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Mr. Scott : The latest available information is in the table.
|Invalidity Benefit |Percentage of
|recipients aged 45 |Invalidity Benefit
|and over receiving |recipients by gender
|invalidity
|allowance<1>
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Male |232,000 |22
Female |113,000 |30
Notes:
<1>Based on a 1 per cent. sample of claimants in Great Britain at 4 April
1992, the latest date for which figures are available. Figures are
rounded to the nearest thousand.
<2>Figures do not include people whose entitlement to invalidity
allowance is wholly offset by payment of additional pension.
Child Support
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will give details of the changes in targets on savings in benefits paid to parents with care following his recent announcement on changes to the Child Support Act 1991.
Mr. Burt : The changes will have an effect on benefit savings this year, but it is too early to be precise about the impact. We do not intend to alter the target at this stage in the year.
Statutory Sick Pay
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what assessment he has made of the impact of the changes to statutory sick pay provision upon his departmental budget for the financial year 1994-95.
Mr. Scott : The abolition of the 80 per cent. statutory sick pay reimbursement rate will be offset, at least in part, by a reduction in employers' national insurance contributions. Any additional costs will be absorbed within the Department's existing running costs baseline.
Age-related Rebates
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security on what date he issued the consultative document on age-related rebates ; what time scale he laid down for responses ; and which bodies and organisations were consulted on the document.
Mr. Hague : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for South Hams (Mr. Steen) on 10 December 1993 at column 408. Several hundred copies of the consultation document have been issued to a wide variety of interested organisations and individuals.
Contributions Agency
Mr. Jacques Arnold : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans the Contributions Agency has for improved standards of service to employers.
Mr. Hague : The Contributions Agency today published a revised employers charter setting out the new improved standards of service employers can now expect. It incorporates the code for enforcement that all enforcement agencies were committed to publish as part of the Department of Trade and Industry's "Working with Business" initiative. Copies are available in the Library.
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EMPLOYMENT
Access to Work Scheme
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment who would own equipment jointly purchased by employers and the Government for disabled employees under the access to work proposals ; and what advice will be issued to companies by his Department on (a) the declaration of equipment purchasing within the audited accounts of companies and (b) arrangements for insuring equipment.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : In reaching final decisions about these and other details of the access to work scheme, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my noble Friend Lord Henley are considering carefully all the representations made by the disability and employer groups whom they have recently met. Our aims, in relation to the issues raised by the hon. Member, will be to ensure that we have arrangements that do not inhibit the movement of people with disabilities into and between jobs and to ensure that procedures are simple and non-bureaucratic.
Mr. Nigel Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make the levy upon employers within his access-to-work proposals dependent on the allocated budget being fully spent after one year of the new scheme.
Mr. Thurnham : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what steps will be taken by his Department to encourage employers to make the contributions expected of them under the proposed access-to-work scheme.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : In reaching final decisions about the details of the access to work scheme, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my noble Friend Lord Henley are considering carefully a range of representations made by disability and employer groups including representations about the proposed employer contribution. My right hon. Friend hopes to announce decisions soon.
Social Policies (EC Budget)
Mr. Cash : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his policy on the provision of public money via the European Community budget to promote social policies through the Trades Union Congress which are incompatible with the policies of Her Majesty's Government.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The Government are opposed to such subsidies and are considering what steps can be taken to restrict them.
European Year of Older People
Mr. Bowden : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) what contribution his Department made to the European Year of Older People and Solidarity between Generations in terms of financial support, practical support for particular events, and the provision of information ;
(2) in which programmes and events for the European Year of Older People and Solidarity between Generations he has been directly involved.
Miss Widdecombe : To mark the end of the European Year of Older People and Solidarity Between Generations
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my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Minister of State joined colleagues at a meeting of the EC Social Affairs Council in November in issuing a declaration of principles confirming the commitment of member states to integrating older people into all areas of the life of the Community.Throughout the year, Ministers and officials from the Employment Department supported appropriate events, including that on "Investing in Older People at Work" staged by the Health Education Authority in October. In December, I spoke at an international symposium in Dublin on the implications of our ageing population for the work force. I told delegates of the work of my Advisory Group on Older Workers to persuade employers of the benefits of treating everyone on merit, regardless of age. I described our "Getting On" campaign which offers employers a five-point plan to avoid ageism. I also took the opportunity to challenge the European Commission to end its practice of excluding anyone over the age of 35 from applying to work with it or its institutions.
Office Heating Bills
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his answer of 15 December, Official Report, columns 737-38, in what form information in respect of heating bills for his Department's offices is available.
Miss Widdecombe : The Employment Department group occupies some 1, 500 buildings nationally. Where the Department is billed direct, which is in the majority of cases, we hold records of electricity, gas and fuel consumption from April 1990 for individual offices. In the remaining offices these costs are part of an overall service charge and details are not available.
There is no mechanism for identifying separately the cost of heating the Department's offices.
Abattoirs
Mr. Morley : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were employed in abattoirs in each year since 1979.
Miss Widdecombe : The available information on employees in employment in abattoirs is from the periodic censuses of employment and is given in the table :
Number of Employees in employment in Abattoirs<1> in Great Britain, September of each year Year |Number --------------------- 1981 |10,100 1984 |9,900 1987 |11,200 1989 |10,400 1991 |10,400 <1> Activity Heading 4121 of the Standard Industrial Classification 1980.
Training
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide a regional breakdown of the number of participants on work- related Government training programmes in each year since 1979 ; and if he will give the figure as a percentage of the total regional civilian work force in each such year.
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Miss Widdecombe : The information is available from June 1983, and can be obtained from the NOMIS database in the Library.
Astra
Mr. Patrick Thompson : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what response he has made to representations to extend preferential reinstatement arrangements for staff employed by Astra.
Miss Widdecombe : In the light of the representations I have received, I have extended for a further year the previous arrangements to give staff employed in the Skills Training Agency immediately before its sale to the private sector preferential consideration for reinstatement in the Employment Department group.
Health and Safety
Mr. Barron : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment to what extent the Health and Safety Commission has been able under the auspices of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 to rationalise or modernise substantial areas of health and safety law.
Mr. Michael Forsyth [holding answer 11 January 1994] : Since 1975, the Health and Safety Commission--HSC--using the powers given to it under the 1974 Act has proposed changes endorsed by Ministers which have led to the replacement of around 350 sets of old-style prescriptive sets of regulations with some 100 sets of modern goal-setting ones. This is a substantial programme of achievement, although the Government share the Commission's view that there is scope for simplifying legislation and reducing red tape.
However, the powers in the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 are technically deficient and do not allow for regulations to make revocations or repeals of pre-1974 provisions unless they are directly replaced by new requirements in the same set of regulations.
The HSC has requested an amendment to the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 to permit repeals and revocations without direct replacement where it is satisfied that the overall system of regulations and approved codes of practice in modern legislation properly safeguards standards of health and safety.
Mr. Barron : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment when the Health and Safety Executive draft publication "The Cost to the British Economy of Work Accidents and Work-Related Ill Health" will be published.
Mr. Michael Forsyth [holding answer 11 January 1994] : "The Cost to the British Economy of Work Accidents and Work Related Ill Health", a technical companion to the "Cost of Accidents" report, published in January 1993, is to be published on 9 February.
AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Dr. Strang : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many cases of BSE were confirmed in the United Kingdom for each month of 1992 and 1993 in cattle that were (a) under two years of age, (b)
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aged two to three years, (c) aged three to four years, (d) aged four to five years, (e) aged five to six years, (f) aged six to seven years and (g) aged seven or more years.Mrs. Gillian Shephard : I shall write to the hon. Member with the information and arrange for a copy of my letter to be placed in the Library of the House.
Dr. Strang : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many cases of BSE were confirmed in the United Kingdom for each year from 1985 in cattle that were (a) under two years of age, (b) aged two to three years, (c) aged three to four years, (d) aged four to five years, (e) aged five to six years, (f) aged six to seven years and (g) aged seven or more years.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : I shall write to the hon. Member with the information and arrange for a copy of my letter to be placed in the Library of the House.
Dr. Strang : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many cases of BSE were (a) confirmed, (b) reported and (c) slaughtered in the United Kingdom for each month of 1992 and 1993.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : I shall write to the hon. Member with the information and arrange for a copy of my letter to be placed in the Library of the House.
Dr. Strang : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how much money was spent by the Government in respect of BSE on (a) research, (b) slaughter, (c) compensation and (d) disposal of carcases for each year since 1985 to the latest available date.
Mrs. Gillian Shephard : The amounts spent by this Ministey in respect of BSE in Great Britain for the areas requested are as follows :
|Miscellaneous<1>|Compensation<2> |Research<3>
|(Financial year)
£ million |£ million |£ million |£ million
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1987 |0.2
1988 |0.2 |0.5 |0.3
1989 |1.6 |2.8 |1.0
1990 |4.1 |9.1 |3.1
1991 |7.2 |16.3 |4.9
1992 |10.2 |29.2 |5.7
1993 |9.5 |38.1 |6.1
<1>This includes all expenditure involved in the slaughter,
transportation, storage and disposal of carcasses of cattle suspected
of being affected by BSE.
<2>The compulsory slaughter of suspects with compensation was
introduced in August 1988.
<3>Separate figures on R and D expenditure on BSE before April 1987
are not readily available. The disease was first identified in 1986.
Milk Industry
Mrs. Peacock : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what has been done by the Government to promote a level playing field in the development of competition following the decision to abolish the Milk Marketing Board ; and what methods have been employed by the Milk Marketing Board in establishing Milk Marque as its successor.
Mr. Jack : The Government's actions in respect of the proposed changes to the marketing of milk are guided by the provisions of the Agriculture Act 1993. The Milk
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Marketing Board has proposed that Milk Marque should be established as its successor body. We have received reports of concern from outside bodies regarding the methods employed by Milk Marketing Board, Genus and National Milk Record staff to persuade producers to sign contracts with Milk Marque.Food Expenditure
Sir Ralph Howell : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what was the percentage of average income spent on food in (a) the United Kingdom, (b)
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France, (c) Germany and (d) the United States of America for each five-year period since 1965 and for the third quarter of 1993.Mr. Jack : Information is not available for all four countries for the whole of the period referred to nor in the precise form requested. Details of household expenditure on food as a proportion, first, of total household expenditure on goods and services and secondly, of the total income of households and private unincorporated enterprises for five-year periods from 1966 to 1990 and for the latest available periods are shown in the table.
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Household
expenditure on food
and non-alcoholic
beverages<1> as a
percentage of:
1. Household 2. Total current
expenditure on all receipts (ie
goods and services income) of
households and
private
unincorporated
enterprises
|United |France |Germany<2>|United |United |France |Germany<2>|United
|Kingdom |States<3> |Kingdom |States
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1966 to 1970 |21.2 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
1971 to 1975 |18.9 |19.8 |25.4 |14.3 |13.1 |12.4 |14.5 |10.2
1976 to 1980 |18.1 |18.0 |22.9 |13.2 |12.3 |10.6 |13.0 |9.3
1981 to 1985 |15.3 |17.7 |21.7 |11.5 |10.4 |10.4 |12.3 |8.0
1986 to 1990 |12.7 |16.6 |20.2 |10.1 |8.7 |10.0 |11.2 |7.2
1991 |12.3 |16.2 |19.6 |9.9 |8.1 |9.7 |10.8 |7.1
1992 |12.1 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
1993 Q1 |11.9 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
1993 Q2 |11.7 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
1993 Q3 |11.5 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Notes:
<1> Excludes expenditure in restaurants, cafes and hotels.
<2> Includes expenditure on alcoholic beverages and in restaurants and cafes.
<3> Includes expenditure by private non-profit making institutions.
Sources: OECD National Accounts, CSO National Accounts (Blue Book).
Cereal Production
Sir Ralph Howell : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what has been the change in (a) tonnage and (b) percentage terms in cereal production between 1992 and 1993 in (i) the United Kingdom, (ii) the United States of America and (iii) the European Union as a whole.
Mr. Jack : Final estimates for the 1993 harvest in the United Kingdom will be known only when the results of the April cereal production survey become available in May 1994. A similar situation exists in other countries.
The current estimates are shown in the table.
Estimated cereal production
(thousand tonnes)
|1992 |1993 |Change |Percentage
|change
------------------------------------------------------------------------
United Kingdom |22,063 |19,607 |-2,456 |-11.1
United States of
America<1> |344,700 |262,100 |-82,600 |-24.0
European Union |168,059 |164,061 |-3,998 |-2.4
<1> The figures are taken from the latest IWC grain market report-30
November 1993-and do not include rice production. The 1992
figure is an estimate and that for 1993 is a forecast.
Crop Spraying
Ms Walley : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what proposals she has to tighten controls on tractor spraying to bring them into line with aerial spraying ; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Soames : In May 1993 the pesticides safety directorate consulted interested parties on proposed
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amendments to the Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986 including a new provision requiring any person who uses a pesticide to confine the pesticide to the land, crop, structure, material or other area to be treated. This would effectively extend the existing provision on aerial spraying to all methods of use. The proposed amendments are being considered in the light of comments received with a view to laying a statutory instrument before the House in the near future.Radioactive Waters
Mrs. Anne Campbell : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when the aquatic environment monitoring report on "Radioactivity in Surface and Coastal Waters of the British Isles 1991" will be published.
Mr. Jack : The report "Radioactivity in Surface and Coastal Waters of the British Isles 1991" was published in February 1993. The subsequent edition, with the results of monitoring undertaken in 1992, was published on 6 January 1994. Copies of both reports are in the Library.
Cake Wood
Mr. Rendel : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what plans her Department has to sell off the part of Cake wood which is owned by the Forestry Commission under its current disposals programme.
Mr. Jack : No decision has been taken to sell any part of Cake wood under the Forestry Commission's disposals programme.
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EC Surplus Beef
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will list for each of the metropolitan boroughs of South Yorkshire the designated organisation allowed to distribute surplus beef released by the European Community ; and what has been the response to date.
Mr. Jack : A list of all organisations in the United Kingdom that have been designated to distribute canned beef under the EC surplus food scheme in 1993-94 is available in the Library. The 28 organisations designated in south Yorkshire have so far received allocations for over 100,000 eligible people. It is for the organisations to arrange distributions which best reflect their circumstances.
Statutory Sick Pay
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessment she has made of the impact of the changes to statutory sick pay provision upon her departmental budget for the financial year 1994-95.
Mr. Jack : The abolition of the 80 per cent. statutory sick pay reimbursement rate will be offset, at least in part, by a reduction in employers' national insurance contributions. Any additional costs will be absorbed within the Department's existing running costs baseline.
Agricultural Imports
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what has been the value of imports (a) into the United Kingdom and (b) into the EU of agricultural products analysed by suitable category of product from (i) Russia, (ii) Hungary and (iii) Czechoslovakia in each of the three most recent years for which figures are available.
Mr. Jack : The value of imports into the United Kingdom is shown in table 1 in thousands of pounds while those for imports into the member states of the European Community are shown in table 2 in thousands of ecus.
Data for the whole of 1993 are not yet available. Prior to 1993 no separate data were collected for Russia.
Value of imports to United Kingdom from countries listed1990 (£'000) Division |Former USSR |Hungary |Czechoslovakia --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00 |56 |53 |75 01 |- |2,667 |383 02 |- |- |- 03 |14,291 |8 |27 04 |33 |81 |- 05 |178 |8,156 |877 06 |- |243 |105 07 |2,185 |122 |91 08 |285 |1,324 |171 09 |- |25 |- 11 |1,021 |2,903 |1,039 22 |187 |240 |- Section 4 |193 |53 |8
Value of imports to United Kingdom from countries listed 1991 (£'000) Division |Former USSR |Hungary |Czechoslovakia --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00 |73 |89 |14 01 |- |1,334 |116 02 |0 |6 |1 03 |12,077 |1 |57 04 |29 |141 |- 05 |50 |6,419 |614 06 |138 |28 |95 07 |32 |145 |68 08 |230 |467 |48 09 |3 |94 |- 11 |875 |3,779 |1,592 22 |620 |295 |- Section 4 |475 |906 |613
Value of imports to United Kingdom from countries listed 1992 (£'000) Division |Former USSR |Hungary |Czechoslovakia --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00 |47 |50 |118 01 |36 |2,394 |- 02 |- |1 |- 03 |22,556 |72 |58 04 |20 |68 |7 05 |43 |6,415 |696 06 |6 |21 |118 07 |20 |83 |65 08 |131 |435 |- 09 |- |51 |- 11 |992 |5,471 |2,341 22 |747 |255 |4 Section 4 |6 |806 |20 Data Source: Central Statistical Office-MA 20. Code Definitions: 00 Live animals other than those in 03' definition. 01 Meat and meat preparations. 02 Dairy products and birds' eggs. 03 Fish-not marine animals-crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic invertebrates and preparations thereof. 04 Cereals and cereal preparations. 05 Vegetables and fruit. 06 Sugar, sugar preparations and honey. 07 Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices, and manufactures thereof. 08 Feeding stuff for animals-excluding unmilled cereals. 09 Miscellaneous edibile products and preparations. 11 Beverages. 22 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruit. 4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes.
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Imports to the EC from the former Soviet Union in 1990
(thousand ECU)
Codes |EC 12 |France |Belgium/ |Netherlands|FR Germany |Italy |United |Ireland |Denmark |Greece |Portugal |Spain
|Total |Luxembourg |Kingdom
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00 |10,196 |12 |0 |492 |1,040 |8,250 |88 |0 |313 |0 |0 |1
01 |231 |17 |88 |8 |0 |5 |0 |40 |0 |70 |0 |3
02 |3,322 |430 |1,860 |740 |262 |0 |0 |0 |30 |0 |0 |0
03 |127,669 |24,370 |2,843 |6,230 |9,377 |3,634 |20,069 |5 |32,340 |296 |6,241 |22,264
04 |651 |0 |343 |32 |150 |0 |123 |0 |3 |0 |0 |0
05 |18,649 |946 |603 |649 |11,852 |2,558 |384 |0 |294 |749 |0 |614
06 |6,313 |0 |1 |880 |5,179 |0 |0 |0 |253 |0 |0 |0
07 |424 |8 |12 |87 |192 |0 |118 |0 |7 |0 |0 |0
08 |1,114 |7 |0 |175 |48 |0 |400 |0 |1 |0 |51 |432
09 |280 |12 |9 |146 |19 |18 |63 |0 |0 |0 |0 |13
11 |25,523 |818 |438 |869 |16,663 |1,687 |1,557 |31 |90 |2,364 |25 |981
22 |7,593 |3 |931 |896 |2,723 |1,079 |258 |0 |4 |1,418 |0 |281
4 |6,212 |814 |2,186 |1,838 |1,330 |35 |9 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
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Imports to the EC from the former Soviet Union in 1991
(thousands ECU)
Codes |EC 12 |France |Belgium/ |Netherlands|FR Germany |Italy |United |Ireland |Denmark |Greece |Portugal |Spain
|Total |Luxembourg |Kingdom
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00 |6,745 |101 |41 |797 |745 |4,650 |105 |0 |294 |0 |0 |12
01 |349 |117 |0 |28 |0 |145 |0 |0 |2 |57 |0 |0
02 |3,159 |0 |461 |1,585 |258 |442 |0 |0 |369 |44 |0 |0
03 |177,822 |21,215 |2,431 |16,930 |20,526 |3,379 |16,510 |0 |46,782 |300 |11,960 |37,789
04 |730 |0 |181 |22 |433 |0 |94 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
05 |41,659 |417 |4,192 |1,339 |31,972 |1,972 |148 |0 |337 |646 |0 |636
06 |11,064 |25 |47 |986 |5,522 |15 |174 |0 |4,027 |0 |0 |268
07 |438 |0 |0 |93 |292 |0 |53 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
08 |2,387 |0 |0 |89 |608 |41 |329 |0 |401 |0 |124 |795
09 |341 |30 |2 |276 |17 |6 |0 |10 |0 |0 |0 |0
11 |24,083 |698 |576 |1,487 |15,394 |1,099 |783 |26 |83 |2,526 |21 |1,390
22 |26,136 |300 |526 |1,148 |2,240 |13,182 |893 |0 |16 |4,476 |2,540 |815
4 |4,406 |410 |9 |161 |2,718 |52 |677 |0 |16 |352 |0 |11
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Imports to the EC from the former Soviet Union in 1992
(thousands ECU)
Codes |EC 12 |France |Belgium/ |Netherlands|FR Germany |Italy |United |Ireland |Denmark |Greece |Portugal |Spain
|Total |Luxembourg |Kingdom
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00 |1,323 |8 |0 |157 |175 |915 |62 |0 |0 |5 |0 |1
01 |296 |0 |0 |26 |0 |97 |80 |0 |0 |93 |0 |0
02 |1,019 |0 |227 |302 |14 |282 |20 |0 |174 |0 |0 |0
03 |78,615 |7,219 |1,064 |4,865 |9,470 |1,523 |31,215 |0 |10,601 |60 |5,080 |7,518
04 |374 |0 |0 |1 |344 |0 |29 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
05 |15,925 |126 |816 |96 |13,811 |501 |81 |0 |230 |175 |0 |89
06 |4,357 |0 |220 |22 |1,040 |24 |58 |238 |2,409 |0 |0 |346
07 |345 |7 |0 |116 |184 |0 |34 |0 |0 |0 |0 |4
08 |2,791 |0 |0 |0 |31 |191 |134 |0 |590 |0 |75 |1,770
09 |198 |0 |0 |53 |0 |145 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
11 |9,266 |389 |455 |442 |4,360 |559 |972 |25 |6 |1,118 |0 |940
22 |30,480 |0 |0 |135 |15 |23,609 |1,054 |0 |0 |1,979 |1,019 |2,669
4 |270 |0 |11 |0 |151 |0 |3 |0 |0 |0 |0 |105
Source: EUROSTAT.
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Imports to the EC from Hungary in 1990
(thousands ECU)
Codes |EC 12 |France |Belgium/ |Netherlands|FR Germany |Italy |United |Ireland |Denmark |Greece |Portugal |Spain
|Total |Luxembourg |Kingdom
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00 |71,675 |2,478 |3,134 |668 |3,345 |57,974 |100 |0 |37 |3,399 |0 |540
01 |306,866 |48,731 |24,487 |6,018 |121,903 |88,476 |2,490 |0 |1,681 |7,451 |0 |5,629
02 |6,014 |812 |470 |1,189 |713 |2,046 |0 |0 |105 |580 |0 |99
03 |3,650 |15 |390 |12 |1,052 |2,028 |11 |0 |9 |1 |0 |132
04 |20,041 |4,012 |942 |1,845 |9,189 |3,715 |113 |0 |7 |0 |56 |162
05 |135,980 |5,369 |3,689 |11,191 |88,369 |8,596 |12,089 |69 |2,929 |2,610 |178 |891
06 |13,973 |2,185 |235 |505 |6,397 |4,074 |359 |30 |33 |37 |0 |118
07 |13,170 |1,218 |159 |1,876 |9,210 |141 |190 |0 |294 |0 |0 |82
08 |25,534 |608 |167 |149 |4,222 |16,906 |2,075 |292 |233 |477 |0 |405
09 |3,339 |119 |24 |1,034 |2,028 |93 |34 |0 |5 |1 |0 |1
11 |12,140 |330 |126 |327 |7,033 |82 |3,989 |73 |146 |30 |0 |4
22 |22,906 |2,488 |889 |1,470 |12,344 |4,757 |424 |0 |199 |17 |0 |318
4 |12,143 |444 |1,074 |4,444 |2,300 |3,209 |42 |0 |303 |0 |0 |327
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Imports to the EC from Hungary in 1991
(thousands ECU)
Codes |EC 12 |France |Belgium/ |Netherlands|FR Germany |Italy |United |Ireland |Denmark |Greece |Portugal |Spain
|Total |Luxembourg |Kingdom
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00 |92,830 |3,092 |191 |560 |9,241 |69,587 |127 |0 |14 |9,177 |30 |811
01 |351,757 |52,584 |22,859 |4,205 |164,373 |83,243 |1,161 |0 |2,795 |11,711 |284 |8,542
02 |4,752 |103 |237 |854 |614 |1,609 |9 |0 |11 |1,093 |0 |222
03 |3,539 |61 |266 |29 |1,054 |2,074 |1 |0 |0 |0 |0 |54
04 |30,197 |3,450 |296 |1,336 |19,266 |5,148 |267 |0 |40 |38 |88 |268
05 |225,447 |8,315 |9,505 |16,606 |154,184 |15,492 |10,432 |0 |4,962 |2,473 |133 |3,345
06 |11,810 |1,374 |124 |393 |5,788 |4,034 |51 |0 |5 |18 |0 |23
07 |14,623 |1,041 |196 |1,791 |10,471 |279 |216 |0 |315 |25 |22 |267
08 |34,730 |150 |176 |737 |5,631 |24,865 |729 |164 |0 |1,975 |0 |303
09 |7,441 |26 |71 |1,092 |5,638 |459 |132 |0 |12 |9 |2 |0
11 |16,395 |232 |280 |376 |9,038 |36 |6,066 |86 |171 |85 |0 |25
22 |30,435 |1,954 |582 |2,073 |14,005 |10,061 |524 |0 |424 |148 |0 |664
4 |17,299 |762 |2,426 |3,848 |3,434 |4,506 |1,293 |0 |46 |0 |0 |984
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Imports to the EC from Hungary in 1992
(thousands ECU)
Codes |EC 12 |France |Belgium/ |Netherlands|FR Germany |Italy |United |Ireland |Denmark |Greece |Portugal |Spain
|Total |Luxembourg |Kingdom
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00 |84,740 |2,149 |175 |152 |8,080 |63,570 |66 |0 |6 |10,302 |0 |240
01 |326,171 |54,900 |13,195 |4,366 |159,869 |69,836 |2,519 |0 |1,134 |5,255 |218 |14,879
02 |1,870 |112 |33 |141 |712 |235 |2 |0 |130 |409 |0 |96
03 |4,350 |26 |217 |4 |1,691 |2,221 |102 |0 |14 |72 |0 |3
04 |28,096 |2,993 |487 |1,342 |17,500 |4,199 |133 |0 |78 |806 |38 |520
05 |189,252 |5,279 |6,284 |14,452 |134,758 |8,237 |10,026 |22 |4,715 |1,309 |510 |3,660
06 |10,150 |692 |141 |451 |5,660 |3,093 |30 |0 |68 |14 |0 |1
07 |17,071 |1,429 |1,327 |1,243 |12,193 |275 |118 |0 |292 |0 |52 |142
08 |27,856 |479 |296 |225 |5,696 |20,051 |567 |141 |3 |163 |0 |235
09 |7,335 |3 |14 |795 |4,979 |1,444 |77 |0 |1 |0 |22 |0
11 |21,909 |309 |428 |367 |13,192 |110 |7,112 |79 |227 |62 |0 |23
22 |29,650 |1,760 |570 |2,710 |16,111 |6,472 |700 |0 |763 |29 |10 |525
4 |14,048 |1,668 |1,116 |3,638 |3,543 |2,577 |1,141 |0 |55 |297 |0 |13
Source: Eurostat.
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Imports to the EC from Czechoslovakia in 1990
(thousands ECU)
Codes |EC 12 |France |Belgium/ |Netherlands|FR Germany |Italy |United |Ireland |Denmark |Greece |Portugal |Spain
|Total |Luxembourg |Kingdom
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00 |19,064 |1,054 |173 |215 |4,280 |13,079 |105 |14 |35 |99 |0 |10
01 |64,634 |5,643 |579 |1,395 |37,381 |11,112 |433 |0 |2,349 |3,238 |439 |2,065
02 |19,796 |4 |7,645 |6,318 |2,169 |2,005 |0 |0 |90 |1,261 |0 |304
03 |4,665 |563 |207 |51 |3,031 |701 |39 |0 |7 |0 |0 |66
04 |9,588 |15 |1,691 |5,117 |2,747 |1 |0 |0 |17 |0 |0 |0
05 |46,859 |369 |6,557 |1,709 |35,002 |439 |1,046 |0 |1,067 |303 |298 |69
06 |7,201 |43 |78 |18 |5,904 |818 |147 |0 |0 |0 |0 |193
07 |2,187 |0 |15 |296 |1,486 |4 |118 |0 |0 |10 |0 |258
08 |4,751 |0 |0 |0 |4,091 |29 |631 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
09 |1,329 |0 |133 |119 |157 |920 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
11 |12,272 |133 |36 |257 |8,184 |1,614 |1,473 |0 |39 |125 |0 |411
22 |1,937 |0 |0 |0 |1,936 |1 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
4 |5,796 |4 |0 |1,578 |2,966 |1,244 |4 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
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Imports to the EC from Czechoslovakia in 1991
(thousands ECU)
Codes |EC 12 |France |Belgium/ |Netherlands|FR Germany |Italy |United |Ireland |Denmark |Greece |Portugal |Spain
|Total |Luxembourg |Kingdom
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00 |18,599 |822 |162 |178 |6,494 |9,871 |43 |0 |24 |538 |372 |95
01 |41,958 |2,252 |825 |700 |24,312 |8,850 |456 |0 |1,036 |2,553 |0 |974
02 |11,289 |235 |1,169 |4,152 |2,306 |920 |1 |0 |68 |1,284 |80 |1,074
03 |7,344 |725 |541 |411 |4,669 |788 |81 |0 |7 |0 |0 |122
04 |11,792 |0 |2,397 |2,202 |7,129 |29 |0 |0 |10 |0 |0 |25
05 |78,522 |930 |7,580 |3,522 |63,538 |394 |691 |8 |639 |285 |183 |752
06 |8,377 |127 |0 |23 |7,285 |320 |136 |0 |57 |5 |0 |424
07 |2,585 |1 |17 |414 |1,730 |92 |86 |0 |0 |7 |0 |238
08 |16,744 |4 |236 |241 |15,613 |391 |68 |108 |2 |0 |0 |81
09 |1,235 |2 |0 |23 |320 |886 |0 |0 |4 |0 |0 |0
11 |22,338 |181 |45 |191 |16,215 |1,993 |2,756 |1 |25 |205 |0 |726
22 |3,485 |41 |0 |121 |2,704 |487 |0 |0 |93 |39 |0 |0
4 |9,545 |0 |11 |1,411 |7,278 |734 |29 |0 |0 |0 |0 |82
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Imports to the EC from Czechoslovakia in 1992
(thousands ECU)
Codes |EC 12 |France |Belgium/ |Netherlands|FR Germany |Italy |United |Ireland |Denmark |Greece |Portugal |Spain
|Total |Luxembourg |Kingdom
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00 |36,323 |746 |647 |116 |16,299 |14,723 |150 |0 |33 |2,865 |415 |329
01 |31,306 |1,413 |146 |19 |19,335 |8,834 |0 |0 |147 |851 |233 |328
02 |4,930 |543 |135 |536 |2,955 |299 |0 |0 |94 |248 |0 |120
03 |9,952 |1,004 |578 |609 |6,664 |804 |82 |0 |8 |1 |2 |200
04 |4,946 |9 |1,335 |185 |3,305 |100 |9 |0 |2 |1 |0 |0
05 |76,363 |1,188 |4,487 |4,186 |63,405 |460 |819 |22 |1,050 |68 |154 |524
06 |6,337 |26 |67 |97 |5,251 |312 |154 |0 |14 |377 |0 |39
07 |3,749 |9 |16 |685 |2,572 |139 |134 |0 |7 |9 |0 |178
08 |33,706 |0 |182 |353 |31,933 |739 |0 |420 |0 |0 |0 |79
09 |2,673 |18 |55 |1,167 |1,027 |406,0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
11 |28,321 |425 |104 |388 |21,042 |2,052 |3,192 |9 |26 |341 |0 |742
22 |13,355 |6 |320 |215 |8,036 |4,685 |12 |0 |73 |0 |0 |8
4 |7,039 |37 |6 |1,554 |5,223 |193 |26 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Source: Eurostat.
Code definitions:
00 Live animals other than those in03' defintion.
01 Meat and meant preparations.
02 Dairy products and birds' eggs.
03 Fish-not marine animals-crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic invertebrates and preparations thereof.
04 Cereals and cereal preparations.
05 Vegetables and fruit.
06 Sugar, sugar preparations and honey.
07 Coffee, tea cocoa, spices and manufactures thereof.
08 Feeding stuff for animals-excluding unmilled cereals.
09 Miscellaneous edible products and preparations.
11 Beverages.
22 Oil seeds and oleaginous fruit.
4 Animal and vegetable oils, fats and waxes.
Food Labelling
Mr. Barnes : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will bring forward legislation requiring improved food labelling by food manufacturers.
Mr. Jack : The food labelling regulations will be amended shortly to provide a standard format for the provision of nutrition information. We also plan to consolidate these regulations this year, because of the many amendments which have been made to them since 1984. I do not believe that further regulation is necessary in advance of decisions on several labelling issues in the European Community.
Farm and Conservation Grants
Mr. Paice : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what evaluation she has made of the horticultural elements of her Department's farm and conservation grants scheme.
Mr. Jack : An evaluation of the horticultural elements of the farm and conservation grant scheme was completed in May 1993 by Dr. Ilbery of Coventry university and Dr. Bowler of the university of Leicester. A copy of the evaluation has been placed in the Library of the House.
Advertising
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what the cost of advertising by her Department has been for each year since 1979 and for each of the last 12 months.
Mr. Jack [holding answer 16 December 1993] : Expenditure on advertising by MAFF in the financial year 1982-83 and each subsequent year was as follows :
|£
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1982-83 |3,000
1983-84 |27,000
1984-85 |26,000
1985-86 |29,000
1986-87 |54,000
1987-88 |12,000
1988-89 |380,000
1989-90 |116,000
1990-91 |53,000
1991-92 |262,000
1992-93
April |13,000
May |Nil
June |Nil
July |Nil
August |Nil
September |475,000
October |Nil
November |Nil
December |Nil
January |6,000
February |Nil
March |Nil
Figures prior to 1982-83 are not available in this form since they do not distinguish between expenditure on advertising and other paid publicity.
Organic Farming
Mr. Tyler : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will set out, for each of the last 10 years for which figures are available, the balance of trade for organic food produce, both in terms of value in real terms and as a percentage of all foods.
Mr. Jack [holding answer 11 January] : Trade statistics do not separately identify organic food.
Estimates suggest, however, that about two thirds of organic food consumed in the United Kingdom is imported. Some of this, but it is not known how much, is attributable to such factors as climate. The total organic market is very small, representing less than 1 per cent. of all food sales.
DEFENCE
Exercise Hadrian's Wall
Mr. Wilson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many sorties by (a) helicopters and (b) fixed-wing aircraft took place (i) in the Hunterston area and (ii) at other locations during Exercise Hadrian's Wall ; and how many of these took place at night.
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Mr. Hanley : A total of 117 sorties were flown during Exercise Hadrian's Wall, 104 by helicopter and 13 by fixed-wing aircraft. Of these, four helicopters sorties were flown in the Hunterston area ; 41 sorties were flown at night.
Mr. Wilson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many complaints were received about (a) low flying and (b) other activity connected with Exercise Hadrian's Wall.
Mr. Hanley : My Department's air staff secretariat received 12 complaints or inquiries about low flying in areas affected by Exercise Hadrian's Wall, not all of which were necessarily connected with the exercise. Two further complaints were received about other activity connected with the exercise.
Departmental Records
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what discussions he had with the Lord Chancellor's Department in regard to the withholding of departmental records on Anglo-American mutual defence co- operation under section 3(4) of the Public Records Acts 1958 and 1967, in preparation for the most recent release of official papers from the Public Records Office.
Mr. Hanley : In accordance with the Public Records Act 1958, MOD records withheld under section 3(4) are reviewed, on a rolling programme, every 10 years. Records may be withheld individually or under blanket arrangements, covering certain classes or records such as those relating to security, intelligence and nuclear matters. Records may continue to be withheld under the blanket arrangements without reference to the Lord Chancellor. Individual records withheld require separate reference to the Lord Chancellor for his approval. Due to the very large number of records reviewed under these procedures it is not possible to identify, without disproportionate cost, records which may have been withheld under a very broad category such as Anglo-American defence co-operation.
Air Transport (Outsize Loads)
Mr. Marland : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's current policy on the air transportation of outsize loads, including the Challenger main battle tank, Warrior mechanised infantry combat vehicle and multiple launch rocket system.
Mr. Hanley : Outsize loads are normally transported by sea or land. If these needed to be moved by air, we have a bilateral agreement with the United States for the use of their aircraft and plans for the use of chartered civil wide-bodied aircraft.
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