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any food for consumption by patients who require a sterile diet as essential factor of their treatment.
fruit
vegetables
cereals
bulbs and tubers
spices and condiments
fish and shellfish
poultry
Source : Published by the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture as a supplement to their Food Irradiation Newsletter of October 1991 (Volume 15, No. 2).
Agricultural Land (Planning Applications)
Dr. David Clark : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many planning applications affecting grade I agricultural land have been objected to by his Ministry since 1980 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Gummer : The records currently show that a total of 1,993 individual planning applications were objected to in England and Wales during the period 1980 to 1990. However, the records do not show how many of these objections involved grade 1 land. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Dr. David Clark : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list all the confirmed cases of BSE in England (a) in 1991 and (b) before 1991 on a county basis.
Mr. Gummer : The information is as follows :
Number of cases
County |1991 (Provisional)|Before 1991
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Bedfordshire |54 |69
Cambridge |49 |93
Essex |70 |112
Hertfordshire |46 |110
Lincolnshire |119 |218
Norfolk |443 |384
Northamptonshire |181 |208
Suffolk |204 |308
Cheshire |777 |678
Derbyshire |339 |386
Hereford and
Worcestershire |312 |467
Lancashire |546 |536
Leicestershire |412 |597
Manchester |20 |28
Merseyside |13 |13
Nottinghamshire |84 |16
Salop |386 |610
Staffordshire |445 |472
West Midlands |6 |15
Warwickshire |191 |248
Cleveland |22 |32
Cumbria |536 |463
Durham |60 |96
Humberside |88 |110
Northumberland |98 |95
Tyne and Wear |5 |3
Yorkshire North |721 |939
Yorkshire South |55 |82
Yorkshire West |106 |109
Berkshire |91 |162
Buckinghamshire |163 |229
Hampshire |526 |947
Isle of Wight |128 |181
Kent |268 |546
London |11 |11
Oxfordshire |296 |398
Surrey |140 |243
Sussex East |228 |351
Sussex West |387 |636
Avon |404 |533
Cornwall |1,464 |1,915
Devon |1,965 |2,738
Dorset |1,422 |2,144
Gloucestershire |427 |775
Somerset |1,876 |2,184
Wiltshire |1,046 |1,585
Dr. David Clark : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give the location, including the county, of the incinerators which dispose of BSE-infected cattle that are currently operating in England and in each case give the potential capacity and actual capacity for throughput each week of infected cattle ; whether he has plans to introduce new incinerators ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Gummer : At present there are five incinerator plants in England used for the disposal of carcases of suspect BSE cattle. These are located in Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Somerset, Nottinghamshire and Avon. Along with two other incinerator plants in Wales these currently provide enough capacity to incinerate all suspect BSE carcases.
We expect that these facilities, together with another which will become operational shortly, should continue to prove sufficient to incinerate all such carcases.
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will give a breakdown of the age at death of cattle diagnosed as having BSE during 1991.
Mr. Maclean : The number of confirmed cases of BSE in 1991 in Great Britain by age at onset of clinical signs is as follows :
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Number of cases
Age at onset (years) |Age known |Age estimated |Total
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2 |22 |24 |46
3 |2,499 |501 |3,000
4 |5,658 |1,485 |7,143
5 |3,402 |1,282 |4,684
6 |1,378 |643 |2,021
7 |509 |266 |775
8 |132 |70 |202
9 |41 |31 |72
10 |14 |21 |35
11 |8 |5 |13
12 |1 |1 |2
13 |1 |2 |3
17 |- |1 |1
Age unknown |- |- |1,623
Sellafield
Mr. Shore : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he has received any applications from British Nuclear Fuels for the release of krypton 85 gas from the Sellafield plant ; and whether he will make a statement.
Mr. Maclean : Routine discharges of krypton 85 from the Sellafield site are authorised under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960. No further applications for the release of krypton 85 have been received.
Food Aid
Mr. Strang : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many tonnes of each food commodity has been given by the United Kingdom to the former members of the USSR since the Maastricht summit ; how many tonnes of each commodity donated by the United Kingdom came from intervention stores ; and what the net cost has been to the United Kingdom to date.
Mr. Curry : A total of 120 tonnes of British beef has been delivered to the former Soviet Union so far under the EC's Maastricht emergency aid package of 200 million ecu. The remaining 2,080 tonnes of the amount that the United Kingdom agreed to deliver under the tranche of the package was due to leave the port of Hull by the end of last week for St. Petersburg and Moscow. All of this beef is from intervention stocks held in the United Kingdom.
Under the second tranche of the package, the United Kingdom is to supply a further 1,500 tonnes of beef from intervention.
The cost of the meat is covered by the EC. Arrangements to reclaim transport costs of the operation from the EC are also being discussed. The cost to the United Kingdom, other than staff time involved in organising deliveries, will come through our contribution to the EC aid budget of some 18 per cent.
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
Teacher Training
Mr. Robert Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the present number of students in teacher training colleges ; and what were the figures for each of the previous five years.
Mr. Fallon : The information is given in the table.
United Kingdom domiciled students undertaking courses of Initial Teacher Training in England Academic |Total year |number<3> 1985-86 |31,554 1986-87 |33,082 1987-88 |35,173 1988-89 |36,195 1989-90 |38,167 <1><2>1990-91 |42,996 <1>Latest year for which data exists: figures for 1991-92 not yet available. <2>Provisional data. <3>Covers students studying PGCE, BEd, Cert ED and other undergraduate ITT. Sources: University Statistical Record for University Departments of Education. Further Education Statistical Record for Polytechnics and Colleges.
Research Councils
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much was allocated to each polytechnic by research councils during 1990 -91 ; and how much was allocated by the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The following allocations were made to polytechnics by each of the research councils in 1990-91 :
AFRC Polytechnic |£000
---------------------------------------------------
Bristol |74
East London |26
Lancashire |80
Oxford |145
|-------
Total |325
ESRC Polytechnic |£000
Birmingham |25
Bournemouth |15
Bristol |432
Central London |161
Coventry |5
East London |65
Kingston |253
Leeds |35
Liverpool |51
Manchester |156
Middlesex |39
Napier |4
Newcastle |21
North London |55
North Staffs |35
Oxford |245
Portsmouth |40
Sheffield City |297
South Bank |22
South West |220
Sunderland |3
Teesside |220
Thames |4
Wales |37
Wolverhampton |52
|-------
Total |2,492
MRC
Polytechnic |£000
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Liverpool |12
London:
City |23
South Bank |114
East London |5
Nottingham |2
Portsmouth |22
Sheffield |27
Staffordshire |14
Polytechnics in Scotland
Paisley College of Technology |17
|--
Total |236
NERC
Polytechnic |£000
City |2
Kingston |18
Liverpool |9
Napier |20
Oxford |55
Plymouth |238
Portsmouth
Sunderland |17
Thames |7
|--
Total |411
SERC Polytechnic |£'000
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Birmingham Polytechnic |310
Brighton Polytechnic |509
Bristol Polytechnic |201
Polytechnic of Central London |254
City of London Polytechnic |9
The Polytechnic of Wales |174
Hatfield Polytechnic |461
Huddersfield Polytechnic |318
Kingston Polytechnic |230
Coventry Polytechnic |778
Leeds Polytechnic |160
Leicester Polytechnic |753
Liverpool Polytechnic |352
Middlesex Polytechnic |158
Manchester Polytechnic |197
Napier Polytechnic of Edinburgh |262
Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic |420
The Polytechnic of North London |60
Polytechnic of East London |58
Staffordshire Polytechnic |523
Oxford Polytechnic |309
Polytechnic South West |671
Portsmouth Polytechnic |682
Sheffield City Polytechnic |576
Sunderland Polytechnic |330
Teesside Polytechnic |379
Thames Polytechnic |334
Nottingham Polytechnic |339
Wolverhampton Polytechnic |104
Lancashire Polytechnic |205
Glasgow Polytechnic |166
|-------
Total |10,282
Notes:
1. These figures include research studentships, industrial
fellowships and postdoctoral fellowships as well as research
grants.
2. The figures for SERC are for the academic year 15 September
1990 to 31 August 1991. The figures for the other research
councils are for the financial year 1 April 1990 to 31 March
1991.
The following allocations were made by the PCFC for research in 1990-91 as the final tranche of a National Advisory Board initiative launched in 1988- 89.
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Institution |PCFC
|Research
|Allocation
|1990-91
|£000's
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Polytechnic of East London |180
Middlesex Polytechnic |300
Kingston Polytechnic |300
Birmingham Polytechnic |50
Coventry Polytechnic |250
Wolverhampton Polytechnic |180
Liverpool Polytechnic |300
Manchester Polytechnic |180
Sheffield City Polytechnic |250
Huddersfield Polytechnic |50
Leeds Polytechnic |180
Newcastle Polytechnic |180
Sunderland Polytechnic |300
Polytechnic of North London |50
South Bank Polytechnic |180
City of London Polytechnic |180
Polytechnic of Central London |180
Thames Polytechnic |180
Bristol Polytechnic |250
Teesside Polytechnic |50
Polytechnic South West |180
Bournemouth Polytechnic |50
Brighton Polytechnic |300
Portsmouth Polytechnic |250
Hatfield Polytechnic |300
Humberside Polytechnic |50
Lancashire Polytechnic |180
Leicester Polytechnic |300
Nottingham Polytechnic |300
Oxford Polytechnic |50
Staffordshire Polytechnic |180
|-------
Total |5,910
Note:
1. These figures are for the financial year 1 April
1990 to 31 March 1991.
Student Loans
Mr. Callaghan : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in respect of student loans schemes (a) the most recent figure for loan applications received, (b) the number of loans received, (c) the value of the loans and (d) the total costs incurred in administering the scheme in the Greater Manchester area.
Mr. Alan Howarth : As at 15 January 1992, the Student Loans Company Ltd. had received 7,474 applications for loans for the academic year 1991- 92 from students attending institutions in the Greater Manchester area and had paid 7,269 loans worth £3.4 million. The company will very shortly pay fees totalling £30,308 in respect of correctly completed eligibility certificates received from those institutions up to 31 December 1991.
EC Research Contracts
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make it his policy to establish a fund so that contributions can be granted towards the unfunded costs on EC research contracts received by United Kingdom higher education institutions.
Mr. Alan Howarth : Universities already receive substantial funding for research as part of their block grant from the Universities Funding Council. It is for
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institutions to determine their use of block grant and other funding according to their own priorities. This includes support for European Community research projects. Improved cost recovery on commercial research projects by universities would free substantial resources for other purposes, including European Community research.School Visits
Mr. Callaghan : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will list the schools he has visited in the Greater Manchester area since his appointment as Secretary of State for Education and Science.
Mr. Eggar : My right hon. and learned Friend has not visited any schools in Greater Manchester since his appointment in November 1990.
Education Staff
Mr. Straw : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report for each local education authority the latest estimate available to him of the numbers of (a) qualified teachers employed in schools, (b) unqualified teachers employed in schools, (c) teachers employed as inspectors or advisers, or otherwise than directly in schools, (d) teachers and classroom assistants, playground and school meals staff working in schools, (e) administrative staff working in schools, (f) caretakers, cleaning and maintenance staff working in schools, (g) administrative staff working on education other than in schools and (h) any other employees of the education department, respectively.
Mr. Fallon : The following two tables show the numbers of qualified and unqualified teachers employed in nursery, primary and secondary schools in January 1991. Information on inspectors and advisers is not collected and it is not possible to separately identify teachers employed otherwise than in schools. Data on education support staff and administrative staff in schools are not yet available for publication. Information is not collected centrally on items (f) to (h) .
Full-time equivalent numbers of qualified and unqualified
teachers in
maintained nursery schools in England
January 1991
|Qualified |Unqualified
|teachers |teachers<1>
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201 City |- |-
202 Camden |8 |1
203 Greenwich |28 |-
204 Hackney |6 |1
205 Hammersmith and Fulham |24 |-
206 Islington |14 |-
207 Kensington and Chelsea |15 |-
208 Lambeth |19 |-
209 Lewisham |10 |-
210 Southwark |20 |-
211 Tower Hamlets |35 |-
212 Wandsworth |9 |-
213 Westminster |10 |-
301 Barking |- |-
302 Barnet |15 |-
303 Bexley |5 |-
304 Brent |16 |-
305 Bromley |- |-
306 Croydon |12 |-
307 Ealing |20 |-
308 Enfield |- |-
309 Haringey |15 |-
310 Harrow |- |-
311 Havering |- |-
312 Hillingdon |3 |-
313 Hounslow |- |-
314 Kingston upon Thames |8 |-
315 Merton |- |-
316 Newham |23 |1
317 Redbridge |- |-
318 Richmond upon Thames |2 |-
319 Sutton |6 |-
320 Waltham Forest |10 |-
330 Birmingham |71 |1
331 Coventry |10 |-
332 Dudley |5 |-
333 Sandwell |10 |-
334 Solihull |- |-
335 Walsall |15 |-
336 Wolverhampton |20 |-
340 Knowsley |- |-
341 Liverpool |21 |-
342 St. Helens |2 |-
343 Sefton |7 |-
344 Wirral |11 |-
350 Bolton |13 |-
351 Bury |5 |-
352 Manchester |34 |-
353 Oldham |- |-
354 Rochdale |24 |-
355 Salford |32 |-
356 Stockport |21 |-
357 Tameside |13 |-
358 Trafford |- |-
359 Wigan |7 |-
370 Barnsley |4 |-
371 Doncaster |- |-
372 Rotherham |10 |-
373 Sheffield |27 |-
380 Bradford |22 |-
381 Calderdale |- |-
382 Kirklees |20 |-
383 Leeds |8 |-
384 Wakefield |14 |-
390 Gateshead |2 |-
391 Newcastle upon Tyne |38 |-
392 North Tyneside |8 |-
393 South Tyneside |22 |-
394 Sunderland |28 |-
420 Isles of Scilly |- |-
901 Avon |68 |-
902 Bedfordshire |46 |2
903 Berkshire |66 |-
904 Buckinghamshire |11 |-
905 Cambridgeshire |20 |-
906 Cheshire |20 |-
907 Cleveland |4 |-
908 Cornwall |3 |-
909 Cumbria |20 |-
910 Derbyshire |44 |3
911 Devon |6 |-
912 Dorset |- |-
913 Durham |66 |-
914 East Sussex |8 |-
915 Essex |7 |-
916 Gloucestershire |- |-
917 Hampshire |13 |-
918 Hereford and Worcester |- |-
919 Hertfordshire |44 |3
920 Humberside |28 |-
921 Isle of Wight |- |-
922 Kent |3 |-
923 Lancashire |94 |-
924 Leicestershire |1 |-
925 Lincolnshire |9 |-
926 Norfolk |11 |-
927 North Yorkshire |9 |-
928 Northamptonshire |15 |1
929 Northumberland |3 |-
930 Nottinghamshire |17 |1
931 Oxfordshire |27 |1
932 Shropshire |6 |-
933 Somerset |- |-
934 Staffordshire |51 |-
935 Suffolk |2 |-
936 Surrey |18 |-
937 Warwickshire |18 |-
938 West Sussex |12 |-
939 Wiltshire |- |-
England |1,633 |17
<1>Unqualified staff include licensed teachers.
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Full-time equivalent numbers of qualified and unqualified
teachers
maintained (including grant-maintained) primary, middle and
secondary schools in England
January 1991
|Qualified |Unqualified
|teachers |teachers<1>
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201 City |11 |2
202 Camden |1,155 |58
203 Greenwich |1,835 |56
204 Hackney |1,346 |101
205 Hammersmith and Fulham |859 |31
206 Islington |1,170 |65
207 Kensington and Chelsea |619 |16
208 Lambeth |1,350 |37
209 Lewisham |1,674 |44
210 Southwark |1,547 |47
211 Tower Hamlets |1,827 |104
212 Wandsworth |1,559 |53
213 Westminster |1,003 |58
301 Barking |1,185 |29
302 Barnet |2,244 |62
303 Bexley |1,618 |34
304 Brent |1,752 |40
305 Bromley |1,781 |39
306 Croydon |2,136 |63
307 Ealing |2,029 |44
308 Enfield |2,065 |29
309 Haringey |1,380
310 Harrow |1,353 |15
311 Havering |1,836 |38
312 Hillingdon |1,637 |37
313 Hounslow |1,679 |55
314 Kingston upon Thames |909 |14
315 Merton |1,199 |17
316 Newham |1,757 |47
317 Redbridge |1,557 |30
318 Richmond upon Thames |901 |14
319 Sutton |1,192 |18
320 Waltham Forest |1,633 |58
330 Birmingham |8,317 |63
331 Coventry |2,493 |25
332 Dudley |2,442 |19
333 Sandwell |2,559 |21
334 Solihull |1,696 |20
335 Walsall |2,492 |42
336 Wolverhampton |2,220 |24
340 Knowsley |1,363 |5
341 Liverpool |4,026 |48
342 St. Helens |1,564 |3
343 Sefton |2,279 |4
344 Wirral |2,844 |17
350 Bolton |2,359 |8
351 Bury |1,353 |8
352 Manchester |3,710 |45
353 Oldham |2,044 |15
354 Rochdale |1,688 |14
355 Salford |1,919 |12
356 Stockport |2,184 |17
357 Tameside |1,819 |19
358 Trafford |1,481 |4
359 Wigan |2,668 |26
370 Barnsley |1,616 |2
371 Doncaster |2,544 |23
372 Rotherham |2,278 |17
373 Sheffield |3,552 |43
380 Bradford |4,569 |38
381 Calderdale |1,621 |14
382 Kirklees |3,318 |25
383 Leeds |5,799 |79
384 Wakefield |2,471 |14
390 Gateshead |1,597 |12
391 Newcastle upon Tyne |2,147 |16
392 North Tyneside |1,673 |11
393 South Tyneside |1,269 |25
394 Sunderland |2,468 |29
420 Isles of Scilly |26 |-
901 Avon |6,640 |93
902 Bedfordshire |4,346 |79
903 Berkshire |5,317 |65
904 Buckinghamshire |4,650 |63
905 Cambridgeshire |4,947 |57
906 Cheshire |7,396 |117
907 Cleveland |5,155 |43
908 Cornwall |3,368 |35
909 Cumbria |3,878 |14
910 Derbyshire |7,571 |84
911 Devon |6,725 |58
912 Dorset |4,139 |36
913 Durham |4,648 |25
914 East Sussex |4,223 |37
915 Essex |10,996 |198
916 Gloucestershire |3,970 |39
917 Hampshire |10,699 |103
918 Hereford and Worcester |4,928 |15
919 Hertfordshire |7,704 |151
920 Humberside |7,092 |80
921 Isle of Wight |900 |17
922 Kent |10,727 |174
923 Lancashire |10,627 |40
924 Leicestershire |7,267 |86
925 Lincolnshire |4,185 |44
926 Norfolk |5,292 |55
927 North Yorkshire |5,235 |89
928 Northamptonshire |4,792 |58
929 Northumberland |2,514 |27
930 Nottinghamshire |7,933 |27
931 Oxfordshire |3,651 |41
932 Shropshire |3,334 |14
933 Somerset |3,275 |11
934 Staffordshire |8,079 |67
935 Suffolk |4,701 |63
936 Surrey |6,230 |77
937 Warwickshire |3,620 |41
938 West Sussex |4,684 |56
939 Wiltshire |4,096 |34
|------- |-------
England |359,803 |4,588
<1> Unqualified teachers include instructors, student teachers,
licensed teachers, foreign language assistants and other
unqualified teachers.
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School Buildings
Dr. Kumar : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current capital allocation to allow authorities to replace old and outdated school buildings which are unsuitable for operating the national curriculum in practical orientated subjects.
Mr. Fallon : Between 1986-1987 and 1989-1990, the last year for which we have final figures, total capital expenditure on maintained schools was over £2.25 billion. This is a substantial sum of money, which has enabled local education authorities and the governors of voluntary-aided schools to make significant improvements to the stock of inadequate school buildings, including facilities for operating the national curriculum in practical oriented subjects.
For its part, the Government have significantly increased the level of annual capital guidelines--ACGs--and capital allocations to voluntary-aided and grant-maintained schools over the last three years to over £700 million in 1992-93. ACGs have increased from £410 million in 1990-91 to £472 million in the current year and £524 million in 1992-93. Grants to voluntary-aided schools have risen from £109 million to £131 million to £150 million over the same period. Specific further emphasis on improving facilities for teaching technology is the aim of the £25 million technology initiative for 1992-93.
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Education Funding
Dr. Kumar : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the funding of (a) city technology colleges and (b) schools run by local education authorities.
Mr. Eggar : City technology colleges receive Government grants for recurrent funding. Recurrent costs are calculated on the basis of pupil expenditure figures for LEAs which maintain schools in similar urban areas. This is paid to colleges as per capita grant on the basis of pupil numbers, along with earmarked grants for specific purposes. During the colleges' five-year build-up, per capita grant contains provision for extra administrative costs and to compensate for diseconomies of scale.
Schools maintained by local authorities are funded according to authorities' formula funding mechanisms as set down in statutory schemes of local management. National criteria for schemes require that at least 75 per cent. of school budgets should be distributed with reference to pupil numbers.
Dr. Kumar : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will provide figures of cost per pupil for each of the regions in England for primary and secondary schools for the last five years.
Mr. Fallon : In the last five years for which actual spending information is available, average school-based spending by region in nursery and primary schools and in secondary schools was as follows :
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Table 1
Net institutional expenditure<1> per pupil, nursery and primary
schools<2>
|1985-86|1986-87|1987-88|1988-89|1989-90
Region |£ |£ |£ |£ |£
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East Anglia |755 |835 |930 |1,035 |1,145
East Midlands |790 |875 |965 |1,070 |1,190
North West |780 |855 |970 |1,035 |1,140
Northern |825 |925 |1,040 |1,115 |1,210
South East |860 |950 |1,070 |1,155 |1,275
South West |745 |830 |935 |1,020 |1,135
West Midlands |795 |875 |980 |1,065 |1,165
Yorkshire and Humberside |845 |930 |1,010 |1,135 |1,230
Table 2
Net institutional expenditure<1> per pupil, secondary schools
|1985-86|1986-87|1987-88|1988-89|1989-90
Region |£ |£ |£ |£ |£
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East Anglia |1,055 |1,120 |1,335 |1,515 |1,77
East Midlands |1,150 |1,315 |1,480 |1,685 |1,865
North West |1,165 |1,335 |1,525 |1,685 |1,870
Northern |1,160 |1,330 |1,515 |1,705 |1,820
South East |1,265 |1,425 |1,620 |1,765 |1,925
South West |1,085 |1,235 |1,375 |1,555 |1,720
West Midlands |1,150 |1,305 |1,480 |1,670 |1,840
Yorkshire and Humberside |1,110 |1,280 |1,425 |1,640 |1,755
<1> Net institutional expenditure covers the direct costs in schools of
salaries and wages, premises and certain supplies and services. It does
not include the costs of school meals, home to school transport, LEA
central administration, and financing costs of capital expenditure. The
figures in the tables are derived from
local education authorities' returns of their spending to the Department
of the Environment and of their pupil numbers to the Department of
Education and Science.
<2> Spending on nursery and primary schools is not collected separately.
Note:
The figures exclude those for the following authorities as their
spending returns were not available: 1985-86, Merton, Newham; 1986-87,
Haringey, Newham; 1987-88, Ealing, Haringey, Sheffield, Berkshire;
1988-89, Haringey, Manchester, Wakefield; 1989-90, Haringey, Hounslow,
Manchester, Wakefield, North Tyneside.
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City Technology Colleges
Dr. Kumar : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if the Government's programme for opening of new city technology colleges is on target.
Mr. Eggar : The CTC programme is making excellent progress. Thirteen colleges are already established and running, and two more will be open by autumn next year. In addition, the extension of CTC principles and practice into the rest of the maintained system is now under way. Indeed my right hon. and learned Friend announced on 15 January the establishment, with the joint support of British Aerospace, of Hutton grammar school in Lancashire as the first voluntary-aided technology school.
Primary Education
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list his Department's projection of primary school numbers for each school year until 1996-97.
Mr. Fallon : Projections to 1996-97 of pupils in maintained nursery, primary and middle deemed primary schools in England, together with the actual number in 1990-91, are as follows. Figures relate to full-time equivalent pupils expressed in thousands.
|Number
----------------------
1990-91 |3,946
1991-92 |3,982
1992-93 |4,033
1993-94 |4,102
1994-95 |4,160
1995-96 |4,233
1996-97 |4,285
Pupil Testing
Dr. Kumar : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the pilot nature of the proposed key state 3 testing ; and whether he intends to publish the results of this pilot testing.
Mr. Eggar : A national pilot of mathematics and science examinations will be held in June 1992. I strongly encourage all schools to take part in this as the best possible preparation for the first compulsory examinations in 1993. I intend to publish national analyses of the results, and I expect schools to report the results of individual pupils to their parents.
Dr. Kumar : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he envisages any role for local education authorities in key stage 3 testing.
Mr. Eggar : LEAs have a general duty to secure the successful implementation of the national curriculum and its testing arrangements in the schools they maintain. In particular, the Government are supporting £45 million worth of LEA expenditure on national curriculum testing for 1992-93 through grants for education support and training. LEAs are specifically encouraged to direct some of that funding towards preparing teachers for testing 14-year-olds.
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Technology Schools Initiative
Dr. Kumar : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if the money available for the recently announced technology schools initiative is new grant allocation or if it will be included in an authority's capital allocation as supplementary credit approval.
Mr. Eggar : The technology schools initiative is being funded from part of the new money made available for education capital spending for 1992-93. Projects in grant-maintained and voluntary-aided schools will be supported through grant payments ; those in county and controlled schools through supplementary credit approvals to the LEAs concerned. The revenue consequences of supplementary credit approvals will be fully reflected in an authority's standard spending assessment in future years.
School Transport Statistics
Mr. Paice : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the actual amount spent by each education authority on school transport for 1989-90 ; and if he will give for each authority the percentage of pupils entitled to free school transport and the number of pupil miles provided.
Mr. Fallon : Education authorities' expenditure on home to school transport in 1989-90 is shown in the table. Information on the number of pupils entitled to free transport and on the number of pupil miles provided is not collected centrally.
Net recurrent expenditure by LEAs on home to school transport, 1989-90 LEA |(£000s) --------------------------------------- ILEA |5,546 Barking |275 Barnet |313 Bexley |484 Brent |752 Bromley |990 Croydon |925 Ealing |1,756 Enfield |N/A Haringey |N/A Harrow |860 Havering |808 Hilingdon |1,012 Hounslow |N/A Kingston-upon-Thams |445 Merton |66 Newham |1,438 Redbridge |913 Richmond upon Thames |455 Sutton |672 Waltham Forest |935 Birmingham |2,916 Coventry |665 Dudley |666 Sandwell |835 Solihull |895 Walsall |537 Wolverhampton |474 Knowsley |379 Liverpool |1,866 St. Helens |614 Sefton |811 Wirral |1,588 Bolton |897 Bury |355 Manchester |N/A Oldham |484 Rochdale |734 Salford |1,222 Stockport |N/A Tameside |889 Trafford |683 Wigan |682 Barnsley |248 Doncaster |593 Rotherham |738 Sheffield |901 Bradford |1,721 Calderdale |724 Kirklees |1,224 Leeds |2,834 Wakefield |N/A Gateshead |473 Newcastle Upon Tyne |762 North Tyneside |N/A South Tyneside |186 Sunderland |448 Isles of Scilly |12 Avon |1,358 Bedfordshire |4,016 Berkshire |3,573 Buckinghamshire |5,694 Cambridgeshire |5,913 Cheshire |5,092 Cleveland |1,059 Cornwall |3,230 Cumbria |4,184 Derbyshire |4,873 Devon |8,401 Dorset |4,289 Durham |3,648 East Sussex |2,907 Essex |11,692 Gloucestershire |4,527 Hampshire |7,913 Hereford and Worcester |3,373 Hertfordshire |5,144 Humberside |4,580 Isle of Wight |848 Kent |12,035 Lancashire |7,034 Leicestershire |5,844 Lincolnshire |4,338 Norfolk |6,994 North Yorkshire |6,045 Northamptonshire |3,454 Northumberland |2,594 Nottinghamshire |3,666 Oxfordshire |4,402 Shropshire |3,401 Somerset |3,625 Staffordshire |4,750 Suffolk |422 Surrey |6,754 Warwickshire |3,424 West Sussex |3,497 Wiltshire |4,023 Notes: 1. Expenditure on home to school transport covers local education authorities' costs of their own drivers and vehicles, and their payments in respect of public transport and contract hire, used to transport pupils from home to nursery, primary and secondary schools and to special education schools or other establishments. 2. The figures are derived from authorities' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment. N/A indicates that a return was not received.
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Derbyshire College of Higher Education
Mr. Harry Barnes : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what representations he has received about the application for polytechnic status by Derbyshire college of higher education since 16 December ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Alan Howarth : We have received a number of representations, including from the mayor of Derby, the chairman of the education committee of Derbyshire county council and a number of hon. Members. Officials of the Department met the director of the college, together with the directors of some other colleges on 9 January, to discuss questions about institutional titles. Although my right hon. and learned Friend's announcement on 16 December made it clear that he does not expect to approve further applications for polytechnic designation, the route to a university title is not closed for institutions which are not polytechnics. Following consultations with the representative bodies of higher education, my right hon. and learned Friend announced on 15 January 1992, Official Report, column 582 , the criteria which must be met.
St. Faith's School, Winchester
Mr. John Browne : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the status of St. Faith's school, Winchester, with regard to grant funding for expansion.
Mr. Fallon : I understand that the governors of St. Faith's currently plan to carry out improvements to the school in two phases, and that the costs are expected to be within the limit for minor works improvement projects at voluntary-aided and special agreement schools-- £250,000. The Government have allocated £334,000 for such work in Hampshire in 1992-93. It is for Hampshire local education authority, in consultation with the governors and the diocesan authorities, to determine the allocation of these resources locally.
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Procedure Committee Reports
Mr. Allen : To ask the Lord President of the Council what proposals, arising out of the outstanding reports and recommendations of the Procedure Committee, he intends to bring before the House.
Mr. MacGregor : The Select Committee on Sittings of the House will inevitably have implications for our procedures, including matters dealt with by the Procedure Committee such as length of speeches. Unless particular proposals for procedural change can be wholly divorced from the matters being considered by the Select Committee--and the recent review of the European Standing Committees which I am currently considering may come into this category--I do not think it would be sensible to deal with them in isolation, in advance of the Select Committee report, and I do not intend to do so.
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DUCHY OF LANCASTER
Duchy Costs
Mr. Winnick : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what costs to the Exchequer are involved in his duties, including transport ; and in what circumstances a ministerial car is used by him.
Mr. Chris Patten : My office is expected to have costs of £89,862 in the current financial year. I use my ministerial car only when undertaking duties as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and in my capacity as a Government Minister.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Director of Public Prosecutions
28. Mr. Campbell-Savours : To ask the Attorney-General what plans he has to review the role, position and powers of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The Attorney-General : I do discuss with the Director of Public Prosecutions, as part of the annual planning cycle, his role--and that of the Crown Prosecution Service--in the criminal justice system. There are no plans to change his statutory position or powers.
CPS (Disclosure Guidelines)
29. Mr. Mullin : To ask the Attorney-General if he has any plans to amend the guidelines issued in 1981 relating to disclosure by the Crown prosecution service ; and if he will make a statement.
The Attorney-General : No. The question of disclosure has ceased to be one of good practice--as under the guidelines issued by my predecessor in 1981--and is now a matter of rights and obligations. Further guidelines would not be a suitable means of effecting any modification deemed necessary.
Serious Fraud Office
31. Mr. Favell : To ask the Attorney-General how many overseas visits have been made by Serious Fraud Office staff since 5 December.
The Attorney-General : Five overseas visits have been made by Serious Fraud Office staff since 5 December 1991 in the course of current inquiries.
Mr. Skinner : To ask the Attorney-General how many prosecutions of City institutions for fraud were brought by the Serious Fraud Office in 1991 ; and if he will make a statement.
The Attorney-General : In 1991 the Serious Fraud Office commenced prosecutions in 14 different cases against 45 individual defendants. Proceedings were concluded during 1991 in 25 cases and trials were commenced but not concluded in three others. In the same period 45 defendants were convicted of or pleaded guilty to one or more criminal offence and eight defendants were acquitted at court of trial. The conviction rate of 85 per cent. which indicates the effectiveness of the Serious Fraud Office in investigating and prosecuting serious or complex fraud. The figures are not susceptible to classification in the manner suggested by the hon. Member's questions.
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Mr. Hood : To ask the Attorney-General if he will call for a report from the Director of the Serious Fraud Office on property stolen from the National Union of Mineworkers discovered in the course of the Serious Fraud Office investigation of Mirror Group Newspapers.
The Attorney-General : No. No allegations of this nature have been brought to the attention of the director of the Serious Fraud Office in the course of the investigations of Mirror Group Newspapers or at all.
Covenants
Mr. Thurnham : To ask the Attorney-General what discussions he has had with the Law Reform Committee about the enforcement of covenants.
The Attorney-General : There have been no discussions with the Law Reform Committee about the enforcement of covenants. The Law Commission issued a report on "Transfer of Land : Obsolete Restrictive Covenants" (Law Com. No. 201, HC 546) in July 1991. The Lord Chancellor is considering the commission's recommendations.
Northern Ireland Court of Appeal
Mr. Harry Barnes : To ask the Attorney-General how many cases he referred to the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland in 1991 ; and what were the grounds in each case.
The Attorney-General : In 1991 I referred two cases to the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland. One case was referred under section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 on the ground that the sentences were unduly lenient. The other case was referred under section 15 of the Criminal Appeal (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 on a point of law arising under section 18(1) (b) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1989.
Mortgage Repossessions
Mr. Callaghan : To ask the Attorney-General how many court actions relating to mortgage repossessions there were in the Heywood and Middleton constituency since 1979.
The Attorney-General : The number of mortgage possession actions entered and orders made in the county courts of Bury and Oldham, which cover the Heywood and Middleton area respectively, is given below. This information is only available from 1987. Not all the orders made will have resulted in the issue and execution of warrants of possession.
Mortgage Possession-Actions Entered and Orders
Made
Bury County CourOldham County Court
|Actions|Orders |Actions|Orders
|entered|made |entered|made
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1987 |552 |390 |619 |435
1988 |485 |269 |576 |376
1989 |448 |357 |506 |386
1990 |423 |367 |595 |328
1991<1> |764 |649 |833 |517
<1> January to November.
Union Flag
Mr. John D. Taylor : To ask the Attorney-General why the Union flag was not flown on the flag poles at the courthouse in Armagh city on Christmas day 1991 ; what
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new arrangements will be made to fly the Union flag on appropriate dates at this location ; and if he will make a statement.The Attorney-General : The Union flag was not flown at the courthouse in Armagh city on Christmas day through oversight.
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