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Mr. Lennox-Boyd : As at 30 April 1992., the number of applicants in the queues were :
Settlement |Q1 |Q2 |Q3 |Q4 |Total ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bombay |0 |305 |393 |219 |917 Dhaka |324 |1,490 |205 |315 |2,334 New Delhi |0 |310 |260 |115 |685 Islamabad |23 |1,326 |236 |647 |2,232 Karachi |6 |87 |20 |7 |120
There are no queues in Nairobi or Dar-Es-Salaam.
Settlement queues are organised as follows :
Q1 Persons with a claim to the right of abode, dependent relatives over 70 years, or special compassionate cases.
Q2 All spouses, and all children under 18 years.
Q3 Fiance (e )s and others applying for the first time for resettlement.
Q4 Re-applicants.
Visits
During periods of seasonally high demand applicants for visit visas in Islamabad requiring a full interview can expect to wait up to five days. Elsewhere they are dealt with on day of application.
EC Directives
Mrs. Ann Winterton : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the title and subject matter of any directives or proposed directives
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from the European Community which have an impact on divorce law, abortion law, research on the human embryo, care of the dying, sexual consent, euthanasia, abortifacient drugs or related issues.Mr. Douglas Hogg : The only directives that have an impact upon any of these matters are provisions relating to abortifacient drugs, for which, as with other drugs, marketing and control are governed by a range of EC pharmaceutical directives. There are provisions in directive 65/65 EEC allowing member states to prohibit the marketing of abortifacient drugs under their own domestic laws if they wish.
Iraq
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on progress made by the United Nations special commission in Iraq in dismantling the Iraqi nuclear facilities at Ash Sharquat, Tarmiyah and Al-Atheer.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : In the course of the eleventh and twelfth nuclear inspections, the United Nations special commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency made excellent progress in dismantling Iraqi nuclear facilities.
Details of the 11th inspection are contained in the Official Report, available in the House of Commons Library.
The report of the 12th inspection has not yet been published. When received, it will be placed in the Library of the House.
HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION
Glass Recycling
Mr. Cohen : To ask the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, as representing the House of Commons Commission, how many bottles are used per annum in the precincts of the House ; and what provision is made for glass recycling.
Mr. Beith : Bottle bank facilities, comprising two 1,100 litre capacity containers, are situated between Peers Court and State Officers Court. The containers are emptied daily by a contractor who sends the glass for recycling. Records are not kept of the total number of bottles used or disposed of each year.
Mr. Mullin : To ask the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, as representing the House of Commons Commission, what veal, other than that reared in Britain, is used by the House Catering Department.
Mr. Beith : The purchase of food and other consumables in the Refreshment Department is the responsibility of the Director of Catering Services, who will be glad to respond to any further inquiries from the hon. Gentleman.
EMPLOYMENT
Training
Mr. Cummings : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many training places have been available in the Easington constituency in the years 1988-89, 1989-90 and 1990-91.
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Mr. McLoughlin : The information regarding the number of training places in Easington is not collected.Since 1 October 1990, training in Easington has been the responsibility of County Durham training and enterprise council (TEC). At 29 March 1992, there were an estimated 4,400 people in training on youth training and an estimated 3,400 people in training on employment training in the County Durham TEC area.
Mr. Cummings : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many 16 and 17-year-olds who are not in employment or education are not at present on youth training programmes in the Seaham and Peterlee areas.
Mr. McLoughlin : I understand from the local careers service, which covers the Seaham and Peterlee areas, that there are currently 165 young people in the area who are registered with it as not in employment or education and who are not in youth training.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what information she has on the skills being learned by employment training trainees.
Mr. McLoughlin : A range of management and evaluation information is collected by the Department about employment training (ET). Employment training is providing unemployed people with the skills necessary for them to get jobs in an increasingly competitive and challenging labour market.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what means she has to assess the quality of ET.
Mr. McLoughlin : Both nationally and locally the quality of ET is assessed through a number of different measures. These include the achievement of targets for positive outcomes and vocational qualifications ; analysis of a range of performance indicators and other management information ; and regular and ad hoc surveys and evaluation studies.
Ms. Coffey : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will make a statement about vacant training in engineering places in Stockport because of the inability of the training and enterprise council to fund young people to take them up.
Mr. McLoughlin : Through youth training, 430 young people in the Stockport TEC area are being funded in engineering training. I am assured by the TEC that no other young people have expressed an interest in engineering training under youth training.
Pensioners
Mr. Cummings : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people of state retirement pensionable age are in (a) full-time and (b) part-time employment in the Seaham and Peterlee area.
Mr. McLoughlin : The area most closely relating to Seaham and Peterlee for which data are available is the parliamentary constituency of Easington. The latest available figures are from the 1981 census of population. The number of people of state retirement pensionable age in the parliamentary constituency of Easington working full time in April 1981 was 158. Figures for part-time
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employment are not available. Figures for both full-time and part-time employees by age from the 1991 census of population are expected to be released by the end of October 1992.Coal Mining
Mr. Cummings : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is her estimate of the number of jobs directly and indirectly dependent upon the present size of the coal mining industry.
Mr. McLoughlin : In March 1992, the latest date for which estimates are available, there were 66,500 employees in employment in the coal extraction and manufacture of solid fuels industries in Great Britain. Jobs indirectly dependent upon the size of the coal mining industry are classified to those industries in which they occur--for example, the production and distribution industries--and are not separately identified.
Unemployment
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the level of male unemployment in 1982 and at the latest available date in Alyn and Deeside.
Mr. McLoughlin : Information on the numbers claiming
unemployment-related benefits for local areas such as parliamentary constituencies has only been available since June 1983.
In June 1983 there were 3,393 claimant unemployed men in the Alyn and Deeside parliamentary constituency. In April 1992, the latest date for which figures are available, the equivalent figure was 2, 249.
These figures are on the unadjusted basis and are therefore affected by both seasonal influences and by changes in the coverage of the count.
Working Women
Mr. Bowden : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether she will list the members of the working group looking at women's opportunities in the workplace and beyond announced on 20 May.
Mr. McLoughlin : The first members are as follows :
Lady Howe Chairman, Business in the Community's
Women's Economic Development Team;
Responsible for Opportunity 2000;
Former Deputy Chairman Equal
Opportunities Commission.
Joanna Foster Chairman, Equal Opportunities
Commission.
Sue Slipman Director, National Council for One Parent
Families.
Baroness Denton Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Department of Trade;
Industry and Government Co-chair,
Women's National Commission.
Sue Rorstad Chairman and managing Director, Poppies
UK Ltd.
Peter Davies Chief Executive, Reed International plc.
Sheila Forbes Group Personnel Director, Storehouse plc. Kay Coleman Chief Executive,
Harvey and co. (clothing) Ltd.
Graham Millar Managing Director, Nestle Rowntree.
Dr. Susan McRae Senior Fellow, Policy Studies Institute. Sir Bryan Nicholson Chairman, Post Office;
Chairman, National Council for Vocational
Qualifications;
Former Chairman, Manpower Services
Commission.
Margaret Seymour Managing Director, Seymour Swimming;
Pool Engineers accompaniment.
Market Testing
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will list all those functions and areas in her Department and associated agencies that have been identified for market testing in the wake of the White Paper "Competing for Quality".
Mr. Michael Forsyth : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is still considering the proposals put forward by the Department. An announcement will be made shortly.
Sheep Dip
Mr. Tyler : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when she will publish the Health and Safety Executive's report "Sheep Dip 1990" by Dr. Carole Davidson and Mr. Brian Blatchford.
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Mr. McLoughlin : A summary of the report is available and is in the Library. Further copies are available free of charge from the Health and Safety Executive's office at the National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh. The report itself is an internal working document and will not be published.
Health and Safety
Mr. Cryer : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many prosecutions have been brought under the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1976 and associated legislation in Scotland in each year from 1982 to 1991 ; and how many inspection days it is estimated were saved as a result of all proceedings being conducted by the Crown prosecution service.
Mr. McLoughlin : The number of complaints brought by the procurator fiscal in the sheriff court in Scotland under the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974 and associated legislation by HSE's inspectorates and by local authorities for the period 1 January 1982 to 31 March 1991 is given in the table. The information required to estimate the figure requested is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, whether or not an inspector personally conducts proceedings, he or she has to prepare a case and may also appear as a witness.
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Number of complaints initiated in Scotland by HSE inspectorates and local authorities 1982-91
|Factory and|Mines<1> |OS |NII |Railway |Local |Total
|Agriculture |authority
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1982 |257 |0 |6 |0 |1 |n/a |n/a
1983 |283 |0 |4 |0 |0 |n/a |n/a
1984 |220 |0 |3 |0 |0 |n/a |n/a
1985 |300 |0 |9 |0 |1 |57 |367
1986 January/March |89 |0 |1 |0 |0 |n/a |n/a
1986-87<2> |273 |1 |2 |0 |0 |53 |329
1987-88 |225 |2 |1 |1 |3 |36 |267
1988-89 |248 |3 |4 |0 |0 |206 |461
1989-90 |360 |2 |2 |0 |0 |86 |450
1990-91 |<3>253 |0 |7 |0 |1 |50 |311
Notes:
1. NII=Nuclear installations inspectorate.
2. OS=Offshore.
<1> Includes HSE quarries inspectorate until 1989-90.
<2> Years commencing 1 April from 1986-87 onwards.
<3> Includes HSE quarries inspectorate.
Earnings
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will show average earnings per week for (a) males, (b) females and (c) in total for (i) manual, (ii) non-manual and (iii) all both (1) with and without overtime and (2) for each region and for the United Kingdom as a whole.
Mr. McLoughlin : Information for the regions of England and for Wales, Scotland and Great Britain can be found in tables 12, 13 and X5 of the new earnings survey report for 1991. Comparable information for Northern Ireland can be found in table 1 of the new earnings survey (Northern Ireland) report for 1991. Information on the numbers in the sample in each category, to produce combined estimates for the United Kingdom, is in table 24 of the Great Britain report and table 3 of the Northern Ireland report. Copies of both reports are available in the Library.
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Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will list, by standard classification, the categories of jobs which are not covered by wage councils and indicate (a) the number of people employed in these jobs both full and part-time and male and female and (b) the average weekly wage before and after overtime for employees in each of their jobs.
Mr. McLoughlin : I regret that the information requested is not available. The sectors covered by wages councils do not coincide with the categories used in the standard industrial classification (SIC) revised 1980, which is used to compile employment and earnings statistics. It is therefore not possible to identify those employees within SIC categories who are not covered by wages councils. The most recent comprehensive earnings data analysed by SICs are published in the new earnings survey 1991 ; and
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the latest employment estimates are in the April and May 1991 issues of the Employment Gazette . Copies of these publications are in the Library.Training and Enterprise Councils
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to her answer of 22 May, Official Report , column 336, if she will list those chairmen or women of training and enterprise councils who are no longer holding that office ; for what length of time chairmen and women are (a) appointed and (b) expected to serve ; if any of the ex-chairmen or women are no longer members of the councils' boards ; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. McLoughlin : The information requested on TEC chairmen who no longer hold that office is given in the table. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has set down criteria for the appointment of TEC chairmen in the TEC operating agreement.
The articles of association of each TEC also require them to make provision for the regular retirement and election or re-election of board chairmen. There is no present length of service prescribed for TEC chairmen. This is a matter for each TEC to decide.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AZTEC |Ed Holloway |No Bedfordshire |Ian Dixon |No Calderdale/Kirklees |Tony Gartland |Yes CAMBSTEC |Leszek Jakubowski |No Dorset |Peter Allsebrook |No Greater Nottingham |Ian Maclean |No Hampshire |Martyn Wylie |No HAWTEC |David Hutchins |No Hertfordshire |Tony Saint |Yes Leeds |Sir Gordon Linacre|No Manchester |Geoffrey Maddrell |No METROTEC (Wigan) |Paul Sneddon |No North Derbyshire |Roy Pelham |Yes North Nottinghamshire |Anthony Darbyshire|No North West London |Alan Coppin |Yes QUALITEC (St. Helens) |John Gillespie |No Rotherham |Ken Knaggs |No Shropshire |David Houghton |Yes South Derbyshire |Peter Burden |Yes South Glamorgan |Roger Helliwell |Yes Stockport and High Peak |Tom Weatherby |No Teesside |Peter Kerr |Yes Thames Valley Enterprise |Tim Evans |Yes Wearside |Anthony Wood |Yes West Wales |Peter Allen |No Wovlerhampton |Roy Carver |Yes
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Labour Statistics
Mr. Hutton : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if she will make it her policy to compile and release information on likely unemployment rates.
Mr. McLoughlin : No. Macro-economic forecasts are the responsibility of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. However, it has not been the policy of this or previous Governments to publish forecasts of unemployment.
DEFENCE
Army Air Corps
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 21 May, Official Report, column 261, which Army Air Corps regiment will be based at Dishforth, and as part of which divisional and brigade structure ; and where the two Army Air Corps regiments to be attached to 24 Airmobile Brigade will be based.
Mr. Aitken : Final decisions on these matters have yet to be taken. On present plans, the Dishforth regiment will support the new 3 (UK) Division ; and the two regiments attached to 24 Brigade will be deployed along with the rest of the brigade in East Anglia.
Laid-up Ships
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for defence where (a) HMS Courageous and (b) HMS Swiftsure are to be defuelled and subsequently laid up.
Mr. Aitken : HMS Courageous will be defuelled and stored afloat at Devonport. HMS Swiftsure has already been defuelled at Rosyth and is currently being prepared for storage afloat there.
Service Display Teams
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those service display teams currently in existence, showing the annual cost to defence funds of each team, the value and source of commercial sponsorship of each such display team, and the number of public engagements in the last full year of their operation.
Mr. Aitken : Details of established service display teams are contained in the table. Where costs are not shown, figures are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. In addition, individual service units may form their own local display teams, but information on these is also not held centrally. All service personnel associated with military display teams have operational roles. The commercial sponsors listed may provide financial or other assistance, for example, equipment or services. The value of such support is commercially confidential.
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Established service display teams
Display team |Public perfor-
|mances 1991 |(FY91/92) £k
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Royal Navy Historic Flight |26 |28
Royal Navy Helicopter Display Team |42 |139
(The Sharks)
Royal Marines Parachute Display |100 |300
Team
Royal Navy Field Gun Crews |50 |470
(Devonport, Portsmouth and Fleet
Air Arm)
Royal Signals Motor Cycle Display |87 |-
Team (The White Helmets)
Parachute Regiment Display Team |86 |-
(The Red Devils)
Army Air Corps Historic Flight |14 |-
Army Air Corp Helicopter Display |36 |-
Team (The Eagles)
Household Cavalry Musical Ride |71 |-
Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery |42 |-
Musical Ride
Red Arrows |71 |22,165
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight |334 (see note 1) |909
RAF Falcons Parachute Display |81 |825
Team
RAF Vulcan Display Flight |33 |292
RAF Queen's Colour Squadron |56 |986
RAF Police Dog Demonstration |70 |459
Team
Note: Includes solo performances by individual Flight aircraft.
Croatia
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Walsall, South (Mr. George) of 20 May, Official Report, column 185, which nation is providing (a) the helicopter evacuation assets and (b) ground wheeled or tracked transport for the United Kingdom armoured field ambulance in Croatia ; and whether he offered to provide appropriate United Kingdom assets for these tasks.
Mr. Aitken : The United Nations is providing all helicopter evacuation assets. The United Kingdom is providing its own ground wheeled transport for the field ambulance unit. There is no requirement for tracked transport.
Guards Battalions
Mr. Home Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 21 May, Official Report, column 262, if he will make a statement on the progress of his plans to provide a public duties increment for Guards battalions assigned to public duties, and on the future of the Tower Guard.
Mr. Aitken : We aim to ensure that following restructuring the Foot Guards have sufficient manpower to carry out their public duties both at the Tower of London and elsewhere.
Israel
Mr. John Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received upon the arms embargo against Israel ; and if he will make a statement.
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