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Scottish Homes
27. Mr. Ernie Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he next intends meeting the chairman of Scottish Homes to discuss its budget.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I met the chairman of Scottish Homes on 4 March to discuss Scottish Homes budget.
28. Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he will approve the regional allocation of the budget for Scottish Homes for 1990-91.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : In approving Scottish Homes programme for any year, my right hon. Friend agrees the amounts which Scottish Homes proposes should be spent on particular functions. The allocation of funds to specific areas is then a matter for Scottish Homes.
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what proportion of Scottish Homes grant-in-aid allocations has been spent in Dundee in 1989-90 and 1990-91, giving both the percentage figure and the actual cash sums spent.
(2) if he will publish in the Official Report Tayside district's share of the allocation to the north region of grant-in-aid to Scottish Homes for 1989-90, 1990-91 and 1991-92, where those figures are available ;
(3) if he will publish in the Official Report the bids made by north region for its share of the grant-in-aid allocations to Scottish Homes in 1989-90, 1990-91 and 1991-92, and the actual allocations to north region in each of those years for which figures are available.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 5 March 1991] : The information sought is not held by the Scottish
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Office Environment Department as allocations to Scottish Homes regions or districts are a matter for Scottish Homes itself.Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will consider giving Scottish Homes grant-in-aid allocations for three years to enable longer-term planning between Scottish Homes, local authorities, housing associations and communities in peripheral estates.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 5 March 1991] : No. The present system permits sufficient flexibility. In preparing its strategic plan, Scottish Homes is given planning indicators of Government funding for the forward year. This itself gives an indication of the future funding levels since Scottish Homes has the ability to forward commit up to 80 per cent. of its current year programme into the next. This enables the agency to plan for future years, but allows sufficient funding for new priorities or projects emerging in the following year.
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the grant-in-aid to Scottish Homes in 1989-90, 1990-91 and 1991-92 ; and what was the allocation to north region in each of those years for which figures are available.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 5 March 1991] : The grant-in-aid for Scottish Homes is set out in the table :
|£ million
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1989-90 (Actual; including £ 36 million National
Loans Fund repayments) |229.1
1990-91 (Estimates Provision; including £ 7.7 million
National Loans Fund repayments) |266.4
1991-92 (Estimates Provision; including £ 169 million
National Loans Fund repayments) |443.2
The allocation of these totals to Scottish Homes regions is a matter for Scottish Homes.
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the estimated figures for capital receipts in the capital allocations to Scottish Homes in 1989-90, 1990-91 and 1991-92 ; and what were the actual outturn capital receipts in those years for which figures are available.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 5 March 1991] : The information requested is set out the the table :
|Estimated |Outturn
|£ million|£ million
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1989-90 |110 |115
1990-91 |110 |<1>
1991-92 |100 |-
<1> Not yet available.
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the capital allocations to Scottish Homes in 1989-90, 1990-91 and 1991-92, showing both budget and outturn figures where those are available.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 5 March 1991] : The information in relation to Scottish Homes total gross expenditure is set out in the table :
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|Planned |Outturn
|£ million|£ million
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1989-90 |349 |348
1990-91 |357 |<1>
1991-92 |543 |-
<1> Not yet available.
Tourism
29. Rev. Martin Smyth : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what discussions he has had with the Scottish tourist board on joint promotions with the Northern Ireland tourist board of both regions.
Mr. Allan Stewart : I have had no such discussions.
Steel Industry
30. Mr. Strang : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has any plans to meet the chairman of British Steel to discuss future steel investment in Scotland ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Allan Stewart : My right hon. Friend has, at present, no plans to meet the chairman of British Steel. My right hon. Friend met the company's chief executive on 21 February, when he was informed of the decision to reduce Ravenscraig to single furnace working. The Scottish Development Agency's study of the prospects for the steel industry in Scotland has identified two potential opportunities and these will be discussed further with British Steel.
Local Government Finance
31. Mr. Macdonald : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the progress of the poll tax review.
Mr. Allan Stewart : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is continuing to discuss with colleagues a wide range of options concerned with the financing and structure of local government.
35. Mr. Hood : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the representations he has received on the case for abolishing or reviewing the community charge ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Allan Stewart : My right hon. Friend has received a number of representations about different aspects of the community charge arrangements. These are being considered carefully as part of the current review of the community charge.
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the qualifying date relating to residence in a property for eligibility for the community charge reduction scheme in Scotland in 1991-92.
Mr. Allan Stewart : The community charge reduction scheme will operate with backdated effect from 1 April 1990. Reductions to personal community charge liabilities will be calculated on the basis of the difference between a person's or a household's former rates liability and their actual personal community charge (not including water) at 1 April 1989. One of the criteria for eligibility, therefore, will be that the charge payer is resident in the same
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property as he or she was solely or mainly resident on 1 April 1989. If the person moves after 1 April 1990, the date from which the new scheme is effective, entitlement will normally cease on the day of moving.Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the maximum number of assumed poll tax charges that will be used per household for the purposes of calculating help under the community charge reduction scheme in Scotland in 1991-92.
Mr. Allan Stewart : The community charge reduction scheme is to be based on actual community charges (less water charges) set by local authorities in 1989-90 and will operate with backdated effect to 1 April 1990. A maximum of two charges per household will be used for calculating entitlement. Additional assistance is available for the elderly and the disabled who were not former ratepayers.
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people benefited from the poll tax transitional relief scheme in Scotland ; and what was the average annual payment to each person who qualified.
Mr. Allan Stewart : Regional and islands councils are required to provide information on the numbers of people who have received relief under the original and the enhanced transitional relief schemes together with information on the total amounts of relief disbursed when making their claims for reimbursement to the Department. Final claims have not yet been received from all local authorities and the information requested is therefore not yet available centrally.
Red Deer
32. Mr. Andrew Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proposals he has to increase the number of red deer in Scotland.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I have no proposals to increase the number of red deer in Scotland. The Red Deer Commission has the general function of furthering the control and conservation of red deer. The Commission has recommended that the hind population of around 160,000 should be reduced by approximately 50,000 to achieve a hind/stag ratio of no more than 1.3 to 1.
Erythropoetin
33. Sir Michael McNair-Wilson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many renal patients in Ninewells hospital, Dundee, receiving treatment with erythropoetin, had the drug withdrawn because of lack of funds.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : None. Everyone involved recognises that clinical judgments about which drugs to prescribe for patients should not be inhibited by financial considerations. That has always been the case and has not changed. Of course, health boards are entitled to debate with clinicians whether the treatments that they propose to offer patients are the most cost-effective or whether there are better and more economical alternatives that could be considered. And many hospitals have drug and therapeutic committees and subject prescription practices to peer review. But, if ultimately a clinician's judgment is that a particular drug is the only suitable treatment for a patient, the board's responsibility then becomes finding the resources necessary to enable that treatment to be offered.
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The drug erythropoetin (EPO) was the subject of trials being conducted in Tayside health board. Those trials have now been completed. However, Tayside health board has confirmed that it is to find the resources to provide EPO when prescribed to all who require it.Labour Statistics
34. Mr. David Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to reduce unemployment in Scotland ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Allan Stewart : There has been a fall of 6,600 in seasonally adjusted unemployment in Scotland over the past year. The Government will continue to pursue sound monetary, fiscal and exchange rate policies to reduce inflation, and to promote investment, enterprise and the recovery of economic growth. This is the best means of reducing unemployment. Moreover, for those without a job, there is a wide range of employment and training measures available, particularly for the young and long-term unemployed, to help them back into employment.
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information he has on the number of job losses in the period 1 June 1990 to 1 February 1991 in (a) the Greenock travel-to-work area, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Allan Stewart : Information in the form requested is not available. There are no comprehensive statistics on redundancies. The following table shows the number of confirmed redundancies involving 10 or more workers notified to the Employment Department from June 1990 to January 1991 for the areas requested.
Confirmed redundancies<1><2>
June 1990 to January 1991
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1990
June |Nil |383 |1,007
July |Nil |533 |981
August |Nil |111 |560
September |Nil |281 |683
October |Nil |615 |1,115
November |Nil |326 |1,439
December |Nil |244 |1,086
1991
January |Nil |113 |370
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TOTAL |Nil |2,606 |7,241
<1>All figures are provisional.
<2>For a variety of reasons, not all redundancies are notified
to the Employment Department, and not all those that are
notified are eventually confirmed.
Job losses, however, should not be viewed in isolation : in any dynamic economy, jobs are also being continually created. Over the latest year for which figures are available (to September 1990), the civilian work force in employment in Scotland increased by 48,000, or by over 900 per week.
Representative Office, Brussels
36. Mr. McFall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what representations he has had calling for his Department to establish a representative office in Brussels.
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Mr. Allan Stewart : I am aware of the views that some hon. Members and others have expressed. The Scottish Office is already represented very effectively in Brussels by the United Kingdom permanent representation and we have no proposals for change.Interest Rates
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what assessment he has made of the impact of the Government's interest rate policy on the levels of unemployment in Scotland.
Mr. Allan Stewart : The reduction in United Kingdom inflation seen over the last few months is the result of the Government's firm commitment to a prudent interest rate policy.
Reducing inflation is the best means of promoting investment, enterprise and economic growth in Scotland. Only in this way can Scottish unemployment be set on a sustainable downward trend.
Personal Disposable Incomes
Mr. Riddick : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the trends of personal disposable incomes in Scotland over the past 15-years.
Mr. Allan Stewart : Over the 15-year period between 1973 and 1988, personal disposable income per head in Scotland increased by over a third in real terms, to £5,236 per head by 1988. Personal disposable income per head in Scotland grew slightly faster than in the United Kingdom as a whole--from 94.6 per cent. of the United Kingdom average in 1973 to 97.3 per cent. in 1988. In 1988, personal disposable income per head in Scotland was higher than in all parts of the United Kingdom except the south-east and south-west.
Property Identification
Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether it is the policy of his Department to mark property with an indelible mark or similar means of identification.
Mr. Lang : The methods used to protect official property are kept under constant review and measures are taken as appropriate.
Mr. Menzies Campbell : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether it is the policy of the Lord Advocate's departments to mark property with an indelible mark or similar means of identification.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : It is not the policy of the Lord Advocate's departments to mark property with an indelible mark. Where appropriate, property is identified with a discreet security marking.
Disabled People
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how statistical data are collated in respect of the employment and training of people with disabilities in Scotland by his Department or other Government offices or agencies ; and if he will publish the most recent statistics.
Mr. Allan Stewart : Statistics on the employment and training of people with disabilities in Scotland are
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available in a number of different formats from various sources. The main sources of information on the employment and training of disabled people in Scotland are described as follows.Data on those on Government training programmes who have disabilities are based on information supplied by the training provider about each trainee starting a training programme. Providers are asked to identify disabled trainees on the basis of
"those who on account of injury, disease or congenital deformity are substantially handicapped in obtaining or keeping employment or undertaking work on their own account of a kind which apart from that injury, disease or deformity would be suited to their age, experience and qualifications".
The latest information for Scotland is that, between April and December 1990, some 1.2 per cent. of those who started on YT and 5.6 per cent. of those who started on ET were recorded as disabled by their training provider.
Some data are collected about registration as disabled under the terms of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Acts 1944 and 1958, and on the extent to which employers are complying with the provisions of the quota scheme-- which was established by the 1944 Act.
This Act places a duty on employers who have 20 or more workers to employ a quota of registered disabled people. The standard quota is at present 3 per cent. of an employer's total work force. It is not an offence to be below quota. However, when in this situation an employer has a further duty, under the Act, to engage suitable registered disabled people if any are available when vacancies arise. An employer who is below quota must not engage anyone other than a registered disabled person without first obtaining a permit to do so from the employment service's local disablement resettlement officer, and must not discharge a registered disabled worker without reasonable cause. The provisions of the Act are not legally binding on the Crown, but Government Departments and the national health service have undertaken to accept the same responsibilities as other employers.
The disabled persons register is kept at the employment service's local offices and local education authority careers offices. The numbers registered are counted annually in April to provide local, regional and national totals.
The employment service's local offices, which also monitor compliance with the provisions of the quota scheme, conduct an annual inquiry, which takes place in May and is concluded on 1 June, into the extent to which employers in their areas who are subject to quota are employing registered disabled people.
In April 1990 there were 34,082 registered disabled people in Scotland ; and on 1 June that year, the average percentage of registered disabled people in the work forces of Scottish-based employers subject to the quota provisions was 0.7 per cent. This latter figure compares with 0.8 per cent. for Great Britain as a whole.
However, data about registered disabled people and their employment under the quota scheme do not provide an accurate picture of the employment position of people with disabilities. Registration as disabled is voluntary, and it has been established by recent research commissioned by the employment service--"Employment and Handicap", SCPR 1990, a copy of which is in the Library--that the majority of people with disabilities who would be eligible
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to register choose not to so so. Data on compliance with the quota relates only to registered disabled people and to employers with 20 or more workers.There is a further complication, in that the quota responsibilities are placed on employers in respect of their total work forces, not separately for individual branches or establishments. In the case of employers with more than one branch, compliance is monitored by the employment service's local office in which the employer's headquarters is located. As a consequence, statistics provided from local office records in Scotland do not take account of registered disabled people working in Scotland for employers whose headquarters is elsewhere in Great Britain, but will include data in respect of those working elsewhere in Great Britain for employers based in Scotland.
In the spring of each year, the Department of Employment publishes an article in the Employment Gazette showing the number and proportion of registered disabled people employed by a range of public sector employers. Information is given for the main central and local government employers including those in Scotland. The latest article, which gives information for May 1990, was published in the February 1991 edition.
Until January 1990, the employment service maintained information on the number of disabled people registered for work at jobcentres and careers offices. However, this information needs to be treated with considerable caution because, from October 1982, it has not been compulsory to register for employment as a condition for the receipt of unemployment benefit. Because of their limited value, the collection of these figures was discontinued in January 1990. At that date, there were 1,928 unemployed registered disabled also registered for work at jobcentres and careers offices in Scotland, and an additional 4,521 unemployed people with disabilities registered at jobcentres and careers offices who were not also registered as disabled.
The annual "Labour Force Survey" collects a wide range of information about the United Kingdom labour market. This is a sample survey of households which can provide analyses for the Scottish labour market. Some information is collected in the survey about those with health problems or disabilities in response to the question
"Do you have any health problems or disabilities which limit the kind of paid work you can do?"
This covers a much wider range of people than those recorded as disabled on Government training programmes and than those registered as disabled under the 1944 Act. It should also be noted that, since the "Labour Force Survey" is a household survey, disabled people living in hostel or institutional accommodation will not be included in the survey.
The latest information from this survey is that of an estimated 444,000 people of working age in Scotland in spring 1989 with health problems or disabilities which limit the kind of paid work they can do, 34 per cent. were in employment, 10 per cent. were unemployed and 56 per cent. were economically inactive.
Assisted Places Scheme
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many assisted places pupils attended each of the schools involved in the assisted places scheme.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information is as follows :
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School |Number of
|assisted pupils
|in 1989-90
|school year<1>
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Aberlour House School, Moray |5
Albyn School for Girls, Aberdeen |20
Ardvreck School, Crieff |1
Beaconhurst Grange School, Bridge of Allan |3
Belhaven Hill School, Dunbar |4
Belmont House School, Newton Mearns |21
Blairmore School, Huntly |2
Butterstone House School, Dunkeld |2
Cargilfield School, Edinburgh |3
Clifton Hall School, Midlothian |6
Craigclowan Preparatory School, Perth |6
Craigholme School for Girls, Glasgow |38
Crawfordton House School, Dumfriesshire |8
Croftinloan School, Pitlochry |4
Daniel Stewart's and Melville College,
Edinburgh |288
The Mary Erskine School, Edinburgh
Dollar Academy |63
Drumley House School, Ayrshire |6
Edinburgh Academy |46
Fernhill School, Glasgow |28
Fettes College, Edinburgh |31
Fort Augustus Abbey School |34
George Heriot's School, Edinburgh |237
George Watson's College, Edinburgh |240
Glasgow Academy |42
Glenalmond College, Perthshire |34
Gordonstoun School, Morayshire |24
Hamilton College |11
The High School of Dundee |177
The High School of Glasgow |40
Hutchesons' Grammar School, Glasgow |135
Keil School, Dumbarton |71
Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow |58
Kilgraston School, Perthshire |52
Kilquhanity House School, Castle Douglas |18
Lathallan School, Montrose |6
Laurel Bank School, Glasgow |58
Lomond School, Helensburgh |43
Loretto School, Musselburgh |29
Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh |56
Morrison's Academy Crieff |179
New Park School, St. Andrews |3
Oxenfoord Castle School, Midlothian |5
Park School, Glasgow |59
Park Lodge School, Helensburgh |1
Rannoch School, Perthshire |27
Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen |59
Rudolf Steiner School of Edinburgh |61
St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow |154
St. Columba's School, Kilmacolm |40
St. Denis and Cranley School, Edinburgh |28
St. George's School for Girls, Edinburgh |17
St. Leonard's School, St. Andrews |24
St. Margaret's School for Girls, Aberdeen |18
St. Margaret's School for Girls, Edinburgh |65
St. Mary's School, Melrose |2
Strathallan School, Forgandenny, Perthshire |41
Wellington School, Ayr |47
Westbourne School, Glasgow |54
<1>provisional figures
Public Bodies (Appointments)
Sir John Wheeler : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland to which posts in public bodies he appoints individuals where the posts are (a) part-time and (b) remunerated by more than £50,000 per annum.
Mr. Lang : The posts in public bodies to which I appointed individuals as at 1 July 1990 are set out in pages 77 to 88 and 113 of the Cabinet Office publication "Public Bodies 1990", a copy of which is available in the Library.
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The majority of these appointments are on a part-time basis, none of which is remunerated by more than £50,000 per annum.Strathclyde Police
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many additional uniformed police officers have been authorised to be added to the strength of the Strathclyde police force in each year from 1975 to 1990.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : None. Strathclyde regional council made only one application--in 1983--during this period for the Secretary of State's consent to an increase in the authorised police establishment of Strathclyde police. Consent was withheld on the ground that the force was being required by the council to operate substantially below its existing authorised establishment.
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many crimes were (a) recorded and (b) detected by the Strathclyde police force in each year from 1975 to 1990.
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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Statistics of crimes and offences recorded and cleared up in each police force area are published annually in the reports of Her Majesty's chief inspector of constabulary for Scotland, copies of which are available in the Library. Figures for 1990 are not yet available.
Cervical Cancer
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many women have died from cervical cancer in each of the past 10 years ; and if he will give the figures by health board area ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The number of deaths in each health board area with malignant neoplasm of the cervix uteri (ICD 180) recorded as the underlying cause of death is shown in the following table.
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Deaths from cervical cancer in each health board area in Scotland
1980 to 1989
Health board area |1980 |1981 |1982 |1983 |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989
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SCOTLAND |187 |201 |208 |213 |227 |214 |199 |188 |191 |205
Borders |1 |2 |0 |3 |4 |8 |10 |3 |4 |4
Forth Valley |13 |8 |6 |8 |14 |17 |8 |12 |11 |6
Dumfries and Galloway |10 |2 |6 |8 |6 |5 |11 |10 |6 |4
Fife |17 |15 |19 |23 |22 |18 |12 |11 |12 |17
Grampian |16 |19 |12 |14 |21 |16 |15 |13 |12 |20
Highland |5 |8 |6 |10 |10 |3 |10 |8 |7 |10
Lothian |17 |37 |29 |30 |31 |28 |25 |25 |31 |27
Tayside |15 |16 |13 |10 |13 |19 |12 |17 |13 |12
Orkney |2 |3 |1 |2 |0 |1 |0 |2 |0 |0
Shetland |0 |1 |2 |0 |0 |1 |0 |1 |0 |0
Western Isles |1 |0 |2 |0 |2 |0 |4 |2 |0 |1
Argyll and Clyde |17 |15 |19 |19 |19 |19 |17 |14 |27 |24
Ayshire and Arran |15 |13 |25 |10 |20 |13 |20 |13 |18 |21
Greater Glasgow |44 |45 |43 |43 |49 |34 |33 |42 |37 |37
Lanarkshire |14 |17 |25 |33 |16 |32 |22 |15 |13 |22
<1>International Classification of Diseases, Ninth revision.
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many cervical smear tests have been carried out on women for each year since 1980 in each of the health board areas ; and by health board area how many have yet to be dealt with by the appropriate medical agencies.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth : The number of tests carried out from 1980 to 1989, the latest available year, is shown in the table. Information is not collected centrally about the number of smears outstanding. Since December 1990 health boards have been set a target of 14 days maximum for reporting of test results, which is to be achieved no later than 31 May 1991.
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Number of cervical smears examined in each health board in Scotland: 1980-89
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Scotland |282,510 |<1>293,105|285,105 |315,044 |322,484 |356,747 |361,626 |420,361 |448,752 |<2>441,287
Argyll and Clyde |25,243 |25,990 |23,829 |27,151 |28,946 |35,195 |33,554 |33,180 |40,985 |38,517
Ayrshire and Arran |19,946 |19,753 |18,497 |21,218 |22,827 |29,219 |30,098 |31,139 |34,452 |34,359
Borders |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Dumfries and Galloway |11,250 |11,653 |11,710 |12,235 |12,164 |13,661 |14,331 |15,015 |15,019 |14,300
Fife |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |16,327 |18,050
Forth Valley |12,316 |14,002 |12,784 |15,074 |15,925 |19,509 |19,353 |19,600 |21,904 |23,863
Grampian |30,603 |33,014 |32,726 |35,164 |37,783 |43,539 |45,077 |53,603 |51,146 |53,708
Greater Glasgow |51,860 |53,143 |49,752 |54,276 |51,916 |59,990 |56,068 |84,460 |80,682 |<2>68,749
Highland |16,585 |16,656 |17,094 |19,174 |18,671 |21,577 |21,016 |22,127 |21,720 |22,256
Lanarkshire |23,631 |<1>25,766 |25,949 |28,423 |27,174 |34,250 |33,966 |35,820 |38,981 |40,672
Lothian |63,857 |65,070 |64,408 |70,713 |74,668 |63,272 |72,122 |88,922 |90,032 |87,927
Orkney |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Shetland |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Tayside |28,219 |28,823 |28,356 |31,616 |32,310 |36,535 |36,041 |36,495 |37,504 |38,886
Western Isles |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
<1> Estimated.
<2> Provisional.
Notes:
These figures relate to smears analysed by laboratories in each health board area.
Smears taken from women in one health board area may be analysed in laboratories in other health board areas.
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Bankruptcies
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many companies have gone into liquidation or have declared bankruptcy in (a) Strathclyde and (b) Scotland as a whole in each of the past three years ; and in which areas of economic activity they were to be found.
Mr. Allan Stewart : The table gives the available information on Scottish registered companies for the past three years. There is no information on company liquidations for areas within Scotland. The term bankruptcy does not apply to companies.
Notified liquidations of Scottish registered companies: Year |Number --------------------- 1988 |651 1989 |674 1990 |689
Industrial analysis<1>
|1987-88|1988-89|1989-90
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Agriculture and horticulture |3 |7 |2
Manufacturing |103 |95 |116
Construction |72 |75 |75
Transport and communication |15 |19 |16
Wholesaling |17 |11 |12
Retailing |90 |73 |79
Financial institutions |1 |5 |6
Business services |42 |38 |41
Hotels and catering |17 |17 |22
All other industries and
businesses |85 |69 |51
Total |445 |409 |420
Source: Register of companies
<1> Compulsory liquidations and creditors' voluntary
liquidations only. Members' liquidations are excluded from
the analysis.
Surplus School Places
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the current level of surplus places in each education authority in both primary and secondary schools.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth : The current level of surplus places in schools in Scotland is substantial. It is for education authorities to assess the scale of the problems in their area and to seek to achieve rationalisation of their school provision accordingly.
Community Charge
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he has held recent discussions with local authorities concerning the subject of the reimbursement of poll tax income forgone by those service men and service women serving in the Gulf war ; and if he will make a statement.
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