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Disclosure to Defendants
Mr. Andrew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received on the consequences for police operational efficiency of the ruling in the Guinness case requiring greater disclosure to defendants.
Mr. Jack : We have received no representations from members of the public, but the implications of this judgment have been discussed with the Crown prosecution service, the Association of Chief Police Officers and Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary.
Commission for Racial Equality
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many candidates have been interviewed for the post of chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality.
Animal Experiments
Mr. Ward : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the number of experimental procedures involving animals in 1991.
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Mr. Charles Wardle : Information on the number of scientific procedures involving living animals started in 1991 is contained in table 1 of the Command Paper "Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain, 1991", Cm 2023, a copy of which is in the Library.
Immigration
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many representations he has received (a) in favour of and (b) against the Asylum and Immigration Bill.
Mr. Charles Wardle : In the period between the publication of the Bill on 22 October and 6 November three representations were received in the asylum division expressing support for the legislation and 10 expressing concern about, or opposition to, one or more elements of the legislation.
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made by the Malins Committee into the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service.
Mr. Charles Wardle : I understand that the planning group chaired by Mr. Humfrey Malins has sent a consultation letter to those individuals and organisations identified as having a particular interest in the future arrangements for immigration advice and representation. Mr. Malins has agreed that a copy of that letter may be placed in the Library of the House. The group has asked for comments by the end of November and hopes to publish its report by the end of the year.
Mr. Blair : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visitors have applied to enter and settle in the United Kingdom ; how many applications have been granted ; how many have had their applications refused ; and how many have appealed against their refusal, giving the figures in each case since 1982, by year.
Mr. Charles Wardle [holding answer 29 October 1992] : The immigration rules make no provision for a person simultaneously to seek entry as a visitor and as a person coming for settlement ; by definition a visitor is a person who intends to return to his or her own country after a stay of at most six months in the United Kingdom. The available information in respect of visitors is given in the table. It is likely that most of the persons refused leave to enter and removed from the United Kingdom, or refused an entry clearance other than for settlement, were visitors. Visitors are also thought to comprise well over half of those appealing against a refusal of leave to enter or of entry clearance for temporary purposes.
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Thousands
|1982 |1983 |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991
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Non-EC nationals admitted to the United
Kingdom as visitors |4,480 |5,080 |5,900 |6,570 |5,350 |5,730 |5,670 |6,220 |6,720 |5,690
Non-EC nationals refused leave to enter and
removed from the United Kingdom |12,234|13,981|17,355|17,925|23,110|17,876|19,217|22,536|19,035|18,182
Persons refused an entry clearance other than
for settlement<1>, at posts abroad |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |<2>- |68,210|77,380
Appeals received by the appellate authorities in
respect of persons refused leave to enter or refused entry clearance for temporary
purposes |<2>- |<2>- |2,404 |1,994 |2,535 |3,848 |7,909 |8,764 |12,454|14,036
<1> That is, all persons excluding spouses, fiance(e)s, children and other dependent relations seeking settlement.
<2> Not available.
Drugs
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide a table showing for each police area in England and Wales for each of the last three years the number of seizures of controlled drugs and the specific number in each of the following categories (a) heroin, (b) cocaine, (c) crack, (d) MDMA, (e) amphetamines and (f) cannabis.
Mr. Jack : The information requested with regard to those drugs, with the exception of "crack", is contained in table A1.3 of the Home Office statistical bulletins "Statistics of the misuse of drugs--seizures and offenders dealt with, United Kingdom, 1989, 1990, and 1991--area tables"--copies of which are in the Library. Information regarding MDMA is available only from 1990 onwards.
The table shows the number of seizures of "crack" by police force area in England and Wales in 1990 and 1991.
Seizures of "crack" by police force area, 1990 and 1991
England and Wales
Police force area |1990 |1991
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England
Avon and Somerset |1 |11
Bedfordshire |- |1
Cambridgeshire |1 |-
Cheshire |- |-
Cleveland |- |-
Cumbria |- |-
Derbyshire |11 |1
Devon and Cornwall |- |-
Dorset |- |-
Durham |- |-
Essex |- |-
Gloucestershire |- |-
Greater Manchester |5 |6
Hampshire |1 |-
Hertfordshire |- |-
Humberside |- |-
Kent |- |-
Lancashire |- |-
Leicestershire |- |5
Lincolnshire |- |-
Merseyside |2 |7
City of London |- |2
Metropolitan Police |275 |516
Norfolk |- |-
Northamptonshire |- |1
Northumbria |- |-
North Yorkshire |- |-
Nottinghamshire |4 |1
South Yorkshire |1 |5
Staffordshire |- |-
Suffolk |- |-
Surrey |1 |-
Sussex |1 |1
Thames Valley |- |-
Warwickshire |- |-
West Mercia |- |1
West Midlands |2 |10
West Yorkshire |9 |10
Wiltshire |- |-
England-other |1 |-
All English police forces |315 |578
Wales
Dyfed and Powys |- |-
Gwent |- |-
North Wales |- |-
South Wales |- |3
All Welsh police forces |- |3
Total-England and Wales |315 |581
Wolds Remand Centre
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners are being held at Wolds remand centre at the latest available date ; when he expects that it will reach full capacity ; and what plans he has to widen its catchment area or take in other categories of prisoner.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : On Monday 9 November 1992, a total of 233 prisoners were unlocked at Wolds remand prison. It had been expected that its present catchment area would fill it to capacity. This has proved not to be the case and the prison service is now considering how best to make up the shortfall.
Prison Service Uniforms
Mr. Nicholas Winterton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of items and the value of the prison service uniforms for which contracts to purchase were placed in the last year for which figures are available ; if he will give a breakdown of those figures according to whether the product was (a) made and finished in the United Kingdom from fabric produced in the United Kingdom, (b) finished in the United Kingdom from imported fabric and (c) finished in the United Kingdom but made abroad ; if he will give similar information for other major clothing contracts for which he is responsible ; and if he will make a statement of his purchasing policy in such matters.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : For the period 1 October 1991 to 30 September 1992, the latest year for which figures are available, the total number of items and the value of contracts to purchase prison service uniforms and of other major clothing contracts, where the information required is known, are shown in the table, in the form requested. Her Majesty's Treasury is responsible for setting public purchasing policy. All Government procurement is based on value for money--that is, quality, fitness for purpose, and delivery against price. The European Community supplies directive requires member states to advertise major public contracts throughout the community. It also
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requires supplier and product selection to be based on objective criteria intended to prevent a bias towards national interests. Uniform :(a) Products made and finished in the United Kingdom from fabric produced in the United Kingdom--16 items purchased to the value of approximately £1.4 million.
(b) Products finished in the United Kingdom from imported fabric--13 items purchased to the value of approximately £860K.
(c) Products finished in the United Kingdom but made abroad--Two items purchased to the value of approximately £172K.
Other major clothing contracts :
(a) Products made and finished in the United Kingdom from fabric produced in the United Kingdom--Three items purchased to the value of approximately £47K.
(b) Products finished in the United Kingdom from imported fabric--Two items purchased to the value of approximately £130K. (c) Products finished in the United Kingdom but made abroad--Three items purchased to the value of approxi-mately £308K.
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
Mrs. Mahon : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will review the working of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 with particular reference to the exceptions from the Act.
Mr. Jack : There are no plans to review the working of the Act itself. However, it is intended that the number and range of exceptions to the Act should be re-examined as part of the review of the arrangements for the disclosure of information from criminal records which will be undertaken in advance of the computerisation of the national collection of criminal records.
Police Funding
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will publish the report by Richard Kornicki on the future of police funding ; and if he will place a copy of the report in the Library.
Mr. Charles Wardle : Richard Kornicki is one of several Home Office officials who have been working on the future of police funding and are continuing to do so. His review was a working document, which was prepared as advice by officials to Ministers. It would be inappropriate to publish such internal advice.
Prison Escapes
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners escaped (a) from prison and (b) whilst being escorted to and from court, in each of the last five years ; and how many of them were recaptured in each case.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The information available relates to prisoners who escaped from prison, or while being escorted outside prison, or were recaptured, between 20 June 1988 and 8 November 1992. Information was not collected centrally prior to June 1988.
|Escapers from prison|Escapers from escort|Recaptured<1>
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20 June 1988 to 31
December 1988 |104 |61 |156
1989 |163 |118 |260
1990 |195 |119 |303
1991 |304 |144 |424
1 January 1992 to
8 November
1992 |220 |117 |271
<1> Includes four prisoners who died while unlawfully at large.
Ms. Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department who has responsibility for keeping and updating the central list of all escaped prisoners ; and how often the list is updated.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The incident management support unit in prison headquarters is responsible, among other matters, for keeping a list of all prisoners who have escaped from prison service custody in England and Wales. The list is updated monthly to take account of those who have been recaptured.
Polling Stations
Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if grant-maintained schools will supply facilities for polling stations in the same manner as local education authority schools, free of charge to the local authority.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : A returning officer at both parliamentary and at local government elections is entitled to use, free of charge, as a polling station a room in a local education authority maintained or assisted school or in a grant-maintained school.
Local Authority Services
Sir John Wheeler : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are his conclusions on the responses to proposals to extend competition to a wider range of local authority services set out in the consultation paper "Competing for Quality", published in November 1991, as it will affect the police and fire service.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke : As my right hon. and learned Friend, the Secretary of State for the Environment has today announced, the Government have come to the conclusion that, while some amendments to the original proposals are necessary, compulsory competition is the best way of securing greater efficiency and cost savings in the provision of local authority services, while guaran-teeing a high standard of services to the local taxpayers. The police and fire services will be playing a part in the process.
The fire service has unique front-line vehicles which carry specialist pumping, hydraulic and mechanical equipment. The maintenance and repair of vehicles and equipment is synchronised in order to ensure operational efficiency. I take the view that they should remain exempt from compulsory competitive tendering for the present, but, in order to encourage wider competition, I intend that all brigades, with the exception of those whose maintenance staff also have firefighting duties should be required to market test vehicle and equipment maintenance over the next three years. The whole of each brigade's vehicle fleet will be included in order to provide a realistic assessment and to identify those contractors best placed to offer the comprehensive range of services
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required. I intend to discuss with the fire authorities how this can best be taken forward to ensure that operational efficiency is maintained and in 12 months I intend to announce targets in this area.The support services for the fire service which are provided by the fire authority will, of course, fall to be considered within the framework of the arrangements for construction-related and corporate services set out by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment.
We have consulted widely within the police service and local authority associations about the extension of compulsory competitive tendering to police vehicle maintenance and the cleaning of police buildings. We have received a number of constructive replies outlining concerns over security and quality of service.
I have taken these concerns seriously. I wish to ensure the widest possible application of compulsory competitive tendering that is consistent with operational efficiency and security requirements. An order will be made under the Local Government Act 1988 extending the application of compulsory competitive tendering to 40 per cent. of the annual value of police vehicle maintenance and repair. A
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period of three years will be allowed to evaluate the effects of this provision, after which I shall decide on further progress. An order will also be made extending compulsory competitive tendering to 90 per cent. of the annual value of cleaning police buildings. I anticipate that the first tenders will be sought in 1994-95. I also intend to extend compulsory competive tendering to corporate and construction-related police support services. I intend to engage in further consultation with the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Chief and Assistant Chief Fire Officers Association and the local authority associations on the detailed implementation of these proposals and the introduction of a new accounting framework. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland will be introducing similar provisions for maintenance and repair of fire service vehicles, for maintenance of police vehicles and for cleaning of police buildings in Scotland. He will also consult on extension of compulsory competitive tendering to corporate andconstruction-related support services and on a new accounting framework.
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Prison Catering
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 26 October, Official Report, column 453, if he will list the budgets under which the prison catering contracts were let and administered together with the value of each contract.
Mr. Peter Lloyd [holding answer 6 November 1992] : The budgets under which the prison catering contracts were let and administered are as follows :--
E(1)--Directorate of Inmate Administration running costs. F(1)--Directorate of Inmate Programmes running costs.
G(1)--Direcorate of Custody running costs.
The value of individual contracts is regarded as commercial in confidence. Prison catering contracts were awarded in the range from £268,856.00 to £404,988.00.
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Crime
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish a table showing (a) the number of recorded crimes and (b) the number of crimes committed by category for England and Wales and for each police force area in each 12-month period from June 1988.
Mr. Jack [holding answer 2 November 1992] : The information is available for recorded crimes only and is contained in the following tables.
Figures are not available for crimes committed in these periods, but estimates for England and Wales covering the calendar year 1991 are provided in the British crime survey. First results of the British crime survey are published in "Home Office Research Findings No. 2", which is available in the Library.
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Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force area
Violence against the person Number of offences
Police force area |July 1988 to June|July 1989 to June|July 1990 to June|July 1991 to June
|1989 |1990 |1991 |1992
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Avon and Somerset |4,330 |5,170 |5,537 |5,321
Bedfordshire |2,009 |2,062 |2,102 |1,804
Cambridgeshire |1,773 |2,326 |2,431 |2,628
Cheshire |2,546 |2,513 |2,496 |2,641
Cleveland |2,493 |2,535 |2,747 |2,664
Cumbria |1,617 |1,794 |1,963 |1,873
Derbyshire |3,136 |3,379 |3,708 |3,958
Devon and Cornwall |3,719 |3,729 |3,621 |3,809
Dorset |1,297 |1,460 |1,566 |1,480
Durham |2,317 |2,416 |2,065 |2,345
Essex |4,017 |3,940 |3,929 |4,201
Gloucestershire |1,225 |1,362 |1,566 |1,570
Greater Manchester |9,549 |9,160 |8,879 |9,914
Hampshire |3,858 |4,293 |4,193 |5,186
Hertfordshire |1,856 |1,773 |1,727 |1,892
Humberside |5,590 |5,541 |5,031 |5,141
Kent |3,548 |3,754 |3,839 |5,129
Lancashire |3,041 |3,131 |2,966 |3,198
Leicestershire |2,664 |3,015 |3,163 |3,572
Lincolnshire |1,639 |2,007 |2,135 |2,099
City of London |211 |223 |173 |226
Merseyside |5,185 |5,114 |5,542 |6,811
Metropolitan Police District |29,017 |33,710 |36,947 |38,503
Norfolk |1,805 |1,862 |1,956 |1,854
Northamptonshire |2,180 |2,111 |2,001 |2,212
Northumbria |5,241 |5,413 |5,712 |6,023
North Yorkshire |1,702 |1,892 |2,095 |2,115
Nottinghamshire |6,600 |7,558 |7,542 |7,994
South Yorkshire |4,674 |4,933 |4,720 |4,776
Staffordshire |4,983 |5,263 |5,367 |5,683
Suffolk |1,663 |1,724 |1,785 |1,974
Surrey |1,762 |1,640 |1,845 |1,882
Sussex |2,982 |3,346 |3,240 |3,237
Thames Valley |4,429 |4,471 |4,451 |4,754
Warwickshire |1,141 |1,116 |1,091 |1,278
West Mercia |2,919 |3,439 |3,144 |3,259
West Midlands |9,050 |9,767 |10,435 |11,415
West Yorkshire |8,708 |8,949 |9,692 |10,038
Wiltshire |1,795 |2,138 |2,118 |2,488
|---- |---- |---- |----
England |158,271 |170,029 |175,520 |186,947
|---- |---- |---- |----
Dyfed-Powys |1,375 |1,574 |1,955 |2,107
Gwent |1,963 |2,131 |2,022 |2,323
North Wales |2,263 |2,278 |2,401 |2,608
South Wales |4,218 |4,496 |4,537 |5,519
|---- |---- |---- |----
Wales |9,819 |10,479 |10,915 |12,557
|---- |---- |---- |----
England and Wales |168,090 |180,508 |186,435 |199,504
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Sexual offences Number of offences
Police force area |July 1988 to June|July 1989 to June|July 1990 to June|July 1991 to June
|1989 |1990 |1991 |1992
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Avon and Somerset |633 |702 |743 |614
Bedfordshire |330 |308 |331 |278
Cambridgeshire |386 |358 |400 |432
Cheshire |379 |346 |415 |492
Cleveland |323 |360 |264 |316
Cumbria |206 |231 |256 |215
Derbyshire |516 |562 |492 |429
Devon and Cornwall |643 |796 |791 |719
Dorset |284 |228 |300 |391
Durham |381 |425 |417 |443
Essex |597 |594 |603 |573
Gloucestershire |228 |249 |295 |309
Greater Manchester |1,482 |1,394 |1,422 |1,465
Hampshire |1,007 |948 |996 |1,158
Hertfordshire |431 |336 |371 |351
Humberside |891 |874 |882 |836
Kent |823 |909 |699 |1,097
Lancashire |656 |632 |634 |524
Leicestershire |364 |359 |400 |392
Lincolnshire |329 |380 |434 |291
City of London |29 |31 |18 |41
Merseyside |601 |726 |701 |759
Metropolitan Police District |4,287 |5,186 |5,437 |5,538
Norfolk |345 |367 |419 |387
Northamptonshire |303 |313 |264 |256
Northumbria |698 |683 |669 |720
North Yorkshire |257 |258 |260 |224
Nottinghamshire |1,210 |1,216 |1,135 |1,102
South Yorkshire |655 |716 |618 |627
Staffordshire |516 |473 |477 |487
Suffolk |322 |400 |401 |433
Surrey |329 |349 |383 |429
Sussex |772 |961 |733 |800
Thames Valley |1,162 |952 |855 |946
Warwickshire |201 |194 |192 |178
West Mercia |464 |477 |470 |498
West Midlands |1,499 |1,557 |1,533 |1,586
West Yorkshire |1,412 |1,595 |1,657 |1,506
Wiltshire |367 |365 |433 |389
|---- |---- |---- |----
England |26,318 |27,810 |27,800 |28,231
|---- |---- |---- |----
Dyfed-Powys |282 |283 |338 |363
Gwent |338 |323 |306 |271
North Wales |542 |284 |378 |361
South Wales |535 |526 |500 |518
|---- |---- |---- |----
Wales |1,697 |1,416 |1,522 |1,513
|---- |---- |---- |----
England and Wales |28,015 |29,226 |29,322 |29,744
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Robbery Number of offences
Police force area |July 1988 to June|July 1989 to June|July 1990 to June|July 1991 to June
|1989 |1990 |1991 |1992
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Avon and Somerset |625 |869 |1,204 |1,157
Bedfordshire |262 |303 |585 |558
Cambridgeshire |100 |152 |201 |271
Cheshire |115 |137 |163 |299
Cleveland |139 |129 |149 |238
Cumbria |52 |52 |55 |100
Derbyshire |120 |183 |205 |298
Devon and Cornwall |191 |191 |204 |294
Dorset |62 |109 |139 |140
Durham |78 |114 |113 |156
Essex |334 |319 |389 |454
Gloucestershire |104 |112 |192 |302
Greater Manchester |2,041 |2,083 |2,707 |3,882
Hampshire |250 |357 |407 |509
Hertfordshire |159 |143 |238 |278
Humberside |252 |238 |245 |330
Kent |230 |312 |424 |548
Lancashire |249 |288 |342 |470
Leicestershire |522 |527 |505 |756
Lincolnshire |46 |70 |64 |82
City of London |60 |68 |57 |65
Merseyside |1,575 |1,517 |1,705 |1,983
Metropolitan Police District |17,409 |17,231 |19,804 |22,970
Norfolk |146 |140 |153 |226
Northamptonshire |163 |177 |210 |317
Northumbria |503 |639 |621 |941
North Yorkshire |76 |76 |84 |135
Nottinghamshire |506 |651 |775 |939
South Yorkshire |415 |455 |476 |616
Staffordshire |189 |213 |237 |354
Suffolk |79 |133 |106 |138
Surrey |112 |139 |138 |216
Sussex |316 |433 |458 |490
Thames Valley |470 |650 |719 |941
Warwickshire |61 |57 |97 |133
West Mercia |113 |154 |172 |209
West Midlands |2,675 |2,921 |3,387 |4,531
West Yorkshire |872 |996 |1,439 |2,386
Wiltshire |70 |91 |116 |114
|---- |---- |---- |----
England |31,741 |33,429 |39,285 |48,806
|---- |---- |---- |----
Dyfed-Powys |17 |22 |38 |121
Gwent |60 |95 |97 |48
North Wales |71 |66 |99 |102
South Wales |231 |239 |266 |375
|---- |---- |---- |----
Wales |379 |422 |500 |646
|---- |---- |---- |----
England and Wales |32,120 |33,851 |39,785 |49,452
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Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force area
Burglary Number of offences
Police force area |July 1988 to June|July 1989 to June|July 1990 to June|July 1991 to June
|1989 |1990 |1991 |1992
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Avon and Somerset |17,096 |20,764 |31,351 |33,679
Bedfordshire |7,366 |8,602 |12,605 |14,110
Cambridgeshire |6,151 |7,675 |9,668 |13,125
Cheshire |10,424 |11,709 |14,743 |19,001
Cleveland |14,586 |15,037 |16,496 |19,757
Cumbria |6,341 |6,804 |9,011 |11,563
Derbyshire |8,737 |10,641 |15,892 |20,252
Devon and Cornwall |14,927 |17,778 |24,709 |26,922
Dorset |5,318 |6,967 |8,500 |9,631
Durham |9,265 |10,092 |12,696 |13,462
Essex |13,965 |16,620 |22,461 |26,410
Gloucestershire |7,668 |8,650 |10,906 |14,432
Greater Manchester |73,686 |78,605 |93,405 |100,720
Hampshire |17,991 |22,494 |29,208 |32,963
Hertfordshire |6,086 |7,135 |10,254 |11,548
Humberside |20,333 |26,328 |29,238 |34,538
Kent |13,446 |16,847 |23,507 |29,126
Lancashire |16,762 |19,796 |23,036 |26,263
Leicestershire |10,261 |13,830 |18,943 |22,262
Lincolnshire |6,094 |7,361 |8,547 |10,150
City of London |758 |968 |1,077 |1,000
Merseyside |38,650 |34,833 |33,799 |33,742
Metropolitan Police District |142,140 |160,062 |182,485 |194,338
Norfolk |9,836 |11,496 |13,510 |16,225
Northamptonshire |6,198 |7,438 |11,007 |12,401
Northumbria |47,001 |52,319 |58,995 |68,385
North Yorkshire |8,141 |8,326 |10,836 |13,804
Nottinghamshire |16,686 |20,951 |27,735 |33,121
South Yorkshire |21,030 |24,778 |31,035 |38,076
Staffordshire |13,539 |15,281 |21,612 |25,318
Suffolk |5,870 |6,396 |7,417 |8,403
Surrey |6,938 |7,816 |11,253 |11,521
Sussex |14,964 |19,027 |24,637 |27,340
Thames Valley |18,460 |23,704 |31,101 |36,174
Warwickshire |5,362 |6,097 |8,386 |11,956
West Mercia |8,672 |9,933 |12,095 |16,102
West Midlands |58,277 |63,499 |74,163 |92,394
West Yorkshire |42,680 |50,381 |68,126 |85,108
Wiltshire |5,044 |5,816 |7,257 |8,595
|---- |---- |---- |----
England |756,749 |862,856 |1,061,702 |1,223,917
|---- |---- |---- |----
Dyfed-Powys |2,779 |2,866 |4,428 |4,999
Gwent |3,989 |4,233 |6,328 |8,146
North Wales |8,022 |7,647 |8,872 |12,093
South Wales |24,601 |26,268 |32,475 |37,554
|---- |---- |---- |----
Wales |39,391 |41,014 |52,103 |62,792
|---- |---- |---- |----
England and Wales |796,140 |903,870 |1,113,805 |1,286,709
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Theft and handling stolen goods Numbers of offences
Police force area |July 1988 to June|July 1989 to June|July 1990 to June|July 1991 to June
|1989 |1990 |1991 |1992
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Avon and Somerset |53,541 |59,197 |80,350 |85,086
Bedfordshire |19,801 |25,390 |32,116 |29,524
Cambridgeshire |19,957 |23,761 |30,316 |36,512
Cheshire |23,633 |26,046 |29,392 |36,854
Cleveland |30,307 |35,894 |41,740 |45,018
Cumbria |13,280 |14,865 |20,503 |21,992
Derbyshire |23,113 |27,700 |34,448 |43,352
Devon and Cornwall |39,956 |43,978 |53,648 |58,403
Dorset |21,162 |26,062 |31,138 |29,187
Durham |21,048 |23,984 |30,714 |33,843
Essex |39,571 |46,310 |57,202 |61,954
Gloucestershire |18,176 |22,132 |26,280 |36,670
Greater Manchester |143,981 |153,516 |184,125 |191,642
Hampshire |50,412 |60,441 |73,752 |83,961
Hertfordshire |21,843 |23,754 |28,417 |33,262
Humberside |41,140 |48,087 |54,725 |59,696
Kent |43,719 |52,224 |69,297 |86,190
Lancashire |43,875 |50,469 |59,323 |68,388
Leicestershire |27,387 |34,333 |44,860 |49,843
Lincolnshire |18,201 |20,348 |24,146 |24,927
City of London |4,364 |5,009 |5,133 |4,954
Merseyside |66,749 |68,042 |73,480 |78,131
Metropolitan Police District |371,314 |400,059 |434,816 |465,768
Norfolk |22,839 |27,577 |32,961 |37,097
Northamptonshire |20,715 |23,374 |28,710 |30,319
Northumbria |85,305 |94,949 |99,992 |96,144
North Yorkshire |18,036 |22,783 |29,256 |30,453
Nottinghamshire |53,775 |66,273 |80,910 |87,047
South Yorkshire |47,033 |52,103 |57,963 |65,225
Staffordshire |27,352 |31,716 |37,975 |43,555
Suffolk |15,358 |17,422 |20,745 |23,625
Surrey |16,117 |19,755 |25,606 |29,480
Sussex |38,685 |46,069 |58,459 |65,585
Thames Valley |66,136 |78,971 |101,034 |118,464
Warwickshire |12,521 |16,286 |20,807 |22,577
West Mercia |25,727 |31,616 |37,954 |44,685
West Midlands |115,942 |124,872 |142,192 |150,562
West Yorkshire |89,345 |108,003 |138,419 |151,597
Wiltshire |13,722 |15,450 |19,804 |21,436
|---- |---- |---- |----
England |1,825,138 |2,068,820 |2,452,708 |2,683,008
|---- |---- |---- |----
Dyfed-Powys |8,429 |8,618 |11,619 |14,753
Gwent |13,389 |14,304 |19,362 |22,291
North Wales |15,631 |16,782 |20,473 |23,094
South Wales |63,315 |67,030 |79,157 |82,789
|---- |---- |---- |----
Wales |100,764 |106,734 |130,611 |142,927
|---- |---- |---- |----
England and Wales |1,925,902 |2,175,554 |2,583,319 |2,825,935
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Fraud and forgery Number of offences
Police force area |July 1988 to June|July 1989 to June|July 1990 to June|July 1991 to June
|1989 |1990 |1991 |1992
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Avon and Somerset |5,888 |6,796 |7,247 |6,248
Bedfordshire |2,218 |2,600 |2,357 |2,252
Cambridgeshire |1,082 |1,343 |1,654 |1,712
Cheshire |1,813 |1,739 |1,754 |2,330
Cleveland |2,246 |2,055 |1,992 |1,743
Cumbria |930 |829 |901 |949
Derbyshire |1,005 |1,201 |1,150 |1,330
Devon and Cornwall |3,536 |3,430 |4,085 |3,627
Dorset |3,128 |3,311 |3,353 |3,885
Durham |1,635 |2,048 |2,071 |2,429
Essex |1,955 |2,192 |3,088 |3,673
Gloucestershire |1,342 |1,282 |1,678 |2,230
Greater Manchester |9,977 |10,397 |11,624 |12,227
Hampshire |3,770 |3,931 |5,518 |5,403
Hertfordshire |2,566 |2,054 |1,531 |1,560
Humberside |2,625 |2,915 |3,166 |3,208
Kent |1,913 |2,256 |3,071 |4,071
Lancashire |5,235 |3,759 |3,310 |3,665
Leicestershire |1,890 |1,941 |2,577 |2,984
Lincolnshire |960 |973 |1,137 |1,363
City of London |420 |491 |643 |526
Merseyside |3,791 |3,860 |4,629 |5,489
Metropolitan Police District |29,991 |32,812 |42,129 |42,623
Norfolk |1,245 |1,383 |1,551 |1,838
Northamptonshire |1,103 |1,114 |1,431 |1,589
Northumbria |2,349 |3,475 |3,418 |3,632
North Yorkshire |956 |987 |1,009 |1,203
Nottinghamshire |2,439 |2,884 |3,547 |3,898
South Yorkshire |1,584 |1,875 |1,998 |2,059
Staffordshire |1,416 |1,566 |1,802 |2,106
Suffolk |1,274 |1,614 |1,943 |1,997
Surrey |1,289 |1,369 |2,014 |2,134
Sussex |2,443 |2,835 |3,934 |4,406
Thames Valley |3,938 |5,087 |6,364 |7,776
Warwickshire |669 |685 |1,058 |1,256
West Mercia |1,015 |1,131 |1,410 |1,405
West Midlands |5,318 |6,075 |6,878 |7,903
West Yorkshire |4,767 |4,868 |6,530 |6,768
Wiltshire |873 |1,086 |1,637 |1,758
|---- |---- |---- |----
England |122,594 |132,249 |157,189 |167,255
|---- |---- |---- |----
Dyfed-Powys |1,211 |1,164 |1,318 |1,184
Gwent |1,045 |1,092 |1,130 |1,093
North Wales |1,879 |1,360 |1,230 |1,417
South Wales |2,546 |2,833 |3,344 |3,640
|---- |---- |---- |----
Wales |6,681 |6,449 |7,022 |7,334
|---- |---- |---- |----
England and Wales |129,275 |138,698 |164,211 |174,589
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Criminal damage Number of offences
Police force area |July 1988 to June|July 1989 to June|July 1990 to June|July 1991 to June
|1989 |1990 |1991 |1992
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Avon and Somerset |13,542 |15,492 |18,761 |18,470
Bedfordshire |6,329 |7,062 |7,525 |8,078
Cambridgeshire |4,429 |4,979 |5,912 |6,851
Cheshire |7,602 |8,040 |8,874 |10,051
Cleveland |9,318 |10,242 |11,586 |12,900
Cumbria |4,431 |5,194 |6,606 |7,912
Derbyshire |8,178 |9,887 |11,302 |13,471
Devon and Cornwall |10,586 |12,071 |13,874 |15,164
Dorset |4,438 |5,162 |5,366 |5,644
Durham |9,387 |10,605 |12,095 |13,134
Essex |12,440 |13,274 |14,812 |16,709
Gloucestershire |4,267 |4,500 |5,382 |5,439
Greater Manchester |49,522 |53,063 |61,798 |63,931
Hampshire |15,389 |16,022 |17,605 |20,693
Hertfordshire |7,313 |7,661 |8,199 |8,989
Humberside |13,968 |16,295 |16,359 |18,223
Kent |13,519 |15,617 |19,397 |23,650
Lancashire |20,237 |22,517 |24,020 |23,932
Leicestershire |7,301 |9,335 |11,614 |12,408
Lincolnshire |4,970 |5,731 |5,952 |6,925
City of London |400 |427 |441 |414
Merseyside |19,861 |20,294 |22,689 |23,903
Metropolitan Police District |122,490 |135,196 |152,823 |166,476
Norfolk |5,657 |6,722 |7,617 |8,531
Northamptonshire |6,797 |8,375 |10,005 |11,691
Northumbria |27,477 |36,471 |44,974 |48,994
North Yorkshire |4,789 |5,272 |5,177 |5,726
Nottinghamshire |17,579 |18,499 |21,564 |23,654
South Yorkshire |14,156 |15,471 |17,552 |19,935
Staffordshire |9,187 |10,379 |11,647 |12,982
Suffolk |5,127 |6,046 |6,228 |6,029
Surrey |4,622 |5,095 |6,108 |6,724
Sussex |9,187 |10,451 |12,019 |13,471
Thames Valley |16,327 |18,024 |23,634 |27,432
Warwickshire |3,411 |4,374 |4,873 |5,300
West Mercia |9,245 |10,726 |11,491 |11,395
West Midlands |33,249 |37,405 |39,922 |47,426
West Yorkshire |29,925 |33,783 |39,561 |44,571
Wiltshire |4,500 |5,096 |5,329 |5,849
|---- |---- |---- |----
England |571,152 |640,885 |730,693 |803,077
|---- |---- |---- |----
Dyfed-Powys |3,532 |3,406 |4,315 |5,257
Gwent |4,127 |4,927 |5,897 |6,057
North Wales |5,738 |6,671 |7,294 |7,742
South Wales |20,706 |25,435 |30,785 |33,843
|---- |---- |---- |----
Wales |34,103 |40,439 |48,291 |52,899
|---- |---- |---- |----
England and Wales |605,255 |681,294 |778,984 |855,976
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Other offences Number of offences
Police force area |July 1988 to June|July 1989 to June|July 1990 to June|July 1991 to June
|1989 |1990 |1991 |1992
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Avon and Somerset |603 |756 |752 |692
Bedfordshire |226 |235 |289 |214
Cambridgeshire |155 |306 |288 |301
Cheshire |526 |632 |1,001 |1,175
Cleveland |168 |227 |329 |283
Cumbria |153 |132 |208 |326
Derbyshire |423 |450 |459 |571
Devon and Cornwall |430 |457 |434 |629
Dorset |465 |667 |656 |717
Durham |218 |331 |318 |445
Essex |481 |582 |670 |653
Gloucestershire |170 |197 |270 |395
Greater Manchester |1,554 |1,868 |2,210 |2,594
Hampshire |559 |643 |890 |1,106
Hertfordshire |329 |417 |404 |415
Humberside |268 |303 |378 |539
Kent |811 |866 |874 |1,329
Lancashire |759 |846 |1,003 |1,180
Leicestershire |288 |279 |325 |471
Lincolnshire |209 |288 |425 |485
City of London |58 |73 |79 |70
Merseyside |1,089 |1,414 |1,637 |1,853
Metropolitan Police District |5,845 |7,232 |6,819 |6,842
Norfolk |228 |314 |361 |467
Northamptonshire |182 |239 |290 |348
Northumbria |574 |738 |736 |810
North Yorkshire |215 |263 |320 |413
Nottinghamshire |471 |701 |665 |566
South Yorkshire |508 |670 |786 |1,157
Staffordshire |290 |332 |353 |375
Suffolk |355 |489 |523 |562
Surrey |204 |301 |292 |278
Sussex |859 |1,026 |1,145 |1,235
Thames Valley |727 |1,006 |959 |1,082
Warwickshire |120 |147 |193 |253
West Mercia |345 |476 |489 |498
West Midlands |1,043 |1,433 |1,551 |1,690
West Yorkshire |958 |1,279 |1,627 |2,380
Wiltshire |159 |217 |295 |424
|---- |---- |---- |----
England |23,025 |28,832 |31,303 |35,823
|---- |---- |---- |----
Dyfed-Powys |216 |184 |228 |258
Gwent |150 |171 |278 |299
North Wales |215 |264 |279 |353
South Wales |501 |613 |727 |737
|---- |---- |---- |----
Wales |1,082 |1,232 |1,512 |1,647
|---- |---- |---- |----
England and Wales |24,107 |30,064 |32,815 |37,470
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Notifiable offences recorded by the police by police force area
All Offences Number of offences
Police force area |July 1988 to June|July 1989 to June|July 1990 to June|July 1991 to June
|1989 |1990 |1991 |1992
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Avon and Somerset |96,258 |109,746 |145,945 |151,267
Bedfordshire |38,541 |46,562 |57,910 |56,818
Cambridgeshire |34,033 |40,900 |50,870 |61,832
Cheshire |47,038 |51,162 |58,838 |72,843
Cleveland |59,580 |66,479 |75,303 |82,919
Cumbria |27,010 |29,901 |39,503 |44,930
Derbyshire |45,228 |54,003 |67,656 |83,661
Devon and Cornwall |73,988 |82,430 |101,366 |109,567
Dorset |36,154 |43,966 |51018 |51,075
Durham |44,329 |50,015 |60,489 |66,257
Essex |73,360 |83,831 |103,154 |114,627
Gloucestershire |33,180 |38,484 |46,569 |61,347
Greater Manchester |291,792 |310,086 |366,170 |386,375
Hampshire |93,236 |109,129 |132,569 |150,979
Hertfordshire |40,583 |43,273 |51,141 |58,295
Humberside |85,067 |100,581 |110,024 |122,511
Kent |78,009 |92,785 |121,108 |151,140
Lancashire |90,814 |101,438 |114,634 |127,620
Leicestershire |50,677 |63,619 |82,387 |92,688
Lincolnshire |32,448 |37,158 |42,840 |46,322
City of London |6,300 |7,290 |7,621 |7,296
Merseyside |137,501 |135,800 |144,182 |152,651
Metropolitan Police District |722,493 |791,488 |881,260 |943,058
Norfolk |42,101 |49,861 |58,528 |66,625
Northamptonshire |37,641 |43,141 |53,918 |59,133
Northumbria |169,148 |194,687 |215,117 |225,649
North Yorkshire |34,172 |39,857 |49,037 |54,073
Nottinghamshire |99,266 |118,733 |143,873 |158,321
South Yorkshire |90,055 |101,001 |115,148 |132,471
Staffordshire |57,472 |65,223 |79,470 |90,860
Suffolk |30,048 |34,224 |39,148 |43,161
Surrey |31,373 |36,464 |47,639 |52,664
Sussex |70,208 |84,148 |104,625 |116,564
Thames Valley |111,649 |132,865 |169,117 |197,569
Warwickshire |23,486 |28,956 |36,697 |42,931
West Mercia |48,500 |57,952 |67,225 |78,051
West Midlands |227,053 |247,529 |280,061 |317,507
West Yorkshire |178,667 |209,854 |267,051 |304,354
Wiltshire |26,530 |30,259 |36,989 |41,053
|---- |---- |---- |----
England |3,514,988 |3,964,880 |4,676,200 |5,177,064
|---- |---- |---- |----
Dyfed-Powys |17,841 |18,117 |24,239 |28,969
Gwent |25,061 |27,276 |35,420 |40,601
North Wales |34,361 |35,352 |41,026 |47,770
South Wales |116,653 |127,440 |151,791 |164,975
|---- |---- |---- |----
Wales |193,916 |208,185 |252,476 |282,315
|---- |---- |---- |----
England and Wales |3,708,904 |4,173,065 |4,928,676 |5,459,379
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Muslim Priests
Mrs. Wise : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Muslim priests normally resident in Pakistan but visiting the United Kingdom on a visitor's visa, have applied during the past year, while in the United Kingdom, for rights of residence in order to be employed as a priest in the United Kingdom ; how many such applications were granted (a) immediately, (b) after appeal and (c) on being reviewed outside the immigration rules ; and how many such applicants were told to return to Pakistan.
Mr. Charles Wardle [holding answer 2 November 1992] : People wishing to work in the United Kingdom as ministers of religion are normally required to obtain entry clearance before coming here. Our records show that in 1991, five citizens of Pakistan who were here as visitors were granted extensions of stay as ministers of religion outside the immigration rules. The other information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
Unused land
Mr. Jim Cunningham : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make it his policy to end all schemes whereby farm owners may receive grants in respect of unused land.
Mr. Curry : Ministry grants are paid only on land which is appropriately managed to meet agricultural or environmental objectives. We have no plans to end such schemes.
Ozone Depletion
Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how his departmental Green Minister has promoted protection of the ozone layer with specific policy measures ; which possible measures have been considered and rejected ; and on what grounds.
Mr. Curry : The policy of the Department is not to purchase new materials that are known to be harmful to the ozone layer as set out in the Montreal protocol and its revisions. Where existing equipment containing substances harmful to the ozone layer is to be renewed or subject to major maintenance it will be replaced by equipment which is understood to be ozone friendly. The Department considered but rejected replacing all sound equipment containing materials harmful to the ozone layer because on balance there was seen to be no significant environmental advantage in doing this before the end of its natural life span.
Live Horses (Exports)
Mr. Shersby : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement setting out the progress that has been made in developing policy to prevent the export of live horses for consumption as food.
Mr. Soames : European Community directive 91/628 establishes welfare standards for the transport of animals in the Community from 1 January 1993. The directive
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provides that national rules may remain applicable for horses and our national arrangements will continue to apply. The Council has agreed to return to this issue at a later stage with a view to setting additional welfare safeguards for all transport of horses in the Community.Quarantine
Mr. Wilshire : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list those United Kingdom airports where the administration of animal quarantine regulations are not the responsibility of a principal local authority in whose area part or all of the airport is located.
Mr. Soames : Heathrow airport is the only airport in Great Britain where the responsibility for enforcement of animal import regulations at the airport is not vested in the local authority in which the airport is situated. This is provided for under section 50 of the Animal Health Act 1981, which lays down that the common council of the City of London shall be the local authority for the City of London and for the whole of Greater London for the purposes of the provisions of the Act relating to imported animals, and the Designation of Local Authority (Heathrow Airport--London) Order 1976--SI 1976 No. 2101--which makes the City of London the responsible local authority in respect of that part of Heathrow airport which lies within the county of Surrey.
Enforcement of animal import controls at Northern Ireland airports is the responsibility of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.
Mink
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he intends to publish the responses received by his Department on the Review of the Mink (Keeping) Order 1987.
Mr. Gummer : Responses to the consultation exercise will be made available from the Ministry's main library when a decision has been taken on the arrangements which are to apply in future. This decision will be taken shortly.
Animal Welfare
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the number of (a) British and (b) other EC national hauliers and handlers prosecuted in each year since 1985 for breaking welfare standards whilst transporting livestock.
Mr. Gummer : Information is not collected in the format requested. Since 1988 the number of prosecutions undertaken by local authorities has been laid before the House, in the return of expenditure and proceedings taken under the Animal Health Act 1981. Information on prosecutions in other member states is not available.
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the number of inspections carried out by Ministry verterinary staff specifically to assess welfare standards in each year since 1985.
Mr. Gummer : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him on 11 June 1992, Official Report, column 273.
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WALES
Household Statistics
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the total number of households in Wales at present ; and if he will publish an estimated figure for the number of households in the year 2011.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : The total number of households in Wales in 1991 according to the 1989 based household projections is 1,095,000 ; the figure for 2011 from the same source is 1,237,000.
Housing
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will set an annual target figure for the development of new-build affordable homes in Wales.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : We have no plans to do so.
Local Government Reform
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) if he will make a statement on the role of inter-authority co-operation within the context of his Department's local government reform package for Wales ;
(2) if he will outline how the current strategic planning functions carried out by county councils will be fulfilled by the new unitary authorities.
Mr. David Hunt : These matters will be dealt with in the White Paper that I will be publishing in due course.
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what consideration has been given by his Department to the effect of local government reform in Wales upon applications from local authorities for planning consent for their own projects.
Mr. David Hunt : Under the present law a local planning authority may grant itself planning permission to develop its own land within its area. Under the new structure I expect the new councils, as local planning authorities, to have the same powers.
Minerals
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many representations he has received stating objections to some or all of the guidelines included in planning policy guidance note 3 on mineral extraction.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : No comprehensive record exists, but in response to a monitoring exercise which the Government undertook last March, four organisations in Wales wrote calling for revision of minerals planning policy guidance note 3. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment announced on 15 July the Government's intention to bring forward for public consultation draft revised planning guidelines on coal extraction generally.
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what action is currently undertaken by his Department to apply the polluter pays principle to the mineral sector in Wales.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : In determining those minerals planning applications and appeals that come before my
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right hon. Friend and his inspectors, consideration is given to the need to achieve acceptable environmental standards through the imposition of appropriate conditions designed to control the working of the site and its restoration to an acceptable after- use. Certain mineral sector processes in Wales are also subject to pollution control by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution under provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The cost of meeting acceptable environmental standards falls on the industry in line with the polluter pays principle.
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