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Mr. Eggar : Coal stocks at power stations at 3 January 1993 totalled 31.5 million tonnes. Valuation of coal stocks at power stations is a matter for the generating company concerned.

Gross Domestic Product

Mr. Sheerman : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what information he has on the percentage contribution of (a) the chemical industry and (b) the


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engineering industry to the GDP of (i) the United Kingdom, (ii) France, (iii) Germany and (iv) Italy in each of the last 20 years.

Mr. Sainsbury : The information requested is published in National Accounts ESA, detailed tables by branch ; EUROSTAT relevant copies are available in the House of Commons Library.

Offshore Drilling

Mr. Ainger : To ask the President of the Board of Trade (1) pursuant to his answer of 18 January, Official Report, column 37, regarding environmental impact assessments prior to drilling in the Celtic sea, what special conditions he has plans to attach to any licences issued for blocks 103/2, 103/3, 103/6, 103/7, 106/25, 106/29, 107/21, 104/16, 104/17, 104/18, 104/19 and 104/21 ;

(2) what advice he received from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee and the Countryside Council for Wales prior to including each of blocks 103/2, 103/3, 103/6, 103/7, 106/25, 106/29, 107/21, 104/16, 104/17, 104/18, 104/19 and 104/21 in the 14th round of offshore drilling licensing ; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Eggar : In considering whether to offer blocks 103/2, 103/3, 103/6, 103/7, 106/25, 106/29, 107/21, 104/16, 104/17, 104/18, 104/19 and 104/21 in the 14th round, officials took account of the concerns of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee--JNCC--and the Countryside Council for Wales--CCW--regarding the ecological status of the area. On balance, the evidence did not justify the exclusion of these blocks from hydrocarbons exploration, but it was agreed that special conditions should be attached to each licence.

These special conditions have been agreed with the Department of the Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the JNCC, which has consulted the CCW. As part of the special conditions, licensees will be obliged to consult these organisations before undertaking any activity in these blocks. The conditions will reflect the concerns related to each block and to those elements of the environment potentially at risk.

Coal Industry

Dr. Marek : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement on the access allowed to Alan Oakes and Associates, consultants hired by Clwyd county council, to visit the Point of Ayr colliery for the purpose of assessing the pit's viability.

Mr. Eggar : This is a matter for British Coal.

Consultancy Reports

Mr. Tipping : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will place copies of the consultancy reports from Caminus Energy, PIMS Associates Ltd. and Ernst and Young in the Library.

Mr. Eggar : The consultants' reports will be placed in the Library as soon as they are published.

Atomic Energy Authority

Mr. Harry Greenway : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what external financing limit has been set for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority for 1993-94.


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Mr. Eggar : The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's external financing limit for 1993-94 will be minus £2.1 million.

Coal Industry

Mr. Janner : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement on current employment in the coal mining industry.

Mr. Eggar [holding answer 19 January 1993] : The total number of people employed by British Coal at the end of December 1992 was 48, 700. The total work force at deep mines licensed by British Coal at 30 September 1992--the latest available figure--was 1,683. No figures are held centrally for employees of contractors working at British Coal's own pits and opencast sites or of employment at opencast sites licensed by British Coal.

Electricity

Mr. Clapham : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement on the criteria agreed in 1990 which triggers compensation payments to the regional electricity companies if they have to take dearer electricity.

Mr. Eggar [holding answer 19 January 1993] : The operation of contracts for differences between regional electricity

companies--RECs--and the generators, which hedge the RECs against increases in pool prices, is a commercial matter for the companies concerned.

Public Houses

Mr. Nigel Jones : To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 13 January, Official Report, column 738, if he will publish the information his Department holds on the purchasers of public houses under the Supply of Beer (Tied Estates) Order 1989 (S.I., 1989, No. 2390) ; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Neil Hamilton [holding answer 20 January 1993] : As I explained in my answer of 13 January, the statutory undertakings given by the national brewers to provide the Director General of Fair Trading with information to enable him to monitor compliance with the order do not require them to provide details of the purchasers of public houses that are sold. However, my Department is aware of trade press estimates-- Publican, 11 January 1993--which suggest that since 1989 the number of pubs owned by independent retailers had increased by 8,000 while regional brewers have purchased a further 3,000 outlets.

LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT

High Court Judges

Mr. John Morris : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what is the current establishment of High Court judges ; and how many are currently in post.

Mr. John M. Taylor : Following a number of very recent promotions and retirements there are currently 83 High Court judges holding appointment out of a complement of 85, which is also the current statutory limit on their numbers. Steps are being taken to bring that number back to 85 as soon as is practicable.


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Mr. John Morris : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many sittings in the High Court there were in the last available week ; how many were taken by (a) High Court judges, (b) deputy High Court judges and (c) circuit judges, excluding appellate and divisional court sittings.

Mr. John M. Taylor : In the royal courts of justice in London in the week commencing 11 January 1993 there were 253 sittings in the three divisions of the High Court. Of these sittings 147 were taken by High Court judges, 59 were taken by circuit judges sitting as judges of the High Court and 47 were taken by deputies. These figures do not, of course, take account of the substantial number of sittings on High Court business and serious crime undertaken by High Court judges on circuits, for which figures for the week commencing 11 January 1993 are not yet available.

Mr. John Morris : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what progress is being made by the Lord Chancellor's committee on the work deployment and number of High Court judges ; when it is expected to report ; and whether the report will be published.

Mr. John M. Taylor : The group of senior judges and officials which has been asked to advise the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice on the work, deployment and numbers of High Court judges met first on 5 October 1992 and has met several times since then. It is hoped that their advice will be received soon. It is unclear yet whether the advice will be in a form which could be published, but as parliamentary and Privy Council approval is required to increase the statutory limit on the number of High Court judges any changes proposed to be made as a result of it would come into the public domain.

Possession Notices

Mr. Allen : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many (a) possession notices and (b) suspended possession notices have been served in the latest period of 12 months for which figures are available in the Nottinghamshire area ; and what were the corresponding figures for the previous period of 12 months.

Mr. John M. Taylor : Mortgage possession figures are collected by the number of actions entered, suspended orders and orders made. The table shows the information for each county court in Nottinghamshire during 1991 and 1992. The figures do not indicate how many houses have been repossessed through the courts as not all the orders will have resulted in the issue and execution of warrants of possession. At this stage, the 1992 figures are provisional and therefore liable to revision to take account of any late amendments. Figures on mortgage possession actions taken in each county court in England and Wales are published quarterly in an information bulletin which is placed in the Libraries of both Houses of Parliament. The figures covering the whole of 1991 and 1992 will be published on 27 January 1993.


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Mortgage possession actions entered and orders made in Nottinghamshire 

county courts during 1991 and 1992                                     

                              Actions enteSuspended orOrders made      

Court                        |1991 |1992 |1991 |1992 |1991 |1992       

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Mansfield                    |922  |601  |327  |261  |297  |298        

Newark                       |161  |124  |37   |44   |75   |60         

Nottingham                   |2,235|1,497|693  |657  |790  |613        

Worksop                      |445  |340  |142  |138  |203  |133        

                              -------                                  

Nottinghamshire County Total |3,763|2,562|1,199|1,100|1,365|1,104      

NATIONAL FINANCE

Maastricht Treaty

Mr. Leighton : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what progress each of the 12 EC member states has made in reaching the convergence criteria of the Maastricht treaty.

Mr. Nelson : Article 109j of the Maastricht treaty gives to the Council the responsibility for determining whether or not a member state has met the necessary conditions for entry to stage 3 of economic and monetary union. The Council is required to make this judgment, taking into account reports from the Commission and European Monetary Institute on the extent to which a member state complies with criteria concerning the relative rate of inflation ; the Government's fiscal position ; observance of the normal fluctuation margins within the exchange rate mechanism--ERM ; and long-term interest rates. In addition, the reports must take account of a number of other factors, including the development of the ecu, the integration of markets, current account positions, and unit labour costs and other price indices.

A protocol attached to the treaty lays down figures for the convergence criteria regarding inflation and long-term interest rates. Another protocol sets out reference values for fiscal criteria which, if breached, might prompt a Commission report to the Council on the fiscal position of a member state--such a report being the basis on which the Council would judge whether or not an excessive deficit existed. However, definitions of the indicators of convergence have not yet been fully standardised and figures are therefore only indicative at this stage.

The current position of each member state, in respect of the convergence criteria, is given in the table. The criterion on participation in the ERM is that a member state has respected the normal fluctuation margins without severe tensions for at least the last two years. In particular, the member state shall not have devalued its currency's bilateral central rate against any other member state's currency on its own initiative for the same period. The following member states have been in the narrow band for at least two years : Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.


                     |Latest inflation<1> |Budget balance<2>   |General government  |Longer bond yield<4>                     

                                                               |debt<3>                                                       

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Belgium              |2.2                 |-6.4                |132.2               |7.5                                      

Denmark              |1.4                 |-2.0                |60.6                |8.5                                      

France               |2.1                 |-2.2                |48.6                |7.8                                      

Germany<5>           |3.7                 |-3.2                |41.8                |7.1                                      

Greece               |15.0                |-16.1               |82.9                |n/a                                      

Ireland              |2.3                 |-1.9                |101.2               |<4>9.4                                   

Italy                |4.9                 |-10.2               |102.7               |13.4                                     

Luxembourg           |2.9                 |<2>2.6              |<3>6.3              |7.5                                      

Netherlands          |2.9                 |-2.6                |77.0                |7.1                                      

Portugal             |8.6                 |-6.1                |<3>68.6             |<4>9.9                                   

Spain                |5.1                 |-4.9                |46.3                |12.1                                     

United Kingdom       |3.0                 |-2.8                |36.5                |8.6                                      

<1> November 1992; percentage change of consumer prices over previous 12 months.                                              

<2> 1991 general government financial balance (as a percentage of GDP).                                                       

OECD Outlook (December 1992), except for Luxembourg (EC May 1992).                                                            

<3> 1991 gross debt of general government (as a percentage of GDP).                                                           

OECD Outlook (December 1992), except for Luxembourg and Portugal (EC May 1992).                                               

<4> Yield on fixed interest government securities on 18 January 1993, except Ireland and Portugal (October 1992).             

<5> Inflation and government debt figures are for western Germany.                                                            

Source: OECD and Eurostat.                                                                                                    

Mortgage Repayments

Mr. Bayley : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many households in (a) Great Britain, (b) the Yorkshire-Humberside region and (c) the York area have been helped under the scheme announced by him on 19 December 1991 to provide funding on concessional terms to help borrowers who are not on income support, but who face serious problems in paying their mortgages ; and what means have been used to assess the effectiveness of the scheme.

Mr. Nelson : I do not believe that it is possible to single out the specific effect of particular elements in the range of industry and Government measures which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced following my meeting with the mortgage lenders-- Official Report, 19 December 1991, column 453.

As for the number of households helped by the package as a whole, one indicator is the latest published figures for possession actions in the county courts in England and Wales which indicate a fall of 16,563--32 per cent.--in the number of actions entered in the third quarter of 1992 compared with the third quarter of 1991. Over the same period possession actions entered in the Yorkshire and Humberside region fell by 1,428--38 per cent. ; and in the York and Malton area by 33--22 per cent.

Third World Debt

Mr. Jon Owen Jones : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps the Government are taking to encourage British banks to cancel a proportion of debts owed to them by third-world countries.


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Mr. Nelson : The Government welcome the significant progress made by banks in reaching voluntary arrangements on debt relief with developing countries. The United Kingdom is financing its share of the International Monetary Fund and World bank resources used in support of these arrangements.

Drinks Duty

Mrs. Ewing : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what representations he has had on the harmonisation of drinks duties in the European Community ; and if he will make a statement ; (2) what discussions he has had with (a) his European Community counterparts and (b) the Scotch whisky industry and others on the harmonisation of drinks duties in the European Community ; and if he will make a statement ;

(3) what discussions he has had with representatives of the Scotch whisky industry to discuss excise taxation ; what representations he has received on the taxation of Scotch whisky ; and if he will make a statement.

Sir John Cope : EC Finance Ministers have not discussed drinks duties since the adoption of the rates and structures directives last October. Treasury Ministers have since received many representations from the drinks trade on the subject of United Kingdom duties. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer met a delegation from the Scotch Whisky Association on 14 January to


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discuss its request for no increase in or revalorisation of the duty on spirits, and a narrowing of the duty differential between spirits and beer and wine. All these representations will be considered in the review of indirect taxation in the run-up to the Budget.

Mrs. Ewing : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his current estimate of the value of sales of Scotch whisky which would be lost in the event of the abolition of duty free ; and if he will make a statement.

Sir John Cope : Intra-EC duty-free sales of Scotch whisky are estimated to be worth around £50 million a year. We have no details on the value of non-EC duty-free sales of Scotch whisky. No estimates are available for the value of sales that would be lost in the event of abolition of duty-free sales.

Mrs. Ewing : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide details of (a) the amount and (b) the value of sales of (i) Scotch whisky and (ii) imported wine in cash and real terms in the United Kingdom for each year since 1979 ; and if he will list the percentage increase/decrease compared with the previous year.

Sir John Cope : Such information as is available is given in the table. The figures for whisky relate to home-produced mature whisky and whiskey. For wine, the figures relate to heavy, light and sparkling wine, the bulk of which is imported.


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(i) Whisky<1>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

                                                           |Volume of whisky (thousand hectolitres of pure alcohol)<2>|Year-on-year percentage increase                          |Total expenditure (current market prices)                 |Year-on-year percentage increase                          |Total expenditure (constant 1985 prices)                  |Year-on-year percentage increase                                                                                                                                                

[NL]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |£ million                                                                                                            |£ million                                                                                                                                                                       

1984                                                       |440.8                                                                                                                |1,561                                                                                                                |1,635                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

1985                                                       |461.6                                                     |4.7                                                       |1,711                                                     |9.6                                                       |1,711                                                     |4.6                                                                                                                                                                             

1986                                                       |456.2                                                     |-1.2                                                      |1,749                                                     |2.3                                                       |1,691                                                     |-1.1                                                                                                                                                                            

1987                                                       |446.0                                                     |-2.2                                                      |1,765                                                     |0.9                                                       |1,650                                                     |-2.4                                                                                                                                                                            

1988                                                       |451.8                                                     |1.3                                                       |1,858                                                     |5.3                                                       |1,669                                                     |1.1                                                                                                                                                                             

1989                                                       |430.2                                                     |-4.8                                                      |1,862                                                     |0.2                                                       |1,590                                                     |-4.7                                                                                                                                                                            

1990                                                       |413.5                                                     |-3.9                                                      |1,967                                                     |5.6                                                       |1,528                                                     |-3.9                                                                                                                                                                            

1991                                                       |382.6                                                     |-7.5                                                      |2,065                                                     |5.0                                                       |1,419                                                     |-7.1                                                                                                                                                                            

<1> Home produced mature whisky and whiskey.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

<2> Released from bond for domestic market.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        


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(ii) Wine<3>                                                                                                                                                    

                    |Volume of imported |Year-on-year       |Total expenditure  |Year-on-year       |Total expenditure  |Year-on-year                           

                    |wine (thousand     |percentage increase|(current market    |percentage increase|(constant 1985     |percentage increase                    

                    |hectolitres of pure                    |prices)                                |prices)                                                    

                    |alcohol)<4>                                                                                                                                

                                                            |£ million                              |£ million                                                  

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1984                |5,389.0                                |2,473                                  |2,596                                                      

1985                |5,642.7            |4.7                |2,701              |9.2                |2,701              |4.0                                    

1986                |5,901.7            |4.6                |2,834              |4.9                |2,788              |3.2                                    

1987                |6,278.3            |6.4                |3,131              |10.5               |2,962              |6.2                                    

1988                |6,482.5            |3.3                |3,343              |6.8                |3,067              |3.5                                    

1989                |6,669.5            |2.9                |3,613              |8.1                |3,166              |3.2                                    

1990                |6,636.3            |-0.5               |3,898              |7.9                |3,132              |-1.1                                   

1991                |6,653.3            |0.3                |4,207              |7.9                |3,105              |-0.8                                   

<3> Heavy, light and sparkling wine.                                                                                                                            

<4> Released from bond for domestic market.                                                                                                                     

Mrs. Ewing : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will provide details of the amount of taxation levied on Scotch whisky compared with that levied against wine for each year since 1979 ; and if he will make a statement.


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Sir John Cope : Firm data on duty receipts are only available for total spirits. Estimates can be made for all home-produced whisky and these are given in the table.


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£ millions                                                                  

                   |Estimated duty and|Duty and                             

                   |consequential VAT |consequential VAT                    

                   |on whisky/whiskey |on wines                             

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1979-80            |647               |417                                  

1980-81            |664               |449                                  

1981-82            |717               |581                                  

1982-83            |549               |582                                  

1983-84            |941               |716                                  

1984-85            |679               |745                                  

1985-86            |822               |789                                  

1986-87            |767               |801                                  

1987-88            |803               |843                                  

1988-89            |784               |902                                  

1989-90            |748               |910                                  

1990-91            |835               |984                                  

1991-92            |856               |1,084                                

Mrs. Ewing : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will show how the rate at which Scotch whisky is taxed has varied compared with the rate at which wine is taxed from 1979 to date ; and if he will make a statement.

Sir John Cope : The information is as follows :--


Percentage change in duty rate                                                  

Year                |Whisky             |Wine of fresh grape                    

                                        |5.5 per cent. to                       

                                        |not exceeding 15                       

                                        |per cent. strength                     

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1979                |0.0                |0.0                                    

1980                |13.7               |0.0                                    

1981                |14.6               |16.9                                   

1982                |6.4                |12.2                                   

1983                |5.0                |5.8                                    

1984                |1.9                |<1>-19.9                               

1985                |1.9                |8.3                                    

1986                |0.0                |0.0                                    

1987                |0.0                |0.0                                    

1988                |0.0                |4.5                                    

1989                |0.0                |0.0                                    

1990                |10.0               |7.7                                    

1991                |9.3                |9.3                                    

1992                |4.5                |4.5                                    

<1> Due to duty restructuring                                                   

Mrs. Ewing : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the level of duty on a bottle of Scotch whisky in each of the EC member states ; and if he will make a statement.

Sir John Cope : Our latest information is for November 1992 and is as follows :


Excise duty on a 70cl bottle of Scotch whisky                           

Member state      |National currency|Sterling                           

                  |Cost per 70cl    |Duty per 70cl                      

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Belgium           |178.00           |3.50                               

Denmark           |102.77           |10.77                              

France            |21.85            |2.62                               

Germany           |7.13             |2.89                               

Greece            |388.22           |1.22                               

Ireland           |5.63             |5.98                               

Italy             |2,603.32         |1.20                               

Luxembourg        |106.29           |2.09                               

Netherlands       |8.90             |3.20                               

Portugal          |335.82           |1.53                               

Spain             |203.00           |1.17                               

United Kingdom    |5.55             |5.55                               

Notes:                                                                  

1. Calculated using exchange rates as at 1 October 1992.                

2. In most cases VAT is also charged at the standard rate applicable in 

each member state.                                                      

Mrs. Ewing : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish the annual amount of revenue accruing to the Exchequer in (a) cash and (b) real terms from the levying of excise duty on Scotch whisky for each year since 1979.

Sir John Cope : Firm data on duty receipts are available only for total spirits. Estimates can be made for all home-produced whisky and these are given in the table :


£ million                                                                   

                   |Estimated duty and|In real terms at                     

                   |consequential VAT |1991-92 prices                       

                   |on whisky/whiskey                                       

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1979-80            |647               |1,475                                

1980-81            |664               |1,301                                

1981-82            |717               |1,259                                

1982-83            |549               |901                                  

1983-84            |941               |1,476                                

1984-85            |679               |1,014                                

1985-86            |822               |1,158                                

1986-87            |767               |1,047                                

1987-88            |803               |1,055                                

1988-89            |784               |971                                  

1989-90            |748               |859                                  

1990-91            |835               |875                                  

1991-92            |856               |856                                  

Correspondence

Mr. Winnick : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when a reply will be sent to the letter written on 1 December 1992 by the hon. Member for Walsall, North regarding a constituent.

Mr. Dorrell : I wrote to the hon. Member yesterday ; I apologise for not being able to reply earlier.

Retail Prices Index

Mr. Burns : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects to receive a report from the Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee.

Mr. Lamont : I have today received a report from the Retail Prices Index Advisory Committee. It makes recommendations on the treatment in the RPI of council tax and holidays. The full report is being published this afternoon as Cm 2142 and copies are available in the Vote Office.

In due course I will announce my response on the recommendations. The committee has not yet concluded its consideration of the treatment of owner -occupiers' housing costs and new cars.

Non-residents (Tax)

Mr. Burns : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchquer if he will make a statement on the application of the tax deduction at source arrangements to the payment of gross interest to non-residents by deposit-takers.

Mr. Dorrell : The tax deduction at source legislation provides, generally, that individuals who are not


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ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, and who make a declaration to that effect, can receive their interest without deduction of tax. However under existing rules a deposit-taker which is not a bank or a building society is required to deduct tax even when a declaration has been made.

We have decided to remove this inconsistency by including legislation in the next Finance Bill to allow these deposit-takers to pay gross interest on the same footing as banks and building societies.

In the meantime, in anticipation of this legislation, and with my agreement, the Inland Revenue will not seek to recover tax from a deposit- taker which has paid gross interest to someone who is not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom and has provided the necessary declaration.

Germany (Coach Importation)

Mr. Fry : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make representations through the European Commission regarding the tax on the temporary importation of coach vehicles to Germany via any border being imposed on vehicles of another EC member state.

Sir John Cope [holding answer 19 January 1993] : There is some uncertainty surrounding the approach being adopted by Germany to coaches since the abolition of fiscal frontiers on 1 January 1993. HM Customs and Excise are seeking clarification of the situation with the Commission and other member states.

Income Statistics

Mr. Meacher : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of the increase in incomes since 1979 has gone to the top 1 per cent., 5 per cent., 10 per cent. and 20 per cent. of the population ; and what are the comparable figures for the USA, Japan, Germany and France.

Mr. Nelson [holding answer 11 January 1993] : The data requested in the question are not readily available. However, information for the United Kingdom on changes in income shares and real incomes was contained in replies my hon. Friend the Member for Bury, North (Mr. Burt), the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security gave to the hon. Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden) on 2 December 1992 at column 100 and the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman) on 7 December at column 506.

PRIME MINISTER

Iraq

Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Prime Minister if he will make a statement on Her Majesty's Government's discussions with the Government of Jordan on the efficacy of military intervention in Iraq.

The Prime Minister : Since the invasion of Kuwait we have had frequent discussions with the Jordanians on the situation in Iraq. We have discussed the allies' latest military action in Iraq with Jordanian officials.


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EDUCATION

Education Spending

Mr. Nigel Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list for each education authority, the amount per pupil spent on (a) under-fives, (b) primary, (c) 11 to 16 and (d) post-16 education for the last three years for which figures are available.

Mr. Forth : Available expenditure data cover nursery and primary schools, or secondary schools, as a whole, and cannot be disaggregated between particular age ranges. The latest year for which information on actual expenditure by local education authorities is available is 1990-91. The tables indicate, for each local education authority in England, the average school-based expenditure per pupil in nursery and primary schools and in secondary schools in each year from 1988-89 to 1990-91.


Net institutional expenditure per pupil in nursery and 

primary                                                

schools                                                

                       |1988-89|1989-90|1990-91        

                       |£      |£      |£              

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ILEA                   |1,605  |1,835  |-              

City                   |-      |-      |1,950          

Camden                 |-      |-      |1,710          

Greenwich              |-      |-      |1,720          

Hackney                |-      |-      |1,900          

Hammersmith            |-      |-      |1,970          

Islington              |-      |-      |1,770          

Kensington             |-      |-      |2,060          

Lambeth                |-      |-      |1,840          

Lewisham               |-      |-      |1,710          

Southwark              |-      |-      |1,850          

Tower Hamlets          |-      |-      |1,940          

Wandsworth             |-      |-      |1,820          

Westminster            |-      |-      |2,110          

Barking                |1,255  |1,360  |1,460          

Barnet                 |1,250  |1,370  |1,550          

Bexley                 |1,100  |1,215  |1,260          

Brent                  |1,375  |1,425  |1,670          

Bromley                |1,165  |1,290  |1,410          

Croydon                |1,180  |1,200  |1,440          

Ealing                 |1,385  |1,485  |1,690          

Enfield                |1,110  |1,220  |1,430          

Haringey               |n/a    |n/a    |1,840          

Harrow                 |1,115  |1,230  |1,480          

Havering               |1,095  |1,155  |1,290          

Hillingdon             |1,195  |1,305  |1,540          

Hounslow               |1,270  |n/a    |1,510          

Kingston-upon-Thames   |1,175  |1,265  |1,430          

Merton                 |1,210  |1,345  |1,750          

Newham                 |1,360  |1,445  |1,490          

Redbridge              |1,070  |1,150  |1,350          

Richmond upon Thames   |1,180  |1,375  |1,530          

Sutton                 |1,090  |1,215  |1,360          

Waltham Forest         |1,250  |1,430  |1,570          

Birmingham             |1,040  |1,130  |1,260          

Coventry               |1,065  |1,195  |1,300          

Dudley                 |1,020  |1,085  |1,230          

Sandwell               |1,175  |1,275  |1,450          

Solihull               |1,040  |1,160  |1,240          

Walsall                |1,200  |1,255  |1,510          

Wolverhampton          |1,190  |1,320  |1,390          

Knowsley               |1,165  |1,235  |1,390          

Liverpool              |1,150  |1,225  |1,290          

St. Helens             |1,050  |1,170  |1,210          

Sefton                 |1,015  |1,110  |1,260          

Wirral                 |1,070  |1,225  |1,280          

Bolton                 |1,015  |1,130  |1,220          

Bury                   |1,080  |1,190  |1,190          

Manchester             |n/a    |n/a    |1,320          

Oldham                 |1,125  |1,295  |1,370          

Rochdale               |990    |1,170  |1,200          

Salford                |1,085  |1,200  |1,270          

Stockport              |1,035  |1,095  |1,260          

Tameside               |1,115  |1,235  |1,320          

Trafford               |1,050  |1,130  |1,170          

Wigan                  |1,025  |1,090  |1,140          

Barnsley               |1,065  |1,145  |1,260          

Doncaster              |1,175  |1,255  |1,250          

Rotherham              |1,125  |1,245  |1,340          

Sheffield              |1,230  |1,315  |1,390          

Bradford               |1,160  |1,275  |1,500          

Calderdale             |1,145  |1,140  |1,440          

Kirklees               |1,110  |1,205  |1,300          

Leeds                  |1,155  |1,255  |1,430          

Wakefield              |n/a    |n/a    |1,340          

Gateshead              |1,180  |1,245  |1,390          

Newcastle upon Tyne    |1,225  |1,320  |1,520          

North Tyneside         |1,145  |n/a    |1,310          

South Tyneside         |1,150  |1,255  |1,290          

Sunderland             |1,005  |1,155  |1,280          

Avon                   |1,050  |1,195  |1,320          

Bedfordshire           |1,115  |1,240  |1,380          

Berkshire              |1,030  |1,105  |1,340          

Buckinghamshire        |1,065  |1,170  |1,320          

Cambridgeshire         |1,005  |1,115  |1,260          

Cheshire               |960    |1,050  |1,260          

Cleveland              |1,075  |1,150  |1,230          

Cornwall               |1,010  |1,095  |1,190          

Cumbria                |1,140  |1,265  |1,340          

Derbyshire             |1,080  |1,235  |1,370          

Devon                  |975    |1,095  |1,310          

Dorset                 |1,020  |1,120  |1,290          

Durham                 |1,130  |1,225  |1,370          

East Sussex            |1,025  |1,125  |1,240          

Essex                  |1,050  |1,150  |1,240          

Gloucestershire        |1,010  |1,140  |1,200          

Hampshire              |1,040  |1,125  |1,260          

Hereford and Worcester |1,000  |1,145  |1,360          

Hertfordshire          |1,130  |1,245  |1,340          

Humberside             |1,155  |1,265  |1,280          

Isle of Wight          |1,055  |1,120  |1,250          

Kent                   |935    |1,030  |1,120          

Lancashire             |985    |1,090  |1,310          

Leicestershire         |1,085  |1,180  |1,290          

Lincolnshire           |1,005  |1,110  |1,210          

Norfolk                |1,070  |1,160  |1,280          

North Yorkshire        |1,030  |1,100  |1,230          

Northamptonshire       |1,005  |1,095  |1,230          

Northumberland         |1,090  |1,175  |1,320          

Nottinghamshire        |1,115  |1,255  |1,390          

Oxfordshire            |1,125  |1,205  |1,570          

Shropshire             |1,075  |1,160  |1,350          

Somerset               |1,025  |1,145  |1,230          

Staffordshire          |1,050  |1,155  |1,270          

Suffolk                |1,020  |1,120  |1,310          

Surrey                 |1,050  |1,140  |1,340          

Warwickshire           |1,025  |1,140  |1,220          

West Sussex            |1,005  |1,145  |1,240          

Wiltshire              |1,045  |1,125  |1,260          


Net institutional expenditure per pupil in secondary        

schools                                                     

                            |1988-89|1989-90|1990-91        

                            |£      |£      |£              

------------------------------------------------------------

ILEA                        |2,505  |2,725  |-              

Camden                      |-      |-      |2,290          

Greenwich                   |-      |-      |2,390          

Hackney                     |-      |-      |2,710          

Hammersmith                 |-      |-      |2,670          

Islington                   |-      |-      |2,440          

Kensington                  |-      |-      |2,900          

Lambeth                     |-      |-      |2,580          

Lewisham                    |-      |-      |2,430          

Southwark                   |-      |-      |2,350          

Tower Hamlets               |-      |-      |2,490          

Wandsworth                  |-      |-      |2,520          

Westminster                 |-      |-      |2,580          

Barking                     |1,970  |2,200  |2,300          

Barnet                      |1,820  |1,925  |2,110          

Bexley                      |1,685  |1,820  |1,970          

Brent                       |2,305  |2,225  |2,360          

Bromley                     |1,770  |1,955  |2,220          

Croydon                     |2,040  |1,935  |2,080          

Ealing                      |2,145  |2,345  |2,580          

Enfield                     |1,715  |1,815  |2,080          

Haringey                    |n/a    |n/a    |2,590          

Harrow                      |1,740  |1,975  |2,320          

Havering                    |1,860  |1,990  |2,140          

Hillingdon                  |1,870  |2,005  |2,340          

Hounslow                    |1,895  |n/a    |2,080          

Kingston-upon-Thames        |1,905  |2,120  |2,240          

Merton                      |1,660  |1,925  |1,990          

Newham                      |2,140  |2,310  |2,410          

Redbridge                   |1,735  |1,855  |2,120          

Richmond upon Thames        |1,645  |1,790  |1,990          

Sutton                      |1,630  |1,750  |2,080          

Waltham Forest              |2,435  |2,490  |2,650          

Birmingham                  |1,640  |1,800  |2,050          

Coventry                    |1,940  |2,180  |2,340          

Dudley                      |1,840  |1,915  |2,100          

Sandwell                    |1,885  |2,120  |2,300          

Solihull                    |1,650  |1,835  |2,080          

Walsall                     |1,885  |1,995  |2,260          

Wolverhampton               |1,745  |1,970  |2,120          

Knowsley                    |1,990  |2,105  |2,230          

Liverpool                   |1,905  |2,060  |2,250          

St. Helens                  |1,710  |1,965  |1,960          

Sefton                      |1,600  |1,715  |2,030          

Wirral                      |1,750  |1,970  |2,110          

Bolton                      |1,635  |1,795  |1,990          

Bury                        |1,730  |1,860  |1,810          

Manchester                  |n/a    |n/a    |2,150          

Oldham                      |1,590  |1,760  |1,940          

Rochdale                    |1,695  |2,050  |2,140          

Salford                     |1,860  |2,140  |2,190          

Stockport                   |1,730  |1,860  |2,030          

Tameside                    |1,660  |1,770  |1,950          

Trafford                    |1,710  |1,920  |2,080          

Wigan                       |1,850  |2,000  |2,100          

Barnsley                    |1,645  |1,795  |1,820          

Doncaster                   |1,655  |1,805  |1,860          

Rotherham                   |1,635  |1,810  |1,960          

Sheffield                   |1,810  |1,920  |2,150          

Bradford                    |1,605  |1,635  |1,780          

Calderdale                  |1,665  |1,665  |2,090          

Kirklees                    |1,620  |1,765  |1,920          

Leeds                       |1,545  |1,715  |1,920          

Wakefield                   |n/a    |n/a    |1,940          

Gateshead                   |1,770  |1,865  |2,080          

Newcastle upon Tyne         |1,870  |1,980  |1,990          

North Tyneside              |1,785  |n/a    |1,940          

South Tyneside              |1,825  |2,010  |2,140          

Sunderland                  |1,670  |1,845  |1,930          

Avon                        |1,630  |1,795  |1,940          

Bedfordshire                |1,635  |1,815  |1,880          

Berkshire                   |1,570  |1,735  |1,950          

Buckinghamshire             |1,715  |1,850  |2,050          

Cambridgeshire              |1,480  |1,640  |1,880          

Cheshire                    |1,545  |1,715  |1,950          

Cleveland                   |1,770  |1,915  |2,090          

Cornwall                    |1,525  |1,690  |1,890          

Cumbria                     |1,685  |1,845  |2,030          

Derbyshire                  |1,755  |1,975  |2,110          

Devon                       |1,535  |1,705  |1,950          

Dorset                      |1,490  |1,630  |1,810          

Durham                      |1,575  |1,735  |1,990          

East Sussex                 |1,565  |1,765  |1,980          

Essex                       |1,635  |1,800  |1,950          

Gloucestershire             |1,545  |1,735  |1,910          

Hampshire                   |1,580  |1,790  |1,970          

Hereford and Worcestershire |1,440  |1,635  |1,840          

Hertfordshire               |1,740  |1,900  |2,070          

Humberside                  |1,690  |1,765  |1,910          

Isle of Wight               |1,495  |1,575  |1,760          

Kent                        |1,475  |1,565  |1,800          

Lancashire                  |1,620  |1,810  |1,950          

Leicestershire              |1,770  |1,900  |2,090          

Lincolnshire                |1,505  |1,630  |1,910          

Norfolk                     |1,585  |1,810  |1,990          

North Yorkshire             |1,595  |1,760  |2,020          

Northamptonshire            |1,545  |1,685  |1,800          

Northumberland              |1,630  |1,645  |1,810          

Nottinghamshire             |1,745  |1,960  |2,220          

Oxfordshire                 |1,660  |1,810  |2,160          

Shropshire                  |1,690  |1,855  |2,100          

Somerset                    |1,570  |1,745  |1,850          

Staffordshire               |1,610  |1,790  |1,930          

Suffolk                     |1,485  |1,820  |2,020          

Surrey                      |1,635  |1,675  |2,100          

Warwickshire                |1,635  |1,765  |1,890          

West Sussex                 |1,530  |1,745  |1,910          

Wiltshire                   |1,555  |1,700  |1,890          

Notes to tables:                                            

1. Figures are derived from LEAs' returns of their spending 

to the Department of the Environment and of their pupil     

numbers  to the Department for Education. They include      

school-based spending on salaries and wages, recurrent      

premises costs, books, equipment and other supplies and     

services. For 1990-91 they also include unspent balances    

held by schools at the year end under local management      

schemes. Figures exclude spending on  home to school        

transport,                                                  

school meals, LEAs' central administration and financing    

costs of capital expenditure.                               

2. "n/a" indicates that a return was not received from the  

LEA. Figures for 1988-89 and 1989-90 are rounded to the     

nearest £5, and for 1990-91 to the nearest £10.             

Mr. Nigel Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list for each education authority, the amount per pupil spent on special needs education, the total spent on special needs education and the percentage this represents of the total education budget, for the last year for which figures are available.

Mr. Forth : The latest year for which information on actual expenditure is available is 1990-91. The table indicates, for each local education authority in England, net institutional expenditure per pupil in maintained special schools or receiving education otherwise than at school provided by each local education authority ; total net recurrent expenditure on special education ; and the percentage this represents of the LEA's total net recurrent expenditure on education. The figures for special education exclude expenditure on pupils with special needs attending primary and secondary schools and on services such as child guidance and educational psychology, as the relevant data are not collected separately.


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                                 |Net institutional  |Net recurrent      |Net recurrent                          

                                 |expenditure per    |expenditure special|expenditure,                           

                                 |pupil              |education          |special education                      

                                                                         |as a percentage of                     

                                                                         |all education                          

Local education                  |£                  |£'000s             |Per cent.                              

authority                                                                                                        

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Camden                           |13,230             |5,857              |8.9                                    

Greenwich                        |15,190             |13,049             |12.7                                   

Hackney                          |7,920              |6,369              |6.0                                    

Hammersmith                      |13,590             |4,114              |7.2                                    

Islington                        |11,290             |5,065              |6.1                                    

Kensington                       |15,300             |2,088              |5.1                                    

Lambeth                          |9,120              |12,518             |10.3                                   

Lewisham                         |11,370             |8,342              |7.6                                    

Southwark                        |12,900             |8,181              |7.9                                    

Tower Hamlets                    |11,090             |7,575              |7.1                                    

Wandsworth                       |14,950             |9,102              |8.8                                    

Westminster                      |8,390              |4,956              |6.2                                    

Barking                          |16,800             |3,828              |6.7                                    

Barnet                           |8,590              |5,982              |6.2                                    

Bexley                           |7,330              |4,796              |6.5                                    

Brent                            |11,170             |7,165              |6.0                                    

Bromley                          |8,680              |5,754              |6.6                                    

Croydon                          |6,820              |4,058              |3.3                                    

Ealing                           |8,820              |10,244             |7.9                                    

Enfield                          |10,510             |7,822              |7.7                                    

Haringey                         |9,140              |5,070              |4.9                                    

Harrow                           |14,120             |5,582              |7.3                                    

Havering                         |6,500              |3,519              |4.4                                    

Hillingdon                       |9,340              |5,965              |7.0                                    

Hounslow                         |8,460              |6,876              |8.5                                    

Kingston upon Thames             |7,520              |3,196              |6.7                                    

Merton                           |9,450              |4,183              |7.0                                    

Newham                           |11,350             |7,001              |6.7                                    

Redbridge                        |7,760              |5,624              |7.4                                    

Richmond upon Thames             |8,440              |2,613              |5.4                                    

Sutton                           |6,020              |3,811              |6.7                                    

Waltham Forest                   |10,680             |6,219              |6.7                                    

Birmingham                       |8,010              |25,526             |6.6                                    

Coventry                         |9,040              |8,503              |6.4                                    

Dudley                           |7,310              |6,456              |6.0                                    

Sandwell                         |5,600              |6,699              |5.4                                    

Solihull                         |12,080             |4,453              |6.3                                    

Walsall                          |7,630              |4,941              |4.2                                    

Wolverhampton                    |7,030              |4,588              |4.3                                    

Knowsley                         |6,790              |5,091              |7.0                                    

Liverpool                        |5,880              |12,648             |6.4                                    

St. Helens                       |6,340              |5,124              |7.1                                    

Sefton                           |5,370              |4,892              |4.7                                    

Wirrall                          |6,750              |8,316              |6.3                                    

Bolton                           |6,550              |4,909              |5.0                                    

Bury                             |6,130              |3,649              |5.5                                    

Manchester                       |8,670              |14,738             |7.7                                    

Oldham                           |5,990              |4,664              |5.5                                    

Rochdale                         |6,990              |5,197              |6.0                                    

Salford                          |7,800              |5,379              |6.1                                    

Stockport                        |7,140              |6,404              |6.3                                    

Tameside                         |8,250              |5,023              |6.4                                    

Trafford                         |6,550              |3,709              |5.0                                    

Wigan                            |7,070              |7,850              |6.6                                    

Barnsley                         |9,750              |2,959              |4.0                                    

Doncaster                        |4,240              |4,578              |4.2                                    

Rotherham                        |7,260              |7,232              |7.6                                    

Sheffield                        |11,470             |10,281             |5.5                                    

Bradford                         |9,950              |10,716             |5.3                                    

Calderdale                       |6,480              |2,491              |3.3                                    

Kirklees                         |8,200              |7,270              |4.9                                    

Leeds                            |6,380              |8,665              |3.4                                    

Wakefield                        |5,630              |5,828              |5.2                                    

Gateshead                        |8,110              |4,549              |6.2                                    

Newcastle upon Tyne              |9,430              |6,597              |6.2                                    

North Tyneside                   |8,520              |5,363              |7.3                                    

South Tyneside                   |6,560              |2,797              |4.4                                    

Sunderland                       |5,740              |5,125              |4.8                                    

Avon                             |7,590              |20,867             |6.5                                    

Bedfordshire                     |6,700              |11,258             |5.6                                    

Berkshire                        |6,880              |16,974             |6.7                                    

Buckinghamshire                  |6,450              |15,866             |6.8                                    

Cambridgeshire                   |8,890              |12,396             |5.4                                    

Cheshire                         |9,570              |22,415             |6.5                                    

Cleveland                        |6,390              |11,040             |4.7                                    

Cornwall                         |7,040              |5,265              |3.4                                    

Cumbria                          |9,050              |5,819              |3.3                                    

Derbyshire                       |8,860              |19,722             |5.6                                    

Devon                            |5,590              |17,405             |5.5                                    

Dorset                           |4,960              |10,179             |5.3                                    

Durham                           |8,470              |12,427             |5.8                                    

East Sussex                      |7,650              |16,137             |8.2                                    

Essex                            |7,010              |30,704             |6.1                                    

Gloucestershire                  |7,590              |14,675             |8.0                                    

Hampshire                        |6,250              |35,309             |7.1                                    

Herefordshire and Worcestershire |5,040              |10,869             |4.9                                    

Hertfordshire                    |8,760              |23,326             |6.5                                    

Humberside                       |12,310             |18,764             |5.8                                    

Isle of Wight                    |4,270              |2,062              |4.9                                    

Kent                             |5,360              |31,992             |6.8                                    

Lancashire                       |7,760              |40,346             |7.7                                    

Leicestershire                   |7,940              |13,595             |4.1                                    

Lincolnshire                     |9,250              |14,985             |8.0                                    

Norfolk                          |9,480              |13,304             |5.7                                    

North Yorkshire                  |8,950              |13,987             |5.9                                    

Northamptonshire                 |8,620              |13,123             |6.4                                    

Northumberland                   |7,820              |5,549              |5.0                                    

Nottinghamshire                  |6,310              |17,382             |4.7                                    

Oxfordshire                      |8,420              |9,362              |4.8                                    

Shropshire                       |7,880              |7,776              |5.2                                    

Somerset                         |13,890             |11,962             |7.3                                    

Staffordshire                    |6,720              |17,723             |5.0                                    

Suffolk                          |6,170              |8,817              |4.4                                    

Surrey                           |6,690              |21,942             |7.2                                    

Warwickshire                     |8,120              |13,263             |7.7                                    

West Sussex                      |5,740              |13,193             |6.5                                    

Wiltshire                        |6,610              |11,751             |5.9                                    

Note to table                                                                                                    

1. Figures are derived from LEAs' returns of their spending to the Department of the Environment and of their    

pupil numbers to the Department for Education.                                                                   

2. Net institutional expenditure covers the costs of salaries and wages, recurrent premises costs, books,        

equipment and other supplies and services. It excludes the costs of home to school transport, school meals,      

LEAs' central administration, and financing costs of capital expenditure.                                        

3. Net recurrent expenditure includes all expenditure other than on financing of capital expenditure, less       

income other than from specific                                                                                  

grants.                                                                                                          

4. The variations in the figures between LEAs partly reflect the geographical distribution of different kinds of 

special schools and partly differences in policies of integration of pupils with special needs into ordinary     

schools.                                                                                                         

Nursery Education

Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list in rank order the latest available figures for the percentage of three and four-year-olds in nursery education for each local education authority in England.

Mr. Forth : Estimates of the percentage of three and four-year-olds in maintained nursery schools or nursery classes in maintained primary schools in each local education authority in England in January 1991 were published in column (xvii) of table 1 of statistical bulletin 5/92. A copy of this bulletin is available in the Library.

However, data which have since become available from the 1991 census of population suggest that the estimates of the three and four-year-old population in each local education authority used in bulletin 5/92 are in need of revision in some cases, and therefore that the percentages in column (xvii) of table 1 also need to be revised. The percentages as they stand do not therefore provide a reliable basis for a listing of local education authorities in rank order.

It is however not yet possible to re-calculate the percentages in bulletin 5/92 more accurately, or to update them to 1992, because not all of the population estimates required for this purpose are available on a post- census basis.

Teacher Salaries

Mr. Nigel Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) if he will list, for each education authority not in receipt of area cost adjustment, the average teacher's salary for the last year that figures are available ;

(2) if he will list, for each education authority in receipt of area cost adjustment, the average teacher's salary for the last year that figures are available.

Mr. Forth : The most recent date for which figures are available is 31 March 1990.

The area cost adjustment is designed to compensate local authorities in London and south-east England for additional employment costs incurred in that region. It is based on evidence of general market earnings levels drawn from the annual new earnings survey.

Some care must be taken in drawing parallels between differentials in average teacher salaries and the area cost adjustment. First, in the field of education, the adjustment compensates for the additional labour costs which apply to all types of staff employed in educational work. While approximately three quarters of total local authority education expenditure is on labour costs, in the current year only half this total expenditure relates to teachers' pay. Secondly, the average salary figures given below do not necessarily fully reflect the higher costs of employing teachers in the south-east, since in order to attract teaching staff, authorities in that region have generally found it necessary to offer additional incentives, particularly to help with the costs of housing. With these qualifications, the average teacher's salary was, for education authorities which receive area cost adjustment :


Column 352


                |£            

------------------------------

ILEA            |16,662       

Barking         |16,635       

Barnet          |16,075       

Bexley          |16,322       

Brent           |17,059       

Bromley         |16,581       

Croydon         |16,522       

Ealing          |16,781       

Enfield         |16,116       

Haringey        |16,692       

Harrow          |15,982       

Havering        |16,065       

Hillingdon      |16,411       

Hounslow        |16,118       

Kingston        |16,236       

Merton          |17,137       

Newham          |17,233       

Redbridge       |16,163       

Richmond        |15,939       

Sutton          |16,312       

Waltham Forest  |16,182       

Bedfordshire    |15,501       

Berkshire       |15,581       

Buckinghamshire |15,283       

East Sussex     |15,315       

Essex           |15,513       

Hampshire       |15,236       

Hertfordshire   |15,531       

Isle of Wight   |15,193       

Kent            |15,492       

Oxfordshire     |15,453       

Surrey          |15,639       

West Sussex     |15,252       

Isles of Scilly |15,023       

The average teacher's salary was, for local education authorities which do not receive area cost adjustment :


                |£            

------------------------------

Birmingham      |15,489       

Coventry        |15,520       

Dudley          |15,079       

Sandwell        |15,309       

Solihull        |15,380       

Walsall         |15,310       

Wolverhampton   |15,314       

Knowsley        |15,447       

Liverpool       |15,531       

St. Helens      |15,289       

Sefton          |15,577       

Wirral          |15,202       

Bolton          |15,034       

Bury            |15,373       

Manchester      |15,672       

Oldham          |14,898       

Rochdale        |15,272       

Salford         |15,348       

Stockport       |15,350       

Tameside        |15,256       

Trafford        |15,379       

Wigan           |15,526       

Barnsley        |15,201       

Doncaster       |15,369       

Rotherham       |15,198       

Sheffield       |15,706       

Bradford        |14,960       

Calderdale      |15,381       

Kirklees        |15,182       

Leeds           |15,421       

Wakefield       |15,390       

Gateshead       |15,592       

Newcastle       |15,428       

North Tyneside  |15,298       

South Tyneside  |15,236       

Sunderland      |15,175       

Avon            |15,477       

Cambridgeshire  |15,196       

Cheshire        |15,477       

Cleveland       |15,349       

Cornwall        |15,499       

Cumbria         |15,409       

Derbyshire      |15,349       

Devon           |15,245       

Dorset          |15,363       

Durham          |15,399       

Gloucestershire |15,264       

Hereford        |15,496       

Humberside      |15,531       

Lancashire      |15,318       

Leicestershire  |15,434       

Lincolnshire    |15,484       

Norfolk         |15,432       

North Yorkshire |15,352       

Northampton     |15,273       

Northumberland  |15,496       

Nottinghamshire |15,472       

Shropshire      |15,441       

Somerset        |15,341       

Staffordshire   |15,530       

Suffolk         |15,220       

Warwickshire    |15,542       

Wiltshire       |15,198       

All these figures are average salaries of full-time teachers in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools, including grant-maintained schools.

Dronfield School, Derbyshire

Mr. Barnes : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the cost of the services of the Electoral Reform Society in conducting the ballot on grant-maintained status at the Dronfield school in Derbyshire.

Mr. Forth : The cost of the services of the Electoral Reform Society in conducting the ballot on grant-maintained status at the Dronfield school was £350.

Grant-maintained Schools

Mr. Olner : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what has been the cost for the printing and distribution of the pack of information relating to grant maintained conferences for heads and governors, midlands.

Mr. Forth : The conference material for the events to be held in Leicester in February and in Nottingham and Birmingham in March comprised a letter of invitation and a copy of the standard grant maintained information pack. Production costs for the information packs were approximately £5,500. The mailing of invitations and packs fell within the terms of the contract with the departmental dispatch centre and distribution costs cannot be identified separately.


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