261
November |1,425 |803 |30,264 |5,800
December |1,334 |667 |21,467 |4,740
January |1,514 |883 |27,356 |6,513
<1>Does not include applications received in the Department but which await allocation to caseworkers.
<2>Includes referred entry clearance applications, and enquiries submitted by letter, as well as variation
of leave cases. Includes both general and eastern European casework (the latter was absorbed into general
casework in July 1990).
<3>These figures are a total of all work outstanding in the refugee unit.
Police Costs
Mr. Fraser : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the current cost of the Metropolitan, West Midlands and Merseyside police forces expressed in terms of cost per crime cleared up.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The available information on the amount of police time spent on different types of activity, including clearing up crime, does not yet make it possible to produce an accurate and consistent unit cost of crime cleared up for each force. A programme of work, following a joint Home Office/Treasury study of police manpower, is under way to develop standard methods of activity analysis in forces. This should in due course make it possible to attribute time and cost to different activities, including those relating to crime.
Asylum
Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will list the total number of people who sought asylum in the United Kingdom in each quarter of 1990 ;
(2) if he will list the total number of people who sought asylum in the United Kingdom in 1990 ; and how many (a) were awarded refugee status, (b) were awarded exceptional leave to remain and (c) were refused entry.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Reliable quarterly estimates of the number of applications for asylum in the United Kingdom in 1990 cannot yet be made, but provisional indications are that the total in 1990 was of the order of 30,000, including associated dependants.
Comprehensive information on decisions in 1990 on asylum applications is not yet available. Decisions recorded to date are shown in the following table, but these understate because of delays in recording.
Decisions<1> on applications<2> for asylum in the
United Kingdom made
in 1990 as recorded at Mid-February 1991
|Numbers
----------------------------------------------------
Granted asylum |1,600
Granted exceptional leave |3,700
Refused asylum or exceptional leave |650
<1>Including associated dependants.
<2>Decisions do not necessarily relate to
applications made in 1990.
Fuller and more reliable estimates of applications and decisions in 1990 will be published as usual in the annual Home Office statistical bulletin "Refugee Statistics, United Kingdom" later this year.
Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each year since 1985 the number of applicants for asylum in the United Kingdom who have been held in detention for more than one month.
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Mr. Peter Lloyd : The information requested is not available centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. On 15 February, 110 persons who had claimed asylum had been detained under Immigration Act powers for more than one month.
Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the conclusions of the Council of Europe ministerial conference on east-west migration in Vienna regarding the asylum question.
Mr. Kenneth Baker : I attended the ministerial conference in Vienna on 24 and 25 January, at which representatives of Council of Europe member states, as well as all the states of central and eastern Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States were present. The conference was not concerned specifically with asylum, but with the problems posed for both receiving countries and countries of origin by the growth of migration from central and eastern Europe. There was general agreement on the need for international co-operation on measures to limit migratory flows, including action in respect of economic migrants who seek to exploit the asylum process and on the importance of tackling the root causes of migration in the countries of origin. A group of senior officials from the participating states was invited to follow up the recommendations of the conference. A copy of the final communique of the conference has been placed in the Library.
Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consideration he is giving to the establishment of a European appeal court to give a right of appeal against a refusal to grant asylum ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : None. I see no merit in such a proposal.
Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how he distinguishes in policy between measures taken to combat abuse of the asylum procedure and measures taken to regulate the flow of asylum seekers.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Our policy is to meet our international obligations towards refugees who may properly look to the United Kingdom for protection, while taking firm action to maintain normal immigration control in respect both of those who have already found safety elsewhere and of those whose applications for recognition of refugee status have no basis in the criteria of the 1951 United Nations convention.
National Boundaries
Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if Her Majesty's Government will join the Schengen process.
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Mr. Peter Lloyd : We do not intend to accede to the convention on the abolition of checks at common borders which was signed by the Schengen group of countries in June last year.Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if Her Majesty's Government will press for the adoption of the convention on the crossing of the communities' external frontiers by all member states of the European Community.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The draft convention on the crossing of external frontiers is still under discussion between the member states and is not yet ready for signature.
Racial Attacks
Mr. Madden : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which police forces in the United Kingdom record racially motivated attacks ; if he will arrange for the latest figures for each force to be published, together with the figures for the comparable period of the previous year ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : All police forces in England and Wales record incidents as being racially motivated if the victim, the investigating officer or a third party witness perceive them to be so. Publication of such information is for chief officers. Some include statistics in their annual reports, while others may decide to make such information available in response to a particular inquiry.
Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary examines carefully during inspections forces' response to racially motivated crime. The Government are currently monitoring the impact of recent guidance to the police and other agencies, and will be formally reviewing progress with all statutory bodies. The Government have made it clear to the police service that racial attacks must be tackled as a priority.
Tote
Mr. Holt : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department who owns the Tote ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The Horserace Totalisator Board (the Tote), by virtue of section 12(1) of the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963, is established as a body corporate. It is therefore an independent legal person.
Boundary Commission
Sir John Wheeler : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Boundary Commission for England has decided when to start the next general review of constituencies in England.
Mr. Kenneth Baker : The commission has given notice of its intention to commence a general review forthwith. It is required to report between February 1993 and February 1998.
Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989
Sir John Wheeler : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has received a report from Viscount Colville of Culross QC on the operation in 1989 of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989.
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Mr. Kenneth Baker : I have received such a report from Viscount Colville and have placed copies in the Library.
NATIONAL FINANCE
Savings
Mr. Alton : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list, as a percentage of total household disposable income, net savings in the United Kingdom in each year since 1985.
Mr. Maples : The estimates for the period 1985 to 1989 are as follows :
Balance (household income less
expenditure) as percentage of
total
household disposable income
|Percentage
---------------------------------
1985 |0.5
1986 |-0.4
1987 |-1.9
1988 |-2.6
1989 |-1.8
Community Charge
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 28 January to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside, Official Report, column 391, on the community charge reduction scheme, if he will publish in the Official Report the assumptions used in reaching the figure given.
Mr. Mellor : The savings on community charge benefit resulting from the introduction of the community charge reduction scheme are a broad estimate based, like all the figures for the scheme, on the family expenditure surveys for 1987-89. Account has also been taken of preliminary information on the numbers of people claiming community charge benefit.
Pensions (Tax Relief)
Mr. David Shaw : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the amount of tax relief given in respect of moneys invested by individuals and companies in all types of pensions and pension funds during the last five years.
Mr. Maude : Latest estimates are as follows :
£ million
Relief for:
|Employees |Employers |Contributions to
|contributions |contributions |personal pensions
|to occupational |to occupational |and retirement
|pension schemes |pension schemes<1> |annuity contracts<2>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1986-87 |1,700 |3,300 |475
1987-88 |1,700 |3,000 |525
1988-89 |1,800 |3,100 |625
1989-90 |2,000 |3,500 |950
1990-91 |2,200 |3,800 |1,100
<1> On the basis that under present arrangements, employers' contributions are not taxable as a benefit
in kind for the employee.
<2> Includes income tax relief on FSAVCs.
Small Businesses
Mr. David Shaw : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what studies his Department has carried out of the impact of corporation tax on smaller businesses and the survival rate of small companies.
Mr. Maude : The impact of corporation tax on small companies is kept under regular review. The profits limit for the small companies relief has been doubled in the last two years so that 40,000 more companies now pay tax at 25 per cent.--the small companies rate of corporation tax. And we have reduced the small companies rate itself from 42 per cent. to its present level of 25 per cent.
Nursing Agencies
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what legislative or administrative changes have been made since 1 January 1989 affecting the liability for VAT of nursing agencies.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : None. The United Kingdom has always exempted from VAT the supply of services by a person registered or enrolled in any of the medical or
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paramedical registers. However, under both United Kingdom and EC law this relief does not extend to the services of non-professionally qualified people.Financial Reporting
Mr. Allen : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to improve financial reporting to Parliament and to departmental Select Committees.
Mr. Mellor : The Government set out their proposals for the presentation of financial information in their White Paper "Financial Reporting to Parliament" (Cm 918). These proposals were implemented by the introduction this year of departmental reports. As the White Paper makes clear, the Government will keep the arrangements for the presentation of financial information under review.
Departmental Reports
Mr. Allen : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the departmental reports published to date and those that are outstanding.
Mr. Mellor : The information is as follows :
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Departmental Report |Published ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Supplement to the Autumn Statement |(Cm 1520) |Friday |1 February Department of Social Security |(Cm 1514) |Friday |1 February Ministry of Defence |(Cm 1501) |Tuesday |5 February Department of Employment |(Cm 1506) |Tuesday |5 February Home Office (inc Charity Commission) |(Cm 1509) |Tuesday |5 February Cabinet Office |(Cm 1519) |Thursday |7 February Chancellor of the Exchequer's Departments and Net Payments to EC |(Cm 1518) |Thursday |7 February Institutions Energy |(Cm 1505) |Thursday |7 February Department of Transport |(Cm 1507) |Thursday |7 February Department of Health and OPCS |(Cm 1513) |Thursday |7 February Department of Education and Science |(Cm 1511) |Tuesday |12 February Trade and Industry |(Cm 1504) |Tuesday |12 February Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Intervention Board and |(Cm 1503) |Wednesday |13 February Forestry Commission Environment |(Cm 1508) |Wednesday |13 February Foreign and Commonwealth Office (including ODA) |(Cm 1502) |Wednesday |13 February Office of Arts and Libraries |(Cm 1512) |Wednesday |13 February Legal Departments |(Cm 1510) |Thursday |14 February Scotland |(Cm 1515) |Thursday |14 February Wales |(Cm 1516) |Friday |15 February Northern Ireland |(Cm 1517) |Friday |15 February
There are no departmental reports outstanding.
Mr. Allen : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what response he has had to the new Budget format of departmental reports ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Mellor : We shall be reviewing all aspects of departmental reports in the light of comments received from departmental Select Committees and others over the coming months.
Mr. Allen : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what requests from Chairmen of departmental Select Committees he has received to discuss the new departmental reports.
Mr. Mellor : This is a matter for the Chairmen of departmental Select Committees.
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Real Interest Rate
Mr. Allen : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list in tabular form the real interest rate for each month for the last year ; and if he will make a statement on the apparent trend.
Mr. Maples : There is no agreed definition of the real interest rate. The table shows the average three-month inter-bank rate, for each month for the last year, deflated by the 12-month all-items RPI inflation rate for that month. In the three months to end January, the average real interest rate was 4.1 per cent. compared with an average of 7.0 per cent. for the same three months a year earlier.
Real' three-month inter-bank
rate
|per cent.
------------------------------
1990
January |6.9
February |7.1
March |6.7
April |5.3
May |5.0
June |4.7
July |4.7
August |4.0
September |3.6
October |2.8
November |3.6
December
1991
January |4.6
Alcohol Duties
Sir George Gardiner : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will set out the first forecast excise duty revenue for the latest revised estimates for 1989-90 and 1990-91 for (a) still wines less than 15 per cent. alcohol, (b) still wines more than 15 per cent. alcohol, (c) sparkling wines, (d) beer, (e) cider and perry, (f) made wines and (g) spirits.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : The information available is as follows. Forecasts are not made for individual categories of wine.
|1989-90 |1990-91
|Outturn |Autumn Statement
|£ billion |£ billion
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Beer |2.1 |2.3
Spirits |1.5 |1.8
Wine and made wine |0.8 |0.9
Cider and perry |0.1 |0.1
WALES
Employment Practices
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) which district health authorities in Wales have (a) adopted and (b) implemented policy statements on child care facilities for staff employed within the districts ; how many hospitals in each health authority area offer child care facilities and how many take advantage of such facilities ; and whether he has any plans to issue guidelines, including the issuing of targets for child care facilities in the health service ;
(2) which district health authorities have produced guidelines or policy statements concerning the application of job-share schemes ; how many job- share posts have been (a) advertised and (b) filled in each district health authority in Wales ; and how many of these job-share schemes applied to (i) health visitors, (ii) district nurses, (iii) midwives, (iv) sister nurses and (v) staff nurses.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : The information requested is not held centrally. Whilst there are no guidelines and targets for child care facilities, health authorities are encouraged, through the annual manpower resource planning process in particular, to consider and develop a range of employment practices. These include child care facilities and job-share schemes. However, the adoption and implementation of such practices is a matter for local employers to decide.
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Dental Services
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many dental check-ups were performed in Wales on (a) children (b) adults and (c) pensioners in each of the health areas in Wales for the years 1986 to 1990 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : The available information is in the tables. Table 1 gives the number of examinations, scheduled for payment during the appropriate year, performed within the general dental service.
Table 2 gives the number of inspections performed within the community dental service during the year in question. These figures include inspections conducted as part of screening programmes carried out by the community dental service to indentify patients requiring full examination.
Table 1
General dental services-number of examinations<1>
|1986-87|1987-88|1988-89|1989-90
-------------------------------------------------------------
Children (aged 0-17)
Clwyd |75,590 |76,330 |77,620 |75,150
Dyfed |61,740 |61,740 |62,370 |61,650
Gwent |89,160 |85,340 |84,870 |83,080
Gwynedd |44,270 |42,750 |42,590 |40,270
Mid Glamorgan |95,170 |92,760 |92,240 |90,320
Powys |18,010 |18,190 |18,690 |18,660
South Glamorgan |97,910 |90,850 |85,190 |81,660
West Glamorgan |91,670 |89,150 |87,640 |84,520
Adults (excluding pensioners)
Clwyd |121,550|128,780|136,430|126,900
Dyfed |103,920|109,970|116,220|109,450
Gwent |132,950|138,170|148,780|139,710
Gwynedd |75,140 |77,550 |82,500 |76,750
Mid Glamorgan |134,280|142,110|150,070|131,930
Powys |32,180 |35,330 |37,520 |36,720
South Glamorgan |149,380|155,650|161,640|149,480
West Glamorgan |134,920|141,960|146,110|130,640
Pensioners<2>
Clwyd |17,210 |14,740 |16,950 |15,280
Dyfed |14,110 |12,000 |13,930 |13,190
Gwent |14,270 |11,690 |14,310 |12,970
Gwynedd |13,560 |10,960 |12,730 |11,500
Mid Glamorgan |12,980 |10,720 |12,910 |11,010
Powys |4,430 |3,710 |4,440 |4,310
South Glamorgan |18,930 |15,730 |18,010 |16,550
West Glamorgan |16,270 |13,810 |16,480 |13,780
<1> All figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
<2> Women aged 60 and over. Men aged 65 and over.
Table 2Community Dental Service: Number of Inspections
|1986-87|1987-88|1988-89|1989-90
---------------------------------------------------------
Children<1>
Clwyd |42,709 |46,377 |30,546 |29,011
East Dyfed |38,131 |28,365 |18,836 |16,819
Pembrokeshire |17,254 |23,553 |23,361 |23,858
Gwent |54,623 |63,110 |51,302 |41,204
Gwynedd |17,994 |14,772 |15,305 |17,963
Mid Glamorgan |71,514 |63,389 |61,571 |61,422
Powys |22,081 |20,289 |17,309 |15,617
South Glamorgan |40,343 |43,207 |45,941 |44,531
West Glamorgan |52,512 |53,239 |54,368 |53,010
Adults<2>
Clwyd |648 |810 |1,015 |661
East Dyfed |363 |558 |553 |722
Pembrokeshire<3> |15 |17 |27 |51
Gwent |1,986 |3,389 |1,737 |1,379
Gwynedd |1,131 |1,162 |2,035 |1,197
Mid Glamorgan |755 |672 |705 |1,311
Powys<3> |28 |57 |56 |130
South Glamorgan |1,425 |1,754 |1,819 |1,551
West Glamorgan |645 |1,090 |804 |1,333
<1> Children under five and school children.
<2> Includes mothers and handicapped adults. No further
age split is available.
<3> The figures for Pembrokeshire and Powys exclude
handicapped adults on which data have not consistently
been collected.
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Foreign-based Employers
Mr. Gwilym Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list in the Official Report the 25 largest foreign-based employers, by numbers employed, country of origin, location and date and size of initial investment in Wales.
Mr. David Hunt : The following table lists the 25 largest overseas employers in Wales, together with information on location and the date of the commencement of their operations in Wales. Current employment and capital investment details for individual companies are confidential. In total, however, these companies employ some 30, 000 in Wales.
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Overseas company |Country of |Location<1> |Commencement
|ownership |date<1><2><3><4>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ford Motor Co. Ltd. |USA |Swansea |1965
Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co. Ltd. |Japan |Cardiff |1976
Sony (UK) Ltd. |Japan |Bridgend |1974
Gallaher Ltd. |USA |Cardiff |<2>1968
Hoover plc |USA |Merthyr |1947
British Alcan Aluminium plc |Canada |Newport |pre 1945
CMB Packaging (UK) Ltd. |France/UK joint |Neath |<3>1989
| ownership
Sharp Electronics (UK) Ltd. |Japan |Wrexham |1985
Valeo SA |France |Ammanford |<2>1989
SGS-Thompson Microelectronics Ltd. |France/Italy joint|Newport |<2>1989
| ownership
Calsonic International (UK) Ltd. |Japan |Llanelli |<2>1989
Warner-Lambert (UK) Ltd. |USA |Pontypool |1971
Fram Europe Ltd. |Italy |Treforest |<4>1961
STC plc |Canada |Newport |<2>1990
Monsanto plc |USA |Wrexham |pre 1945
Alcoa Manufacturing (GB) Ltd |USA |Swansea |<2>1968
TRW UK Ltd |USA |Neath |1946
Thomson Corp plc |Canada |Cardiff |<2>1959
Bristol-Myers Squibb |USA |Shotton |1982
James River UK Holdings Ltd. |USA |Bridgend |<2>1973
3M UK Holdings plc |USA |Tredegar |1950
Brother Industries Ltd. |Japan |Wrexham |1985
Alfa-Laval Co. Ltd. |Sweden |Cwmbran |1948
Hitachi Ltd. |Japan |Aberdare |<2>1979
Texaco Inc. |USA |Pembroke |1964
<1> A number of overseas companies listed in the table have more than one plant in Wales, in which case the location
and date of their first known investment is given.
<2> Some overseas companies became established in Wales by acquisition of then United Kingdom owned assets; these are
separately identified by the notation 2, and the date given is the date of change of ownership to overseas.
<3> This was the merger, in 1989 between a United Kingdom company with plants in Wales and a French company.
<4> This is the date of the first investment at Treforest, subsequently the business was transferred to Llantrisant.
Notes:
1. Changes of asset ownership between one foreign company and another foreign company are not identified; and the
commencement date is the date of the first known overseas investment.
2. It is possible for an overseas company first established in Wales by direct new investment to have subsequently
expanded by means of acquisition of existing assets.
3. The primary data source for the above table is the Welsh Office Regional Data System.
PRIME MINISTER
Engagements
Mr. Harry Greenway : To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for 21 February.
The Prime Minister : This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in the House I shall be having further meetings later today.
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