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Written Answers to Questions
Monday 2 December 1991
HOME DEPARTMENT
Sunday Trading
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he expects the current round of discussions with interested bodies on Sunday trading to conclude.
Mr. Rumbold : I hope to have concluded my current programme of separate discussions with the wide range of interest groups on their proposals or positions on reform of the Shops Act 1950 early next year. When that programme is complete, we shall consider what further consultations may best promote the development and agreement of acceptable proposals for reform.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what meetings he or Ministers or officials in his Department have held in the last six months regarding Sunday trading ; and if he will list (a) the dates of such meetings and (b) the bodies represented on each occasion.
Mrs. Rumbold : Following is the information requested in relation to meetings in or connected with my programme of separate discussions with interested bodies on possible ways of reforming the law on Sunday trading :
Date of meeting |Body represented
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5 June |Shopping Hours Reform Council
13 June |Sort Out Sunday
20 June |Lord's Day Observance Society
27 June |National Federation of Meat Traders
2 July |GMB
9 July |Keep Sunday Special Campaign
11 July |Lord's Day Observance Society
17 July |British Tourist Authority/English Tourist Board
24 July |Association of District Councils
24 July |Churches Together in England
|Council of Churches for Britain and Ireland
|Free Church Federal Council
31 July |Shopping Hours Reform Council
7 August |OPEN (Outlets Providing for Everyday Needs)
22 October |Institute of Safety and Public Protection
24 October |British Retailers' Association
6 November |Association of Private Market Operators
6 November |Keep Sunday Special Campaign
11 November |Board of Deputies of British Jews
19 November |Retail Consortium
Given the general interest in the subject of Sunday trading, it would be impracticable to maintain a record of all other meetings involving Ministers or officials in which the subject has arisen.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will initiate a publicity campaign to remind companies of the requirements of the law on and the need to observe the law in respect of Sunday trading ;
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(2) what advice his Department offered to companies considering opening on Sunday in contravention of current legislation prior to 27 November.Mrs. Rumbold : Companies themselves, in consultation as necessary with their legal advisers, are responsible for understanding the law on Sunday trading and for their conformity with it, as they are in respect of any other relevant law. It was not and is not appropriate for us to issue advice or guidance on this to companies, by a publicity campaign or otherwise. The statement by my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney- General on 27 November at column 913 confirmed the understanding of the law --that it is not in suspense, and that its enforcement is for local authorities--which we had previously given to those who have asked us for that.
EC (Visits)
Mr. Forman : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for himself, and for each of the Ministers at his Department, details of (a) the number of visits made in the past month to destinations outside the United Kingdom but within the European Community on official business related to the European Community, (b) the number of visits made to Brussels within the past month on official business related to the European Community and (c) the number of nights spent over the past month away from the United Kingdom on official European Community business.
Mr. Kenneth Baker : The information requested is as follows :
Date |Place
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Home Secretary
(a) 29-30 October |Berlin: Informal meeting of EC
|Immigration Ministers.
20 November |The Hague: Informal meeting of
|EC/Trevi/Immigration Ministers.
25 November |Sangatte near Calais:
|Signature of Policing and Frontiers
|Control Protocol with M. Marchand
|and talks.
(b) None
(c) One night (29 October)
Minister of State: Mr. Patten
(a) 13 November |Brussels: Meeting of EC Justice
|Ministers including Justice Council.
(b) As at (a)
(c) None
Minister of State: Mrs. Rumbold
(a) 13-15 November |Bonn: Visit hosted by Minister for
|Women and Youth.
(b) None
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Other Ministers
None.
Prison Officers (Brixton)
Mr. Leadbitter : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prison officers have been transferred from Brixton prison following the escape of two category A prisoners from Brixton ; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Rumbold : Since 7 July, the date of the escape, 57 staff in the grades from prison officer to principal officer
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have been transferred out of Brixton. Twenty eight had responded to national trawls inviting applications to staff new establishments. The remainder had previously requested a transfer from Brixton and vacancies became available at the establishment of their choice.Knives (Offensive Weapons)
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will take further action to reduce the use of knives as offensive weapons ;
(2) if he will bring forward proposals to tighten the law on the sale of knives which may be used as offensive weapons ;
(3) what initiatives have been undertaken by his Department to reduce the danger to the public from the use of knives as offensive weapons.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The sale and possession of knives is subject to a number of controls. The sale of flick knives, gravity knives and butterfly knives, which have no legitimate use, is banned. These knives have distinctive mechanisms which can be defined in law. There would be considerable practical problems in seeking to apply more general restrictions on the sale and purchase of knives which have a variety of legitimate everyday uses.
For this reason, the Government have tackled the misuse of knives by tightening the law on possession rather than imposing further restrictions on sale. The Criminal Justice Act 1988 makes it an offence for a person to have a bladed or sharply pointed article (other than a small folding pocket knife) in a public place without good reason. The Act also places the onus on the knife-carrier to show that he has good reason for possessing it in public. This measure supplements the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 which makes it an offence to be in possession of an offensive weapon in a public place without reasonable excuse or lawful authority. The Government believe that these measures provide the police and the courts with effective powers to punish and deter the carrying of knives in public places. The Government have no plans to introduce further legislation in this matter.
Parliamentary Constituencies
Mr. Summerson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the 20 largest and smallest parliamentary constituencies, in geographical terms in the United Kingdom.
Mrs. Rumbold : The information requested is set out in the tables. The areas are given in hectares and include land and inland water.
Table 1: The 20 largest constituencies
Constituency |Area
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Ross, Cromarty and Skye |954,680
Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber |870,708
Caithness and Sutherland |788,297
Argyll and Bute |661,362
North Tayside |485,104
Galloway and Upper Nithsdale |441,883
Penrith and the Border |327,964
Western Isles |308,717
Brecon and Radnor |301,269
Fermanagh and South Tyrone |265,463
Kincardine and Deeside |261,106
Mid Ulster |257,098
Hexham |250,992
Orkney and Shetland |247,928
Roxburgh and Berwickshire |242,811
Richmond (Yorkshire) |233,012
Berwick-upon-Tweed |231,456
Gordon |229,485
Ceredigion and Pembroke North |227,038
Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale |226,956
Constituency |Area
Chelsea |572
Peckham |609
Kensington |623
Fulham |693
Bethnal Green and Stepney |719
Islington North |741
Islington South and Finsbury |748
Westminster North |833
Hackney North and Stoke Newington |845
Vauxhall |872
Newham North West |891
Newham North East |892
Norwood |902
Hammersmith |924
Streatham |953
Holborn and St Pancras |959
Southwark and Bermondsey |1,025
Leyton |1,031
Battersea |1,039
Tooting |1,070
Juvenile Crime
Mr. Amos : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on Government policy on making parents fully responsible for the behaviour of and crimes committed by their children.
Mr. John Patten : In the Criminal Justice Act 1991 the Government have put more responsibility on the parents of young offenders to look after their children properly. The 1991 Act strengthens courts' powers to require parents to attend court with their children, to pay their children's fines and to bind over the parents of convicted juvenile offenders. These provisions will come into force in October 1992.
Mr. Amos : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on Home Office guidelines regarding the number of cautions which the police have to give to juveniles before criminal proceedings can be taken against juvenile offenders.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The decision to caution is a matter for the discretion of the police and it is not for the Home Secretary to specify how many cautions can be given to any offender.
Crime Victims
Mr. Amos : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the amount of support made available to victims of crime.
Mr. John Patten : Our major financial commitment is through the criminal injuries compensation scheme, which
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will pay over £125 million this financial year to victims of violent crime throughout Great Britan, the most generous such scheme in western Europe.In addition, the Home Office makes a grant to the voluntary organisation Victim Support, chiefly to enable local victim support schemes to employ paid co-ordinators helping them to make the best use of volunteers. This year's grant is £5.7 million and we have announced plans to increase it to £7.3 million next year, an increase of 28 per cent., sustaining and reinforcing the present schemes and allowing some expansion into providing new services to support victims at court.
The third strand of our support for victims of crime is our work with the criminal justice services to improve their response to victims' needs, following up the victims charter which we published in 1990.
New Housing Schemes
Mr. Amos : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will meet the chairmen of the major house builders to discuss the involvement of the police through formal procedures at an early stage to discuss the design and layout of new housing schemes ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. John Patten : The police have a significant contribution to make to the design of new housing schemes with their ability to offer expert advice to property developers on design measures which can reduce the opportunities for crime. All police forces in England and Wales except Hampshire have designated architectural liaison officers for this purpose. The police's "Secured By Design" scheme, which is a joint initiative with the major companies in the house building industry operating in many parts of the country, is aimed at ensuring that newly built homes and estates are safe and secure. The Government fully support this programme, which is an excellent example of the partnership approach to crime prevention. The Government also believe that the house building industry already recognises the importance of design in preventing crime and making homes and communities safer. My right hon. Friend has therefore at present no plans to meet the chairmen of the major house building companies.
Mr. Amos : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the involvement of the police at an early stage through formal procedures with planning authorities to discuss security and safety measures for house building schemes.
Mr. John Patten : The police have dedicated architectural liaison officers who advise local authority planners and others in the building industry on the design of housing and estates from a crime prevention perspective. In addition the Department of the Environment is revising its planning policy guidance to include advice for local planning authorities on crime prevention aspects in the design and layout of new developments, and on consulting police architectural liaison officers about planning applications. This will be issued early in the new year.
Car Insurance
Mr. Amos : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will meet the chairman of the major insurance companies to discuss differential rates of
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insurance premia charged on individuals, depending on the level of car security undertaken by the motorist ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. John Patten : My right hon. Friend has no immediate plans to meet the chairmen of the major insurance companies. He and I did, however, meet representatives of the Association of British Insurers on 16 September to discuss what action the insurance industry was taking to help tackle car crime. This included the development by the association of a new motor insurance rating formula which, for the first time, takes into account security features fitted as standard equipment by vehicle manufacturers. My right hon. Friend attended the launch of this new formula on 16 October.
My right hon. Friend has urged the insurance industry to take further measures to encourage better vehicle security by offering discounts to motorists who fit effective after-sale security devices to their cars.
Emergency Planning Review
Mr. Bellotti : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to make the further announcement on arrangements for warning to which he referred in his answer to the hon. Member for Westminster, North (Sir J. Wheeler), 10 July 1991, Official Report , column 391-94 .
Mr. John Patten : We intend to make an announcement on arrangements for warning in the new year.
Young Offenders
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the educational and social opportunities provided in young offender institutions.
Mrs. Rumbold : There are two categories of inmates in young offender institutions : juveniles between the age of 14 and 16 and young offenders up to the age of 21. Juveniles under the school leaving age receive a minimum of 15 hours education per week in academic subjects, life and social skills, leisure activities and work skills. Juveniles over the school leaving age are expected to participate in full-time education, though it is not compulsory. Where the inmate chooses not to participate, alternative constructive activities are provided. They should still receive part-time education averaging two hours per week.
Young offenders should also receive at least an average of two hours education per week, broadly covering the same areas as juveniles, though more flexibility may be exercised in giving greater emphasis on the provision of work-related training or remedial teaching where this would be valuable.
Regarding social opportunities, inmates are given the opportunity to mix with other inmates to preserve and encourage the proper use of leisure time and to relate to their peer group. At least an hour per day should normally be provided to allow inmates to participate in a choice of activities such as table tennis, billiards, board games, as well as the chance to watch television. Inmates are also encouraged to use the library facilities.
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to remove teenagers completely from the prison system.
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Mr. John Patten : I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave to a question from him on 26 November at column 444. We have no plans further to restrict courts' powers to commit young people to custody.Closed Circuit Television
Mr. Sims : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many courts have been provided with closed circuit television equipment to enable children to give evidence without being present in the court room ; when he expects the central criminal court at the Old Bailey to be so equipped ; and if he will make a statement.
The Attorney-General : I have been asked to reply.
To date, 35 crown court centres have been supplied with such equipment as part of a programme which will provide equipment in a total of 44 centres by the end of the 1992-93 financial year. The Central Criminal Court was one of the first 14 centres equipped in preparation for5 January 1989. An application for the use of a television link may be made under s.32(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 to any crown court centre. The decision as to whether an application should be made is for the appropriate party. The granting or otherwise of such an application is a matter of judicial discretion. Where an application is made and granted at a court centre which is not equipped, rules of court provide for the case to be transferred to a convenient equipped centre.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
EC (Visits)
Mr. Forman : To ask the Attorney-General if he will list for himself, and for each of the ministers at his Department, details of (a) the number of visits made in the past month to destinations outside the United Kingdom but within the European Community on official business related to the European Community, (b) the number of visits made to Brussels within the past month on official business related to the European Community and (c) the number of nights spent over the past month away from the United Kingdom on official European Community business.
Mr. Forman : To ask the Attorney-General if he will list : the number of visits made by officials in his Department during the past month to destinations outside the United Kingdom but within the European Community on official business related to the European Community, the number of visits made by officials in his Department to Brussels within the past month on official business related to the European Community and the number of nights spent by officials in his Department over the past month away from the United Kingdom on official European Community business.
The Attorney-General : An official from my Department attended a conference in the Netherlands on combating EC fraud and spent four nights away from the United Kingdom.
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House of Fraser
Mr. Richard Shepherd : To ask the Attorney-General, pursuant to his answer of 6 November, Official Report, column 113 to the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery, (Mr. Carlile) when he expects to hear the outcome of Metropolitan police inquiries on matters referred to it by the Select Committee on Trade and Industry regarding the interference with its working on the House of Fraser takeover.
The Attorney-General : The Crown Prosecution Service has not yet received the report from the Metropolitan police.
The Metropolitan police are continuing their inquiries and the Crown Prosecution Service anticipates that the preliminary police report will be submitted by 6 December 1991.
EC (Meetings)
Mr. Sillars : To ask the Attorney-General if he will list the EC ministerial council meetings at which his Department has or will be represented during November and December.
Fraudulent Share Applications
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Attorney-General if he will list the number of prosecutions for fraudulent multiple share applications arising out of each privatisation share issue.
The Attorney-General : One hundred and twenty seven prosecutions have been conducted by the fraud investigation group at Crown Prosecution Service headquarters. A very small number of multiple share application cases are likely to have been submitted by the police to local offices of the Crown Prosecution Service but records are not maintained such as would enable these to be readily identified from other cases of deception.
Statistics relating the number of prosecutions broken down according to individual privatisation issues are not routinely maintained by the Crown Prosecution Service, and the information can only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Law Commission Reports
Mr. Fraser : To ask the Attorney-General how many Law Commission reports recommending legislation remain to be acted upon and for what reasons it has been decided not to present Bills to implement the recommendations.
The Attorney-General : Since 1965 the Law Commission, often in conjunction with the Scottish Law Commission, has published 37 reports relating to the consolidation of existing legislation which, except for the one most recently published, have all been implemented. It has published 14 reports recommending the repeal of obsolete enactments, all of which have been implemented. It has published 93 other reports containing draft legislation of which 59 have been implemented.
The Government have not presented Bills to implement the remaining 34 reports for one or more of the following reasons :
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(i) the underlying policy has been rejected ;(ii) the case for reform has not been thought to justify parliamentary time ;
(iii) the recommendations have been superseded by later events ; (iv) the report is being given further consideration either within Government or at the Law Commission ;
(v) although the recommendations have been accepted, there has been no suitable legislative opportunity.
Probate Registry, Cardiff
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Attorney-General if he will list the historic fixtures and fittings removed from the Probate Registry, Cardiff road, Llandaff, Cardiff ; when their removal was authorised ; how they were disposed of ; and whether Cadw was consulted before their removal was authorised.
Mr. Yeo : I have been asked to reply.
So far as I can ascertain, the original internal doors were replaced to comply with fire regulations and the fireplaces were removed when adaptations were made to accommodate increased activity by the registry. This work was carried out in the 1960s. The building was not listed as of historic interest until May 1975. No records are available to indicate who was consulted or how items were disposed of. No historic items have been removed for at least the last 20 years.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Air Pollution
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations his Department has received from the investment casting industry regarding difficulties faced in implementing the new air pollution controls required under part I of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
Mr. Leigh : The Department has received a number of representations on the guidance note for foundry processes which covers the castings industry. In addition to correspondence with Ministers and officials, the guidance note was the subject of a meeting between Lord Hesketh and representatives of the British Foundry Association in April this year.
Credit Application Forms
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make it his policy to require the credit industry to discontinue using negative options on credit application forms.
Mr. Leigh : Yes. Regulation are to be made under the Consumer Credit Act 1974 prohibiting persons licensed under the Act from presenting or sending to prospective borrowers application forms or agreement containing inertia selling provisions such as negative options.
Telephone Bills
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether his proposed charter for consumers will include a right for users of telephones to have a detailed breakdown of their bills if they so require ; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. Redwood : As a result of BT's £15 billion investment in its network since privatisation, 77 per cent. of BT's customers may now receive itemised bills. The service should be available to more than 90 per cent. of BT's customers by the end of 1995. All Mercury and cellular radio customers can already receive itemised bills. The additional benefits to customers that will result from the Competition and Service (Utilities) Bill will depend on the final scope of the Bill and the specific regulations that are made under it.
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what discussions he has had with the chairman of OFTEL concerning the need for British Telecom and other telephone service providers to be able to justify in detail the bills they send to their customers and the programme for enabling detailed bills to be available in all areas ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : BT invests £11 million every working day to extend services such as itemised billing to all its customers. I meet the Director General of OFTEL from time to time to discuss a wide range of telecommunications issues. He fully shares the Government's view of the importance of customers receiving accurate and properly detailed billing information.
Company Auditors
Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received from persons seeking to register as being eligible for appointment as company auditors or responsible for company audit work about difficulties in meeting the registration requirements.
New Cars
Mr. Roger King : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether it is his intention to publish simultaneously the two reports by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the supply of new cars and the supply of new car parts ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry received the Monopolies and Mergers Commission report on the supply of new cars on 31 October and is currently considering it. The report will be published as soon as is practicable. The MMC's report on the supply of new car parts will be received on 20 December ; that also will be published as soon as is practicable. I cannot comment at this stage on whether the two reports will be published simultaneously.
The content of all MMC reports remain confidential until publication. If the MMC find no adverse effects the Secretary of State has no power to act. If the MMC have reached any adverse findings he will decide what steps, if any, should be taken to remedy the situation. He will also consider whether or not to announce a period of consultation before reaching his conclusions.
Breweries
Mr. Steinberg : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many breweries have reduced their pub ownership numbers to 2,000 or below since 1989.
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Mr. Redwood : One brewer which owned more than 2,000 pubs in 1989, Scottish and Newcastle, has reduced its estate to below that figure.ECGD
Mr. Jacques Arnold : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a further statement on progress towards the sale of the short-term business of the Export Credits Guarantee Department.
Mr. Lilley : I am pleased to confirm that the sale of the short term business of ECGD, hitherto conducted by the Insurance Services Group, was successfully concluded yesterday, 1 December, following negotiations between Government and NCM, the preferred purchaser. As a result of the privatisation, a new group of companies has been established. The credit insurance activities of the group will be undertaken, with immediate effect, by NCM Credit Insurance Limited, a fully capitalised company which has been duly authorised by the relevant United Kingdom authorities to undertake such business. Publicity and customer information for the privatised business will be carried forward by the new group.
The sale negotiations were conducted on a basis which provides value for money for the taxpayer. The sale will be examined by the National Audit Office in due course. The sale price was £70 million, comprising £50 million for the capitalisation of the business, plus a goodwill payment of £20 million. Five million pounds of this goodwill element is payable on a deferred basis, subject to the future performance of the insurance company. If the loss ratios for the first two years of underwriting in the private sector are at least as good as those projected when tenders were submitted, the full balance of £5 million will be payable. If the loss ratios for these years are not as good as those projected, the balance of £5 million will be subject to downward adjustment. The deferred element will be payable in 1996 after the accounts for the first two underwriting years are closed. The amount of the deferred element will be indexed to the retail prices index so as to preserve its present value.
Under private sector ownership the new group will be able to offer a more efficient and flexible service, including domestic credit insurance facilities. It will not be vulnerable to the risk of legal challenge which would have remained for as long as the business had been conducted by a Government Department. The new owners, NCM, are specialist credit insurers who were selected as preferred purchaser following a competitive tendering process against a range of criteria including commitment to, and understanding of, the business and financial robustness, as well as tender price.
The vast bulk of insurance services' risk portfolio--political as well as commercial risks--has been successfully placed in the private sector reinsurance market. This is a major achievement. As already confirmed to Parliament, the Government are providing the company with some limited transitional reinsurance facilities to "top up" private sector reinsurance capacity plus a separate "national interest" facility to maintain a measure of cover for the small number of higher risk markets for which cover is not currently available from the private sector. This "national interest" facility will be kept under close
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review and will remain available for as long as necessary to meet the reasonable needs of exporters, subject to its satisfactory financial performance.ECGD will, of course, continue as a separate Government Department, the main activity of which will be the provision of facilities for medium and long term export credit on projects and capital goods exports. These facilities will not be affected in any way by the sale to NCM of the Insurance Services Group.
Rechar
Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will set out the legal basis of Her Majesty's Government's case against Commissioner Bruce Millan on Rechar and additionality.
Mr. Leigh [holding answer 26 November 1991] : There have been discussions with the Commission on the subject mentioned by the hon. Gentleman, but there are no legal proceedings pending. For a statement on the Government's general position as regards the question of additionality and article 9 of Council Regulation (EEC) 4253/88, I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe) on 27 November at column 525.
Export Licences
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry for how many years his Department routinely stores copies of export licences (a) granted and (b) refused ; what criteria has been adopted in deciding the appropriate time period for storage of such licence applications and export permissions ; and if he will make a statement on any changes adopted in export licensing policy and the licensing process since 1 August.
Mr. Sainsbury [holding answer 29 November 1991] : The eighth Schedule on Public Records (22 June 1950) as required by the Public Record Office Acts of 1877 and 1898 laid down the period for which export licence applications should be kept as six years. The Public Record Office Act 1958 gave Departments the authority to determine their own destruction dates for their records. Until recently the Department has seen no reason to depart from the six years period approved by Parliament. However, because of the Trade and Industry Select Committee inquiry into export controls in relation to Iraq, destruction of export licence applications over six years old has been suspended for the time being.
The Government announced in October the adoption of a policy of full scope safeguards the effect of which is that significant nuclear exports will not be permitted to countries with nuclear facilities not subject to IAEA safeguards.
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