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Darnley Estate, Glasgow
Mr. Dunnachie : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement on the visit by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack), to Darnley housing estate in Glasgow on 1 March and on the conditions and problems he encountered there.
Mr. Jack : The Darnley housing estate was one of a number of locations visited within the catchment area of the Glasgow Southside social security office. These brief visits provided a useful insight into the social and economic conditions being faced by those receiving various forms of benefits from this well-run local office.
Care Home Trusts
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what guidance he has given to local adjudication officers dealing with claims for income support to enable them to determine whether or not a local authority has placed the claimants in a care home trust.
Miss Widdecombe : Eligibility for income support is defined by regulations and is available in respect of fees, up to certain limits, to residents of registered residential care homes and in certain other types of homes. Independent ajudication officers receive guidance on the interpretation of the regulations by the chief adjudication officer in the "Adjudication Officers Guide", a copy of which is available in the Library.
Correspondence
Mr. Winnick : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security when the hon. Member for Walsall, North will receive a reply to his letter of 12 February concerning Mr. Walker.
Mr. Scott : I have replied to the hon. Member today.
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Social Fund
Dr. Twinn : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish the 1991-92 discretionary social fund budget, giving details of the allocations that will be made to each of the district offices.
Mr. Scott : The 1991-92 gross budget for the discretionary part of the social fund will be £227.7 million, comprising £160 million for loans and £67.7 million for community care grants. In accordance with the Department's published commitment to move to a formal cash limit on the discretionary part of the fund, agreement has been reached with the Treasury that, with effect from the start of the financial year, it will be subject to a formal cash limit of £100 million net. I have placed a list of all district office allocations in the Library.
Mr. Sumberg : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many payments were made from the social fund in 1988-89 and 1989-90 analysed by type of payment.
Mr. Scott [pursuant to his reply, 5 March 1991, c. 124] : I regret that the answer given was incomplete. The full answer should have been :
Payments were as follows :
thousands
|1988-89|1989-90
----------------------------------------------
Maternity payments |170 |175
Funeral payments |40 |45
Community care grants |155 |230
Budget loans |505 |580
Crisis loans |380 |450
Cold weather payments |1 |45
It should be noted that the figures for payments in 1988-89 given in the recent social security departmental report--Cm. 1514--were incorrect ; the figures given above should be substituted. Arrangements have been made for a correction slip to be produced. This will be inserted in remaining HMSO stocks of the departmental report and sent to all known purchasers. Copies will also be sent to the Vote Office and Printed Paper Office.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Broadcasting
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the EC directive on transfrontier broadcasting will be incorporated into the United Kingdom law.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Article 25 of the directive requires member states to bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to implement its provisions not later than 3 October 1991. We shall comply with this requirement. To the extent that new statutory powers are necessary for this purpose these were included in the Broadcasting Act 1990.
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consultations he has held with the Advertising Standards Authority regarding the EC directive on transfrontier broadcasting.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The Home Office consulted a wide range of advertising interests about the relevant provisions
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of the EC directive while it was under negotiation, but since television advertising is not within the remit of the Advertising Standards Authority it was not appropriate to include the authority in these consultations.Circuses
Mr. Fearn : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he plans to introduce legislation concerning the treatment of animals in circuses.
Mrs. Rumbold : Circus animals are protected by the Protection of Animals Act 1911 as well as the Performing Animals (Regulation) Act 1925. These Acts together provide for, among other things, the registration of trainers, the inspection of premises by local authorities and the prosecution of anyone who causes any animal unnecessary suffering. This gives circus animals both general and specific protection and we have no plans for further legislation.
Animals (Scientific Procedures)
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many members of his Department's inspectorate of scientific procedures on living animals on 31 December 1990 were based in (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales.
Mrs. Rumbold : These figures are routinely given in the "Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain"--table 28 in 1989 : Cm. 1152. On 31 December 1990, there were 19 members of the Home Office animals (scientific procedures) inspectorate in post. Sixteen inspectors were based in London and the regional offices in England ; and three in the office in Scotland. There is no office in Wales.
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make it his policy to publish annually the number of designated places for scientific procedures on living animals in each of (a) England, (b) Scotland and (c) Wales.
Mrs. Rumbold : Statistics on the number of certificates of designation issued each year under section 6 of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, and of the number of such certificates in force in Great Britain, are published annually in the "Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals"--table 29 in 1989 : Cm1152--and in chapter 2 of the annual reports of the Animal Procedures Committee. There are no plans to disaggregate this information on a more localised basis.
Mr. Gale : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if his Department has evaluated or will evaluate the number of additional animals, by species, that will be used in medical research in order to meet the regulatory requirements for the licensing of new human medical products imposed by EC draft directive (III 9026/90/Rev 1) if implemented ;
(2) if his Department has evaluated or will evaluate the number of additional animals, by species, that will be used in medical research in order to meet the regulatory requirements for the licensing of new veterinary products imposed by EC draft directive (III 9026/90/Rev 1) if implemented.
Mrs. Rumbold : The task of the Home Office is to license and regulate scientific procedures on living animals under
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the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. My right hon. Friend is not in a position to estimate in advance the number of project licences which may be sought, or the number of procedures authorised by those licences which may be carried out, for any particular purpose.Animal Cruelty
Mr. Sillars : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals about the case for new legislation to prevent those convicted of cruelty to animals being able lawfully to own domestic pets.
Mrs. Rumbold : We have recently received a letter giving notice that the society will be seeking a mandatory ban on keeping animals in future for those convicted of certain types of offences of cruelty to animals. I understand that such a ban might well go beyond disqualifying offenders from keeping domestic pets.
Trevi Group
Mr. Sheerman : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the cost of United Kingdom involvement in the Trevi Group in each of the last three years.
Mr. Kenneth Baker : The information could be obtained only at a disproportionate cost.
Mr. Sheerman : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Trevi Group will produce a policy paper for public discussion on the interpretation of police practices in the EC.
Mr. Kenneth Baker : There are no such proposals. The purpose of Trevi is to develop practical police co-operation among European Community member states. A range of measures currently under consideration in Trevi is outlined in the programme of action approved in Dublin on 15 June 1990, a copy of which is in the Library.
Siobhan McKane
Ms. Richardson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will change the category of Siobhan McKane from A to B ; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Rumbold : Siobhan McKane has been placed temporarily in category A in the light of the offence with which she is charged. This categorisation will be kept under review. No prisoner is held in category A for any longer than is considered necessary.
Bedding Material
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children under the age of five years have been involved in fires due to bedding material in each year since 1980 ; and what proportion of the children died as a result of the fires.
Mr. John Patten : The readily available information is shown in the table.
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Children aged under 5 injured in accidental dwelling fires
attended by local authority fire brigades,
where the material first ignited was bedding<1>
1981-89 (United Kingdom)
Year Number of casualties Percentage
|of
|casualties
|leading
|to death
|Fatal |Non-fatal |Total
------------------------------------------------------------------
1981 |6 |45 |51 |12
1982 |9 |55 |64 |14
1983 |5 |67 |72 |7
1984 |5 |90 |95 |5
1985 |10 |77 |87 |11
1986 |14 |86 |100 |14
1987 |16 |86 |102 |16
1988 |10 |73 |83 |12
1989 |12 |97 |109 |11
<1> Bedding is defined as all bedding on the bed including
mattress covers, but not beds or mattresses or cases where the
electrical insulation of an electric blanket first ignited.
Source: Home Office Fire Statistics.
Foreign Prisoners
Mr. David Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many and what percentage of the whole prison population convicted of drugs and related offences at 1 February were foreign nationals ; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Rumbold : The latest information which is readily available centrally relates to sentenced prisoners, excluding fine defaulters, on 30 June 1990 convicted of drugs offences. Of 3,160 such prisoners about 1,260- -40 per cent.--were recorded as foreign nationals ; nationality was not recorded for some 80--3 per cent.
We are planning to publicise abroad the long prison sentences which drug smugglers can expect on conviction in this country in the hope that this may dissuade some foreign nationals from bringing drugs into the United Kingdom.
Mr. David Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the convicted prison population on 1 February, what were the total numbers and percentages of the whole of (a) non-British EC nationals and (b) non-EC nationals.
Mrs. Rumbold : The latest information which is readily available centrally relates to sentenced prisoners, excluding fine defaulters on 30 June 1990. Of 34,880 such prisoners about 630--1.8 per cent.--were recorded as non-British EC nationals and about 2,540--7.3 per cent.--were recorded as non-EC nationals ; nationality was not recorded for some 2,600- -7.4 per cent. Around 420 of the EC nationals were recorded as nationals of the Republic of
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Ireland, but the information is not completely reliable because it depends upon information provided by the prisoner.Mr. David Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will make it his policy to return to country of origin all convicted foreign nationals in prisons unless there are compelling reasons to hold them in the United Kingdom ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) if he will bring forward a scheme for automatic repatriation of convicted drugs offenders who are non-British nationals with a lifetime ban on return to the United Kingdom.
Mr. John Patten : Arrangements already exist under the Council of Europe convention on the transfer of sentenced persons, to which most European countries, the United States of America and Canada are party, for the repatriation of prisoners to complete custodial sentences in their own countries. We expect to be in a position before long to join the Commonwealth scheme which will provide for prisoners to be transferred between the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries which may join the scheme. However, repatriations under these and any other international arrangements to which we may subscribe under the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 require the consent of the prisoner and of both governments concerned. The Immigration Act 1971 provides powers to deport those subject to immigration control who are convicted of criminal offences in this country. In particular, the courts may recommend deportation in addition to imposing a term of imprisonment. A deportation order, once made, bars re- entry to the United Kingdom for as long as it remains in force.
The Gulf
Mr. Ron Brown : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received from the International Communist party about the arrest of any of its members during an anti-Gulf war demonstration in London on 27 January ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : None. There were no arrests.
Immigration
Mr. Darling : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons, by nationality, were refused entry to the United Kingdom at (a) Heathrow, (b) Gatwick and (c) Dover in each month in 1990.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 12 March 1991] : The available information is given in the tables. Not all the passengers have been removed from the United Kingdom.
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Numbers of passengers refused leave to enter at Heathrow by nationality and
month, 1990
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Numbers of passengers refused leave to enter at Gatwick by nationality and month, 1990
Geographical region/ |Jan |Feb |Mar |Apr |May |Jun |Jul |Aug |Sep |Oct |Nov |Dec |Total
Nationality
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
European Community
Belgium |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Denmark |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
France |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
Germany<1> |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<3>-
Greece |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Italy |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Luxembourg |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Netherlands |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Portugal |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<3>-
Spain |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<3>-
Western Europe (excluding EC)
Austria |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |24
Cyprus |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
Finland |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Malta |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<3>-
Norway |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |12
Sweden |6 |<2>- |<2>- |- |7 |<2>- |5 |<2>- |- |6 |5 |<2>- |37
Switzerland |<2>- |5 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |5 |- |<2>- |22
Turkey |10 |<2>- |<2>- |9 |5 |5 |7 |10 |11 |14 |27 |11 |116
Yugoslavia |7 |9 |18 |14 |22 |20 |14 |10 |12 |21 |23 |13 |183
Eastern Europe
Bulgaria |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Czechoslovakia |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |<3>-
G.D.R. |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Hungary |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<3>-
Poland |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Romania |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<3>-
USSR |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<3>-
Americas
Argentina |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |13
Barbados |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |12
Brazil |6 |<2>- |8 |5 |13 |5 |<2>- |9 |8 |10 |9 |<2>- |85
Canada |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |25
Chile |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |14
Colombia |9 |<2>- |8 |11 |21 |9 |14 |<2>- |<2>- |11 |13 |13 |117
Cuba |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Cuyana |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |10
Jamaica |16 |21 |19 |12 |21 |16 |15 |6 |19 |23 |50 |41 |259
Mexico |6 |<2>- |6 |- |<2>- |9 |6 |5 |8 |7 |<2>- |6 |64
Peru |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |22
Trinidad & Tobago |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |15
USA |50 |33 |47 |40 |49 |40 |47 |31 |50 |65 |38 |32 |522
Uruguay |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Venezuela |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Africa
Algeria |7 |<2>- |12 |6 |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |39
Egypt |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<3>-
Ethiopia |- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |<3>-
Ghana |20 |<2>- |11 |18 |16 |13 |7 |14 |10 |7 |8 |15 |141
Kenya |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |6 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |16
Libya |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Mauritius |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |17
Morocco |32 |15 |63 |13 |<2>- |<2>- |9 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |11 |164
Nigeria |18 |13 |20 |21 |30 |14 |21 |30 |36 |46 |39 |46 |334
Sierra Leone |13 |6 |<2>- |9 |11 |10 |18 |19 |15 |35 |13 |24 |177
Somalia |19 |7 |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |36
South Africa |8 |5 |18 |7 |9 |8 |13 |12 |7 |10 |8 |5 |110
Sudan |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
Tanzania |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |10
Tunisia |7 |5 |10 |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |33
Uganda |22 |26 |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |62
Zambia |10 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |31
Zimbabwe |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |9 |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |7 |<2>- |<2>- |34
Asia
Indian sub-continent
Bangladesh |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |<3>-
India |<2>- |5 |<2>- |17 |5 |<2>- |<2>- |12 |8 |7 |<2>- |9 |76
Pakistan |5 |15 |<2>- |<2>- |5 |7 |9 |17 |19 |17 |16 |16 |131
Middle East
Iran |5 |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |7 |<2>- |7 |9 |7 |<2>- |12 |59
Iraq |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |11
Israel |9 |<2>- |5 |6 |8 |5 |7 |12 |5 |10 |6 |7 |84
Jordan |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<3>-
Kuwait |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Lebanon |<2>- |12 |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |25
Saudi Arabia |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
Syria |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<3>-
Remainder of Asia
China |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |10 |<2>- |20
Indonesia |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |<3>-
Japan |13 |<2>- |<2>- |5 |7 |7 |<2>- |11 |7 |<2>- |<2>- |6 |72
Malaysia |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |9 |6 |7 |13 |<2>- |<2>- |52
Philippines |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |19 |<2>- |10 |7 |9 |<2>- |<2>- |11 |68
Singapore |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Sri Lanka |<2>- |9 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |5 |8 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |41
Thailand |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Hong Kong BDTC |5 |6 |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |5 |<2>- |8 |43
Australasia
Australia |6 |5 |<2>- |5 |<2>- |5 |<2>- |8 |7 |12 |5 |6 |69
New Zealand |<2>- |<2>- |10 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |<2>- |40
British Overseas Citizens |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |5 |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |18
Other countries not
specified elsewhere |32 |9 |26 |25 |29 |43 |28 |21 |25 |35 |33 |34 |340
Stateless |6 |7 |13 |16 |16 |13 |13 |12 |27 |21 |17 |32 |193
All nationalities |395 |271 |353 |280 |367 |290 |324 |327 |361 |450 |390 |408 |4,216
<1>Unified Germany from 3 October 1990.
<2>- Between 1 and 4.
<3>- Between 1 and 9.
Numbers of passengers refused leave to enter at Dover by nationality and month, 1990
Geographical region/ |Jan |Feb |Mar |Apr |May |Jun |Jul |Aug |Sep |Oct |Nov |Dec |Total
Nationality
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European Community
Belgium |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Denmark |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
France |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |13
Germany<1> |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Greece |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
Italy |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<3>-
Luxembourg |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Netherlands |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |19
Portugal |5 |5 |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |5 |- |- |<2>- |21
Spain |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |<3>-
Western Europe (excluding EC)
Austria |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |<2>- |6 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |31
Cyprus |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |14
Finland |- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<3>-
Malta |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<3>-
Norway |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Sweden |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |26
Switzerland |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |22
Turkey |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |6 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |7 |7 |11 |52
Yugoslavia |15 |19 |18 |19 |30 |13 |34 |22 |22 |14 |12 |8 |226
Eastern Europe
Bulgaria |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |6 |15
Czechoslovakia |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |6 |34 |14 |7 |75
G.D.R. |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |34 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |43
Hungary |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |19 |10 |6 |47
Poland |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |23
Romania |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |<3>-
USSR |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |5 |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |16
Americas
Argentina |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |7 |<2>- |<2>- |24
Barbados |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
Brazil |9 |16 |7 |16 |24 |22 |19 |10 |19 |35 |23 |21 |221
Canada |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |27
Chile |- |- |- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |5 |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |18
Colombia |17 |19 |16 |31 |23 |53 |19 |34 |10 |28 |10 |7 |267
Cuba |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Guyana |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<3>-
Jamaica |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |10
Mexico |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |5 |6 |8 |<2>- |<2>- |38
Peru |<2>- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |5 |<2>- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |36
Trinidad & Tobago |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
USA |13 |<2>- |9 |14 |19 |21 |16 |24 |27 |28 |22 |12 |207
Uruguay |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Venezuela |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<3>-
Africa
Algeria |74 |56 |46 |<2>- |11 |13 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |10 |9 |8 |222
Egypt |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
Ethiopia |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
Ghana |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |6 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |24
Kenya |- |- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |<3>-
Libya |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Mauritius |6 |<2>- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |7 |5 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |9 |51
Morocco |28 |19 |17 |7 |6 |<2>- |9 |10 |10 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |118
Nigeria |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |35
Sierra Leone |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |17
Somalia |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<3>-
South Africa |6 |11 |15 |15 |9 |11 |18 |15 |14 |18 |16 |12 |160
Sudan |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<3>-
Tanzania |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
Tunisia |<2>- |<2>- |6 |<2>- |- |<2>- |8 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |34
Uganda |- |5 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |17
Zambia |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<3>-
Zimbabwe |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
Indian sub-continent
Bangladesh |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<3>-
India |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |6 |17
Pakistan |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |5 |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |13
Middle East
Iran |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |- |<3>-
Iraq |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Israel |5 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |6 |10 |<2>- |7 |9 |<2>- |54
Jordan |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<3>-
Kuwait |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Lebanon |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Saudi Arabia |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Syria |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Remainder of Asia
China |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |5 |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<3>-
Indonesia |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Japan |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |5 |6 |9 |7 |7 |- |<2>- |51
Malaysia |<2>- |8 |6 |16 |43 |34 |20 |11 |40 |24 |5 |18 |226
Philippines |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |<3>-
Singapore |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |- |10
Sri Lanka |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<3>-
Thailand |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |- |- |<2>- |- |- |- |<3>-
Hong Kong BDTC |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |21 |<2>- |8 |10 |11 |<2>- |<2>- |72
Australasia
Australia |- |- |- |<2>- |6 |7 |5 |<2>- |8 |8 |5 |<2>- |50
New Zealand |<2>- |- |- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |5 |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |- |<2>- |20
British Overseas Citizens |- |- |- |- |- |- |5 |- |- |- |- |- |5
Other countries not
specified elsewhere |9 |17 |18 |21 |51 |25 |12 |18 |24 |12 |12 |17 |236
Stateless |28 |42 |5 |51 |57 |46 |53 |47 |49 |55 |63 |73 |569
All nationalities |253 |263 |214 |275 |378 |340 |311 |322 |321 |389 |278 |286 |3,630
<1> Unified Germany from 3 October 1990.
<2>- Between 1 and 4.
<3>- Between 1 and 9.
HEALTH
Food Safety
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library details of written representations received on (a) food safety and food hygiene, and (b) hygiene training in relation to the Food Safety Act 1990.
Mr. Dorrell : All regulations and codes of practice made under the Food Safety Act 1990 have been published in draft form for consultation with interested parties. We have received large numbers of responses to these consultation exercises. It is not normally our practice to make public details of the responses received. A list of organisations which responded to last year's consultation exercise on hygiene training for food handlers has been placed in the Library.
West Suffolk District Health Authority
Sir Eldon Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funds have been made available to West Suffolk district health authority in each of the past five financial years ; what approximate percentage of these new resources has been used for hospital services ; what are the numbers of medical and other NHS staff employed in hospitals in the area in each of the last five years ; and how many patients have been treated.
Mr. Dorrell : Information about funds made available to individual district health authorities is held centrally only in terms of expenditure. Details of total expenditure on hospital and community health services-- HCHS--in West Suffolk district health authority and of the percentage used for hospital services are as follows :
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Total revenue and capital expenditure
Revenue expenditure Capital
|Total |Hospital |expenditure
|services as
|a percentage
|£000 cash |of total |£000 cash
-----------------------------------------------------------------
1985-86 |33,173 |82.97 |3,469
1986-87 |36,121 |82.91 |3,008
1987-88 |40,215 |79.44 |1,796
1988-89 |44,974 |79.29 |2,503
1989-90 |49,164 |79.14 |2,619
Staff Numbers
The numbers of medical and other NHS staff employed in hospitals in the West Suffolk area are given in the table. Figures given are for whole-time equivalents, as at 30 September each year. Numbers of staff at senior doctor level, for example, consultants, employed in hospitals in the West Suffolk area are not held centrally since the contracts for these staff are held by the East Anglian regional health authority. My hon. Friend may wish to contact Sir Colin Walker for district-level information.
West Suffolk DHA-Hospital Junior Medical Staff Year |Number --------------------- 1985 |74.8 1986 |77.4 1987 |70.3 1988 |76.5 1989 |73.0 Figures exclude all locum staff. East Anglian RHA-Hospital Senior Medical Staff Year |Number 1985 |517.6 1986 |561.7 1987 |518.4 1988 |586.7 1989 |612.0 Figures exclude all locum staff.
East Anglian RHA--Hospital Senior Medical Staff
Year Number
1985 517.6
1986 561.7
1987 518.4
1988 586.7
1989 612.0
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West Suffolk DHA-NHS Hospital based Non-Medical Staff Year |Number --------------------- 1985 |2,580 1986 |2,580 1987 |2,640 1988 |2,640 1989 |2,700 Figures include nursing and midwifery staff.
West Suffolk DHA--NHS Hospital based Non-Medical Staff
Year Number
1985 2,580
1986 2,580
1987 2,640
1988 2,640
1989 2,700
Figures include nursing and midwifery agency staff.
Number of patients treated
The information requested is as follows :
Finished hospital stays: West
Suffolk health authority
Year |Discharges
|and deaths
---------------------------------
1985 |25,426
1986 |25,503
1987-88 |26,401
1988-89 |27,046
Year |Finished
|consultant
|episodes
---------------------------------
1988-89 |31,904
1989-90 |33,942
Pharmaceutical Companies (Sponsorship)
Mr. Grylls : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is his policy towards initiatives by a family health services authority in seeking financial sponsorship from pharmaceutical companies for updates of its local formulary for general practitioners at the same time as it is asking the companies for information about their products for possible inclusion in the formulary ; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : We would not expect family health services authorities (FHSAs) to seek sponsorship
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from pharmaceutical companies for locally produced formularies. We are aware that there was a suggestion of this in the area of the hon. Member's constituency, but the relevant FHSA has since made clear that it is not seeking financial support.Electoral Statistics
Mr. Colvin : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish in the Official Report the number of electors in each parish, town and city council ward in the county of Hampshire.
Mr. Dorrell : Returns containing numbers on the 1991 electoral registers in Hampshire are still being processed by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. An analysis of local government electors by county and district will be published in "OPCS Monitor EL 91/1" at the end of April. An analysis of parliamentary electors by constituency will be placed in the Library by 10 May and published in "Electoral Statistics 1991"--Series EL No. 18--by the end of July. This year, to facilitate the work of the parliamentary boundary commissions, an analysis of parliamentary electors is being prepared by ward. These figures will be placed in the Library as soon as practicable after 10 May.
Perinatal Mortality
Mr. Campbell-Savours : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what is the rate per thousand of perinatal deaths for each district within the county of Cumbria ;
(2) what is the average rate per thousand for perinatal deaths for those districts which comprise the Northern region.
Mr. Dorrell : The overall perinatal death rate for the northern region is 9.2. The table gives the number of births, perinatal deaths and the perinatal death rate for each component district. It also includes the arithmetic average of these rates, unadjusted for the number of births.
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Perinatal mortality, <2>Northern Region, 1989
|Total |Perinatal|Perinatal
|births |deaths |rate
------------------------------------------------------------
Tyne and Wear |14,569 |146 |10.0
Gateshead |2,600 |34 |13.1
Newcastle upon Tyne |3,504 |29 |8.3
North Tyneside |2,377 |22 |9.3
South Tyneside |2,043 |19 |<1>9.3
Sunderland |4,045 |42 |10.4
Cleveland |8,015 |73 |9.1
Hartlepool |1,297 |10 |<1>7.7
Langbaurgh on Tees |1,950 |21 |10.8
Middlesbrough |2,245 |21 |9.4
Stockton on Tees |2,523 |21 |8.3
Cumbria |5,819 |46 |7.9
Allerdale |1,083 |16 |<1>14.8
Barrow in Furness |1,003 |7 |<1>7.0
Carlisle |1,291 |7 |<1>5.4
Copeland |1,001 |5 |<1>5.0
Eden |494 |3 |<1>6.1
South Lakeland |947 |8 |<1>8.4
Durham |7,397 |64 |8.7
Chester le Street |622 |5 |<1>8.0
Darlington |1,352 |12 |<1>8.9
Derwentside |1,008 |12 |<1>11.9
Durham |882 |10 |<1>11.3
Easington |1,322 |9 |<1>6.8
Sedgefield |1,127 |6 |<1>5.3
Teesdale |269 |2 |<1>7.4
Wear Valley |815 |8 |<1>9.8
Northumberland |3,497 |33 |9.4
Alnwick |321 |3 |<1>9.3
Berwick upon Tweed |284 |0 |<1>0
Blyth Valley |1,005 |10 |<1>10.0
Castle Morpeth |481 |4 |<1>8.3
Tyneside |655 |6 |<1>9.2
Wansbeck |751 |10 |<1>13.3
<1>Denotes a rate of less than 20 events.
<2>Number of deaths 0-6 days plus stillbirths per 1,000
total births.
The arithmetic average of these rates is 8.7.
Mr. Campbell-Savours : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information his Department has collected on the factors which account for the disparity in statistics covering the rate per thousand perinatal deaths for Allerdale district and other districts in the Northern region.
Mr. Dorrell : This is a matter for the regional health authority in the first instance. The hon. Member may wish to contact the chairman of the Northern regional health authority, Mr. Peter Carr. Clinicians in the northern region have operated a very successful perinatal mortality survey on a voluntary basis for the last 10 years, and an annual report of their findings is published each year by the authority. In addition, the RHA is to undertake a more detailed analysis to look for any local clustering of deaths using data now available for the period 1981-90.
In the meantime the hon. Member will be pleased to note that although the perinatal figures for Allerdale were disappointing in 1989, they were based on a relatively small sample and the figures for West Cumbria as a whole for the three years 1987-89 show a perinatal mortality rate of 7.7 per thousand population compared with a national average of 8.7 per thousand and a Northern regional average of 8.9 per thousand.
AIDS
Mr. Fearn : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funds the Government will be making available in the coming financial year for research into AIDS.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : Subject to parliamentary approval the following sums will be available for AIDS research in 1991-92 :
Õ
|£
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Medical Research Council |12,800,000
Other research councils (Economic and Social Research Council; Agricultural and Fisheries Research Council; Scientific and Engineering Research Council; Natural Environment Research Council) |2,549,000
Department of Health |632,000
Health Education Council |804,000
National Institute of Biological Standards and Control |517,000
Public Health Laboratory Service |404,000
Scottish Office of Home and Health |88,000
Overseas Development Administration (estimated expenditure) |528,000
Cot Deaths
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome in each year since 1982.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : The information is shown in the table.
Number of infant deaths with any mention of sudden infant death<1> on the death certificate, and rate per 1,000 livebirths England and Wales 1982-89 ------------------------------------------------ 1982 |822 |510 |1,332|2.6 |1.7 |2.1 1983 |827 |488 |1,315|2.6 |1.6 |2.1 1984 |716 |526 |1,242|2.2 |1.7 |2.0 1985 |787 |514 |1,301|2.3 |1.6 |2.0 1986 |945 |559 |1,504|2.8 |1.7 |2.3 1987 |918 |610 |1,528|2.6 |1.8 |2.2 1988 |991 |602 |1,593|2.8 |1.8 |2.3 1989 |811 |515 |1,326|2.3 |1.5 |1.9 <1>Includes "cot death" or similar term
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects (a) to receive and (b) to publish the report of the group of independent experts asked in March 1990 to investigate the claim that the emission of toxic gases from fungal growth on cot mattresses can be a cause of cot death ; what form the inquiry took ; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : The report of the working group of independent experts set up by the chief medical officer has been given to him and will be published shortly. The form of inquiry is explained in the report.
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if any blood tests done on babies which suffered sudden infant death syndrome show an elevated level of arsenic, antimony or phosphorous.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : There are no reports of elevated blood levels of any of these chemicals from
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pathologists who have carried out post-mortem examinations on infants who suffered from sudden infant death syndrome-- SIDS. Such tests would be done only if specifically indicated.We are aware that an independent researcher has reported that blood tests in three infants who suffered SIDS had antimony levels above the background levels measured by his laboratory in 100 healthy infants. As the normal range of blood antimony levels in infants is uncertain, it is not possible to say whether these findings are clinically significant.
This matter is considered in the report of the expert working group which will be published shortly.
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