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Transport Supplementary Grant
Mr. Robert Ainsworth : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the value of the bids for transport supplementary grant 1994-95 which he has received from individual local authorities in their transport policy and programmes submissions within the following categories, dividing each total bid into the amounts for (a) major road schemes, (b) structural carriageway maintenance and (c) structural bridge maintenance.
Mr. MacGregor : The information is as follows.
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Bids for transport supplementary grant-1994-95
Structural
maintenance
Authority |Major schemes £k|Principal road |Bridges £k |Total TSG bid £k
|carriageways £k
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City of London |0 |0 |1,106 |1,106
Barking and Dagenham |5,017 |587 |250 |5,854
Barnet |0 |200 |498 |698
Bexley |5,614 |1,250 |970 |7,834
Brent |190 |1,013 |1,249 |2,452
Bromley |497 |640 |344 |1,481
Camden |0 |1,773 |3,085 |4,858
Croydon |6,440 |2,263 |181 |8,884
Ealing |1,525 |571 |372 |2,468
Enfield |3,889 |404 |2,492 |6,785
Greenwich |1,615 |708 |708 |3,031
Hackney |1,418 |1,013 |1,700 |4,131
Hammersmith and Fulham |0 |1,045 |2,255 |3,300
Haringey |990 |1,544 |700 |3,234
Harrow |7,551 |416 |953 |8,920
Havering |0 |72 |563 |635
Hillingdon |2,630 |364 |2,210 |5,204
Hounslow |3,159 |540 |937 |4,636
Islington |0 |1,220 |715 |1,935
Kensington and Chelsea |538 |166 |36 |740
Kingston upon Thames |3,992 |700 |567 |5,259
Lambeth |0 |630 |936 |1,566
Lewisham |8,552 |300 |260 |9,112
Merton |685 |222 |110 |1,017
Newham |3,808 |70 |6,526 |10,404
Redbridge |0 |705 |1,310 |2,015
Richmond upon Thames |0 |260 |515 |775
Southwark |2,413 |500 |430 |3,343
Sutton |800 |210 |468 |1,478
Tower Hamlets |400 |6,750 |549 |7,699
Waltham Forest |1,167 |330 |2275 |1,772
Wandsworth |0 |1,000 |3,996 |4,996
Westminster |10,684 |442 |4,552 |15,678
Bolton |1,378 |1,150 |2,477 |5,005
Bury |0 |962 |1,200 |2,162
Manchester |28,425 |2,544 |2,879 |33,848
Oldham |3,080 |980 |3,050 |7,110
Rochdale |35 |960 |2,200 |3,195
Salford |5,289 |1,540 |900 |7,729
Stockport |1,550 |1,527 |3,348 |6,425
Tameside |2,070 |1,500 |765 |4,335
Trafford |21,661 |312 |464 |22,437
Wigan |1,127 |750 |580 |2,457
Knowsley |17,600 |1,021 |550 |19,171
Liverpool |2,450 |2,200 |1,000 |5,650
St. Helens |5,039 |150 |277 |5,466
Sefton |1,362 |194 |853 |2,409
Wirral |2,835 |318 |750 |3,903
Barnsley |4,522 |1,128 |1,092 |6,742
Doncaster |8,475 |1,521 |1,739 |11,735
Rotherham |3,700 |629 |2,272 |6,601
Sheffield |13,389 |4,270 |4,871 |22,530
Gateshead |500 |300 |400 |1,200
Newcastle-upon-Tyne |12,236 |2,156 |429 |14,821
North Tyneside |400 |1,450 |680 |2,530
South Tyneside |10 |886 |660 |1,556
Sunderland |6,690 |2,600 |1,051 |10,341
Birmingham |34,504 |6,000 |3,420 |43,924
Coventry |12,645 |534 |922 |14,101
Dudley |11,822 |2,000 |946 |14,768
Sandwell |4,107 |2,953 |4,453 |11,513
Solihull |2,599 |180 |410 |3,189
Walsall |10,992 |1,297 |3,455 |15,744
Wolverhampton |14,554 |2,305 |6,200 |23,059
Bradford |4,545 |3,000 |3,962 |11,507
Calderdale |2,897 |3,796 |1,464 |8,157
Kirklees |97 |4,370 |1,949 |6,416
Leeds |19,813 |7,140 |2,527 |29,480
Wakefield |5,110 |2,370 |1,343 |8,823
Avon |22,814 |3,220 |2,980 |29,014
Bedfordshire |5,263 |1,350 |2,204 |8,817
Berkshire |20,628 |2,995 |1,300 |24,923
Buckinghamshire |6,069 |2,476 |755 |9,300
Cambridgeshire |2,627 |3,859 |3,439 |9,925
Cheshire |16,908 |12,480 |4,565 |33,953
Cleveland |9,655 |2,763 |1,495 |13,913
Cornwall |8,192 |3,310 |3,000 |14,502
Cumbria |3,110 |3,000 |2,750 |8,860
Derbyshire |2,960 |2,175 |2,016 |7,151
Devon |7,565 |6,845 |2,663 |17,073
Dorset |3,300 |1,500 |1,250 |6,050
Durham |9,935 |1,750 |2,176 |13,861
East Sussex |9,009 |3,946 |2,233 |15,188
Essex |18,966 |5,500 |3,616 |28,082
Gloucestershire |8,070 |2,593 |1,474 |12,137
Hampshire |28,228 |8,262 |2,614 |39,104
Hereford and Worcester |1,539 |3,441 |1,574 |6,554
Hertfordshire |8,970 |3,900 |3,450 |16,320
Humberside |11,062 |5,041 |2,784 |18,887
Isle of Wight |0 |780 |310 |1,090
Kent |105,776 |12,783 |3,650 |122,209
Lancashire |27,691 |7,007 |13,198 |47,896
Leicestershire |7,326 |3,909 |2,644 |13,879
Lincolnshire |3,025 |2,430 |2,600 |8,055
Norfolk |9,286 |5,383 |6,189 |20,858
Northamptonshire |6,253 |5,301 |1,920 |13,474
Northumberland |7,708 |3,500 |2,980 |14,188
North Yorkshire |13,385 |8,176 |4,160 |25,721
Nottinghamshire |6,373 |5,645 |2,612 |14,630
Oxfordshire |3,301 |2,799 |1,619 |8,716
Shropshire |4,982 |3,308 |2,118 |10,408
Somerset |9,367 |2,604 |3,510 |15,481
Staffordshire |12,296 |8,000 |2,000 |22,296
Suffolk |8,543 |5,000 |3,700 |17,243
Surrey |27,072 |6,219 |8,791 |42,082
Warwickshire |495 |3,370 |2,605 |6,470
West Sussex |9,863 |2,800 |700 |13,363
Wiltshire |2,889 |2,308 |275 |5,472
Mr. Lidington : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what provision he has made in his Department's budget for the proposed west of Aylesbury-Wing bypass for compensation payments to householders whose homes would be reduced in value or otherwise affected by his Department's plans.
Mr. Key : No provision has yet been put aside for compensation. For planning purposes, a sum of £5.3 million--Q1/92 prices--has been esimated for the cost of land and properties including compensation. Persons who would be directly affected by the route of the bypass would be able to make a case for the purchase of their property under blight terms once a preferred route has been decided and protected. Persons who consider that the physical effects of public traffic using the new road once opened would affect the value of their property may make a claim against the Department under part I of the Land Compensation Act 1973. The claim period would commence one year after the new road opened to traffic.
Mr. Robert Ainsworth : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the names by local highway authority of the major road schemes for which the authority is bidding for transport supplementary grant to enable main works to start during 1994-95.
Mr. MacGregor : Following are the bids received for such schemes in the current round :
Authority |Scheme name --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enfield |Genotin road link Greenwich |Woolwich road improvement Harrow |Sheepcote road widening Kingston |Kingston north-south strategy-A240 corridor Tower Hamlets |Poplar traffic calming area scheme Westminster |Vauxhall bridge road improvement Manchester |Hyde road (Tameside-West Gorton) Manchester |Inner relief route-Regent road-Chester road-phase 2, stage 2 Oldham |A62/A627 Oldham way improvements Salford |Trafford road-the Quays-White City Trafford |Trafford road improvement Trafford |Bridgewater boulevard St. Helens |Blackbrook diversion Sefton |Merseyside N corridor stage 1 Switch island/Thornton link Sefton |Merseyside N corridor stage 2 Thornton link/Blundell link Wirral |Heron road/Saughall Massie road improvement/diversion Doncaster |A630 Wheatley Hall road Sunderland |Grangetown and Ryhope bypass Birmingham |Lichfield road improvement phase 2 Birmingham |South Birmingham improvements-phase 1-A34 and A435 Dudley |A4036 improvement Merry Hill Sandwell |Churchbridge improvement Sandwell Sandwell |Expressway/All Saints way junction Sandwell Wolverhampton |Willenhall road improvements phase 3 Calderdale |Brighouse Elland road/Brookfoot lane improvement Kirklees |Huddersfield ring road improvements phase 4 Leeds |Leeds Harewood bridge bypass Leeds |Leeds guided bus-A61/A64 Leeds |Leeds city centre loop road-phases 3 and 4 Wakefield |Hemsworth bypass Wakefield |Normanton bypass Avon |Avon ring road 2-B4465 Shortwood to A420 Warmley Avon |Park and ride-Bristol-site 2 Bath-site 3 Bedfordshire |Arlesey/Stotfold bypass Berkshire |Reading Cross town route stage 2 broken brow to Vastern road Berkshire |Reading Cross town route stage 3 Caversham road to Portman road Berkshire |Reading A4 Bath road widening/dualling Berkshire |Stafferton way link Maidenhead Buckinghamshire |Wendover bypass Cambridgeshire |Needingworth bypass Cambridgeshire |Werrington to Glinton bypass-phase 2 Cheshire |Davenham bypass Cheshire |Wheelock bypass Cleveland |Skelton and Brotton bypass Cleveland |Middleton road to Powlett road Cornwall |Probus bypass Cornwall |Carland cross-South of Trispen Cumbria |Dalton-in-Furness to Askam-in-Furness Derbyshire |Derby-London road diversion Devon |Hatherleigh bypass Devon |Salcombe dip to Inverteign drive Teignmouth Durham |Witton Gilbert bypass Durham |Wheatley Hill to Bowburn East Sussex |New route-Ditton to Seaside-Eastbourne Essex |Aukingford Gardens to Talbot roundabout, Chelmsford stages 1 and 2 Essex |Bypass-A12-A132 Gloucestershire |Tewkesbury eastern relief road Gloucestershire |Gloucester southern radial relief road Hampshire |Northam road Southampton Hampshire |Woolmer road link Hertfordshire |Cheshunt link road Kent |Wainscott northern bypass Kent |Hale street bypass Kent |Gillingham northern link Kent |Bearsted road/Sittingbourne road Kent |Staplehurst road link Lancashire |Blackburn eastern radial route Lancashire |Westgate link Burnley Lancashire |South Ribble M65 interface improvements Leicestershire |Glen Parva bypass Lincolnshire |A15/A1 Market Deeping bypass Norfolk |Ormesby bypass Norfolk |Brockdish/Needham bypass Northamptonshire |Warmington improvements Northamptonshire |Higham Ferrers bypass-Stanwick dualling Northumberland |Kitty Brewster bridge duplication Northumberland |Longhorsley bypass Northumberland |Longframlington bypass North Yorkshire |A661 Spofforth bypass North Yorkshire |B1228 Peasholme Green bridge Nottinghamshire |Awsworth and Cossall bypass Nottinghamshire |Mansfield eastern outer ring road-phase 2 Oxfordshire |Oxford integrated transport package Shropshire |Hodnet bypass Somerset |Wells relief road Somerset |Yeovil relief road Staffordshire |Biddulph bypass Staffordshire |Victoria place link Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire |Uttoxeter bypass phases 1 and 2 Suffolk |Kesgrave bypass Suffolk |Rickinghall-Botesdale bypass Surrey |Hazel avenue to Borough boundary, Guildford Surrey |West End Bisley and Knaphill bypass Surrey |Farnham bypass improvement Warwickshire |Leamington-Kenilworth improvement West Sussex |Rustington-Hangleton dualling-phase 2 West Sussex |Crawley transport package Wiltshire |East Knoyle bypass
M5
Dr. Liam Fox : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport who has responsibility for the A369 at junction 19 of the M5 during and subsequent to the widening of the motorway.
Mr. Key : Avon county council is the highway authority for the A369 and the roundabout at M5 junction 19. The Secretary of State for Transport is the highway authority for the slip roads which are part of the M5 motorway.
Phase 1 of the motorway widening works, provision of four lanes between junctions 18 and 19, will not change these responsibilities. In the longer term, highway authority boundaries may need to be reviewed if and when the junction configuration changes as part of the subsequent phases.
Pleasure Craft (Light Dues)
Mr. Barry Field : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will make a statement on the charging of light dues on pleasure craft.
Mr. Norris : We believe that users of services should pay towards their cost. We have over a long period sought to identify a means of charging light dues to pleasure craft which would be both fair and capable of generating a worthwhile income for the general lighthouse fund, without creating a disproportionate and expensive administrative system to collect the dues. Following a joint paper which the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland put to the European Commission, the Commission recognised in its communication "A Common Policy on Safe Seas", published in February of this year, that the different approaches applied by member states to the funding of marine navigational aids resulted in some ports operating at a competitive disadvantage. The Commission proposed that a system should be established on a Community-wide basis under which dues would be set, collected and then shared among the national authorities. The system would be based on the "User Pays" principle. The Commission is now carrying forward work on this subject. The Government have therefore concluded, because of these developments at the Community level, that they should not pursue further the charging of light dues to pleasure craft solely within the United Kingdom. We will wish to keep the situation under review depending on the progress of discussions at Community level.
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Channel Tunnel
Mr. Rowe : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will place in the Library copies of the technical and other background studies prepared by Union Railways on the proposed route of the channel tunnel rail link.
Mr. Freeman : Union Railways' report, which I received on 29 October, and supporting appendices documents will, subject to commercial confidentiality, be published when the Government's decisions are announced. These documents contain a substantial amount of detail, drawing on the technical and background studies undertaken by Union Railways. It is not intended that the very large volume of raw material generated during the preparation of Union Railways' report be published.
Drivers Test Centre, Wibsey
Mr. Cryer : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proposals he has to close Wibsey drivers' test centre in Bradford, South ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Key : The Driving Standards Agency, which is responsible for driving test matters, set out its intention in its 1993-94 business plan to continue a programme of reviewing and rationalising its test centre estate. There are no proposals, however, at this time to close the centre at Wibsey.
Rail Track Study
Mr. Harvey : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport (1) what sums of money have been paid or are payable to Coopers and Lybrand for its study into a charging regime for the rail track ; and to what time period of work such payment relates ;
(2) what progress has been made by Coopers and Lybrand in its study into a charging regime for access to the rail track ; and what proposals it has put forward.
Mr. Freeman : The Department has paid approximately £1.6 million for the studies carried out by Coopers and Lybrand on access charges, for work since December 1991. Sums for the most recent work have yet to be settled. Good progress has been made. Detailed proposals on charge structure and calculation methods of costs have been put forward and agreed.
Highways Agency
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what are the job specification and terms and conditions and salary details for the post of chief executive of the Highways Agency ; and to what extent they have been varied in the advertisements for the post.
Mr. Key : I am placing in the Library copies of the two editions-- dated September and October 1993--of the leaflet outlining the job description and terms and conditions of the post, which have been issued to those responding to the advertisements. The only significant variation is in the paragraphs relating to salary and performance pay.
British Rail (Cycle Carriage)
Mr. Harvey : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will require British Rail to increase the capacity for the carriage of cycles on the newly introduced Waterloo to Salisbury and Exeter trains.
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Mr. Freeman : Carrying bicycles by train is an operational matter for British Rail. I understand that its policy is to allow one bicycle in each three-coach unit. Trains operate with either three, six or nine coaches depending on passenger number. The new trains have been designed to provide the maximum number of seats for passengers and do not have room for more than one bicycle in each three-coach unit.
Private Capital
Ms. Harman : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list those public investment projects within his Department's responsibility which have attracted private capital and have been commenced since the 1992 autumn statement.
Mr. MacGregor [holding answer 2 November 1993] : I gave my approval on 29 October for London Regional Transport to start work on the Jubilee line extension, to which the private sector is making a contribution of £400 million. Following conclusion of a joint venture agreement between BAA and British Rail in August, work is also going ahead on the Heathrow express link.
Work is continuing on the privately financed second Severn bridge and draft orders were published in June for the privately financed Birmingham northern relief road.
In addition, the Government have announced that it is the intention that both the channel tunnel rail link and crossrail schemes should be taken forward as joint ventures with the private sector.
Roads and Railways
Mr. Rowe : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is the estimated land take needed for (a) the roads programme and (b) the railway programme for 1993-94, 1994-95 and 1995-96.
Mr. Key : Meaningful estimates cannot be made. The land take needed for roads and railways depends on the progress and the design of individual schemes.
In particular, with the channel tunnel rail link, the land take needed will depend upon the outcome of the detailed consultation currently taking place, as well as the timing of legislation to authorise the new line.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Counterfeit Goods
Mr. Harris : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what proposals he has for dealing with counterfeit goods and pirate tapes.
Mr. McLoughlin : The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 already contains far-reaching provisions for dealing with counterfeit goods and pirate tapes. The Government are currently considering whether any new provisions are needed to strengthen the anti-counterfeiting measures introduced by that Act.
The Government also support the proposals to extend Council regulation (EEC) 3842/86, which already provides effective controls at the external borders of the EC against counterfeit goods, to cover goods that infringe copyright.
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Mr. Harris : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will give trading standards officers power to seize counterfeit cassettes and goods under the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Mr. McLoughlin : Trading standards officers were empowered by section 300 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to enforce the new offences relating to counterfeit goods, where this entails the fraudulent application or use of a trade mark. There are no plans to extend these powers to tapes which infringe copyright but do not use a counterfeit trade mark.
US-Germany Telecommunications Treaty
Mr. Roger Evans : To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 28 June, Official Report, column 371 , whether Her Majesty's Government or the European Commission is now to take legal action against Germany for refusing to apply either article 29 of the utilities directive or the recent Council regulation implementing retaliatory sanctions against the United States of America in the field of Government procurement, in signing its recent treaty on telecommunications with the United States of America.
Mr. Needham : I am not aware of the signing of any treaty of telecommunications between Germany and the United States of America. Government procurement is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.
Merseyside
Mr. Alton : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if it is his policy to match the £600 million funding from the EC to Merseyside so that the area may benefit from opportunities available under its status as an objective 1 area.
Mr. Sainsbury : The European Community funds make grants towards the cost of a variety of projects undertaken by various beneficiaries. That part of the cost of each project which is not met by the funds remains the responsibility of the beneficiary. This is the case not only on Merseyside, but generally, and will continue to be so.
IMS Ltd.
Mr. Cousins : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what assets and liabilities were attached to the Export Credits Guarantee Department when IMS Ltd. was wound up.
Mr. Needham : IMS Ltd. has not been wound up and none of the company's assets and liabilities have been attached to the Export Credits Guarantee Department.
Launch Aid
Mr. Cousins : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish the income and expenditure accounts of the launch aid programme in the last five years itemising the projects which have generated such moneys.
Mr. Sainsbury : The information is as follows :
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Outturn
|1988-89|1989-90|1990-91|1991-92|1992-93
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Launch aid payments (£ million)
Airframes
A330/340 |88.5 |122.5 |134.0 |73.5 |28.6
Helicopters
EH101 |9.9 |11.1 |7.1 |5.2 |2.8
|----- |----- |----- |----- |-----
Total |98.4 |133.6 |141.1 |78.7 |31.4
Launch aid receipts (£ million)
Airframes
A320 |- |10.0 |34.0 |55.4 |40.9
Other<1> |1.1 |0.6 |0.5 |0.3 |0.2
Aero-engines
RB211 |20.6 |29.9 |14.3 |25.6 |27.9
V2500 |- |- |1.6 |0.1 |2.8
Other<2> |0.9 |2.0 |1.4 |1.6 |2.9
|----- |----- |----- |----- |-----
Total |22.6 |42.5 |51.8 |83.0 |74.7
<1> BAC 1-11, DH Comet, HS Trident.
<2> Dart, Spey, Proteus, Avon, Tay, Tyne.
Atomic Energy Authority Police
Mr. Cousins : To ask the President of the Board of Trade how many uniformed staff are in the Atomic Energy Authority police force ; what powers these police have of arrest and to carry arms ; and whether he intends to privatise this police force along with the rest of the Atomic Energy Authority.
Mr. Eggar : The current strength of the Atomic Energy Authority constabulary (AEAC) is 499. Officers of the AEAC are appointed as special constables and have powers of arrest in premises in the possession of or under the control of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and British Nuclear Fuels plc, and, in respect of their property, within a radius of 15 miles of these premises. The powers of the AEAC were extended by the Atomic Energy Authority (Special Constables) Act 1976. This Act gives authority for officers to be armed both in the general course of their duties and in relation to safeguarding of special nuclear material in storage and transit throughout Great Britain.
The Act also authorises officers to exercise their powers in any place where it appears to them to be expedient to go in order to safeguard nuclear material or to pursue persons they believe to have removed or to have attempted to remove it unlawfully.
No decisions have yet been taken on whether to privatise the AEA or any part of it. I am considering the results of the consultancy study I announced on 1 April, Official Report, column 407, as well as the AEA's own views, and an announcement will be made in due course. The future of the AEAC will be considered in the context of decisions about the future of the AEA as a whole.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Immigration
Mr. Gerrard : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) Ghanaian, (b) Nigerian, (c) Bangladeshi and (d) Indian citizens, admitted with visas as working holidaymakers, have been refused re-entry to
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Britain after a trip abroad during the period for which their visa has remained valid, between 1 January 1992 and 30 June 1993.Mr. Charles Wardle : The information requested is not available.
Suicide
Mr. David Atkinson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many verdicts of suicide were recorded for men aged 25 to 55 years for each year since 1987.
Mr. Maclean : Information on deaths recorded as suicide on death certificates for males aged 25 to 54 in England and Wales is given in the table.
Registered deaths of males aged 25-54 years where the cause of death is recorded on death certificate as suicide or self-inflicted injury, England and Wales 1987-92 Year |Number of persons ------------------------------------------------------ 1987 |1,449 1988 |1,616 1989 |1,521 1990 |1,700 1991 |1,851 1992 |1,837 Source: Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.
Prisoners (Assaults)
Mr. Luff : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners from local and remand prisons in England and Wales have been treated at outside hospitals as a result of attacks on them in prison ; and how many prisoners have been treated by medical services within prisons as a result of attacks in 1992.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the director general of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
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Letter from A. J. Butler to Mr. Peter Luff, dated November 1993 :The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your Question asking how many prisoners in local prisons and remand centres received medical treatment as a result of attacks on them in 1992.
I regret that this information is not statistically recorded.
Crime, Leicester
Mr. Janner : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases of (a) burglary, (b) house breaking and (c) violent assault were reported for the city of Leicester in each of the last 15 years.
Mr. Maclean : The information requested is not collected centrally. However, statistics by police force area can be found in the annual publication "Criminal statistics, England and Wales", copies of which are available in the Library.
Vandalism
Mr. Cox : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what has been the reported number of cases of vandalism in each of the police divisions covering the Greater London area in each of the last three years.
Mr. Maclean : The available information to recorded offences of criminal damage in police divisions in the Metropolitan police district been provided by the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis. The information is contained in the following table :
Recorded criminal damage offences in the Metropolitan Police District Metropolitan Police District Police district |1990 |1991 |1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No. 1 Area Barkingside |2,296 |2,597 |2,851 Chingford |1,744 |2,081 |2,101 Ilford |2,211 |2,207 |2,163 Leyton |1,952 |2,307 |2,456 Islington |2,677 |2,438 |2,725 Holloway |2,317 |2,518 |2,584 Edmonton |1,996 |2,533 |2,637 Ponders End |2,861 |3,206 |3,032 Hornsey |2,148 |2,124 |2,203 Tottenham |1,860 |2,285 |2,571 No. 2 Area Hackney |2,396 |2,802 |2,821 Stoke Newington |2,172 |2,731 |2,778 Bethnal Green |1,174 |1,313 |1,343 Leman Street |1,029 |1,404 |1,265 Limehouse |2,082 |2,168 |1,498 Havering |2,924 |2,390 |3,597 Dagenham |3,001 |3,425 |3,293 Plaistow |2,436 |2,968 |2,844 Forest Gate |2,841 |2,650 |2,648 Thames River |35 |31 |20 No. 3 Area Southwark |2,249 |2,485 |2,929 Peckham |2,143 |2,456 |2,689 Carter Street |1,997 |2,015 |2,119 Catford |1,933 |2,078 |2,448 Lewisham |2,233 |2,091 |2,614 Orpington |2,049 |2,535 |2,982 Bromley |1,863 |2,305 |2,932 Greenwich |2,400 |2,985 |3,662 Plumstead |3,302 |3,862 |4,344 Bexley Heath |3,055 |3,804 |4,476 No. 4 Area Brixton |2,436 |2,501 |2,315 Kennington |863 |1,002 |1,141 Clapham |1,733 |1,721 |2,040 Streatham |2,472 |2,489 |2,300 Merton |3,697 |4,060 |3,850 Croydon |2,513 |2,651 |3,108 South Norwood |3,127 |3,017 |3,439 Epsom & Sutton |3,697 |4,505 |4,639 No. 5 Area Chiswick |1,255 |1,531 |1,989 Hounslow |2,562 |3,266 |3,242 Spelthorne |1,187 |1,601 |1,779 Richmond upon Thames |2,269 |2,620 |2,726 Kingston |2,850 |3,104 |3,479 Battersea |1,925 |1,976 |2,009 Tooting |1,915 |2,158 |2,375 Wandsworth |2,059 |2,136 |2,176 No. 6 Area Chelsea |935 |1,470 |934 Kensington |1,172 |986 |1,085 Notting Hill |1,518 |1,787 |2,354 Hammersmith |2,462 |2,572 |2,727 Fulham |1,334 |1,389 |2,018 Heathrow |300 |297 |288 Ealing |2,962 |3,424 |3,739 Southall |2,717 |2,952 |3,382 Hillingdon |4,100 |4,638 |5,059 No. 7 Area Hampstead |1,818 |2,024 |2,088 Kentish Town |2,266 |2,163 |2,396 Holborn |1,123 |1,146 |1,247 Harrow |2,640 |3,632 |3,543 Wembley |2,020 |2,307 |2,276 Kilburn |2,612 |2,894 |3,161 Barnet and Hertsmere |2,175 |2,555 |2,689 Golders Green |1,578 |1,891 |1,970 West Hendon |2,005 |2,119 |2,429 No. 8 Area Belgravia |940 |984 |987 West End Central |796 |789 |712 Charing Cross |1,147 |595 |580 Paddington Green |1,451 |1,378 |1,098 Marylebone |811 |776 |552 Harrow Road |1,370 |1,497 |1,653
Prisoners (Home Leave)
Ms Coffey : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what consultations there are with the police and victims regarding home leave for prisoners serving custodial sentences for serious assaults.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the director general of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from D. Lewis to Mrs. Ann Coffey, dated October 1993 : The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about consultations with police and victims regarding home leave for prisoners serving sentences for serious assaults.
Guidance on home leave is contained in Prison Service Circular Instruction 43/1992, a copy of which is in the House of Commons Library. When deciding whether to grant leave prison governors should take account of the attitude of known victims in the local community, and they may also seek reports from the local police. If the police or any victims of crime are concerned about the possibility of a particular prisoner being allowed home leave, it is open to them to submit their observations to the governor, so that they can be included in his/her deliberations.
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OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
Malaysia
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the decision to grant support for the Pergau hydro-electric project in Malaysia was linked to any other bilateral trade agreement with Malaysia.
Angola
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much aid was given by Her Majesty's Government to Angola in the last year for which figures are available.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : United Kingdom gross bilateral aid to Angola in 1992-93, for which provisional figures are available, was £1.824 million.
Somalia
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the amount of aid given by the United Kingdom to Somalia during the past 12 months.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Since January 1993, Britain has committed nearly £11.5 million in humanitarian and development assistance to Somalia, including our contribution to EC programmes.
SCOTLAND
Connor Peripherals (UK) Ltd.
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what action the Scottish Office will be taking to ensure that grant assistance paid to Connor Peripherals (UK) Ltd. to set up its Irvine plant is recouped by the Exchequer.
Mr. Stewart : This has been covered in discussions with the company. The details are commercially confidential.
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how much Connor Peripherals (UK) Ltd. has received in grant assistance from the Government since coming to Irvine.
Mr. Stewart : Details of grant payments made to individual companies are commercially confidential and are not divulged.
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what representations were made by the Scottish Office to Connor Peripherals (UK) Ltd. prior to the company's announcement of job losses at their plant in Irvine.
Mr. Stewart : My officials in Locate in Scotland were in direct contact with senior executives of Connor Peripherals both here in the United Kingdom and in the United States in the months preceding the company's announcement. Moreover, I met Connor's senior management at their Californian headquarters during my recent visit to the United States.
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Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement concerning the recent announcement of redundancies by Connor Peripherals (UK) Ltd. in Irvine.
Mr. Stewart : I am disappointed by the redundancies recently announced by Connor Peripherals but encouraged that the company is to retain its European repair and distribution facility at Irvine. This facility remains an important part of the infrastructural support for Scotland's personal computer industry. The redundancies derive from overcapacity and price competition affecting disc-drive manufacturers on a worldwide basis. It is important to note however that Conner's manufacturing operations in Irvine have been suspended pending improvements in world market conditions, and at this stage it is not possible to predict if these job losses will be permanent.
Job Losses
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what additional assistance he will be offering to agencies in Ayrshire following the loss of jobs at Jetstream Aircraft Ltd., Wilson's Pipe Fittings and Connor Peripherals (UK) Ltd. ; and if he will make it his policy not to wind up the Irvine development corporation before 1999.
Mr. Stewart : My right hon. Friend and I regret the recent announcements of job losses by companies in Ayrshire. The local enterprise company, Enterprise Ayrshire, has at its disposal a wide range of measures and flexibility to encourage broad economic development throughout Ayrshire ; and to provide training, reskilling and to generate alternative employment opportunities. The overall allocation of resources to local enterprise companies is a matter for Scottish Enterprise to determine, with Enterprise Ayrshire currently allocated a budget of more than £24 million. While it is for the local enterprise company to set its own priorities within those resources, we place significant importance on its ability to react promptly and flexibly in addressing the consequences of closures and job losses. Enterprise Ayrshire has been closely involved with Jetstream on a number of fronts and will continue to maintain its contact. Any difficulties which might arise from the commercial decisions of it or other companies to cease or reduce operations will be fully considered by Scottish Enterprise in its future allocation decisions.
My right hon. Friend set out the . Hogg) on 27 October, Official Report, columns 682-84 . This policy reflects the belief that Scottish Enterprise and the local enterprise companies are sufficiently matured to undertake the leading economic development role for all areas within their boundaries.
Regional Selective Assistance
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many companies in Scotland currently receive regional selective assistance from the Government ; and how much regional selective assistance has been paid by the Government to companies in Scotland in each of the last five years.
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Mr. Stewart : At 31 October 1993 there were 744 projects in Scotland which had received at least one instalment of regional selective assistance (RSA) and were either not yet complete or were still being monitored following completion. The expenditure figures requested are given in the table.
Gross expenditure in Scotland
on RSA grant
|£ million
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1988-89 |38.0
1989-90 |40.6
1990-91 |68.2
1991-92 |63.7
1992-93 |59.2
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether the Scottish Office is reviewing the current rules governing regional selective assistance ; and how much money the Scottish Office has managed to recoup from companies in receipt of regional selective assistance when the conditions of the award are not met.
Mr. Stewart : The regional selective assistance scheme is kept under continuous review. In the five years to 31 October 1993 £3.685 million of regional selective assistance was recovered from companies in connection with projects in respect of which the terms of the offer were not subsequently met.
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many companies in Scotland in receipt of regional selective assistance have subsequently announced job losses or the closure of their plants.
Mr. Stewart : Information in the form requested is not available.
Amkor Anam Europe Ltd.
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland further to his answer of 3 March, Official Report, column 178, how much money the Scottish Office has recovered in grant assistance from Amkor Anam Europe Ltd. following the closure of its Irvine plant in November 1992.
Mr. Stewart : Details of grant recoveries from individual companies are commercially confidential and are not divulged.
Sporting Rights
Mr. Kynoch : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will consider exempting sporting rights from rating liability.
Mr. Lang : It has long been recognised that a far greater range of subjects consisting of sporting rights are liable for non-domestic rates in Scotland than in England or Wales. I propose to rectify this anomaly by introducing a provision in the forthcoming Local Government Reform Bill to exclude sporting rights in Scotland from a liability for non-domestic rates with effect from 1995, when other subjects will be revalued.
The Government have been concerned for many years to remove the anomalies whereby properties in Scotland may attract rates bills that are not attracted by similar properties in England and Wales. Many such anomalies
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