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distribution. I will cause a copy to be placed in the Library of both Houses. I commend the code in its amended form to all prosecuting authorities and to those, such as the police, who are responsible for the institution of criminal proceedings.SCOTLAND
Crime, Glasgow
Mr. Sillars : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what police powers Acts remain available within the boundaries of the city of Glasgow to combat crime.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The powers vested in the police in Glasgow are the same as elsewhere in Scotland and are found in the common law of Scotland and in relevant statutes. Questions about local legislation and byelaws should be addressed to the relevant local authority.
Electoral Registers
Mr. David Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the electorate for each parliamentary constituency in Scotland according to the new electoral registers published on 15 February.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The total electorate for each parliamentary constituency in Scotland, as at 16 February 1992, is as follows :
Parliamentary electors: 1992 register: by constituency ( alphabetical order) Constituency |Total ------------------------------------------------------------ Scotland |3,929,112 Aberdeen, North |60,623 Aberdeen, South |59,230 Angus, East |63,637 Argyll and Bute |48,436 Ayr |66,284 Banff and Buchan |65,631 Caithness and Sutherland |31,173 Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley |56,024 Central Fife |56,543 Clackmannan |49,441 Clydebank and Milngavie |47,773 Clydesdale |62,684 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |47,155 Cunninghame, North |55,490 Cunninghame, South |49,745 Dumbarton |57,894 Dumfries |61,773 Dundee, East |59,328 Dundee, West |60,386 Dunfermline, East |50,452 Dunfermline, West |51,310 East Kilbride |64,824 East Lothian |67,588 Eastwood |64,560 Edinburgh, Central |56,839 Edinburgh, East |46,157 Edinburgh, Leith |57,073 Edinburgh, Pentlands |56,433 Edinburgh, South |61,999 Edinburgh, West |59,702 Falkirk, East |52,387 Falkirk, West |50,631 Galloway and Upper Nithsdale |54,977 Glasgow, Cathcart |45,149 Glasgow, Central |48,383 Glasgow, Garscadden |41,675 Glasgow, Govan |46,199 Glasgow, Hillhead |57,586 Glasgow, Maryhill |48,791 Glasgow, Pollok |46,655 Glasgow, Provan |36,986 Glasgow, Rutherglen |53,325 Glasgow, Shettleston |52,381 Glasgow, Springburn |46,216 Gordon |81,097 Greenock and Port Glasgow |52,661 Hamilton |62,347 Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber |70,164 Kilmarnock and Loudoun |62,777 Kincardine and Deeside |67,216 Kirkcaldy |52,191 Linlithgow |61,979 Livingston |62,122 Midlothian |61,178 Monklands, East |49,059 Monklands, West |49,935 Moray |63,944 Motherwell, North |58,106 Motherwell, South |50,674 North East Fife |54,196 North Tayside |56,353 Orkney and Shetland |31,837 Paisley, North |46,867 Paisley, South |48,385 Perth and Kinross |65,826 Renfrew, West and Inverclyde |58,897 Ross, Cromarty and Skye |56,112 Roxburgh and Berwickshire |44,001 Stirling |58,814 Strathkelvin and Bearsden |61,924 Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale |39,907 Western Isles |23,015
Strathclyde Structure Plan
Mr. McFall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the source of estimated needs for land he inserted in the Strathclyde regional council structure plan.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : My right hon. Friend took account of information provided by Strathclyde regional council in its structure plan as submitted, of representations received and of evidence from a range of sources, before reaching his decision to propose the modifications to the Strathclyde structure plan update 1990, announced on 6 February 1992.
Mr. McFall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make it his policy to include estimates of land needs from groups other than the Scottish House Builders Association in the modified Strathclyde regional council structure plan.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : My right hon. Friend will be prepared to consider representations from any interested parties before reaching his decision on whether or not to approve the Strathclyde structure plan update 1990.
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Dr. David Clark : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give the numbers of confirmed cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in each region of Scotland in 1992, to the latest available date.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : For the reasons given in the reply by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to the hon. Member on 23 May 1991, Official Report , column 559 , these figures are not available.
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Child Care Policy Inquiry
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will give an estimate of (a) the total costs incurred to date by the inquiry into child care policy in Fife and (b) of the costs of the chairman, the adviser and the clerk with appropriate office support for a period of three years ;
(2) if he will give an estimate of the costs incurred by (a) Fife regional council and (b) the other principal parties represented at the inquiry into child care policy in Fife.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The estimated total costs incurred to date by the Scottish Office in relation to the inquiry is £792,000. This includes £500,000 in respect of the costs of the chairman, the adviser and the clerk with appropriate office support. I have no information on the costs incurred by others who are parties to the inquiry.
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland is he will list those inquiries into child care policy in Scotland which have taken more than two years.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Three inquiries have been established under section 99 of the Childrens Act 1975. Of these only the Fife inquiry has extended beyond two years of the date of establishment.
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when the inquiry into child care policy in Fife will be completed ; when the report will be submitted ; and whether it will be published.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : My right hon. Friend has been advised by the chairman of the inquiry that he expects to submit his report at the end of April. As soon as he has considered the report my right hon. Friend will make a decision about publication.
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will exercise the powers available to him under section 210(8) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 to meet the costs incurred by Fife regional council and the other parties to the inquiry into child care policies in Fife from central Government funds ;
(2) if he will exercise the powers available to him under section 210(7) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 to meet the total costs incurred by the inquiry into child care policy in Fife from central Government funds.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Once my right hon. Friend receives the report of the inquiry into child care services in Fife, he will consider whether and in what way to exercise the powers contained in section 210 sub- sections (7) and (8) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
Drinking Water
Mr. Bill Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he expects to publish a report on drinking water quality in Scotland in 1990 ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : A report has been published today by the Scottish Office Environment Department giving a national overview of drinking water quality in Scotland in the period 1 July to 31 December 1990, the first six months of monitoring under the Water
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Supply (Water Quality) (Scotland) Regulations 1990. I have arranged for copies to be placed in the Library. The report shows that the overall level of compliance with the quality standards was high, some 97 per cent. of all analytical results having met the requirements. For 48 of the 55 numerical standards in the regulations, 99.6 per cent. of all analytical results complied. The failures to meet quality standards fully did not represent a risk to public health.Roads Directorate
Mr. Bill Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he proposes to publish the report of the efficiency scrutiny into the Scottish Office roads directorate carried out in 1990.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : A copy of the efficiency scrutiny report and of the action plan on implementation of the report's recommendations have been lodged in the House Libraries. Copies of both are available for purchase from the library in New St. Andrew's house.
Assisted Places Scheme
Sir Hector Monro : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will announce the income scale which will apply to the assisted places scheme in Scotland in school session 1992-93.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : For school session 1992-93, I propose to lay regulations before the House in due course providing for progressive parental contribution for one assisted pupil in relation to family income as follows :
Part of relevant income to which the specified percentage applies
|Parental
|Contribution
|(percentage)
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That part (if any) which exceeds £9,218 but which
does not exceed £10,023 |9
That part (if any) which exceeds £10,023 but does
not exceed £10,842 |12
That part (if any) which exceeds £10,842 but does
not exceed £12,467 |15
That part (if any) which exceeds £12,467 but does
not exceed £14,965 |21
That part (if any) which exceeds £14,965 but does
not exceed £18,227 |24
That part (if any) which exceeds £18,227 |33
The relevant income scale is open ended, but the remission can, of course, be given only where the parental contribution is less than the school tuition fee.
Training, Scotland
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people were in training through (a) youth training and (b) employment training in each month from January 1991 to January 1992 inclusive in each of (i) Scotland, (ii) Renfrew, Dunbarton and Argyll, (iii) Lothian and Borders, (iv) Lanarkshire, (v) Highlands and Islands, (vi) Grampian and Tayside, (vii) Glasgow city, (viii) Central and Fife and (ix) Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway.
Mr. Allan Stewart [holding answer 6 March 1992] : The information sought is not available for the period from January 1991 to March 1991 inclusive, nor is it available thereafter in the format requested.
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The information shown in the tables gives the number of youth training and employment training participants for each month from April 1991 to January 1992 inclusive in each of the local enterprise company areas served by Scottish Enterprise and for Highlands and Islands and Scotland as a whole.Column 463
Youth training: Numbers in training
April 1991 to January 1992
Local enterprise company |April |May |June |July |August |September |October |November |December |January
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Enterprise Ayrshire |3,744 |3,602 |3,742 |3,838 |3,701 |3,740 |3,659 |3,980 |3,326 |3,657
Scottish Borders Enterprise |669 |595 |621 |595 |603 |601 |672 |657 |642 |643
Dumfries and Galloway Enterprise |1,141 |1,094 |1,105 |1,056 |1,105 |1,061 |1,036 |926 |1,064 |1,016
Dunbartonshire Enterprise |1,974 |1,939 |1,955 |1,932 |1,946 |1,922 |1,805 |1,802 |1,535 |1,796
Fife Enterprise |3,010 |3,016 |3,295 |3,269 |3,363 |3,373 |3,393 |3,330 |3,263 |3,422
Forth Valley Enterprise |2,706 |2,613 |2,638 |2,707 |2,621 |2,628 |2,637 |2,629 |2,618 |2,720
Glasgow Development Agency |5,856 |5,561 |5,604 |5,664 |5,733 |5,841 |5,753 |5,587 |5,794 |5,800
Grampian Enterprise |1,693 |1,419 |1,446 |1,404 |1,439 |1,716 |1,703 |1,748 |1,817 |1,920
Lanarkshire Development Agency |3,669 |3,719 |3,891 |3,566 |3,679 |3,579 |3,933 |4,023 |4,089 |4,441
Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise |4,257 |4,087 |4,370 |4,180 |4,402 |4,373 |4,359 |4,325 |4,321 |4,173
Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey Enterprise 617 613 638 589 617 578 590 530 565 604
Renfrewshire Enterprise |2,432 |2,339 |2,552 |2,501 |2,395 |2,325 |2,301 |2,262 |2,272 |2,334
Scottish Enterprise Tayside |2,927 |2,804 |2,840 |2,736 |2,767 |2,763 |2,736 |2,751 |2,717 |2,872
Highlands and Islands Total<1> |2,370 |2,396 |2,511 |2,248 |2,345 |2,478 |2,375 |2,437 |2,496 |2,519
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Scotland total |37,065 |35,797 |37,208 |36,285 |36,716 |36,978 |36,952 |36,987 |36,519 |37,917
<1> The Highlands and Islands total includes Argyll but excludes Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey.
Employment training: Numbers in training
April 1991 to January 1992
Local enterprise company |April |May |June |July |August |September |October |November |December |January
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Enterprise Ayrshire |2,160 |1,891 |1,543 |1,483 |1,472 |1,497 |1,563 |1,772 |1,575 |1,474
Scottish Borders Enterprise |191 |213 |196 |183 |183 |195 |194 |199 |176 |198
Dumfries and Galloway Enterprise |550 |556 |563 |533 |561 |625 |630 |602 |638 |617
Dunbartonshire Enterprise |856 |890 |955 |907 |919 |889 |878 |836 |839 |842
Fife Enterprise |1,176 |1,041 |895 |880 |904 |960 |1,043 |1,062 |1,111 |1,127
Forth Valley Enterprise |786 |716 |664 |673 |667 |674 |730 |759 |738 |814
Glasgow Development Agency |6,264 |5,640 |5,160 |4,780 |4,611 |4,289 |4,272 |4,198 |4,071 |4,100
Grampian Enterprise |800 |770 |750 |750 |730 |750 |780 |750 |730 |728
Lanarkshire Development Agency |1,768 |1,696 |1,748 |1,769 |1,708 |1,727 |1,828 |1,798 |1,736 |1,706
Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise |2,174 |2,050 |2,022 |2,028 |2,006 |2,090 |2,301 |2,400 |2,457 |2,381
Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey
Enterprise |337 |315 |284 |236 |213 |212 |222 |237 |220 |234
Renfrewshire Enterprise |1,307 |1,240 |1,164 |1,168 |1,144 |1,118 |1,064 |1,115 |1,025 |984
Scottish Enterprise Tayside |1,202 |1,155 |1,153 |1,119 |1,138 |1,166 |1,254 |1,313 |1,323 |1,334
Highlands and Islands Total<1> |1,122 |1,069 |988 |988 |1,018 |1,052 |1,077 |1,113 |999 |1,248
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Scotland Total |20,693 |19,242 |18,085 |17,497 |17,274 |17,244 |17,836 |18,154 |17,638 |17,787
<1> The Highlands and Islands total includes Argyll but excludes Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey.
Air Pollution
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide the most recent figures on air pollution levels in Scotland in each of the last five years.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 6 March 1992] : The most recent published information on air
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pollution can be found at section 3 of "The ScottishEnvironment--Statistics" Issue No. 2 (1989). The next issue will be published shortly.
Warren Spring Laboratory also compiles data on the atmospheric concentrations of a number of substances from a United Kingdom-wide network of monitoring stations. The available data from the Scottish sites are set out in tables 1 to 5. All data are expressed as average hourly readings for each month for the available years.
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Table 1-Nitrogen Dioxide
|Jan. |Feb. |March|April|May |June |July |Aug. |Sept.|Oct. |Nov. |Dec.
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(a) Glasgow
1987 |34 |38 |35 |35 |28 |30 |24 |23 |24 |33 |35 |38
1988 |31 |33 |34 |38 |32 |26 |22 |24 |25 |31 |36 |28
1989 |23 |23 |25 |32 |24 |24 |26 |20 |24 |29 |35 |38
1990 |19 |21 |21 |30 |32 |27 |24 |21 |26 |26 |30 |27
1991 |24 |29 |29 |26 |26 |25 |24 |21 |27 |27 |26 |30
(b) Strath Vaich-Ross and Cromarty
1990 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |1.9 |0.9 |0.6
1991 |2.1 |2.3 |3.8 |1.4 |0.9 |1.3 |2.1 |1.3 |0.5 |1.7 |0.7 |1.5
Note: All measurements expressed as parts per billion (ppb).
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Table 2-Nitric Oxide
|Jan. |Feb. |March|April|May |June |July |Aug. |Sept.|Oct. |Nov. |Dec.
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(a) Glasgow
1987 |84 |104 |38 |21 |19 |25 |23 |33 |33 |80 |92 |122
1988 |68 |38 |43 |47 |34 |36 |30 |29 |37 |86 |108 |42
1989 |24 |28 |36 |46 |25 |31 |31 |25 |48 |38 |126 |195
1990 |33 |27 |24 |37 |43 |31 |31 |26 |44 |60 |157 |104
1991 |83 |97 |65 |32 |32 |35 |34 |32 |47 |78 |76 |135
(b) Strath Vaich
1990 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |0.1 |0.1 |0.1
1991 |0.2 |0.4 |0.5 |0.3 |0.1 |0.3 |1.1 |0.8 |0.1 |0.2 |0.3 |0.3
Note: All measurements are expressed as parts per billion (ppb).
Table 3-Carbon Monoxide
|Jan. |Feb. |Mar. |April|May |June |July |Aug. |Sept.|Oct. |Nov. |Dec.
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Glasgow
1989 |- |- |- |- |- |- |0.6 |0.7 |1.0 |1.1 |2.2 |3.1
1990 |0.9 |0.8 |0.7 |0.8 |0.9 |0.8 |0.7 |0.7 |0.9 |1.2 |2.5 |1.8
1991 |1.2 |1.5 |1.3 |1.0 |1.1 |1.0 |1.0 |1.0 |1.4 |1.6 |1.9 |2.4
Note: All measurements expressed as parts per million.
Table 4-Sulphur Dioxide
|Jan. |Feb. |Mar. |April|May |June |July |Aug. |Sept.|Oct. |Nov. |Dec.
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Strath Vaich
1990 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |0.7 |0.3 |0.2
1991 |1.4 |1.7 |1.2 |0.6 |0.1 |0.2 |0.5 |0.2 |n.a. |1.2 |0.3 |0.6
Note: All measurements expressed as parts per billion (ppb).
Table 5-Ozone
|Jan |Feb |March|April|May |June |July |Aug |Sept |Oct |Nov |Dec
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(a) Penicuik
1987 |16 |18 |27 |36 |34 |24 |23 |20 |20 |17 |17 |17
1988 |22 |29 |28 |28 |37 |30 |29 |25 |26 |22 |22 |28
1989 |29 |32 |35 |33 |35 |29 |28 |24 |22 |24 |18 |15
1990 |28 |34 |36 |35 |31 |29 |26 |22 |23 |23 |19 |24
1991 |20 |20 |20 |28 |22 |25 |27 |26 |24 |20 |22 |17
(b) Eskdalemuir
1987 |16 |19 |21 |31 |30 |21 |21 |19 |15 |17 |17 |18
1988 |20 |25 |30 |26 |34 |30 |28 |24 |24 |22 |18 |26
1989 |26 |30 |34 |35 |34 |31 |31 |25 |23 |24 |18 |19
1990 |26 |35 |35 |35 |36 |30 |28 |22 |22 |23 |19 |23
1991 |19 |25 |25 |33 |27 |27 |31 |28 |27 |22 |22 |15
(c) Strath Vaich
1987 |- |- |41 |42 |29 |34 |29 |29 |30 |28 |26 |28
1988 |28 |36 |36 |37 |44 |31 |32 |28 |34 |32 |33 |36
1989 |36 |38 |33 |35 |42 |33 |27 |25 |28 |32 |28 |27
1990 |30 |36 |38 |40 |40 |36 |30 |27 |30 |31 |27 |31
1991 |31 |32 |32 |43 |39 |34 |35 |32 |27 |25 |25 |20
Note: All measurements expressed as parts per billion (ppb).
Food Industry
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the total number of people employed in the food industry in Scotland.
Mr. Allan Stewart [holding answer 9 March 1992] : The latest figure available, showing the number of people employed in the food industry in Scotland, comes from the 1989 Employment Department census of employment. The figure is 49,400.
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Scottish Economy
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish an index of production and construction for Scotland by market sector, indicating an annual figure for each year from 1974 up to and including 1990 ; and if he will give the figures for the first three quarters of 1991.
Mr. Allan Stewart : [holding answer 9 March 1992] : An index of production and construction for Scotland (1985=100) by market sector, with annual figures for each year from 1974 up to and including 1990, and quarterly figures for the first three quarters of 1991, is set out in the table.
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Consumer Goods
|Production |Total |Durable |Non-durable |Investment |Intermediate|Construction
|Industries |Goods |Goods
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1974 |103.3 |111.8 |176 |105 |92.1 |105.1 |113.9
1975 |99.7 |106.5 |158 |102 |94.8 |98.8 |119.0
1976 |100.1 |109.5 |165 |104 |89.9 |100.6 |115.6
1977 |99.8 |111.8 |160 |107 |88.6 |99.3 |120.3
1978 |100.5 |115.7 |162 |111 |85.1 |100.8 |119.9
1979 |101.1 |113.9 |149 |110 |88.2 |101.3 |113.8
1980 |95.0 |106.6 |124 |105 |86.3 |93.4 |107.5
1981 |93.0 |101.0 |109 |100 |87.7 |91.3 |93.6
1982 |93.5 |99.0 |114 |98 |91.6 |91.3 |96.4
1983 |93.2 |95.9 |88 |97 |90.7 |93.1 |98.6
1984 |97.2 |98.1 |93 |99 |95.0 |97.9 |98.2
1985 |100.0 |100.0 |100 |100 |100.0 |100.0 |100.0
1986 |97.8 |99.5 |93 |100 |96.5 |97.5 |98.4
1987 |99.7 |102.0 |93 |103 |98.0 |99.3 |96.3
1988 |107.1 |106.5 |104 |107 |108.2 |106.9 |101.9
1989 |111.7 |109.1 |114 |109 |115.4 |111.1 |101.6
1990 |114.1 |112.5 |111 |113 |114.1 |115.1 |107.0
1991<1> |109.6 |105.8 |108 |106 |110.4 |111.4 |105.5
1991<2> |109.5 |106.1 |110 |106 |109.9 |111.3 |107.5
1991<3> |110.2 |107.2 |112 |107 |112.5 |110.6 |110.7
Source: Index of Industrial Production and Construction for Scotland
<1> 1st qtr
<2> 2nd qtr
<3> 3rd qtr
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will indicate the annual average change in (a) total output and (b) manufacturing output in real terms between (i) 1974 and 1979 and (ii) 1979 and 1990 in (1) Scotland and (2) the United Kingdom.
Mr. Allan Stewart [holding answer 9 March 1992] : The annual average changes in (a) total output and (b) manufacturing output in real terms between (i) 1974 and 1979 and (ii) 1979 and 1989, the latest year for which all figures are available, in (1) Scotland and (2) the United Kingdom are set out in the table:
Annual average change
|Scotland|United
|Kingdom
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1974-79
Total output |+1.1<1> |+2.0<2>
Manufacturing output |-1.2<3> |-0.6<4>
1979-89
Total output |+1.8<1> |+2.2<2>
Manufacturing output |+1.1<3> |+1.3<4>
Note: The Scottish and United Kingdom measures
of total output
are on a different basis and are therefore not
directly comparable.
Scottish data are output-based GDP and United
Kingdom data are
average GDP.
Sources:
<1> The Scottish Office Industry Department.
<2> Central Statistical Office.
<3> Index of Production and Construction for
Scotland.
<4> Index of Production and Construction for
the United Kingdom.
Mr. Maxton : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish an updated table of Scotland's share of United Kingdom gross domestic product per head of population excluding the continental shelf for each year since 1961.
Mr. Allan Stewart [holding answer 9 March 1992] : The information requested is available on a consistent basis only from 1971 onward. The table gives the requested information up to 1990 the latest year for which figures are available.
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Year |Scottish gross domestic
|product per head as a
|percentage of the United
|Kingdom (excluding
|continental shelf)
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1971 |93.8
1972 |93.6
1973 |95.4
1974 |95.9
1975 |96.9
1976 |98.4
1977 |97.1
1978 |94.9
1979 |94.8
1980 |94.4
1981 |96.7
1982 |97.3
1983 |97.5
1984 |96.1
1985 |95.6
1986 |94.7
1987 |93.9
1988 |92.9
1989 |92.7
<1>1990 |92.6
<1> Provisional.
Source: Central Statistical Office regional accounts.
Note: A full set of regional accounts figures is available in the House
of Commons Library.
Brussels (Secondees)
Mr. Salmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people were seconded from the Scottish Office to the United Kingdom's permanent representation to the European Community in Brussels, in 1990 and 1991 ; and if he will break these figures down by Scottish Office department.
Mr. Allan Stewart [holding answer 6 March 1992] : A Scottish Office official with a background in the Agriculture and Fisheries Department was seconded to the office of the United Kingdom's permanent representative to the European Communities between April 1987 and
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September 1990 ; a Scottish Office official with experience in a number of Scottish Office departments was seconded in October 1990 and continues in post.ScotRail
Mr. Andrew Welsh : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what discussions he has had with the director or representatives of ScotRail ; what issues were discussed ; what future meetings are scheduled ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 6 March 1992] : Regular contact is maintained with British Rail by Scottish Office Ministers and officials. Such contacts cover a wide range of topics relating to rail services in Scotland.
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Homelessness
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the total in each district council area of households applying as homeless, by household type, for 1990-91.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 9 March 1992] : The table gives the available information for the 31,709 applicant households in 1990-91 for whom case returns have been received from local authorities. It is estimated that in 1990-91 there were 34,600 applicant households under the homeless persons legislation in Scotland.
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Applicant households under the homeless persons legislation 1990-91, by type of household
One person households One parent households Couple
Area |All |Under 18 |18-24 |25 and over |retirement |Parent |Parent |Without |With |Other
|applicants |and under |age and |aged under |aged 25 |children |children |household
|housholds<1> |retirement |over |25 |and over |type
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Scotland |31,709 |2,735 |4,398 |5,539 |940 |3,774 |7,670 |1,829 |4,325 |499
Borders
Berwickshire |16 |- |- |2 |- |2 |3 |- |7 |2
Ettrick and Lauderdale |17 |2 |- |2 |1 |4 |5 |- |3 |-
Roxburgh |109 |5 |10 |22 |1 |25 |13 |8 |21 |4
Tweeddale |49 |- |8 |4 |- |4 |13 |9 |11 |-
Central
Clackmannan |517 |54 |79 |94 |8 |43 |94 |54 |74 |17
Falkirk |1,300 |66 |217 |201 |26 |134 |291 |112 |201 |52
Stirling |566 |50 |83 |98 |13 |58 |134 |31 |92 |7
Dumfries and Galloway
Annandale and Eskdale |97 |2 |2 |12 |6 |5 |27 |14 |27 |2
Nithsdale |600 |26 |89 |119 |17 |58 |111 |73 |102 |5
Stewartry |90 |- |2 |2 |8 |8 |34 |14 |19 |3
Wigtown |105 |1 |7 |3 |5 |31 |23 |6 |27 |2
Fife
Dunfermline |308 |7 |19 |31 |12 |61 |96 |16 |61 |5
Kirkcaldy |1,325 |77 |163 |183 |29 |185 |298 |128 |248 |14
North East Fife |476 |14 |68 |76 |19 |37 |91 |71 |94 |6
Grampian
Aberdeen |1,482 |121 |144 |240 |66 |162 |380 |104 |247 |18
Banff and Buchan |225 |11 |8 |25 |10 |19 |70 |16 |60 |6
Gordon |279 |7 |24 |33 |8 |13 |67 |21 |94 |12
Kincardine and Deeside |45 |- |- |- |- |2 |22 |1 |17 |3
Moray |194 |4 |10 |19 |13 |14 |58 |16 |59 |1
Highland
Badenoch and Strathspey |11 |- |- |- |- |1 |4 |- |6 |-
Caithness |7 |- |2 |- |- |2 |1 |- |1 |1
Inverness |319 |5 |27 |35 |16 |38 |87 |24 |78 |9
Lochaber |75 |2 |12 |8 |1 |13 |14 |3 |21 |1
Nairn |40 |1 |1 |2 |1 |6 |12 |4 |12 |1
Ross and Cromarty |105 |10 |9 |7 |6 |12 |25 |9 |24 |3
Skye and Lochalsh |68 |1 |4 |14 |3 |7 |13 |8 |17 |1
Sutherland |10 |- |- |- |- |3 |3 |- |4 |-
Lothian
East Lothian |948 |40 |101 |162 |28 |88 |222 |126 |174 |7
Edinburgh |2,253 |271 |207 |226 |68 |476 |667 |76 |236 |26
Midlothian |143 |5 |7 |21 |3 |32 |32 |10 |26 |7
West Lothian |532 |50 |101 |94 |4 |47 |120 |45 |64 |7
Strathclyde
Argyll and Bute |330 |17 |26 |46 |13 |21 |76 |45 |76 |10
Bearsden and Milngavie |81 |2 |8 |9 |5 |8 |19 |1 |28 |1
Clydebank |655 |82 |96 |83 |14 |52 |224 |32 |70 |2
Clydesdale |446 |30 |57 |89 |15 |28 |98 |44 |80 |5
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |420 |13 |44 |34 |4 |58 |142 |23 |98 |4
Cumnock and Doon Valley |67 |4 |8 |14 |1 |11 |14 |2 |13 |-
Cunninghame |445 |36 |54 |36 |13 |93 |116 |26 |64 |7
Dumbarton |1,703 |152 |308 |368 |56 |156 |345 |112 |169 |37
East Kilbride |521 |47 |88 |94 |19 |38 |144 |22 |65 |4
Eastwood |10 |- |- |- |- |2 |3 |1 |3 |1
Glasgow |8,459 |1,074 |1,409 |2,277 |231 |893 |1,762 |166 |552 |95
Hamilton |329 |18 |18 |36 |13 |52 |113 |15 |63 |1
Inverclyde |359 |54 |27 |38 |15 |59 |111 |5 |39 |11
Kilmarnock and Loudoun |440 |23 |72 |69 |12 |53 |110 |26 |71 |4
Kyle and Carrick |599 |90 |72 |80 |26 |93 |108 |32 |84 |14
Monklands |309 |30 |55 |79 |12 |21 |74 |14 |20 |4
Motherwell |983 |41 |173 |182 |30 |90 |188 |111 |150 |18
Renfrew |937 |45 |225 |101 |28 |139 |217 |35 |102 |45
Strathkelvin |313 |2 |10 |19 |16 |53 |104 |20 |89 |-
Tayside
Angus |467 |48 |30 |47 |10 |57 |173 |15 |84 |3
Dundee |924 |79 |171 |65 |4 |137 |354 |22 |91 |1
Perth and Kinross |431 |9 |11 |9 |24 |48 |103 |54 |167 |6
Islands Councils
Orkney Islands |19 |- |- |2 |1 |8 |5 |- |3 |-
Shetland Islands |98 |5 |28 |16 |3 |11 |19 |6 |10 |-
Western Isles |53 |2 |4 |11 |3 |3 |18 |1 |7 |4
Sources: Case returns supplied to Scottish Office by district councils.
<1> All applicant households in 1990-91 for whom case returns have been supplied.
Child Care Law
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what action he intends to take to implement the recommendations of the Scottish Office review of child care law in Scotland ; and what the timetable is for this.
Mr. Michael Forsyth [holding answer 9 March 1992] : Having consulted extensively on the recommendations of the child care law review, we shall take them into account along with the
recommendations of the Orkney and Fife inquiries and the review of residential child care, when we come to prepare a White Paper later this year. The White Paper will set out our proposals for a range of reforms in the field of child care.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Auction Market Preferred Stock
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he has referred the accountancy valuation status and practice of auction market preferred stock to the Accounting Standards Board.
Mr. Redwood : No. The Accounting Standards Board raised the question of auction market preferred shares in its recent discussion paper on accounting for capital instruments.
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has had about the status of auction market preferred stock.
Bickershaw Colliery
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether the communities affected by the closure of Bickershaw colliery will be eligible for EC RECHAR funds ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Leigh : Bickershaw colliery is within an area eligible for RECHAR grants. The allocation of grants to individual projects within eligible areas is a matter for the programme committees.
Applications for grants under the Lancashire RECHAR programme should be sent to the office of the Department of Trade and Industry in Manchester.
Inspectors' Reports
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he published his Department's inspectors' report on the Animal Defence Society Ltd.
Mr. Redwood : On 17 April 1991.
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 22
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November 1991, Official Report , column 345, if he will propose legislation under which any hon. Members may examine copies of the inspectors' reports given to trade associations but not yet published.Financial Reporting Review Panel
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will launch an independent investigation of the operations of the financial reporting review panel.
Ramor Investigation
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 22 November, Official Report, column 347, if he will provide a breakdown of the total cost of the Ramor investigation, showing fees paid to the inspector from the auditing firm.
Mr. Redwood : The accountant inspector was paid a total of £651,609 as follows :
|£
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Inspector and accountancy support staff from his firm |568,762
Disbursements including VAT |82,847
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|651,609
Pre-fitted Plugs
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list all the bodies he (a) has consulted and (b) intends to consult on regulations to require that all new electrical appliances are sold with a pre-fitted plug.
Mr. Leigh : My Department is currently drawing up a consultative list from industry, trade associations, the enforcement authorities and consumer bodies, including those representing the disabled, who have an interest in the proposed regulations.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry which groups representing disabled groups he is consulting on his proposed regulations to require that all new electrical appliances are sold with a pre-fitted plug.
Mr. Leigh : My Department is currently drawing up a list of consultees with an interest in the proposed regulations, which will include representatives of the disabled.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 3 March, Official
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Report, column 130 , on fitted plugs, what consideration he has given to drafting the regulations in such a way as to make it a requirement for pre-fitted plugs on electrical appliances to meet the requirements of disabled people including those with wasting muscles and other difficulties in manipulating appliances.Mr. Leigh : The proposed regulations will not prevent manufacturers fitting approved plugs to their appliances which are adapted to meet the requirements of the disabled, although it must be expected that manufacturers will in the main fit the standard design 13 amp plug because this is most commonly used in the majority of households. Moreover the type of plug and devices which assist the disabled will still be available for people who wish to continue to fit them to their appliances.
Eco-labelling
Mr. Andrew F. Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what proposals he has for amending the trade description legislation to take into account eco-labelling ; and if he will propose that it should be an offence to claim a product is environmentally friendly if it has not been awarded an eco-label.
Mr. Leigh [holding answer 9 March 1992] : Many environmental claims are clearly within the scope of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968. We intend to amend the Act to put it beyond doubt that all such claims are covered as soon as parliamentary time permits. We do not think it would be right to outlaw environmental claims for goods not eligible to bear the eco -label but these claims will be subject to the Trade Descriptions Act.
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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Dr. Thomas : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proposals his Department is developing on (a) extending literacy and (b) sharing scientific research costs and results for submission to the United Nations conference on environment and development in June.
Mr. Eggar : The Government give high priority to basic skills--that is literacy and numeracy--education for adults. The Further and Higher Education Act will strengthen the position of basic skills. The Further
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Education Funding Councils will be under a specific duty to secure adequate provision of basic skills education for adults.The Government also support the sharing of scientific research costs when it is an appropriate and cost effective approach to a particular problem.
Data Protection
Sir Gerard Vaughan : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether school governors and heads who use a computer to perform statutory duties are required to make a separate registration under the Data Protection Act 1984 ; what steps he is taking to indemnify them ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Fallon : Guidance to schools on the implications of the Data Protection Act, issued last November, was prepared in consultation with the Data Protection Registrar. The guidance contained advice that school governing bodies and head teachers should register if, in connection with their statutory duties, they keep information containing personal data (as defined in the Act) that can be automatically processed. The guidance identified those duties which fall to either the governing body or head teacher.
The cost of registration under the Act was one of a range of pressures on LEAs which the Government took into account in fixing education standard spending at a level 7 per cent. higher than in 1991-92. Registration lasts for three years, and may cover as many purposes as appropriate, for a single fee.
School Leavers
Mr. Steinberg : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the number of young people in the Durham local education authority who have left school without any qualifications, the number going into further education and the numbers achieving higher education for each year since 1981 ; and if he will give the figures for each group in percentage terms from the total of young people leaving school.
Mr. Eggar : The table shows the estimated proportions of school leavers from maintained schools in the Durham local education authority area who had gained no graded examination results, or whose intended destination was further or higher education for the academic years 1980-81 to 1989-90. Information for further and higher education is not available separately at local education authority area level.
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Durham school leavers maintained schools only
|1981 |1982 |1983 |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990
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All leavers (000s) |10.04|9.46 |9.42 |9.93 |9.79 |8.73 |9.34 |8.40 |8.06 |7.76
FE/HE (000s) |1.65 |1.77 |1.71 |2.20 |2.16 |2.02 |2.26 |2.32 |1.94 |2.72
Percentage |16.40|18.70|18.20|22.20|22.10|23.10|24.20|27.60|24.10|35.10
No qualification (000s) |1.41 |1.10 |1.29 |1.20 |1.31 |0.84 |1.08 |0.81 |0.92 |0.74
Percentage |14.00|11.60|13.70|12.10|13.40|9.60 |11.60|9.60 |11.40|9.50
Source: School examinations survey.
Infant Education
Sir John Hunt : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will now take the necessary steps to impose upon local education authorities an
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