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West Freugh Airfield
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what night flying facilities are available at West Freugh airfield.
Mr. Hanley : West Freugh airfield is capable of providing all the facilities necessary for night flying ; it is equipped with runway, taxi- way and approach lighting and air traffic, crash, fire and refuelling facilities can be made available in support of night flying detachments.
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Low Flying
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the dates, locations, aircraft types and circumstances of all incidents occurring in each year since 1988 in which a public complaint about low flying led to an investigation which concluded that the aircraft concerned was in breach of low flying regulations.
Mr. Hanley : The information requested could not be provided without disproportionate cost and effort.
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what comparative statistical information on the safety record of different air forces while flying in Flag exercises underlay the statement in his Department's memorandum to the Committee of Public Accounts inquiry into low flying training--HC 241-i, Session 1989-90, appendix 1, paragraph 7--on the safety record of the Royal Air Force.
Mr. Hanley : The statement is borne out by United States Air Force statistical records of all aspects of FLAG Exercise flying. The RAF has been a major participant in these exercises since 1977 during which time it has lost four aircraft. This is some 7.8 per cent. of the total number of FLAG accidents suffered by all participating nations up to October 1990.
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence on what date night low level training by Royal Air Force Harrier GR7s re-commenced after the summer of 1993 ; and what are the projected dates for commencement of night low level training by numbers 3 and 4 squadrons.
Mr. Hanley : Royal Air Force Harrier GR7s resumed night low flying on 28 September 1993. One of the two squadrons mentioned is planned to commence night flying in September 1994 and the other in September 1995 ; the order has yet to be decided.
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what changes have been made to the regulations for practice interception of aircraft in the United Kingdom low flying system (a) by similar aircraft types and (b) by dissimilar aircraft types since the accident to a Royal Air Force Jaguar on 12 September 1990.
Mr. Hanley : My noble Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Defence will write to the hon. Member.
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what procedures are used to ensure separation of military aircraft, operating without lights at night in the low flying system, from civil aircraft operating in the flight information region.
Mr. Hanley : There are two such procedures : notices to airmen and separation by height.
Laser-guided Bomb
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many tenders have been received for the low-level laser-guided bomb programme ; and if he will make a statement on the projected dates for project milestones for this programme.
Mr. Aitken : Three companies responded following the invitation to tender issued last year. Of these, two were invited to submit best and final offers which are currently
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under consideration. Project milestones will be established once the weapons contractor has been selected and final negotiations are complete.RAF Edzell
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many British military personnel are currently employed at the US Navy facility at RAF Edzell.
Mr. Hanley : There are currently 42 British military personnel employed at the US Navy facility at RAF Edzell.
NATO Infrastructure Programme
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to introduce shared civil-military usage of (a) existing military infrastructure facilities funded by the NATO infrastructure programme and (b) future NATO infrastructure programme facilities.
Mr. Hanley : Certain military infrastructure facilities funded by the NATO infrastructure programme are already shared with civil users. The possibility of shared usage will be taken into account for all future NATO infrastructure facilities.
Pilot Training
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the annual continuation training requirement, in hours, for simulator training for (a) Tornado GR1/1A pilots and (b) Harrier GR5/GR7 pilots.
Mr. Hanley : The annual continuation training requirement for simulator training for GR1/1A and Harrier GR5/GR7 pilots is 20 hours.
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what are the annual continuation training hours requirements for fully combat-ready front-line pilots in (a) Tornado GR1/1A pilots and (b) Harrier GR5/GR7.
Mr. Hanley : To retain combat-ready status on Tornado GR1/1A and Harrier GR5/GR7, pilots must fly a minimum of 180 hours a year.
Birds (Radar)
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to deploy radars in the United Kingdom for the purpose of monitoring concentrations and movements of birds.
Mr. Hanley : There are currently no plans to deploy radars in the United Kingdom for this purpose. However, a trial has established the feasibility of detecting birds on radar and a contract has been let in order to evaluate the development of a bird hazard warning system for the RAF.
Operation Distant Frontier
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the military operations areas, instrument flight rules military training routes, visual flight rules military training routes, air-to- ground weapons ranges and electronic warfare ranges to which Royal Air Force aircraft have been granted access by the United States authorities during Distant Frontier deployments to Alaska.
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Mr. Hanley : Military operations areas, training routes and ranges to which the RAF has been granted access by the United States authorities during Distant Frontier deployments to Alaska are as follows :
Military Operations Areas
Yukon One and Two
IFR Military Training Route
IR952
VFR Military Training Routes
VR1909 and VR1910
Weapons Range
R2202
Electronic Warfare Ranges
Tactical EW Simulators deployed in Weapons Ranges
R2202 and R2205
Jetstream
Mr. Foulkes : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what further consideration he has given to the purchase of new Jetstream aircraft following his meeting with Jetstream managing director, Allan Macdonald ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Aitken : My Department has studied carefully the company's proposal to replace RN and RAF Jetstreams with new Jetstream Super 31s. There is, however, no current operational requirement, nor are there other grounds for replacing our existing Jetstreams, which can continue in service into the next century.
HMS Illustrious
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish the report on the inquiry into the recent accident aboard HMS Illustrious ; and if he will make a statement on the accident.
Mr. Hanley : HMS Illustrious is at present undergoing a refit in Devonport dockyard. On the morning of 7 January 1994 an accident occurred when a member of the ship's company fell into the machinery of the vessel's vertiflo stores lift. He suffered severe facial injuries and was transferred to a local hospital.
An investigation was immediately initiated by the ship to establish the circumstances which led to the accident. The report is an internal document produced for internal use and there are no plans to publish it. However, a copy would be made available to the individual concerned on request.
Empty Properties
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the number and location of vacant dwellings owned by his Department in the parliamentary constituencies of Plymouth, Drake, Plymouth, Devonport, and Plymouth, Sutton.
Mr. Hanley : As at 31 December 1993 the Ministry of Defence owned the following vacant dwellings in the parliamentary constituencies of Plymouth, Drake, Plymouth, Devonport and Plymouth, Sutton :
G
|Plymouth |Plymouth |Plymouth
|Drake |Devonport|Sutton
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Service married quarters |11 |205 |67
MOD civilian houses |0 |5 |0
Former married quarters in the
process of being sold |27 |17 |26
|-- |-- |--
Total |38 |227 |93
|-- |-- |--
The majority of the married quarters are either undergoing or awaiting major maintenance work or modernisation or are already allotted to service families who will be moving in shortly. I am not prepared to give the location of these properties on security grounds.
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many vacant dwellings are owned by his Department in each parliamentary constituency in Devon and Cornwall.
Mr. Hanley : Following is the information.
|Service |MOD |Former |Total
|married |civilian|married
|quarters|houses |quarters
|in the
|process
|of sale
-----------------------------------------------------------------
North Devon |20 |0 |0 |20
Exeter |5 |0 |0 |5
Honiton |30 |0 |3 |33
Plymouth Devonport |151 |5 |17 |173
Plymouth Drake |11 |0 |27 |38
Plymouth Sutton |67 |0 |26 |93
Torridge and West
Devon |10 |0 |0 |10
Falmouth and
Camborne |1 |0 |0 |1
North Cornwall |161 |0 |0 |161
St. Ives |85 |0 |0 |85
South East Cornwall |2 |0 |0 |2
The majority of the married quarters are either undergoing or awaiting major maintenance work or modernisation or are already allotted to service families who will be moving in shortly.
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many dwellings are owned by his Department ; and how many are currently vacant.
Mr. Hanley : As at 31 December 1993 MOD owned 71,415 service married quarters of which 10,112 were vacant and at 30 September 1993, the latest date for which figures are available, 677 MOD civilian houses of which 134 were vacant. The majority of the vacant quarters were either undergoing or awaiting major maintenance work or modernisation, already allocated to service families who were due to move in shortly or held for units returning from overseas as a result of the restructuring of the armed forces. In addition some 2,019 service married quarters, of which 1,275 were vacant and 456 civilian houses, of which 44 were vacant, were in the process of being sold.
HMS Tireless
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will publish the report of the inquiry into the accident which occurred on HMS Tireless on 7 January ; and if he will make a statement on the accident.
Mr. Hanley : On the afternoon of 7 January HMS Tireless was preparing for machinery trials in Devonport
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Dockyard. During this procedure a member of the ship's company was caught in a large spill of very hot water from the ship's propulsion system causing him to suffer burns. He was taken to a local hospital where his condition is now stable.An investigation was immediately convened to investigate this accident. The report of that investigation is an internal document produced for internal use and there are no plans to publish the report. However, a copy would be made available to the individual concerned on request.
Private Schools
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the average cost of the school place provided for the children of service personnel in independent and private schools in each year since 1990.
Mr. Hanley : The MOD provides support to service parents for the education of their children by means of boarding school allowance ; this is paid to assist eligible service parents in providing a stable education for their children in the face of the domestic turbulence frequently encountered in service life. The average amounts of boarding school allowance paid per service child for the years in question were :
Year |£ -------------------- 1990-91 |5,897 1991-92 |7,117 1992-93 |7,719
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the cost of sending children of service personnel to independent or private schools in each year since 1990.
Mr. Hanley : The total cost to the MOD of boarding school allowance for the years in question was :
Year |£ million ------------------------------ 1990-91 |105.61 1991-92 |115.35 1992-93 |116.72
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the number of children of service personnel in (a) Devon and (b) Cornwall whose place at independent or private schools were paid for by his Department, in each year since 1990.
Mr. Hanley : Information on the locations of children of service parents claiming boarding school allowance is not collected annually. The most recent figures, for 1992, are :
|Number
--------------------------
a. Devon |640
b. Cornwall |211
Departmental Properties
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many dwellings are owned by his Department in Plymouth.
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Mr. Hanley : As at 31 December 1993 the Ministry of Defence owned 2,548 married quarters and 11 civilian houses in the Plymouth area. In addition 70 former married quarters and two civilian houses were in the process of being sold.
RAF Brawdy
Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how long the 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers will occupy RAF Brawdy following their arrival in August.
Mr. Hanley : On current plans, the advance elements of the 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers will occupy RAF Brawdy in August 1994 with the remainder of the battalion following in September 1994. The battalion is planned to remain there until 1996.
Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if RAF Brawdy is still being considered for longer-term Army barracks requirements.
Mr. Hanley : Yes, RAF Brawdy is being looked at as one of a number of options for the Army's longer-term barracks requirements.
Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when the Royal Welch Fusiliers will transfer from RAF Brawdy.
Mr. Hanley : On current plans, the 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers will transfer from RAF Brawdy in the first half of 1996.
Army Apprentice College, Chepstow
Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his best estimate of the cost of refurbishing the Army apprentice college, Chepstow, accommodation in the next two years.
Mr. Hanley : The latest estimate for refurbishing the Army apprentice college Chepstow to allow reroling as an infantry battalion barracks is approximately £16,000,000.
RAF Chivenor
Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 16 December, Official Report, column 918, if he will give a full breakdown of the total annual support costs for helicopter search-and- rescue operations at RAF Chivenor after (a) 31 July 1994 and (b) 1 October 1995.
Mr. Hanley : I will write to the hon. Member.
Statutory Sick Pay
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence 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. Aitken : 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.
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RAF Supply Depots
Mr. Martlew : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for an examination by auditors of the findings of the equipment depot supplies report into RAF supply depots.
Mr. Hanley : The findings of the equipment supply depot report have been scrutinised by the senior finance officer of RAF Support Command and are fully open in the usual way to examination by the MOD's internal auditors and the NAO. In addition, and in response to concerns expressed, I have asked senior MOD officials outside the RAF Support Command structure to go over the analysis again on my behalf.
Ukraine
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the recent agreement reached with the Ukraine to dismantle its nuclear defences.
Mr. Goodlad : I have been asked to reply.
My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister referred to this in the House on 12 January. We warmly welcome this agreement and pay tribute to all the signatories. It is important that it be speedily implemented. I have placed in the Library of the House the text of the statement made on 14 January.
NATO
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will set out the conditions under which countries are eligible to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : I have been asked to reply.
There are no fixed criteria for membership of NATO. Article 10 of the Washington treaty allows the members of the alliance, by unanimous agreement, to offer membership to any other European state which is in a position to further the principles of the alliance and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Prisons (Assaults)
Ms Ruddock : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the number of assaults (a) by prisoners on prisoners and (b) by prisoners on staff, in each of the last three months, for each prison in England and Wales.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from A. J. Butler to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 17 January 1994 :
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question asking for a list of the number of assaults (a) by prisoners on prisoners and (b) by prisoners on staff, in each of the last three months, for each prison in England and Wales.
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The latest available information for the number of assaults proved at adjudication under the prison discipline system for the last three months is given in the attached table.Column 447
Assaults October-December 1993
October 1993 November 1993 December 1993
Prison |Staff and |Prisoners |Total |Staff and |Prisoners |Total |Staff and |Prisoners |Total
Establishments,
areas
|others |others |others
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All establishments |268 |210 |478 |311 |212 |523 |256 |174 |430
North East |11 |14 |25 |23 |14 |37 |13 |11 |24
Acklington |- |1 |1 |1 |- |1 |3 |- |3
Castington |2 |3 |5 |2 |2 |4 |- |2 |2
Durham |2 |- |2 |2 |2 |4 |4 |2 |6
Frankland |1 |- |1 |5 |2 |7 |- |3 |3
Full Sutton |2 |3 |5 |7 |2 |9 |3 |1 |4
Holme House |3 |- |3 |2 |2 |4 |3 |2 |5
Kirklevington |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Low Newton |1 |7 |8 |4 |4 |8 |- |1 |1
North West |11 |14 |25 |10 |18 |28 |13 |15 |28
Garth |4 |1 |5 |1 |4 |5 |2 |- |2
Haverigg |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Hindley |1 |8 |9 |- |4 |4 |- |7 |7
Kirkham |- |- |- |- |1 |1 |- |- |-
Lancaster |- |- |- |- |- |- |1 |1 |2
Lancaster Farms |2 |2 |4 |4 |6 |10 |6 |4 |10
Preston |4 |1 |5 |4 |3 |7 |4 |2 |6
Thom Cross |- |2 |2 |1 |- |1 |- |1 |1
Wymott |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Yorkshire |8 |10 |18 |17 |7 |24 |10 |11 |21
Askham Grange |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Deerbolt |- |3 |3 |1 |1 |2 |3 |1 |4
Everthorpe |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Hatfield |- |2 |2 |- |1 |1 |- |1 |1
Hull |8 |1 |9 |14 |2 |16 |4 |3 |7
Northallerton |- |- |- |2 |1 |3 |3 |3 |6
Rudgate |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Thorpe Arch |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Wetherby |- |4 |4 |- |2 |2 |- |3 |3
Trans-Pennine |22 |10 |32 |37 |8 |45 |22 |9 |31
Leeds |8 |6 |14 |8 |5 |13 |12 |3 |15
Liverpool |5 |1 |6 |4 |- |4 |2 |3 |5
Manchester |- |1 |1 |2 |- |2 |- |- |-
New Hall |1 |- |1 |3 |- |3 |1 |1 |2
Risley |7 |- |7 |15 |1 |16 |5 |1 |6
Styal |- |- |- |4 |1 |5 |2 |- |2
Wakefield |1 |2 |3 |1 |1 |2 |- |1 |1
East Midlands |18 |14 |32 |21 |19 |40 |11 |9 |20
Lincoln |1 |1 |2 |1 |2 |3 |1 |1 |2
Lindholme |- |- |- |1 |2 |3 |- |- |-
Moorland |14 |12 |26 |15 |15 |30 |8 |6 |14
Morton Hall |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
North Sea Camp |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Nottingham |- |- |- |2 |- |2 |1 |- |1
Ranby |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Stocken |3 |1 |4 |2 |- |2 |1 |- |1
Whatton |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |2 |2
Mercia |9 |11 |20 |5 |11 |16 |4 |17 |21
Brockhill |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Drake Hall |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Hewell Grange |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Shrewsbury |1 |2 |3 |2 |1 |3 |- |2 |2
Stoke Heath |3 |3 |6 |- |1 |1 |3 |2 |5
Sudbury/Foston |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Swinfen Hall |4 |1 |5 |- |3 |3 |- |- |-
Werrington |1 |5 |6 |3 |6 |9 |1 |13 |14
Central |34 |20 |54 |33 |25 |58 |26 |24 |50
Ashwell |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Birmingham |2 |- |2 |5 |- |5 |2 |1 |3
Brinsford |9 |5 |14 |5 |8 |13 |6 |9 |15
Featherstone |- |1 |1 |2 |- |2 |2 |- |2
Gartree |1 |- |1 |1 |- |1 |- |1 |1
Glen Parva |6 |12 |18 |9 |11 |20 |8 |12 |20
Leicester |4 |1 |5 |- |1 |1 |1 |1 |2
Long Lartin |6 |- |6 |10 |2 |12 |2 |- |2
Stafford |6 |1 |7 |1 |3 |4 |5 |- |5
Chilterns |20 |29 |49 |22 |22 |44 |19 |21 |40
Aylesbury |7 |7 |14 |6 |4 |10 |7 |3 |10
Bullingdon |2 |- |2 |10 |1 |11 |4 |1 |5
Coldingley |2 |- |2 |- |- |- |2 |- |2
Huntercombe/Finnamore Wood |- |3 |3 |- |2 |2 |1 |4 |5
The Mount |1 |- |1 |1 |1 |2 |2 |- |2
Onley |5 |16 |21 |4 |12 |16 |1 |12 |13
Reading |3 |3 |6 |1 |2 |3 |2 |1 |3
Wales and the West |5 |6 |11 |8 |11 |19 |7 |2 |9
Bristol |2 |- |2 |1 |- |1 |1 |- |1
Cardiff |- |3 |3 |3 |7 |10 |- |2 |2
Eastwood Park |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Erlestoke |2 |- |2 |- |1 |1 |- |- |-
Gloucester |- |3 |3 |1 |- |1 |1 |- |1
Leyhill |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Pucklechurch |1 |- |1 |2 |2 |4 |4 |- |4
Swansea |- |- |- |1 |1 |2 |1 |- |1
Usk/Prescoed |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Wessex |12 |7 |19 |7 |5 |12 |7 |5 |12
Channings Wood |2 |- |2 |2 |1 |3 |- |- |-
Dartmoor |3 |- |3 |3 |- |3 |1 |2 |3
Dorchester |1 |2 |3 |- |1 |1 |- |- |-
Exeter |5 |1 |6 |- |- |- |- |- |-
Guys Marsh |- |1 |1 |- |3 |3 |3 |- |3
Portland |- |2 |2 |- |- |- |1 |2 |3
Shepton Mallet |- |1 |1 |2 |- |2 |1 |- |1
The Verne |1 |- |1 |- |- |- |1 |1 |2
London North |25 |20 |45 |26 |24 |50 |28 |11 |39
Bedford |1 |- |1 |1 |- |1 |- |- |-
Grendon/Spring Hill |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Holloway |7 |7 |14 |5 |9 |14 |5 |4 |9
Littlehey |3 |1 |4 |1 |- |1 |2 |- |2
Oxford |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Pentonville |5 |- |5 |5 |4 |9 |5 |2 |7
Wellingborough |- |2 |2 |- |- |- |1 |- |1
Whitemoor |1 |2 |3 |3 |3 |6 |4 |3 |7
Woodhill |1 |5 |6 |2 |7 |9 |5 |- |5
Wormwood Scrubs |7 |3 |10 |9 |1 |10 |6 |2 |8
East Anglia |17 |18 |35 |21 |8 |29 |12 |8 |20
Blundeston |2 |5 |7 |2 |- |2 |- |1 |1
Bullwood Hall |3 |- |3 |- |1 |1 |2 |- |2
Chelmsford |1 |1 |2 |1 |1 |2 |1 |2 |3
Highpoint |4 |1 |5 |- |- |- |3 |- |3
Hollesley Bay |1 |4 |5 |4 |2 |6 |- |- |-
Norwich |2 |6 |8 |3 |4 |7 |2 |3 |5
Wayland |4 |1 |5 |11 |- |11 |4 |2 |6
London South |23 |21 |44 |33 |15 |48 |41 |11 |52
Albany |1 |3 |4 |- |2 |2 |2 |1 |3
Belmarsh |7 |- |7 |11 |1 |12 |7 |1 |8
Brixton |3 |6 |9 |4 |- |4 |4 |2 |6
Camp Hill |- |- |- |- |2 |2 |2 |- |2
Feltham |4 |10 |14 |10 |8 |18 |8 |6 |14
Latchmere House |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Parkhurst |1 |- |1 |1 |1 |2 |9 |- |9
Wandsworth |7 |2 |97 |7 |1 |8 |9 |1 |10
Kent |13 |8 |21 |14 |15 |29 |12 |13 |25
Aldington |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Blantyre House |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Canterbury |1 |- |1 |1 |- |1 |- |2 |2
Cookham Wood |- |- |- |1 |- |1 |- |1 |1
Dover |- |2 |2 |1 |2 |3 |1 |4 |5
East Sutton Park |- |1 |1 |- |- |- |- |- |-
Elmley |3 |- |3 |2 |2 |4 |1 |- |1
Maidstone |1 |1 |2 |- |1 |1 |2 |- |2
Rochester |2 |4 |6 |4 |8 |12 |1 |4 |5
Stanford Hill |- |- |- |1 |- |1 |- |- |-
Swaleside |6 |- |6 |4 |2 |6 |7 |2 |9
South Coast |12 |2 |14 |5 |8 |13 |15 |5 |20
Downview |1 |- |1 |- |- |- |- |- |-
Ford |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Haslar |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
High Down |6 |1 |7 |4 |4 |8 |8 |1 |9
Kingston |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Lewes |1 |- |1 |1 |1 |2 |2 |- |2
Northeye |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Send |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |1 |1
Winchester |4 |1 |5 |- |3 |3 |5 |3 |8
Contracted out Prisons |28 |6 |34 |29 |2 |31 |16 |2 |18
Blakenhurst |26 |5 |31 |24 |2 |26 |14 |2 |16
The Wolds |2 |1 |3 |5 |- |5 |2 |- |2
DUCHY OF LANCASTER
Political Advisers
Mr. Alan Williams : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many of the political advisers to Ministers in October 1993 were in which Department ; how many were on which salary spine point ; how many were aged under 34, 34 and 35 years and above ; and how many had served less than two years, two but less than three years, three but less than four years and four years and over.
Mr. Waldegrave : In October 1993, 30 political advisers were serving in 18 departments as shown in table 1. The numbers on each salary spine point is given in table 2. Three advisers were not paid on the normal salary spine points. Of those, two were on secondment and their salary was reimbursed to their employer. The third was paid on a personal basis.
Information on the ages of special advisers is not held centrally. For severence payment purposes, 18 political advisers had served in their current appointments less than two years, eight had served two but less than three years, three had served three but less than four years and one had served four years and over.
Table 1
Department |Number of
|political
|advisers
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |1
Cabinet Office (including Prime Minister's Office,
Chief Whips Office, and Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster's Office) |8
Ministry of Defence |1
Department of Education |1
Department of Employment |1
Department of the Environment |2
Foreign and Commonwealth Office |2
Department of Health |1
Home Office |2
House of Lords |1
Department of National Heritage |1
Northern Ireland Office |1
Scottish Office |2
Department of Social Security |1
Department of Trade and Industry |1
Department of Transport |1
Her Majesty's Treasury |2
Welsh Office |1
Table 2
Spine point |Number on
|spine point
------------------------------------
1 |-
2 |1
3 |-
4 |-
5 |2
6 |1
7 |-
8 |2
9 |1
10 |1
11 |1
12 |-
13 |1
14 |1
15 |1
16 |-
17 |-
18 |1
19 |-
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