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Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : Within the European Communities' third framework programme for research and development, 1990-94, there are three proposed specific research programmes on energy. These are the non-nuclear energies programme (budget 157 million ecus), the nuclear fission safety programme (budget 37 million ecus) and the controlled nuclear fusion programme (budget 458 million ecus).
No benefits have accrued to the United Kingdom from these proposed programmes as they have not yet been adopted by the Council of Ministers.
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Office of Energy Regulation
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what is the cost to date of the Office of Electricity Regulation and each regional consultative committee, broken down annually.
Mr. Wakeham : Although this is a matter for the Office of Electricity Regulation, the hon. Member should first look at the paper entitled "Government's Plans Within the Energy Sector 1991-92 to 1993-94", which was presented to the House in February.
Nuclear Industry
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if, following the recent support expressed for small nuclear power plants by Crown Prince Tupouto' A of Tonga, he will make it his policy to contact the Government of Tonga to assess what export opportunities exist for the United Kingdom nuclear industry to the South Pacific nation.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : It is Government policy to support British companies in pursuing suitable export opportunities. The staff of the high commission in Tonga keep a close watch on opportunities for United Kingdom businesses. Where appropriate, they will notify exporters of such opportunities. The high commission has noted the Prince's remarks on nuclear power, which were carried in a local magazine, and we await further developments with interest.
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will list in the Official Report all nuclear incidents in civil nuclear facilities reported to him by (a) the nuclear installations inspectorate and (b) the nuclear operators over the past five years ; and what has been the average time lapse between the occurence of a reportable incident and its reportage to his Department over the same period.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given by my predecessor, the hon. Memer for Eddisbury (Mr. Goodlad) to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Sherwood (Mr. Stewart), concerning the revised criteria for the reporting of nuclear incidents at civil nuclear installations, in which he stated :
"All such reports are published quarterly by the Health and Safety Executive",
and that for all occurrences including more minor occurrences which are not formally reportable under the criteria
"nuclear operators will publish details in weekly or fortnightly site newsletters".--[ Official Report, 30 April 1987 ; Vol. 115, c. 203- 4.]
Copies of these reports and individual site newsletters have since this time been made available to the Library of the House. Following this statement, operators were instructed that all incidents covered by the formal reporting criteria should be reported as soon as practicable, but anyway within 24 hours to this and other interested Departments and the relevant regulatory bodies. I am not aware of any incident which was defined as reportable where the operator has failed to meet this requirement.
International Energy Agencies
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will set out (i) the criteria adopted in the choice of United Kingdom representatives and (ii) the names of all
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such representatives appointed over the past 10 years to (a) the International Energy Agency in Paris and (b) the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : The United Kingdom is usually represented at the governing board of the International Energy Agency (IEA) by the head of the Department of Energy's international unit and at the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by the head of the Department's atomic energy division.
The UK is represented in the full range of IEA and IAEA committees and working groups by those with expertise in the relevant areas, including those from UK permanent missions to these organisations. To identify all officials involved over the past 10 years would involve disporportionate cost.
The Department's Permanent Under-Secretary is currently chairman of the governing board of the IEA at official level, having been elected to that post by member countries' governing board representatives.
Symposium on Electricity and the Environment
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what representation the United Kingdom will have at the Helsinki symposium on electricity and the environment to be held in Finland on 13 to 17 May ; what criteria were adopted to make the choice of
representatives ; and with whom his Department plans to liaise on distributing details of its outcome.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : The symposium will cover technical, economic, environmental and regulatory aspects of electricity supply. The Department of Energy will be represented by two officials, at grade 5 level, from the energy technology and economics and statistics divisions ; a deputy chief inspector from Her Majesty's pollution inspectorate will also attend. The responsibility for distributing details of the outcome of the symposium will lie with the sponsors.
Chernobyl
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what steps have been taken since the Chernobyl nuclear accident to review and improve the civil emergency plans and regulations, as they concern civil radiation emergencies.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : Following the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the lessons of the accident for the United Kingdom were carefully considered by a Government working group. As part of this review the Department of Energy carried out extensive consultations with emergency services and authorities which would be involved in dealing with a nuclear accident in the United Kingdom. These consultations showed that in addition to the emergency plans which nuclear operators are required to maintain, other contingency plans were available which, as the then Prime Minister stated ;
"would permit an effective response to be made to any nuclear accident, including those with more widespread effects than the specific site and off -site plans are designed to cater for."--[ Official Report, 12 December 1988 ; Vol. 144, c.391.]
In addition, following that review, my Department set up a nuclear emergency planning liaison group which meets twice each year with the aim of agreeing improvements in emergency planning arrangements and procedures among interested organisations at national and
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local level. There have also been improvements in the information available about emergency arrangements with the publication in May 1990 of the Health and Safety Executive's booklet "Arrangements for Responding to Nuclear Emergencies" and the preparation by nuclear operators and local authorities of booklets describing emergency plans and telling the public in the area of nuclear sites what action they should take if a nuclear emergency is declared. In addition, arrangements for the regular exercising of emergency plans have been improved.More recently the report of Michael Barnes QC into the application for planning consent for the construction of a PWR at Hinkley Point contained a number of recommendations designed to strengthen emergency arrangements around the Hinkley Point site and at national level. These recommendations were endorsed by my right hon. Friend in his decision letter and are being taken forward by my Department, the Health and Safety Executive's nuclear installations inspectorate and other bodies concerned.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Trade Statistics
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment has been made of the effect the increase in the United Kingdom's trade-weighted relative unit values since the second half of 1983 has had on the balance of trade in manufacturing.
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish a table showing for each year since 1961 the percentage increase in the volume of output and the volume of imports of consumer goods other than food and fuel together with the International Monetary Fund or other index of competitiveness.
Mr. Mellor : I have been asked to reply.
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Information from which percentage changes in import volumes and import price competitiveness may be derived can be found in tables C14 and F3 of the monthly review of external trade statistics and its annual supplement, available from the Library of the House, or on the Central Statistical Office database which may be accessed through the Library. The information is not available for years prior to 1971. Information about percentage changes in the volume of output of consumer goods as defined could be provided only at disproportionate cost.Businesses (London)
Ms. Harman : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many businesses (a) opened up and (b) went into receivership in each of the last five years in (i) the London borough of Southwark, (ii) south London and (iii) Greater London.
Mr. Redwood : Information is not readily available in the form requested. The following table gives estimates of the number of companies whose registered offices are in the areas shown.
L
|London |South |Greater
|borough of|London |London
|Southwark
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Companies incorporated in
financial year 1990-91 |650 |5,360 |41,000
Active companies on register at
31 March 1991 |6,600 |53,500 |330,000
Of which:
in receivership |87 |259 |2,647
It should be noted that the location of companies in receivership may depend on the location of the offices which carry out receivership duties, and that some companies have been in receivership for a number of years.
South London consists of the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth.
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EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
Biology
Mrs. Dunwoody : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make it a requirement of the biology national curriculum that it includes full and accurate information about the female reproductive organs.
Mr. Eggar : The programmes of study for science in the national curriculum set out what is to be taught to pupils from age five to 16. For children aged seven to 11, the programmes of study state that
"they should be introduced to the functions of the major organ systems and to basic ideas about the processes of breathing, circulation, growth and reproduction."
For pupils aged 11 to 14, the requirement is that
"they should study life processes, food and feeding, respiration, movement, behaviour, growth and reproduction, particularly as they relate to human beings."
Advertising
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give separate figures for the spending by his Department on (a) television advertising, (b) radio advertising, (c) newspaper advertising and (d) other promotional material in 1979-80 and in each following year ; and what are his latest estimates for 1990-91 and budgets for 1991-92.
Mr. Eggar : The expenditure figures for advertising and other promotional materials by this Department for the financial years 1979-80 to 1990-91 are provided in the table. The 1991-92 estimated budget is £5.38 million. Final decisions on media have not been taken.
£ 000 Year |TV |Radio |Newspaper|Other ------------------------------------------------------------ 1979-80 |- |- |91.6 |12.2 1980-81 |- |- |8.9 |58.3 1981-82 |- |- |86.9 |49.9 1982-83 |- |- |6.0 |33.7 1983-84 |- |- |9.6 |74.9 1984-85 |- |- |18.5 |150.6 1985-86 |- |- |14.8 |184.1 1986-87 |- |- |532.0 |533.0 1987-88 |- |- |280.0 |1,459.0 1988-89 |- |40.0 |475.0 |1,156.0 1989-90 |- |11.8 |238.0 |1,150.0 1990-91 |1,100.0 |97.0 |1,407.0 |1,916.0
Building Work
Mr. Fisher : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will list the number of location of all new buildings or extensions commissioned by his Department in each of the past five years which (a) had contracts worth between £3 million and £5 million and (b) contracts worth more than £5 million.
Mr. Eggar : The Department of Education and Science has not commissioned any buildings in either category. The Department is, however, paying for the fitting out of Sanctuary Buildings which is leased to Property Holdings for use as the Department's headquarters. The cost of the fitting-out works exceeds £5 million. The work is due for completion later this year.
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Environmental Education
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report all (i) in-service training and (ii) first offer courses on environmental protection and management currently offered by British universities, polytechnics or colleges of higher and further education, of which his Department is currently aware ; and whether he has any plans to extend support for environmental education.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The Department does not at present maintain a list of the environmental courses currently available in higher and further education. The priority to be given to such courses is for individual institutions to determine, in the light of demand and within the resources available to them. The Government are, however, proposing to establish an expert committee to make recommendations on the future development of environmental provision within further and higher education.
Shakespeare
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what initiatives he intends to take to encourage the teaching of the works of Shakespeare in schools.
Mr. Eggar : The national curriculum for English specifically requires schools to introduce all pupils aged 11 to 16 to some of the works of Shakespeare. This will extend the opportunities for pupils to study and appreciate Shakespeare's plays.
Children in Hospital
Ms. Harman : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what plans he has to educate children who are in hospital in London, and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Fallon : It is for local education authorities to make provision for the education of children in hospital.
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
Building Work
Mr. Fisher : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will list the number and location of all new buildings or extensions commissioned by the Overseas Development Administration in each of the past five years which (a) had contracts worth between £3 million and £5 million and (b) had contracts worth more than £5 million.
Mrs. Chalker : My Department has commissioned buildings as follows :
|£ 3 million to|Over £ 5
|£ 5 million |million
|Numbers |Numbers
----------------------------------------------------------------
1986-87 |Nil |Nil
1987-88 |Nil |Nil
1988-89 |Nil |Nil
1989-90 |<1>1 |Nil
1990-91 |Nil |<2>1
<1>At Chatham.
<2>At London.
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Kurds
Mr. Harry Barnes : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list by date, aircraft type and tonnage each planeload of supplies from Government and non-government sources which are known to his Department to have been sent from the United Kingdom as aid to the Kurds.
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Mrs. Chalker : As of 24 April, an estimated total of 684 metric tonnes of relief supplies have been sent from the United Kingdom by the Overseas Development Administration, and an estimated total of 540 metric tonnes have been sent by non-government sources. The details of which the Department is aware are as follows :
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Agency |Date |Aircraft |Tonnage |Destination
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ODA |5 April |2 X Boeing 707 |<1>80 |Ankara, Turkey
ODA |7 April |2 X C.130 |21 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |8 April |2 X C.130 |24 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |8 April |1 X Boeing 707 |<1>35 |Orumiyeh, Iran
ODA |9 April |1 X Tristar |18 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |9 April |1 X Boeing 707 |<1>35 |Orumiyeh, Iran
ODA |11 April |1 X Tristar |20 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |12 April |1 X Boeing 707 |27 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |13 April |1 X Boeing 707 |25 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |14 April |1 X Boeing 707 |26 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |15 April |1 X Boeing 707 |27 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |16 April |1 X Boeing 707 |22 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |17 April |1 X Boeing 707 |39 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |18 April |1 X Boeing 707 |<1>35 |Orumiyeh, Iran
ODA |19 April |1 X Boeing 707 |38 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |19 April |1 X Boeing 707 |<1>35 |Orumiyeh, Iran
ODA |20 April |1 X Boeing 707 |36 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |21 April |1 X Boeing 707 |34 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |22 April |1 X Boeing 707 |37 |Incerlik, Turkey
ODA |23 April |1 X Boeing 707 |<1>35 |Orumiyeh, Iran
ODA |24 April |1 X Boeing 707 |<1>35 |Orumiyeh, Iran
Various NGOs |12 April |1 X Boeing 757 |23 |Incerlik, Turkey
OXFAM |10 April |1 X Boeing 707 |40 |Dyarbakir, Turkey
OXFAM |15 April |1 X Boeing 707 |5 |Dyarbakir, Turkey
OXFAM |22 April |1 X Belfast |16 |Dyarbakir, Turkey
BRCS |5 April |1 X Boeing 707 |36 |Ankara, Turkey
BRCS |5 April |1 X Boeing 707 |37 |Ankara, Turkey
BRCS |10 April |1 X Boeing 707 |39 |Orumiyeh, Iran
BRCS |12 April |1 X Boeing 707 |36 |Orumiyeh, Iran
BRCS |17 April |1 X Boeing 707 |35 |Tehran, Iran
BRCS |18 April |1 X Boeing 707 |34 |Orumiyeh, Iran
BRCS |19 April |1 X Boeing 707 |33 |Orumiyeh, Iran
BRCS |20 April |1 X Boeing 707 |40 |Tabriz, Iran
SCF |5 April |Not known |1 |Turkey
SCF |6 April |Not known |28 |Turkey
SCF |9 April |Not known |30 |Turkey
SCF |15 April |1 X Boeing 707 |37 |Turkey
SCF |16 April |1 X Boeing 707 |37 |Iran
SCF |20 April |1 X DC8-55FQ |31 |Iran
<1>Denotes estimate.
Development Organisations
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether any decisions were taken at the 17th Annual General Assembly of European non-governmental development organisations in Brussels, 9-11 April, that affect the present funding of United Kingdom non -governmental development organisations by his Department.
Mrs. Chalker : No decisions were taken at the 17th annual general assembly of European non-governmental development organisations in Brussels, 9-11 April, which affect the present funding of United Kingdom non-governmental development organisations by my Department. The level of funding, which has increased substantially over the last few years, is constantly under review.
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Global Environment
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what matters in regard to financial support for protecting the global environment will be discussed at the meeting of G7 Finance Ministers in Washington on 28 April.
Mrs. Chalker : A number of important issues will be discussed at the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Washington, but it is not possible to forecast how discussions will develop. Environment will be discussed at the development committee meeting on 29-30 April and there will be a meeting of the global environment facility on 1 and 2 May. The United Kingdom has pledged approximately £40 milion to the core facility plus £8 million for the programme to phase out CFCs.
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EMPLOYMENT
Bradford TEC
Mr. Rooney : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what criteria were set for Bradford TEC for training needs in 1991-92 ; what targets have been set ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Jackson : The training needs identified by Bradford and District TEC are based on a thorough assessment of the local labour market. Their plans include challenging targets which have been agreed with my Department covering a range of training and enterprise activities. Bradford and District TEC has developed a number of interesting initiatives, including Jobsmatch 1000. The aim of the initiative is to help 1,000 unemployed people in inner city areas to obtain a job within two years.
Employment, South Derbyshire
Mrs. Currie : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people in South Derbyshire were employed in (i) 1980, (ii) 1985 and (iii) latest figures ; and what is the rate of change of employment in South Derbyshire and the national average over the same period.
Mr. Jackson : The available information for South Derbyshire is from censuses of employment held in 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1989. Data for the constituency and comparable figures for Great Britain are given in the table. The figures relate only to employees in employment ; they exclude the self-employed and members of HM Forces.
Employees in employment (thousands)
|South |Great Britain
|Derbyshire
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September of each year
1981 |19.1 |21,314.1
1984 |18.8 |20,845.9
1987 |19.6 |21,271.0
1989 |20.5 |22,234.5
Change 1981 to 1989
Number |+1.5 |+920.3
Per cent |+7.7 |+4.3
Advertising
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give separate figures for the spending by his Department on (a) television advertising, (b) radio advertising, (c) newspaper advertising and (d) other promotional material in 1979-80 and in each following year ; and what are his latest estimates for 1990-91 and budgets for 1991-92.
Mr. Jackson : Expenditure on advertising and promotional material by the Department of Employment from 1979-80 to 1985-86 was as follows :
|£
------------------------------
1979-80 |70,000
1980-81 |320,000
1981-82 |400,000
1982-83 |360,000
1983-84 |500,000
1984-85 |320,000
1985-86 |1,220,000
Figures for television, radio and newspaper advertising and other promotional material are not available separately.
The figures for 1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90 and 1990-91 are as follows :
|Television |Press/Radio|Other
|promotional
------------------------------------------------------------
1986-87 |9.3 |3.0 |4.1
1987-88 |3.3 |0.8 |2.8
1988-89 |2.1 |2.3 |1.3
1989-90 |0.9 |0.9 |1.2
1990-91 |n/a |0.5 |2.1
The Department's overall advertising budget for 1991-92 is £17.4 million. Detailed discussions on expenditure by media category have not yet been taken.
All the above figures refer only to Department of Employment expenditure. They do not cover expenditure by the former Training Agency, Training Commission and Manpower Services Commission. Figures for these are being provided to the hon. Member in reply to a separate question.
Building Work
Mr. Fisher : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will list the number and location of all new buildings or extensions commissioned by his Department in each of the past five years which (a) had contracts worth between £3 million and £5 million and (b) had contracts worth more than £5 million.
Mr. Jackson : My Department has commissioned the following new buildings and extensions :
in 1986, a new building in Broad lane, Sheffield for the Health and Safety Executive at a cost of £8 million ;
in 1991, a new building at East lane, Runcorn at a cost of £12 million to accommodate headquarters posts relocating from London ; in 1989, an extension to Brixton unemployment benefit office, Halmaker Lodge, south- west London, costing £3.7 million.
Southport (Tourist Industry)
Mr. Fearn : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what new help he will give to the tourist industry in Southport.
Mr. Forth : The English tourist board, which is grant-aided by my Department, will allocate a subvention of £403,300 to the North West tourist board, which covers Southport, during the 1991-92 financial year. This subvention may be supplemented during the year by additional sums from central funds held by the ETB.
Southport will benefit from the various marketing and development initiatives undertaken by the North West tourist board, including the board's new coastal corridor initiative.
Mr. Fearn : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will visit Southport to look at the local tourist industry.
Mr. Forth : My noble Friend Viscount Ullswater, who has ministerial responsibility for tourism matters, recently met a delegation of representatives of resorts in the North West, including Southport. He also hopes to include Southport in his forthcoming extensive programme of regional visits.
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Injuries at Work
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the total numbers of injuries as a result of work activities reported to enforcement authorities falling within the east midlands region in the latest year for which Health and Safety Comission statistics are available in the categories (a) total fatal injuries to all persons, (b) total non- major injuries to all persons, (c) total over three-day injuries to all persons and (d) total all reported injuries to all persons.
Mr. Forth : The latest available information, provi-sional figures for the financial year beginning 1 April 1989, is provided in the table.
Numbers of reported occupational
injuries<1> in the East Midlands
region, 1989-90 (provisional)
|Numbers
-----------------------------------
Fatal |45
Non-fatal major<2> |3,106
Over three day<3> |13,762
|---
Total reported |16,913
<1>Injuries to employees,
self-employed persons and
non-employed
persons injured in a working
environment, reported under the
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases
and Dangerous Occurrences
Regulations, 1985 (RIDDOR), to all
enforcement authorities
excluding the HSE's railway
inspectorate.
<2>As defined under RIDDOR.
<3>Injuries causing incapacity for
work for more than three days.
Employment Service (Annual Performance Agreement)
Mr. Patrick Thompson : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when the Employment Service annual performance agreement for 1991-92 will be published.
Mr. Jackson : I have today placed copies of the Employment Service 1991-92 annual performance agreement in the Libraries of the House.
New Businesses, Yorkshire
Mr. Robert Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many new businesses have started in Yorkshire in each year since 1979.
Mr. Jackson [holding answer 23 April 1991] : The available information for the counties of North, South and West Yorkshire, based on VAT data, is given in the table :
VAT registrations and deregistrations in North, South and West
Yorkshire
000s
|Registrations |Deregistrations|Net change
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1980 |9.1 |9.0 |0.1
1981 |9.5 |7.6 |1.9
1982 |10.5 |9.1 |1.4
1983 |11.5 |9.1 |2.4
1984 |11.0 |9.5 |1.5
1985 |11.0 |10.8 |0.2
1986 |11.4 |10.9 |0.4
1987 |12.2 |10.6 |1.6
1988 |14.1 |10.8 |3.3
1989 |15.9 |11.3 |4.7
Training Agency (Privatisation)
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total sum paid out in fees to outside organisations in the furtherance of privatisation by
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the Training Agency/Manpower Services Commission in 1979-80 and in each following year ; and what is his estimate for 1990-91 and budget for 1991-92.Mr. Jackson [holding answer 24 April 1991] : There were no fees paid to organisations in furtherance of privatisation by the Training Agency or Manpower Services Commission in the financial period from 1979-80 to 1987-88 inclusive.
Fees to the value of £525,000 were incurred in 1988-89, to the value of £613,000 in 1989-90, and £622,000 in 1990-91. These figures are inclusive of expenses plus VAT.
There is no current privatisation being undertaken, although an outstanding invoice for £30,000 will be paid in the current financial year.
NATIONAL FINANCE
St. John Ambulance Brigade
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make facilities available to staff in his Department to contribute to the appeal that has been launched for people with the name of John to help raise £5 million for the St. John Ambulance Brigade.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : There are no such plans to make special arrangements for this appeal. The Treasury has in the past publicised to staff the arrangements for payroll giving for charity, and I shall be drawing staff's attention to these general arrangements again in due course.
Trade Statistics
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his estimate of the fall in the profitability of exports of manufactures since 1 January 1990 as a return on sales ; and whether he will publish a table comparing the reduction in profitability with the increase in export unit values, the increase in producer input and output prices and the increase in consumer prices.
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