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Mr. Whittingdale : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what arrangements exist in the European community for consular co-operation.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : European Community partners have agreed guidelines for the protection of unrepresented EC nationals by EC missions in third countries. This means British nationals can seek help from any EC mission in a country where there is no British mission. This is a positive development and an excellent example of practical EC co-operation which will have direct benefit for Britons overseas.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on progress of negotiations between the United States and the EC on (a) telecommunications, (b) audiovisual exports and (c) intellectual property.
Mr. Needham : I have been asked to reply.
Negotiators from the EC, the United States, Japan and Canada have been discussing a range of issues forming part of the GATT Uruguay round of trade negotiations over recent weeks, including proposals for improving market access for both goods and services. Following a meeting in Tokyo last week, Ministers involved in these discussions said that they had been able
"to attain meaningful progress that would contribute to further momentum towards a positive outcome of the Uruguay round". The Ministers will meet again on 6 July in order to finalise a report on progress to the Tokyo economic summit.
I welcome the progress that has been made. This must be sustained if the Uruguay round is to be successfully concluded by the end of this year, and a comprehensive agreement reached on all issues, including telecommunications, audiovisual exports and intellectual property.
Mr. Robert Ainsworth : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment he has made of the impact there has been of the removal of section 11 funded grants previously available in inner-city schools with significant proportions of ethnic minority background children.
Mr. Robin Squire : Section 11 funding continues to support existing projects in the 1993-94 financial year at the current grant rate of 75 per cent. Thereafter, on current planning assumptions, the grant will be available to support the same volume of posts, albeit at a reduced rate.
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Ms Estelle Morris : To ask the Secretary of State for education if he will list, by local education authority area, how many pupils gained entry to their first preference school at secondary transfer for each of the last five years.
Mr. Robin Squire : This information is not collected centrally.
Ms Estelle Morris : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much money in local education authority maintained secondary schools was spent in each of the last five years.
Mr. Forth : The table gives the net institutional expenditure on LEA -maintained secondary schools in cash and real terms for the years 1987-88 to 1991-92, the latest year for which figures are available. The figures for 1991-92 include estimates of expenditure for six LEAs.
Numbers of full-time equivalent secondary school pupils fell from 3.1 million in 1987-88 to 2.8 million in 1991-92. Spending per secondary pupil rose from £2,068 to £2,277--both in 1992-93 prices--over the five -year period.
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