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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
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.
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.
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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 |£ |£ |£ ------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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.
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 :
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|£ ------------------------------ 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.
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.
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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