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WALES
Youth Training
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give the key evaluation targets for youth training in Wales for the financial year 1993-94.
Mr. David Hunt : The key evaluation targets are :
The provision of sufficient places to meet the guarantee of a YT place for all 16 and 17-year-olds who are not in employment or full-time education.
That no young person should wait more than eight weeks for an offer of a suitable training place.
That each trainee should have an individual training plan leading to an approved vocational qualification at generally national vocational qualification level II or higher.
GP Fund Holders
Mr. Martyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much has been paid out of health service funds to general practitioners' fund- holding practices and how much to non-fund-holding practitioners on a per capita basis within Clwyd family health services authority district.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : In 1992-93 allocations to the 10 Clwyd general practice fund holders amount to an average of some £138 per patient. There are no comparable figures for non-fund-holding practices whose hospital services are purchased by the health authority.
Breast Screening
Mr. Rowlands : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he received the bid from the mammography screening service for an additional post for Mid Glamorgan ; and when he will decide on the bid.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : A request for a contribution from central funds towards the cost of two consultant posts, in general surgey and radiology, was made in November for the financial year 1993-94. An announcement is due to be made shortly.
European Regional Development Fund
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many applications were received from local authorities in Wales for European regional development fund funding in the years 1992-93 and 1991-92 ; what percentage of their applications were successful ; and how many of the successful applications reached completion.
Mr. David Hunt : The structural funds programmes in Wales do not operate on a financial year basis. Four programmes are currently in progress in Wales, all of which include expenditure incurred in 1991-92 and 1992-93.
Of the 374 applications submitted by local authorities to date, 88 have been approved. Applications in respect of the remaining eligible projects are expected to be approved by the programme monitoring committees by the end of 1993.
Projects approved under these programmes do not have to be completed until 1995 and it is therefore too early to comment on the successful completion of these applications.
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Homelessness
Mr. Hain : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list figures by district for (a) the number of people who presented as homeless and (b) the number of people accepted as homeless for 1991 and 1992.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : Information on the number of people who apply as homeless to local authorities is not available centrally. The numbers of persons in households accepted as homeless by local authorities under part III of the Housing Act 1985 are shown in the table :
Persons accepted as homeless
|1991 |1992
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Aberconwy |104 |151
Alyn and Deeside |499 |633
Arfon |93 |103
Blaenau Gwent |761 |417
Brecknock |318 |318
Cardiff |4,052|4,555
Carmarthen |227 |363
Ceredigion |373 |340
Colwyn |178 |176
Cynon Valley |1,017|543
Delyn |683 |503
Dinefwr |410 |542
Dwyfor |127 |104
Glyndwr |87 |70
Islwyn |399 |414
Llanelli |383 |284
Lliw Valley |284 |325
Meirionnydd |257 |174
Merthyr Tydfil |365 |238
Monmouth |388 |286
Montgomeryshire |259 |296
Neath |656 |757
Newport |2,936|2,283
Ogwr |1,809|2,095
Port Talbot |340 |369
Preseli |255 |359
Radnorshire |45 |82
Rhondda |358 |374
Rhuddlan |177 |91
Rhymney Valley |395 |335
South Pembrokeshire |205 |171
Swansea |1,779|1,622
Taff-Ely |743 |770
Torfaen |1,038|952
Vale of Glamorgan |1,184|1,139
Wrexham Maelor |730 |864
Ynys Mon |111 |204
Source: Welsh Office local authority
returns.
SCOTLAND
Organ Donor Cards
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will institute a freephone number for callers to request organ donor card registration forms ; and if he will make it his policy to run the advertisements on television channels in Scotland for the same number of weeks as in England.
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Mr. Stewart [holding answer 10 March 1993] : For the first time in Scotland, a television advertisement will shortly be shown to promote organ donation. The advertisement will encourage would-be donors both to carry a card and to discuss their wishes with relatives, since in many cases family objections have prevented the use of suitable organs. A freephone number will be available so that callers can request donor cards.
The advertisement will appear for two consecutive weeks. We shall be assessing its impact to determine whether arrangements should be made for further screenings.
Community Care
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proportion of total funding for health and social care during the years 1993-94 and 1994-95 is to be spent on community care ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 15 March 1993] : Information in the form requested is not available. Information on planned expenditure by the NHS is not attributed to particular services but health boards contribute significantly to the provision of community care through their community health services, bridging finance, support finance and other means.
A large part of local authority social work departments' expenditure is devoted to community care. Precise figures are not available : expenditure in the current year is likely to be of the order of £350 million to £400 million. For 1993-94 and 1994-95 we are providing, additionally, £64 million and £113 million respectively under our community care reforms. This is made up of a transfer of funds from the Department of Social Security and additional funds to enable local authorities to develop services.
Secure Units
Mr. Galbraith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to place a secure unit at Woodilee hospital ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 25 March 1993] : None. The management of the state hospital, Carstairs has been in touch with health boards, including Greater Glasgow, as part of a feasibility study on the merits or otherwise of establishing local in-patient forensic psychiatry facilities in Scotland. Consideration of that study continues.
Nurses
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many nurses are currently employed by each health board in Scotland ; and what this number represents as a percentage total of qualified nurses employed in the NHS in each board.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 25 March 1993] : The information requested is set out in the table.
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Nursing staff in the NHS in Scotland (excluding Project 2000 nurses in training)
Headcount as at 30 September 1992 (provisional)
|Total |Qualified |Unqualified |In Training |Qualified as
|percentage of Total
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Scotland |73,717 |43,173 |22,540 |8,004 |58.6
Argyll and Clyde |5,727 |3,220 |2,031 |476 |56.2
Ayrshire and Arran |3,991 |2,436 |1,186 |369 |61.0
Borders |1,369 |830 |385 |154 |60.6
Dumfries and Galloway |2,342 |1,352 |735 |255 |57.7
Fife |3,990 |2,517 |1,088 |385 |63.1
Forth Valley |4,443 |2,475 |1,604 |364 |55.7
Grampian |7,743 |4,709 |2,398 |636 |60.8
Greater Glasgow |16,083 |8,649 |5,484 |1,950 |53.8
Highland |2,794 |1,843 |701 |250 |66.0
Lanarkshire |6,141 |3,810 |1,691 |640 |62.0
Lothian |10,594 |6,083 |2,819 |1,692 |57.4
Orkney |272 |188 |73 |11 |69.1
Shetland |254 |187 |56 |11 |73.6
Tayside |6,888 |4,242 |1,847 |799 |61.6
Western Isles |446 |300 |134 |12 |67.3
CSA |308 |58 |250 |- |18.8
State hospital |332 |274 |58 |- |82.5
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many nurses currently are employed in Scotland on short-term contracts in the NHS by each health board.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 25 March 1993] : The information requested is not available centrally. The table shows the average whole time equivalents for agency nurses, the only non-permanent nursing staff for whom data are available.
Agency nursing staff: average WTE Six months ending 30 September 1992 Health Board |Average WTE<1> ---------------------------------------------------- Scotland<2> |299.4 Argyll and Clyde |0.1 Ayrshire and Arran<3> |0.2 Borders |0.0 Dumfries and Galloway |0.4 Fife |0.6 Forth Valley |0.0 Grampian<4> |35.3 Greater Glasgow |148.7 Highland |- Lanarkshire |- Lothian |64.0 Orkney |- Shetland |- Tayside |- Western Isles |- <1> To calculate the average, 1 WTE is taken as a contribution of 37.5 hours per week X 26 = 975 hours per half year. <2> Rounding of individual figures may produce slight differences between the sum of constituent items and total. <3> Ayrshire and Arran health board includes agency hours at the South Ayrshire hospitals NHS trust. <4> Grampian health board includes agency hours at Aberdeen royal hospitals NHS trust.
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NORTHERN IRELAND
Senior Citizens (Free Transport)
Mr. Peter Robinson : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the estimated cost to his Department of subsidising (a) Citybus, (b) Ulsterbus and (c) Northern Ireland Railways to extend free transport to senior citizens within Northern Ireland.
Mr. Atkins : This information is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
ENVIRONMENT
Climate Change Convention
Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on his policy on the adoption of 30 June as an appropriate deadline for the ratification of the framework convention on climate change by the member states of the European Community.
Mr. Maclean : At this week's Environment Council all member states agreed to take the measures necessary to enable them to ratify the convention not later than the end of 1993. This matches the United Kingdom's earlier commitment, along with our Group of Seven partners, to ratify the convention by the end of 1993.
Education Spending
Mr. Nicholls : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment which 10 education authorities have the highest standard spending assessment per pupil ; and which 10 education authorities have the lowest standard spending assessment per pupil.
Mr. Robin Squire The table shows the education standard spending assessment for primary, secondary and post-16 education expressed in pounds per pupil for primary, secondary and pupils aged over 16. These figures exclude provision for under-fives and the other education element for which there are no pupil numbers.
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Local authority |Education SSA, per
|pupil
|£
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First 10
Isles of Scilly |3,882
Hackney |3,797
City of London |3,777
Lambeth |3,694
Tower Hamlets |3,662
Hammersmith and Fulham |3,412
Islington |3,411
Westminster |3,369
Kensington and Chelsea |3,350
Camden |3,338
Last 10
Cheshire |2,159
Wakefield |2,157
Derbyshire |2,146
Staffordshire |2,145
Hereford and Worcester |2,144
Solihull |2,140
Wigan |2,102
Dudley |2,098
Stockport |2,070
Bury |2,049
Equal Opportunities
Mr. Janner : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps he has taken to recruit women, members of ethnic minorities and disabled people, respectively, in top grades of employment at his Department.
Mr. Howard : Recruitment to my Department at grade 8 and above is always by means of public open competition. Applicants are considered entirely on their suitability for the post in question under the supervision of the Office of the Civil Service Commissioners irrespective of gender, ethnic origin or disablement.
Environment Council
Sir Anthony Durant : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the outcome of the Environment Council on 22 and 23 March.
Mr. Howard : I and my hon. Friend the Minister for the Environment and Countryside represented the United Kingdom at this Council. The Council agreed a decision which establishes a monitoring mechanism for emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions within the Community as a whole. This will require all member states to prepare and regularly update national programmes to limit these emissions. The programmes are needed to contribute to fulfilment by the Community as a whole of the requirement, in the UN framework convention on climate change, to aim to return emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions to their 1990 levels by the year 2000, and of related Community commitments. Secondly, the Council reached political agreement on a measure which will enable the Community to ratify the climate change convention. There was also a general discussion of progress on the Community's strategy during which we described the significant announcements that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer made in his Budget speech last week.
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The Council reached full agreement on the Community eco-management and audit regulation. This proposal was a priority of the United Kingdom's presidency, but a few matters remained to be resolved following the broad political agreement reached last December. The regulation will establish a voluntary scheme to encourage the effective environmental management of industrial operations and public disclosure of information on environmental impacts. The Council noted the good progress which had been made on the Commission's proposal for a revision of controls on the wildlife trade--the "Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species Regulation"--and invited the Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER) to take the discussion forward.Further to its agreement on the text of the relevant decision last December, the Council agreed that the Community and its member states would ratify no later than 6 February 1994 the United Nations Environment Programme Basel convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal. The Council also invited the Commission to examine the circumstances that have given rise to a call for a ban on exports of hazardous recoverable waste to developing countries and to submit appropriate proposals to the Council.
The Council noted the Commission's intention of making a proposal by the end of April for further Community measures to implement the updated provisions of the Montreal protocol on ozone-depleting substances, including in particular those which relate to hydrochlorofluorocarbons and methyl bromide.
The Council examined for the first time a proposal from the Commission for a directive on the control of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions resulting from the storage of petrol and its distribution from terminals to service stations--the so-called "Stage I" directive. This directive will control evaporative emissions of petrol and so help to reduce the formation of ozone at ground level. Due to the large number of remaining technical issues needing resolution, the proposal was remitted to COREPER for further discussion.
The Council held a brief discussion on the state of the Community's follow- up to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, and invited COREPER to report to the next Council in June.
The Council also held an exchange of views on the state of preparations for the pan-European ministerial conference on the environment to be held in Lucerne from 28 to 30 April.
The Council welcomed the Commission's communication on "A Common Policy for Safe Seas", on measures to improve maritime safety and guard against marine pollution. It agreed on the need for early decisions after careful study of the Commission's proposals. The Council took note of a progress report on a proposed directive on the incineration of hazardous waste, designed to prevent or minimise the negative effects of such incineration, and invited COREPER to pursue work on the proposal.
The Commission introduced its proposal for a directive on further measures on air pollution by emissions from motor vehicles, to take account of the best technology
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which will be available for relevant vehicles after 1996, and invited the Council to reach a decision on the proposal as soon as possible.The Council took note of the adoption by the Commission of a Green Paper on civil liability for environmental damage and agreed to discuss it in due course.
The United Kingdom, with support from other delegations, urged the presidency to press ahead with negotiations on the draft directive on packaging and packaging waste.
Private Housing (Renovation Grants)
Mr. Carrington : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will make available results from the 1991 English house condition survey to inform the planned consultation paper on the future of the private house renovation grant system.
Sir George Young : We plan to publish a preliminary report on unfit dwellings at the same time as the consultation paper is issued. The main report of the survey will be published in two parts, the first in July and the second before the end of the year.
EC Directives
Mr. Sumberg : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he intends to issue the second consultation paper on the implementation of the urban waste water treatment directive and the nitrates directive.
Mr. Maclean : We have today issued a consultation paper on the methodology for identifying sensitive areas--urban waste water treatment directive--and designating vulnerable zones--nitrates directive. This is the second in a series of such papers, the first of which covered the criteria and procedures for identifying sensitive areas and less sensitive areas--urban waste water treatment directive--and "polluted waters"-- nitrates directive. The Government response to comments received on the first consultation paper has been included as an annex to the second.
Council Tax
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the estimate of the number of disabled people who live in band A homes under the council tax in each region.
Mr. Robin Squire [holding answer 25 March 1993] : This information is not available centrally.
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has to introduce a band A-minus under the council tax.
Mr. Robin Squire [holding answer 25 March 1993] : We have no such plans. The scheme of council tax reductions for people with disabilities will ensure that no one pays more council tax in respect of additional accommodation which he or she needs because of a disability. If a dwelling is allocated to band A, any additional accommodation cannot have resulted in an increase in council tax liability, and no reduction is therefore appropriate.
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what is his estimate for the value of the average disabled person's reduction under the council tax ;
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(2) what is his estimate of the number of people who qualify for the disabled person's reduction under the council tax.Mr. Robin Squire [holding answer 25 March 1993] : We do not know how many dwellings will qualify for disabled persons' reductions, or the council tax bands and local authority areas in which they will fall. It is therefore not possible to make a precise estimate of the average value of such reductions. But on the assumption that such dwellings are distributed among bands and areas in the same way as other dwellings, the average reduction might be about £60, before discounts, transitional reductions and benefits are taken into account.
Mr. Henderson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the current estimate of each authority's entitlement to transitional reduction grant in 1993-94, showing for each authority the necessary assumptions about numbers of single people in each council tax band and the present entitlements to community charge transitional relief.
Mr. Robin Squire [holding answer 25 March 1993] : Authorities have been invited to submit claims for council tax transitional reduction scheme grant for 1993-94. Details of discounts are not required by the Department, but will be examined by auditors when claims are certified. We have no estimates of the amount of each authority's grant entitlement. A list of the amounts of community charge reduction scheme grant for 1992-93 claimed by each authority has been placed in the Library of the House.
Seal Culling
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has made to the Government of Namibia concerning the practice of seal culling.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : I have been asked to reply.
The British high commission in Windhoek has periodic discussions with the Namibian authorities about seal culling and has passed on the public concern in the United Kingdom about it.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Isobutyl Nitrate
Ms Walley : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will issue a prohibition order in respect of isobutyl nitrate party poppers.
Mr. Leigh : The Government are keeping this matter under close review, in order to assess whether measures in the future to control isobutyl nitrate party poppers might be appropriate.
Loan Guarantee Scheme
Mr. Madden : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what representations he has received calling for the loan guarantee scheme to be made more attractive to small and medium-sized companies ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Leigh : The President of the Board of Trade receives many representations on the loan guarantee scheme and
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other measures to assist small firms. I refer to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Budget statement of 16 March in which he announced changes to the loan guarantee scheme which will offer real additional benefits to small firms.Metrication
Mr. Conway : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what representations he has had on standardising metric measurement in the manufacturing and retail sectors ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Leigh : Although there have been many representations aobut metrication, only a small number have been about standardising metric measurements. The Government consider that manufacturers and retailers should normally be allowed to choose which metric units to use.
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what action he intends to take to allow retailers to go metric prior to 1995 and to show prices in metric units without also having to show prices in imperial units ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Leigh [holding answer 25 March 1993] : Retailers are allowed to show prices for all goods and services in metric units. However, if they show food prices in metric units, they are required to show the price in imperial units. Following representations from retail interests, the Government are reassessing the costs and benefits of this requirement.
Eco-labelling
Mr. Dafis : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what steps are being taken to amend section 8 of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 to take account of the European Community's eco-labelling scheme.
Mr. Leigh : There are no plans to amend this section of the Act.
Carpet Manufacturers
Mr. Butcher : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what assistance he is giving British carpet manufacturers in obtaining evidence of illegal subsidies to the Belgian carpet manufacturing industry ; and if he will request the European Commission to institute an official investigation into subsidies applied by national and regional authorities for Belgium.
Mr. Sainsbury : I have received allegations from British carpet and textile organisations of financial assistance to textile companies in Wallonia recently and am seeking to clarify the factual position. If the allegations are verified, I will ask the Commission to take action.
Directors (Disqualification)
Mr. John Marshall : To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many directors have been disqualified in each year since the passing of the Insolvency Act 1986.
Mr. Neil Hamilton : The number of disqualification orders notified to the Secretary of State since 1986, on a financial year basis--April to March--are as follows :
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|Number
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1986-87 |108
1987-88 |224
1988-89 |408
1989-90 |445
1990-91 |419
1991-92 |459
Maritime Disputes
Mr. Peter Bottomley : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will estimate the foreign earnings associated with the use of English courts and arbitrators for international maritime dispute resolution.
Mr. Neil Hamilton : The Central Statistical Office balance of payments year book estimates that total foreign legal earnings for commercial legal advice and advocacy are £425 million per year. There is no detailed breakdown of the different types of commercial matters available. It is not therefore possible to estimate the percentage of this figure which relates to maritime disputes.
Leyland DAF
Mr. Nigel Evans : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what recent contact he and his Department have had with the Dutch Government on Leyland DAF.
Mr. Heseltine : My right hon. Friend the Minister for Industry has had a number of further discussions with Mr. Koos Andriessen, the Dutch Minister for Economic Affairs. There have also been continuing contacts at official level.
Merseyside (EC Funds)
Mrs. Jane Kennedy : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list for each year since 1987 (a) total European regional development fund receipts allocated to Merseyside and (b) total United Kingdom public expenditure cover for those receipts.
Mr. Sainsbury [holding answer 25 March 1993] : European regional development fund receipts allocated to Merseyside for each year since 1987 are shown below. Public expenditure cover has been made available for all these receipts.
Current Prices £ million Year |Allocations ------------------------------------ 1987 |5.58 1988 |1.91 1989 |8.70 1990 |22.47 1991 |21.76 1992 |13.12 1993 |44.54
One-stop Shops
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 16 March to the hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Mr. Hill), Official Report, column 203, if he will list the organisations that have bid to establish one-stop shops ; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. Leigh [holding answer 23 March 1993] : In the one-stop shop prospectus my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade asked training and enterprise councils to co-ordinate bids on behalf of local partnerships and organisations. These included chambers of commerce, enterprise agencies and local authorities. Fifty-seven training and enterprise councils submitted bids on behalf of local partnerships. A list of those training and enterprise councils is attached :
Bids Received from Training and Enterprise Councils to become a
Pilot One Stop Shop
|Enterprise Councils
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1. |Avon
2. |AZTEC (Kingston, Merton, Wandsworth)
3. |Birmingham
4. |Calderdale and Kirklees
5. |CAMBSTEC (Cambridge)
6. |CEWTEC (Chester, Ellesmere Port and Wirral)
7. |Cumbria
8. |Devon and Cornwall
9. |Barnsley and Doncaster (Doncaster)
10. |Dorset
11. |Dudley
12. |East Lancashire
13. |East Suffolk
14. |LETEC (London East)
15. |Essex
16. |Gloucestershire
17. |Greater Nottingham
18. |Hampshire
19. |Hereford and Worcester
20. |Hertfordshire
21. |Kent
22. |LAWTEC-Lancaster and District
23. |LAWTEC-Preston
24. |Leicestershire
25. |Lincolnshire
26. |Manchester
27. |Merseyside
28. |METROTEC (Wigan)
29. |NORMID (Halton)
30. |North Derbyshire
31. |Northamptonshire
32. |North Nottinghamshire
33. |Northumberland
34. |Oldham
35. |QUALITIC (St. Helens)
36. |Rochdale
37. |Rotherham
38. |Sandwell
39. |Sheffield
40. |Shropshire
41. |Somerset
42. |South Thames (Pan-London bid)
43. |South and East Cheshire
44. |(SOLOTEC) South London
45. |Southern Derbyshire
46. |Staffordshire
47. |Surrey
48. |Sussex
49. |Teeside (Cleveland)
50. |Thames Valley Enterprise
51. |Tyneside
52. |Walsall
53. |Wearside
54. |West London
55. |West Suffolk
56. |Wiltshire
57. |Wolverhampton
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Cable Television
Mr. Betts : To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many cabling franchises have been awarded to date ; how many properties these franchises cover ; how many properties have been cabled to date ; and how many properties he expects will be cabled in each of the next three years.
Mr. Leigh [holding answer 23 March 1993] : Theanswer is : (a) 135 cable franchises have been awarded, of which eight have been subsequently handed back of revoked ;
(b) The franchises awarded covered around 14.5 million properties ; excluding the eight lapsed franchises this figure falls to around 14.2 million ;
(c) Approximately 2,213,000 properties have been cabled passed to date and of these, around 454,000 properties have been connected to cable services ;
(d) The Department does not itself issue forecasts in this area. Independent forecasts suggest that some 700,000 additional properties will be cabled passed in 1993, 1,200,000 in 1994 and 1,500,000 in 1995. Clearly, only a proportion of these properties will subscribe to cable services.
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