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Chemical Weapons
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many British subjects have been appointed to the provisional technical secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, formed under the chemical weapons convention ; and what posts they have filled.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Three British citizens have been appointed to professional posts in the provisional technical secretariat. They occupy the posts of executive secretary, head of the chemical weapons branch of the verification division and head of the general services branch of the administration division. A further three British citizens are employed in the general services branch.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is Her Majesty's Government's time scale for the ratification of the chemical weapons convention.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : We intend to ratify the chemical weapons convention as soon as the necessary implementing legislation is in place. The legislation will be introduced as soon as parliamentary time becomes available.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many papers were presented by the United Kingdom Government to the disarmament negotiations for the chemical weapons convention disclosing details of its past chemical weapons programme ; and when these papers were presented.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : The United Kingdom has presented two papers disclosing details of its past chemical
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weapons programme. On 24 April 1979 the United Kingdom presented a paper titled "Visit to Britain by Chemical Weapons Experts" to the committee on disarmament, now known as the conference on disarmament. The second paper, titled "Past Production of Chemical Warfare Agents in the United Kingdom" was presented to the conference on disarmament on 17 August 1988.Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the status of the British subjects who have been appointed to the provisional technical secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, formed under the chemical weapons convention, will change if the United Kingdom has not ratified the convention by the time it enters into force.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Only citizens of states which have ratified the chemical weapons convention will be eligible to work at the technical secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons after the treaty enters into force. The technical secretariat will replace the provisional technical secretariat on entry into force of the convention.
Cyprus
Dr. Spink : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what measures he will use to promote the implementation of the United Nations Secretary-General's confidence- building measures in Cyprus.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : We continue to encourage all parties to make progress on the package of confidence building measures proposed by the United Nations Secretary-General. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs stressed the urgency of progress during his trip to Ankara on
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19-20 January, and will do so when he meets the Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alecos Michaelides, on 2 February.Dr. Spink : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his estimate of the number of Turkish citizens who have moved into the north of Cyprus since 1974 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : There is dispute and uncertainty about the number of Turkish settlers in northern Cyprus. A range of figures are quoted, usually by partisan groups. We have no means to compile our own statistics. Security Council resolution 789 of 25 November 1992 urged the parties to commit themselves to a number of
confidence-building measures, including a Cyprus-wide census under the auspices of the United Nations.
Dr. Spink : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what advice he intends to give the United Nations regarding the continued movement into the north of Cyprus of citizens of Turkey ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : The issue of residence rights is intrinsic to the UN-sponsored talks on Cyprus and would be an important element in any negotiated settlement.
GCHQ
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all the research projects in universities which have been funded by the Government Communications Headquarters since 1989, including the duration, titles and value of each project ; and what security classification applied to each such university project.
Mr. Hurd : The information requested by the hon. Member is as follows :
Year University and Cost Duration
title
|£
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1989 |Cambridge |Max Newman Fellowship |109,683 |4 years
1990 |Leicester |Testing and integration of |1,700 |2 months
|direction finding sub-system
1991 |Leicester |Analysis of high frequency |35,392 |3" years
|radio propagation
|measurements
|Leicester |Data collection and |64,849 |2 years
|processing for analysis of
|high frequency radio
|propagation measurements
|York |Screened room |101,823 |2 years
|measurements
|Oxford |Mathematical Research |109,000 |3 years
|Fellowship
|Leicester |Development and |33,151 |2 years
|construction of data
|collection and processing
|unit for high frequency
|radio propagation
|measurements
1992 |York |Characterisation of facsimile|5,000 |18 months
|York |Research support in field of |14,547 |1 year
|communications simulation
|and modelling
1993 |Leicester |Direction finding data |67,075 |1 year
|analysis
|Cambridge |Max Newman Fellowship |99,000 |3 years
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In addition to the two university research projects listed for 1992 there was a project with Cheltenham and Gloucester college of higher education--cost £10,000, duration one year--on fax image orientation. As I told the hon. Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone) on 21 July 1993 at column 236 , the research commissioned is confined to unclassified subjects. We retain proprietary rights over the research, but the results may be published by the relevant academic institution, if it wishes.Major General Mohnke
Mr. John Marshall : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 18 January, Official Report, column 458, what requests were received from the German authorities for co-operation in their investigation into Major General Mohnke's involvement in the murder of more than 80 British service men ; and what was the response.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : In 1988 we offered the German authorities full co-operation in this matter, including access to the British records. The offer was accepted. The German authorities' subsequent requests to visit the United Kingdom to interview survivors and others with relevant information and to have statements taken from them were granted. Full facilities were given by the relevant British authorities while the German prosecutor was in this country.
Statutory Sick Pay
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 17 January, Official Report, column 356, what estimate he has made of the additional costs, net of any reduction in employer's national insurance contributions, to his departmental budget for the financial year 1994-95 resulting from the changes in statutory sick pay provision.
Mr. Goodlad : In 1992-93 the Department of Social Security reimbursed the Foreign and Commonwealth office a sum of £167,586 in respect of statutory sick pay provision. The projected sum for 1994-95 is £148,089. The DSS have yet to advise what reduction is to be made to national insurance contributions. But it is clear that the overall cost to the FCO of the new arrangements will be relatively small and will be able to be absorbed within the Department's running costs.
Serbia
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what plans he has to raise with the Greek presidency of the European Union allegations of breaking of European Union-backed sanctions by Greek companies in providing oil and military equipment to Serbia.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Since the imposition of sanctions on Serbia and Montenegro we have been in close contact with the Greek Government over alleged sanctions breaches by Greek companies. As a result of our representations the Greek authorities have initiated a number of prosecutions against sanctions violators.
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We shall continue to make representations where we receive reports of alleged breaches. We have seen no evidence of Greek involvement in the supply of military equipment to Serbia.EMPLOYMENT
Back to Basics"
Mr. Simon Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the implications of the Government's "back to basics" policy for his Department during the current year.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 21 January 1994 at col. 849 .
Mr. Rendel : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what working definition of "back to basics" is used by his Department ; and what his Department has done in the past three months to implement the policy.
Mr. Michael Forsyth [holding answer 20 January 1994] : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) on 21 January 1994 at col. 849 .
Labour Statistics
Mr. Boyes : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list job losses in each year since 1973 in the Houghton and Washington constituency and give the level of youth unemployment in the same years.
Miss Widdecombe : The information is not available in the form requested. Comparable employment information for parliamentary constituencies is available only form the periodic censuses of employment, held between 1984 and 1991. This can be used to estimate the net change in the number of employees in employment.
Claimant unemployment statistics for local areas are available from July 1983. Statistics for particular age bands are available quarterly for the months of January, April, July and October. Employment and unemployment statistics for parliamentary constituencies can be obtained from the NOMIS database available in the Library.
Mr. Boyes : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many new jobs have been created in the Houghton and Washington constituency in each year since 1973.
Miss Widdecombe : The information is not available in the form requested. Comparable employment information for parliamentary constituencies is available only from the periodic censuses of employment, held between 1984 and 1991. This can be used to estimate the net change in the number of employees in employment, and is given in the following table :
Employees in employment in Houghton and Washington constituency, September of each year Year |Number --------------------- 1984 |28,400 1987 |27,400 1989 |27,800 1991 |29,100
Mr. Burden : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what proportion of full-time manual workers, full-time non-manual workers and all full-time workers earned, including overtime, less than £203.07 per week in (a) the west midlands region and (b) Great Britain for (i) males, (ii) females and (iii) all adults in 1993.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information is provided in the following table :
Full-time employees on adult rates-pay unaffected by absence
Proportion with gross weekly earnings below £203.07: April 1993
Per cent.
|West midlands region|Great Britain
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Manual men |26.2 |25.9
Non-manual men |13.9 |11.6
All men |20.2 |18.1
Manual women |76.8 |73.9
Non-manual women |44.0 |35.1
All women |51.1 |42.0
Manual adults |35.4 |34.7
Non-manual adults |27.7 |22.4
All adults |30.8 |26.7
Source: "New Earnings Survey".
Mr. Burden : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what proportion of part-time female manual workers, part-time female non-manual workers and all part-time female workers earned, excluding overtime, less than £5.42 per hour in (a) the west midlands region and (b) Great Britain in 1993.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information requested is provided in the table :
T
Part-time employees on adult rates-pay unaffected by absence
Proportion with gross hourly earnings, excluding overtime,
below £5.42: April 1993
Per cent.
|West midlands region|Great Britain
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Manual women |93.0 |91.2
Non-manual women |66.7 |64.2
All women |77.2 |73.8
Source: "New Earnings Survey".
Special Advisers
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment which special advisers in his Department are seconded from other organisations ; and what are the organisations and the lengths and terms of the secondments.
European Social Fund
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will estimate the number of (a) long-term unemployed people and (b) young jobseekers who have benefited, in each year since its establishment, from the European social fund's employment and training grants, giving each figure for (i) the northern region and (ii) the United Kingdom as a whole.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth : The figures show the numbers in Great Britain and Northern region of long-term unemployed and young people supported by the European social fund, for each calendar application year :
|1991 |1992 |1993
---------------------------------------------------------------
Great Britain
long-term unemployed |- |763,829 |1,241,328
young people |333,773 |589,946 |810,410
Northern region
long-term unemployed |- |43,552 |53,364
young people |40,690 |47,579 |66,921
1. Figures for 1990 are not available, and disaggregated
figures for
long-term unemployed are only available from 1992 onwards.
2. The European social fund in Northern Ireland is
administered
separately by the Department of Economic Development.
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total budget awarded to the EC's European social fund in each year since its establishment ; and what proportion of this was granted to (i) the northern region and (ii) the United Kingdom as a whole.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The figures set out below show the total value of European social fund payments across the Community. The figures are drawn from the published EC budget for each year since 1990, when the current arrangements for devolved management of the fund by member states came fully into operation :
|1990 |1991 |1992 |1993
------------------------------------
mecu |3,322|3,869|4,505|5,061
The following figures show the level of spend in Great Britain and northern region for each calendar application year :
Year |Great Britain |Northern region
|£ million
----------------------------------------------------------------
1990 |269.2 |-
1991 |367.0 |26.0
1992 |374.0 |26.5
1993 |595.0 |45.0
Notes:
1. Regional data is only readily available for 1991 onwards.
2. Final figures of spending for 1993 are not yet available, so
figures for
committed spend have been provided.
3. The European social fund in Northern Ireland is administered
by the
Department of Economic Development.
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total value of the budgets provided by the European Community under the European social fund for (a) vocational training and guidance and (b) job creation in each year since its establishment ; and what was the total allocation of each to (i) the Northern Region and (ii) the United Kingdom as a whole.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Figures for the EC budget are not available separately for vocational training and job creation. However, the total value of the European social fund across the Community since 1990 is set out in the table. The figures are drawn from the published EC budget for each year since 1990, when the current arrangements for devolved management of the fund by member states came fully into operation.
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Year |Mecu ------------------ 1990 |3,322 1991 |3,869 1992 |4,505 1993 |5,061
The following figures show the level of spend in Great Britain and northern region for vocational training and guidance, and job creation for each calendar application year, where data is readily available, since the time when management of the fund by member states came fully into operation :
£ million
|1991 |1992
--------------------------------------
Great Britain
Vocational training |350.0|355.4
Job creation |15.9 |17.0
Northern Region
Vocational Training |22.6 |24.7
Job creation |3.4 |1.7
Notes:
1. Regional data is only readily
available for 1991 onwards.
2. Final figures of spend for 1993
are not yet available, so figures for
committed spend have been provided.
3. The European social fund in
Northern Ireland is administered
separately by the Department of
Economic Development.
Apprenticeships
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what measures he is planning to take to ensure that the modern apprenticeship scheme will promote equal opportunities ; and if he will make a statement.
Miss Widdecombe : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has made it clear that he wants to see modern apprenticeships open equally to young women and young men. We shall be asking industry training organisations to take into account all aspects of equal opportunities in apprenticeship models they develop, and shall continue to place a contractual requirement on training and enterprise councils to ensure equality of opportunity in all their activities.
Sikh Workers
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make it his policy to grant a general exemption to the British Sikh community from the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : We have given careful consideration to the representations that have been made for a complete exemption for Sikhs from health and safety requirements to wear head protection. Any exemption would be contrary to the EC directive on personal protective equipment, which the 1992 regulations implement. Attempts to secure a derogation from the directive failed in 1989 as the United Kingdom was unable to obtain the support of other member states. Now this directive is in force, the only way an exemption could be granted would be if the European Commission were to put forward an amending directive. This seems unlikely given the earlier lack of support from other member states.
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Agism
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what plans he has to bring forward proposals for legislation preventing companies from putting age limits on job vacancy advertisements ; and if he will make a statement.
Miss Widdecombe : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to him on 4 November 1993, Official Report, columns. 433-34.
Statutory Sick Pay
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his answer of 19 January, Official Report, column 695, what are the additional costs, net of any reduction in employer's national insurance contributions, to his departmental budget for the financial year 1994-95 of the changes in statutory sick pay provision.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : As indicated in my reply of 19 January 1994 to the hon. Member, Official Report, column 695, the Department anticipates no net additional costs.
Access to Work Scheme
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) if he will make a statement on (a) the level of the ceiling for employer contributions and (b) the level
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of ceiling on allocations for individual employees within the new access to work scheme ; and if he will make a statement ; (2) what assessment he has made of the impact of the introduction of employer contributions towards the purchase of specialist equipment and services for disabled employees upon (a) self-employed disabled people, (b) part-time disabled employees, (c) disabled employees working at home, (d) disabled employees on temporary contracts of one year or less and (e) disabled people contracted to work concurrently for two or more separate employers ; and if he will make a statement ;(3) who will own equipment jointly purchased by employers and the Government for disabled employees under the access to work proposals ; 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 ; and if he will make a statement ;
(4) if he will make it his policy to establish a mechanism enabling disabled employees to lodge appeals against capping limits set under the new access to work scheme ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth [holding answer 20 January 1994] : 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 all the representations made by the disability and employer groups that we have met. My right hon. Friend hopes to announce decisions soon.
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DEFENCE
Christmas Cards
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many official Christmas cards were sent out in 1993 by (a) Ministers, (b) civil servants and (c) staff of Government agencies working in or to his Department ; and how much these cards cost (i) to buy, (ii) to post and (iii) in staff time to sign, address and place in envelopes.
Mr. Hanley : The information as requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Loans
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list, for each scheme operated by his Department under which loans are available, the objectives of the scheme, the number of unrecovered loans, the total value of unrecovered loans, the average number of unrecovered loans for each year since 1990, the average value of unrecovered loans for each year since 1990 and the annual cost of recovering loans.
Mr. Aitken : My Department operates a number of schemes whereby loans may be made available to its civilian staff. These are normally in the form of advances of salary, which are repayable. The schemes are :
Season Ticket Advance
To assist staff purchase a quarterly or longer season ticket for travel between home and office.
Advances for Staff Posted Overseas
An advance of up to three months' gross salary may be paid to assist staff with settling-in expenses on arrival overseas. Holiday Advances
A salary advance of up to £300 may be made to staff once each year prior to taking annual leave to assist with holiday expenses. House Purchase
Where all other means of funding have been exhausted up to six months gross pay may be advanced to assist staff purchase property following transfer.
Similarly in cases of "negative equity" and where an out-standing bridging loan exceeds the value of the sale property, advances of up to 12 months' gross salary may be made.
The information for 1990 to 1992 is not available in the form requested and could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The number of advances in operation at December 1993 for the current financial year for each scheme and the balance still to be recovered was :
|Number of |Balance
|advances |outstanding
|(£)
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Season ticket advance |6,219 |4,083,525
Advances for staff posted overseas |738 |1,565,699
Holiday advances |12 |3,600
House purchase |1,704 |7,069,805
The annual cost of administering the schemes is £35,000 at present price levels.
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Porton Down Officials (US Visits)
Mr. Livingstone : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when officials from the Ministry of Defence or the chemical and biological establishment at Porton Down visited or were stationed at (a) Pine Bluff arsenal in Arkansas and (b) at the M687 binary metal parts facility at the Louisiana army ammunition plant in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America ; what was the aim of these visits ; and under which defence agreement they were organised.
Mr. Hanley : This matter is for the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment under its framework document. I have asked the chief executive of CBDE to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from Graham Pearson to Mr. Ken Livingstone, dated 24 January 1994 :
1. Your Parliamentary Question to the Secretary of State for Defence asking when officials from the Ministry of Defence or the chemical and biological establishment at Porton Down visited or were stationed at (a) Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas and (b) at the M687 binary metal parts facility at the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America ; what was the aim of these visits ; and under which defence agreement they were organised (Question 2, Order Paper 18 January 1994) has been passed to me to reply as Chief Executive of the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment.
2. No collated records are kept of the visitors from the Ministry of Defence or the Chemical and Biological Defence Establishment to these US defence facilities. I have consulted my staff and we are not aware of any visits to or staff stationed at the M687 binary metal parts facility at the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant in Shreveport, USA. We are aware that there have been occasional infrequent visits to the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas. We are not aware of any staff being stationed at Pine Bluff Arsenal. It is probable that these visits would have taken place under one of the defence agreements referred to by the right hon. Archie Hamilton, MP, in his reply of 21 May 1992, Official Report, columns 255-256.
Northern Ireland (Murders)
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many members of the armed forces serving in Northern Ireland have been (a) charged with and (b) convicted of murder in the Province in each of the last 10 years ;
(2) what was the interval between date of charge and date of trial in respect of each member of the armed forces serving in Northern Ireland charged with murder in the Province in each of the last 10 years.
Mr. Hanley : Since 1974, 11 members of the armed forces have been charged with murder while on duty in Northern Ireland. Two service men have been found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment, while two service men are still awaiting trial.
The table shows those charged with murder in the last 10 years and the interval between the date of the charge and the date of the trial :
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On duty murder cases involving armed forces
Year |Personnel involved |Charge date |Trial date
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1974 |1 soldier |1974 |March 1975
1978 |2 soldiers |Not available |Not available
1982 |2 soldiers |Not available |6 September 1983
1983 |1 soldier |10 August 1983 |11 November 1984
1990 |1 soldier |31 July 1991 |9 March 1993
1990 |2 service men |5 February 1992 |8 November 1993
1992 |2 soldiers |5 September 1992 |Set for April 1994
Name |Type |Flag |GRT
Antje |GC |Antigua and Barbuda |7,639
Antje, B. |GC |Antigua and Barbuda |4,134
Askania |RR/GC |Antigua and Barbuda |3,580
Calypso |GC |Antigua and Barbuda |4,145
Charlotta |GC |Antigua and Barbuda |12,710
Conro Trader |DCS |Antigua and Barbuda |3,000
Hove |GC |Antigua and Barbuda |2,560
Justine |GC |Antigua and Barbuda |3,065
Lena |GC |Antigua and Barbuda |7,286
Petra |RR/GC |Antigua and Barbuda |3,550
Running Bear |GC |Antigua and Barbuda |2,493
Sprante Rubin |GC |Antigua and Barbuda |6,550
Stevnsland |GC |Antigua and Barbuda |2,510
Tinto |GC |Antigua and Barbuda |4,100
Fremo Sirius |RR/GC |Bahamas |18,257
Hansa Link |RR |Bahamas |6,752
Hyde Park |GC |Bahamas |2,501
Merchant Princess |GC |Bahamas |19,035
Mungo |GC |Bahamas |15,599
Phoenix |GC |Bahamas |7,900
Ravel |RR |Bahamas |3,884
Satmars |GC |Bahamas |15,765
Sea Pearl |GC |Bahamas |3,600
Super Eight |GC |Bahamas |2,780
Clervaux |RR |Belgium |5,064
Ahlers Baltic |RR |Cyprus |13,772
Atlantic Cape |GC |Cyprus |2,537
Atlantic Rainbow |GC |Cyprus |2,535
Bayard |GC |Cyprus |3,600
Beaulieu |GC |Cyprus |3,600
Brabo |GC |Cyprus |3,600
Cape Blanche |GC |Cyprus |4,400
Cape Maleas |GC |Cyprus |16,023
Cape Patricia |GC |Cyprus |4,400
Evening Star |RR/GC |Cyprus |15,922
Guyane |RR/GC |Cyprus |15,922
Makiri |GC |Cyprus |3,777
Margaretha |GC |Cyprus |3,676
Mirach |GC |Cyprus |4,878
Roseanne |RR |Cyprus |4,106
Sea Intrepid |GC |Cyprus |6,208
Arktis Breeze |GC |Denmark |2,671
Arktis Carrier |GC |Denmark |2,671
Arktis Moon |GC |Denmark |1,630
Arktis Star |GC |Denmark |1,630
Arktis Sun |GC |Denmark |1,710
Arktis Trader |GC |Denmark |2,470
Dana Cimbria |RR |Denmark |7,057
Dana Corona |RR |Denmark |8,946
Dancia Violet |GC |Denmark |1,100
Elisabeth Boye |GC |Denmark |2,657
Greenland Saga |CR/RF |Denmark |3,200
Ice Flower |RF |Denmark |2,489
Jens Monk |GC |Denmark |1,742
Kathe Sif |GC |Denmark |4,446
Lottelith |GC |Denmark |1,630
Mercandian Duke |RR |Denmark |7,230
Mercandian Prince |RR |Denmark |7,200
Mercandian Queen |RR |Denmark |7,200
Mercandian Senator |RR |Denmark |7,200
Mercandian Trader |RR |Denmark |3,290
Nordland Saga |RF |Denmark |3,200
Pegasus |GC |Denmark |1,275
Sea Bird |GC |Denmark |4,270
Skodsborg |RR |Denmark |8,002
Stena Dan |RR |Denmark |13,925
Tor Caledonia |RR |Denmark |12,200
Senior M |GC |Egypt |3,910
Bore Song |RR |Finland |6,100
Degroe |RR |Finland |9,334
Paimpolaise |CT |France |3,458
Saint Gildas |GC |France |3,778
Ariana |GC/RR |Germany |7,190
Blue Bird |CR |Germany |4,000
Blue Sky |CR |Germany |4,000
Conti Britannia |GC |Germany |7,751
Fichtelberg |RR |Germany |7,597
Frauke |GC |Germany |4,145
Godewind |GC/RR |Germany |3,693
Regine |GC |Germany |7,765
Sylt |GC |Germany |3,050
Werner |GC |Germany |3,055
Aetos |RR/GC |Greece |4,700
St. Lucia |CR |Honduras |7,090
Merchant Promise |GC |Hong Kong (British) |21,215
Jokufell |RF |Iceland |3,068
Jolly Grigio |RR |Italy |10,665
Jolly Rosso |RR |Italy |27,720
Jolly Rubino |RR/GC |Italy |31,262
Jolly Turchese |RR/GC |Italy |31,262
African Wave |GC |Malta |13,750
Sea Lift |CR |Malta |3,500
Achtergracht |GC |Netherlands |12,150
Admiralengracht |GC |Netherlands |12,150
Alysta Smits |GC |Netherlands |6,100
Ankercracht |GC |Netherlands |12,150
Archangelgracht |GC |Netherlands |12,150
Artiscracht |GC |Netherlands |11,300
Bakengracht |GC |Netherlands |3,489
Barentzgracht |GC |Netherlands |3,444
Bataagratch |GC |Netherlands |3,444
Beurscratch |GC |Netherlands |3,448
Bouwerscratch |GC |Netherlands |3,445
Heemskerkcratch |GC |Netherlands |4,553
Houtmangratch |GC |Netherlands |4,553
Hudsongratch |GC |Netherlands |4,510
Kaapgracht |GC |Netherlands |8,038
Koggecratch |GC |Netherlands |5,022
Lee Francis |GC |Netherlands |3,980
Pijlgratch |GC |Netherlands |9,650
Prinsengratch |GC |Netherlands |9,498
Slotergratch |GC |Netherlands |3,482
Suglegratch |GC |Netherlands |3,482
Snoekgratch |GC |Netherlands |3,482
Stadiongratch |GC |Netherlands |3,414
Swallow |GC |Netherlands |4,816
Swan |GC |Netherlands |4,792
|Netherlands, Antibes
Jessica |RR/GC |and Aruba |3,502
|Netherlands, Antibes
Moon Bird |GC |and Aruba |3,787
|Netherlands, Antibes
Sky Bird |GC |and Aruba |4,305
|Netherlands, Antibes
Atlantica |RR/GC |and Aruba |3,548
Arcade Falcon |RR |Norway |6,670
Canis |RR |Norway |4,380
Euro Nor |RR |Norway |3,940
Geroro |RR/GC |Norway |4,514
Hual Margarita |RR |Norway |16,317
Kas Christina |RR |Norway |6,870
Kas Marianne |RR |Norway |6,871
Liftmar |GC |Norway |2,896
Nomadic Patria |GC |Norway |17,160
Nomadic Pollux |GC |Norway |7,161
Nornews Service |RR |Norway |3,927
Seahorse |RR |Norway |5,710
Beeco America |GC |Panama |9,292
Gala Atlantica |GC |Panama |12,628
Cecilia |GC |Panama |6,293
Hual Traveller |VEH |Panama |15,370
Hual Tribute |RR |Panama |16,317
Mizar |GC |Panama |3,610
Roro Runner |RR |Panama |4,838
Q I A Fuja's |CT |Qatar |35,615
Arroyo Frio Dos |RR |Spain |5,080
|St. Vincent and
Conti Blue |GC |Grenadines |3,510
|St. Vincent and
Scheldemond |GC |and Grenadines |4,940
Bore Gothica |RR |Sweden |8,672
Nordic Pride |RR |Sweden |5,200
Salar |RR |Sweden |5,000
Skane Link |RR |Sweden |9,000
Stig Gorthon |RR/GC |Sweden |6,382
Tender |RR |Sweden |5,000
Atlantic Conveyor |RR/CT/VEH |United Kingdom |44,988
Baltic Eagle |RR |United Kingdom |9,450
Baltic Rider |RR |United Kingdom |12,830
Baltic Progress |RR |United Kingdom |5,615
Wolfsburg |RR |Union of Myanmar |9,600
Koh Jin |VEH |Vanatu |19,422
Ship type key:
RR=Roll on Roll off, GC=General Cargo, DCS=Deck Cargo Ship, CR=Cargo, RF=Refrigerated Cargo, VEH=Vehicle Carriers, CT=Containers.
Statutory Sick Pay
Mr. Ingram : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 17 January, Official Report , columns 445-46 , what are the additional costs, net of any reduction in employer's national insurance contributions, to his departmental budget for the financial year 1994-95 of the changes in statutory sick pay provision.
Mr. Aitken : Any assessment of the net effect of the changes to statutory sick pay provision and the reduction in employer's national insurance contributions for the financial year 1994-95 could be provided only at disproporationate cost.
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Chartered Vessels
Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the name, type, country of registration and gross registered tonnage of each vessel chartered for use by the British Government in (a) the Falkland campaign and (b) Operation Granby.
Mr. Hanley : Information for the Falklands campaign is not held in the form requested and can be provided only at disproportionate cost. The name, type, country and registration and gross tonnage of the vessels chartered by the British Government during Operation Granby is as follows :
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Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the cost in today's prices, of chartering (a) British and (b) foreign merchant vessels for (i) the Falklands campaign and (ii) Operation Granby.
Mr. Hanley : The cost at today's prices of chartering British and foreign merchant ships during Operation Granby was £15,303,925 and £122,516,169 respectively. The information for the Falklands campaign is not held and can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Options for Change"
Dr. Reid : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many personnel, as defined in table 2.4 of "UK Defence Statistics 1993", will be retained by each of the services following the completion of the "Options for Change" force restructuring programme.
Mr. Hanley : On current plans, in 1995 the forecast requirement for service manpower will be around 52,500 in the Royal Navy, up to 122, 000 in the Army--including Gurkhas and up to an additional 3,000 announced by my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Defence on 1 December 1993--and around 70,000 in the Royal Air Force.
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