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New Hospital, Cardiff
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what consultations he has had with the South Glamorgan health authority in relation to the proposed construction of a new neighbourhood hospital on the site of the closed St. David's hospital, Riverside, Cardiff ; and if he will make a statement.
Training and Enterprise
Mr. Richards : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much he plans to spend on training and enterprise in Wales in 1994-95.
Mr. Redwood : I plan to spend over £147 million on training and enterprise in Wales in 1994-95. This provides for anticipated levels of training demand to be met and for the introduction of a modern apprenticeship scheme in manufacturing engineering. Detailed allocations to particular programmes will be made in due course.
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Teacher Training
Mr. Richards : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many students were recruited to courses of intial teacher training in Wales in 1993.
Sir Wyn Roberts : A survey undertaken by the Department shows that, in Wales, 2,573 students entered courses of initial teacher training this year, an increase of nearly 5 per cent. over 1992. Recruitment to primary courses was about the same as last year, but recruitment to secondary courses was up by almost 15 per cent. I welcome in particular the increase in secondary intakes as many of these students are pursuing courses in the shortage areas including Welsh.
NATIONAL FINANCE
Ministerial Visits
Mr. Mullin : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the Ministers in his Department who since June 1987 have visited (a) Saudi Arabia, (b) Malaysia, (c) Singapore and (d) South Africa on official business ; and which such visits included party political activities in addition to official duties.
Sir John Cope : The Economic Secretary visited Kuala Lumpur to attend a meeting of Commonwealth Finance Ministers from 7 to 11 October 1991. No party political activities were included in the visit.
Capital Gains Tax
Mr. Garnier : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much the Treasury has received from capital gains tax in each year since 1979 ; and how much capital gains tax has cost to collect in each of those years.
Mr. Dorrell : The figures for capital gains tax yield and the costs of administering the tax for each year since 1979 are :
£ million
Capital gains
tax<1>
-----------------------------
1979-80 |431 |9.5
1980-81<3> |508 |13.2
1981-82<3> |526 |13.7
1982-83 |632 |15.3
1983-84 |671 |14.7
1984-85 |730 |14.2
1985-86 |908 |15.4
1986-87 |1,064|17.7
1987-88 |1,379|25.1
1988-89 |2,323|26.6
1989-90 |1,854|34.3
1990-91<4> |1,852|39.0
1991-92<4> |1,140|43.3
1992-93<4> |982 |38.4
<1> The figures quoted
exclude tax on gains made by
companies included in
corporation tax. Some of the
costs associated with
companies, however, cannot
be separately identified and
are therefore included in
the cost figures for capital
gains tax rather than for
corporation tax.
<2> Costs are based on total
departmental expenditure.
<3> The breakdown of
receipts between 1980-81 and
1981-92 is estimated. The
receipts figures for both
years were affected by
industrial action between
March 1981 and July 1981.
<4> Manpower usage and costs
of administration for
1989-90 have been adjusted
to reflect a new basis of
costing. Direct comparison
of these and later figures
with those of earlier years
may be misleading. More
detail regarding this
adjustment is given in the
board's report for the year
ending 31 March 1991.
r as well as the number of taxpayers in each year, in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Dorrell : I regret that the requested estimates of the difference between the capital gains tax liability on the current regime and on the 1978-79 indexed regime are not available, as indicated in my replies to the hon. Member on 25 February 1992, Official Report, columns 435-36, and 15 March 1991, Official Report, columns 700-701.
The number of capital gains taxpayers with liabilities in 1993-94 under the current tax regime, excluding gains realised by companies is estimated at 110,000.
Economic Growth
Mr. Nicholas Winterton : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the principles upon which he is basing his strategy for economic growth.
Mr. Nelson : Economic growth is generated by businesses and their employees, not by Governments. The Government's responsibility is to ensure that markets work properly and that the regulatory and tax burden on business is kept to a minimum. It also has the essential task of establishing a macroeconomic framework which provides the stability that businesses need to plan for the future. The Government therefore direct monetary and fiscal policy towards two key objectives : low inflation on a permanent basis and sound public finances.
Taxation
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the latest estimates of how many people with gross incomes of over £100,000 pay (a) a national insurance contributions bill and (b) a total income tax and national insurance contributions bill, of less than (i) 35 per cent., (ii) 30 per cent., (iii) 25 per cent., (iv) 20 per cent., (v) 15 per cent., (vi) 10 per cent. and (vii) 5 per cent. of their gross incomes, in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Dorrell : Available figures relate to the estimated 180,000 taxpayers in 1993-94 with gross incomes of £80,000 and above. Nearly all these taxpayers pay less than 5 per cent. of their gross income in national insurance contributions. Estimates of combined income tax and national insurance contribution liabilities are that 70,000 have an effective rate above 35 per cent, 90,000 have an effective rate between 30 and 35 per cent., 10,000 have an effective rate between 25 and 30 per cent., and the remaining 10,000 have an effective rate below 25 per cent.
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the latest figures for how many people who pay tax have earnings below the upper earnings limit in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Dorrell : It is estimated that in 1993-94 about 16.5 million tax -paying employees have earnings below the upper earnings limit.
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Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has as to how much tax remained uncollected at the end of the last fiscal year ; and what estimate he has as to the amount which will remain uncollected at the end of the current year.
Mr. Dorrell : The amount of tax which remained uncollected at the end of October 1992, the last year for which figures are available, is £3.737 billion.
These figures are produced for the Inland Revenue's accounting year, to 31 October, rather than on a fiscal year basis.
Estimates for the year ended October 1993 will not be available until the end of January 1994.
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people paid tax in each year since 1978-79, giving the numbers on basic rate and higher rate tax.
Mr. Dorrell : Latest estimates for 1991-92 onwards based on a projection of the survey of personal incomes are given.
Figures for earlier years are available in table 2.1 of Inland Revenue Statistics 1993.
Millions
Taxpayers liable
at
|Lower rate only |Basic rate but not|Higher rate |Total
|higher rate
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1991-92 |0.0 |24.1 |1.6 |25.7
1992-93 |3.9 |19.4 |1.8 |25.1
1993-94 |4.8 |18.4 |1.9 |25.1
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families with children are estimated to have taxable incomes below the income tax threshold ; and what proportion this represents of all families with children.
Mr. Dorrell : It is estimated that in 1993-94 approximately 1.9 million single parents and married couples with children have no income tax liability. These represent about a quarter of all families with children.
Value Added Tax
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the total yield from VAT in 1978-79.
Sir John Cope : The yield from VAT in the financial year 1978-79 was £4,837.5 million.
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer by how much he estimates the average family's tax bill will rise following the VAT changes outlined in the March 1993 Budget.
Sir John Cope : Standard rate VAT on domestic fuel and power applied to the average household's existing fuel bill would cost about £2.30 a week.
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the proportion of consumer spending subject to the standard rate of VAT, exempt from VAT and subject to a zero rate of VAT.
Sir John Cope : The latest data show that some 58 per cent. of consumer spending is standard rated, 24 per cent. is exempt and 18 per cent. is subject to a zero rate of VAT.
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Non-taxpayers
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what are the latest figures for how many (a) working and (b) non-working people do not pay tax in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Dorrell : Of the estimated 21 million people aged 16 or over who are non-taxpayers in 1993-94 about 3.6 million are working and 17.4 million are non-working.
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many single people and married couples do not currently pay tax.
Mr. Dorrell : It is estimated that in 1993-94 there are about 8.9 million single people aged over 16 not liable to income tax and about 3.8 million married couples where neither spouse is liable to tax.
Allowances
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people receive (a) the married couple's allowance, (b) the additional person's allowance and (c) the widow's bereavement allowance.
Mr. Dorrell : Latest estimates are in the table :
Number of individuals benefiting from allowance in
1993-94
|(Thousands)
------------------------------------------------------
Married couple's allowance |10,200
Additional personal allowance |750
Widow's bereavement allowance |150
Visible Trade
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the deficit on visible trade for the first seven months of the year compared with the same period in 1992.
Mr. Nelson : The latest information is available in the Central Statistical Office first release balance of United Kingdom visible trade-- August 1993, 12 November 1993. It is also available on the CSO database, which can be accessed through the House of Commons Library ; the identifier is AIMA.
Inheritance Tax
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what sanction exists in respect of inheritance tax waived in respect of works of art to be made available to the public when the works are not so made available.
Mr. Dorrell : The owner of works of art which are conditionally exempt from inheritance tax must undertake
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to preserve them, keep them in the United Kingdom and provide reasonable public access. If an owner breaks an undertaking and the issue cannot be resolved in discussion between the Inland Revenue and the owner, inheritance tax is charged on the current value of the works of art. This provides a powerful incentive for the owner to honour the terms of the undertakings.Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the total inheritance tax yield, in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in the latest year for which information is available.
Mr. Dorrell : The latest year for which information is available is 1992-93. Inheritance tax net receipts in this year were £1,211 million for the United Kingdom, of which £86 million was collected in Northern Ireland. Much of the tax collected in Northern Ireland related to deaths in England and Wales.
Cigarettes
Ms Primarolo : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the average cost of a packet of cigarettes, and the average amount of total tax on a packet of cigarettes, in the last financial year.
Sir John Cope : The available data are for a typical packet of cigarettes. Two prices applied in the financial year 1992-93 as manufacturers increased their prices in the autumn. Both prices are given in the table.
Period covered |Typical price |Tax content (pence)
|(pence)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
April to October |221 |168
November to March |227 |170
Ms Primarolo : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the total amount of tax received from cigarettes in the last financial year.
Sir John Cope : Receipts of excise duty and value added tax on cigarettes are estimated to have been £6,970 million in 1992-93.
Privatised Companies
Mr. Cryer : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish those numbers of individual shareholders retaining shares in each of the concerns privatised since 1979, indicating where Her Majesty's Government have retained a shareholding.
Mr. Dorrell : The table shows the latest figures available for shareholdings in privatised companies. Where the Government retained a shareholding--including details of any subsequent disposals--this has also been shown.
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Shareholdings<1> in privatised and former Government-controlled companies
Size of share
register
Company |Date of |Initial |Highest since |Current |Proportion of shares |Proportion and dates
|privatisation |privatisation<3> |retained by Her |of subsequent
|Majesty's |disposals
|Government
|Per cent. |Per cent.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
British Petroleum |December 1977<2> |n/a |- |513,569 |51.0 |<4>5.17/November 1979;
|(31 December 1992) |7.12/September 1983;
|31.5/September 1987;
|0.09/October 1990
British Aerospace |February 1981 |27,179 |120,200 |92,631 |48.43 |48.43/10 May 1985
|(December 1986) |(12 November 1993)
Cable and Wireless |October 1981 |27,320 |210,994 |158,481 |50.64 |27.54/November 1983;
|(31 March 1986) |(31 March 1993) |23.1/December 1985
Amersham International |February 1982 |10,051 |- |5,264 |nil |-
|(28 May 1993)
NFC |February 1982 |10,300 |- |60,000 |nil |-
|(December 1993)
Britoil |November 1982 |37,257 |245,556 |Owned by BP |49 |49/8 August 1985
|(31 December 1985)
Associated British Ports |February 1983 |37,205 |- |14,000 |48.5 |48.5/17 April 1984
|(December 1993)
Enterprise Oil |June 1984 |13,695 |14,166 |9,794 |nil |-
|(June 1985) |(31 December 1992)
Jaguar |July 1984 |125,000 |- |Owned by Ford |nil<5> |-
BT |November 1984 |2,139,520 |- |3,371,207 |49.8 |0.8/December 1987;
|(10 November 1993) |25.9/November 1991;
|20.7/July 1993
British Gas |December 1986 |4,407,079 |- |2,036,826 |3.3 |1.6/January 1990;
|(31 December 1992) |1.6/July 1990
British Airways |February 1987 |1.2 million |- |252,016 |2.5 |1.0/June 1987;
|(10 May 1993) |1.0/March 1990
Rolls-Royce |May 1987 |1,988,966 |- |564,318 |0.4 |0.4 sold during 1987
|(31 December 1992)
BAA |July 1987 |2,187,500 |- |561,759 |4.36 |1.42/August 1990
|(28 May 1993)
British Steel |December 1988 |650,553 |- |252,000 |0.05 |0.04 disposed of during
|(December 1993) |1989
Water and Sewerage |December 1989 |2.65 million |- |1,106,564<7> |1.62 |-
Companies |(27 June 1991)
Regional Electricity |December 1990 |8.86 million<6> |- |2,975,119<7> |1.5 |-
Companies |(7 August 1992)
Generating Companies |March 1991 |1.67 million<8> |- |1.3 million<7> |40 |-
|(November 1992)
Scottish Electricity |June 1991 |1.8 million<9> |- |1.4 million<7> |3.5 |-
Companies |(15 March 1993)
Northern Ireland |June 1993 |437,414 |- |298,734 |4 |-
Electricity |(1 December 1993)
<1>For single company privatisations, these figures are not an exact guide to the number of shareholders because some shareholdings are held jointly in more than one name-for example, for
members of employee share schemes only the trustees are shown on share registers.
<2>Her Majesty's Government obtained a majority holding in 1914 but this never reached 100 per cent. The 1977 sale is shown as the first disposal of recent times.
<3>Where the largest register of shareholdings was not immediately following privatisation-this usually followed a secondary offer.
<4>These proportions do not sum to 51 per cent. because of rights issues.
<5>Subsidiary of BL plc.
<6>The offer allowed for holdings by individuals in any or all of the companies in the offer and therefore holders may appear on more than one register.
<7>Shareholders may appear on the register of more than one company.
<8>The offer required public applicants to apply for shares in both companies and the figure shown is that of allocation in the offer.
<9>The offer required non-customer public applicants to apply for shares in both companies and the figure shown is that of allocation in the offer.
Personal Pensions
Mr. Alfred Morris : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what study his Department has made of compliance by the personal pension sector with the Financial Services Act 1986 as it affects the selling of pensions ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) what estimate he has as to the number of people who were advised to transfer to a personal pension and would have been better off to have remained in occupational schemes since 1986 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Nelson : I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 8 December, Official Report , column 234 .
Finance Bill
Mr. Burns : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Finance Bill will be published.
Mr. Dorrell : The Finance Bill will be published on Tuesday 11 January 1994.
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CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
Members
Mr. Frank Field : To ask the right hon. Member for Selby (Mr. Alison), representing the Church Commissioners, which Church Commissioners are also members of Her Majesty's Government ; and which meetings of the commissioners, on how many occasions, were attended by each such member in the last three calendar years.
Mr. Alison : Seven out of 95 Church Commissioners are members of Her Majesty's Government : the Lord Chancellor ; the First Lord of the Treasury ; the Lord President of the Council ; the Secretary of State for the Home Department ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the Attorney-General ; and the Solicitor-General. The Lord President of the Council attended the commissioners'
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annual general meeting in 1991 and 1993. The Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General attended that meeting in 1992.The Second Church Estates Commissioner is included under the heading "Her Majesty's Government" in the list which appears from time to time in Hansard , but the appointment is not an executive Government post and it carries no salary.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Overseas Visits
Mr. Mullin : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the Ministers in his Department who since June 1987 have visited (a) Saudi Arabia, (b) Malaysia, (c) Singapore and (d) South Africa on official business ; and which such visits included party political activities in addition to official duties.
Mr. Howard : The following official visits have been made, during none of which do we have any record that party political activities were undertaken :
(a) Saudi Arabia
The right hon. Douglas Hurd CBE MP-- Home Secretary--
April 1989.
(b) Malaysia
None.
(c) Singapore
The right hon. and noble Earl Ferrers--Minister of State-- 31 December 1991 to 3 January 1992.
(d) South Africa
None.
Prisons
Mr. Cox : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has had with prison governors in England and Wales on the recent policy statements that he has made as to the running of penal establishments ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : On 3 November, my right hon. and learned Friend made a speech about imprisonment to the Prison Service conference, to which senior governors are invited. My right hon. and learned Friend also discussed prison issues with governors during visits to Prison Service establishments.
Justice Council
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what matters were discussed and what decisions were taken at the Justice Council in Brussels on 29 to 30 November.
Mr. Charles Wardle : I refer to the answer which I gave the hon. Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen) on 7
Manchester United Supporters
Mr. Pendry : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what report he has received from the Greater Manchester police about the treatment of Manchester United fans in Turkey ; and if he will make the findings public.
Mr. Charles Wardle : I have seen a copy of an internal document prepared by the Greater Manchester police
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officers who were present in Turkey as part of the normal liaison arrangements which occur when English teams play abroad. It includes many references to individuals which it would not be right to make public.We have passed on copies of the relevant parts of the report to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has written to the Turkish authorities taking up some of the points which have been raised by those who were detained in and deported from Turkey.
Civil Servants
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each civil service grade in his Department (a) the total number of people employed, (b) the total number of black people and (c) the total number of Asians.
Mr. Howard : The figures requested are given in the table which sets out, by grade, the total number of non-industrial Home Office staff, including those in agencies, on outward secondment or on maternity or special leave, and the number of respondents belonging to black or Asian ethnic groupings. The current response rates to ethnic surveys is 85 per cent. for the main Home Office and 99 per cent. for the Prison Service ; the latter includes management classification. The answer does not include those respondents in other ethnic minorities. The information was generated from the Home Office personnel system on 6 December 1993.
|Total |Asian |Black
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Administrative Assistant |2,164 |168 |157
Administrative Officer |4,453 |361 |252
Administrative Trainee |8 |1 |-
Assistant Chief Officer |3 |- |-
Assistant Director |9 |- |1
Assistant Divisional Officer |4 |- |-
Assistant Immigration Officer |42 |6 |2
Assistant Information Officer |7 |- |-
Assistant Inspector of Fire Services |29 |- |-
Assistant Librarian |13 |- |-
Assistant Scientific Officer |91 |- |-
Assistant Statistician |1 |- |-
Assistant Storeperson |110 |- |-
Church of England/Roman Catholic
Chaplain (P/T) |130 |- |1
Church of England Chaplain |99 |1 |2
Chaplain General Prisons |1 |- |-
Chief Education Officer |1 |- |-
Chief Immigration Officer |360 |- |2
Chief Inspector-Animals S.P. Inspector |1 |- |-
Chief Typing Manager |4 |- |-
Commandant |1 |- |-
Comms. Officer 2 |1 |- |-
Comms. Officer 3 |8 |- |-
Consultant Voluntary Services Unit |2 |- |-
Divisional Officer 1 |1 |- |-
Divisional Officer 2 |1 |- |-
Executive Officer |2,126 |66 |50
Farm Manager 1 |6 |- |-
Farm Manager 1A |15 |- |-
Farm Manager 2 |11 |- |-
Farm Manager 3 |26 |- |-
Farm Manager 4 |19 |- |1
Farms and Gardens Officer |4 |- |-
Fireground Supervisor |1 |- |-
Governor 1 |38 |- |-
Governor 2 |86 |- |-
Governor 3 |113 |- |-
Governor 4 |306 |1 |1
Governor 5 |455 |2 |-
Governor 5 (APS)<1> |22 |- |-
Grade 1 (PUSS) |1 |- |-
Grade 2 (DUSS) |8 |- |-
Grade 3 |26 |- |-
Grade 4 |- |-
Grade 5 |96 |- |-
Grade 6 |102 |- |1
Grade 7 |614 |4 |-
Graphics Officer |14 |- |-
Graphics Technical Grade |1 |- |-
Head of Department 3 |1 |- |-
Head of Department 4 |1 |- |-
Head of Department 5 |1 |- |-
Head of Department 6 |1 |- |-
Head Pharmacist |1 |- |-
Higher Executive Officer (Development) |26 |- |-
Higher Executive Officer |1,174 |16 |10
Higher Graphics Officer |1 |- |-
Higher Instructional Officer |28 |- |-
Higher Professional and Technical Officer |134 |3 |-
Higher Psychologist |43 |- |-
Higher Scientific Officer |181 |1 |-
Higher Telecommunications Technical
Officer |41 |2 |-
HM Chief Inspector of Fire Services |1 |- |-
HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary |1 |- |-
HM Inspector of Fire Services 1 |2 |- |-
HM Inspector of Fire Services 2 |7 |- |-
HM Inspector of Constabulary |4 |- |-
Immigration Officer |2,114 |57 |19
Information Officer |18 |- |-
Inspector (Immigration Service) |70 |- |1
Inspector-Animals S. P. Inspector |19 |1
|Instructional Officer I|1,036 |7
Instructional Officer II |2 |- |-
Interpreter |7 |5 |-
Lecturer 2 |24 |- |-
Legal Officer |3 |- |-
Librarian |8 |- |-
Matron Housekeeper |1 |- |-
Medical Officer |80 |36 |4
Medical Officer (P/T) |111 |31 |2
Night Patrol |956 |9 |24
Nursing Grade A |5 |- |1
Nursing Grade C |61 |2 |9
Nursing Grade D |108 |1 |11
Nursing Grade E |94 |1 |2
Nursing Grade F |118 |7 |11
Nursing Grade G |29 |1 |1
Nursing Grade H |6 |- |-
Personal Secretary |490 |12 |34
Pharmacist |19 |1 |-
Pharmacy Technician |22 |1 |3
Principal Lecturer |3 |- |-
Principal Medical Officer |6 |- |-
Principal Officer |1,371 |- |4
Principal Officer (APS)<1> |36 |- |-
Principal R. C. Chaplain |1 |- |-
Prison Auxiliary |1,561 |9 |28
Prison Officer |18,974 |121 |211
Prison Officer (APS)<1> |37 |- |1
Professional and Technology Officer |99 |4 |3
Psychological Assistant |41 |1 |-
Psychologist |1 |- |-
Psychologist-Graduate Trainee |29 |- |-
R. C. Chaplain |15 |- |-
Regional Catering Manager |6 |- |-
Research Officer (Social Science) |16 |- |-
Scientific Officer |117 |3 |3
Senior Assistant Statistician |8 |- |-
Senior Divisional Officer |1 |- |-
Senior Executive Officer |431 |6 |4
Senior Information Officer |10 |- |-
Senior Inspector-Animals S.P. Inspector |3 |- |-
Senior Instructional Officer |1 |- |-
Senior Lecturer |4 |- |-
Senior Legal Assistant |2 |- |-
Senior Librarian |1 |- |-
Senior Medical Officer |40 |12 |1
Senior Officer |3,398 |10 |17
Senior Personal Secretary |43 |- |2
Senior Pharmacist |1 |- |-
Senior Professor and Technical Officer |167 |1 |1
Senior Psychologist |49 |- |-
Senior Research Officer (Social Science) |11 |- |2
Senior Scientific Officer |194 |2 |-
Senior Telecoms Technical Officer |1 |- |-
Shop Assistant |1 |- |-
Shop Manager |1 |- |-
Staff Principal Pharmacist |5 |- |-
Storeperson |460 |1 |3
Stores Officer Grade A |1 |- |-
Stores Officer Grade B |2 |- |-
Stores Officer Grade C |11 |- |-
Stores Officer Grade D |12 |- |-
Support Grade Band 1 |150 |1 |10
Support Grade Band 2 |736 |18 |54
Support Manager 1 |1 |- |-
Support Manager 2 |4 |- |-
Support Manager 3 |14 |- |1
Technical Grade 1 |16 |- |-
Technical Grade 2 |8 |- |-
Telecom Engineering Technician |195 |- |1
Telecom Technical Engineer II |58 |- |1
Telecoms Technical Officer |2 |1 |1
Temporary Prison Officer |4 |- |-
Territorial Inspector |5 |- |-
Trainee Graphics Officer |1 |- |-
Trainee Statistician |1 |- |-
Trainee Typist |1 |- |-
Typing Manager |32 |1 |3
Typist |763 |17 |27
<1> APS = Accelerated Promotion Scheme.
Mentally Disordered Prisoners
Mr. David Atkinson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what effect periods spent in hospitals for the mentally disordered has on the original sentence of category A prisoners ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Any period of time spent in hospital by a prisoner transferred there under the Mental Health Act 1983 counts towards the serving of the sentence of imprisonment imposed by the court in his case.
Police Investigations
Mr. Waller : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce arrangements to compensate county police forces which incur exceptional costs in the course of official investigations into other police forces.
Mr. Charles Wardle : No. Arrangements already allow for a police force's cost in conducting an investigation on behalf of another force to be covered by the force concerned. The costs are determined between the respective chief officers.
Rukhasana Tufail Fakir
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the case of Rukhasana Tufail Fakir.
Mr. Charles Wardle : Mrs. Tufail has applied to the Court of Appeal for leave to move for judicial review of the
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decision to deport her. Her case will be reviewed in the light of the outcome of these proceedings and any further representations made on her behalf.Financial Fraud
Mr. Cryer : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are engaged in his Department in combating fraud in financial institutions ; and at what annual cost.
Mr. Maclean : No officials in my Department are directly so engaged. The Home Office is responsible for the criminal law as it relates to fraudulent activity, but it has no direct involvement in its investigation or prosecution.
Dogs
Mr. Cryer : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will introduce legislation to require owners of breeds of dogs involved in serious attacks on children and adults to muzzle such dogs when in a public place ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Charles Wardle : The Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 provides that all exempted dogs--that is, fighting dogs such as the pit bull terrier--must be muzzled when in a public place. The Act also gives the courts powers to impose a muzzling order on a dog of any breed or type which they judge potentially or actually dangerous.
In addition, my right hon. and learned Friend has a reserve power under section 2 of the Act to impose restrictions relating to muzzling, leashing and abandoning any breed or type of dog which, after having taken advice, he considers presents a serious danger to the public. The need to use this power is kept under review.
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