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Mr. McLoughlin : In the United Kingdom the Civil Aviation Authority is responsible for co-ordinating research on civil flight safety. The machinery for this co-ordination is being reviewed, so as both to increase managerial accountability within the authority and to obtain additional advice from outside.
Research on flight safety in Europe is co-ordinated as appropriate through the joint aviation authorities or Eurocontrol. I expect to see more extensive co-ordination of research in this field in the years ahead.
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Severn Bridge
Mr. Edwards : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what percentage increase in tolls on the Severn bridge will be introduced in April ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Chope : [holding answer 20 February 1992] : The tolls which will apply from 26 April, as provided for under the Severn Bridges Act 1992, involve the following increases over the current tolls at the Severn bridge, based on the cost of a return trip over the bridge :
|Per cent.
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Cars and motor caravans |40
Light vans and minibuses |180
Buses and goods vehicles |110
These increases are a reflection of the cost of building the second Severn bridge, which will provide a substantial and eagerly awaited improvement in the road links between south Wales and England.
NATIONAL FINANCE
Civil Service (Scotland)
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list how many non-Scottish Office civil service jobs there are in Scotland by Government Department and location of employment.
Mr. Maples : The number of non-industrial civil servants employed in Scotland--other than in the Scottish Office--at 1 October 1991 totalled 37,926. Table 1 gives a detailed breakdown by Department and by Scottish region.
In addition, another 6,355 industrial civil servants were employed in Scotland--other than in the Scottish Office--at 1 April 1991 (the latest available information). Table 2 gives a departmental analysis. No breakdown by Scottish region is available.
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Table 1
Non-industrial staff in post in Scotland by Department
(including Agencies) and Scottish region
at 1 October 1991 (excluding Scottish Office)
Department |Highland |Grampian |Tayside |Fife |Lothian |Borders |Central |Strathclyde|Dumfries |Islands |Total
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 8 93 11 - 31 6 5 19 6 2 181
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal 3560 72 43 305 9 47 584 28 8 1,191
Customs and Excise |48 |250 |116 |34 |333 |11 |70 |790 |17 |28 |1,697
Defence |80 |272 |227 |1,467 |362 |1 |158 |4,032 |54 |90 |6,743
Employment Department Group 205 284 340 219 1,140 52 184 2,348 97 52 4,921
Energy |- |8 |- |- |2 |- |- |70 |- |- |80
Environment |- |- |- |- |47 |- |- |21 |- |- |68
PSA Service |16 |70 |22 |46 |453 |- |5 |254 |14 |13 |893
General Register Office, Scotland - - - - 303 - - 21 - - 324
Home Office |- |6 |- |3 |7 |- |- |219 |- |- |235
Inland Revenue |159 |243 |195 |137 |1,942 |45 |97 |3,752 |72 |- |6,642
Lord Chancellor's Department - - - - 17 - - 36 - 114 167
National Savings |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |2,562 |- |- |2,562
Ordnance Survey |10 |7 |7 |8 |24 |3 |5 |33 |6 |- |103
OPCS |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |108 |- |- |108
ODA |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |555 |- |- |555
Registers of Scotland |- |- |- |- |1,112 |- |- |- |- |- |1,112
Scottish Courts Administration - - - - - - 161 - - - 161
Scottish Courts Service |26 |51 |46 |36 |218 |6 |34 |369 |23 |6 |815
Scottish Record Office |- |- |- |- |117 |- |- |- |- |- |117
Social Security |174 |389 |427 |334 |1,465 |74 |315 |4,325 |133 |62 |7,698
Trade and Industry |- |1 |2 |- |47 |- |- |323 |- |- |373
Transport |32 |94 |32 |26 |197 |5 |5 |219 |7 |43 |660
Other |- |- |4 |2 |490 |- |3 |21 |- |- |520
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |793 |1,828 |1,501 |2,355 |8,612 |212 |1,089 |20,661 |457 |418 |37,926
Note: Figures are on a full-time equivalent basis, i.e. part-timers are counted as half units.
Source: MANDATE/Departments.
Table 2
Industrial staff in post in Scotland by Department (
including
agencies) at 1 April 1991 (excluding Scottish Office)
Department |Number
-------------------------------------------------------
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |13
Defence |5,432
Employment Department Group |5
HMSO |72
Ordnance Survey |4
Social Security |3
Trade and Industry |74
Transport |704
HM Treasury (inc. Forward/CISCO) |35
Others |13
|-------
Total |6,355
Note: Figures are on a full time equivalent basis, ie
part-timers are
counted as half units.
Source: Civil Service Statistics 1991 Edition.
Income Tax
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his estimate of the loss of revenue from income tax at (a) the standard rate and (b) the higher rate, of allowing husbands and wives to aggregate their incomes for tax purposes and divide by two ; and whether he will publish a table showing the loss by range of total incomes and the number of incomes in each case.
Mr. Maude : Approximate figures at 1991-92 levels of income are given in the table :
Total income |Number |Revenue loss
|of taxpaying |in a full year
|married couples
£ per year |(million) |£ million
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0 to 10,000 |0.9 |400
10,000 to 15,000 |2.2 |1,700
15,000 to 20,000 |2.2 |1,800
20,000 to 40,000 |2.7 |1,900
30,000 to 40,000 |1.0 |800
40,000 to 50,000 |0.4 |600
Over 50,000 |0.6 |1,600
|------- |-------
Total |10.0 |8,800
These estimates do not allow for any behavioural effect that might result from such a change in the tax system.
Mr. Bill Walker : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the value of income tax paid by Scottish-based taxpayers.
Mr. Maude : The amount of income tax liability for residents of Scotland was estimated to be £3.49 billion for 1988-89, the latest available year.
Mr. Bill Walker : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many Scottish-based income tax payers' affairs are handled by tax offices in England and Wales.
Mr. Maude : Of 1.9 million single people and married men liable to income tax in 1988-89 and resident in Scotland, about 400,000 had their income tax affairs handled by tax offices in England and Wales. The corresponding information about married women under independent taxation is not yet available.
Taxation
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing for 1970, 1974, 1979 and 1990-91, the amount collected in (i) (a) employees and (b) employers national insurance contributions, (ii) income tax at the (c) standard and (d) higher rates, (iii) value added tax and (iv) other indirect taxes.
Mr. Maude : The information requested is given in the table.
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£ billion
|1970-71|1974-75|1978-79|1990-91
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(i) NICs <1>
employers |1.4 |3.1 |6.2 |20.4
employees |1.3 |2.4 |4.1 |14.9
(ii) Income tax <2>
total tax liability |6.2 |11.8 |20.3 |59.4
total liability at higher rate |- |1.5 |1.8 |12.5
total liability at excess over standard rate |0.3 |0.6 |0.8 |4.7
(iii) VAT <3> |- |2.8 |5.2 |32.5
(iv) Other indirect taxes <4> |5.2 |4.9 |9.0 |24.0
<1> Excludes national insurance surcharge (levied from 1977-78 until 1984-85)
<2> Until 1972-73, Surtax, a deferred instalment of income tax charged at rates
additional to the standard rate, was payable.
<3> VAT excluding that refunded on central government and local authority expenditure.
<4> Other customs and excise duties. Includes purchase tax in 1970-71.
European Community Fraud
Mr. Gill : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what progress has been made towards implementing recommendations contained in the European Court of Auditors' report in regard to fraud.
Mr. Maude : The Community took an important step to combat fraud against the Community budget by the adoption, in 1989, of a 45-point action programme, which covers areas of irregularity, particularly in agriculture, identified in the reports of the court. The Commission produces, for consideration by the Council and European Parliament, an annual report on the fight against fraud which details the progress made. The action taken includes steps by the Commission to revise its operating systems, to simplify existing legislation, and to consider new measures to prevent irregularities in the implementation of the budget. The Commission is currently considering the measures needed to bring the 45-point action programme up to date, on the basis of proposals from member states including the United Kingdom.
The further important recent development was the agreement at Maastricht that the treaty should clearly place responsibility on member states to counter fraud affecting the Community's finances. The Maastricht treaty also seeks to strengthen procedures to counter fraud and irregularities by requiring the Court of Auditors to provide a statement of assurance on the reliability of the Community's accounts ; by making explicit the Commission's responsibility for sound financial management ; and by giving enhanced powers to the European Parliament to examine the Commission on the basis of the court's observations including action it has taken in response. The Government will also continue their active role in the Council, pressing to ensure that the scope for fraud and irregularities continues to be narrowed.
Mortgage Tax Relief
Mr. Battle : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would be the cost to the Exchequer of increasing the maximum limit for mortgage tax relief to (a) £40,000, (b) £50,000 and (c) £60, 000.
Mr. Maude : The estimated costs at 1991-92 levels of increasing the ceiling on mortgage interest tax relief are shown in the table.
Ceiling on |Cost of increasing
mortgage interest |the ceiling on
tax relief |mortgage interest
|tax relief for
|1991-92<1>
£ |£ billion
---------------------------------------------------------
40,000 |0.7
50,000 |1.1
60,000 |1.3
<1> The estimates are based on the distribution of
existing
mortgages and therefore exclude behavioural effects
which might
result from the change and could be substantial.
Privatisation
Mr. Battle : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, further to his answer of 10 February, Official Report , column 336 , if he will indicate which shares for each of the concerns privatised since 1979 are currently held by (a) individual shareholders, (b) pension funds, (c) domestic companies, (d) overseas companies and (e) others.
Mr. Maude [holding answer 20 February 1992] : This information is not held centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Overseas Private Investment
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the current level of total overseas private investment ; and what was the level in 1979 expressed at current prices.
Mr. Mellor [holding answer 20 February 1992] : The estimated level of United Kingdom residents' identified direct investment (at book values) and portfolio investment (at market values), excluding public corporations' direct investment overseas, was £312 billion at the end of 1990. The corresponding figure at the end of 1979 was £44 billion (at end-1979 values) or £74 billion (at end-1990 values). Figures for 1991 are not yet available.
Public Service Pay
Dr. Marek : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has any plans to amend the principle whereby thr rates of civil and public servants are a matter of public record.
Mr. Maples [holding answer 20 February 1992] : There are no plans to change arrangements whereby the Treasury makes publicly available pay scales, maxima and minima for the main civil service grades. The pay of individual officers will continue to be confidential to the individual, apart from in the case of a small number of senior staff whose pay is a matter of public interest.
Policy for other parts of the public sector is a matter for the organisations concerned.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Dentistry
Mr. Trimble : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the dates on which the equipment recommended in the Poswillo report for resuscitation and monitoring of patients in connection with the provision of general anaesthetic in dentistry was installed in each community clinic in the area of the southern health and social services board ; and if he will list those community clinics which have not yet received the equipment.
Mr. Hanley : The community clinics in the Southern health and social services board area which are equipped to the standards recommended in the Poswillo report are as follows :
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ClinicThomas Street, Dungannon
Dobbin Street, Armagh
St. Luke's Hospital, Armagh
John Mitchell Place, Newry
Each of these clinics met the recommended standards prior to 1990. As to the other clinics in the Southern board, equipment for the Banbridge clinic is currently being ordered, and the Brownlow health centre will be equipped to Poswillo standards when it reopens in the summer.
Cardiac Surgery
Mr. McGrady : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans he has to make provision for a fifth cardiac surgeon at the Royal Victoria hospital, at Belfast.
Mr. Hanley : The Eastern health and social services board is responsible for the management of the cardiac surgery unit at the Royal Victoria hospital. A fourth cardiac surgeon, who is a locum, has recently been appointed and will take up post on 1 May 1992 for a period of one year, with a review and possible extension at the end of that period. I am not aware of any plans to make provision for a fifth cardiac surgeon at the Royal Victoria hospital but I can assure the hon. Gentleman that a very high priority will continue to be accorded to the specialty.
Mr. McGrady : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans he has to reduce the waiting lists for cardiac surgery.
Mr. Hanley : The Government have provided significant additional capital and revenue funding to enable more cardiac operations to be carried out at the Royal Victoria hospital. An extension to the cardiac recovery unit costing £1.5 million was completed in October 1991, and funds of £300,000 were made available for a fourth cardiac surgeon and supporting team. A locum surgeon has been appointed and will take up post on 1 May 1992. In addition, health and social services boards are purchasing cardiac operations for their resident populations from other parts of the United Kingdom. It is the Government's intention in respect of the cardiac surgery waiting list to honour, at the earliest possible date, the guarantee in the citizens charter that no one should have to wait for more than two years for a cardiac operation.
Statutory Sick Pay
Mr. Beggs : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the estimated value of savings in public expenditure and the estimated additional cost to employers in Northern Ireland to date of changes in statutory sick pay regulations since 1990.
Mr. Hanley : The estimated value of savings to date is £5 million and the estimated additional cost to employers is correspondingly £5 million.
Public Appointments
Mr. John D. Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the Republic of Ireland is now involved in the matter of public appointments in Northern Ireland ; and if he will make a statement.
Dr. Mawhinney : The Irish Government may put forward views and proposals on the role and composition
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of bodies appointed by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland or by Departments subject to his direction and control, as envisaged by article 6 of the Anglo-Irish Agreement.Labour Statistics
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how man Protestants are employed by the establishment in the (a) Newry and Mourne council area and (b) Strabane whose employees are over 90 per cent. Protestant.
Mr. Needham : Monitoring returns submitted to the Fair Employment Commission in 1991 show that there are 118 Protestants employed in such concerns in the Newry and Mourne council area. There are no concerns in the Strabane council area whose employees are over 90 per cent. Protestant.
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many Roman Catholics are employed by the establishments in (a) the Newry and Mourne council area, (b) the Omagh council area and (c) Strabane, whose employees are over 90 per cent. Roman Catholic.
Mr. Needham : The information is :
|Number
--------------------------------------------
Newry and Mourne council area |1,971
Omagh council area |156
Strabane council area |319
The information is derived from the monitoring returns submitted to the Fair Employment Commission in 1991.
Distilleries (Financial Support)
Mr. John D. Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what has been the value of financial support given in each of the past five years to (a) Bushmills distillery and (b) Bass Ireland brewery.
Mr. Needham : The value of financial support given to the Bushmills distillery and the Bass Ireland brewery in each of the past five years is as follows :
Year |Bushmills |Bass Ireland
|distillery
|£ |£
----------------------------------------------------
1987-88 |96,151.98 |195,885.63
1988-89 |47,093.55 |9,113.50
1989-90 |9,678.60 |Nil
1990-91 |150,160.00 |Nil
1991-92 |169,176.27 |Nil
|------- |-------
Total |472,260.40 |204,999.13
Killough Conservation Area
Mr. McGrady : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what progress has been made in relation to the enhancement strategy for the Killough conservation area.
Mr. Needham : A contract has been let to replace the existing concrete bollards and further upgrade the Castle street car park in Killough.
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Roads
Mr. Mallon : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what was the total expenditure for (a) road improvements, (b) road repairs on (i) A category, (ii) B
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category, (iii) C category and (iv) unclassified roadways in each section of the Department of the Environment (NI) roads service in each of the last five years.Mr. Needham : The information available is as follows :
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DOE (NI) Road improvements £ million Road repairs £ million
Roads service |Class A and |Class C and |Class A and |Class C and
division |B roads |unclassified roads|B roads |unclassified roads
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1986-87
Ballymena |1.33 |0.82 |2.22 |4.23
Belfast |4.51 |0.52 |2.27 |6.43
Coleraine |2.43 |0.82 |3.41 |5.98
Craigavon |2.80 |0.41 |3.03 |5.34
Downpatrick |1.72 |1.38 |3.25 |6.02
Omagh |1.43 |0.56 |3.96 |5.03
1987-88
Ballymena |1.70 |0.78 |2.48 |3.98
Belfast |4.07 |0.65 |2.21 |7.10
Coleraine |2.79 |0.37 |2.16 |3.90
Craigavon |2.63 |0.40 |2.66 |5.58
Downpatrick |2.04 |1.02 |3.50 |5.88
Omagh |1.45 |0.80 |3.21 |5.74
1988-89
Ballymena |3.81 |0.41 |2.49 |4.03
Belfast |2.74 |0.73 |2.42 |7.41
Coleraine |1.73 |0.48 |3.04 |3.78
Craigavon |2.47 |0.51 |3.70 |5.20
Downpatrick |3.63 |1.34 |3.84 |5.82
Omagh |1.22 |0.86 |4.41 |5.71
1989-90
Ballymena |2.84 |0.46 |3.81 |3.72
Belfast |7.52 |0.83 |3.78 |7.60
Coleraine |2.03 |0.75 |3.60 |4.03
Craigavon |1.78 |0.91 |4.45 |5.08
Downpatrick |2.32 |1.26 |5.19 |5.62
Omagh |3.97 |0.77 |5.46 |6.00
1990-91
Ballymena |2.65 |0.36 |4.27 |3.93
Belfast |5.99 |0.97 |3.70 |7.79
Coleraine |1.70 |0.89 |4.12 |4.23
Craigavon |2.37 |0.89 |5.24 |5.45
Downpatrick |3.65 |0.75 |6.02 |5.34
Omagh |4.56 |0.55 |6.35 |6.30
Mr. Mallon : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the total length of (a) A category, (b) B
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category, (c) C category and (d) unclassified roadways in each section of the Department of the Environment (NI) roads service.Mr. Needham : The information is as follows :
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Department of the Environment (NI) roads service division
|Class 1 |Class 2 |Class 3 |Unclassified
|(A category)|(B category)|(C category)
|Kms |Kms |Kms |Kms
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Ballymena |401.4 |446.8 |663.5 |1,764.1
Belfast |157.2 |122.0 |114.4 |1,287.4
Coleraine |374.9 |522.1 |550.3 |1,832.8
Craigavon |445.5 |564.7 |1,030.3 |3,034.5
Downpatrick |419.3 |330.7 |597.8 |1,822.5
Omagh |525.0 |888.6 |1,762.0 |4,507.7
Rural Development
Mr. Mallon : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the total projected expenditure on (a) rural development division of the Department of Agriculture, (b) Rural Development Council for Northern Ireland, (c) interdepartmental committee on rural development and (d) other rural development initiatives in the financial years 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992 -93, 1993-94 and 1994-95.
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Mr. Hanley : Projected expenditure on the Government's rural development initiative is as follows :
Rural Development Division of the Department of Agriculture The DANI Rural Development Division has been established progressively since February 1991. Running costs for the year to 31 March 1992 are estimated at £145,000. Projected running costs for 1992-93 are £263,000. Subject to pay and prices increases the running costs for subsequent years are projected at a similar level.
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Northern Ireland Rural Development CouncilThe Northern Ireland rural development council was established on 31 July 1991. Expenditure by the council in 1991-92 is estimated at £396,000, including both running costs and assistance to community-based rural development groups. Financial allocations to the rural development council for 1992-93 and subsequent years have not yet been finalised pending the outcome of the council's deliberations on its strategic plan and budgetary requirements. Inter-Departmental Committee on Rural Development
The costs of the committee have been absorbed within existing provision.
Other Rural Development Initiatives
1990-91--£234,000, financed in part by the EC, was incurred on rural development pilot projects.
1991-92--Expenditure on rural development projects is estimated at £248,000, financed in part by the EC.
Allocations for 1992-93 and subsequent years have not yet been finalised and will depend on, among other things, the outcome of the rural development council's strategy and budget discussions as well as the pattern of expenditure on the NI LEADER programme--for which £4 million is available from EC and national resources--and on any rural development projects under the community development measure of the EC INTERREG initiative.
Housing Executive (Replacement Grant)
Mr. Mallon : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will give full details of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive's replacement grant scheme.
Mr. Needham : I have been informed by the chairman of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, which is responsible for the administration of the house renovation grants scheme, that details of the scheme are as follows.
Replacement grants are available in respect of those dwellings where on technical and cost grounds, replacement is a more effective solution than improvement. The executive will decide through technical surveys of the dwelling and through value for money assessment--economic assessment--which dwellings will be suitable for a replacement option. In general, dwellings which are suitable subjects for improvement at reasonable costs will not be considered for replacement.
Replacement will predominantly be aimed at rural properties which are considered necessary and viable to meet the housing requirements of the rural population. Such dwellings are likely to be occupied or have recently been occupied. Where vacant, the executive will have to be satisfied that replacement will be specifically required to meet the current housing needs of the applicants or members of his or her household as sole residence for the foreseeable future. Alternatively, such dwellings will be required to be available for letting. All new dwellings provided under this scheme will be required to meet standards set down by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and the normal statutory approvals--planning, building control, etc.--will be required.
The replacement grant will initially operate within the terms of the existing improvement grants legislation, and grant will be limited to the maximum grants applicable to the current improvement grants scheme.
The details are as follows :
1. £9,450 at the 75 per cent. grants level.
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2. £11,340 at the 90 per cent. (financial hardship) grants level. In cases where the higher eligible expense level applies for the first time, service provision in excess of £1,500 the maximum grant levels will be increased as follows :1. £12,450 (75 per cent.)
2. £14,940 (90 per cent.)
To qualify as being in financial hardship, applicants must be receiving housing benefit or rate rebate, income support or family credit continually for at least six months before making a formal application for grant or before the executive gives formal grant approval.
Mr. Mallon : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when decisions will be issued in respect of applications for replacement grants submitted in the past six months.
Mr. Needham : I have been informed by the chairman of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, which is responsible for the administration of the house renovation grants scheme, that no formal applications for replacement grants have been submitted in the past six months. I am also informed that to date the executive has only received preliminary inquiries and that decisions on these will be issued in individual cases where replacement is determined to be the appropriate course of action. Formal applications supported by the required documentation will then have to be submitted for processing and approval.
Mr. Mallon : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) how many applications for replacement grants have been received by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive ; and in how many cases a decision has been issued ;
(2) how many replacement grants have been awarded by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.
Mr. Needham : I have been informed by the chairman of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, which is responsible for the administration of the house renovation grants scheme, that no completed formal applications have yet been received and as a result no replacement grants have yet been awarded.
Water Charges
Mr. Mallon : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many requests for a reduction in water charges were received by the Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland) in each year since 1985, in each water board area ; and in how many cases reductions were agreed.
Mr. Needham : Information on the number of requests for a reduction in water charges is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
The numbers of reductions granted are as follows :
Financial Division
Year
|North |South |East |West |Total
-----------------------------------------------------------------
1985-86 |117 |210 |85 |225 |637
1986-87 |267 |262 |132 |232 |893
1987-88 |254 |227 |116 |199 |796
1988-89 |214 |177 |133 |150 |674
1989-90 |199 |227 |126 |172 |724
1990-91 |115 |122 |112 |126 |475
<1>1991-92 |196 |246 |112 |180 |734
|------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |1,362 |1,471 |816 |1,284 |4,933
<1> To 31 January 1992.
Police Traffic Operations
Mr. Harry Barnes : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) police traffic officers and (b) civilians working in police traffic departments there were in each year since 1981.
Dr. Mawhinney [holding answer 14 February 1992] : The information requested is as follows :
Year |Police |Civilians
|Officers
----------------------------------------
1981 |346 |23
1982 |351 |23
1983 |365 |23
1984 |353 |25
1985 |395 |27
1986 |363 |33
1987 |361 |33
1988 |316 |31
1989 |301 |31
1990 |320 |30
1991 |319 |30
Traffic Offences
Mr. Harry Barnes : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many motorists have been (a) charged with and (b) convicted of (i) reckless driving, (ii) illegal use of bus lanes, (iii) failure to accord precedence at zebra and pedestrain crossings, (iv) speeding, (v) failure to stop at a red or amber traffic light and (vi) drunken driving, in each year since 1981.
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