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President Mitterrand
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Prime Minister what matters were discussed during his meeting with President Mitterrand on 24 June.
The Prime Minister : The talks at the annual Anglo-French summit in Dunkirk on 24 June concentrated on the two intergovernmental conferences and the forthcoming Luxembourg European Council ; European security and defence questions ; and the situation in Iraq. The talks were fruitful and timely. President Mitterrand and I agreed to meet again on 29 July in Calais on the fourth anniversary of the ratification of the channel tunnel treaty.
Engagements
Mr. Harry Greenway : To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for 27 June.
The Prime Minister : This morning I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in the House I shall be having further meetings later today. This evening I shall depart for Luxembourg for the European Council meeting tomorrow.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Maintained Schools
Mr. Trimble : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether he will list the total number of persons employed as (a) teachers, (b) skilled ancillary staff and (c) unskilled or semi-skilled staff in (i) controlled schools, (ii) schools under the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools and (iii) other maintained schools, indicating in respect of each figure the number of persons whose perceived religious affiliation is Protestant and Roman Catholic.
Dr. Mawhinney : I shall write to the hon. Gentleman as soon as possible and place a copy of my letter in the Library.
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Housing, Dungannon and Fermanagh
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many private sector new-build planning permissions have been (a) approved and (b) refused in each year since 1986 in rural areas within (i) Dungannon and (ii) Fermanagh district council area.
Mr. Needham : The information requested is as follows :
Approved Refused
|Dungannon|Fermanagh|Dungannon|Fermanagh
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1985-86 |137 |235 |22 |11
1986-87 |177 |235 |29 |32
1987-88 |165 |230 |30 |37
1988-89 |167 |224 |28 |28
1989-90 |145 |215 |25 |33
1990-91 |131 |219 |41 |38
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the (a) percentage and (b) number of unfit houses in private ownership in the rural areas of (i) Dungannon and (ii) Fermanagh district council areas according to Northern Ireland Housing Executive statistics.
Mr. Needham : The chief executive of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive has advised me that the information requested is not available separately for the Dungannon and Fermanagh district council areas. However the executive's 1987 house condition survey indicated that, taking these two areas together, some 27 per cent.--4, 340--privately owned dwellings were unfit.
Farming
Mr. Maginnis : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people earn their living entirely from farming in the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone ; and if he will indicate the trend since 1972 and projected likely trends till the year 2000.
Mr. Hanley : The information requested is not available. Information from the June 1990 farm census indicates that 10,300 persons in the constituency worked on farms, either as farmers, family or hired labour. Of this number 5,000 indicated that they worked full time in agriculture. Comparable data are not available for earlier years.
Human Rights Report
Mr. Beaumont-Dark : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he has received the 16th report of the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Brooke : The report, for the period 1 April 1990 to 31 March 1991, has been published today and copies have been laid before Parliament.
The report covers a wide range of matters that the commission has considered during the period under review. These include emergency legislation, education, fair employment, the law relating to children, peremptory challenge in the selection of jurors, silence as corroboration and prisoners' rights.
I value the advice the commission gives me and appreciate the work it does in considering a wide range of human rights matters. The commission has undertaken another extensive programme of work and I am grateful for the continued commitment shown by its members.
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Copies of my response to the commission's 16th report and of the report itself have been placed in the Library.Life Sentences
Mr. Trimble : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many persons sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of (a) policemen, (b) prison officers, (c) regular Army soldiers and (d) the Ulster Defence
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Regiment have been released on licence in each of the last 10 years, indicating, in each case, the number of years actually served in prison.Dr. Mawhinney [holding answer 26 June 1991] : The information is as follows :
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Prisoners released on licence from indeterminate sentences imposed for murder
of members of the Security Forces and the Northern Ireland Prison Service
Number released by years served Total
Year Victim 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17released
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1981-84 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |Nil
1985 |Army |2 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |2
|Ruc |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |1
1986 |Army |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |1
|RUC |- |1 |- |- |- |1 |- |- |- |- |2
1987 |Army |- |- |1 |- |2 |- |- |- |- |- |3
|RUC |- |- |- |1 |- |2 |1 |- |- |- |4
|UDR |- |- |- |- |- |- |1 |- |- |- |1
1988 |Army |- |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |1
|RUC |- |- |- |- |1 |1 |5 |- |- |- |7
1989 |Army |- |- |- |- |1 |- |1 |- |1 |- |3
|RUC |- |- |- |1 |- |- |- |3- |1 |5
|UDR |- |- |- |- |- |- |2 |1 |- |- |3
1990 |Army |- |- |- |- |- |1 |- |2 |1 |- |4
|RUC |- |- |1 |- |1 |1 |- |- |4 |- |7
|UDR |- |- |- |- |2 |2 |- |1 |- |- |5
1991 (to |NIPS<1>|- |- |1 |- |2 |- |- |- |- |- |3
26 June) |RUC |- |- |- |1 |- |2 |1 |- |- |- |4
|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------
|Total |3 |3 |3 |3 |7 |8 |10 |7 |6 |1 |51
<1>Northern Ireland Prison Service.
Note: These figures include prisoners sentenced to detention during the pleasure of the Secretary of State.
AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
Agriculture Council
Mr. Thompson : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the outcome of the meeting of the Agriculture Council on 21 and 22 May ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Curry [pursuant to the reply, 3 June 1991, c. 38] : I represented the United Kingdom at this meeting.
Agreement was reached in principle on instruments concerning health rules for the marketing of molluscs and of fishery products, veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from third countries, health conditions for trade in poultrymeat and safety standards for the use of pesticides on plants. In addition significant progress was made on a draft regulation on health rules for the marketing of fresh meat. All these constitute useful and significant steps towards the establishment of the single market. The Council had a first discussion of two proposals on food quality. I made it clear that the United Kingdom had serious doubts as to the usefulness of these proposals ; and that major changes would be needed if they were to secure our support.
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I made it clear that the United Kingdom expected satisfactory arrangements to be introduced to protect Community (notably Scottish) producers of soft fruit from exceptionally low-priced imports from eastern Europe when the present special controls expire on 31 July.ENERGY
Fissile Material
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make a statement on the responsibilities of the International Atomic Energy Authority with respect to monitoring the use made in civil nuclear programmes of fissile materials produced originally for military purposes.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : All civil nuclear material in the United Kingdom, whatever its origin, is subject to Euratom safeguards and to the terms of the IAEA-UK-Euratom safeguards agreement--INFCIRC-263.
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy whether fissile material produced for military purposes in the United Kingdom is suitable for civil purposes.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : Yes, in principle.
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Plutonium Exports
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Energy how much plutonium has been exported to the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in each of the past two years.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : There have been no exports of plutonium in quantities of a few grammes or more to the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic from the United Kingdom during the past two years.
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
Chittagong Hill Tracts
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what aid has been granted to refugees from the Chittagong hill tracts who have sought sanctuary in Tripura, India ; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Chalker : No request for United Kingdom bilateral assistance has been received from either of the Governments concerned. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been unable to gain access and is also therefore unable to assist.
Project Costs
Mrs. Clwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish a table showing the average agreed ceiling for local cost aid, and the percentage of bilateral aid actually given for local costs, as a percentage of project aid and a percentage of total bilateral aid, in Africa and Asia, in each year since 1979.
Mrs. Chalker [holding answer 19 June 1991] : Since 1990 there have no longer been any limits on the extent to which our financial aid to least-developed countries can be used to meet local costs. For other countries, local cost ceilings are established on a country or project basis ; data on the level of these ceilings are not available in an aggregated form. The percentage figures for actual local cost aid are as follows :
Africa Asia
|Local costs |Local costs |Local costs |Local costs
|as |as |as |as
|percentage of|percentage |percentage of|percentage
|project aid |of total |project aid |of total
|(excluding |bilateral |(excluding |bilateral
|ATP) |aid |ATP) |aid
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1981 |28 |7 |20 |14
1982 |27 |8 |37 |20
1983 |26 |7 |41 |26
1984 |27 |7 |42 |20
1985 |18 |4 |46 |21
1986 |24 |8 |22 |11
1987 |19 |2 |21 |9
1988 |9 |1 |33 |9
1989 |11 |1 |25 |8
1990<1> |13 |2 |25 |6
<1> Provisional.
Note: Local costs figures are not available by region before 1981.
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SOCIAL SECURITY
Residential Homes
Mr. Andrew Bowden : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will give a further breakdown of the figures given in the answer of 7 June, Official Report, column 350, to differentiate between claimants in residential and in nursing homes.
Miss Widdecombe : The latest estimate of the number of people in receipt of income support in residential care and nursing homes is for August 1990, when the figure was 128,000 and 71,000 respectively. Information on how many of these were over pension age is not available, but, as of May 1989, about 73 per cent. of income support recipients in residential care and 88 per cent. in nursing homes were over pension age.
Citizens Advice Bureaux
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what representations he has received regarding the practice of his Department's offices and agencies of referring clients to local citizens advice bureaux ; what evidence he has of any increase in this practice ; and if he will make a statement on the responsibility of his Department's offices and agencies to assist clients with their inquiries.
Miss Widdecombe : Neither the Department nor its agencies routinely refer customers to citizens advice bureaux : the provision of information and help on social security matters is, properly, a function of the Department and its agencies. However, customers may be told about the bureaux and other voluntary organisations where, for example, the problem lies outside the Department's area or where benefit is refused and help with an appeal is sought.
Retirement Pensions
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what would be the cost in 1991-92 of increasing the basic retirement pension by £5 per week for a single pensioner and £8 a week for a married couple, assuming similar increases in linked benefits and in income-related benefits for pensioners, giving figures (a) gross and (b) net of tax revenues and savings in other benefits.
Miss Widdecombe : The gross cost would be £3.1 billion. Net of income tax, the figure would be £2.9 billion. If those in receipt of a linked benefit but not the pensioner premium did not receive a similar increase in their income-related benefit, the net cost would fall to £2.8 billion.
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the cost, net of savings in tax, of uprating the retirement pension, income support pension premium and housing benefit pensioner premium by £5 per week for single pensioners and £8 per week for pensioner couples in 1991-92 ; and if he will set out for linked benefits the cost in 1991-92 that would arise from these changes.
Miss Widdecombe : The gross cost of increasing these and the linked contributory benefits by £5 for a single pensioner and £8 for a pensioner couple is £3.1 billion. The cost, net of tax, would be £2.9 billion ; this includes £0.5 billion to increase the linked benefits.
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Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security which benefits have a statutory requirement to link (a) the level of benefit to the retirement pension level and (b) the level of increase at uprating to the same level of increase for retirement pension.Miss Widdecombe : The following benefits are paid at rates which are linked by statute to that of the retirement pension : widow's pension, widowed mother's allowance and invalidity benefit. Unemployment benefit and sickness benefit are also linked for certain categories of recipient over pensionable age. The Secretary of State has a statutory duty to review the value of the category A retirement pension on an annual basis and increase it if appropriate ; if the pension rate is increased the level of the above benefits will be raised also.
Household Incomes
Mr. Madden : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will update to 1988 the tables on real rises in household incomes since 1979, provided in his reply of 26 July 1990 to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Mr. Griffiths) Official Report, columns 501-2 .
Mr. Jack : The information requested is not available.
Local Government Finance
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his best estimate of the amount of the reduction in community charge benefit payments in 1991-92 due to the £140 reduction in headline bills.
Miss Widdecombe : The reduction is about £850 million.
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the cost to his Department in 1991-92 of abolishing the poll tax 20 per cent. contribution rule.
Miss Widdecombe : The latest estimate is that the total cost in 1991 -92 of awarding 100 per cent. maximum community charge benefit would be £440 million at current benefit levels. Such a change would affect all people receiving community charge benefit including those people on income support and equivalent incomes. This estimate assumes that no reductions are made in the income-related benefit levels which were adjusted in April 1989, to include help towards the 20 per cent. contribution to the community charge, at an estimated cost of £500 million.
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how much will be saved by his Department in community charge benefit subsidy in (a) 1990-91 and (b) 1991-92 for each local authority which is a housing benefit authority as a result of poll tax capping.
Miss Widdecombe : The information requested is not available.
Family Credit
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the total percentage of applicants for family credit who were turned down in each of the most recent 24 months for which figures are available.
Mr. Jack : The administration of family credit is a matter for Mr. Michael Bichard, the chief executive of the
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Benefits Agency. He will write to the hon. Member and copies will be placed in the Library and the Public Information Office.Severe Disability Premium
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the organisations consulted by the Social Security Advisory Committee about his Department's proposed changes to the severe disability premium regulations ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Scott : I understand that the Social Security Advisory Committee wrote to six organisations concerned with disabled people or their carers, seeking their views on the proposed amendment to regulations. The organisations were as follows :
The Disability Alliance
The Disablement Income Group
RADAR
Carers' National Association
The Spastics Society
British Council of Organisations of Disabled People
Young People (Benefits)
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many young people under the age of 25 years are in receipt of (a) community charge benefit and (b) housing benefit.
Miss Widdecombe : The most recent survey information indicates that in May 1989, a total of 460,000 householders aged less than 25 years in Great Britain were in receipt of housing benefit. This estimate excludes those under 25 years old in Scotland who were in receipt of community charge rebate, but who were not receiving help with rent ; this information is not available.
EMPLOYMENT
Employment Expenditure, London
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide a table showing expenditure in 1989-90, broken down by regions, with Greater London shown as a separate region, for job clubs, the Employment Service, and jobcentres.
Mr. Jackson : Questions on operational matters in the Employment Service executive agency are the responsibility of Mike Fogden, the agency's chief executive, to whom I have referred this question for reply.
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide a table setting out the number of YOP, YTS and YT places available in Greater London in every year from 1975, including figures for 1991, or estimates for 1991 if figures are not available.
Mr. Jackson : The information requested is given in the table. Information prior to 1984 is not available. Agreed place information from April 1990 is not available.
Youth training-number of
agreed places in London
Region
|Number
----------------------------
31 March 1984 |36,100
31 March 1985 |28,900
31 March 1986 |17,000
31 March 1987 |37,200
31 March 1988 |36,300
31 March 1989 |30,400
31 March 1990 |32,700
Source: SPECTRUM
On 1 April 1986 YTS changed
from a one-year programme
to a two-year programme.
All figures are rounded to
the nearest 100.
Dangerous Substances (Accidents)
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make it his policy to examine the conclusions of the report published by the joint research centre of the European Commission on lessons learnt from emergencies after accidents in the United Kingdom involving dangerous substances--DOC. EUR. 13322EN.
Mr. Forth : The report has been studied, on my behalf, by the Health and Safety Executive. As regards matters that are my responsibility, the lessons learnt from this and other studies are being taken into account in the current fundamental review of EC directive 82/501/EEC, the "Seveso" directive, which deals with major accident hazards.
Toxic Substances Bulletin
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current distribution of the toxic substances bulletin published by the Health and Safety Executive ; and what assessment he has made of the benefits to health and safety at work of the bulletin.
Mr. Forth : The latest available figures--April 1991--show that there are 2,280 subscribers who receive a total of 2,608 copies of the Health and Safety Executive's toxic substances bulletin. There is also an internal distribution within Government Departments. It is a statutory duty of the Health and Safety Commission to make appropriate arrangements for
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providing relevant information to those concerned with health and safety at work. The bulletin has proved to be a useful tool in providing information about current developments on toxic substances, both in the United Kingdom and the European Community, in an easily accessible format. I have arranged for copies of the most recent edition to be placed in the Library of this House.TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Share Ownership
Ms. Mowlam : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Riddick) of 4 June, at column 170, on cash limits, if he will outline the reasons why the funds provided for assistance for the share ownership movement have been allocated under the consumer and investor protection programme.
Mr. Lilley : The proposed assistance is aimed at increasing the provision of information to investors, allowing informed choices to be made and therefore contributing towards the objectives of my Department's work on consumer and investor protection.
Cash Limits
Ms. Mowlam : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mrs. Clwyd) of 4 June at column 170, on cash limits, if he will set out the increase or decrease in his Department's budget, by expenditure area and in total, in 1991-92 in real terms relative to the expenditure level of the Department after the equivalent supplementary estimate announcement of 1990-91.
Mr. Lilley : The information requested is set out in the table.
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Department of Trade and Industry expenditure budget after Revised and Summer Supplementary Estimates 1990-91 and 1991-92
£ million all figures are net
|1990-91 |1991-92 |1991-92 |Increase/
|provision |provision cash|provision real|decrease in
|terms |terms |real (1990)
|terms
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VOTE 1
Central government's own expenditure:
Regional and general industrial support
Regional development grants, Regional selective assistance and Selective
assistance |215.4 |156.6 |146.4 |-69.0
Support for aerospace, shipbuilding and steel manufacture
Aerospace support and Assistance to the shipbuilding and steel industries<1>
(net of aerospace repayments) |155.9 |91.9 |85.9 |-70.1
Central government grants to local authorities:
Regional development grants |0.1 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
Regional selective assistance |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
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Total Vote 1 |371.4 |248.5 |232.2 |-139.1
VOTE 2
Central government's own expenditure:
Regional and general support
Business development and Inner cities initiatives (including Regional
enterprise grants) |85.9 |80.5 |75.2 |-10.7
Support for industry
Industrial research (including Civil aircraft, Education and training, and
Telecommunications), Space technology programmes and
Miscellaneous support services |287.1 |265.3 |248.0 |-39.2
International trade |50.2 |51.7 |48.4 |-1.8
Statutory and regulatory work
(including Measurement and technology support, Protection of innovation,
Regulation of Trade and consumer protection and Research
establishments) |74.3 |116.2 |108.6 |34.3
Central and miscellaneous services |289.3 |265.4 |248.0 |-41.2
Public corporations:
English Industrial Estates Corporation<2> (net of realised assets) |0.0 |-16.8 |-15.7 |-15.7
Central government grants to local authorities:
Inner cities initiative |0.5 |0.5 |0.5 |0.0
Other expenditure not included in the planning total:
Refund of pension adjustment |0.1 |0.1 |0.1 |0.0
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Total Vote 2 |787.4 |763.0 |713.1 |-74.3
VOTE 3
Public corporations:
Nationalised industries external finance-British Shipbuilders |8.0 |19.0 |17.7 |9.7
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Total DTI |1,166.8 |1,030.5 |963.1 |-203.7
1. The lower level of net provision in 1991-92 for airbus development reflects a considerably reduced requirement for launch aid for the A330/340
Airbus in accordance with the launch aid contract and an increased level of expected levy receipts on the A320 Airbus.
2. Planned gross expenditure by EIEC for 1991-92 is £126.3 million. This will be funded by asset sales. Surplus receipts-£16.8 million-will be
surrendered to the DTI.
Notes to Tables: All figures are for estimates provision net of receipts, rounded to the nearest £0.1 million. The items do not sum to the totals in
all cases because of rounding. The table compares the position after the publication on 12 June 1990 of the revised estimate for class IV vote 2 with
that after the publication of the summer supplementary estimates for class IV votes 2 and 3 on 13 June 1991. The cash figures for 1991-92 have been
converted to 1990-91 prices using the GDP deflator of 7 per cent., as set out in table 2.1 of the "Financial Statement and Budget Report 1991-92"-House
of Commons No. 300.
Ms. Mowlam : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 4 June at column 170, to the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Riddick) on cash limits, if he will provide details of the mechanism by which certain items are to be fully met by receipts from the European Community.
Mr. Lilley : Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the European Community receipts in question will be appropriated in aid of class IV vote 2. For the purposes of the public expenditure planning total, such receipts are classified as programme 2.7-- net payments to European Community institutions--for which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer is responsible. The consequent net reduction in that programme exactly offsets the increase in my Department's cash limit.
Ms. Mowlam : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will set out in tabular form the areas of expenditure covered by the supplementary estimate changes to his Department's cash limit and running cost limits for 1991-92 announced on 4 June at column 170 in ascending cash value order.
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Mr. Lilley : The information requested is set out, although not in ascending cash value order, in the summary to the summer supplementary estimate for class IV vote 2 which were presented to the House on 13 June.
Ms. Mowlam : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to which sections and sub-headings of the estimate for class IV, vote 2, each of the charges and activities described in his announcement of 4 June at column 170 on cash limit changes will be attributed.
Mr. Lilley : The information requested is set out in the summer supplementary estimate for class IV vote 2 which was presented to the House on 13 June.
Consumer Safety
Ms. Mowlam : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Riddick) of 4 June, at column 170 on cash limits, if he will list the activities for which funds have been allocated to the Department's promotion of consumer safety.
Mr. Lilley : Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the sum of £71,000 for my Department's promotion of consumer safety will be allocated towards the moving, construction, publicising
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and operation of the child safety "Hazard Dome" during 1991 at the Lightwater Valley theme park in North Yorkshire as part of the home safety awareness scheme.Arms Industries
Mr. Martyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what figures he has for the amount of money being spent in the United Kingdom on research into conversion of arms industries to non-arms production.
Mr. Leigh : Information of this sort is not collected centrally.
South Africa
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the trade restrictions that are still in force in respect of South Africa.
Mr. Sainsbury : I refer to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding (Mr. Davies) on 7 May Official Report, column 409.
Overseas Exhibitions
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what grants were made from public funds towards travel and costs of exhibition stands at Dubai '91 and the international defence equipment and aviation exhibition in Ankara, November 1991.
Mr. Sainsbury : To date no financial subsidy has been provided by the Department of Trade and Industry to exhibitors at Dubai '91 and the international defence equipment and aviation exhibition, Ankara. The subsidy for companies which qualify for support will be at the standard rate of 50 per cent. of the eligible costs of space and stand construction and up to two travel grants at the appropriate country rates for Dubai and Turkey.
Director General of Fair Trading
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he intends to publish the report by the Director General of Fair Trading for the year 1990.
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