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Construction Industry in Northern Ireland" until 30 June to enable those bodies and persons previously unaware of the paper to make responses.Mr. Mates : I will be grateful to receive responses at any time.
Mr. McNamara : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he expects to introduce legislation based on his proposals contained in the consultative paper "Terrorist Exploitation of the Construction Industry in Northern Ireland" and the responses to it.
Mr. Mates : Our ideas are at a formative stage, and it would be premature to announce our intention to legislate or to establish a timetable for possible legislation.
Cormorants
Mr. A. Cecil Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many cormorants were killed under licence to prevent serious damage to fisheries in Northern Ireland in each year since 1985 and 1993 to date.
Mr. Atkins : The information is as follows :
Cormorants recorded as being killed under licence Year |Number --------------------- 1985 |5 1986 |24 1987 |99 1988 |41 1989 |36 1990 |35 1991 |87 1992 |82 1993 |<1>- <1> Not yet available.
Mr. A. Cecil Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many licences were (a) applied for and (b) issued, under section 18 of the Wildlife (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 to permit the killing of cormorants to prevent serious damage to fisheries in Northern Ireland for each year since 1985 and 1993.
Mr. Atkins : The information is as follows :
Year |Licences applied for|Licences issued ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1985 |1 |1 1986 |6 |6 1987 |14 |14 1988 |18 |15 1989 |18 |18 1990 |24 |20 1991 |17 |17 1992 |18 |18 <1>1993 |12 |11 <1> To 22 April.
Rates
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish a table to show the rateable value of (a) each parliamentary constituency in Northern Ireland, (b) each council area in Northern Ireland, (c) each district electoral area in each council area
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and (d) each ward ; and if he will indicate the rates due from each of the areas and the average sum due per elector in each such area or as much of such information as is conveniently available to him.Mr. Atkins : Responsibility for the subject in question has been delegated to the Rates Collection Agency under its chief executive, Mr. David Gallagher.
Letter from D. W. Gallagher to Mr. William Ross, dated 26 April 1993 :
As I am responsible for the Rate Collection Agency, the Secretary of State has asked me to reply to a Parliamentary
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Question recently put down by you. This related to rateable value, rates due and the average sum due per elector in each parliamentary constituency, district council area, each district electoral area and each ward in Northern Ireland.Unfortunately all of the information you seek is not available. However I am able to provide statistics on a district council basis, and these are set out on the attached schedule.
Rateable values and the number of electors, but not rates data can be provided on a ward basis. However rating due is at present being revised to reflect the outcome of the recent Local Government Boundaries Commission Review and this information will become available during July.
I will write to you again at that time.
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District council |Rateable value |Gross collectable |Number of |Average sum due per
|rate |electors<1> |elector
|£
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Antrim |13,086,494 |10,905,708 |30,958 |352
Ards |15,968,462 |12,620,098 |49,716 |254
Armagh |9,827,200 |7,901,448 |36,703 |215
Ballymena |14,165,158 |11,592,839 |42,640 |272
Ballymoney |4,777,996 |3,761,182 |17,865 |211
Banbridge |7,477,586 |5,946,285 |27,052 |220
Belfast |121,120,370 |108,778,912 |208,590 |521
Carrickfergus |9,510,523 |8,005,775 |25,124 |319
Castlereagh |14,062,542 |10,944,271 |47,998 |228
Coleraine |14,517,282 |11,619,154 |37,328 |311
Cookstown |5,393,031 |4,276,577 |21,813 |196
Craigavon |19,153,959 |16,036,148 |54,814 |293
Downpatrick |12,448,020 |10,053,421 |41,228 |244
Dungannon |7,930,857 |6,238,648 |32,669 |191
Fermanagh |10,293,054 |8,410,694 |39,608 |212
Larne |8,327,225 |7,152,082 |22,601 |316
Limavady |5,523,861 |4,442,493 |19,683 |226
Lisburn |23,603,567 |18,922,139 |70,664 |268
Derry |26,976,839 |22,307,967 |64,136 |348
Magherafelt |6,154,202 |4,833,848 |25,856 |187
Moyle |3,234,579 |2,483,773 |10,710 |232
Newry |16,080,018 |12,843,613 |57,339 |224
Newtownabbey |21,181,377 |17,892,255 |56,106 |319
North Down |19,738,968 |15,649,106 |55,057 |284
Omagh |9,299,768 |7,777,179 |31,404 |248
Strabane |6,060,584 |4,942,891 |25,542 |194
|------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |425,913,522 |356,338,506 |1,153,204 |309
<1>Information provided by Electoral Office.
HEALTH
Medicines (Licences)
Ms Lynne : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many licences the Medicines Control Agency has (a) issued and (b) refused each year since April 1989 ; and how many licences have been issued each year since 1989 in response to applications from other EC countries.
Dr. Mawhinney : The figures shown in the table relate to product licences only for the three years up until March 1992. Figures from April 1992 to March 1993 are not yet available. Manufacturers' licences, wholesale dealer and parallel import product licences have been excluded. The numbers of refusals relate to formal refusals ; in many cases, applicants chose to withdraw their applications rather than pursue them to a formal refusal. No separate records are maintained which would enable the Medicines Control Agency readily to identify product licence applications arising from other EC countries.
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|Product licences |Applications refused
|issued
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
April 1989 to March 1990 |663 |3
April 1990 to March 1991 |728 |0
April 1991 to March 1992 |883 |5
Mental Health
Mr. David Atkinson : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on her Department's forthcoming survey on mental health.
Mr. Yeo : The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys is carrying out the first national survey to assess the extent of psychiatric morbidity in Great Britain. The survey, due to be completed in 1995, will provide information on the nature and extent of psychiatric illnesses among adults and will enquire into any associated social disabilities ; the variation in the use of health, social and voluntary care services ; and the risk factors associated with mental illness. The survey information will form a baseline against which changes in the health and social functioning of people with a mental illness can be
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measured, thus providing a means of assessing progress towards achieving the targets set out in our White Paper, "The Health of the Nation" (Cm 1986).Dr. Lynne Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 5 February, Official Report, column 377-78, if she will give details of the ethnic origin of those detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 during each year from 1984 to 1986 in the North West Thames, North East Thames, South East Thames and South West Thames areas ; what assessment she has made of the extent of and the reasons for the discrepancy between such detentions in those areas compared with other regions ; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Yeo : This information is not available centrally.
Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists
Dr. Lynne Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she will introduce regulations for the registration of
hypnotherapists and psychotherapists.
Mr. Sackville : We have no such plans.
Community Care
Ms Lynne : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action she is taking to improve access to community care services for elderly people of Asian origin and other ethnic minorities.
Mr. Yeo : Responsibility for ensuring proper access to community care services for all groups rests with local authorities. To help local authorities do this the Department :
(a) issued policy guidance about ensuring that assessment of community care needs is accessible to people from ethnic minority backgrounds and that services are appropriate (copies are available in the Library) ;
(b) issued practice guidance on care management and assessment which draws specific attention to the needs of ethnic minority communities and is developing further practice guidance on ethnic minority issues (copies are available in the Library) ;
(c) produced audio cassettes about community care in seven minority languages ;
(d) grant aids the race equality unit, which advises local authorities on good practice in the delivery of personal social services to people from minority groups.
Psychologists
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations she has received concerning the statutory registration of psychologists ; and if she will make a statement.
Dr. Hampson : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations she has received concerning the statutory registration of psychologists ; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Yeo : We have received representations from the British Psychological Society and are considering whether psychologists employed by the national health service should be required to be chartered.
Orthopaedics Units
Mrs. Helen Jackson : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many small orthopaedic specialised hospital units have been closed in the past two years.
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Mr. Sackville : This information is not available centrally.
Mrs. Helen Jackson : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research she has commissioned on the effect of the closure of small hospital units that specialise in orthopaedics on waiting times for hip or knee replacements.
Mr. Sackville : None. The patients charter guarantees that all patients waiting for hip or knee replacement operations will be treated within a maximum of 18 months. Latest waiting time figures show that the number of orthopaedic patients waiting more than a year fell by over 45 per cent. in the year to September 1992.
Pharmacists
Ms Janet Anderson : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will review the working practices of the Prescription Pricing Authority in respect of the remuneration of pharmacists ; and if she will make a statement.
Ms Lynne : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations she has received about the proposed changes to community pharmacists' pay.
Dr. Mawhinney : We have received a number of representations about our proposals for restructuring pharmacists' remuneration. We shall take these into account in the further discussions we shall be having with the pharmacists' representatives.
General Practitioners
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proposals she has to restrict the ability of general practitioners to work in single-handed practices ; and if she will make a statement.
Dentistry
Ms Lynne : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many salaried dentists are currently employed within each health district in England.
Dr. Mawhinney : The information provided by the Dental Practice Board by family health services authority area at 31 December 1992 is shown in the table. The information relating to the first quarter of 1993 is not yet available.
Salaried dentists for each family health services authority
31 December 1992
Family Health |Number of salaried
Services Authority |dentists employed
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Buckinghamshire |1
Cambridgeshire |2
City and East London |8
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |2
Derbyshire |1
Essex |2
Greenwich and Bexley |8
Kensington, Westminster and Chelsea |8
Kent |3
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham |27
Liverpool |2
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth |1
Salford |1
Somerset |4
West Sussex |1
|----
Total |71
Mrs. Ray Michie : To ask the Secretary of State for Health where the pilot scheme is operating which has been agreed between her Department and the British Dental Association for financial assistance towards the setting up or expansion of dental practices within family health services authorities ; what is the cost to date of the scheme ; how many practices have been awarded assistance ; what plans there are to extend the scheme ; and if she will make a statement.
Dr. Mawhinney : The 68 family health services authorities taking part in the pilot scheme, aimed at encouraging dentists to set up or expand their practices in areas which need more dentists, are : Avon
Barking/Havering
Barnet
Barnsley
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Birmingham
Buckinghamshire
Calderdale
Cambridgeshire
Camden/Islington
City/East London
Cornwall/Isles of Scilly
Coventry
Cumbria
Derbyshire
Devon
Doncaster
Dorset
Durham
Ealing/Hammersmith/Hounslow
East Sussex
Enfield/Haringey
Essex
Gateshead
Greenwich/Bexley
Hampshire
Hillingdon
Humberside
Isle of Wight
Kensington/Chelsea/Westminster
Kent
Kingston/Richmond
Kirklees
Lambeth/Southwark/Lewisham
Lancashire
Leeds
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Liverpool
Manchester
Merton/Sutton/Wandsworth
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
North Yorkshire
Nottingham
Oxfordshire
Redbridge/Waltham Forest
Rotherham
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