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|In cash terms|At 1993-94
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|£ million |£ million
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1994-95 |212 |204
1995-96 |223 |206
1996-97 |170 |153
No estimate has yet been made in respect of 1997-98.
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Prisons (Drugs)
Sir Ivan Lawrence : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to introduce legislation to facilitate drug testing in prisons ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Howard : The Government believe it is essential to take action to deal with the problem of illicit drug use in our prisons. I therefore intend to bring forward a clause for inclusion in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill which will allow the Prison Service to test prisoners for drug abuse. In addition to this a new prison rule will be made by statutory instrument under the Prisons Act 1952 which will make the use of illicit drugs a disciplinary offence. I understand my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Scotland, will bring forward a similar measure.
We believe that these measures will play a significant part in tackling illicit drug use and its deleterious effect on the maintenance of good order and discipline in our prisons.
Prison Education
Mr. Martyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he has set a minimum standard of education for prisoners to reach before leaving prison ; and if he will make a statement ;
(2) if he will make a statement on the curriculum for prison education for specified prisoners throughout the prison system ; and if he will make a statement ;
(3) if he will make a policy statement on standards of prison education ;
(4) what is (a) the target and (b) average actual number of education hours per week for prisoners in England and Wales ; and if he will make a statement.
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 Mr. Martyn Jones, dated 3 February 1994 :
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions about the provision of education in penal establishments in England and Wales.
The policies and standards for prison education are set out in the White Paper "Custody, Care and Justice" (Cm 1647), in Prison and Young Offender Institution Rules, in Prison Standing Orders and in supplementary guidance.
Education programmes should enable prisoners to learn effectively, should particularly identify and provide help for those prisoners who have difficulty reading or writing and who are unable to do simple arithmetic, and should provide appropriate help to those prisoners who have inadequate social skills. Over and above fulfilling these basic needs, programmes aim to develop a broad based educational experience for people in custody.
Education in prison is provided under contract by Further Education Colleges and other direct education providers in the community and to comparable standards. The curriculum at any individual prison establishment is agreed between the governor and the education provider and will take account of the assessed learning needs of the inmate population. The capabilities and needs of individual prisoners vary, but programmes encourage prisoners to acquire not only worthwhile qualifications but also wider exposure to the arts and handicrafts. Education, other than for young offenders under the age of 17, is not compulsory and setting a minimum educational standard for all prisoners to reach before release would not be appropriate.
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The Prison Service sets overall targets for the number of hours each prisoner should spend on a range of purposeful activities, including work, education and training, but not for individual regime activities. The number of hours that prisoners are engaged in education has, however, increased in recent years from 5.56million in 1987- 88 to 7.57 million in 1992-93.Electoral Registers
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what conclusions were agreed on the post election review on arrangements for inspecting marked registers after elections in their home electoral district rather than in London.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from the hon. Member for Derbyshire, North-East (Mr. Barnes) on 20 January at column 747. Home Office officials are in consultation with officials in the Lord Chancellor's Department about the suggestion.
Prison Building
Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisons have completed all the design, town planning and public inquiry stages and are ready to commence building in the next financial year ; and how many new prisons are in the course of construction.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Responsibility for these matters 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 Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith, dated 3 February 1994.
The Home Secretary has asked me, in the absence of the Director General from the office, to reply to your recent Question about the new prison building programme.
There is one new prison currently under construction at Doncaster. This is due to open in the summer this year and will be the twenty-first prison to be built under the current programme. A further six new prisons have been announced but it is not planned to begin construction of any of these in the next financial year, 1994-95.
Sites at Fazakerley in Merseyside and at Bridgend in South Wales have been identified for the first two prisons. The proposal to build a prison on the Fazakerley site was the subject of a non-statutory public local inquiry held between 26 October and 10 November 1993 and we are awaiting the outcome. We have outline planning clearance to build a prison on the site at Bridgend.
Prostitutes
Mr. Ashton : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many women who were engaged in prostitution activities were murdered or severely assaulted in each of the last 10 years.
Mr. Maclean : The information available relates to homicide offences in which the relationship between the victim and the suspect has been recorded as prostitute and client, and is set out in the table.
Similar information on assaults is not recorded centrally.
Recorded homicides where relationship was prostitute/client Year |Number --------------------- 1983 |2 1984 |- 1985 |2 1986 |3 1987 |- 1988 |3 1989 |2 1990 |2 1991 |- 1992 |-
Probation and Bail Hostels
Mr. Peter Bottomley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list for each of the past three years and estimate for the next three years, the number of probation and bail hostels, the number of places and the occupancy rates ; if he will estimate the cost for each place and for each used place ; and what are the comparable figures for the cost of gaol.
Mr. Maclean : The available information is as follows :
1. Numbers
Year |Number of|Number of|Average
|hostels |places |occupancy
|per cent.
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1990-91 |108 |2,190 |79
1991-92 |111 |2,444 |74
1992-93 |114 |2,656 |64
1993-94 |115 |2,690 |70
1994-95 |107 |2,560 |83
1995-96 |107 |2,680 |83
2. Costs (expressed annually in terms of 80 per cent. Home
Office grant
towards running costs)
Year |Cost per place|Cost per
|used place
|(£) |(£)
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1990-91 |7,352 |9,306
1991-92 |7,447 |10,061
1992-93 |9,130 |14,265
1993-94 |9,803 |14,005
1994-95 |9,887 |11,912
1995-96 |9,974 |12,019
Figures for the cost of prison places are not readily available in a comparable form.
Road Accidents
Mr. Hain : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were the number of road accidents (a) per police officer and (b) per 100,000 population for each year since 1979 for the South Wales, Thames Valley, Kent, Lancashire, Avon and Somerset and Hampshire police authority areas ; and what were the comparable totals for all non-metropolitan and Welsh non-metropolitan police authority areas.
Mr. Key : The information requested is shown in the following two tables.
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Accidents by Police Force area: 1979-1992
Rate
Rate per Police
Officer
Year of Accident |Lancashire |Thames Valley |Hampshire |Kent |Avon and Somerset|South Wales
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1979 |1.9 |2.8 |2.5 |2.4 |1.9 |1.6
1980 |1.9 |2.2 |2.4 |2.4 |1.9 |1.5
1981 |1.8 |2.5 |2.4 |2.4 |1.8 |1.5
1982 |1.9 |2.6 |2.5 |2.4 |1.9 |1.5
1983 |1.8 |2.6 |2.4 |2.4 |1.8 |1.4
1984 |1.9 |2.8 |2.7 |2.4 |1.8 |1.4
1985 |1.9 |2.6 |2.6 |2.2 |1.7 |1.4
1986 |1.8 |2.6 |2.5 |2.2 |1.7 |1.5
1987 |1.7 |2.4 |2.4 |2.1 |1.6 |1.5
1988 |1.7 |2.4 |2.6 |2.0 |1.7 |1.6
1989 |1.9 |2.4 |2.6 |2.1 |1.6 |1.7
1990 |1.9 |2.3 |2.5 |2.1 |1.6 |1.7
1991 |1.8 |2.0 |2.2 |2.0 |1.5 |1.5
1992 |1.9 |2.1 |2.1 |2.0 |1.4 |1.5
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Accidents by Police Force area: 1979-1992
Rate
Rate per 100,000
population
Year of Accident |Lancashire |Thames Valley |Hampshire |Kent |Avon and Somerset|South Wales
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1979 |430.3 |438.8 |507.2 |465.0 |410.6 |371.4
1980 |425.1 |380.0 |496.1 |466.4 |406.9 |363.6
1981 |415.7 |433.4 |493.7 |468.3 |407.7 |361.3
1982 |430.2 |446.4 |519.9 |472.9 |416.8 |366.4
1983 |405.8 |449.2 |496.1 |455.7 |389.5 |342.8
1984 |430.2 |499.4 |536.4 |465.1 |378.7 |346.6
1985 |434.1 |459.3 |514.2 |426.4 |364.8 |340.9
1986 |404.4 |467.5 |508.9 |428.2 |360.6 |355.0
1987 |391.5 |432.4 |486.5 |405.8 |344.9 |356.0
1988 |395.3 |438.9 |507.9 |388.7 |357.1 |379.8
1989 |426.6 |448.8 |520.5 |414.3 |342.6 |409.9
1990 |435.1 |434.8 |501.8 |407.1 |337.2 |394.0
1991 |413.0 |383.0 |449.8 |387.3 |317.3 |349.4
1992 |428.6 |395.0 |445.0 |402.1 |296.7 |346.9
Accidents in non-metropolitan areas 1979-92
Rate per police Rate per 100,000
officer population
Year of |England-non |Wales-non |England-non |Wales-non
accident |metropolitan|metropolitan|metropolitan|metropolitan
|areas |areas |areas |areas
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1979 |2.3 |1.8 |452 |403
1980 |2.2 |1.8 |442 |391
1981 |2.2 |1.7 |441 |386
1982 |2.3 |1.8 |454 |394
1983 |2.2 |1.6 |432 |367
1984 |2.3 |1.7 |454 |375
1985 |2.2 |1.6 |439 |362
1986 |2.3 |1.7 |443 |373
1987 |2.1 |1.7 |424 |371
1988 |2.2 |1.8 |436 |391
1989 |2.3 |1.8 |454 |411
1990 |2.2 |1.8 |446 |411
1991 |2.0 |1.7 |399 |375
1992 |1.9 |1.6 |393 |361
ENVIRONMENT
Sites of Special Scientific Interest
Mr. Morley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what evaluation he has made of the use of management agreements as a means of protecting sites of special scientific interest ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Atkins : My right hon. Friend considers that the United Kingdom's existing system for preventing damage to notified sites under the SSSI provisions of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and the land-use planning system together provide effective safeguards. The financial guidelines, which provide a basis for calculating payments in management agreements, are currently under review. The revised guidelines will be the subject of public consultation before they come into force.
Mr. Morley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many times he has granted nature conservation orders for the protection of sites of special scientific interest under section 29 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 ; how many are still in operation ; how many he has refused in England since 1982 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Atkins : At 31 December 1993, 29 orders had been made. Of these, 10 have been revoked after satisfactory protection for the site was agreed with the owners, one was revoked after a local inquiry as the site did not meet the legal requirements for an order and 18 are in place. In the majority of these, negotiations towards a management agreement are continuing. Orders have been refused on three occasions. It is a measure of the success of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and of the voluntary principle policy that the Secretary of State has used his powers on so few occasions.
Local Government Review
Mr. Marland : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the Government's intentions for the local government review following the High Court judgment of the Lancashire challenge.
Mr. Pickthall : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what action he is taking in response to the
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High Court judgment in the action brought by Lancashire and Derbyshire county councils which deletes as unlawful a sentence from the November 1993 policy guidance to the local government commission.Mr. Gordon Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what additional guidance he intends to give to the Local Government Commission on the conduct of the review following the High Court decision on Lancashire and Derbyshire on 28 January.
Mr. Gummer : The review of local government in England and the work of the Local Government Commission will continue. The Government are not appealing against the court ruling, which makes it clear that the Local Government Commission exercises its own judgment--something that has never been in dispute. The commission's reviews will continue on the basis of the policy guidance issued in November 1993 with the omission of the final sentence of paragraph 3. The aim of the local government review continues to be to provide effective and convenient local government which takes account of community identities. The Government believe that unitary authorities will often be the best way of achieving these objectives. In those cases they will be able to reduce costs and improve the quality and co-ordination of services. They will therefore often provide the best form of local government. Decisions will be taken on commission recommendations in that light. However, there is no national blueprint and the Government do not rule out consideration of two tiers in particular cirumstances, with or without changes to the status quo, where a strong case for that is made.
Local Government Finance
Mr. Harry Greenway : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what assistance he proposes to make available to London boroughs and the common council during 1994-95 in respect of extra costs which those authorities may face as a result of decisions on housing revenue account subsidy in respect of debt inherited from the former Greater London council ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Curry : For 1993-94 my right hon. Friend announced a scheme of special assistance for London boroughs and the common council facing extra costs that year as a result of his decision that housing revenue account subsidy and housing subsidy is not payable under the statute in respect of certain debts inherited from the former Greater London council. Should the House of Lords uphold the judgments of the divisional court and the Court of Appeal in respect of his decision, he proposes to make similar arrangements for 1994-95.
Betterment Levy
Mr. Sweeney : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement about the collection of betterment levy imposed by the Land Commission Act 1967.
Mr. Baldry : It is no longer cost effective to continue pursuing collection of betterment levy. In the 1992-93 financial year, £232, 595 has been written off. There remain 52 outstanding cases in England and Wales, totalling £85,676.53. Against this background, I have decided that these cases should also be written off.
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Hydrofluorocarbons
Mr. Ian Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, if he will make a statement about the production of HFCs.
Mr. Atkins : The Government have no plans to ban the production of HFCs because we regard them as important alternatives for some uses of CFCs and HCFCs, particularly in refrigeration. Their production is bound to increase as those substances are phased out. They are, however, greenhouse gases and, subject to the decisions of next year's conference of parties, the climate change convention requires developed countries to take actions aimed at returning their emissions to 1990 levels by 2000. Such actions must not damage our efforts to phase out CFCs and HCFCs as quickly as possible. The United Kingdom's climate change programme, published last week, therefore commits the Government to explore with HFC producers and consumers the scope for agreements to ensure that, where HFCs are used, emissions to the atmosphere are minimised, and that HFCs are not used where emissions are unavoidable if safe, practical and more environmentally acceptable alternatives are available.
Waste Disposal
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on the implication for the operation of local authority waste disposal companies of the recent Court of Appeal judgment on Avon county council's award of a waste disposal contract under the statutory tendering process.
Mr. Atkins : The formation of local authority waste disposal companies to which waste disposal authorities transfer the relevant part of their undertakings is envisaged in part II of the Environmental Protection Act 1990. The Act also obliges waste disposal authorities to let waste disposal contracts through competitive tender to waste disposal contractors, which may include local authority waste disposal companies. Where a contractor believes that a waste disposal authority has not followed the competitive tendering provisions contained in the Act, the contractor may take action through the courts. The contractor has exercised that option in this instance. There is still the possibility of further legal process, and therefore it would not be appropriate for me to comment more fully on this specific case.
Housing (Publicity Expenditure)
Mr. Battle : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will provide details of the breakdown of expenditure on departmental publicity relating to housing matters for 1993-94.
Sir George Young : As at 2 February 1993, my Department has committed £767,361.88 for publicity expenditure on housing policies. The breakdown is as follows :
|£
-----------------------------------
Advertising |356,340.99
Printing |293,643.77
Exhibitions |26,587.13
Audio Visual |2,120.88
Promotions |3,841.54
Fulfilment |33,710.34
Conferences |12,014.28
Distribution |8,435.45
Research |30,667.50
Living Over the Shop Project
Mr. Soley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what effect his consideration of the report by the housing consultants, Chapman Hendy Associates, on "Living Over the Shop", has had on the Government's policy on the living over the shop project.
Sir George Young [holding answer 1 February 1994] : In considering applications for funding under the Department's special grants programme, which was again this year oversubscribed, we took into account all supporting information provided. Unfortunately, the application by the living over the shop project was not successful. The project has previously received grants of £113,000 over three years from the Department and the Housing Corporation.
The Government remain committed to encouraging the use of empty residential space above shops. Some £10 million of supplementary credit approvals will be available to local authorities for 1994-95 : bids amounting to about £40 million have been received and allocations will be announced shortly. In addition, the Housing Corporation will be supporting schemes by housing associations.
Vacant Properties
Ms Glenda Jackson : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many vacant properties he wishes to bring back into the affordable rented housing sector ; and if he will provide a breakdown by (a) Government properties, (b) private sector properties and (c) local authority properties.
Sir George Young [holding answer 28 January 1994] : On 1 April 1993 there were around 900,000 empty dwellings in England, of which 26,683 were owned by housing associations, 70,909 were owned by local authorities, around 12,400 were owned by the Government and other public sector bodies, and around 765,000 were in private sector ownership, according to statistical returns from local authorities and housing associations. My answer of 24 January to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker), Official Report, columns 23-26, gives further details. The Government wish to see the best possible use made of empty property, regardless of its ownership. They offer encouragement to local authorities and private owners to do so, and have set up a task force on Government Departments' empty homes to help to bring residential property back into housing use. The task force is expected to present its final report to Ministers shortly.
Building Management
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will set out (a) by region the proceeds from the sale of the constituent parts of Building
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Management, (b) the amount of money set aside to cover possible redundancy costs and (c) the total number of redundancies and the cost involved.Mr. Baldry [holding answer 31 January 1994] : I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him by my right
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hon. Friend the Minister for Housing, Inner Cities and Construction on 19 January, Official Report , column 675 , in respect of the Noreast Building Management business. The information on the remaining four businesses is set out in the table.Column 883
|Building |Building |Building |Building
|Management |Management |Management |Management
|Scotland |Manchester |South East |South and West
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(a) Proceeds from the sale including some phased payments (£ million) 3.5 -11.5 Net 10.4
(b) Agreed limit to the Department's liability for severance costs for those
made redundant in the first five years post sale, including staff who did
not transfer with the business (£ million) |15.0 |26.0 |30.0 |25.0
(c) (i) Total numbers of redundancies to date |125 |139 |191 |97
(ii) Of these, total number of staff made redundant by the Purchasers |0 |0 |2 |1
(iii) Estimated cost of redundancies to date (£ million) |4.5 |4.5 |6.0 |3.5
EMPLOYMENT
Training and Enterprise Councils
Ms Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much funding has been made available to each TEC in 1992-93 and 1993-94, expressed in cash terms and real terms, and giving a real-terms percentage change from the previous year, for (a) youth training and credits, (b) training for work and the programmes it replaced and (c) business start-up allowance ; and if he will make a statement.
Miss Widdecombe : Funding made available to each training and enterprise council in 1992-93 and 1993-94 for
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(a) youth training and credits, (b) training for work and the programmes it replaced, and (c) business start-up schemes are given in the following tables. Figures for 1993-94 are also shown in 1992-93 prices.TEC budgets shown for employment training, employment action and higher technology national training in 1992-93 exclude allowances paid to participants, while budgets for training for work in 1993-94 include these allowances. TEC budgets for the BSUS in 1992-93 include an element for business enterprise training. This is funded through the Department of Trade and Industry in 1993-94.
In addition to the budgets shown in the following tables additional funding has been made available in 1993-94 to TECs to extend BSUS and to provide special measures in coal closure areas. Details by TEC are not yet available.
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YT and Credits
1992-93 1993-94
|Cash terms |Cash terms |1992-93 prices|1992-93 prices
|£ million |£ million |£ million |Per cent. +/-
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Hampshire |17.54 |16.05 |15.54 |-11.38
Heart of England |5.70 |5.24 |5.08 |-10.96
Isle of Wight |1.86 |1.74 |1.69 |-9.40
Kent |18.00 |18.06 |17.49 |-2.82
Milton Keynes and North Bucks. |3.99 |5.14 |4.98 |24.77
Surrey |4.40 |4.41 |4.27 |-2.93
Sussex |11.26 |10.29 |9.97 |-11.49
Thames Valley Enterprise |9.23 |12.60 |12.20 |32.21
AZTEC |3.62 |3.69 |3.57 |-1.27
CENTEC |6.54 |7.43 |7.20 |10.03
CILNTEC |7.25 |8.04 |7.79 |7.41
LETEC |12.54 |14.17 |13.72 |9.44
North London |4.14 |3.89 |3.77 |-9.00
North West London |2.46 |2.90 |2.81 |14.18
SOLOTEC |9.09 |8.51 |8.24 |-9.33
South Thames |9.15 |11.76 |11.39 |24.48
West London |6.56 |7.41 |7.18 |9.40
Bedfordshire |5.30 |5.60 |5.42 |2.33
CAMBSTEC |2.64 |3.20 |3.10 |17.40
Essex |16.02 |16.53 |16.01 |-0.06
Greater Peterborough |4.50 |4.69 |4.54 |0.94
Hertfordshire |13.19 |13.13 |12.72 |-3.59
Norfolk/Waveney |10.73 |10.30 |9.98 |-7.03
Suffolk |9.53 |9.45 |9.15 |-3.96
Avon |11.81 |11.99 |11.61 |-1.67
Devon/Cornwall |26.31 |23.83 |23.08 |-12.28
Dorset |7.30 |6.66 |6.45 |-11.64
Gloucestershire |6.58 |6.41 |6.21 |-5.65
Somerset |6.39 |5.79 |5.61 |-12.24
Wiltshire |6.76 |5.93 |5.74 |-15.04
Birmingham |20.64 |18.56 |17.98 |-12.91
Central England |5.11 |4.16 |4.03 |-21.15
Coventry/Warwickshire |11.86 |11.85 |11.48 |-3.23
Dudley |5.20 |4.96 |4.80 |-7.62
HAWTEC |5.47 |5.57 |5.39 |-1.38
Sandwell |5.46 |5.01 |4.85 |-11.13
Shropshire |7.66 |6.30 |6.10 |-20.34
Staffordshire |20.57 |20.62 |19.97 |-2.91
Walsall |4.32 |3.78 |3.66 |-15.25
Wolverhampton |5.24 |5.06 |4.90 |-6.47
Greater Nottinghamshire |9.66 |9.26 |8.97 |-7.16
Leicester |13.34 |12.98 |12.57 |-5.76
Lincolnshire |10.19 |10.73 |10.39 |1.98
North Derby |5.09 |4.96 |4.80 |-5.62
North Nottinghamshire |7.37 |7.42 |7.19 |-2.49
Northamptonshire |6.75 |7.48 |7.24 |7.33
South Derby |8.63 |8.42 |8.15 |-5.50
Barnsley/Doncaster |12.90 |12.83 |12.43 |-3.67
Bradford and District |10.60 |10.69 |10.35 |-2.33
Calderdale/Kirklees |9.70 |12.54 |12.15 |25.21
Humberside |17.90 |16.23 |15.72 |-12.18
Leeds |8.80 |7.65 |7.41 |-15.80
North Yorkshire |8.00 |7.26 |7.03 |-12.11
Rotherham |5.60 |5.71 |5.53 |-1.25
Sheffield |9.50 |9.56 |9.26 |-2.54
Wakefield |5.30 |4.89 |4.74 |-10.64
Bolton/Bury |6.88 |6.86 |6.64 |-3.43
Manchester |16.41 |16.21 |15.70 |-4.33
METROTEC |5.31 |5.35 |5.18 |-2.42
Oldham |4.83 |4.71 |4.56 |-5.55
Rochdale |3.77 |4.04 |3.91 |3.79
South and East Cheshire |6.48 |7.28 |7.05 |8.81
Stockport |4.73 |5.30 |5.13 |8.52
CEWTEC |9.46 |9.25 |8.96 |-5.30
Cumbria |9.65 |9.74 |9.43 |-2.24
ELTEC |9.31 |9.62 |9.32 |0.08
LAWTEC |12.79 |13.25 |12.83 |0.34
Merseyside |22.75 |27.64 |26.77 |17.67
NORMID |7.17 |7.72 |7.48 |4.28
QUALITEC |5.07 |5.62 |5.44 |7.36
Durham |12.99 |12.86 |12.46 |-4.12
Northumberland |7.75 |7.52 |7.28 |-6.02
Teeside |15.66 |13.75 |13.32 |-14.96
Tyneside |17.04 |18.33 |17.75 |4.18
Wearside |7.35 |7.78 |7.54 |2.52
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ET/EA/HTNT (1992-93) TFW (1993-94)
1992-93 1993-94
|cash terms |cash terms |1992-93 prices|1992-93 prices
|£ million |£ million |£ million |percentage +/-
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Hampshire |6.64 |11.67 |11.30 |70.22
Heart of England |2.15 |3.86 |3.74 |73.88
Isle of Wight |0.81 |1.38 |1.34 |65.01
Kent |7.72 |14.23 |13.78 |78.52
Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire |1.58 |2.83 |2.74 |73.48
Surrey |2.36 |5.06 |4.90 |107.66
Sussex |6.27 |11.04 |10.69 |70.53
Thames Valley Enterprise |3.28 |8.48 |8.21 |150.40
AZTEC |3.37 |6.83 |6.62 |96.29
CENTEC |8.42 |15.61 |15.12 |79.56
CILNTEC |7.42 |14.46 |14.00 |88.74
LETEC |13.02 |24.00 |23.24 |78.53
North London |7.20 |13.16 |12.75 |77.02
North West London |2.83 |7.14 |6.92 |144.36
SOLOTEC |4.22 |8.24 |7.98 |89.11
South Thames |12.90 |25.17 |24.38 |88.97
West London |3.38 |7.40 |7.17 |112.04
Bedfordshire |2.73 |5.29 |5.12 |87.67
CAMBSTEC |1.02 |2.30 |2.23 |118.39
Essex |10.07 |12.67 |12.27 |21.86
Greater Peterborough |2.22 |4.59 |4.45 |100.25
Hertfordshire |4.02 |7.16 |6.93 |72.50
Norfolk/Waveney |5.57 |11.29 |10.93 |96.31
Suffolk |2.11 |4.65 |4.50 |113.44
Avon |8.00 |14.97 |14.50 |81.23
Devon/Cornwall |11.24 |25.53 |24.73 |119.99
Dorset |3.58 |6.70 |6.49 |81.26
Gloucestershire |2.54 |5.07 |4.91 |93.32
Somerset |2.81 |5.26 |5.09 |81.30
Wiltshire |2.68 |5.62 |5.44 |103.10
Birmingham |18.60 |22.33 |21.63 |16.27
Central England |2.78 |5.08 |4.92 |76.98
Coventry/Warwickshire |6.41 |13.16 |12.75 |98.84
Dudley |3.11 |5.79 |5.61 |80.31
HAWTEC |2.41 |4.87 |4.72 |95.71
Sandwell |3.33 |6.42 |6.22 |86.72
Shropshire |2.95 |5.52 |5.35 |81.23
Staffordshire |6.71 |11.91 |11.54 |71.91
Walsall |2.81 |4.83 |4.68 |66.48
Wolverhampton |3.36 |5.44 |5.27 |56.81
Greater Nottinghamshire |5.35 |10.31 |9.99 |86.64
Leicester |5.13 |8.88 |8.60 |67.65
Lincolnshire |5.27 |11.78 |11.41 |116.49
North Derbyshire |2.30 |5.01 |4.85 |110.97
North Nottinghamshire |5.84 |7.46 |7.23 |23.72
Northants |2.32 |3.84 |3.72 |60.31
South Derbyshire |4.60 |7.74 |7.50 |62.96
Barnsley/Doncaster |7.10 |13.74 |13.31 |87.43
Bradford and District |5.00 |8.35 |8.09 |61.74
Calderdale/Kirklees |6.00 |10.80 |10.46 |74.33
Humberside |10.90 |17.75 |17.19 |57.72
Leeds |5.90 |13.38 |12.96 |119.64
North Yorkshire |3.60 |6.76 |6.55 |81.87
Rotherham |3.50 |6.11 |5.92 |69.08
Sheffield |7.00 |14.27 |13.82 |97.44
Wakefield |3.70 |6.88 |6.66 |80.09
Bolton/Bury |3.04 |5.47 |5.30 |74.27
Manchester |11.24 |18.17 |17.60 |56.57
METROTEC |2.81 |4.72 |4.57 |62.68
Oldham |1.90 |3.70 |3.58 |88.61
Rochdale |2.58 |4.69 |4.54 |76.06
South and East Cheshire |2.68 |4.36 |4.22 |57.57
Stockport |1.95 |3.81 |3.69 |89.23
CEWTEC |5.90 |11.03 |10.68 |81.06
Cumbria |3.35 |6.38 |6.18 |84.45
ELTEC |3.91 |7.42 |7.19 |83.80
LAWTEC |7.34 |12.37 |11.98 |63.22
Merseyside |16.73 |30.04 |29.09 |73.91
NORMID |3.05 |5.51 |5.34 |74.97
QUALITEC |2.42 |4.72 |4.57 |88.90
Durham |9.30 |16.79 |16.26 |74.85
Northumberland |3.57 |6.67 |6.46 |80.95
Teeside |10.80 |18.31 |17.73 |64.20
Tyneside |13.14 |25.15 |24.36 |85.38
Wearside |6.64 |12.56 |12.16 |83.20
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BES (1992-93) BSUS (1993-94)
1992-93 1993-94
|cash terms |cash terms |1992-93 prices|1992-93 prices
|£ million |£ million |£ million |percentage +/-
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Hampshire |3.12 |2.04 |1.98 |-36.67
Heart of England |1.20 |0.36 |0.35 |-70.94
Isle of Wight |0.49 |0.31 |0.30 |-38.73
Kent |2.75 |2.34 |2.27 |-17.59
Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire |0.76 |0.36 |0.35 |-54.12
Surrey |1.85 |0.86 |0.83 |-54.98
Sussex |3.98 |1.18 |1.14 |-71.28
Thames Valley Enterprise |2.40 |1.13 |1.09 |-54.40
AZTEC |1.46 |0.76 |0.74 |-49.58
CENTEC |4.18 |1.24 |1.20 |-71.27
CILNTEC |2.82 |1.80 |1.74 |-38.18
LETEC |2.75 |1.06 |1.03 |-62.67
North London |2.56 |1.38 |1.34 |-47.79
North West London |1.34 |0.66 |0.64 |-52.30
SOLOTEC |1.98 |1.89 |1.83 |-7.55
South Thames |3.36 |1.81 |1.75 |-47.83
West London |1.92 |0.95 |0.92 |-52.08
Bedfordshire |1.11 |0.45 |0.44 |-60.74
CAMBSTEC |0.88 |0.34 |0.33 |-62.58
Essex |2.69 |1.05 |1.02 |-62.20
Greater Peterborough |0.60 |0.30 |0.29 |-51.57
Hertfordshire |3.00 |1.40 |1.36 |-54.80
Norfolk/Waveney |2.16 |1.30 |1.26 |-41.71
Suffolk |1.36 |0.87 |0.84 |-38.04
Avon |3.60 |1.55 |1.50 |-58.30
Devon/Cornwall |5.44 |3.27 |3.17 |-41.78
Dorset |2.10 |0.74 |0.72 |-65.87
Gloucestershire |1.80 |1.59 |1.54 |-14.45
Somerset |1.80 |0.58 |0.56 |-68.79
Wiltshire |1.90 |1.60 |1.55 |-18.44
Birmingham |3.91 |2.28 |2.21 |-43.52
Central England |1.36 |0.97 |0.94 |-30.92
Coventry/Warwickshire |2.65 |1.52 |1.47 |-44.45
Dudley |0.97 |0.56 |0.54 |-44.09
HAWTEC |1.53 |0.92 |0.89 |-41.76
Sandwell |1.01 |0.54 |0.52 |-48.22
Shropshire |1.43 |0.84 |0.81 |-43.11
Staffordshire |3.17 |1.37 |1.33 |-58.14
Walsall |0.87 |0.38 |0.37 |-57.70
Wolverhampton |1.00 |0.56 |0.54 |-45.76
Greater Nottinghamshire |1.80 |1.37 |1.33 |-26.28
Leicestershire |2.90 |1.93 |1.87 |-35.54
Lincolnshire |1.95 |1.23 |1.19 |-38.91
North Derby |1.11 |0.57 |0.55 |-50.27
North Nottinghamshire |1.46 |0.90 |0.87 |-40.30
Northamptonshire |1.60 |0.90 |0.87 |-45.52
South Derby |1.75 |0.51 |0.49 |-71.77
Barnsley/Doncaster |1.50 |1.16 |1.12 |-25.10
Bradford and District |1.80 |1.20 |1.16 |-35.43
Calderdale/Kirklees |2.00 |1.53 |1.48 |-25.91
Humberside |3.20 |1.77 |1.71 |-46.43
Leeds |2.30 |1.44 |1.39 |-39.36
North Yorkshire |2.20 |1.63 |1.58 |-28.24
Rotherham |1.10 |0.68 |0.66 |-40.13
Sheffield |2.20 |1.04 |1.01 |-54.22
Wakefield |1.20 |0.75 |0.73 |-39.47
Bolton/Bury |1.53 |0.97 |0.94 |-38.60
Manchester |4.32 |2.81 |2.72 |-37.00
METROTEC |1.15 |0.76 |0.74 |-35.99
Oldham |0.78 |0.46 |0.45 |-42.88
Rochdale |0.74 |0.27 |0.26 |-64.66
South and East Cheshire |1.36 |0.57 |0.55 |-59.41
Stockport |1.52 |0.84 |0.81 |-46.48
CEWTEC |2.40 |1.21 |1.17 |-51.17
Cumbria |1.60 |1.12 |1.08 |-32.20
ELTEC |1.89 |1.09 |1.06 |-44.14
LAWTEC |2.76 |1.12 |1.08 |-60.70
Merseyside |4.30 |2.35 |2.28 |-47.07
NORMID |1.45 |0.78 |0.76 |-47.90
QUALITEC |0.62 |0.44 |0.43 |-31.27
Durham |2.48 |1.48 |1.43 |-42.20
Northumberland |1.30 |0.66 |0.64 |-50.83
Teeside |2.38 |1.39 |1.35 |-43.44
Tyneside |3.49 |1.27 |1.23 |-64.76
Wearside |1.29 |0.50 |0.48 |-62.46
Public Bodies
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment which non- departmental public bodies for which he is responsible have been (a) abolished or (b) created since 1979.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister on 1 February 1994, Official Report, column 611.
Labour Statistics
Mr. Oppenheim : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were in employment in the Amber Valley constituency, for its nearest equivalent, in (a) 1979, (b) 1983, (c) 1987 and (d) 1992 ; and what is the latest figure.
Miss Widdecombe : The information on employees in employment in the Amber Valley parliamentary constituency is available from the periodic censuses of employment, and is given in the following table :
Employees in employment in
the Amber Valley constituency
in
September of each year.
|Number
------------------------------
1981 |<1>29,300
1984 |32,000
1987 |34,300
1989 |35,900
1991 |36,700
<1>The boundary for this
parliamentary constituency
was revised in 1983
and therefore the information
for 1981 is not directly
comparable with
that in later censuses.
Mr. Oppenheim : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current rate of unemployment in the Amber Valley constituency ; what is the latest figure for the south-east ; and what is the current average figure for each of the EC countries.
Miss Widdecombe : In December 1993, the seasonally adjusted rate of claimant unemployment stood at 9.7 per cent. of the workforce in the South East region. Claimant unemployment rates are not available for areas smaller than the self-contained labour markets known as travel-to-work areas. No figure is available for the Amber Valley constituency.
Internationally comparable unemployment figures based on the internationally standardised ILO definition of unemployment are published by EUROSTAT in its monthly "Unemployment Bulletin", copies of which are available in the Library. The United Kingdom ILO unemployment rate is below the EC average and is falling.
Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were placed in employment by (a) Kilwinning and (b) Irvine jobcentres in each month since April 1992.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service Agency under its chief executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from M. E. G. Fogden to Mr. Brian Donohoe, dated 3 February 1994 :
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The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question about the number of people placed into employment by Kilwinning and Irvine Jobcentres each month since April 1992.Tables are attached which show this information.
I hope this is helpful.
Placings achieved by Irvine and Kilwinning
Jobcentres
April 1992 to March 1993
Month |Irvine |Kilwinning
|jobcentre |jobcentre
------------------------------------------------
April 1992 |342 |175
May 1992 |309 |188
June 1992 |341 |180
July 1992 |299 |124
August 1992 |366 |90
September 1992 |285 |135
October 1992 |434 |224
November 1992 |393 |99
December 1992 |155 |58
January 1993 |304 |137
February 1993 |318 |138
March 1993 |226 |78
Placings achieved by Irvine and Kilwinning
Jobcentres
April 1993 to December 1993
Month |Irvine |Kilwinning
|jobcentre |jobcentre
------------------------------------------------
April 1993 |321 |117
May 1993 |344 |137
June 1993 |388 |146
July 1993 |351 |139
August 1993 |332 |151
September 1993 |356 |142
October 1993 |448 |154
November 1993 |428 |129
December 1993 |219 |44
Unemployed People, Cornwall
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much central Government money was spent on schemes to help unemployed people in Cornwall in each year since 1979 in total and per person unemployed ; and if he will list which schemes are included in these totals for each year.
Miss Widdecombe : This information could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Industrial Disputes
Mr. Peter Bottomley : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of days lost in industrial disputes in relation to the size of the work force in each EC country in (a) the latest year for which information is available and (b) 10 years previously.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The latest available data are given in the following table :
Working days lost per thousand employees in
employment<1><2>
|1992 |1982
------------------------------------------------------
United Kingdom |20 |250
Belgium |40 |<3>70
Denmark |30 |50
France |30 |130
Germany (Federal Republic) |60 |<4>-
Greece |<5>2,910|830
Ireland |220 |500
Italy |<6>200 |1,280
Netherlands |10 |50
Portugal |60 |170
Spain |670 |360
<1>It should be noted that there are some differences
in coverage between
each country's statistics. More details can be found
on page 550 of
Employment Gazette December 1993.
<2>Data are not available for Luxembourg.
<3>Data relates to 1980.
<4>Less than five days lost per thousand.
<5>Data relates to 1991.
<6>Data relates to 1991.
Lettuce Growing
Dr. Strang : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many inspections were made by the Health and Safety Executive agricultural inspectorate of lettuce-growing establishments in each month since January 1993 ; and how many cases of misuse of pesticides were found by the agriculture inspectorate in each month since January.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information is not readily available in the form requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Between 1 April 1992 and 31 March 1993, the latest year for which information is available, inspectors from the Health and Safety Executive's agricultural inspectorate made a total of 40,051 visits which includes visits to lettuce and other salad production establishments. During the same period agricultural inspectors investigated 206 pesticides incidents.
Unemployment Benefit
Dr. Godman : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the cost of administering unemployment benefit in the Greenock travel-to- work area in each of the past five years.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service Agency under its chief executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from M. E. G. Fogden to Dr. Norman Godman, dated 3 February 1994 :
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question concerning the cost of administering unemployment benefit in the Greenock travel-to- work area in each of the past five years. Perhaps I should make it clear that as the Employment Service is responsible for administering several other benefits in addition to Unemployment Benefit, it is not possible to provide information on the payment of Unemployment Benefit only. Therefore the figures relate to the administration costs for all benefits paid to clients. In addition, as our records of local office running costs are retained for only the last three complete financial years, I am consequently unable to provide information in respect of those financial years prior to 1990-91. The information below is in respect of the area covered by the Greenock and Port Glasgow offices, which more or less approximates to the Greenock travel-to-work area. Given these provisos, the relevant costs, which include staff salary and other running costs, such as fuel and telecommunications, are as follows :
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Financial year |Non- |Integrated |Total costs
|integrated
|£ |£ |£
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1990-91 |606,942 |Nil |606,942
1991-92 |300,208 |561,186 |861,394
1992-93 |Nil |1,235,560 |1,235,560
These figures give a total cost for the three years of £2,703,896 broken down into £907,150 for costs related to Unemployment Benefit Offices (UBO) and £1,796,764 for those related to Employment Service Jobcentres (ESJ).
However, I must emphasise that these figures are not strictly comparable. As you may be aware, since 1990 the Employment Service has been pursuing a policy of bringing together Unemployment Benefit Offices and Jobcentres with the aim of providing a more efficient and effective service to our clients. Our Inverclyde offices have featured as part of this programme of integration, Greenock in November 1991 and Port Glasgow in March 1991. The figures provided for the periods after integration, therefore, include job broking costs as well as benefit administration costs.
Given the fact that staff in our integrated offices are responsible for all aspects of Employment Service work, it is not possible to provide any further accurate or meaningful breakdowns in these costs.
I hope this is helpful.
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