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Further Education Colleges
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will make a statement about the role of Coopers and Lybrand in assisting further education and sixth form colleges with their new management responsibilities.
Mr. Forman : Subject to contract, Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte has been asked to carry out a review of the preparations being made for independence by each of the colleges that will enter the new further education sector on 1 April 1993. It will provide advice and assistance to individual colleges and will assess whether their controls and systems are adequate to safeguard the public funds to be entrusted to them by the Further Education Funding Council.
Market Testing
Dr. Marek : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what has been the total cost so far of the market-testing initiative in his Department since November 1991.
Mr. Forman : A preliminary estimate of the full cost of the market testing initiative within the Department and the Teachers' Pensions Agency since November 1991 is £55,000.
Dr. Marek : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what estimate he has made of savings in his Department as a result of the market -testing programme.
Mr. Forman : No such estimate has yet been made.
Dr. Marek : To ask the Secretary of State for Education 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.
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Mr. Forman : As stated in the White Paper "Competing for Quality", targets for the market testing programme for 1992- 93 for the Department and the Teachers' Pensions Agency will be announced later this year.Transitional Funding
Mr. Martyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much money has been allocated to further education councils under transitional funding arrangements ; and on what specific projects.
Mr. Forman : A total of £25 million will be made available to the Further Education Funding Council for England in 1992-93 to meet transitional costs involved in establishing the new further education sector, including grants to FE corporations and the running costs of the council. Funding for the Further Education Funding Council for Wales is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. I am advised that he has allocated £2 million to the council for Wales to meet transitional costs in 1992-93.
Special Educational Needs
Mr. Wilshire : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will publish a list setting out the percentage of children statemented in primary schools in each local education authority area in 1990, 1991 and 1992.
Mr. Forth : The percentages of pupils with statements of special educational needs in maintained primary schools, in each local education authority in England, in January 1990 and 1991 are shown in the table. Information for January 1992 is not yet available.
|c|Percentage of pupils with statements of special educational needs in|c|
|c|maintained primary schools in each local education authority in|c|
|c|England|c|
|1990 |1991
City |0.96
Camden |0.90
Greenwich |0.94
Hackney |1.06
Hammersmith and Fulham |0.90
Islington |1.27
Kensington and Chelsea |0.51
Lambeth |1.19
Lewisham |0.52
Southwark |0.99
Tower Hamlets |0.50
Wandsworth |1.50
Westminster |0.59
ILEA |0.90
Barking |0.41 |0.63
Barnet |0.46 |0.48
Bexley |0.98 |0.97
Brent |0.24 |0.27
Bromley |1.64 |1.71
Croydon |0.79 |0.66
Ealing |0.41 |0.55
Enfield |0.09 |0.08
Haringey |0.24 |0.27
Harrow |0.75 |0.87
Havering |0.69 |0.92
Hillingdon |0.34 |0.38
Hounslow |1.38 |1.70
Kingston upon Thames |0.52 |0.67
Merton |0.55 |0.76
Newham |0.47 |0.69
Redbridge |0.20 |0.25
Richmond upon Thames |0.90 |1.02
Sutton |0.73 |0.92
Waltham Forest |0.29 |0.33
Birmingham |0.35 |0.34
Coventry |0.26 |0.27
Dudley |0.56 |0.52
Sandwell |0.17 |0.17
Solihull |0.76 |0.77
Walsall |0.48 |0.67
Wolverhampton |0.73 |0.76
Knowsley |0.28 |0.50
Liverpool |0.24 |0.28
St. Helens |0.56 |0.65
Sefton |0.56 |0.68
Wirral |0.93 |0.98
Bolton |0.29 |0.37
Bury |1.39 |1.55
Manchester |0.12 |0.13
Oldham |0.76 |0.96
Rochdale |0.56 |0.64
Salford |0.33 |0.41
Stockport |1.25 |1.46
Tameside |1.19 |1.23
Trafford |0.88 |0.88
Wigan |0.50 |0.94
Barnsley |0.51 |0.76
Doncaster |0.33 |0.35
Rotherham |0.52 |0.78
Sheffield |0.79 |0.66
Bradford |0.22 |0.24
Calderdale |0.61 |0.69
Kirklees |1.06 |1.24
Leeds |1.13 |1.07
Wakefield |0.43 |0.45
Gateshead |0.22 |0.22
Newcastle upon Tyne |0.64 |0.64
North Tyneside |0.77 |0.90
South Tyneside |0.65 |0.63
Sunderland |0.51 |0.55
Isles of Scilly |0.00 |0.00
Avon |0.94 |0.71
Bedfordshire |0.61 |0.69
Berkshire |0.65 |0.79
Buckinghamshire |1.05 |1.17
Cambridgeshire |0.89 |0.86
Cheshire |1.30 |1.38
Cleveland |0.74 |0.75
Cornwall |2.12 |2.16
Cumbria |1.28 |1.44
Derbyshire |1.07 |1.17
Devon |1.42 |1.61
Dorset |0.46 |0.39
Durham |0.66 |0.75
East Sussex |0.12 |0.19
Essex |0.66 |0.66
Gloucestershire |0.30 |0.43
Hampshire |0.64 |0.91
Hereford and Worcester |0.30 |0.45
Hertfordshire |0.89 |0.98
Humberside |0.53 |0.55
Isle of Wight |0.64 |0.58
Kent |0.57 |0.70
Lancashire |0.70 |0.84
Leicestershire |0.74 |0.83
Lincolnshire |0.83 |0.98
Norfolk |1.50 |1.65
North Yorkshire |0.89 |0.99
Northamptonshire |0.48 |0.57
Northumberland |0.72 |0.83
Nottinghamshire |0.06 |0.12
Oxfordshire |0.07 |0.24
Shropshire |1.01 |1.37
Somerset |1.29 |0.90
Staffordshire |0.49 |0.59
Suffolk |1.51 |1.41
Surrey |1.56 |1.67
Warwickshire |0.44 |0.53
West Sussex |0.37 |0.40
Wiltshire |1.79 |2.02
England |0.73 |0.81
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School Places
Mr. Robert Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what information he has on the number of schools which do not have sufficient places to meet the demand from parents for their children ; and what provisions are proposed to enable schools to expand to meet the demand.
Mr. Forth : This information is not held centrally.
It is for local authorities to ensure that there are sufficient school places within their area to meet the demand. We have recently announced that we intend to make capital resources available to enable good schools which are popular with parents to expand, provided that, for schools which they maintain, the LEA give their application appropriate priority. We have consulted the local authority associations, denominational bodies and others concerned about this. Details of the operation of this initiative will be issued shortly to LEAs and others.
Second-tier Schools
Dr. Lynne Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to his oral answer of 23 June, Official Report, column 123, what time scale he puts on the elimination of second-tier schools.
Mr. Forth : The Government are committed to raising standards across the board, in particular through the national curriculum and by maximum delegation of responsibility to individual schools through local management of schools and, increasingly, by the acquisition of GM status. Steady progress is being made towards our objective of the highest possible standards in all schools.
LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
Asylum Bill
Mr. Darling : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, if he proposes to appoint any special inspectors in terms of the Asylum Bill introduced in the last Parliament.
Mr. John M. Taylor : There is no provision for special adjudicators in current immigration legislation. The Asylum Bill introduced in the last Parliament fell with the dissolution of that Parliament. The designation of special adjudicators will be addressed after the enactment of the legislation the Government propose to introduce later this Session.
Market Testing
Dr. Marek : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, 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. John M. Taylor : I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster to my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire, South-East (Mr. Paice) on 22 June 1992, at column 102.
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Dr. Marek : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what has been the total cost so far of the market-testing initiative in his Department since November 1991.
Mr. John M. Taylor : The full cost of the market testing initiative in our Department since November 1991 has been £84,495.
Dr. Marek : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what estimate he has made of savings in his Department as a result of the market-testing programme.
Mr. John M. Taylor : No such estimate has been made.
Land Registry
Mr. Lidington : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, what are the key performance targets for Her Majesty's Land Registry executive agency for 1992-93.
Mr. John M. Taylor : The table sets out the key performance targets that my noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor has set for Her Majesty's Land Registry executive agency for 1992-93.
|c|HM Land Registry Executive Agency|c|
|c|Key performance targets 1992-93|c|
Indicator |Target
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1.Productivity
Progressive reduction in unit costs |To achieve or better a 6 per
|cent.improvement over the
Progressive increase in output per |3 year period 1991-92 to
post per year |1993-94
2.Quality of Service
Speed
Percentage of pre-completion
applications handled in three days |92 per cent.
Average handling time for post-
completion applications |6 weeks
Accuracy
Percentage of pre-completion
applications handled free of error |99.65 per cent.
Percentage of post-completion
applications handled free of error |97.50 per cent.
Complaints
Number and kind of complaints |Targets to be established
3.Development of Land Registration
Number of registered titles compared |Registered 14.50 million
with estimated potential titles<1>
New and converted computerised titles
compared with manual stock<1> |Manual 8.50 million
<1>Activity in the conveyancing market and the consequent number of transactions directly
affects totals at the year end.
Legal Aid
Sir Ivan Lawrence : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what contributions to criminal legal aid by defendants over the past 10 years have (a) been ordered by the court and (b) been paid.
Mr. John M. Taylor : For the amount of contributions to criminal legal aid paid by defendants over the last 10
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years, I refer my hon. and learned Friend to my reply to the hon. Member for Wallsend (Mr. Byers) on 21 May 1992, Official Report columns 207-8. Information on the amount of contributions ordered by the courts is not collected centrally.Sir Ivan Lawrence : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what has been the cost of criminal legal aid to the Exchequer over each of the past
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10 years ; and how that cost divides between (a) magistrates courts, (b) Crown courts, (c) the Appeal court and (d) others.Mr. John M. Taylor : In each of the past 10 years, the cost to the Exchequer of criminal legal aid, divided between magistrates' courts, higher courts and others, was as follows :
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|c|Criminal legal aid expenditure (£ million)|c|
Financial Year |Magistrates |Higher courts |Other |Receipts |Cost to the
|courts |payments |payments |Exchequer
|payments
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1982-83 |56.12 |51.98 |5.77 |1.77 |112.10
1983-84 |62.18 |58.81 |7.12 |2.03 |126.08
1984-85 |68.06 |67.95 |10.21 |1.98 |144.23
1985-86 |81.35 |75.29 |15.22 |1.98 |169.88
1986-87 |87.07 |91.83 |29.59 |2.35 |206.14
1987-88 |114.02 |100.09 |37.84 |2.90 |249.05
1988-89 |127.39 |119.30 |39.78 |3.06 |283.41
1989-90 |151.48 |135.05 |47.94 |3.68 |330.79
1990-91 |174.90 |157.81 |56.01 |4.54 |384.18
1991-92 |212.03 |187.47 |76.32 |3.38 |472.44
Note: It was not possible to divide legal aid expenditure between the Crown and Appeal courts in each of
the past 10 years, therefore higher courts expenditure has been provided instead.
Criminal Proceedings
Sir Ivan Lawrence : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, in criminal proceedings over each of the past 10 years (a) what amount of fines have been paid by defendants and (b) what amount of costs have been recovered from defendants.
Mr. John M. Taylor : The total income from fines, fixed penalties and fees, and the total costs recovered from defendants and others in the last 10 years is set out in the table. The substantial fall in the amount of costs recovered between 1985-86 and 1986-87 followed the establishment of the Crown prosecution service : since 1 April 1986 most orders for costs are in respect of costs payable to the Crown prosecution service.
|Fines and fees|Cost recovered
Year |£ million |£ million
------------------------------------------------------------
1982-83 |113 |3.215
1983-84 |128 |3.379
1984-85 |124 |3.509
1985-86 |143 |3.775
1986-87 |159 |0.057
1987-88 |185 |0.111
1988-89 |189 |0.040
1989-90 |241 |0.044
1990-91 |269 |0.043
1991-92 |238 |0.046
War Crimes
Mr. Janner : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many files relating to war crimes in the Channel Islands during world war two are retained by his Department and withheld from the Public Record Office.
Mr. John M. Taylor : No files relating to war crimes in the Channel islands are retained by my Department.
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Court of Protection
Mrs. Golding : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department whether the Court of Protection produces annual reports or any other review of its performance in managing investments.
Mr. John M. Taylor : Reviews of investment performance for individual portfolios which need active management will normally be undertaken by the appointed stockbroker or financial adviser. These are examined by the receiver and the court.
At a more general level, the Lord Chancellor's honorary investment advisory committee meets regularly to review and comment on investment policy.
Public Trust Office
Mrs. Golding : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will set up an inquiry into the way in which the Public Trust Office cares for and protects the assets of people who are, due to mental disorder, incapable of managing their own property and affairs.
Mr. John M. Taylor : The work of the Public Trust Office, and in particular the work connected with the administration of the financial affairs of mentally incapacitated adults, is presently, or is shortly to be, the subject of a number of reviews. The office is being reviewed by officials of the Lord Chancellor's Department as part of the Government's next steps initiative. The Comptroller and Auditor General has begun a value for money study of the work the Public Trust Office undertakes in the care and protection of mental patients' assets. In addition, the Law Commission is also undertaking work in this area. In view of these studies I do not believe it would be right, or necessary, to set up a separate inquiry.
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Mentally Incapacitated People
Mrs. Golding : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department when he expects the Law Commission to publish its proposals relating to the adequacy of legal and other procedures for decision-making on behalf of mentally incapacitated adults.
Mr. John M. Taylor : The Law Commission published its consultation paper "Mentally Incapacitated Adults and Decision Making : an Overview" on 30 April 1991. That paper produced a large number of responses in the light of which the commission is now considering its future programme of work on this topic and may undertake further consultation before publishing any final proposals.
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
Population Growth
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in what specific respects the projected new United Nations Sustainable Development Commission takes account of world population growth.
Mr. Lennox Boyd : The details of the Sustainable Development Commission will be considered by the United Nations General Assembly in the autumn. The commission will be looking at all aspects of the follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, of which population growth is an important part.
Malawi
Sir David Steel : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what measures Her Majesty's Government have taken to ensure that the humanitarian aid for Malawi is reaching the targeted groups.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The £7 million of United Kingdom bilateral humanitarian aid recently committed to Malawi is being channelled through the World Food Programme and non-governmental organisations which have established procedures and the capacity of targeting beneficiaries and for monitoring the effectiveness of aid delivery. In Malawi, Her Majesty's Government's representatives are participating in a committee, consisting of the Malawi Government, donors and non-governmental organisations which has been established to monitor the drought situation, including the identification and targeting of those most in need.
Population Control
Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the sums given to (a) the International Planned Parenthood Federation and (b) the United Nations population fund in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The information is as follows :
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£ thousands
|IPPF |UNFPA
------------------------------------
1981 |2,150 |2,250
1982 |2,550 |2,650
1983 |2,700 |2,700
1984 |3,000 |3,000
1985 |4,500 |4,500
1986 |5,400 |4,500
1987 |6,000 |5,000
1988 |5,479 |5,250
1989 |<1>8,255|5,500
1990 |<1>7,488|<2>6,000
1991 |7,262<3>|7,500
<1>From 1989 onwards the figures
include contributions to IPPF Aids
unit.
<2>£3 million of 1990 contribution
actually paid in February 1991.
<3>Provisional.
Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1) what sums have been given to the Chinese Government for the purposes of population control ;
(2) what grants have been given by the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the United Nations population fund partly or wholly for the purpose of aiding population control programmes in China ; and what sums are involved.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : We have made no bilateral contributions to the Chinese Government for the purposes of population control. The International Planned Parenthood Federation is contributing some US$1 million a year in technical and financial support to the non-governmental Family Planning Association of China. The Chinese FPA's programme covers family life and parenting education, including information on the full range of contraceptive methods provided through the Government services, to help increase people's awareness of the choices available to them. It supplies no clinical services. The United Nations population fund contributes some US$10 million a year focusing on provision of reliable contraceptives, the extension of maternal and child health care and family planning services, development of special income generating and community development projects to improve the lives and status of rural women, and strengthening population education in schools.
The British Government do not and will not support coercive approaches to family planning or the use of abortion as a means of contraception : nor do either of these organisations.
Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has on the refusal of the United States Government to provide funds for both the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the United Nations population fund since 1984 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The United States Government do not support the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the United Nations population fund under its "Mexico City Population Policy" set out in 1984, and the subsequent Kemp-Kasten amendment enacted in 1985. A United States Administration explanation of their policy has been deposited in the Libraries of the House. The United States has not withdrawn from funding
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population programmes worldwide and remains the largest bilateral aid donor for family planning programmes.Overseas Aid
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the value of (a) 1979-80 and (b) 1989-90 overseas aid budgets expressed in 1991-92 price terms.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd [holding answer 30 June 1992] : Net expenditure on overseas aid expressed in 1991-92 prices was £1,853 million in 1979-80 and £1,738 million in 1989-90.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what share of gross national product has been devoted to overseas aid in every year since 1979.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd [holding answer 30 June 1992] : The information is as follows :
Calendar |Net Official
|Development
|Assistance as
|percentage of
|GNP
------------------------------------------
1979 |0.51
1980 |0.35
1981 |0.42
1982 |0.37
1983 |0.35
1984 |0.33
1985 |0.33
1986 |0.31
1987 |0.28
1988 |0.32
1989 |0.31
1990 |0.27
1991 |0.32
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what share of their gross national product is devoted to overseas aid by each OECD and EC country.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd [holding answer 30 June 1992] : This information is available for countries which are members of the development assistance committee of the OECD, of which 10 are member states of the EC. The latest figures are for 1991 :
|c|Net official development assistance
as a percentage of GNP|c|
Country |Per cent.
-----------------------------------------
EC member states
Belgium |0.41
Denmark |0.96
France |<1>0.56
Germany |0.40
Ireland |0.19
Italy |0.25
Netherlands |0.88
Portugal |0.28
Spain |0.23
United Kingdom |0.32
Non-EC member states
Australia |0.38
Austria |0.34
Canada |0.45
Finland |0.76
Japan |0.32
New Zealand |0.23
Norway |1.14
Sweden |0.92
Switzerland |0.32
United States |0.17
<1>0.80 if assistance to Overseas
Departments and Territories is included.
WALES
Rural Housing
Mr. Jonathan Evans : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much money Housing for Wales has invested in the provision of rural housing in each of the last three years ; and what proportion that represents of Housing for Wales' overall budget.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : Net programme expenditure on rural housing is given in the table :
Year |£ million|Per cent. ---------------------------------------- 1989-90 |19.0 |22.5 1990-91 |23.6 |24.3 1991-92 |34.7 |28.0
Homelessness
Mrs. Clwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many individuals were registered under the homeless persons legislation as being homeless in Cynon Valley in each year since 1979 ; and what was the percentage change in each year on the previous year.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : Numbers of persons in households accepted as homeless by Cynon Valley borough council under the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 and part III of the Housing Act 1985 are given in the table :
|c|Number of persons in households accepted as
homeless|c|
|c|Cynon Valley|c|
Year |Number |Percentage
|change on
|previous year
--------------------------------------------------------
1979 |898
1980 |1,018 |13.4
1981 |965 |-5.2
1982 |985 |2.1
1983 |1,207 |22.5
1984 |959 |-20.5
1985 |840 |-12.4
1986 |942 |12.1
1987 |603 |-36.0
1988 |710 |17.7
1989 |530 |-25.4
1990 |623 |17.5
1991 |1,017 |63.2
Council Tax
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) what steps he has taken to satisfy himself that districts and boroughs in Wales have received sufficient central Government moneys to enable them to prepare for the council tax ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) if he will fully reimburse the boroughs and districts of Wales their costs on council tax preparations.
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Mr. David Hunt : My proposals for assisting local authorities in Wales in preparing for the council tax were debated and approved by the House on 24 June.Nurses' Grading
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many appeals have been determined in respect of nurse grading (a) in Wales and (b) in each health authority in Wales, in each month since the current process started ; and how many, in each case, were (i) allowed and (ii) disallowed in each month.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : Information in the form requested on numbers of clinical grading appeals determined by employing authorities is not collected centrally. Current available information on total numbers of appeals heard at employing authority level is shown in the table :
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Health authority |Appeals heard |Allowed |Disallowed
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Clwyd |355 |99 |256
East Dyfed |278 |80 |198
Gwent |710 |86 |624
Gwynedd |704 |54 |650
Mid Glamorgan |531 |64 |467
Pembrokeshire |85 |13 |72
Powys |578 |312 |266
South Glamorgan |670 |84 |586
West Glamorgan |293 |17 |276
Wales |4,204 |809 |3,395
Other appeals have been withdrawn or conceded without a formal hearing.
At the Welsh appeals committee--regional--level 345 appeals have been dealt with and are as follows :
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Year |Month |Appeals |Allowed |Disallowed|Failure
|heard |to agree
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clwyd
1990 |October |12 |1 |11
1991 |October |15 |15
1992 |May |10 |10
Total |37 |1 |36
East Dyfed
1990 |November |8 |8
1991 |April |7 |1 |6
|September |3 |3
|October |7 |7
Total |25 |4 |21
Gwent
1990 |April |6 |3 |3
1992 |February |27 |4 |12 |11
|April |35 |24 |11
|May |7 |2 |5
Total |25 |4 |21
Gwynedd
1989 |November |2 |2
1990 |January |5 |2 |3
|April |10 |4 |6
|May |12 |1 |11
|August |15 |3 |12
1991 |January |15 |6 |1 |8
|April |7 |4 |1 |2
|June |10 |8 |2
|August |13 |4 |1 |8
Total |89 |32 |3 |54
Mid Glamorgan
1991 |June |11 |11
|October |8 |4 |4
1992 |April |9 |3 |2 |4
Total |28 |7 |6 |15
1990 |May |12 |9 |3
1991 |February |7 |4 |3
1992 |April |9 |2 |1 |6
Total |28 |15 |1 |12
South Glamorgan
1990 |October |8 |8
1991 |January |15 |2 |13
|July |2 |2
1992 |May |1 |1
Total |26 |2 |24
West Glamorgan
1990 |September |5 |2 |3
1991 |March |19 |19
|July |5 |5
|August |4 |1 |1 |2
1992 |February |2 |1 |1
|March |2 |1 |1
Total |37 |5 |2 |30
At the national, negotiating council level, six Welsh appeals have been heard and are as follows :
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Health authority |Appeals heard |Allowed |Disallowed |Failure to agree ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ East Dyfed April 1991 |1 |1 Gwent January 1991 |1 |1 Powys April 1991 |4 |4
Market Testing
Dr. Marek : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales 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. David Hunt : As promised in the White Paper "Competing for Quality" Cm. 1730, targets for the market testing programme will be announced later this year.
Dr. Marek : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what has been the total cost so far of the market testing initiative in his Department since November 1991.
Mr. David Hunt : The estimated cost to date is £76,000.
Dr. Marek : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what estimate he has made of savings in his Department as a result of the market testing programme.
Mr. David Hunt : The purpose of the market testing programme is to test by competition the value for money represented by the present arrangements for undertaking non-core activities and thus to identify and introduce more effective arrangements. We have made no estimate of likely savings because no pre-emptive judgment has been made of the relative efficiency of the present arrangements.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Cardiac Surgery
Rev. Martin Smyth : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list in tabular form the number of patients sent for cardiac surgery by the several health and social service boards to hospitals outwith Northern Ireland in the latest year for which figures are available.
Mr. Hanley : The figures for 1991-92 and the current year to date are as follows :
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Year |Northern|Southern|Eastern |Western ------------------------------------------------------ 1991-92 |8 |5 |7 |24 1992-93 |4 |3 |7 |nil
Equal Opportunities
Mr. Janner : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many and what percentage of officers in grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 respectively, and overall in his Department are women.
Mr. Mates : The information requested is as follows :
[TITRE[
-------------------------------------------
1 |0 |0
2 |0 |0
3 |1 |2.4 |0
4 |0 |0
5 |14 |7.4 |0
6 |60 |17.2 |0
7 |81 |9.7 |4 |20
Overall |12,661|43 |106 |50
Notes:1. As at 1 January 1992.
2. As at 1 June 1992.
Wild Birds
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is target for special protection area designation under the EC directive on the conservation of wild birds during 1992.
Mr. Atkins : Two. These are Swan island, Larne lough, Co. Antrim, which was designated on 10 March 1992 and Sheep island off the north Antrim coast, which will be designated later this year.
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many staff in his Department and of
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what grades are engaged (a) full time and (b) part time, in preparing designations of special protection areas under the EC directive on the conservation of wild birds.Mr. Atkins : While there are no staff engaged full time in preparing designations of special protection areas, a portion of time is spent by the following on this work :
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