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Mr. Lennox-Boyd : I have been asked to reply.
The Paris club has so far granted Trinidad terms to 13 countries. After a framework agreement is reached at the Paris club, each creditor must negotiate a separate bilateral agreement with the debtor. Not all of the United Kingdom's bilateral agreements have been concluded, but provisional figures suggest that these agreements will reduce debts to the United Kingdom by around £200
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million. In accordance with directives agreed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, all debt relief under Trinidad terms is counted as bilateral official development assistance.Column 627
SCOTLAND
Community Care
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the preparedness of local authorities in Scotland to implement the new community care arrangements in April.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Local authorities have been implementing the new community care arrangements in phases since 1991. All authorities now have complaints procedures and arm's length inspection units. The mental illness specific grant introduced in 1991-92 has built up community facilities for mentally ill people. All authorities, except one, have prepared community care plans which form the basis of discussions between them and the Scottish Office community care implementation unit. In the next phase, starting in April 1993, local authorities will assume responsibility for assessing individual's needs and purchasing residential and nursing home care. Preparations for this are well in hand, but systems will continue to develop and be refined with experience of the new arrangements.
Disabled People
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the individuals and organisations which he consults on matters relating to the needs and rights of disabled people in Scotland.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The number of bodies consulted on these important matters is extremely lengthy and I am therefore arranging for a list to be placed in the Library of the House.
Constituency Sizes
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing, in descending order, the geographical area, expressed in hectares, of parliamentary constituencies in Scotland.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The information requested is as follows :
Parliamentary |Area byhectares<1> constituency ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross, Cromarty and Skye |954,680 Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber |870,708 Caithness and Sutherland |788,297 Argyll and Bute |661,362 North Tayside |485,104 Galloway and Upper Nithsdale |441,883 Western Isles |308,717 Kincardine and Deeside |261,106 Orkney and Shetland |247,928 Roxburgh and Berwickshire |242,811 Gordon |229,485 Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale |226,956 Moray |224,399 Stirling |219,243 Dumfries |200,662 Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley |198,818 Banff and Buchan |153,278 Perth and Kinross |152,963 Clydesdale |138,829 Angus East |121,034 Cunninghame North |77,188 North East Fife |76,125 East Lothian |71,682 Dumbarton |53,127 Kilmarnock and Loudoun |37,521 Midlothian |36,128 Renfrew West and Inverclyde |33,812 East Kilbride |28,613 Livingston |27,117 Clackmannan |24,142 Linlithgow |23,512 Dunfermline West |19,733 Eastwood |17,003 Falkirk East |15,547 Ayr |15,501 Dunfermline East |14,727 Motherwell North |13,576 Monklands East |13,463 Monklands West |11,388 Cunninghame South |11,302 Central Fife |10,874 Falkirk West |10,610 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |10,511 Kirkcaldy |10,414 Strathkelvin and Bearsden |9,451 Edinburgh Pentlands |8,630 Hamilton |7,703 Clydebank and Milngavie |6,381 Motherwell South |3,807 Paisley South |3,801 Aberdeen North |3,552 Aberdeen South |3,342 Glasgow Rutherglen |2,997 Dundee East |2,587 Edinburgh South |2,585 Edinburgh West |2,554 Dundee West |2,511 Greenock and Port Glasgow |2,438 Glasgow Shettleston |2,388 Paisley North |2,325 Glasgow Pollok |2,220 Glasgow Provan |2,188 Glasgow Maryhill |1,910 Edinburgh East |1,832 Glasgow Springburn |1,824 Glasgow Govan |1,734 Glasgow Cathcart |1,658 Edinburgh Leith |1,506 Glasgow Hillhead |1,461 Edinburgh Central |1,426 Glasgow Central |1,380 Glasgow Garscadden |1,270 <1> Land and inland water.
Further Education Colleges (Creches)
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what guidelines he has issued, or plans to issue, to further education colleges regarding creche facilities ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Provision of creche facilities in further education colleges is currently the responsibility of education authorities. From 1 April 1993 that responsibility will rest with individual college boards of management.
We have no plans to issue guidelines to boards of management on the provision of creche facilities.
NHS Trusts
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the (a) names, (b) place of residence, (c) salary, honorarium or allowance and (d)
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expected weekly time-commitment of each (i) executive and (ii) non-executive director of each hospital trust in Scotland.Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The information requested is as follows :
|Annual remuneration
|£
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Trusts already in operation:
Aberdeen Royal Hospitals NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. Bryan Broomfield |Aberdeen |19,285
Non-executive Directors
Professor Graeme Catto |Aberdeen |5,000
Professor Michael Meston |Aberdeen |5,000
Mr. Harold Tocher |Aberdeen |5,000
Dr. Fiona Lyle |Laurencekirk |5,000
Mrs. Ann D. Scott |Aberdeen |5,000
South Ayrshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. J. D. Brown |Ayr |17,145
Non-executive Directors
Mr. William M. Mowatt |Ayr |5,000
Mr. Harold J. Currie |Mauchline |5,000
Mr. Graeme McKinstry |Ayr |5,000
Mrs. Anne Wilson |Girvan |5,000
Mrs. Dorothy McLellan |Symington |5,000
Royal Scottish National Hospital NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. Adrian Ward |Uplawnmoor |17,145
Non-executive Directors
Mr. William Hughes |Falkirk |5,000
Ms. Valerie Smart |Falkirk |5,000
Professor Averil Stewart |Linlithgow |5,000
Mr. David Tarr |Bridge of Allan |5,000
Dr. Peter Williams |Bridge of Allan |5,000
Trusts coming into operation on 1 April 1993
Ayrshire and Arran Community Health Care NHS Trust
Chairman: Mrs. Aileen Bates |Galston |17,145
Non-executive Directors
Mr. Ian Allison |Ayr |5,000
Mr. David Gall |Ayr |5,000
Mr. Robert Johnston |Beith |5,000
Dr. Susan Kinnaird |Troon |5,000
Mr. W. Scott McConnell |Strathaven |5,000
Caithness and Sutherland NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. George Bruce |Thurso |15,125
Non-executive Directors
Mr. John Gunn |Wick |5,000
Rev. Alexander Murray |Lairg |5,000
Dr. Elizabeth MacKenzie |Skerray by Thurso |5,000
Mr. John Rosie |Thurso |5,000
Ms. Wilma Taylor |Wick |5,000
Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. Stuart Fair |Dundee |19,285
Non-executive Directors
Mrs. Maureen Cane |Broughty Ferry |5,000
Mr. Gordon Lowden |Dundee |5,000
Mr. Robert Lyon |Dundee |5,000
Mrs. Jacqueline Wood |Dundee |5,000
Professor Heather Dick |Dundee |5,000
Moray Health Services NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. James Snedden |Elgin |17,145
Non-executive Directors
Mrs. Marjory Adams |Elgin |5,000
Mr. Russell Anderson |Elgin |5,000
Mrs. Lydia King |Lossiemouth |5,000
Mr. William Phillips |Elgin |5,000
Mr. James Royan |Elgin |5,000
North Ayrshire and Arran NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. William Ritchie |Kirkoswald |19,285
Non-executive Directors
Mrs. Angela Dunbar |Saltcoats |5,000
Mrs. Kim Donald |Fenwick |5,000
Mr. James Grier |West Kilbride |5,000
Mr. Alan Stewart |Kilmarnock |5,000
Mr. Keith Tulloch |Monkton |5,000
Raigmore Hospital NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. James Kyle |Gairloch |17,145
Non-executive Directors
Mr. James Gray |Fortrose |5,000
Mrs. Flora Hunt |Inverness |5,000
Mr. Alexander Morrison |Golspie |5,000
Professor George McNicol |Rosemarkie |5,000
Mrs. Judith Robertson |Inverness |5,000
Royal Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. Tom Gibson |Paisley |17,145
Non-executive Directors
Mrs. Audrey Burns |Houston |5,000
Mr. Allan Durward |Bridge of Weir |5,000
Mrs. Marion Ford |Paisley |5,000
Mr. Alec MacDonald Gaunt |Paisley |5,000
Mr. George Murray |Paisley |5,000
Stirling Royal Infirmary NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. George McKelvie |Auchterarder |17,145
Non-executive Directors
Mrs. Agnes Bowie |Stirling |5,000
Mr. Graham Houston |Dunblane |5,000
Mrs. Doris Littlejohn Bridge of Allan 5,000
Mr. Graeme Simmers |Balfron |5,000
Mrs. Anne Walker |Deanston |5,000
Victoria Infirmary NHS Trust
Chairman: Dr. John Dall |Glasgow |19,285
Non-executive Directors
Dr. Robert Colville |Glasgow |5,000
Mrs. Danielle Glasser |Glasgow |5,000
Mrs. Lorna Howieson |Glasgow |5,000
Mrs. Joan Mackenzie |Glasgow |5,000
Mr. Desmond O'Brien |Glasgow |5,000
West Lothian NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. Robert Watt |Edinburgh |19,285
Non-executive Directors
Mr. Thomas Bennie |Linlithgow |5,000
Mr. Jack Cunningham |Armadale |5,000
Mrs. Irene Douglas |West Calder |5,000
Mr. Peter Johnston |Livingston |5,000
Mrs. Carole Stevenson |Livingston |5,000
Southern General Hospital NHS Trust
Chairman: Mr. Andrew Garland |Glasgow |19,285
Non-executive Directors
Mr. Robert McEwan |Glasgow |5,000
Mrs. Ann Moore |Glasgow |5,000
Mrs. Agnes Stewart |Glasgow |5,000
Mr. Henry Tankel |Glasgow |5,000
Mrs. Susan Bell |Biggar |5,000
Grampian Health Care NHS Trust
Chairman: Dr. Alex Taylor |Fyvie |19,285
Monklands and Bellshill NHS Trust
Chairman: Dr. George Bell |Bellshill |19,285
Yorkhill NHS Trust
Chairman: Mrs. Joan Cameron |Glasgow |19,285
My right hon. Friend expects to announce shortly the names of the non- executive directors of the Grampian HealthCare, Monklands and Bellshill, and Yorkhill trusts.
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Trust boards themselves appoint, and determine the salaries of, executive directors and information on this is not held centrally. In addition to the remuneration payable, the chairmen and non-executive directors are entitled to claim travelling and subsistence allowances at rates set for members of public bodies. There is no specific weekly time commitment but trust board directors are expected to give about three days per month to the board's work.Crime, Paisley
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will visit Paisley to discuss policing and crime.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : No. It is the responsibility of the chief constable of Strathclyde police to take operational decisions on the policing of Paisley. My right hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State had a meeting with the hon. Members for Paisley, South and for Paisley, North (Mrs. Adams) on 20 October 1992 in the course of which he described the initiatives being taken by Strathclyde police to deal with Paisley's crime problems.
Hardy Nursery Stock
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to launch an initiative to promote the export of hardy nursery stock, including roses, heaths and heathers, from Scotland ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir Hector Monro : My right hon. Friend has no plans to introduce an export promotion initiative for Scotland's hardy nursery stock. I am pleased to say that this sector of the industry continues to demonstrate steady progress and, by its own efforts, is responding positively to the opportunities afforded at home and by the opening up of European Community markets.
Excellent examples of this progressive attitude to marketing are the Scotgrow exhibition, now an established annual event, and the Scotgrow's directory of Scotland's ornamental nursery stock growers. Both these and other initiatives are proving to be highly successful in promoting quality Scottish produce.
Child Abuse
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make it his policy to give victims of abuse, or their representatives, forewarning of the release date from prison of the offenders.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Directors of social work are notified in advance of the release of offenders when a person has been convicted of an offence under schedule 1 to the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 against children under the age of 17 years. This includes incest or other forms of sexual assault and cruel and unnatural treatment of children. Local authority social work departments will determine in the light of individual cases if victims or their representatives should be advised of the release of an offender. In addition the Scottish Prison Service informs the police and social work departments of the release of all prisoners on parole.
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Poll Tax
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many people were (a) registered to vote and (b) registered to pay the poll tax in each Scottish parliamentary constituency in the financial year 1992-93 ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : Information about electoral registrations by parliamentary constituency in 1992 is given in OPCS's "1992 Electoral Statistics"--series EL NO 19--published by HMSO, a copy of which is in the Library. Electoral registers in Scotland are published on 16 February each year.
No information is available centrally about the number of persons within parliamentary constituency areas who are on the community charge register.
Ecological Steering Group
Mr. Wallace : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what arrangements he has made to set up the ecological steering group referred to in his statement of 11 January ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lang : I plan to establish as soon as possible an ecological steering group on the oil spill in Shetland with the terms of reference shown below. Professor W. Ritchie, professor of physical geography, vice principal of the university of Aberdeen, has accepted my invitation to be the chairman. I shall make a further announcement about the membership of the group in due course. The terms of reference are as follows :
To monitor environmental work arising from the incident and to provide a focus for liaison and advice ;
To assess the impact of the incident on the ecology of the Shetland Islands ;
To develop urgently the best strategies in the short and longer term for dealing with the implications of the incident as they affect the ecology of the Shetland Islands and to report to the Secretary of State for Scotland on these at an early date ;
To oversee special studies for monitoring the impact on and subsequent recovery of the environment in order to advise the Government of the lessons to be learned which could be applied more widely, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.
Water Services
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much capital investment on water services in Scotland has been paid for by private finance.
Sir Hector Monro [holding answer 22 January 1993] : Identified private sector contributions to capital investment on water sewerage services in Scotland amounted to £1.5 million in the financial year 1991-92.
Land Access
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many public access agreements have been concluded in Scotland in each of the last three years in respect of Forestry Commission holdings sold to the private sector ; and what percentage of total sales these figures represent.
Sir Hector Monro [holding answer 18 January 1993] : The arrangements for securing continued public access to woodlands sold by the Forestry Commission were introduced in October 1991. Three of the woodland areas considered under these arrangements have been sold so far. None of the sales was subject to an access agreement.
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Museums and Galleries (Attendance)
Mr. Faulds : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what were the attendance figures for 1992 reported by the national museums and galleries in Scotland, broken down into the individual institutions but including their outstations, with figures in each case of the percentage increase or decrease on the attendances figures for 1991.
Sir Hector Monro [holding answer 19 January 1993] : The information is as follows :
|1992 |Percentage change
|since 1991
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National museums of Scotland |1,005,316 |-6.12
National galleries of Scotland |759,102 |+10.00
The national museums of Scotland comprise the Royal Museum of Scotland buildings at Chambers street and Queen street, Edinburgh, the Scottish agricultural museum, the Scottish united services museum, the Museum of Flight and the Museum of Costume. The national galleries of Scotland comprise the National Gallery of Scotland, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
National Testing
Mr. Raymond S. Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he has taken to implement national testing in schools in Scotland.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : [pursuant to his reply, 2November 1992, c. 153-54]: National testing is an essential part of the Government's education strategy. It ensures for parents that the progress of their children in school is checked against national standards.
The new arrangements for national testing announced last November and set out fully in The Scottish Office Education Department's circular 12/92, were widely welcomed in Scotland. National tests will now be given in primary schools in Scotland whenever pupils are considered by their teachers to have largely completed a level of the curriculum in mathematics, reading and writing. From January 1994, these arrangements will apply also to pupils in S1 and S2. Education authorities were asked to confirm that they would implement these arrangements. They have now done so, in response to which regulations have been laid before Parliament today to revoke the regulations on national testing currently in force.
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
Yugoslavia
Mr. Beith : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what has been the United Kingdom contribution to United Nations funds for United Nations relief in the former Yugoslavia; and whether these funds came from the existing Overseas Development Administration budget.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Out of a total of £70.5 million so far committed towards humanitarian relief for the former Yugoslavia, £23.6 million has been provided for the United Nations humanitarian relief programme. These funds come from the United Kingdom aid programme.
UN Relief Operations
Mr. Beith : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans he has for additional help for United Nations relief operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and the former Yugoslavia.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : In 1992 we committed £8.25 million to Afghanistan, of which £4.5 million was provided for United Nations relief operations; £10.84 million to Iraq of which £6.5 million was provided for UN relief operations; and £70.5 million to the former Yugoslavia, of which £23.6 million was provided for UN relief operations. Our future responses towards these crises depend on the assessment of needs and we are maintaining a close dialogue with the UN on this.
Aid-Trade Ratios
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the ratio of the amount supplied as British overseas aid to the amount generated in extra trade; and if he will set out the basis for the estimate.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : In 1991, 74 per cent-£934 million-of our bilateral aid commitments were tied to British goods and services. We estimate that for every £1 we commit to multilateral agencies- £918 million in 1991-an average of £1.40 is spent on British goods and services. More widely our aid supports economic growth and liberalisation in developing countries, helping to provide a better climate for trade and investment.
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Treaties
Mr. CohenT : o ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 12 November 1992, Official Report, columns 932-44, which of the treaties listed, under each of the side headings, have been signed but not ratified by Her Majesty's Government.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The treaties in question are as listed. Command Paper references are given for ease of reference.
Animals and conservation
European Convention for the Protection of Animals for Slaughter. Signed at Strasbourg on 10 May 1979.
Miscellaneous Series No. 002/1980, Cmnd. 7776.
European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals used for Experimental and Other Scientific Purposes.
Signed at Strasbourg on 18 March 1986.
Miscellaneous Series No. 004/1986, Cmnd. 9884.
Convention on the Protection and the Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.
Signed at Helsinki on 17 March 1992.
Miscellaneous Series No. 005/1993 to be published 5 February 1993. Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents. Signed at Helsinki on 17 March 1992.
Certified copy of Convention awaited..
Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas.
Signed at New York on 17 March 1992.
Miscellaneous Series No. 002/1993, Cmnd. 2119.
Convention on Biological Diversity.
Adopted at Nairobi on 11 May 1992.
Miscellaneous Series No. 003/1993, Cmnd. 2127.
Human rights
Protocol No. 4 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed at Rome on 4 November 1950. Signed at Strasbourg on 16 September 1963.
Miscellaneous Series No. 006/1964, Cmnd. 2309.
Protocol amending the European Social Charter.
Signed at Turin on 21 October 1991.
Miscellaneous Series No. 005/1992, Cmnd. 1940.
Convention on the Participation of Foreigners in Public Life at Local Level.
Signed at Strasbourg on 5 February 1992.
Miscellaneous Series No. 008/1992, Cmnd. 1964.
Protocol No. 10 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, signed at Rome on 4 November 1950. Signed at Strasbourg on 25 March 1992.
Miscellaneous Series No. 012/1992, Cmnd. 2031.
Disarmament
Treaty on Open Skies.
Signed at Helsinki on 24 March 1992.
Miscellaneous Series No. 013/1992, Cmnd. 2067.
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the use of certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects.
Concluded at Geneva on 10 October 1980.
Miscellaneous Series No. 023/1981, Cmnd. 8370.
Pollution
Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes.
Adopted at Geneva on 18 November 1991.
Miscellaneous Series No. 010/1992, Cmnd. 1970.
Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage resulting from Exploration for and Exploitation of Seabed Mineral Resources (with Final Act of the Intergovernmental Conference on the Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage from Offshore Operations 20-31 October 1975 and 13-17 December 1976).
Signed at London on 1 May 1977.
Miscellaneous Series No. 008/1977, Cmnd. 6791.
Protocol of 1984 to amend the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1971.
Adopted at London on 25 May 1984.
Miscellaneous Series No. 007/1986, Cmnd. 9926.
Protocol of 1984 to amend the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969.
Adopted at London on 25 May 1984.
Miscellaneous Series No. 008/1986, Cmnd. 9927.
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal.
Adopted at Basel on 22 March 1989.
Miscellaneous Series No. 004/1990, Cm. 984.
Protocol [further] amending the Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping from Ships and Aircraft, done at Oslo on 15 February 1972.
Signed at Oslo on 5 December 1989.
Miscellaneous Series No. 010/1990, Cm. 1039.
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.
Adopted at Espoo (Finland) on 25 February 1991.
Miscellaneous Series No. 015/1991, Cm. 1645.
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