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Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will require local authorities in Wales to make maps available to farmers to assist in the completion of the integrated administration and control system forms before 15 May.
Mr. David Hunt : The ability which local authorities have to allow farmers access to maps is constrained by the facilities they have for public viewing and the terms of any copyright agreement related to the maps in their possession. Given the urgent need which farmers have to obtain the information required to complete their integrated administration and control system forms, I have agreed with the Ordnance Survey that local
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authorities and other organisations which hold maps may be allowed to make them available for viewing and, provided that they adopt the appropriate commercial arrangements pertaining to copyright agreements, for sale also. Many organisations, including local authorities, have responded positively to a request to offer this facility to farmers.Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what representations his Department made to the European Commission concerning the deadline set for the submission of completed integrated administration and control system forms.
Mr. David Hunt : The deadline for the submission of applications has been set at 15 May in the governing EC regulation to allow sufficient time for field inspections to be undertaken to verify claims under the new arable aid and beef support regimes. At the Agriculture Council last week the Commission confirmed that the deadline cannot be extended.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Coal Investment
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what proposals in regard to investment in the coal industry were put forward by the United Kingdom at the European Industry Council of Ministers meeting on the European Coal and Steel Community meeting in Brussels on 4 May.
Mr. Eggar : No specific coal investment proposals were discussed at the European Industry Council of Ministers on 4 May.
Misleading Pricing
Mr. Moss : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what response he has made to the recommendations of the Monitoring Committee on Misleading Price Indications ; and if he will publish their report.
Mr. Leigh : My noble Friend the Minister for Consumer Affairs and Small Firms has considered the committee's recommendations. She has decided to continue to rely on the existing general provisions of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 rather than introduce a package of regulations dealing with various types of price comparison as the committee recommended. She intends in due course to consult on proposed revisions to the code of practice for traders on price indications. She expects to go to public consultation in the near future on regulations on price indications when tickets for theatres and other public events are resold by agents. Since the committee has discharged its remit, she has decided to stand it down.
A copy of the committee's report will be placed in the Library.
UKCS
Mr. John Butterfill : To ask the President of the Board of Trade how much of the total exploration and appraisal expenditure on the United Kingdom continental shelf over the last three years was spent on (a) wells, (b) seismic, (c) overheads, (d) insurance and (e) other expenditure.
Mr. Eggar [holding answer 5 May 1993] : The Department of Trade and Industry collects only aggregate
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data on UKCS exploration and appraisal expenditure. These were published, in April 1993, in appendix 12 of my Department's report to Parliament, the "Development of the Oil and Gas Resources of the United Kingdom", the Brown Book, a copy of which is available in the Library. It is not possible to provide a breakdown of such expenditure into the categories requested using available data sources.Chernobyl
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what is the latest information Her Majesty's Government have received from the Ukrainian, Russian and Belarus authorities in regard to the number of people who died as a result of the Chernobyl accident in April 1986.
Mr. Sackville : I have been asked to reply.
The Government have received no information directly on this subject. The Department is aware of a scientific article by llyin et al entitled "Radiocontamination patterns and possible health consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station" published in the Journal of Radiological Protection 1990 , Vol 10 No. 1, pp 3-29. In addition, a report published in 1990 by an international advisory committee, co- ordinated by the International Atomic Energy Agency, entitled "The international Chernobyl project : an overview", looked at the consequences of the accident. Copies of it are available in the Library.
SCOTLAND
Chiropody
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many chiropodists counted as full-time equivalent are employed by each health board ; and how many are employed per 1,000 population.
Mr. Stewart : The information requested is shown in the table. Due to the small number of staff employed, rates are shown per 100,000 population.
Health board chiropodists as at September 1992
|Whole-time |Rate per 100,000
|equivalent |population
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Scotland |536.3 |10.6
Argyll and Clyde |46.3 |10.6
Ayrshire and Arran |59.6 |16.0
Borders |13.7 |13.2
Dumfries and Galloway |15.3 |10.4
Fife |48.8 |14.1
Forth Valley |26.8 |9.9
Grampian |41.6 |8.2
Greater Glasgow |89.3 |9.8
Highland |17.0 |8.3
Lanarkshire |52.7 |9.5
Lothian |76.6 |10.3
Orkney |1.0 |5.1
Shetland |4.0 |18.0
Tayside |40.2 |10.3
Western Isles |3.4 |11.3
State Hospital |0.1 |-
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the current waiting time in each health board area for an appointment with a chiropodist.
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Mr. Stewart : This information is not collected centrally.
Health Boards (Public Relations)
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many senior posts in public relations existed in each health board immediately before any unit acquired trust status ; and how many such posts exist in health trusts currently.
Mr. Stewart : The information requested is not available centrally.
Arachnoiditis
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what provision is available within the national health service for sufferers from arachnoiditis.
Mr. Stewart : It is for health boards to negotiate contracts for the provision of services for arachnoiditis patients based on their assessment of need.
Child Psychotherapists
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will increase the number of child psychotherapists to work with vulnerable children and their families.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 4 May 1993] : Psychotherapy represents one approach to treating vulnerable children and their families. It is for health boards and other statutory agencies to decide the number of child psychotherapists required to meet identified needs in their areas.
HEALTH
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Mr. Sedgemore : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations she has received from the City of London police about the need for an accident and emergency department at St. Bartholomew's hospital.
Dr. Mawhinney : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has received a letter from the Acting Assistant Commissioner of the City of London police. The letter has been passed on to the North East Thames regional health authority, which has responsibility for the consultations on the future of St. Bartholomew's accident and emergency department.
G. P. Fund Holders
Mr. Boyce : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the guidelines issued to general practitioner fund holders on managing their budgets efficiently.
Dr. Mawhinney : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Mrs. Jackson) on 14 April at column 608.
Mr. Boyce : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the cost effectiveness of general practitioner fund holding.
Dr. Mawhinney : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the hon. Member for Stockport (Ms Coffey) on 4 May at column 43.
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Personal Social Services
Mr. Boyce : To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she last met representatives of the Association of Directors of Social Services to discuss the provision of personal social services during the current financial year.
Mr. Yeo : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the hon. Member for Leicester, South (Mr. Marshall) on 4 May at column 40.
Anophthalmic Children
Mr. Purchase : To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 8 February to the hon. Member for Rochdale (Ms Lynne), Official Report, columns 478-79, when she expects the Moorfields study of children born anophthalmic or with very small eyes to be completed.
Mr. Sackville : I understand that the study is due to be completed later this summer.
Homeopathy
Mr. Tredinnick : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions she has had with the Royal College of Physicians regarding the status of homoeopathy.
Solvent Abuse
Mr. Hanson : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is Her Majesty's Government's national strategy for the prevention of volatile substance and solvent abuse for 1993-94.
Dr. Mawhinney : The Government's strategy against drug misuse was set out in "Tackling Drug Misuse : A Summary of the Government's Strategy" and "UK Action on Drug Misuse--The Government's Strategy", copies of which are available in the Library. The Government will continue to take action to prevent volatile substance abuse in the context of that overall strategy. The prevention working group of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is currently examining issues relating to volatile substance abuse and will make recommendations to Ministers in due course.
Mr. Hanson : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is Her Majesty's Government's financial commitment to volatile substance and solvent abuse prevention in 1993-94 ; and how much of this figure is represented by payments to voluntary organisations.
Dr. Mawhinney : Action to prevent volatile substance abuse is one element of a number of central Department programmes, including programmes of support for voluntary organisations. Expenditure on the volatile substance abuse prevention elements of these programmes cannot be separately identified. The national curriculum requires all maintained schools in England and Wales to provide some education about the misuse of drugs and other substances. Health and local authorities are responsible for assessing the needs of their resident population and for providing services to meet those needs, including services for the prevention of volatile substance abuse.
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Natural Medicine
Mr. Tredinnick : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to invite voluntary groups representing natural medicine to join the Wider Health Working Group.
Mr. Sackville : Because of the very wide range of organisations and interests concerned with health, it is not possible for membership of the wider health working group to reflect every aspect. The group is always ready to take into account issues raised by those who are not directly represented.
Abortions
Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance her Department has issued on the use of agency arrangements by district health authorities where they are unable to provide 75 per cent. of all local abortions.
Mr. Sackville : None. It is the responsibility of individual health authorities to decide how best to provide local health services.
Merged Health Authorities
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health which health authorities have merged into larger units over the last five years ; and if he will state for each merger the population of each merging authority and the population of the new unit, the number of public health doctors in each merging authority and the number of public health doctors in each new unit.
Mr. Sackville : The information requested is shown arranged by region. Figures for population and numbers of public health doctors are bracketed in that order after each authority.
Figures for populations are the 1991 census-based provisional mid-1991 resident population estimates, except those districts marked for which information was not collected in the 1991 estimates. In these cases, figures are based on the 1981 census-based mid-1990 resident population estimates.
Information on public health doctors refers to substantive appointments of directors of public health and consultants in public health medicine and is taken from the 30 September 1991 census. Figures are not yet available for the new authorities, except in the case of Bloomsbury and Islington.
Northern Region
Durham (238,137) [0]/N.W. Durham (87,022) [0]--North Durham (325, 159)
Darlington (124,390) [1]/S.W. Durham (154,800) [2]--South Durham (279,190)
Yorkshire Region
Leeds Eastern( 346,944)[0]/Leeds Western ( 365,260)[0]--Leeds (706, 299)
Northallerton (115,216)[2]/Scarborough (150,589)[1]/York (270, 199)[0]/Harrogate (134,131)[2]/Airedale (part) (50,743) [2 for whole authority]--North Yorkshire (720,878)
Bradford (337,782)[5]/Airedale (part) (130,920) [2 for whole authority]--Bradford (468,702)
Hull (314,268)[1]/East Yorkshire (198,946)[2]--East Riding (513,214)
Scunthorpe (199,613)[1]/Grimsby (161,589)[1]--Grimsby and Scunthorpe (361,202)
Calderdale (194,138)[2]/Huddersfield (213,449)[3]/Dewsbury (167, 726)[3]--West Yorkshire (575,313)
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Wakefield (144,181)[2]/Pontefract (171,662)[3]--Wakefield (315,843)Trent Region
Central Nottingham (289,126)[5]/Bassetlaw (105,259)[0]--North Nottinghamshire (394,385)
East Anglian Region
Peterborough (212,892)[1]/West Norfolk and Wisbech (190, 610)[2]--North West Anglia (403,502)
West Suffolk (174,119)[4]/East Suffolk (334,071)[2]--Suffolk (508, 190)
North East Thames Region
Bloomsbury ( 127,674)[3]/Islington ( 173,630)[1]--Bloomsbury and Islington (242,437--small part of Bloomsbury also transferred to Parkside DHA in 1990)[2]
North East Essex (306,345)[2]/Mid Essex (294,673)[1]/West Essex (258,891)[2]--North Essex (859,909)
Bloomsbury and Islington (242,437)[2]/Hampstead (105,013)[4]- -Camden and Islington (347,450)
Southend (325,978)[1]/Basildon and Thurrock (291,955)[0]/Barking, Havering and Brentwood (part) (70,929)[0]--South Essex (688,862) (NB this leaves a "rump" of the old Barking, Havering and Brentwood, which becomes Barking and Havering DHA (376,452))
Tower Hamlets (165,049)[1]/City and Hackney (187,674)[2]/Newham (217,010)[2]--East London and the City (569,733)
Enfield (261,518)[1]/Haringey (206,769)[1]--New River (468,287) Redbridge (229,813)[1]/Waltham Forest (216,181) [1] --Redbridge and Waltham Forest (445,994)
North West Thames Region
East Hertfordshire (295,261)[1]/North Hertfordshire (188, 398)[0]--East and North Hertfordshire (483,659)
Harrow (202,924)[2]/Parkside (part) (247,205) [6 for whole authority]--Brent & Harrow (450,129)
Riverside (part) (138,459)[0]/Parkside (part) (185,366) [6 for whole authority]--Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster (323,825) Ealing (280,031)[2]/Riverside (part) (152,048)[0]/Hounslow and Spelthorne (part ) (207,714) [2 for whole authority]--Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (639,793)
South East Thames region
Lewisham and North Southwark (327,888) [0]/Camberwell (218,102) [0]/West Lambeth (161,816) [1]--South East London (707,806) Brighton (310,894) [3]/Eastbourne (236,898) [2]/Hastings (168,690) [0]--East Sussex (716,482)
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South West Thames regionNorth West Surrey (214,586) [1]/West Surrey and North East Hampshire (part) (81,294) [2 for whole authority]/Hounslow and Spelthorne (North West Thames Region) (part) (91,372) [2 for whole authority]-- North West Surrey (expanded) (387,252)
South West Surrey (188,171) [0]/West Surrey and North East Hampshire (part) (54,787) [2 for whole authority]--South West Surrey (expanded) (242,958)
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton (231,115) [3]/Kingston and Esher (183,376) [0]--Kingston and Richmond (414,491)
Wessex region
East Dorset (458,522) [3]/West Dorset (204,340) [0]--Dorset (662, 862)
Oxford region
Aylesbury Vale (148,099) [2]/Wycombe (278,386) [0]/Milton Keynes (178,889) [4]--Buckinghamshire (605,374)
South Western region
Bristol and Weston (368,795 [7]/Frenchay (223,819 [0]/Southmead (237,634) [0]--Bristol and District (830,248)
Gloucester (319,436 [1]/Cheltenham and District (218,825) [2] --Gloucestershire (538,261)
Exeter (318,138) [2]/North Devon (138,910) [1]--Exeter and North Devon (457,048)
Torbay (248,414) [2]/Plymouth (334,559) [1]--Torbay and Plymouth (582,973)
West Midlands region
Rugby ( 85,883) [0]/North Warwickshire ( 176,156) [0]--North East Warwickshire (265,467)
Central Birmingham ( 180,199) [0]/South Birmingham ( 246,435) [4]--South Birmingham (424,797)
Bromsgrove and Redditch (171,216) [2]/Kidderminster (104,033) [2]--North Worcestershire (275,249)
North East Warwickshire (265,467) [2]/South Warwickshire (224,457) [1]--Warwickshire (489,924)
Mersey region
None.
North Western region
None.
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