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Mr. Jack : We have asked the forestry review group to ensure that, in carrying out its work, it takes full account of the need to safeguard existing public benefits such as access and recreation. When the group's report is received this aspect of its findings will be looked at very carefully indeed.
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Mr. Tipping : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will list, for each separate piece of land currently owned or leased by the Forestry Commission in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire (a) its name and (b) its area in hectares ; and if she will place a map in the Library which names and identifies each of these pieces of land.
Mr. Jack [holding answer 9 December 1993] : The Forestry Commission manages the following areas of land in Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire :
County |Area (hectares) ------------------------------------------------Bedfordshire |798 Berkshire |512 Buckinghamshire |2,075 Gloucestershire |10,376
I have made arrangements for a map showing the location of the individual areas to be placed in the Library as soon as possible. The more detailed information requested on the individual areas is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Tipping : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will list for each separate piece of land currently owned or leased by the Forestry Commission in Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey and Wiltshire (a) its name and (b) its area in hectares ; and if she will place a map in the Library which names and identifies each of these pieces of land.
Mr. Jack [holding answer 14 December 1993] : The Forestry Commission manages the following areas of land in Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey and Wiltshire.
County |Area (hectares) ------------------------------------------------Hertfordshire |567 Kent |3,676 Surrey |1,627 Wiltshire |3,955
I have made arrangements for a map showing the location of the individual areas to be placed in the Library as soon as possible. The more detailed information requested on the individual areas is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Tipping : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the hon. Member for Sherwood will receive an answer to his questions of 25 November relating to the Forestry Commission.
Mr. Michael Jack : I answered the hon. Member's questions on 13 December.
Mr. Tipping : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will list, for each separate piece of land currently owned or leased by the Forestry Commission in Cheshire, Cumbria and Lancashire (a) its name and (b) its area in hectares; and whether she will place a map in the Library which names and identifies each of these pieces of land.
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Mr. Jack [holding answer 6 December 1993] : The Forestry Commission manages the following areas of land in Cheshire, Cumbria and Lancashire :
County |Area (hectares) ------------------------------------------------Cheshire |948 Cumbria |26,508 Lancashire |1,816
Mr. Jack [holding answer 9 December 1993] : The Forestry Commission manages the following areas of land in Hereford and Worcester, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire.
County |Area (hectares) -------------------------------------------------------Hereford and Worcester |5,072 Oxfordshire |632 Shropshire |4,612 Staffordshire |4,501 Warwickshire |639
I have made arrangements for a map showing the location of the individual areas to be placed in the Library as soon as possible. The more detailed information requested on the individual areas is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Dioxins, Derbyshire
Mr. Skinner : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what information her Department has as to which geographical area the dioxin contamination on the farm closest to the Coalite works in Derbyshire is spreading.
Mr. Soames : The Ministry has undertaken further studies of dioxins in cows' milk from farms in the Bolsover area of Derbyshire. Milk taken from five farms in September was tested, including milk from the farm in question. In all cases the levels of dioxins found were lower than in similar samples taken in 1991 and 1992, indicating that the degree of contamination in the area is continuing to decrease. There is no evidence that the original contamination is spreading. Mr. Skinner ; To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will now publish the research undertaken by her Department which follows on from the third report on dioxins in Derbyshire ; and if she will make a statement.
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Mr. Soames : A summary of the results of the September survey of dioxins in milk from farms in the Bolsover area of Derbyshire was published in the November edition of the MAFF food safety directorate information bulletin. An explanatory note giving full details of the survey was also made available on request. The small amount of research data obtained recently is currently subject to statistical analysis and the results will be published in due course. All other data from our research in the Bolsover area has been published in line with our earlier commitments.
Mr. Skinner : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what action is being taken by her Department to study and limit the continuing dioxin contamination on the farm closest to the Coalite works in Derbyshire.
Mr. Soames : Dioxins in milk from suckling cows on this farm are falling, but are still in excess of a maximum tolerable concentration of 0.7 ng TEO/kg set by the Ministry and the Department of Health. This milk is not produced for human consumption and there is no direct risk to human health from the milk. The Ministry will continue its surveillance programme on dioxins in milk from this and other farms in the area to monitor the situation. This will ensure that no milk supplied for human comsumption contains unacceptable concentrations of dioxins.
Milk Industry
Mrs. Peacock : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will make it her policy not to allow Milk Marque to retain responsibility for national milk records, animal health data and livestock improvements.
Mr. Jack : The Milk Marketing Board's reorganisation scheme contains the board's proposals for the transfer of certain of its assets to Milk Marque. My right hon. Friends the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales have yet to decide whether to approve the reorganisation scheme under the terms of the Agriculture Act 1993.
Mrs. Peacock : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will direct the Milk Marketing Board forthwith to cease to use its funds and staff and those of its subsidiaries to recruit members for Milk Marque.
Mr. Jack : My right hon. Friend has no powers so to direct.
Mrs. Peacock : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will provide an estimate of the funds and total staff time of both the Milk Marketing Board and its subsidiary organisations which have been employed on touring farms to recruit milk producers as members of its successor, Milk Marque.
Mr. Jack : I have no basis on which to make such an estimate.
Mrs. Peacock : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much of milk producers' assets vested in the Milk Marketing Board have so far been expended by the Milk Marketing Board in establishing Milk Marque ; and with those permission these funds have been employed.
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Mr. Jack : The EC Commission has approved, as a state aid, expenditure by the Milk Marketing Board on the establishment and promotion of Milk Marque totalling about £1.5 million.
Illegal Fishing
Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the best estimated number of British fishing vessels that are illegally fishing in United Kingdom waters in contravention of either licensing arrangements under the Sea Fish Licensing Order 1992--SI, 1992 No. 2633--as varied by SI 1993 No. 188 and SI 1993 No. 2291, or registration arrangements under the Merchant Shipping Act 1988.
Mr. Jack : It is impossible to estimate the numbers of vessels that are fishing without licences or while unregistered. Any that come to light will be investigated. The Sea Fish Licensing Order 1992 came into force on 13November 1992. Since that date, we have taken no prosecutions for fishing without a licence nor for contravention of registration arrangements under the Merchant Shipping Act, but one case is pending.
Cormorants
Sir Cranley Onslow : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many applications her Department has received in the last 12 months for licences to control cormorant numbers on English fisheries ; and how many of these have been approved.
Mr. Soames [holding answer 13 December 1993] : From 1 December 1992 to 30 November 1993, 49 applications for licences to shoot cormorants were received and 23 licences were granted.
Bovine Somatotropin
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what measures she is taking to retain the EC moratorium on the use of BST ; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Morley : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will make it her policy to secure a seven-year moratorium on the use of bovine somatotropin.
Mr. Soames [holding answer 13 December 1993] : The United Kingdom has always taken the view that the final Community decision on BST should be based on the scientific criteria of safety, quality and efficacy, taking account also of the need to avoid international trading problems, to encourage Community based research industries and to maintain the competitiveness of the Community's agriculture and food based sector. We are considering very carefully the European Commission's recommendation for a ban on the marketing and use of BST against these criteria, and taking into account the representations we have received both for and against a ban, before coming to a view on the matter.
Bananas
Mr. Bernie Grant : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessments he has made of the effectiveness of the new banana re gime in benefiting the
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banana farmers in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, with particular relevance to the eastern Caribbean ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Jack [holding answer 10 December 1993] : The new regime has only been in force for a few months and the Community market is taking time to settle down. We hope for a greater degree of stability once the system enters its first full year in January 1994. I am being kept fully aware of developments in the United Kingdom and Community markets and am meeting representatives of the Caribbean Banana Exporters Association next week.
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Local Government Finance
Mr. Raymond S. Robertson : To ask the Secretary for Scotland if he will announce the 1994-95 grant-aided expenditure figures for each Scottish local authority.
Mr. Gallie : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will announce the 1994-95 grant-aided expenditure figures for each Scottish local authority.
Mr. Lang : The GAE figure in respect of each local authority for 1994-95 is set out in the table. Each authority's allocation of the GAE total has been determined having regard to the client group methodology which is agreed with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in the distribution committee of the working party on local government finance. The table excludes figures for urban programmes GAE which is not allocated to individual authorities. The addition of this amount, £63.4 million, brings the GAE total to the previously announced sum of £5,260.1 million.
GAE 1994-95 Regions and Islands |(£000s) --------------------------------------------------------------Borders |96,686 Central |229,442 Dumfries and Galloway |136,603 Fife |291,319 Grampian |421,408 Highland |206,839 Lothian |599,587 Strathclyde |2,051,153 Tayside |343,594 Orkney |27,678 Shetland |28,823 Western Isles |43,266 |------- Total |4,476,400
GAE 1994-95 Districts |(£000s) --------------------------------------------Berwick |2,205 Ettrick and Lauderdale |4,020 Roxburgh |4,133 Tweeddale |1,758 Clackmannan |7,287 Falkirk |18,594 Stirling |12,854 Annandale and Eskdale |4,062 Nithsdale |6,765 Stewartry |2,870 Wigtown |3,567 Dunfermline |17,741 Kirkcaldy |20,110 North East Fife |10,182 Aberdeen |29,242 Banff and Buchan |11,813 Gordon |10,795 Kincardine and Deeside |7,138 Moray |11,947 Badenoch and Strathspey |1,561 Caithness |3,144 Inverness |7,559 Lochaber |2,520 Nairn |1,235 Ross and Cromarty |6,319 Skye and Lochalsh |1,688 Sutherland |1,897 East Lothian |12,184 Edinburgh |62,789 Midlothian |10,563 West Lothian |20,488 Argyll and Bute |10,306 Bearsden and Milngavie |5,523 Clydebank |5,549 Clydesdale |8,284 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |8,246 Cumnock and Doon Valley 5,866 Cunninghame |19,028 Dumbarton |10,336 East Kilbride |11,010 Eastwood |7,393 Glasgow |125,469 Hamilton |14,142 Inverclyde |11,910 Kilmarnock and Loudoun |10,510 Kyle and Carrick |15,778 Monklands |14,754 Motherwell |19,586 Renfrew |28,969 Strathkelvin |11,429 Angus |13,032 Dundee |25,747 Perth and Kinross |18,395 |----- Total |720,293 |----- All Scotland Total |5,196,693
Drinking Water
Mr. Kynoch : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what plans he has to publish a report on drinking water quality in Scotland in 1992 ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir Hector Monro : A report has been published today by the Scottish Office Environment Department which gives an overview of drinking water quality in Scotland in 1992. I have arranged for copies to be placed in the Library.
The report shows that drinking water quality in 1992 has improved since 1991 as a result of the action taken by authorities to deal with water quality problems. In 1992, 98.4 per cent. of all regulatory determinants met the prescribed standards compared with 98 per cent. in 1991. Reported data also showed that for 45 out of 55 numerical standards, 99.7 per cent. of analytical results complied ; this is very similar to the results achieved in 1991.
The failures to meet quality standards fully did not represent a risk to public health.
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Greater Glasgow Health Board
Mr. George Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he expects to answer the questions from the hon. Member for Hamilton relating to Greater Glasgow health board tabled for answer on 2 December.
Mr. Lang : The honourable Member's questions were answered on Wednesday 8 December-- Official Report, column 285 --and today, 14 December.
Intensive Care Units
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when the hon. Member for Glasgow, Maryhill may expect an answer to her questions for written answer on 1 December relating to intensive care units.
Mr. Stewart : The honourable Member's question was answered on 9 December 1993, column 353 .
Hunterston
Mr. Wilson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will arrange for documents held in the Scottish Record Office, currently subject to the 30-year rule, on the subject of steelwork and terminal facilities at Hunterston to be made available for early inspection.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 30 November 1993] : In accordance with the changes to the criteria governing the closure and retention of files announced in the White Paper on Open Government (Cm 2290), the files in question may be made available for inspection subject to prior approval on a file-by-file basis by the Scottish Office. Such access would also be subject to a commitment on the part of inquirer that any material extracted from the files would be cleared by the Department prior to its delivery, publication or broadcast.
Hospital Services, Glasgow
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the arrangement between Greater Glasgow health board and the Bon Secours hospital for the treatment of patients requiring non- urgent cosmetic surgery, with particular reference to determine (a) whether this work could have been done within the national health service, (b) how much Dr. Peter Summers will be paid, (c) how much the additional plastic surgeon in Canniesburn hospital will be paid, (d) what was the amount of the successful bid from Bon Secours hospital and what was the amount of the next lowest bid and (e) how many patients to be treated at Bon Secours are on Greater Glasgow's health board's waiting list, and how many from other health board areas.
Mr. Stewart [holding answer 6 December 1993] : The answers to points (a) and (e) are set out later. The other points raised over commercial arrangements between the Greater Glasgow health board and the provider. I have arranged for officials of the Scottish Office Home and Health Department to write to the chairman of Greater Glasgow health board to invite him to look into these issues and to respond direct to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Maryhill.
(a) Canniesburn hospital recruited an additional consultant plastic surgeon and would therefore be able to
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treat an extra 800 patients. However, to deliver the waiting time guarantees to all the long waiters more patients would need to be treated and therefore the board sought to establish whether other providers could meet this need. The pre-tendering stage of the competitive tendering exercise carried out by the Greater Glasgow health board attracted 43 expressions of interest from 25 private sector and 18 national health service would-be providers north and south of the border.(e) The number of patients for whom treatment has been secured under the contract with the Bon Secours Health System are as follows :
C Residents of |Number of Patients -------------------------------------------------------------------Greater Glasgow Health Board |309 Lanarkshire |144 Ayrshire and Arran |33 Argyll and Clyde |60 Forth Valley |19 Dumfries and Galloway |7 |--- Total |572
Mr. Laurence Peterken
Mr. George Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland on what date his Department was advised on the intention of Greater Glasgow health board to dismiss its general manager.
Mr. Lang [holding answer 2 December 1993] : Officials of the Scottish Office learned very late on 2 November that it appeared that Greater Glasgow health board had dismissed its general manager. Formal notification was received on 3 November 1993.
Mr. George Robertson : To ask the Secretary ofState for Scotland what payment has been offered toMr. Laurence Peterken in compensation for leaving Greater Glasgow health board prematurely ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lang [holding answer 2 December 1993] : No payment has been made to Mr. Peterken.
Mr. George Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland on what day Mr. Lawrence Peterken was offered a post with the national health service executive board.
Mr. Lang [holding answer 2 December 1993] : Mr. Laurence Peterken was offered the post of special projects director on 12 November 1993.
Court Hearings
Mr. McFall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proportion of initial hearings in (a) the Crown courts and (b) in sheriff courts were heard on the scheduled date and at the scheduled time in each year since 1985.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 9December 1993] : Among other performance targets, sheriff court staff are required to submit for the approval of their sheriff principal programmes which are designed to provide that the number of summary criminal trials adjourned due to lack of court time do not exceed 5 per
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cent. of the total number of trials set down. This target was introduced in 1988 ; and the percentage of sheriff courts meeting the target in the subsequent years is as follows :
|Per cent ----------------------------------------Year to 31 March 1989 |91 Year to 31 March 1990 |91 Year to 31 March 1991 |86 Year to 31 March 1992 |86 Year to 31 March 1993 |87
Information on performance against this and the other targets for the sheriff courts is published annually following the commitments given in the justice charter for Scotland.
Judges
Mr. McFall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what consideration is being given to methods of making the appointment of judges more open and democratic ; and if he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer 9 December 1993] : The procedures adopted for making judicial appointments are kept under constant review. These procedures are designed to identify in respect of each vacancy the best-fitted candidate. They were recently extended, on a trial basis, by inviting applications for two current vacancies on the shrieval bench through an intimation in the Scots Law Times .
Angling
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many persons are employed in angling-related occupations, including those employed in the manufacture and sale of angling equipment, hotels, river keepers, gillies and persons involved in sea angling ; how many (a) salmon and grilse, (b) sea trout, (c) brown and rainbow trout, (d) coarse fish and (e) sea fish were taken by anglers in each of the last three years for which figures are available ; and what is his estimate of the latest value of such items to the Scottish economy.
Sir Hector Monro [holding answer 9 December 1993] : The only statistics collected by my Department on these subjects relate to salmon and grilse, and sea trout. The rod and line catches over the last three years are as follows :
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|Salmon and Grilse|Sea trout ------------------------------------------------------------------------1990 |71,646 |27,830 1991 |62,450 |27,500 1992 |82,897 |34,315
An independent consultancy report prepared for the Scottish Tourist Board and the Highland and Islands Development Board in 1989 estimated that salmon angling and netting contributed £53 million to the Scottish economy annually and supported 3,800 full-time equivalent jobs.
Direct Service/Labour Organisations
Mr. George Robertson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will list, by authority, the surplus achieved since 1988 on trading accounts for (a) general highway work, (b) construction and maintenance of sewers, (c) works of new construction and (d) maintenance work delivered by direct service/labour organisations in Scotland ;
(2) if he will list, by authority, the surplus achieved since 1988 on trading accounts for (a) refuse collection, (b) street cleaning, (c) building cleaning, (d) schools and welfare catering, (e) other catering, (f) vehicle maintenance, (g) grounds maintenance and (h) sports and leisure management services delivered by direct service/labour organisations in Scotland; (3) if he will list by authority and service area, as defined by the Local Government Act 1988, the surpluses achieved by local authority direct service/labour organisations in Scotland; (4) if he will list by authority and service area, as defined by the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980, the surpluses achieved by local authority direct service/labour organisations in Scotland since 1988.
Mr. Lang [holding answer 3 December 1993] : The information requested for financial years before 1990-91 could be made available only at disproportionate cost. The information set out in table 1 to 3 show for the years 1990-91 and 1991-92 the surpluses/deficits reported for each activity to which compulsory competitive tendering relates in terms of both the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 and the Local Government Act 1988. For 1992-93 the figures provided reflect the reports for that year which have been received and processed.
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Surpluses on DLO/DSO activity in 1990-91 Local authority |New construction |New construction |Building maintenance|General highways |General water and |Refuse collection<1>|Building cleaning |Other cleaning<1> |School and welfare |Other catering |Ground maintenance |Vehicle maintenance |Leisure services |>£50,000 |<£50,000 |work |sewerage work |catering |management ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Aberdeen DC |- |- |966,479 |- |- |144,863 |12,571 |- |- |3,877 |745,816 |3,211 |- Angus DC |- |- |- |- |- |61,269 |- |41,694 |- |- |172,187 |33,578 |- Annandale and Eskdale DC |- |- |- |- |- |35,704 |- |10,247 |- |- |5,996 |- |- Argyll and Bute DC |- |- |-81,000 |- |- |4,000 |- |24,000 |- |- |6,000 |6,000 |- Badenoch and Strathspey DC |- |- |- |- |- |21,805 |- |- |- |- |23,888 |- |- Banff and Buchan DC |- |- |40,570 |- |- |10,730 |- |- |- |- |35,016 |10,985 |- Bearsden and Milngavie DC |- |- |8,501 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |16,184 |- |- Berwickshire DC |- |- |- |- |- |10,050 |- |42,652 |- |- |42,652 |- |- Borders RC |- |- |- |616,000 |- |- |81,000 |- |7,000 |- |- |15,000 |- Caithness DC |- |- |20,611 |- |- |79,041 |- |- |- |- |- |- |90,856 Central RC |-32,574 |- |95,238 |224,923 |-3,332 |- |- |- |150,839 |-17,156 |- |12,741 |- Clackmannan DC |- |- |97,000 |- |- |1,000 |4,000 |1,000 |- |- |12,000 |- |11,000 Clydebank DC |- |- |95,718 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- Clydesdale DC |- |- |-37,555 |- |- |- |- |13,585 |- |- |116,549 |- |- Cumbernauld and Kilsyth DC |- |- |36,686 |- |- |50,656 |- |- |- |- |14,020 |-38,495 |- Cumnock and Doon Valley DC |- |- |40,059 |- |- |38,418 |- |18,473 |- |- |3,659 |- |- Cunninghame DC |- |- |49,000 |- |- |17,850 |402 |13,248 |- |- |3,870 |- |- Dumbarton DC |- |- |327,855 |- |- |75,098 |-7,299 |- |- |- |34,442 |- |- Dumfries and Galloway RC |- |- |-50,075 |-408,666 |- |- |- |- |47,000 |- |23,000 |48,000 |- Dundee DC |12,116 |108,901 |206,961 |- |- |- |2,669 |- |- |- |366,147 |- |- Dunfermline DC |- |- |- |- |- |214,631 |- |- |- |- |413,462 |100,458 |- East Kilbride DC |- |- |- |- |- |73,749 |- |84,529 |- |- |20,661 |- |- East Lothian DC |- |- |89,923 |- |- |- |-3 |96,813 |- |- |33,574 |- |- Eastwood DC |- |- |- |- |- |18,413 |84,563 |64,265 |- |- |14,058 |- |- Edinburgh DC |- |- |158,026 |- |- |- |43,810 |165,799 |- |9,154 |106,959 |161,490 |- Ettrick and Lauderdale DC |- |- |97,815 |- |- |- |- |21,447 |- |- |51,600 |- |- Falkirk DC |- |- |85,000 |- |- |25,000 |3,000 |9,000 |- |- |84,000 |10,000 |- Fife RC |9,000 |9,000 |398,000 |1,286,000 |37,000 |- |56,000 |- |630,000 |- |- |24,000 |- Glasgow DC |- |159,277 |7,134,357 |- |- |256,168 |11,320 |105,664 |- |- |169,741 |- |- Gordon DC |- |- |- |- |- |11,000 |- |23,000 |- |- |55,000 |- |- Grampian RC |- |- |- |955,000 |57,000 |- |- |- |- |158,000 |18,000 |8,000 |- Hamilton DC |- |- |-770,649 |- |- |- |260 |- |- |- |13,618 |- |- Highland RC |- |- |- |1,132,738 |- |- |88,106 |- |364,081 |- |-84,375 |- |- Inverclyde DC |- |- |242,712 |- |- |32,533 |- |38,233 |- |- |3,311 |-7,521 |- Inverness DC |- |- |78,221 |- |- |134,725 |- |73,045 |- |- |-10,494 |-1,740 |- Kilmarnock and Loudon DC |- |- |191,542 |- |- |52,323 |3,442 |25,735 |- |135 |31,270 |- |- Kincardine and Deeside DC |- |- |- |- |- |-2,484 |- |- |- |- |76,172 |- |- Kirkcaldy DC |- |- |-234,472 |- |- |25,511 |947 |12,757 |- |- |94,728 |58,367 |- Kyle and Carrick DC |- |- |151,699 |- |- |12,803 |- |- |- |- |20,879 |17,848 |- Lochaber DC |- |- |33,210 |- |- |25,664 |- |25,664 |- |- |2,759 |- |- Lothian RC |- |- |36,932 |473,113 |196,077 |- |76,048 |- |50,013 |6,203 |- |36,346 |- Midlothian DC |- |- |108,000 |- |- |133,000 |- |- |- |- |159,000 |- |- Monklands DC |- |- |57,690 |- |- |27,798 |19,025 |- |- |- |5,631 |5,238 |- Moray DC |- |- |405,564 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-122,476 |- |- Motherwell DC |- |- |52,128 |- |- |- |- |313,937 |- |2,809 |56,787 |39,537 |- Nairn DC |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- Nithsdale DC |- |- |97,976 |- |- |1 |- |1 |- |- |2 |- |- North East Fife DC |- |- |30,000 |- |- |16,000 |- |- |- |- |72,000 |- |- Orkney IC |- |10,000 |-47,000 |331,000 |51,000 |3,000 |165,000 |- |81,000 |- |- |- |- Perth and Kinross DC |- |- |112,175 |- |- |- |29,696 |- |- |- |48,878 |0 |- Renfrew DC |- |- |1,157,272 |- |- |57,987 |- |44,510 |- |- |86,718 |21,106 |- Ross and Cromarty DC |- |- |57,000 |- |- |21,000 |- |- |- |- |19,000 |- |- Roxburgh DC |- |- |21,000 |- |- |11,642 |- |2,067 |- |- |16,059 |- |- Shetland IC |- |- |53,000 |180,000 |- |- |-13,000 |- |44,000 |- |- |19,000 |- Skye and Lochalsh DC |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- Stewartry DC |- |- |- |- |- |41,556 |- |- |- |- |37,226 |- |- Stirling DC |- |- |70,700 |- |- |25,000 |- |9,600 |- |- |-7,005 |2,300 |- Strathclyde RC |109,518 |7,530 |544,269 |534,861 |35,350 |- |84,983 |- |725,277 |122,617 |27,640 |182,590 |- Strathkelvin DC |- |- |205,692 |- |- |32,824 |- |32,824 |- |- |-58,708 |- |- Sutherland DC |- |- |- |- |- |20,281 |- |- |- |- |19,533 |- |- Tayside RC |- |- |5,000 |652,000 |- |- |110,000 |- |473,000 |- |- |14,000 |- Tweeddale DC |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- Western Isles IC |- |- |801,554 |116,619 |- |37,697 |- |- |- |6,367 |35,144 |22,475 |- West Lothian DC |- |- |159,867 |- |- |13,886 |- |13,886 |- |- |20,829 |2,190 |- Wigtown DC |- |- |99,473 |- |- |- |- |21,415 |- |- |37,598 |- |- Cumbernauld NT |- |- |48,000 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |13,000 |- |- East Kilbride NT |- |- |-385,000 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- Glenrothes NT |- |- |115,000 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |105,000 |- |- Irvine NT |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |27,192 |- |- Livingston NT |- |- |109,000 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |5,000 |- |- <1>The accounts for refuse collection and other cleaning may have been combined by some authorities. The absence of an entry, therefore, does not necessarily indicate that the DSO has not carried out the activity in question.
Surpluses on DLO/DSO |Local authority |New construction |New construction |Building maintenance|General highways |General water and |Refuse collection<1>|Building cleaning |Other cleaning<1> |School and welfare |Other catering |Ground maintenance |Vehicle maintenance activity in 1991-92 |>£50,000 |<£50,000 |work |sewerage work |catering ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Aberdeen DC |- |- |1,240,282 |- |- |101,713 |5,671 |- |- |9,191 |472,132 |80,453 |- Angus DC |- |- |- |- |- |89,219 |10,672 |37,640 |- |- |109,475 |11,859 |14,377 Annandale and Eskdale DC |- |- |- |- |- |28,699 |- |-24,223 |- |- |86,580 |- |11,195 Argyll and Bute DC |- |- |0 |- |- |52,000 |- |10,000 |- |- |22,000 |17,000 |4,000 Badenoch and Strathspey DC |- |- |- |- |- |17,089 |- |- |- |- |7,574 |- |- Banff and Buchan DC |- |- |50,734 |- |- |53,714 |2,863 |- |- |- |62,133 |18,877 |- Bearsden and Milngavie DC |- |- |-17,095 |- |- |-66,295 |- |-66,295 |- |- |-65,097 |- |- Berwickshire DC |- |- |- |- |- |48,897 |- |42,686 |- |- |42,686 |- |403 Borders RC |- |- |- |649,000 |- |- |72,000 |- |24,000 |- |- |42,000 |- Caithness DC |- |- |28,479 |- |- |119,835 |- |- |- |- |- |- |116,623 Central RC |6,586 |1,759 |230,783 |209,555 |32,766 |- |- |- |230,645 |11,272 |- |60,947 |- Clackmannan DC |- |- |76,000 |- |- |65,000 |- |- |- |- |33,000 |-2,000 |- Clydebank DC |- |- |115,192 |- |- |36,907 |- |- |- |- |140,922 |- |50,182 Clydesdale DC |- |- |-9,742 |- |- |6,727 |-12,633 |9,012 |- |- |48,621 |- |33,289 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth DC |- |- |43,191 |- |- |4,811 |- |- |- |- |37,480 |930 |21,602 Cumnock and Doon Valley DC |- |- |35,329 |- |- |112,724 |- |33,636 |- |- |5,961 |- |1,790 Cunninghame DC |- |- |217,000 |- |- |16,828 |15,868 |26,455 |- |- |55,954 |20,016 |9,808 Dumbarton DC |- |- |-119,072 |- |- |96,117 |-66,438 |7,377 |- |- |93,801 |- |32,798 Dumfries and Galloway RC |- |- |-102,137 |261,756 |- |- |- |- |108,000 |- |66,000 |69,000 |- Dundee DC |2,922 |17,314 |666,002 |- |- |146,472 |2,583 |25,572 |- |- |144,046 |- |58,785 Dunfermline DC |75,219 |38,453 |192,741 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- East Kilbride DC |- |- |- |- |- |125,871 |- |100,161 |- |- |32,372 |- |20,000 East Lothian DC |- |- |44,963 |- |- |161,680 |4,916 |- |- |- |115,216 |- |47,085 Eastwood DC |- |- |- |- |- |28,045 |81,042 |49,921 |- |- |6,074 |- |12,812 Edinburgh DC |- |- |-708,635 |- |- |45,693 |66,747 |48,329 |- |23 |56,041 |69,707 |45,426 Ettrick and Lauderdale DC |- |- |124,107 |- |- |- |- |60,560 |- |- |46,115 |- |64,794 Falkirk DC |- |- |150,000 |- |- |66,000 |5,000 |114,000 |- |- |28,000 |9,000 |3,000 Fife RC |5,000 |6,000 |372,000 |279,000 |- |- |33,000 |- |517,000 |- |- |101,000 |- Glasgow DC |- |9,789 |9,021,124 |- |- |1,061,873 |53,000 |466,561 |- |71,402 |1,851,214 |96,497 |257,620 Gordon DC |- |- |- |- |- |17,000 |- |23,000 |- |- |47,000 |- |- Grampian RC |- |- |- |431,000 |21,000 |- |- |43,000 |130,000 |12,000 |99,000 |191,000 |- Hamilton DC |- |- |244,114 |- |- |179,149 |392 |- |- |- |110,187 |- |128,153 Highland RC |- |- |- |1,227,229 |- |- |159,011 |- |289,080 |- |- |301,341 |- Inverclyde DC |- |- |208,530 |- |- |44,196 |- |40,074 |- |- |58,563 |34,949 |21,371 Inverness DC |- |- |270,135 |- |- |219,186 |- |49,426 |- |- |143,900 |55,362 |31,815 Kilmarnock and Loudon DC |- |- |166,413 |- |- |104,776 |966 |54,970 |- |4,337 |15,344 |44,102 |9,019 Kincardine and Deeside DC |- |- |- |- |- |-13,113 |- |- |- |- |1,781 |- |7,367 Kirkcaldy DC |- |- |-563,702 |- |- |65,767 |799 |25,693 |- |- |397,708 |98,926 |- Kyle and Carrick DC |- |- |163,002 |- |- |23,338 |- |- |- |- |65,640 |19,826 |- Lochaber DC |- |- |87,262 |- |- |21,433 |- |21,433 |- |- |12,716 |- |11,745 Lothian RC |- |- |2,699 |504,004 |242,555 |- |- |- |417,701 |6,329 |- |59,310 |- Midlothian DC |- |- |26,000 |- |- |- |- |73,000 |- |- |246,000 |55,000 |3,000 Monklands DC |- |- |64,023 |- |- |31,248 |7,855 |8,826 |- |- |90,129 |61,845 |6,745 Moray DC |- |- |290,338 |- |- |37,885 |- |27,558 |- |- |33,923 |42,823 |- Motherwell DC |- |- |233,701 |- |- |- |1,207 |500,293 |- |7,224 |91,514 |91,670 |0 Nairn DC |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- Nithsdale DC |- |- |-21,364 |- |- |1 |- |1 |- |- |2 |- |1 North East Fife DC |- |- |-176,000 |- |- |-24,000 |- |38,000 |- |- |49,000 |- |- Orkney IC |- |-16,000 |219,000 |89,000 |-30,000 |-6,000 |101,000 |- |- |70,000 |- |14,000 |- Perth and Kinross DC |- |- |30,207 |- |- |17,473 |23,767 |128,524 |- |- |- |30,750 |41,927 Renfrew DC |- |- |1,155,000 |- |- |332,000 |- |45,000 |-18,000 |- |105,000 |51,000 |66,000 Ross and Cromarty DC |- |- |65,000 |- |- |14,000 |- |- |- |- |60,000 |- |10,673 Roxburgh DC |- |- |13,000 |- |- |11,695 |- |4,931 |- |- |76,408 |2,153 |- Shetland IC |- |- |87,000 |573,000 |- |3,000 |22,000 |- |69,000 |- |1,000 |55,000 |- Skye and Lochalsh DC |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- Stewartry DC |- |- |- |- |- |46,614 |46,614 |46,614 |- |- |35,984 |- |- Stirling DC |- |- |105,200 |- |- |79,900 |4,400 |16,500 |- |- |-245,779 |-670 |2,703 Strathclyde RC |3,786 |11,626 |1,306,797 |493,058 |59,180 |- |811,218 |- |470,820 |21,601 |395,144 |124,699 |- Strathkelvin DC |- |- |118,602 |- |- |114,356 |- |- |- |- |37,670 |- |58,727 Sutherland DC |- |- |- |- |- |11,536 |- |- |- |- |12,218 |- |244 Tayside RC |- |- |143,000 |649,000 |- |- |12,000 |- |170,000 |- |- |134,000 |- Tweeddale DC |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- Western Isles IC |- |- |260,443 |215,408 |- |120,433 |39,037 |120,433 |- |- |38,259 |84,673 |- West Lothian DC |- |- |104,129 |- |- |59,606 |- |59,606 |- |- |160,790 |1,909,000 |28,302 Wigtown DC |- |- |228,159 |- |- |- |- |36,530 |- |- |71,321 |- |42,333 Cumbernauld NT |- |- |49,000 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |21,000 |- |- East Kilbride NT |- |- |85,000 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- Glenrothes NT |- |- |25,000 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |105,000 |- |- Irvine NT |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |36,754 |- |- Livingston NT |- |- |60,000 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |51,000 |- |- <1>The accounts for refuse collection and other cleaning may have been combined by some authorities. The absence of an entry, therefore, does not necessarily indicate that the DSO has not carried out the activity in question.
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Insolvencies of Enterprises in the United Kingdom United KinEngland and Wales(00Scotland Northern Ireland Total UnitPer cent. Insolvenciess [NL] |(1) |(2) |(1) |(3) |(1) |(2) 1986 |2,481 |14,405 |7,093 |511 |437 |132 |193 |22,771 |0.92 1987 |n/a |11,439 |6,994 |456 |808 |165 |135 |19,997 |n/a 1988 |2,806 |9,427 |7,717 |396 |1,401 |116 |162 |19,219 |0.68 1989 |2,888 |10,456 |8,138 |428 |2.301 |144 |238 |21,705 |0.75 1990 |2,834 |15,051 |12,058 |470 |4,350 |128 |286 |32,343 |1.14 1991 |2,696 |21,827 |22,632 |616 |7,665 |181 |366 |53,287 |1.98 1992 |n/a |24,425 |32,106 |670 |10,845 |173 |404 |68,623 |n/a (1) Company compulsory liquidations and creditors' voluntary liquidations. (2) Individual bankruptcy orders. Note that a minority of personal bankruptcies do not relate to insolvencies of enterprises. (3) Sequestrations (equivalent in Scottish law to bankruptcy orders).
Local Government Reorganisation
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the representations received from Ayrshire following the publication of his proposal to split the county
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into two parts in his reorganisation of local government under those who (a) support his proposal, (b) support an all Ayrshire authority and (c) support another option.Mr. Stewart [holding answer 6 December 1993] : Since publication of the White Paper "Shaping the Future--The
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New Councils", a total of 43 representations about the restructuring proposals for Ayrshire have been received. One has supported the White Paper proposal ; 18 a single Ayrshire authority ; 12 other options ; and 12 have expressed concern over the proposal without stating a preference.Forestry
Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what discussions have been held during the past four months between the Secretary to the interdepartmental review group on the Forestry Commission and representatives of wood processing companies ; what has been the context of these discussions ; and what indications have been given to those companies about future contracts.
Sir Hector Monro [holding answer 13 December 1993 : Members of the Forestry Review Group have, from time to time, met
representatives of a variety of organisations which have interests of relevance to its work. In many cases, these discussions have been held on a confidential basis at the request of the organisations.
NHS Trusts
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make it his policy to collect information on the political affiliation of appointees to national health service trusts.
Mr. Lang [holding answer 10 December 1993] : No. Such information has no relevance to the contribution of appointees to the work of NHS trusts, although I did invite the leaders of all the Scottish parliamentary parties in July 1992 to submit nominations for trust membership.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Enterprise Allowance Scheme
Mr. Cousins : To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether rules allow for an enterprise allowance to be granted to an applicant who also takes up a loan guarantee scheme loan.
Mr. McLoughlin : No national restrictions exist to prevent applicants from receiving assistance under both schemes.
Tributyl Trioxide
Mr. Cousins : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what was the quantity and value of imports, exports and re-exports of tributyl trioxide into, and from, the United Kingdom in the year of the risk benefit study.
Mr. Sainsbury : The information requested is not available as TBTO is not separately identified in the classification of overseas trade statistics.
Innovation Unit
Mr. Cousins : To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he intends to maintain a post of chief adviser on science and technology ; and to which official he intends the innovation unit to report.
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Mr. Heseltine : I will make an announcement in due course.
Communications Technologies
Sir Donald Thompson : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what research the Government have conducted on self-trunking technologies in radio communications with a view to requiring less burdensome individual regulations.
Mr. McLoughlin : The Government recognise the value of self-trunking technology in radiocommunications particularly as this could reduce the need for individual frequency assignments. A number of existing standards-- such as CT2--cordless telephones--DECT--digital European cordless telecommunications--and DSRR--digital short range radio--are based on self- trunking principles.
There are technical problems associated with the use of self-trunking for longer range services. The Radio-communications Agency has undertaken studies on the application of self-trunking for private mobile radio services and further work is being commissioned as part of the agency's programme of research to promote efficient use of the radio spectrum.
Sir Donald Thompson : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will make a statement on the progress which has been made towards eliminating the need for licences in the case of low-power radio devices.
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