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Mr. Waldegrave : Since January 1990, 1,578 new names have been added to the central list and 2,513 names have been deleted. The total number of names on the list is currently 5,015.
Charterline
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what is the cost of uniforms worn by staff answering telephones at the charterline offices in Havant, Hampshire.
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Mr. David Davis : There is no direct cost to the Citizen's Charter Unit for uniforms worn by staff answering Charterline calls. The Charterline pilot is operated under a service contract by IBM's National Call Management Centre at Havant, and uniforms are provided as an integral part of this service.
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how much money has been spent on publicising the charterline scheme.
Mr. Davis : A total of £542,010 has been spent on publicising the Charterline scheme.
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what assessment he has made of the pilot charterline scheme's first nine months of operation.
Mr. Davis : In background research more than 92 per cent. of people thought that Charterline should be launched ; 84 per cent. of those who use Charterline are happy with the service. We will be reviewing the pilot study at the end of March.
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what is his estimate of the cost of extending the charterline scheme to cover the whole of the United Kingdom.
Mr. Davis : It would be possible to extend the Charterline scheme to cover the whole of the United Kingdom at minimal additional cost if the current call rates were repeated across the country. The total cost of running Charterline would depend on operating and advertising costs. The pilot will run until the end of March 1994. At the end of the pilot study we will make decisions about its future, which will include options for extending the service and the costs of doing so.
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what plans there are to extend the charterline scheme to cover the whole of the United Kingdom.
Mr. Davis : Charterline is currently a pilot available to citizens in Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire. This pilot will run until the end of March 1994. At the end of the pilot study we will make decisions about its future, which will include options for extending the service.
Duchy of Lancaster Benevolent Fund
Mr. Gordon Prentice : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what selection criteria are used for appointing persons to serve on the board of the Duchy of Lancaster's benevolent fund.
Mr. Waldegrave : I refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave him on 31 January at column 469.
Charter News"
Mr. Cryer : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what was the cost of publishing and printing "Charter News" issue No. 2 ; how many copies are being distributed ; and what is the total contract with Forward Publishing Ltd. worth ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Waldegrave : The cost of publishing and printing "Charter News" issue No. 2 was £35,036. Approximately
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110,000 copies are being distributed. Details of the contract with Forward Publishing Ltd. are commercially confidential.Science Budget
Mrs. Gillan : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will make a statement on the distribution of the science budget in 1994-95.
Mr. Waldegrave : The distribution of the science budget for 1994-95 represents the first allocation of funding to the new research council system outlined in the White Paper on Science, Engineering and Technology which I presented to the House on 26 May 1993. On 1 April 1994 three new research councils come into existence, namely the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. The activities of the Agricultural and Food Research Council and the Science and Engineering Research Council will transfer to the new and existing research councils on 1 April.
I have discussed the allocations with the Director General of Research Councils and have decided that, subject to parliamentary approval of the Supply Estimates in due course, the science budget of £1,236.5 million should be allocated as follows :
Allocations for |£ million
1994-95
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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research
Council |171.8
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council |364.0
Economic and Social Research Council |58.9
Medical Research Council |269.2
Natural Environment Research Council |155.4
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council |184.9
Royal Society |20.1
Royal Academy of Engineering |2.2
OST initiatives/policy studies, CEST subscription |3.6
Other, including payments to pensioners of the
Science and Engineering Research Council and
industrial quota CASE awards |6.4
|-------
Total |1,236.5
These figures include additional funding for activities of high scientific priority and also for the introduction of some new pilot schemes targeted specifically at researchers working alongside industry. Further details are set out in the paper "Allocation of the Science Budget 1994-95" which I have placed in the Library of the House.
Charter Marks
Mr. Cryer : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what is the total estimated cost of the charter mark regional seminars for 1994 and the additional costs of promoting and publishing charter marks.
Mr. Waldegrave : A decision has yet to be taken on the number of charter mark seminars to be held, and I am not yet able, therefore to give an estimated cost.
In 1993, we spent £105,000 to announce the scheme, and £345,000 to announce the charter mark winners. The figures are likely to be similar this year.
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Citizens Conference
Mr. Cryer : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what was the cost of the service for the citizen conference held on 7-8 December ; who were the organisers ; what was the contract worth ; and what fees were paid to speakers.
Mr. Waldegrave : The service for the citizen conference held on 7-8 December 1993 was organised by Touchstone Exhibitions and Conferences Ltd.
The organisers bore all the costs of the conference, including payment to speakers.
Duchy Benevolent Fund
Mr. Gordon Prentice : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list for each of the last five years the organisations in (a) Lancaster and (b) the borough of Pendle that have benefited from grants and donations from the Duchy of Lancaster benevolent fund ; and if he will give the amounts in each case.
Mr. Waldegrave : The Duchy of Lancaster benevolent fund has been maintained to provide income to be used for benevolent purposes primarily in the County Palatine. In making donations attempts have been made to distribute them fairly between the counties of Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside ; although from time to time one area may appear to have received greater benefit than others. Donations have been made to causes which are known to duchy authorities and also in response to recommendations received. Several charities who have received money from the fund in turn made donations to organisations and individuals resident in the County Palatine. Therefore an accurate reflection of precise geographical distribution of donations over the last five years would be difficult to obtain and would entail disproportionate cost. I am, however, arranging for lists of donations made to charitable organisations within the County Palatine for the past five years to be placed in the Library of the House.
The offer I made to the hon. Gentleman in 1992 for a more detailed briefing on duchy matters remains open.
ENVIRONMENT
Ministerial Visits
Mr. Cox : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his reply of 25 November 1993 to the hon. Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Vaz), Official Report, column 186, if he will now name the cities that he has visited since his appointment as Secretary of State.
Mr. Gummer : Further to my answer to the hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Benton) on 1 December 1993, Official Report, column 1030 , I have since visited Norwich, Newcastle, Telford and Prague. I said I visited 45 towns and cities. They are :
--------------------------------------------------------- Manchester |Bristol Cambridge |Rochester York |Peterborough Coventry |London Birmingham |Ipswich Leicester |Cheltenham Liverpool |Oxford Portsmouth |Harrogate Nottingham |Tonbridge Derby |Stoneleigh (Warks) Gloucester |Harpenden Newmarket |Hertford Newbury |Buckingham Kings Lynn |Huntingdon Thurrock |Woodbridge Southend-on-Sea |Felixstowe Hastings |Stowmarket Bury St. Edmunds |Brussels Chorley |Luxembourg Stratford |New York Datford |Monte Carlo Chatham |Paris Bakewell
Council Housing Repairs
Mr. Jim Cunningham : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what estimate he has made of the total cost of carrying out necessary repairs to local authority housing; and if he will make a statement.
Sir George Young : The priority placed on stock repairs and levels of expenditure are matters for local authorities. However, estimates of the works required, related to different standards of repair and to the characteristics of local authority property, are provided by the quinquennial English house condition survey. A report of the most recent survey was published in August 1993 and copies have been placed in the Library.
Housing Lets
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what were the numbers of local authority lets and housing association lets in each year since 1979.
Sir George Young : The number of local authority lets and estimates of housing association lets in each year since 1979 are as follows :
Local authority Housing
association<1>
|(000s) |(000s)
|Total |of which |Total |of which
|lettings |new lettings|lettings |new lettings
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1979-80 |438 |275 |45 |37
1980-81 |444 |275 |51 |42
1981-82 |415 |251 |52 |43
1982-83 |439 |256 |55 |45
1983-84 |429 |246 |58 |47
1984-85 |429 |240 |60 |49
1985-86 |437 |247 |62 |51
1986-87 |430 |244 |64 |52
1987-88 |426 |242 |67 |54
1988-89 |410 |236 |70 |57
1989-90 |390 |229 |76 |60
1990-91 |401 |240 |77 |63
1991-92 |407 |239 |86 |71
1992-93 |400 |230 |109 |91
<1> Figures for the number of housing association lets in England have
been available only since 1989-90. Figures for the previous years have
been estimated on the basis of England and Wales data available for those
years.
Source:
Local authority-HIP1 returns
Housing association-HAR10/1 returns
Ministers
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the dates between which each Secretary of State and Minister of State has held office in his Department since 1979.
Mr. Gummer : The information is set out :
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|Date
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|Secretaries
of State
Peter Shore |April 1976 to May 1979
Michael |May 1979 to 6 January 1983
Heseltine
Tom King |6 January 1983 to 8 June 1983
Patrick |9 June 1983 to 2 September 1985
Jenkin
Kenneth |2 September 1985 to 21 May 1986
Baker
Nicholas |21 May 1986 to 24 July 1989
Ridley
Christopher |24 July 1989 to 28 November 1990
Patten
Michael |28 November 1990 to 11 April 1992
Heseltine
Michael |11 April 1992 to 27 May 1993
Howard
John |27 May 1993 to date
Gummer
Ministers of State
Reg Freeson |March 1974 to May 1979
Dennis |March 1974 to May 1979
Howell
Tom King |May 1979 to 6 January 1983
John |May 1979 to 8 June 1983
Stanley
Lord |6 January 1983 to 10 September 1984
Bellwin
Ian Gow |9 June 1983 to 2 September 1985
Kenneth |10 September 1984 to 2 September 1985
Baker
Lord Elton |25 March 1985 to 10 September 1986
William |2 September 1985 to 25 July 1988
Waldegrave
John Patten |2 September 1985 to 15 June 1987
Dr Rhodes |11 September 1986 to 15 June 1987
Boyson
Michael |15 June 1987 to 3 January 1990
Howard
Lord |15 June 1987 to 10 January 1988
Belstead
Earl |10 January 1988 to 24 July 1989
Caithness
John |25 July 1988 to 24 July 1989
Gummer
David |25 July 1988 to 13 April 1992
Trippier
David Hunt |25 July 1989 to 4 May 1990
Michael |3 January 1990 to 29 November 1990
Spicer
Michael |4 May 1990 to 13 April 1992
Portillo
Sir George |29 November 1990 to date
Young
Lady Blatch |22 May 1991 to 13 April 1992
John |14 April 1992 to 27 May 1993
Redwood
David |14 April 1992 to 27 May 1993
Maclean
David Curry |27 May 1993 to date
Tim Yeo |27 May 1993 to 4 January 1994
Robert |4 January 1994 to date
Atkins
Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what contribution the THORP at Sellafield makes to his strategy of sustainable development.
Mr. Atkins : Reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel recovers uranium and plutonium, which may then be recycled. Provided that the necessary regulatory requirements are met, the Government believe that it should be a matter of commercial judgment whether spent fuel should be reprocessed or alternative fuel management options pursued.
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has had from the Irish ambassador to the United Kingdom and the Irish Minister for Energy, Transport and Communications, following his announcement of his decision to give authorisation for THORP to open.
Mr. Atkins : The Secretary of State received a visit from the ambassador in London of the Republic of Ireland on 16 December 1993. The ambassador raised a number of points with regard to THORP on behalf of his Government.
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Nuclear Waste
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what proportion of the nuclear waste arising comprised by low-level waste, disposed of at Drigg, originates from foreign spent nuclear fuel reprocessed at Sellafield.
Mr. Atkins : I understand that at the end of March 1993, some 5 per cent. of low-level waste disposed of at Drigg has arisen from reprocessing spent fuel from overseas.
Paintings and Photographs
Mr. Boyes : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many (a) paintings and (b) photographs there are on the walls of his rooms.
Mr. Gummer : Five paintings and one photograph, as well as 14 prints.
Charities
Mr. Robert Ainsworth : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will introduce measures to ensure that all charities are entitled to bid for Government grants available for environmental work.
Mr. Atkins : The Department's environmental action fund is the main source of grants for environmental work. The fund is available to voluntary organisations and a number of registered charities get grants.
Special Advisers
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 11 January, Official Report, column 1, what are the particular qualifications, experience or expertise relating to the work of the Department of the Environment of his special adviser Mr. James Gray.
Mr. Gummer : It is not my practice to comment on the qualifications, expertise or experience of my political special advisers.
Watch Your Waste"
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what part his Department plays in the Open university book "Watch Your Waste" to which reference is made at page 153 of the report on the Government's sustainable development strategy, released on 25 January.
Mr. Atkins : The Department of the Environment funded the production of the book.
Nuclear Recycling
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what considerations underlay the decision not to include nuclear recycling at Sellafield or Dounreay in chapter 23 on waste and recycling, at pages 148 to 157 of Her Majesty's Government's sustainable development strategy report published on 25 January.
Mr. Atkins : Chapter 23 of "Sustainable Development : the UK Strategy"--Cm 2426--concerns non-radioactive waste.
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Climate Change
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment which (a) university or (b) independent research departments were consulted in the preparation of the report on the United Kingdom climate change programme published on 25 January.
Mr. Atkins : Nineteen universities and research institutes responded to the discussion document on Britain's carbon dioxide programme that was published in December 1992. In addition, many universities and research institutes were invited to attend workshops in March 1993 and a conference in May 1993, to discuss the options for the completion of Britain's carbon dioxide programme. A list of these respondents and invitees is set out.
Advisory Council on Science and Technology
Birmingham University
Cambridge University
Energy Technology Support Unit
Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development King's College London
Lancaster University
Leeds Metropolitan University
University of Leeds
University of Liverpool
Manchester Metropolitan University
Open University
University of Oxford
Science Policy Research Unit
Silsoe Research Institute
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Southampton Energy and Transport Working GroupStaffordshire University
Transport Research Laboratory
UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Protection
University of Sussex
University College London
University College of Wales
University of Wales
Local Roads Spending
Ms Walley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the spending assessment for each local authority for spending on maintainance of local roads in each year since 1989.
Mr. Baldry : The highway maintenance element of the standard spending assessment for each highway authority for the years 1990-91, 1991- 92, 1992-93, 1993-94 and 1994-95 are shown. SSAs were introduced in 1990- 91. The figures shown for 1989-90 are the sum of the separate elements for normal maintenance, winter maintenance, and street lighting within the system of grant-related expenditure assessments which operated until 1989- 90.
Comparisons between years are complicated by the transfer in recent years of funding for the structural maintenance of bridges and principal roads from the revenue to the capital account--and therefore from SSAs to transport supplementary grant and credit approvals. A total of £310 million was transferred between 1991-92 and 1993-94.
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Highway maintenance grant-related expenditure for 1989-90 and standard spending assessment since 1990-91 for each highway authority £ million Local authority |1989-90 |1990-91 |1991-92 |1992-93 |1993-94 |1994-95 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- City of London |0.505 |1.346 |1.650 |2.486 |2.415 |2.734 Camden |3.613 |5.078 |5.885 |5.868 |5.494 |5.715 Greenwich |5.752 |7.356 |8.663 |7.668 |7.635 |7.568 Hackney |3.989 |5.287 |6.055 |6.065 |5.662 |5.966 Hammersmith and Fulham |3.021 |4.262 |4.852 |5.185 |4.712 |4.918 Islington |3.092 |4.222 |4.975 |5.369 |4.747 |4.925 Kensington and Chelsea |2.892 |4.112 |4.623 |4.385 |4.388 |4.671 Lambeth |5.259 |6.656 |7.810 |7.239 |7.161 |7.433 Lewisham |5.004 |6.662 |7.934 |7.988 |7.632 |7.953 Southwark |4.716 |6.653 |7.812 |7.366 |6.850 |7.151 Tower Hamlets |3.587 |4.612 |5.297 |5.192 |5.025 |5.360 Wandsworth |4.774 |6.714 |7.819 |7.804 |7.655 |8.123 Westminster |5.320 |8.241 |9.641 |9.483 |8.760 |9.654 Barking and Dagenham |3.346 |4.290 |4.678 |4.666 |4.383 |4.275 Barnet |5.855 |7.946 |9.102 |9.402 |8.672 |8.686 Bexley |4.774 |6.230 |6.924 |7.188 |6.650 |6.691 Brent |5.504 |7.149 |8.033 |7.989 |7.209 |7.226 Bromley |7.652 |9.558 |10.952 |10.873 |10.013 |10.034 Croydon |7.509 |10.111 |11.041 |11.234 |10.333 |10.416 Ealing |6.373 |8.368 |8.998 |8.738 |8.310 |8.619 Enfield |5.625 |7.407 |8.202 |8.471 |7.715 |7.943 Haringey |3.685 |4.957 |5.581 |5.676 |5.499 |5.551 Harrow |4.397 |5.612 |6.104 |6.445 |5.790 |5.816 Havering |4.801 |6.588 |7.495 |8.182 |7.941 |8.194 Hillingdon |5.814 |7.870 |8.676 |9.130 |8.396 |8.423 Hounslow |4.149 |5.571 |6.405 |6.951 |6.598 |6.535 Kingston upon Thames |3.096 |4.251 |4.745 |4.794 |4.559 |4.752 Merton |3.910 |5.192 |5.860 |5.824 |5.532 |5.534 Newham |4.689 |6.008 |6.579 |6.544 |6.389 |6.575 Redbridge |5.237 |6.279 |7.297 |7.801 |7.121 |7.168 Richmond upon Thames |3.764 |4.724 |5.419 |5.209 |5.055 |5.177 Sutton |4.075 |5.525 |5.888 |5.679 |5.652 |5.719 Waltham Forest |4.429 |5.809 |6.533 |6.564 |6.180 |6.226 Bolton |7.174 |9.814 |10.948 |9.786 |9.407 |9.810 Bury |4.840 |6.522 |7.157 |7.129 |6.656 |6.689 Manchester |14.871 |19.332 |22.192 |21.014 |20,541 |20.156 Oldham |6.483 |6.962 |7.605 |7.727 |7.002 |6.849 Rochdale |5.703 |6.378 |7.570 |7.110 |7.157 |7.030 Salford |6.653 |9.826 |10.667 |10.157 |10.527 |10.581 Stockport |7.661 |10.334 |11.069 |11.395 |10.849 |10.435 Tameside |6.506 |8.074 |8.984 |8.523 |8.666 |8.430 Trafford |6.327 |8.672 |9.559 |9.424 |9.501 |9.128 Wigan |7.520 |8.993 |10.178 |10.151 |9.592 |9.765 Knowsley |3.288 |4.200 |4.800 |4.871 |4.557 |4.560 Liverpool |11.916 |14.833 |17.544 |16.950 |16.908 |16.544 St. Helens |4.778 |5.277 |6.293 |6.272 |5.830 |5.612 Sefton |5.969 |7.406 |8.554 |8.523 |8.191 |8.025 Wirral |6.666 |8.066 |9.481 |10.297 |9.187 |9.011 Barnsley |5.374 |6.229 |7.107 |7.008 |6.949 |6.853 Doncaster |8.311 |8.310 |10.024 |10.258 |10.926 |10.922 Rotherham |7.513 |9.193 |10.471 |10.948 |10.445 |10.253 Sheffield |15.928 |19.780 |23.830 |24.189 |23.791 |23.575 Gateshead |6.804 |8.360 |9.851 |10.601 |10.404 |10.425 Newcastle upon Tyne |8.243 |11.330 |13.254 |12.478 |12.266 |11.858 North Tyneside |4.592 |6.298 |7.066 |7.497 |6.861 |6.713 South Tyneside |3.661 |4.343 |5.356 |6.005 |5.721 |5.298 Sunderland |6.987 |8.563 |10.950 |11.585 |11.596 |11.674 Birmingham |24.361 |32.928 |37.420 |37.024 |36.330 |35.532 Coventry |7.694 |10.498 |10.855 |10.944 |10.416 |10.144 Dudley |7.653 |10.066 |11.269 |10.425 |10.736 |10.805 Sandwell |8.263 |10.458 |11.753 |11.616 |11.277 |11.042 Solihull |4.599 |6.398 |7.608 |7.816 |7.825 |8.020 Walsall |6.324 |8.225 |9.186 |8.739 |9.295 |9.288 Wolverhampton |6.971 |8.796 |9.721 |8.853 |8.818 |8.636 Bradford |11.889 |14.578 |16.721 |16.146 |17.684 |17.619 Calderdale |5.243 |5.937 |6.737 |6.840 |6.495 |6.394 Kirklees |11.816 |13.583 |14.767 |14.758 |13.454 |13.365 Leeds |20.965 |25.845 |28.712 |29.077 |27.634 |27.244 Wakefield |9.095 |11.086 |11.904 |11.506 |11.403 |11.592 Avon |27.054 |34.653 |38.456 |38.735 |36.341 |36.177 Bedfordshire |10.147 |15.210 |18.156 |19.611 |19.024 |20.607 Berkshire |16.264 |24.181 |26.011 |29.150 |26.304 |27.776 Buckinghamshire |16.256 |21.803 |24.031 |25.717 |24.803 |24.886 Cambridgeshire |17.521 |21.777 |25.240 |24.528 |23.710 |26.323 Cheshire |25.121 |31.175 |34.432 |33.974 |33.167 |33.426 Cleveland |15.546 |17.901 |21.091 |22.299 |20.294 |20.170 Cornwall |16.491 |18.972 |20.928 |21.807 |21.290 |22.348 Cumbria |18.506 |20.786 |23.070 |23.651 |22.472 |24.152 Derbyshire |22.991 |26.449 |30.587 |31.272 |29.857 |29.441 Devon |37.653 |40.106 |45.563 |47.063 |44.571 |42.514 Dorset |19.307 |21.758 |24.680 |24.632 |24.273 |24.292 Durham |16.616 |17.529 |20.393 |20.411 |19.703 |19.626 East Sussex |15.425 |19.265 |21.909 |21.323 |20.964 |21.195 Essex |33.436 |49.024 |54.349 |58.392 |58.308 |61.069 Gloucestershire |14.989 |16.483 |19.757 |19.572 |17.787 |17.589 Hampshire |37.859 |49.329 |54.702 |56.154 |53.316 |53.424 Hereford and Worcester |21.586 |23.126 |26.858 |25.462 |25.114 |24.968 Hertfordshire |23.672 |31.649 |37.628 |40.077 |38.130 |39.142 Humberside |23.160 |25.382 |28.254 |28.845 |28.174 |27.795 Isle of Wight |3.095 |3.520 |3.899 |4.161 |3.471 |3.773 Kent |39.260 |53.727 |59.197 |60.187 |56.555 |58.102 Lancashire |36.612 |41.530 |46.932 |49.675 |47.659 |47.570 Leicestershire |26.868 |31.251 |34.390 |34.327 |33.807 |33.956 Lincolnshire |19.502 |23.527 |25.984 |25.918 |24.686 |26.586 Norfolk |24.218 |26.876 |32.135 |31.243 |30.802 |33.100 Northamptonshire |14.992 |20.428 |21.889 |21.614 |20.925 |21.014 Northumberland |13.226 |14.953 |16.518 |16.631 |16.094 |17.209 North Yorkshire |25.910 |28.674 |32.843 |32.232 |32.435 |32.796 Nottinghamshire |26.617 |31.417 |35.238 |36.575 |33.168 |33.109 Oxfordshire |12.877 |16.075 |17.826 |19.749 |18.011 |18.862 Shropshire |13.908 |16.056 |17.861 |17.505 |17.014 |18.430 Somerset |18.058 |20.657 |24.493 |25.265 |23.170 |23.088 Staffordshire |27.904 |31.949 |37.490 |35.720 |35.301 |35.265 Suffolk |17.266 |19.349 |22.108 |21.721 |24.177 |24.421 Surrey |28.356 |40.281 |43.183 |44.727 |39.855 |42.446 Warwickshire |11.220 |13.739 |16.535 |16.843 |17.153 |17.641 West Sussex |17.021 |22.052 |24.461 |24.006 |22.885 |23.249 Wiltshire |15.026 |19.099 |21.975 |21.955 |20.064 |19.712 Isles of Scilly |0.112 |0.144 |0.158 |0.168 |0.133 |0.144 Note: The grant-related expenditure for 1989-90 is the sum of the normal maintenance, winter maintenance and street lighting components; for shire counties this is prior to any assignment to shire districts. For all authorities it excludes professional and technical services.
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Depleted Uranium
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the progress made by Her Majesty's pollution inspectorate in assessing the effects of test firing of depleted uranium ammunition on the environment.
Mr. Atkins : The Ministry of Defence carries out a programme of regular environmental monitoring at its Eskmeals site. The results of this monitoring are made available to HMIP.
Local Government Ombudsman
Mr. Robert Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what sanctions govern the enforcement of rulings arrived at by the local government ombudsman on complaints from the public.
Mr. Baldry : A local authority which declines to comply fully with the remedies imposed by the ombudsman must publish a statement of its reasons for failing to implement the report in local newspapers at its own expense, together with a statement about the matter provided by the ombudsman.
Conservation Areas
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he will designate parts of Cardigan bay, the Bristol channel and St. George's channel as special areas of conservation under directive 92/43/EEC.
Mr. Atkins : The list of sites which member states shall designate as special areas of conservation must be agreed with the Commission by 1998 and the site designation process must be completed by 2004. The Government's scientific advisers are preparing their recommendations for the United Kingdom's proposed special areas of conservation. It is therefore premature to comment on whether and when specific sites might be designated.
Retirement Housing
Mr. Miller : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) from what groups representing (a) leaseholders and (b) managing agents and landlords he sought advice during the formulation of the code of conduct for retirement housing ;
(2) when he expects to be able to publish the code of conduct for retirement housing ; and if it will be compulsory.
Sir George Young : Section 87 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 gives the Secretary of State for the Environment powers to endorse codes of good management practice submitted to him for approval. The Act prevents the Secretary of State from approving any code unless he is satisfied that arrangements have been made to ensure that it has been brought to the notice of those likely to be affected by it.
The Act also provides that any code which is approved will be admissible evidence and where relevant may be taken into account in any court proceedings relating to the management of residential property.
So far, no such codes have been submitted for approval, but I understand that the Royal Institution of Chartered
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Surveyors and the Association of Retirement Housing Managers have published draft codes of practice and are consulting on them widely.Public Bodies
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment which non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible have been (a) abolished or (b) created since 1979.
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