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Chromium
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by location all the sites where chromium powder and chromium waste is dumped ; and what precautions are taken to ensure that it is not (a) inhaled and (b) allowed to come into contact with the general public.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Scottish Office does not hold this information centrally. The nature of wastes going into specific landfill sites and suitable operational terms and conditions are matters for the district and islands councils under the licensing provisions of the Control of Pollution Act 1974.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by (a) year and (b) by regional health authority for the last five years, the number of cases of (i) chromium poisoning and (ii) chromium contamination that have been reported.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : This information is not available centrally.
Clinic Booking Systems
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give for each health board in Scotland the number of clinics, along with their specialties, in which there was a system of block booking on 1 September.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information requested is not collected centrally. It is for health boards to monitor this.
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Solvent Abuse
Mr. David Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many young people of both sexes in each local authority area in Scotland have been referred to children's panels as a result of solvent abuse in each year since the Solvent Abuse (Scotland) Act 1983 came into effect.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth : The table details the number of solvent abuse referrals to reporters by local authority area. A breakdown by sex is available only for the years 1988, 1989 and 1990. The number of children referred is unavailable and the referrals may include some children referred more than once in the year.
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Number of solvent abuse referrals to reporters by local authority area (1983-1990)
Region 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
|Total |Total |Total |Total |Total |Male |Female|Total |Male |Female|Total |Male |Female|Total
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Berwickshire |4 |- |- |2 |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Ettrick and Lauderdale |- |- |1 |6 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |1 |- |1
Roxburgh |- |2 |- |11 |2 |- |2 |2 |- |- |- |- |- |-
Tweeddale |- |1 |- |1 |- |1 |- |1 |3 |- |3 |- |- |-
Borders total |4 |3 |1 |20 |3 |1 |2 |3 |3 |- |3 |1 |- |1
Clackmannan |1 |8 |8 |12 |2 |5 |- |5 |1 |1 |2 |3 |- |3
Falkirk |- |18 |31 |11 |11 |3 |- |3 |2 |- |2 |5 |5 |10
Stirling |3 |4 |8 |4 |1 |5 |- |5 |4 |- |4 |1 |- |1
Central total |4 |30 |47 |27 |14 |13 |- |13 |7 |1 |8 |9 |5 |14
Annandale and Eskdale |- |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Nithsdale |- |6 |1 |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |1 |- |1
Stewartry |- |- |1 |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Wigtown |- |- |- |- |1 |- |- |- |1 |- |1 |- |- |-
Dumfries and Galloway total - 6 3 1 2 - - - 1 - 1 1 - 1
Dunfermline |6 |5 |11 |8 |3 |3 |- |3 |- |- |- |4 |- |4
Kirkcaldy |2 |18 |14 |9 |7 |3 |1 |4 |2 |- |2 |3 |- |3
North East Fife |- |1 |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Fife total |8 |24 |26 |17 |10 |6 |1 |7 |2 |- |2 |7 |- |7
Aberdeen (City of) |12 |8 |32 |12 |4 |3 |2 |5 |2 |3 |5 |12 |- |12
Banff and Buchan |5 |14 |31 |15 |3 |- |- |- |3 |- |3 |11 |5 |16
Gordon |3 |2 |- |1 |1 |- |1 |1 |- |- |- |2 |- |2
Kincardine and Deeside |- |- |- |- |2 |3 |1 |4 |- |- |- |4 |1 |5
Moray |- |- |- |2 |2 |5 |2 |7 |- |- |- |11 |- |11
Grampian total |20 |24 |63 |30 |12 |11 |6 |17 |5 |3 |8 |40 |6 |46
Badenoch and Strathspey |2 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Caithness |- |- |1 |3 |9 |- |- |- |1 |1 |2 |- |- |-
Inverness |9 |18 |8 |- |1 |6 |- |6 |5 |- |5 |1 |- |1
Lochaber |1 |- |- |4 |3 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Nairn |- |3 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Ross and Cromarty |- |- |- |- |- |1 |1 |2 |1 |5 |6 |- |- |-
Skye and Lochalsh |- |- |5 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Sutherland |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Highland total |12 |21 |14 |7 |13 |7 |1 |8 |7 |6 |13 |1 |- |1
East Lothian |2 |4 |11 |8 |2 |5 |2 |7 |5 |1 |6 |1 |2 |3
Edinburgh (City of) |22 |59 |12 |10 |9 |9 |- |9 |5 |- |5 |4 |3 |7
Midlothian |4 |3 |1 |5 |4 |5 |3 |8 |8 |2 |10 |7 |2 |9
West Lothian |- |3 |5 |6 |2 |2 |- |2 |4 |- |4 |7 |1 |8
Lothian total |28 |69 |29 |29 |17 |21 |5 |26 |22 |3 |25 |19 |8 |27
Orkney total |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Shetland total |- |- |- |- |3 |- |- |- |- |- |- |2 |- |2
Argyll and Bute |- |4 |2 |1 |1 |2 |- |2 |1 |1 |2 |- |- |-
Bearsden and Milngavie |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |2 |- |2
Clydebank |- |1 |- |10 |10 |3 |- |3 |2 |3 |5 |5 |2 |7
Clydesdale |- |- |- |- |8 |3 |- |3 |6 |- |6 |7 |1 |8
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |- |1 |3 |- |8 |1 |2 |3 |3 |- |3 |1 |- |1
Cumnock and Doon Valley - 5 10 7 3 - - - 5 - 5 - - -
Cunninghame |- |21 |18 |4 |20 |15 |4 |19 |11 |- |11 |10 |6 |16
Dumbarton |- |2 |5 |2 |17 |- |2 |2 |4 |- |4 |1 |1 |2
East Kilbride |- |2 |5 |1 |1 |- |- |- |1 |- |1 |3 |- |3
Eastwood |- |3 |- |1 |2 |- |- |- |- |- |- |1 |- |1
Glasgow (City of) |10 |258 |206 |227 |170 |87 |9 |96 |70 |3 |73 |56 |21 |77
Hamilton |- |26 |6 |10 |3 |5 |3 |8 |19 |1 |20 |1 |2 |3
Inverclyde |5 |43 |45 |22 |23 |11 |3 |14 |11 |1 |12 |2 |1 |3
Kilmarnock and Loudon |- |14 |8 |36 |3 |3 |- |3 |- |3 |3 |1 |- |1
Kyle and Carrick |- |6 |6 |10 |4 |1 |- |1 |13 |1 |14 |5 |3 |8
Monklands |- |5 |6 |5 |3 |3 |- |3 |- |- |- |2 |- |2
Motherwell |- |9 |5 |9 |8 |13 |1 |14 |3 |1 |4 |11 |1 |12
Renfrew |2 |55 |60 |46 |45 |11 |1 |12 |10 |2 |12 |29 |10 |39
Strathkelvin |- |3 |1 |- |- |- |- |- |2 |2 |4 |1 |4 |5
Strathclyde total |17 |458 |386 |391 |329 |158 |25 |183 |161 |18 |179 |138 |52 |190
Angus |- |- |4 |- |- |- |- |- |3 |- |3 |5 |- |5
Dundee (City of) |9 |34 |20 |6 |9 |1 |1 |2 |11 |6 |17 |4 |7 |11
Perth and Kinross |- |3 |7 |3 |- |1 |- |1 |6 |- |6 |10 |- |10
Tayside total |9 |37 |31 |9 |9 |2 |1 |3 |20 |6 |26 |19 |7 |26
Western Isles total |- |- |- |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Dementia
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what action he will take concerning the report, "Dementia in Scotland : Agenda for Action 1991-1995" ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I met representatives of Scottish Action on Dementia on 3 September to discuss the recommendations in this report and a further meeting was held with officials on 17 October. The points made in the report will be taken into account in the development of policy.
Data Protection
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has plans to issue an amended code of practice on the confidentiality of personal health information ; and whether he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : There are no plans at present to amend the code of practice issued in June 1990. The need for a revised version will be kept under review.
Incomes
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the number of people in Scotland with incomes less than half the average income after housing costs in (a) 1979 and (b) 1988 ; and what percentage of the Scottish population this represents in each year.
Mr. Allan Stewart : I refer the hon. Member to my reply given on 14 October to the hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson).
Seals
Mr. Andrew Bowden : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many fish farmers and salmon netsmen responded to the voluntary survey into the shooting of seals at fish farms and salmon netting stations ; what was the number of seals reported killed by respondents ; and what conclusions he has drawn from the results of this survey.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Returns are being analysed at present by the Department and the sea mammal research unit of the Natural Environment Research Council.
Nurseries and Play Groups
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the numbers of (a) children, (b) qualified staff and (c) full-time equivalent qualified staff in registered (i) pre-school nurseries and (ii) play groups for
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each academic year from 1978-79 in (1) Kincardine and Deeside District, (2) Aberdeen District, (3) Grampian and (4) Scotland.Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information which is available centrally is set out in the following tables. Staffing information on pre-school playgroups is not collected centrally.
Children and staff in registered private and voluntary day centres
as at 31 March 1988
|Children |Qualified staff|(Whole time
|attending |equivalent)
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Grampian |865 |110 |(75)
Scotland |1,855 |207 |(150)
Places available in registered private and voluntary playgroups
As at |Kincardine|Aberdeen |Grampian |Scotland
31 March |and |City
|Deeside |District
|District
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1979 |551 |1,245 |4,922 |45,339
1980 |550 |963 |4,712 |40,783
1981 |572 |1,000 |4,729 |42,830
1982 |629 |1,100 |5,158 |40,207
1983 |682 |898 |5,022 |42,194
1984 |690 |780 |4,674 |42,342
1985 |716 |766 |4,996 |41,784
1986 |816 |814 |4,730 |40,227
1987 |769 |722 |4,909 |41,710
1988 |803 |732 |4,668 |44,634
Manufacturing Industry
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the figures for manufacturing investment in Scotland in (a) cash terms and (b) deflated by the gross domestic product deflator in each year since 1974 ; and what would have been the total additional amount invested in Scottish manufacturing industry if investment had remained at 1979 levels.
Mr. Allan Stewart : The following table shows estimated gross domestic fixed capital formation, GDFCF, in manufacturing industries in Scotland in cash terms for each year since 1974 for which estimates are available. The table also shows the deflator for the United Kingdom gross domestic product (GDP) at factor cost for each year. It is not appropriate to deflate Scottish gross domestic fixed capital formation estimates using a United Kingdom gross domestic product deflator and there are no appropriate deflators available for Scottish capital expenditure.
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|Scottish gross |United Kingdom
|domestic fixed |gross domestic
|capital formation|product at factor
|in manufacturing |cost expenditure
|based deflator
Year |£ million |1985=100
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1974 |309 |29.4
1975 |421 |37.5
1976 |468 |43.0
1977 |491 |48.3
1978 |523 |54.1
1979 |562 |61.0
1980 |645 |72.3
1981 |586 |79.6
1982 |541 |85.2
1983 |470 |89.9
1984 |597 |94.8
1985 |862 |100.0
1986 |789 |102.7
1987 |738 |107.9
1988 |951 |115.1
Source: Central Statistical Office.
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his estimate of Scottish manufacturing capacity in 1979 and 1990.
Mr. Allan Stewart : This information is not available.
EC Funding
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the value in (a) cash and (b) real terms of European Community structural funds given to projects in Scotland in each year since 1974 ; and if he will give the Scottish total allocation as a perentage of (i) the European Community total and (ii) the total United Kingdom allocation, in each year.
Mr. Allan Stewart : The information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Surplus EC Food
Mr. David Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will take steps to make free surplus EEC food available to all pensioners ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Under EC regulations the surplus food may be distributed only to the most needy in the Community. The Government have therefore made the food available to those persons in receipt of income support or family credit or those who are homeless and destitute or living in welfare hostels. There is only a fixed amount of food available under the scheme ; if all pensioners were eligible to receive it, the amount provided to each individual would be small and the distribution costs high.
Juvenile Macular Degeneration
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the latest available figures showing the total number of recorded cases of juvenile macular degeneration in Scotland.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
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Agriculture
Sir David Steel : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the effect of the MacSharry proposals on agriculture on rural areas such as the Borders.
Mr. Lang : The Government have stated clearly our opposition to the discriminatory features of the Commission's proposals, which could in their present form, have serious consequences for farming in Scotland and especially in the less favoured areas. We have made clear our aim to achieve a reform which encourages efficiency ; which applies fairly across all agriculture in the Community ; which maintains financial discipline ; and which builds in environmental objectives for the countryside.
Hospitals
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will provide a table showing every hospital opening and closing in Scotland in each year since 1979, distributed according to Parliamentary constituency boundaries ;
(2) if he will list and name by health board (a) all the hospitals and (b) the departments in Scotland which have been closed since 1979 ; and if he will give (i) all the hospitals and (ii) the departments or wards which are currently subject to consultation in respect of possible closure by health boards.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Transport Funding
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is, for each year since 1974-75, the total amount of public funding on (i) local roads, (ii) motorway and trunk roads, (iii) railways and (iv) airports in Scotland in constant terms.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I shall write to the hon. Member as soon as possible.
Appointments
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer in the Official Report, 14 May, columns 145-53, if he will give the numbers of appointments he makes to every quasi-autonomous non- governmental organisation in Scotland ; and the date of creation of each body.
Mr. Lang : Table 1 shows the information requested as at 1 July 1990. The list is longer than that in my reply to the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mr. Grocott) on 14 May 1991 because his question related only to those bodies on which vacancies would arise in 1991 and 1992. Table 2 shows the information requested in respect of bodies created since July 1990. In addition I make a number of appointments to United Kingdom bodies jointly with other Ministers.
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Appointments for which the Secretary of State for Scotland
is responsible, as at 1 July 1990
Name of body |Number of |Date of creation
|appointments |of body
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Aberdeen and District Milk Marketing
Board |2 |29 March 1934
Advisory Committee on Dental
Establishments |6 |1 December 1975
Advisory Committee on Medical
Establishments |15 |1 May 1972
Advisory Committee on Scotland's
Travelling People |12 |1 July 1982
Ancient Monuments Board for
Scotland |16 |15 August 1913
Animal Diseases Research Association |1 |1 January 1921
Argyll and Clyde Health Board |16 |1 April 1974
Ayrshire and Arran Health Board |19 |1 April 1974
Borders Health Board |15 |1 April 1974
Boundary Commission for Scotland |2 |16 February 1978
Building Standards Advisory
Committee |15 |13 August 1959
Caledonian MacBrayne |8 |2 April 1990
Central Advisory Committee on
Justices of the Peace (Scotland) |18 |16 May 1949
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Borders Region |3 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Central Region |5 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Dumfries and Galloway Region |6 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Fife Region |5 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Grampian Region |3 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Highland Region |5 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Lothian |5 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Orkney Islands Area |3 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Shetland Islands Area |3 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Strathclyde Region |10 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Tayside Region |5 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel Advisory Committee
for Western Isles Islands Area |3 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Borders Region |2 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Central Region |2 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Dumfries and
Galloway Region |2 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Fife Region |2 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Grampian Region |2 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Highland Region |2 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Lothian Region |3 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Orkney Islands
Area |2 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Shetland Islands
Area |2 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Strathclyde Region |2 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Tayside Region |2 |15 April 1971
Children's Panel for Western Isles
Island Area |2 |15 April 1971
Clyde River Purification Board |16 |16 May 1975
Commission for Local Authority
Accounts in Scotland |10 |25 September 1974
Committee of Investigation for
Scotland (under the Agricultural
Marketing Act 1958) |2 |1 January 1931
Common Services Agency for the
Scottish Health Service |9 |1 October 1973
Consultative Committee on Freshwater
Fisheries |9 |21 July 1977
Consumers Committee for Scotland
(under Agricultural Marketing Act
1958) |1 |1 January 1934
Countryside Commission for Scotland |14 |1 February 1968
Craigie College of Education
Governing Body |3 |13 May 1975
Crofters Commission |7 |1 October 1955
Cumbernauld Development
Corporation |10 |15 February 1956
Dairy Produce Quota Tribunal for
Scotland |20 |24 July 1984
Dumfries and Galloway Health Board |17 |1 April 1974
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
-Board of Governors |12 |21 May 1975
Dundee Institute of Technology-
Board of Governors |8 |21 May 1975
East Kilbride Development
Corporation |9 |8 August 1947
Edinburgh College of Art-Board of
Governors |6 |16 May 1975
Edinburgh New Town Conservation
Committee |3 |22 December 1970
Fife Health Board |18 |1 April 1974
Fish Farming Advisory Committee |2 |19 March 1990
Forth River Purification Board |11 |16 May 1975
Forth Valley Health Board |15 |1 April 1974
General Teaching Council for Scotland |4 |1 February 1968
Glasgow Polytechnic-Board of
Governors |13 |23 May 1985
Glasgow School of Art-Board of
Governors |9 |16 May 1975
Glenrothes Development Corporation |10 |25 October 1948
Grampian Health Board |19 |1 April 1974
Greater Glasgow Health Board |19 |1 April 1974
Hannah Research Institute |2 |1 January 1928
Highland Health Board |18 |1 April 1974
Highland River Purification Board |9 |16 May 1975
Highlands and Islands Consultative
Council (dissolved on 31 March 1991) 34 1 April 1966
Highlands and Islands Development
Board (ceased to exist 31 March 1991) 7 1 November 1965
Hill Farming Advisory Committee for
Scotland |14 |6 November 1981
Historic Buildings Council for Scotland |13 |17 November 1953
HM Commissioners for Queen Victoria
School, Dunblane |7 |27 June 1985
Horse Race Betting Levy Appeal
Tribunal for Scotland |2 |1 December 1963
Irvine Development Corporation |9 |9 June 1967
Jordanhill College of Education
Governing Body |4 |13 May 1975
Lanarkshire Health Board |19 |1 April 1974
Livingston Development Corporation |9 |17 April 1962
Local Government Boundary
Commission for Scotland |5 |11 February 1974
Local Review Committee, HM Prison
Aberdeen |6 |1 April 1968
Local Review Committee, HM Prison
Cornton Vale |6 |1 November 1975
Local Review Committee, HM Prison
Dungavel |6 |1 November 1975
Local Review Committee, HM Prison
Edinburgh |9 |1 April 1968
Local Review Committee, HM Prison
Glenochil |8 |1 March 1976
Local Review Committee, HM Prison
Penninghame |6 |1 April 1968
Local Review Committee, HM Prison
Perth |7 |1 April 1968
Local Review Committee, HM Prison
Peterhead |5 |1 April 1968
Local Review Committee, HM Prison
Shotts |11 |1 January 1979
Local Review Committee, HMYO
Institution Dumfries |6 |1 April 1968
Local Review Committee HMYO
Institution Polmont |6 |20 September 1989
Local Review Committee HMYO
Institution Castle Huntly and HM
Prison Noranside |6 |29 February 1984
Lothian Health Board |18 |1 April 1974
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute |14 |1 April 1987
Moray House College of Education
Governing Body |4 |13 May 1975
Napier Polytechnic of Edinburgh-
Board of Governors |12 |23 April 1985
National Appeal Panel for Entry to
Pharmaceutical Lists in Scotland |2 |1 October 1987
National Board for Nursing Midwifery
and Health Visiting for Scotland |11 |15 September 1980
National Galleries of Scotland-Board
of Trustees |9 |22 March 1907
National Health Service Tribunal for
Scotland |1 |1948
National Library of Scotland-Board
of Trustees |4 |7 August 1925
National Museums of Scotland-Board
of Trustees |13 |4 June 1985
National Panel of Specialists (medical) |28 |1 January 1976
North East River Purification Board |6 |16 May 1975
North of Scotland Milk Marketing
Board |2 |7 July 1934
Northern College of Education-
Governing Body |4 |1 April 1987
Orkney Health Board |13 |1 April 1974
Paisley College of Technology-
Governing Body |13 |16 May 1975
Parole Board for Scotland |15 |1 April 1968
Police (Scotland) Examinations Board |2 |1 January 1922
Police Advisory Board for Scotland |4 |24 June 1965
Post Qualification Education Board for
Health Service Pharmacists |11 |28 February 1989
Preliminary Review Committee for Life
Sentence Prisoners |5 |10 January 1980
Queen Margaret College Edinburgh-
Governing Body |7 |16 May 1975
Race Relations Assessors in Scotland |10 |1968
Red Deer Commission |13 |1 October 1959
Registration of Social Work
Establishments Appeal Tribunal
Panel |12 |7 February 1983
Rent Assessment Panel for Scotland |2 |1 April 1966
Rowett Research Institute-Governing
Body |2 |1 January 1926
Royal Botanic Garden-Board of
Trustees |8 |28 November 1985
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and
Drama-Governing Body |13 |16 May 1975
Scottish Standing Committee
Calculation of Residual Values of
Fertilisers and Feeding Stuff |5 |31 January 1949
Scottish Advisory Committee on Top
Grade Scientific Posts |8 |1 April 1972
Scottish Agricultural Consultative Panel |25 |1 August 1972
Scottish Agricultural Statistics
Consultative Committee |5 |5 January 1973
Scottish Agricultural Wages Board |4 |1 January 1937
Scottish Central Fire Brigades Advisory
Council |15 |21 November 1947
Scottish College of Textiles Galashiels
-Board of Governors |13 |16 May 1975
Scottish Committee for Staff
Development in Education |15 |1 April 1987
Scottish Community Education Council |11 |1 April 1982
Scottish Consultative Council on the
Curriculum |30 |31 March 1988
Scottish Council for Education
Technology |14 |9 September 1975
Scottish Council for Post Graduate
Medical Education |7 |1 May 1970
Scottish Council for Research in
Education |3 |23 June 1928
Scottish Crop Research Institute-
Governing Body |15 |1 February 1981
Scottish Dental Practice Board |7 |5 July 1948
Scottish Development Agency (ceased
to exist 31 March 1991) |8 |15 December 1975
Scottish Economic Council |32 |1 February 1975
Scottish Examination Board |38 |1 January 1965
Scottish Film Council |8 |1 January 1990
Scottish Health Service Advisory
Council |16 |4 October 1989
Scottish Homes |9 |1 April 1989
Scottish Hospital Endowment Research
Trust |6 |1 April 1954
Scottish Hospital Trust |6 |1 September 1971
Scottish Industrial Development
Advisory Board |12 |1 January 1976
Scottish Legal Aid Board |15 |17 November 1986
Scottish Medical Practices Committee |6 |1 April 1948
Scottish Milk Marketing Board |2 |26 May 1933
Scottish National War Memorial Board
of Trustees |3 |28 October 1947
Scottish Nuclear Limited |6 |30 March 1990
Scottish Police College Board of
Governors |1 |1 January 1955
Scottish Records Advisory Council |12 |1 January 1938
Scottish Seed Potato Development
Council |17 |4 December 1981
Scottish Sports Council |15 |15 November 1971
Scottish Studentship Selection
Committee |9 |1 January 1962
Scottish Tourist Board |7 |1 October 1969
Scottish Transport Group |6 |1 January 1969
Scottish Valuation Advisory Council |12 |26 September 1956
Scottish Vocational Educational
Council |15 |29 March 1985
Secretary of State's (Electricity)
Fisheries Committee |6 |1943
Secretary of State's Advisory Panel of
Economic Consultants |9 |1 June 1962
Shetland Health Board |14 |1 April 1974
Solway River Purification Board |5 |16 May 1975
St. Andrews College of Education
Governing Body |3 |15 September 1981
State Hospital Management Committee |13 |12 April 1962
Tay River Purification Board |6 |16 May 1975
Tayside Health Board |18 |1 April 1974
The Queen's College Glasgow-Board
of Governors |12 |16 May 1975
The Robert Gordon Institute of
Technology-Board of Governors |6 |22 October 1981
The Scottish Agricultural College |11 |1 April 1990
Tweed River Purification Board |5 |16 May 1975
Visiting Committee HMYO Institution
Glenochil |11 |November 1976
Visiting Committee HMYO Institution
Castle Huntly |10 |1 January 1983
Visiting Committee HMYO Institution
Cornton Vale |10 |1 January 1983
Visiting Committee HMYO Institution
Polmont |8 |June 1982
Western Isles Health Board |15 |1 April 1974
Health Education Board for Scotland |12 |1 April 1991
Highlands and Islands Enterprise |12 |1 April 1991
Nature Conservancy Council for
Scotland |12 |1 April 1991
Scottish Enterprise |12 |1 April 1991
NHS Waiting Lists
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the total number of persons on in patient waiting lists for NHS hospitals in Scotland in each year since 1970 at (a) 30 September and (b) 30 March each year.
Mr. Lang : The information requested is set out in the table.
NHS hospitals-inpatient waiting lists<1>; Scotland; as at 31 March and 30 September Year |31 March |30 September ---------------------------------------------------- 1970 |53,305 |51,482 1971 |51,675 |48,066 1972 |<1>- |52,468 1973 |<1>- |61,079 1974 |<1>- |56,182 1975 |<1>- |53,770 1976 |54,442 |52,765 1977 |53,974 |54,715 1978 |56,987 |61,481 1979 |76,968 |71,247 1980 |70,195 |67,387 1981 |67,908 |65,228 1982 |66,880 |86,365 1983 |96,933 |88,338 1984 |85,543 |83,077 1985 |79,262 |77,677 1986 |81,249 |80,732 1987 |81,324 |77,772 1988 |67,226 |63,569 1989 |61,011 |58,189 1990 |58,287 |59,483 1991 |60,693 |<1>- <1> Not available.
From 1988 figures relate to inpatient true waiting lists. These figures are therefore not fully comparable with the old basis waiting list figures. It is estimated that between 31 March 1987 and 31 March 1988 the waiting list fell by around 5 per cent.
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Toxic Waste Incinerators
Mrs. Margaret Ewing : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list by location in Scotland the (a) current and (b) planned sites of high temperature incinerators for dealing with inland toxic waste.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will list by location the proposed new sites of high-temperature incinerators for dealing with inland toxic waste in Scotland ; (2) if he will list by location in Scotland, the current sites of high-temperature incinerators for dealing with inland toxic waste.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Works defined as incineration works in terms of the Health and Safety Emissions into the Atmosphere (Amended) Regulations 1989 include all works which operate to incinerate waste at a rate in excess of 1 tonne per hour. The works registered or deemed to be registered in terms of these regulations are as follows :
Glaxochem Ltd, Annan
Nobel's Explosives Co. Ltd., Annan
Imperial Chemical Industries, Dumfries
Nobel's Explosives Co. Ltd., Stevenston
Rohm and Haas (Scotland) Ltd., Grangemouth
Imperial Chemical Industries, Grangemouth
BP Oil Grangemouth Refinery Ltd., Grangemouth
BP Chemicals Ltd., Grangemouth
British Steel Ravenscraig Works, Motherwell
Royal Ordnance PLC, Bishopton
Glaxochem Ltd., Montrose
Blagden Packaging Ltd., Paisley
Lanstar (Scotland) Ltd., Inverness
Aberdeen District Council, East Tullis
Clackmannan District Council, Alloa
City of Dundee District Council, Baldovie
Renfrew District Council, Linwood
Orkney Islands Council, St Ola
Shetlands Islands Council, Rova Head
In addition applications have been submitted to my right hon. Friend for registration in respect of incineration works as follows :
Isola Werke, UK Ltd., Cumbernauld
Lothian Chemical Co. Ltd., Edinburgh
Ciba-Geigy PLC, Paisley
Cleveland Fuels Ltd., Renfrew
Cardiac Surgery
Mr. Eadie : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the current waiting period for cardiac surgery in the Lothian health board area.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The median waiting time for admission for cardiac surgery in the period April-June 1991 was 12 weeks. By definition 50 per cent. of patients admitted had waited for less than 12 weeks.
Mr. Eadie : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the age and sex of residents in the Lothian health board area who are awaiting cardiac surgery.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : At 30 June 1991 there were 104 male patients and 45 female patients residing in the Lothian health board area awaiting cardiac surgery.
Private Security Firms
Mr. George : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of private security firms currently employed by his Department, the number of employees for
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each firm on the contract, the total value of each contract and the total value of all contracts for each financial year since 1984-85.Mr. Lang : Information relating to the value of current contracts with private security companies and the number of staff employed on these contracts are matters of contractual and commercial confidentiality which it would not be proper to disclose. The total value of all contracts awarded during the period 1984-85 to 1990-91 is shown at item 1 following, and details of the private security companies with which contracts are currently in operation are set out at item 2.
1. Year |Total value of
|all contracts
|(inclusive of
|VAT)
|£
---------------------------------------------
1984-85 |68,384
1985-86 |70,468
1986-87 |261,306
1987-88 |294,229
1988-89 |515,982
1989-90 |740,430
1990-91 |925,331
2.Companies
Group 4 Total Security Ltd.
Burns International Security Services (UK) Ltd.
Wackenhut UK Ltd.
Scotguard
Securicor Ltd.
Dounreay
Mrs. Margaret Ewing : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland on how many occasions since taking office he has met with the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to discuss the storage and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel at Dounreay.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : My right hon. Friend has had no such meetings but officials are in very regular contact with UKAEA : in particular, Her Majesty's industrial pollution inspectors spent 53 days at Dounreay, carrying out various inspections and discussions, in the 12-month period ended 31 March 1991.
RENAVAL
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he is in a position to state the sums of money to be paid, by way of the European Community's RENAVAL programme, to community projects in Greenock and Port Glasgow ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Allan Stewart : A revised Strathclyde RENAVAL programme was submitted to the European Commission in July but has not yet been approved. Once it has, all projects to be funded will be decided by a programme monitoring committee.
Salmon
Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what study he has made of the impact of drift net fishing in Irish waters on stocks of salmon in Scotland.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Tagging of salmon smolts, and data on retrieval of tags in fisheries, is co-ordinated by the
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International Council for Exploration of the Sea. The data are not sufficiently detailed to give an assessment of the impact of Irish fisheries on Scottish catches or stocks of salmon.Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what study he has made of the impact of driftnet fishing in British waters on stocks of salmon in Scotland.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Drift netting for salmon has been prohibited in Scottish waters since 1962. An assessment of the impact of the drift-net fishery off the north-east coast of England on Scottish east coast fisheries is contained in the report "Salmon Net Fisheries" laid before the House on 17 October. Copies are available in the Library.
Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what information he has received about the catches of salmon in fresh water fisheries in 1991 and each of the preceding five years.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The reported catches of salmon for years up to and including 1990 are given, by statistical region and method of catch, in the Department's annual Statistical Bulletin "Salmon and Sea Trout Catches". Copies of these are in the Library. The fishing season for 1991 has not yet closed in all Scottish salmon fishery districts. The reported catches for 1991 will be published next year. Informal indications so far are that net catches have been lower than in 1990 and rod-and-line catches of salmon have been poor also. There are reports, however, of better catches at the end of the season in some regions.
Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what study he has made of the impact of drift net fishing in the waters off Greenland and the Faroes on stocks of salmon in Scotland.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The Faroes salmon fishery is a long-line rather than drift-net fishery. Quotas for this fishery and the west Greenland fishery are regulated by the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (NASCO) on the basis of scientific assessments carried out by the ICES working group on north Atlantic salmon in which the Department's scientists take part. There are many factors which may affect survival at sea and return by salmon to rivers of origin. There are insufficient data to estimate the impact of high seas catches on stocks of individual European countries.
Mr. Maclennan : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what research is currently being undertaken into salmon stocks in Scotland.
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