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Mr. Baldry : The average annual dose of radon received by people in the United Kingdom is 1 milliSievert effective dose equivalent. In Devon, the annual average dose is 3.5 milliSieverts.
Mr. Steen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement about the migration of uranium daughter radionuclides in natural sediments ; and to what extent there are similar elements with regard to radon gases in rock formations.
Mr. Baldry : The solid radioactive species in the uranium decay series do not migrate in dry rock formations. However, radon, which is a noble gas, readily migrates through fissured rocks, soils and sediments.
Clean Council Campaign
Mr. Faulds : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he has received a copy of the Friends of the Earth's clean council campaign ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Baldry : I am not aware of any such campaign.
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Housing (Public Health)
Mr. Dunnachie : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has received the document "Housing or Homelessness : a Public Health Perspective," published by the Faculty of Public Health Medicine ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Yeo : My Department received this report in May. It raises matters of interest to the Department of Health as well as to my Department. We will give careful consideration to its
recommendations.
Community Charge
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many representations he has received seeking the introduction of a 100 per cent. rebate for the community charge for income support claimants from April 1992.
Mr. Key : We have received a number of representations in support of 100 per cent. rebates.
Mineral Planning Guidance
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he intends to revise Mineral Planning Guidance note No. 3 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Yeo : The Government have no immediate plans to revise the guidelines in MPG3, but we are continuing to monitor their use. Officials will be discussing their effectiveness with representatives of the industry and the local authorities later in the year.
Direct Labour Organisations
Mrs. Gorman : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what provision there is for local authorities to privatise their direct labour organisations.
Mr. Key : There is no reason why a local authority which wishes to privatise its direct labour organisation should not do so. Direct labour organisations are in any case subject to compulsory competitive tendering under the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 and the Local Government Act 1988. My right hon. Friend is currently considering the scope for extending the list of services subject to competition.
Planning Inspectorate
Mr. Mans : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when the planning inspectorate will become an executive agency under the next steps initiative.
Sir George Young : We intend to launch the Planning Inspectorate executive agency on 1 April 1992.
A main aim of the new agency will be to maintain the high quality of the planning inspectorate's work in relation to planning appeals and its other responsibilities. Inspectors' recommendations and decisions on planning cases will continue to be made by reference to statutory requirements and the Government's policy guidance. Their independence will not be impaired. Agency status will define more sharply the objectives which the inspectorate aims to achieve, and the greater management flexibility which it permits will promote greater efficiency.
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The relationship between Ministers and the agency's chief executive, who will also be the chief planning inspector, will be set out in a framework document, which is now being prepared. The chief executive's post will be subject to open competition.Unleaded Petrol
Mr. Ward : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what proportion of petrol sales in the United Kingdom now consist of unleaded petrol
Mr. Baldry [holding answer 24 July 1991] : I refer my hon. Friend to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Minister for the Environment and Countryside to my hon. Friend the Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Sir H. Rossi) on 24 July 1991.
Thorne Moor
Mr. Morley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) whether planning consents for peat digging on Thorne Moor near Doncaster have been reviewed under the Mineral Act 1981 ; (2) what proportion of Thorne Moor has planning permission for peat extraction ; and what restoration of those areas subject to extraction has taken place.
Mr. Yeo [holding answer 5 July 1991] : I shall write to the hon. Member.
European Commission
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to estimate the future cost to British business of each of the European Commission's environmental proposals currently under consideration.
Mr. Baldry : I shall write to the hon. Member.
Biodiversity
Mr. Gould : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress the Government have made since September 1990 in implementing their intended five-point plan for major studies on the status of the world's biodiversity.
Mr. Heseltine : The hon. Member is referring to the five-point plan described on page 52 of the environment White Paper.
The first of the five points relates to the financing of a major study on the status of the world's biological diversity. This study is being carried out by the world conservation monitoring centre, Cambridge and is expected to be completed by the middle of next year. The other studies referred to in the White Paper have already been completed. They are summarised in the booklet entitled "Biological Diversity and Developing Countries : Issues and Options". This was published by the Overseas Development Administration last month. A copy is in the House of Commons Library.
Housing Benefit
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what is the total amount of housing benefit reimbursed (a) to local authorities and (b) private
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tenants in each financial year in (i) England and (ii) Great Britain in respect of rebates granted to council tenants since the beginning of the scheme ;(2) what is the total amount of housing benefit in each financial year paid by local authorities in (a) England and (b) Great Britain to council tenants since the scheme began ;
(3) what is the total Government expenditure on housing benefit on a financial year basis in (a) England and (b) Great Britain.
Mr. Yeo : I will write to the hon. Gentleman.
Environmental Challenges
Mr. Gould : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what contributions the Government have made either independently or through the European Community to help central and eastern Europe cope with environmental challenges since September 1990 ; and if he will make a statement.
(2) in what specific ways since September 1990 the Government have now established a strict environmental regime for waste disposal in order to minimise the production of waste.
Mr. Heseltine : I will write to the hon. Member.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Immigration Appeals
Mr. Darling : To ask the Attorney-General what is the average delay between the hearing of an immigration appeal by an adjudicator and the dispatch of the determination to the appellant or his or her authorised representative, listed by each immigration appeals hearing centre.
The Attorney-General : The immigration appellate authorities do not record detailed statistics on the average delay at each hearing centre between the hearing of an immigration appeal by an adjudicator and the dispatch of the determination to the appellant or his or her authorised representative. However, it is possible to provide the following estimates :
|Weeks
---------------------------------
Thanet House, London |4-7
Harmondsworth<1> |4-8
Birmingham |4-8
Leeds<2> |4-5
Manchester |4-7
<1> Includes Cardiff and
Belfast.
<2> Includes Glasgow and
Edinburgh.
Mr. Darling : To ask the Attorney-General what is the average delay, listed by each immigration appeals hearing centre, between receiving the explanatory statement and other papers about a case (a) from a British post overseas and (b) from the Home Office sending these papers out to the appellant or his or her authorised representative.
The Attorney-General : Upon receipt of an explanatory statement and other papers about an appeal from a British post overseas the immigration appellate authorities are able to dispatch copies of the case papers to the parties' representative in this country within one week for cases to be heard at Thanet house in London and two to three weeks for cases to be heard at the IAA's regional hearing centres. In Home Office cases, copies of the case papers are sent to the appellant or their representatives when the appeal is set down for hearing. For all the IAA's hearing centres, this is usually within four to five weeks of the IAA receiving the explanatory statement from the Home Office.
Mr. Darling : To ask the Attorney-General if he will provide a table of the number of appeals to the immigration appeal tribunal allowed and dismissed in 1990 and the first quarter of 1991.
The Attorney-General : The information requested is set out in the table.
|Allowed |Remitted<1>|Dismissed
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Appeals heard
1990 |171 |225 |260
Appeals heard
January-March 1991 |23 |50 |77
<1> For re-hearing before an immigration adjudicator
Mr. Darling : To ask the Attorney-General if he will provide a table showing the number of appeals to immigration adjudicators allowed and dismissed in 1990 and the first quarter of 1991 broken down according to the nationality of the appellant and the type of decision appealed against.
The Attorney-General : The information is not readily available in the form requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The number of appeals to immigration adjudicators allowed and dismissed in 1990 and the first quarter of 1991 broken down according to the type of decision appealed against is given in the table.
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1990 January to March 1991
Type of decision |Appeals |Appeals |Appeals |Appeals
|allowed |dismissed |allowed |dismissed
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Exclusion-Appeal at Port |29 |174 |2 |77
Exclusion-External Appeals |57 |997 |24 |460
Refusal of Certificate Entitlement |37 |152 |15 |72
Refusal of Entry Clearance for Temporary purposes (NOT HUSBANDS |1,100 |3,544 |324 |1,593
or WIVES or FIANCES or FIANCEES)
Refusal of Entry Clearance for Employment, Business or Independent |9 |18 |5 |19
Means (NOT HUSBANDS, WIVES, FIANCES or FIANCEES)
Refusal of Entry Clearance requested by WIVES and CHILDREN, |611 |829 |110 |285
other dependent relatives and returning residents.
Refusal of Entry Clearance requested by female fiancees |10 |31 |5 |2
Refusal of Entry Clearance requested by husbands |530 |835 |128 |333
Refusal of Entry Clearance requested by male fiances |293 |468 |82 |150
Variation of Landing Conditions (including curtailment of stay or duration |21 |88 |1 |16
or conditions of leave to remain given to persons previously exempted
(S.14(2)).
Refusal to Vary Leave to Enter |130 |2,951 |70 |1,636
Decision to make Deportation Order |36 |620 |9 |174
Refusal to revoke Deportation Order |4 |17 |0 |5
Giving of Removal Directions |3 |53 |0 |6
Destination Only Appeal |0 |0 |0 |0
|------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |2,870 |10,777 |775 |4,828
Menwith Hill Byelaws
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Attorney-General what has been the cost of bringing prosecutions under the Menwith Hill Military Lands Byelaws in each year since the byelaws came into force.
The Attorney-General : More than 100 prosecutions have been brought under the Menwith Hill Military Lands Byelaws since 1986 when the byelaws came into force. It is not possible to identify the individual cost each year of these cases.
Correspondence
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Attorney-General if he will arrange to have printed in the Official Report a copy of the letter dated 4 July, reference C91//232/8 from the Lord Chancellor to the hon. Member for Coventry, South- East.
The Attorney-General : No, but arrangements have been made to place copies of the letter in the Libraries of both Houses.
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Attorney-General, pursuant to the letter from the Lord Chancellor to the hon. Member for Coventry, South-East of 4 July, reference C91/232/8, if he will list those debt-related proceedings which involve a risk of imprisonment.
The Attorney-General : The debt-related proceedings for which the Lord Chancellor has responsibility which involve a risk of imprisonment are as follows :
1. Oral Examination.
2. Attachment of Earnings.
3. Rescue of goods seized in execution.
4. Judgment summons.
There are other debt proceedings which are dealt with in the magistrates' courts which involve a risk of imprisonment. As such, these are the responsibility of the Secretary of State for the Home Department.
Asylum and Immigration Service
Mr. Janner : To ask the Attorney-General what the latest available annual figures are for (a) how much was spent on legal aid for asylum and immigration advice, (b) what proportion the above amount represents in terms of the entire legal aid budget, (c) what proportion of the above amount involved less than two hours advice and (d) what proportion of the above amount involved more than two hours advice.
The Attorney-General : Separate information is not available for the cost of legal advice for immigration or asylum cases. However, £2,652,727 was paid under the
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legal aid green form scheme for all immigration and nationality advice and assistance in the financial year 1990-91. This represented approximately 0.4 per cent. of the total payments made out of the legal aid fund during that period, or 3 per cent. of the total spent on the legal aid green form scheme. Information is not available on the proportion of payments for work involving more or less than two hours advice. Legal aid is also available for judicial review proceedings concerning immigration and asylum cases, but separate figures for the amount spent are not available.Industrial Injuries
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Attorney-General what information is held on, or estimate made of, the number of successful claims and the total and average amounts of compensation awarded by courts or settled out of court in respect of industrial injuries during each of the last 10 years, based on the date of the injury, both in cash terms and adjusted to take account of inflation.
The Attorney-General : Information is not collected in the form requested.
Information on personal injury at work cases dealt with in the Queen's Bench division of the High Court has been collected on a sample basis for two months each year since 1986. The results of this exercise are as follows :
Personal injury at work cases dealt with in the Queen's Bench
division in the two months sampled
|Number of |Number |Amount |Amount
|claims |awarded to|awarded |awarded
|plaintiff |per case
|£ |£
------------------------------------------------------------------
1986 |340 |96 |1,904,364 |19,837
1987 |424 |161 |4,353,809 |27,042
1988 |566 |190 |4,990,737 |26,267
1989 |629 |153 |5,984,239 |39,113
1990 |546 |115 |6,249,586 |54,344
Maguire Judgment
Mr. Mullin : To ask the Attorney-General if he will arrange for a copy of the Maguire judgment to be placed in the House of Commons Library.
The Attorney-General : Further to my reply of 2 July 1991, I have today placed in the Libraries of both Houses of Parliament copies of the judgment of the Court of Appeal in the Maguire case.
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EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
Correspondence
Mr. Cartwright : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he expects to provide a substantive reply to the letter dated 15 April from the hon. Member for Woolwich about pressures on teachers, which was acknowledged on 16 April (reference TE/0511/1010).
Mr. Eggar : I have written to the hon. Member today.
Football
Mr. Bellotti : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will invite the Football Association and the Football League and Professional Footballers Association to discuss the problems smaller clubs face in the league with regard to losing their right to gain promotion and a place in the highest league.
Mr. Atkins : The promotion arrangements for any proposed new structure for football are a matter for the football authorities.
Recreation and Leisure Courses
Mrs. Gorman : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the future of recreation and leisure courses following the publication of the White Paper "Education and Training for the 21st Century".
Mr. Eggar : The duty to secure adequate provision of recreational and leisure education for adults will remain with local education authorities. It will be for authorities, as now, to determine their expenditure across the services for which they are responsible.
Science Services
Dr. Bray : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many staff work in his Department's science section ; and what is the distribution of their grades ;
(2) what are the annual running costs of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils.
Mr. Eggar : There are 36.3 full-time equivalent staff in the Department's science branch in the following grades :
|Number
----------------------------------------
Grade 3 |1
Grade 5 |2
Grade 6 |1
Grade 7<1> |8
SEO |2
HEO(D) (accountant) |1
HEO |7
Senior personal secretary |1
Administration trainee |1
EO |4
Personal secretaries |3
AO |3.5
AA |0.8
Typist |1
<1> Grade 7 is seconded to the Link
secretariat at the Department of
Trade and Industry.
In 1990-91 the net running costs of the Department's science branch amounted to about £767,000 excluding accommodation costs and certain centrally provided services.
Dr. Bray : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many staff work for the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ; and what is the distribution of their grades ; (2) what are the annual running costs of his Department's science section.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The advisory board's secretariat currently consists of the following staff :
#
|Number
-----------------------------------
Grade 5 |1
Grade 7 |2
HEO |1
EO |1
Personal secretaries |2
AO |0.5
AA |0.2
and there is one grade 7 vacancy
The ABRC's running costs in 1990-91 totalled £498,000, including the costs of commissioned studies but
Funding Councils
Dr. Bray : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many staff in his Department's further and higher education 1 section work on the distribution of funds for science by the Polytechnics and Colleges and Universities Funding Councils.
Mr. Alan Howarth : About five staff are concerned with policy for the distribution of funds for research by the two councils, alongside other work.
Youth Clubs
Mr. Bellotti : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has on the number of secondary school pupils per youth worker/club leader for each local authority from 1979 to 1991.
Mr. Atkins : Data are shown in the table for individual local education authorities from 1979-80 to 1989-90. Data are not available for 1990-91.
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Number of secondary pupils per youth worker/club leader by LEA
|1989-90|1988-89|1987-88|1986-87|1985-86|1984-85|1983-84|1982-83|1981-82|1980-81|1979-80
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Outer London boroughs
301 Barking |829 |541 |980 |1,023 |1,168 |1,110 |1,131 |487 |705 |599 |623
302 Barnet |731 |1,365 |- |1,171 |1,133 |1,176 |1,155 |515 |971 |389 |416
303 Bexley |- |408 |417 |464 |485 |367 |1,204 |562 |1,336 |619 |1,629
304 Brent |573 |145 |161 |171 |203 |138 |146 |141 |374 |317 |335
305 Bromley |502 |515 |627 |735 |774 |804 |914 |1,905 |1,800 |1,858 |1,527
306 Croydon |- |- |500 |561 |598 |876 |974 |1,162 |841 |912 |1,183
307 Ealing |- |- |- |4,370 |922 |1,172 |1,147 |1,159 |1,037 |946 |1,281
308 Enfield |533 |991 |1,041 |1,089 |1,398 |1,746 |1,993 |2,127 |1,910 |1,449 |1,464
309 Haringey |- |- |- |75 |118 |141 |154 |199 |257 |1,150 |1,579
310 Harrow |419 |423 |427 |543 |556 |569 |563 |573 |598 |614 |1,321
311 Havering |1,147 |1,204 |1,217 |1,281 |1,155 |1,132 |995 |1,030 |1,023 |1,434 |1,560
312 Hillingdon |565 |785 |828 |845 |- |712 |665 |723 |797 |679 |666
313 Hounslow |- |1,045 |880 |927 |957 |830 |771 |788 |809 |819 |820
314 Kingston |- |360 |377 |389 |410 |441 |451 |465 |465 |528 |643
315 Merton |3,736 |167 |1,764 |- |1,106 |1,180 |998 |1,165 |1,215 |1,006 |868
316 Newham |- |624 |2,277 |1,025 |1,148 |1,220 |1,262 |1,307 |1,179 |1,638 |1,567
317 Redbridge |318 |309 |1,474 |917 |941 |981 |1,013 |827 |485 |498 |508
318 Richmond |614 |743 |1,130 |1,150 |1,135 |1,127 |973 |688 |1,179 |1,057 |1,089
319 Sutton |1,275 |1,302 |1,361 |1,245 |1,295 |664 |688 |705 |721 |1,482 |1,503
320 Waltham Forest |383 |411 |415 |481 |532 |577 |641 |665 |754 |768 |815
Total Outer London
Boroughs |632 |463 |657 |544 |591 |568 |619 |594 |761 |756 |855
427 ILEA |110 |- |66 |- |283 |86 |94 |101 |248 |260 |305
Total Greater London |225 |463 |171 |769 |443 |212 |230 |237 |463 |472 |541
Metropolitan Districts
West Midlands
330 Birmingham |877 |1,070 |- |1,603 |640 |708 |690 |808 |807 |863 |754
331 Coventry |299 |798 |1,083 |1,039 |905 |984 |1,032 |1,333 |2,714 |1,213 |810
332 Dudley |603 |597 |502 |922 |1,062 |1,379 |2,154 |686 |1,585 |812 |826
333 Sandwell |961 |478 |596 |640 |702 |747 |784 |892 |932 |1,606 |1,590
334 Solihull |838 |878 |756 |797 |838 |881 |910 |751 |747 |652 |665
335 Walsall |148 |153 |164 |203 |234 |255 |273 |326 |335 |339 |347
336 Wolverhampton |246 |631 |1,088 |1,188 |1,832 |1,923 |2,045 |3,257 |757 |825 |831
Total West Midlands |427 |530 |716 |725 |621 |681 |717 |759 |787 |768 |733
Merseyside
340 Knowsley |244 |360 |542 |1,088 |1,775 |2,818 |1,876 |1,960 |2,063 |2,183 |2,341
341 Liverpool |699 |1,827 |368 |- |- |- |286 |387 |1,523 |1,647 |2,160
342 St. Helens |- |- |- |1,510 |1,985 |2,065 |2,138 |2,160 |2,126 |4,323 |5,748
343 Sefton |874 |898 |577 |1,525 |1,880 |1,676 |1,898 |1,950 |1,947 |6,667 |5,476
344 Wirral |943 |443 |559 |448 |1,287 |1,337 |1,369 |1,524 |1,638 |2,121 |1,918
Total Merseyside |641 |822 |548 |820 |1,640 |1,719 |653 |824 |1,747 |2,383 |2,644
Greater Manchester
350 Bolton |8,841 |1,048 |863 |797 |842 |879 |878 |966 |974 |1,122 |989
351 Bury |265 |259 |348 |349 |710 |597 |768 |495 |1,047 |517 |1,056
352 Manchester |- |- |406 |442 |450 |515 |292 |292 |290 |289 |415
353 Oldham |706 |538 |576 |785 |860 |892 |707 |719 |710 |626 |605
354 Rochdale |535 |218 |407 |547 |551 |681 |631 |688 |1,314 |769 |776
355 Salford |1,225 |1,424 |1,533 |1,670 |2,205 |2,101 |1,430 |1,539 |1,612 |1,546 |1,856
356 Stockport |2,580 |452 |455 |536 |3,059 |3,228 |7,868 |681 |847 |874 |674
357 Tameside |767 |676 |651 |718 |825 |1,433 |845 |1,227 |549 |688 |1,539
358 Trafford |229 |253 |277 |472 |479 |2,142 |504 |865 |1,057 |675 |1,526
359 Wigan |- |- |892 |1,329 |1,800 |1,776 |844 |2,683 |962 |773 |765
Total Greater
Manchester |657 |427 |521 |629 |807 |986 |662 |680 |672 |608 |760
South Yorkshire
370 Barnsley |92 |1,453 |1,565 |1,720 |1,821 |1,751 |467 |946 |974 |982 |890
371 Doncaster |209 |219 |286 |390 |530 |487 |507 |408 |1,153 |955 |967
372 Rotherham |800 |822 |- |321 |376 |357 |367 |371 |369 |363 |373
373 Sheffield |754 |1,176 |695 |799 |- |1,095 |1,907 |513 |539 |551 |586
Total South Yorkshire |250 |541 |523 |535 |565 |653 |612 |486 |606 |594 |607
West Yorkshire
380 Bradford |335 |- |495 |493 |560 |635 |576 |621 |682 |627 |603
381 Calderdale |301 |418 |794 |879 |921 |946 |575 |520 |538 |412 |356
382 Kirklees |498 |1,517 |1,656 |1,911 |1,931 |1,990 |1,695 |1,005 |2,017 |1,690 |503
383 Leeds |- |704 |712 |752 |1,058 |449 |598 |577 |630 |632 |595
384 Wakefield |- |- |- |1,155 |1,241 |1,124 |1,190 |1,225 |1,140 |896 |583
Total West Yorkshire |595 |756 |704 |780 |931 |683 |722 |694 |785 |709 |628
Tyne and Wear
390 Gateshead |266 |294 |6,751 |1,425 |2,955 |2,182 |575 |587 |616 |781 |799
391 Newcastle upon Tyne |246 |379 |313 |467 |621 |519 |655 |676 |325 |333 |329
392 North Tyneside |1,211 |447 |444 |578 |604 |773 |762 |947 |973 |987 |877
393 South Tyneside |338 |361 |530 |561 |595 |637 |233 |275 |271 |320 |327
394 Sunderland |431 |437 |432 |489 |564 |1,546 |644 |726 |1,539 |1,749 |1,580
Total Tyne and Wear |365 |383 |484 |575 |687 |866 |525 |588 |537 |588 |574
Total Metropolitan
districts |455 |536 |588 |672 |769 |796 |661 |673 |752 |732 |750
Non Metropolitan
counties
901 Avon |306 |262 |1,009 |1,065 |1,300 |1,349 |1,431 |1,459 |1,760 |1,356 |1,408
902 Bedfordshire |1,884 |620 |661 |764 |816 |1,096 |897 |872 |896 |929 |928
903 Berkshire |690 |707 |735 |814 |851 |860 |927 |973 |1,010 |1,092 |1,108
904 Buckinghamshire |450 |701 |390 |409 |447 |463 |516 |625 |878 |542 |510
905 Cambridgeshire |1,160 |1,180 |1,224 |1,433 |1,457 |520 |527 |526 |681 |606 |636
906 Cheshire |1,002 |521 |611 |650 |730 |1,455 |1,489 |1,543 |1,485 |799 |800
907 Cleveland |339 |337 |369 |374 |413 |428 |436 |443 |509 |349 |352
908 Cornwall |1,162 |2,098 |2,552 |2,655 |3,235 |4,123 |4,139 |4,140 |4,757 |4,784 |4,768
909 Cumbria |1,658 |1,739 |1,576 |- |907 |949 |908 |1,156 |1,650 |1,929 |1,853
910 Derbyshire |491 |258 |272 |524 |551 |681 |773 |838 |1,206 |1,243 |1,331
911 Devon |706 |768 |801 |868 |994 |1,004 |1,068 |1,061 |1,103 |1,094 |1,071
912 Dorset |710 |681 |736 |592 |615 |673 |1,156 |1,013 |996 |993 |961
913 Durham |201 |308 |329 |371 |411 |1,743 |1,765 |1,847 |2,961 |2,334 |3,050
914 East Sussex |926 |1,041 |1,163 |2,244 |2,175 |1,488 |1,585 |1,837 |1,631 |922 |1,395
915 Essex |1,494 |1,639 |1,708 |1,794 |1,911 |1,977 |2,080 |2,058 |1,787 |1,707 |1,191
916 Gloucestershire |414 |441 |1,014 |1,063 |579 |604 |622 |618 |622 |592 |598
917 Hampshire |1,261 |1,539 |1,644 |1,798 |1,875 |780 |905 |845 |976 |1,017 |854
918 Hereford and
Worcester |929 |980 |1,062 |1,219 |1,251 |1,395 |1,500 |2,031 |2,262 |2,360 |2,327
919 Hertfordshire |979 |969 |1,013 |1,057 |1,109 |1,153 |1,189 |1,238 |967 |1,278 |1,243
920 Humberside |755 |834 |926 |1,269 |1,372 |411 |417 |421 |1,492 |1,501 |88
921 Isle of Wight |442 |440 |514 |525 |602 |614 |720 |692 |669 |871 |814
922 Kent |2,302 |2,395 |2,816 |3,321 |3,339 |3,654 |3,915 |3,537 |4,011 |3,795 |3,793
923 Lancashire |321 |340 |386 |411 |704 |740 |899 |764 |829 |577 |576
924 Leicestershire |278 |302 |303 |383 |447 |560 |640 |798 |828 |889 |780
925 Lincolnshire |453 |502 |529 |559 |586 |657 |635 |1,123 |1,154 |872 |846
926 Norfolk |1,088 |1,143 |1,355 |1,399 |812 |846 |859 |914 |953 |967 |896
928 Northamptonshire |1,203 |973 |988 |1,038 |3,731 |566 |664 |730 |874 |830 |1,417
929 Northumberland |708 |897 |934 |941 |1,154 |1,194 |1,228 |1,276 |875 |886 |561
927 North Yorkshire |475 |516 |514 |551 |697 |621 |687 |717 |1,111 |955 |1,047
930 Nottinghamshire |236 |255 |283 |312 |317 |283 |499 |508 |652 |669 |640
931 Oxfordshire |679 |688 |695 |941 |4,373 |621 |1,040 |1,069 |1,053 |1,012 |1,032
932 Salop |430 |496 |563 |614 |672 |709 |792 |843 |1,077 |1,047 |950
933 Somerset |480 |490 |507 |557 |575 |1,679 |2,034 |2,747 |2,755 |3,025 |2,337
934 Staffordshire |1,400 |1,440 |1,265 |1,053 |582 |481 |403 |2,819 |2,656 |2,708 |2,628
935 Suffolk |914 |736 |756 |761 |707 |600 |610 |630 |684 |670 |702
936 Surrey |828 |948 |1,075 |1,209 |1,292 |1,210 |1,278 |1,272 |761 |965 |962
937 Warwickshire |313 |382 |432 |476 |597 |658 |133 |1,203 |1,257 |1,311 |1,325
938 West Sussex |568 |586 |715 |750 |856 |1,999 |2,063 |1,263 |961 |881 |885
939 Wiltshire |733 |770 |447 |497 |527 |540 |570 |675 |601 |504 |478
Total non-metropolitan
counties |594 |596 |662 |753 |803 |768 |791 |959 |1,085 |990 |966
Total England |483 |568 |491 |733 |727 |588 |588 |646 |845 |803 |819
Welsh counties
Clwyd |532 |557 |616 |671 |761 |477 |525 |544 |524 |537 |515
Dyfed |2,612 |2,582 |2,662 |2,777 |2,869 |2,210 |2,203 |2,280 |1,951 |1,826 |1,731
Gwent |1,370 |1,540 |1,831 |1,739 |901 |1,028 |1,103 |674 |946 |466 |475
Gwynedd |626 |675 |835 |772 |839 |932 |947 |941 |1,073 |913 |955
Mid Glamorgan |- |525 |639 |1,129 |1,176 |1,207 |1,458 |1,154 |1,161 |1,121 |1,044
Powys |399 |391 |397 |414 |426 |391 |348 |347 |763 |765 |416
South Glamorgan |650 |627 |288 |308 |446 |487 |588 |601 |631 |599 |652
West Glamorgan |1,619 |1,715 |1,811 |1,811 |1,895 |1,974 |1,189 |453 |547 |395 |400
Total Welsh Counties |843 |768 |707 |807 |878 |830 |874 |703 |803 |648 |634
All shire counties |608 |609 |666 |758 |810 |773 |798 |927 |1,051 |943 |920
Total England and Wales |494 |578 |501 |737 |735 |599 |599 |649 |842 |791 |805
Adult Education
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett) of 16 July, Official Report, column 160, whether that adult education work which is undertaken in conjunction with (a) health authorities and (b) social services departments and which is to assist people in, or leaving, residential care, to
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facilitate independent living, will come within the duties of the further education funding councils or of local education authorities.Mr. Eggar : We are currently considering the responses to the proposals set out in the White Paper. We intend to ensure that the legislation makes clear the division of
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responsibilities between the further education funding councils and local education authorities within the new structure for further education.Youth Service
Mr. Bellotti : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will give the actual expenditure on youth service for each local authority since 1979 ;
(2) if he will give the expenditure on youth services per local education authority secondary school pupil for each local authority from 1979 to 1991 ;
(3) if he will give the percentage of actual expenditure on youth service against grant-related expenditure assessment and standard spending assessment for the years since 1979 broken down for each local education authority.
Mr. Atkins : The readily available information is shown in the tables. The latest year for which information on actual expenditure is available is 1988-89. Information for years before 1987-88 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Table 1
Expenditure on the Youth Service, 1987-88
Local education |Net recurrent |Net recurrent |Actual expen-
authority |expenditure<1> |expenditure<1> |diture as per-
|per secondary |centage of
|pupil<2> |GREA for
|youth and re-
|lated services
|£ 000 |£ |Per cent.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barking |628 |67 |97
Barnet |970 |54 |72
Bexley |783 |52 |101
Brent |3,625 |306 |213
Bromley |825 |47 |82
Croydon |840 |71 |58
Ealing |<3>n/a |n/a |n/a
Enfield |687 |75 |58
Haringey |n/a |n/a |n/a
Harrow |621 |36 |73
Havering |704 |52 |86
Hillingdon |714 |52 |81
Hounslow |727 |57 |73
Kingston-upon-
Thames |572 |75 |130
Merton |376 |32 |57
Newham |911 |66 |60
Redbridge |877 |65 |94
Richmond-upon-
Thames |387 |57 |74
Sutton |479 |44 |85
Waltham Forest |1,286 |102 |108
ILEA |30,535 |282 |225
Birmingham |4,197 |61 |68
Coventry |906 |44 |55
Dudley |836 |46 |73
Sandwell |657 |31 |39
Solihull |386 |25 |49
Walsall |1,956 |93 |154
Wolverhampton |876 |50 |55
Knowsley |488 |45 |52
Liverpool |2,101 |66 |89
St. Helens |0 |0 |0
Sefton |609 |30 |54
Wirral |1,025 |45 |78
Bolton |921 |48 |76
Bury |872 |77 |134
Manchester |2,235 |83 |87
Oldham |630 |40 |61
Rochdale |1,320 |83 |134
Salford |516 |34 |48
Stockport |786 |40 |79
Tameside |1,039 |68 |120
Trafford |569 |46 |67
Wigan |819 |34 |69
Barnsley |519 |32 |61
Doncaster |1,366 |62 |117
Rotherham |889 |45 |86
Sheffield |n/a |n/a |n/a
Bradford |2,827 |65 |108
Calderdale |930 |68 |113
Kirklees |1,325 |46 |72
Leeds |2,592 |46 |87
Wakefield |678 |30 |57
Gateshead |795 |61 |102
Newcastle-upon-
Tyne |1,155 |65 |103
North Tyneside |512 |34 |76
South Tyneside |1,549 |152 |242
Sunderland |733 |35 |60
Avon |4,017 |70 |124
Bedfordshire |1,058 |24 |47
Berkshire |n/a |n/a |n/a
Buckinghamshire |2,188 |62 |95
Cambridgeshire |1,626 |39 |69
Cheshire |1,739 |25 |49
Cleveland |2,347 |55 |91
Cornwall |533 |17 |37
Cumbria |1,256 |37 |78
Derbyshire |4,522 |72 |133
Devon |2,611 |44 |82
Dorset |1,459 |36 |76
Durham |1,105 |27 |49
East Sussex |981 |27 |47
Essex |3,389 |32 |67
Gloucestershire |1,699 |49 |93
Hampshire |2,857 |32 |52
Hereford and
Worcester |1,193 |24 |51
Hertfordshire |2,441 |35 |70
Humberside |3,178 |47 |93
Isle of Wight |418 |41 |112
Kent |2,291 |22 |42
Lancashire |4,052 |44 |72
Leicestershire |2,615 |41 |70
Lincolnshire |1,014 |26 |51
Norfolk |1,603 |37 |67
North Yorkshire |1,410 |30 |62
Northamptonshire |1,609 |35 |75
Northumberland |698 |25 |71
Nottinghamshire |4,630 |67 |114
Oxfordshire |1,101 |31 |52
Salop |1,587 |53 |103
Somerset |1,927 |65 |127
Staffordshire |2,421 |32 |66
Suffolk |1,966 |41 |92
Surrey |2,073 |43 |61
Warwickshire |1,436 |51 |77
West Sussex |1,394 |34 |67
Wiltshire |1,499 |42 |73
|------- |------- |-------
England Totals/averages |161,470 |53 |87
<1> Gross expenditure excluding financing costs of capital
expenditure, less income other than specific grant income. Derived
from local authorities' spending returns to the Department of the
Environment.
<2> Derived from local authorities' returns of their pupil numbers to
the Department of Education and Science.
<3> n/a denotes that a spending return was not received from the
authority.
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Table 2
Expenditure on the youth service, 1988-89
Local education |Net recurrent |Net recurrent |Actual expen-
authority |expenditure<1> |expenditure<1> |diture as per-
|per secondary |centage of
|pupil<2> |GREA for
|youth and re-
|lated services
|£ 000 |£ |Per cent.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barking |697 |78 |96
Barnet |966 |55 |60
Bexley |758 |52 |86
Brent |2,377 |215 |122
Bromley |894 |57 |77
Croydon |1,054 |63 |64
Ealing |1,804 |160 |89
Enfield |796 |49 |58
Haringey |<3>n/a |n/a |n/a
Harrow |648 |83 |66
Havering |845 |51 |92
Hillingdon |1,018 |77 |100
Hounslow |737 |60 |63
Kingston-upon-
Thames |580 |79 |115
Merton |459 |41 |60
Newham |1,104 |83 |65
Redbridge |1,078 |81 |100
Richmond-upon-
Thames |514 |76 |86
Sutton |517 |49 |81
Waltham Forest |1,336 |113 |98
ILEA |35,377 |341 |224
Birmingham |4,396 |67 |62
Coventry |1,095 |57 |59
Dudley |983 |57 |76
Sandwell |736 |37 |39
Solihull |430 |29 |48
Walsall |2,305 |117 |160
Wolverhampton |2,070 |126 |116
Knowsley |666 |67 |63
Liverpool |2,392 |79 |89
St. Helens |328 |25 |40
Sefton |843 |44 |68
Wirral |1,512 |70 |101
Bolton |1,057 |58 |77
Bury |916 |87 |124
Manchester |n/a |n/a |n/a
Oldham |683 |45 |57
Rochdale |1,453 |96 |129
Salford |538 |38 |44
Stockport |598 |33 |53
Tameside |1,149 |79 |117
Trafford |677 |59 |71
Wigan |876 |39 |65
Barnsley |551 |37 |57
Doncaster |1,305 |62 |97
Rotherham |1,029 |55 |87
Sheffield |3,038 |111 |125
Bradford |3,127 |73 |104
Calderdale |1,103 |84 |119
Kirklees |1,426 |52 |67
Leeds |6,860 |127 |205
Wakefield |n/a |n/a |n/a
Gateshead |722 |59 |82
Newcastle-upon-
Tyne |659 |39 |51
North Tyneside |585 |40 |79
South Tyneside |1,855 |195 |263
Sunderland |1,010 |51 |72
Avon |5,269 |96 |140
Bedfordshire |1,131 |26 |44
Berkshire |2,185 |47 |65
Buckinghamshire |2,370 |69 |88
Cambridgeshire |1,780 |44 |65
Cheshire |2,005 |30 |50
Cleveland |2,629 |65 |90
Cornwall |787 |26 |48
Cumbria |1,333 |41 |73
Derbyshire |5,066 |85 |130
Devon |2,913 |51 |79
Dorset |1,722 |44 |77
Durham |1,263 |33 |49
East Sussex |1,089 |31 |44
Essex |4,026 |40 |69
Gloucestershire |2,147 |65 |104
Hampshire |3,230 |37 |51
Hereford &
Worcester |1,201 |24 |45
Hertfordshire |2,782 |42 |70
Humberside |3,839 |63 |99
Isle of Wight |467 |46 |109
Kent |2,708 |27 |44
Lancashire |5,179 |59 |80
Leicestershire |2,946 |48 |69
Lincolnshire |1,096 |30 |48
Norfolk |1,870 |45 |68
North Yorkshire |1,587 |36 |60
Northamptonshire |1,706 |38 |69
Northumberland |681 |24 |60
Nottinghamshire |5,233 |80 |113
Oxfordshire |1,325 |39 |55
Shropshire |1,788 |63 |100
Somerset |2,478 |87 |143
Staffordshire |2,599 |36 |62
Suffolk |2,124 |45 |88
Surrey |2,420 |53 |63
Warwickshire |1,434 |54 |69
West Sussex |1,599 |40 |66
Wiltshire |1,480 |43 |63
England Totals/
Averages |191,322 |65 |88
Notes to tables
(1) Gross expenditure excluding financing costs of capital
expenditure, less income other than specific grant income. Derived
from local authorities' spending returns to the Department of the
Environment.
(2) Derived from local authorities' returns of their pupil numbers
to the Department of Education and Science.
(3) n/a denotes that a spending return was not received from the
authority.
Mr. Bellotti : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement following the annual review of the voluntary sector of the youth service as indicated by him on 5 April 1990, Official Report, column 731 .
Mr. Atkins : In announcing his proposals for the establishment of a National Youth Agency on 5 April 1990, the then Secretary of State said that he proposed to require the agency to report to him annually. The National Youth Agency was established on 1 April 1991 and its first annual report will be made in 1992. We have separately carried out a review of grants to the voluntary sector of the Youth Service, and are currently considering the comments submitted by interested bodies as part of a process of consultation.
Mr. Bellotti : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give the expenditure on grant aid given to voluntary youth organisations by each local authority from 1979 to 1991.
Mr. Atkins : This information is not collected centrally.
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Community Colleges
Mr. Speller : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what effect on fees and provision of courses his proposals for further education will have in rural communities at present served by community colleges ;
(2) what effect on fees and provision of courses his proposals for further education will have in smaller coastal localities where students may have to travel long distances to attend courses.
Mr. Eggar : Between them, the further education funding councils and local education authorities will continue to have a duty to secure the provision of the full range of further education. Governing bodies of schools will have a new power to provide education for part-timers and adults. Our proposals are intended to ensure that there is a coherent pattern of provision which is readily accessible to local communities.
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