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Relocation
Mr. Patrick Thompson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what progress has been made in negotiations about his Department's move to Docklands since his oral answers of 2 June, Official Report, columns 707-13.
Mr. Howard : My Department's advisers are continuing to negotiate in respect of Harbour Exchange, East India Dock and Canary Wharf. In the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Betts) on 9 June, Official Report, column 150, I said that a fourth docklands development at Thomas More square, Wapping had been ruled out on the ground of cost. However, the owners of Thomas More square have now sought my agreement to be allowed to enter into the negotiations on the same terms as the other three contenders in docklands. I have agreed that they may do so.
County Hall, London
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if his Department has considered relocating staff from Marsham street to County hall.
Mr. Howard [holding answer 26 June 1992] : I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 2 June to the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Mr. Morgan), Official Report, column 368. In the light of that answer, I am not considering the relocation of staff to County hall.
Recycling
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 13 May, Official Report, column 126, to the hon. Member for Bristol, South (Ms. Primarolo) when the commissioned study into the use of economic instruments to promote recycling will be published.
Mr. Maclean [holding answer 30 June 1992] : We expect to receive the final version of the study shortly. I will then discuss the next steps with my right hon. Friend, the President of the Board of Trade, whose Department is co-sponsoring the study.
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DUCHY OF LANCASTER
Public Record Office
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what plans he has to introduce a citizen's charter for the Public Record Office.
Mr. Waldegrave : There are no plans to introduce a charter for the Public Record Office, though the office has published its quality of service and efficiency targets.
Market Testing
Dr. Marek : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what has been the total cost so far of the market-testing initiative in his Department since November 1991.
Mr. Waldegrave : The total cost of the market testing initiative in my Department since November 1991 is estimated to have been £139,300.
Dr. Marek : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will give a date when he will announce the areas of work in his Department to be market tested ; and whether all relevant information will be made publicly available.
Mr. Waldegrave : I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire, South-East (Mr. Paice) on 22 June 1992, at column 102.
Dr. Marek : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what estimate he has made of savings in his Department as a result of the market -testing programme.
Mr. Waldegrave : Market testing in the former Management and Personnel Office and in the Office of the Minister for the Civil Service is estimated to have saved some £290,000 in cash terms between 1986-87 and 1991-92.
Land Holdings
Mr. McCartney : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, pursuant to his answer of 15 June to the hon. Member for Don Valley (Mr. Redmond), Official Report, columns 360-61, if he will list each individual land or property holding of the Duchy, together with its location and capital value.
Mr. Waldegrave : It would be impractical to list each individual land and property holding belonging to the Duchy, which amount to over 1,000. A summary of land and property holdings is therefore set out.
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There are estates predominately agricultural in nature, in the following counties :
|Approximate acreage
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Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire |3,031
Staffordshire and Cheshire |10,901
Lancashire |10,617
Yorkshire |8,111
In addition, the Duchy owns some 15,000 acres of moorland in north Yorkshire and south Wales, most of which are subject to common rights.
The estates include some 273 agricultural tenancies and 3,696 acres of woodland.
Other property ownerships (all of which are freehold except for a long leasehold property in the City of London) may be summarised as follows :
(a) Greater London
The freehold of properties in the Manor of the Savoy bounded by Lancaster place, the Embankment, Savoy hill and Strand, including the Savoy chapel, and a building at 2/4 Lancaster place to 137 Strand. (
(b) Miscellaneous commercial properties in Harrogate which include five shops, 2 hotels and a house now converted to offices. These properties, in the main, are let on occupational leases. There is also the remainder of a residential estate developed over a period of 100 years or so producing 36 ground rents. The freehold reversions are sold to the lessees on terms which follow the provisions of the Leasehold Reform Acts.
(c) Single holdings--those not forming part of an estate--of commercial property in Hadley Wood, Leicester, Lewes and London, other than the Savoy estate. Except for four properties in London which are let on ground rents, these are let on occupational leases. On the question of capital value, the Duchy values its properties for internal purposes only and figures are not published.
NATIONAL FINANCE
Top Salaries Review Body
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the percentage increase and actual size in pounds per week, in pay for each main group covered by the Top Salaries Review Body for each year since 1979 ; and what the comparable figures were for an employee on national average earnings for each of those years.
Mr. Portillo : The information requested is set out in the table.
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per week
|1979 |1980 |1981 |1982 |1983 |1984 |1985
|£ |per |£ |per |£ |per |£ |per |£ |per |£ |per |£
|cent. |cent. |cent. |cent. |cent. |cent.
|increase |increase |increase |increase |increase |increase
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Average Earnings<1> |89.60 |23.0 |110.20 |13.3 |124.90 |9.3 |136.50 |8.6 |148.30 |7.4 |159.30 |7.3 |171.00
Senior Civil Servants
Head of the Civil Service |593.87 |8.1 |641.76 |7.0 |686.69 |17.2 |804.60 |14.3 |919.54 |6.8 |981.80 |46.3 |1,436.78
Permanent Secretary to the Treasury |593.87 |8.1 |641.76 |7.0 |686.69 |17.2 |804.60 |14.3 |919.54 |6.8 |981.80 |36.6 |1,341.00
Grade 1 |545.98 |8.8 |593.88 |7.0 |635.44 |13.8 |723.18 |13.2 |818.97 |6.4 |871.65 |31.9 |1,149.43
Grade 1A |498.08 |9.6 |545.98 |7.0 |584.19 |14.8 |670.50 |12.9 |756.70 |6.3 |804.60 |31.0 |1,053.64
Grade 2
range minimum<2> |766.28
range maximum |431.03 |8.9 |469.35 |7.0 |502.20 |15.4 |579.50 |13.2 |656.13 |6.6 |699.23 |15.1 |804.60
Grade 3
range minimum<2> |593.87
range maximum |344.83 |13.9 |392.72 |7.0 |420.21 |14.0 |478.93 |11.0 |531.61 |6.3 |565.13 |15.3 |651.34
Senior Officers of the Armed Forces
Admiral of the
Fleet
Field Marshal |593.87 |8.1 |641.76 |7.0 |686.69 |17.2 |804.60 |14.3 |919.54 |6.8 |981.80 |46.3 |1,436.78
Marshal of the
Royal Air Force
Admiral
General
Air Chief |545.98 |8.8 |593.88 |7.0 |635.44 |13.8 |723.18 |13.2 |818.97 |6.4 |871.65 |31.9 |1,149.43
Marshal
Vice Admiral
Lieutenant
General |431.03 |8.9 |469.35 |7.0 |502.20 |15.4 |579.50 |13.2 |656.13 |6.6 |699.23 |15.1 |804.60
Air Marshal
Rear Admiral
Major General |344.83 |13.9 |392.72 |7.0 |420.21 |14.0 |478.93 |11.0 |531.61 |6.3 |565.13 |15.3 |651.34
Air Vice-Marshal
Members of the Judiciary<3>
Lord Chief Justice |708.81 |8.1 |766.28 |11.3 |852.49 |18.0 |1,005.75|14.3 |1,149.43|6.7 |1,226.05|17.2 |1,436.78
Lords of Appeal |651.34 |8.8 |708.81 |10.8 |785.44 |17.7 |924.33 |14.0 |1,053.64|6.4 |1,120.69|17.9 |1,321.84
Lords Justices of |593.87 |8.1 |641.76 |11.9 |718.39 |21.3 |871.65 |14.3 |996.17 |6.7 |1,063.22|18.9 |1,264.37
Appeal
High Court Judges |545.98 |12.3 |613.03 |9.4 |670.50 |21.4 |814.18 |12.9 |919.54 |6.8 |981.80 |17.1 |1,149.42
Senior Circuit |387.39 |11.3 |431.03 |8.9 |469.35 |18.4 |555.56 |12.9 |627.39 |6.9 |670.50 |27.1 |852.49
Judges
Circuit Judges |373.56 |12.8 |421.46 |5.7 |445.40 |19.4 |531.61 |11.7 |593.87 |6.5 |632.18 |21.2 |766.28
District Judges |330.46 |11.6 |368.77 |6.5 |392.72 |17.1 |459.77 |11.5 |512.45 |6.5 |545.98 |7.0 |584.29
£ per week
|1986 |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991
|per |£ |per |£ |per |£ |per |£ |per |£ |per |£
|cent. |cent. |cent. |cent. |cent. |cent.
|increase |increase |increase |increase |increase |increase
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Average Earnings<1> |8.0 |184.70 |7.7 |198.90 |9.8 |218.40 |9.7 |239.70 |9.8 |263.10 |8.2 |284.70
Senior Civil Servants
Head of the Civil |3.2 |1,482.76|4.7 |1,551.72|5.2 |1,633.14|5.0 |1,714.56|7.0 |1,834.29|9.4 |2,006.70
Service
Permanent Secretary |3.4 |1,386.97|4.6 |1,451.15|5.3 |1,527.78|5.0 |1,604.41|6.9 |1,714.56|9.5 |1,877.39
to the Treasury
Grade 1 |3.5 |1,189.66|4.7 |1,245.21|5.4 |1,312.26|5.1 |1,379.31|6.9 |1,475.10|9.4 |1,613.98
Grade 1A |3.3 |1,088.12|4.8 |1,139.85|5.5 |1,202.11|5.2 |1,264.37|7.2 |1,355.36|9.5 |1,484.67
Grade 2
range minimum<2> |3.8 |795.02 |4.8 |833.33 |5.3 |877.39 |5.0 |921.46 |14.1 |1,051.72|9.5 |1,151.34
range maximum |19.4 |833.33 |7.7 |1,034.73|5.6 |1,091.95|4.9 |1,145.59|7.5 |1,231.80|9.5 |1,348.66
Grade 3
range minimum<2> |4.4 |619.73 |5.1 |651.34 |5.3 |685.82 |5.0 |720.31 |16.5 |839.08 |9.6 |919.54
range maximum |17.6 |766.38 |7.5 |823.75 |5.3 |867.82 |5.1 |911.88 |9.5 |998.08 |6.9 |1,067.05
Senior Officers of the Armed Forces
Admiral of the
Fleet
Field Marshal |3.2 |1,482.76|4.7 |1,551.72|5.2 |1,633.14|5.0 |1,714.56|7.0 |1,834.29|9.4 |2,006.70
Marshal of the
Royal Air Force
Admiral
General
Air Chief Marshal |3.5 |1,189.66|4.7 |1,245.21|5.4 |1,312.26|5.1 |1,379.31|6.9 |1,475.09|9.4 |1,613.98
Vice Admiral
Lieutenant
General |3.6 |833.33 |4.6 |871.65 |5.5 |919.54 |5.0 |965.52 |9.7 |1,059.39|9.6 |1,160.92
Air Marshal
Rear Admiral
Major General |4.0 |677.20 |4.7 |708.81 |5.4 |747.13 |10.5 |825.67 |9.7 |906.13 |12.1 |1,015.33
Air Vice-Marshal
Members of the Judiciary<3>
Lord Chief Justice |3.2 |1,482.76|4.7 |1,551.72|5.2 |1,633.14|5.0 |1,714.56|7.0 |1,834.29|9.4 |2,006.70
Lords of Appeal |3.5 |1,367.82|4.7 |1,431.99|5.4 |1,508.62|5.1 |1,585.25|6.9 |1,695.40|9.6 |1,858.24
Lords Justices of |3.6 |1,310.34|4.9 |1,374.52|5.6 |1,451.15|5.0 |1,522.99|6.9 |1,628.35|9.4 |1,781.61
Appeal
High Court Judges |3.5 |1,189.65|4.7 |1,245.21|5.4 |1,312.26|5.1 |1,379.31|6.9 |1,475.10|9.4 |1,613.98
Senior Circuit |3.4 |881.23 |4.9 |924.33 |5.5 |975.10 |4.9 |1,022.99|10.3 |1,128.35|16.1 |1,310.34
Judges
Circuit Judges |3.8 |795.02 |4.8 |833.33 |5.3 |877.39 |5.0 |921.45 |10.3 |1,016.35|16.1 |1,180.08
District Judges |4.4 |610.15 |5.2 |641.76 |11.9 |718.39 |5.1 |754.79 |10.3 |832.37 |16.2 |967.43
Notes:
A.All rates quoted are national rates. They do not include a London scale introduced for Civil Service grades 2 and 3 in 1990.
B.All rates quoted were either paid from 1 April or phased in during the following year.
Footnotes:
<1>Source New Earnings Survey.
<2>Range pay introduced from 1985.
<3>Posts shown are key examples of those within the judicial salary structure.
Taxation
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will issue guidelines to local tax offices on the taxation of payments made to employees by way of compensation for breach of contract, classifying the schedule under which such tax is collected ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Dorrell : Payments of compensation for loss of office are chargeable to income tax under section 148 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988. Local tax offices have detailed instructions on how to deal with such cases.
Business Expansion Scheme
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide a table of expenditure on the business expansion scheme cross- referenced to standard regions, showing Greater London as a separate region, for each year from 1984-85 (a) at cash prices and (b) at 1984-85 prices.
Mr. Dorrell : I regret that the information requested is not available. Available information is published in chapter 7 of "Inland Revenue Statistics 1991". Regional analyses are given in tables 7.5 and 7.6.
Market Testing
Dr. Marek : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give a date when he will announce the areas of work in his Department to be market tested ; and whether all relevant information will be made publicly available.
Mr. Portillo : An announcement will be made in due course.
Dr. Marek : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of savings in his Department as a result of the market-testing programme.
Mr. Portillo : No estimate has yet been made, since details of the programme have still to be settled.
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Mr. Terry Davis : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which parts of his Department are going to be market-tested following the review which has recently been undertaken as a result of Competing for Quality'.
Mr. Portillo [holding answer 30 June 1992] : An announcement will be made in due course.
Departmental Staff
Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the responsibilities of each of the deputy secretaries in his Department and the numbers and ranks of staff reporting to each.
Mr. Nelson [pursuant to his reply, 24 June 1992 c. 223-24] : I regret that a column in the table was omitted from the reply. The complete reply is as follows :
The responsibilities of each of the deputy secretaries in the Treasury are as follows. The information on the numbers of staff reporting to each is contained in the table.
Deputy Secretary (Overseas Finance) :
Responsible for :
European Community Group
Aid and Export Finance Group
International Finance Group
Deputy Secretary (Public Finance)
Responsible for :
Fiscal Policy Group
Monetary Policy Group
Deputy Secretary (Public Services)
Responsible for :
Local Government Group
Health, Social Services and Territorial Group
Running Costs Division (part)
Central Unit on Purchasing
(also has responsibility for CCTA which is to be transferred to the Office for Public Services and Science in due course)
Deputy Secretary (Civil Service Management and Pay)
Responsible for :
Pay Group
Personnel Policy Group
Management Policy and Running Costs Group
CS Catering Organisation (Forward)
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Deputy Secretary (Industry)Responsible for :
Public Enterprises Group
Industry, Agriculture and Employment Group
Home and Education Group
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Deputy Secretary (Financial Institutions and Markets)Responsible for :
Banking Group
Securities and Investment Services Group (formerly the Financial Service Division of the DTI, transferred to the Treasury in June 1992).
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Grade |DS |DS |DS |DS |DS |DS
|Overseas |Public |Public |CS Manage- |Industry |Financial
finance |finance |services |ment and pay |institutions
|and markets
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G3 |4 |2 |2 |3 |3 |2
G4 |1 |1
G5 |7 |4 |8 |11 |7 |5
G6 |1 |1 |2 |7 |2 |1
G7 |17 |9 |16 |42 |17 |16
SEO |3 |1 |6 |37 |3 |6
HEO |4 |1 |10 |30 |13 |13
HEO(D) |2 |1 |2 |1 |1
AT |1 |2 |1 |3 |2
EO |9 |4 |8 |45 |10 |12
SAS |2
AS |1
SSO |1
HSO |1
SEA |2 |4 |1
EA |3
AO |11 |6 |10 |43 |16 |14
AA |4 |3 |7 |17 |6 |8
SPS |1 |2 |2 |2 |1
PS |11 |8 |9 |16 |10 |8
Typist |2 |3 |2 |4 |4 |6
SB2 |1 |1
Total |81 |48 |87 |265 |97 |97
Notes:
1.Staff in post figures as at 1 June 1992, except for Financial Services command which includes latest
estimate of staff being transferred from DTI.
2.Figures for part-time staff rounded down.
3.In addition to the above staff there are 761 staff in the following commands:
First Permanent Secretary, Second Permanent Secretary responsible for Public Expenditure (ie, the
General Expenditure Policy Group and the Defence Policy and Material Group), Chief Economic Adviser,
Chief Accountancy Adviser and the Establishments and Organisation Group.
HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION
Recycled Stationery
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, as representing the House of Commons Commission if steps will be taken to ensure that stocks of recycled stationery are permanently kept in all the stationery cupboards adjacent to offices.
Mr. Beith : I understand that steps have been taken for stationery cupboards to be stocked with recycled stationery where a particular demand has been identified.
PRIME MINISTER
Freedom of Movement (Doctors)
Mr. McAllion : To ask the Prime Minister if he will use the British presidency of the EC Council of Ministers to press for reform of the EC directive granting freedom of movement within Europe to doctors so as to include doctors who qualified in non-EC countries.
The Prime Minister : Before we could agree to any such proposals we should need to be satisfied with the standard of non-EC qualifications recognised in other member states.
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Our overriding aim must be to ensure that the safety and high quality of medical care provided for NHS patients is not endangered. The Commission is examining the issue and negotiations are taking place between health officials of member states.EDUCATION
Schools, Buckinghamshire
Mr. Tim Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Education when he expects to determine the school standard number reductions proposed by Buckinghamshire county council in respect of (a) Shelburne County first school, High Wycombe, (b) Loudwater County combined school, High Wycombe, (c) Gerrards Cross Church of England combined school, Gerrards Cross and (d) Waddesdon County combined school, New Aylesbury.
Mr. Forth : My right hon. Friend is currently considering the applications made by Buckinghamshire county council to reduce the standard number at these schools. He hopes to announce his decision on the applications in the very near future.
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Examinations
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) when he will publish information collected from the 1991 school examination survey.
(2) when he will publish information collected from 1991 Form 7d about the national performance in GCSE and A/AS level examinations.
Mr. Forth : The standard statistical bulletin drawing from the information collected by the 1991 schools examination survey--Form 7d--is expected to be published towards the end of July.
School Governors
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many new school governors he expects to recruit as a result of the school governor recruitment campaign.
Mr. Forth : Evidence suggests that around 75,000 school governor vacancies will need to be filled in the autumn. Our national campaign to raise awareness of governor issues is proving successful. We are confident that sufficient numbers of potential school governors will come forward.
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what plans he has to bring forward proposals to empower the Audit Commission to audit or appoint auditors for the accounts of grant-maintained schools ;
(2) how many grant-maintained schools have sought the advice of the Audit Commission under section 220 of the Education Reform Act 1988.
Mr. Forth : The Audit Commission is empowered to audit grant maintained schools, but it is for the governing body of each school to appoint their auditors. My Department does not have any information on the number of schools that have sought advice from the Audit Commission.
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what projections have been made for the number of grant-maintained schools for each year for the next five years.
Mr. Forth : I expect the numbers of grant-maintained schools to continue to increase markedly over the next few years and to see grant- maintained status become the natural organisational model for schools.
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will carry out an investigation into the effect of the grant-maintained status of schools on parental choice in Hillingdon, Ealing and Bromley education authorities.
Mr. Forth : The option of grant-maintained status for schools enhances choice for parents. We are aware that the allocation of secondary school places for September has taken slightly longer than usual this year in Bromley and Hillingdon. The Department has discussed the position with the two local education authorities and is encouraging co-operation between the LEAs and grant-maintained schools on a voluntary basis in order to minimise delays in allocations without restricting choice. The Department is not aware of any difficulties over parental choice in Ealing.
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Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether schools applying for grant-maintained status have to supply him with details of their admissions policy.
Mr. Forth : All proposals for grant-maintained status must set out the proposed admission arrangements for the school. The arrangements have to be approved by my right hon. Friend as part of the approval of grant- maintained status.
Pupil Exclusions
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will establish a national system to monitor the number of exclusions of pupils from schools.
Mr. Steinberg : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils have been expelled (a) permanently and (b) temporarily from schools in the United Kingdom for each year since 1981 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Forth : Where schools in England are concerned, information on temporary exclusions is not collected centrally. Information on permanent exclusions is being collected under the national exclusions reporting system--NERS--over a two-year period beginning with the summer term 1990. Data from year one of the exercise are being analysed ; those for year two are still coming in. My right hon. Friend will review the operation of the exclusion provisions of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 in the light of the NERS data and other evidence.
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