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Region                     |Number of               |Number of               |Number of               |Number of               |Number of                                        

                           |Operational Trusts in   |Operational Trusts in   |Operational Trusts in   |Operational Trusts in   |Operational NHS                                  

                           |1991-92                 |1992-93                 |1993-94                 |1994-95<1>              |Trusts in 1994-95 as                             

                                                                                                                               |a percentage of total                            

                                                                                                                               |health provider units<2>                         

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Northern                   |3                       |9                       |19                      |34                      |94                                               

Yorkshire                  |3                       |9                       |23                      |26                      |96                                               

Trent                      |3                       |13                      |29                      |41                      |91                                               

East Anglian               |2                       |5                       |15                      |18                      |100                                              

North West Thames          |4                       |18                      |27                      |29                      |<3>85                                            

North East Thames          |6                       |14                      |24                      |27                      |87                                               

South West Thames          |7                       |10                      |17                      |27                      |81                                               

South East Thames          |1                       |9                       |20                      |31                      |96                                               

Wessex                     |4                       |11                      |21                      |26                      |100                                              

Oxford                     |1                       |6                       |15                      |24                      |100                                              

South Western              |9                       |18                      |22                      |23                      |100                                              

West Midlands              |4                       |10                      |24                      |47                      |90                                               

Mersey                     |8                       |16                      |23                      |25                      |100                                              

North Western              |2                       |8                       |13                      |34                      |97                                               

Special Health Authorities |0                       |0                       |0                       |5                       |62                                               

                           |--                      |--                      |--                      |--                      |--                                               

Total                      |57                      |156                     |292                     |417                     |92                                               

<1> Numbers are based on the approval to date of 135 applications for Fourth Wave Trust status. They do not include the remaining 9, Fourth Wave                                 

Trust applications, which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has yet to make a decision on.                                                                             

<2> The decisions on the 9 remaining applications for 4th wave Trust status will determine the status of 7 directly managed units and 1 Special Health                           

Authority. Since these decisions are still outstanding these units have been classed as "units not operating as NHS Trusts in 1994-95" for the purpose                           

of calculating these percentages.                                                                                                                                                

<3> Includes Teddington Memorial NHS Trust. Although established as an NHS Trust, it is not due to become fully operational until 1 April 1995,                                  

following a shadow period of 2 years.                                                                                                                                            

Publicity (Costs)

Mr. Colvin : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent by her Department on publicity to doctors, in each year since 1979-80.

Dr. Mawhinney : Guidance from the Department is issued to ensure that the national health service provides high-quality, effective and efficient health care. Funds are supplied from the Department's central funding. Separate costs of issuing guidance, circulars and letters to individual groups within the national health service cannot be identified.

Care in the Community

Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what consultations she is holding with the Royal College of Psychiatrists about the release of psychiatric patients with a history of violent behaviour under the care in the community programme ; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Bowis : The royal college, and other professional bodies, have been fully consulted about the steps we have taken to ensure that psychiatric patients are not discharged from hospital before they are ready to leave and that they are cared for safely, whether in hospital or the community. These steps include the proposed new power of supervised


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discharge, new guidance on the discharge of mentally disordered people from hospital and their continuing care in the community, and the introduction of supervision registers for people with severe mental illness who may present a significant risk to themselves or others.

We shall be bringing forward legislation to introduce supervised discharge at the earliest opportunity. The new guidance on the discharge and continuing care of mentally disordered people was circulated for consultation in January and will be issued in definitive form as soon as we have taken account of the comments received, and of the relevant recommendations of the Ritchie inquiry. Separate guidance issued on 16 February, HSG(94)5, requires health authorities to have contracts in force by 1 April 1994 which ensure that supervision registers are established and maintained. We remain in close contact with the college on these and related matters.

AZT

Mrs. Golding : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans her Department has to allow the introduction of the drug AZT to (a) mothers -to-be and (b) other patients suffering from HIV and AIDS.

Mr. Sackville : Zidovudine, AZT, is currently licensed in the United Kingdom for the following indications.

the management of patients with advanced HIV disease, such as those with the acquired immune deficiency


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syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS-related complex (ARC).

in adult patients with HIV infection.

in early symptomatic patients with CD4 counts of less than 500/mm , or in asymptomatic patients with markers indicating risk of progressive disease including repeated CD4 counts of less than 200/mm , or with CD4 counts between 500/mm and 200/mm which are rapidly falling.

HIV-infected children over the age of 3 months who have HIV-related symptoms or who are asymptomatic with markers indicating significant HIV- related immune suppression.

Applications for the licensing of any further indications will be considered by the Medicines Control Agency according to established procedures.

NHS Staffing Levels

Mr. Peter Bottomley : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what advice she has received on how there could be a reduction of 200,000 NHS jobs without a reduction in services to patients.

Dr. Mawhinney : I have received no such advice. The substantial progress that is being made on the creation of a more flexible work force has, among other measures, enabled more patients to be treated within the national health service than ever before.

Norwich Union Healthcare

Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she has examined the content of broadcasts made by paid officers of NHS trusts promoting Norwich Union Healthcare ; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Sackville : I am aware that some national health service staff have appeared in broadcasts aimed at publicising collaborative ventures with private insurers to facilitate the more effective use of NHS paybeds. Paybeds generate valuable income for improving services for all patients.

Asthma

Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many special consultants there are in asthma practice in London ; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Sackville : Consultants in respiratory medicine and paediatric consultants with a special interest in asthma are not recorded separately. The number of consultants in thoracic medicine in London is 11.0 whole time equivalent, as shown in the annual medical and dental census.

The hon. Member may wish to contact the director of public health medicine in each of the four Thames regional health authorities for more information.

Lewisham and Southwark Health Authority

Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the total annual budget of the Lewisham and Southwark health authority for the most recent available year.

Mr. Sackville : This is a matter for South East Thames regional health authority. The hon. Member may wish to contact Mr. Peter Barker, the chairman, for details.


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Consultancies

Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by each health authority in London on consultancy fees during the current financial year.

Dr. Mawhinney : This information is not available centrally.

Dentistry

Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists have been recruited by each health authority in England in each of the last three years ; and how many dentists are currently employed by each of England's health authorities.

Dr. Mawhinney : The number of salaried dentists employed by each family health services authority is shown in the table.


Number of salaried dentists as at 18 February 1994                         

England                                                                    

Family health services       |Number of                                    

                             |authority                                    

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England                      |91                                           

Cleveland                    |-                                            

Cumbria                      |1                                            

Durham                       |-                                            

Northumberland               |-                                            

Gateshead                    |-                                            

Newcastle-upon-Tyne          |-                                            

North Tyneside               |-                                            

South Tyneside               |-                                            

Sunderland                   |-                                            

Humberside                   |-                                            

North Yorkshire              |-                                            

Bradford                     |-                                            

Calderdale                   |-                                            

Kirklees                     |-                                            

Leeds                        |-                                            

Wakefield                    |-                                            

Derbyshire                   |2                                            

Leicestershire               |-                                            

Lincolnshire                 |-                                            

Nottinghamshire              |-                                            

Barnsley                     |-                                            

Doncaster                    |-                                            

Rotherham                    |-                                            

Sheffield                    |-                                            

Cambridgeshire               |4                                            

Norfolk                      |3                                            

Suffolk                      |-                                            

Bedfordshire                 |-                                            

Hertfordshire                |-                                            

Barnet                       |-                                            

Brent and Harrow             |-                                            

Ealing, Hammersmith and                                                    

 Hounslow                    |-                                            

Hillingdon                   |-                                            

Kensington, Westminster                                                    

 and Chelsea                 |9                                            

Essex                        |3                                            

Barking and Havering         |-                                            

Camden and Islington         |-                                            

City and East London         |8                                            

Enfield and Haringey         |-                                            

Redbridge and Waltham                                                      

 Forest                      |-                                            

East Sussex                  |-                                            

Kent                         |5                                            

Greenwich and Bexley         |7                                            

Bromley                      |1                                            

Lambeth, Southwark and                                                     

 Lewisham                    |30                                           

Surrey                       |3                                            

West Sussex                  |1                                            

Croydon                      |-                                            

Kingston and Richmond        |-                                            

Merton, Sutton and                                                         

 Wandsworth                  |1                                            

Dorset                       |-                                            

Hampshire                    |-                                            

Wiltshire                    |1                                            

Isle of Wight                |1                                            

Berkshire                    |-                                            

Buckinghamshire              |3                                            

Northamptonshire             |-                                            

Oxfordshire                  |-                                            

Avon                         |-                                            

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |3                                            

Devon                        |-                                            

Gloucestershire              |1                                            

Somerset                     |-                                            

Hereford and Worcester       |-                                            

Shropshire                   |-                                            

Staffordshire                |-                                            

Warwickshire                 |-                                            

Birmingham                   |-                                            

Coventry                     |-                                            

Dudley                       |-                                            

Sandwell                     |-                                            

Solihull                     |-                                            

Walsall                      |-                                            

Wolverhampton                |-                                            

Cheshire                     |-                                            

Liverpool                    |2                                            

St. Helens and Knowsley      |-                                            

Sefton                       |-                                            

Wirral                       |-                                            

Lancashire                   |1                                            

Bolton                       |-                                            

Bury                         |-                                            

Manchester                   |-                                            

Oldham                       |-                                            

Rochdale                     |-                                            

Salford                      |1                                            

Stockport                    |-                                            

Tameside                     |-                                            

Trafford                     |-                                            

Wigan                        |-                                            

Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what additional revenues she has made available to health authorities in (a) London and (b) England to enable them to respond to patients needing emergency national health service dental treatment.

Dr. Mawhinney : The costs of emergency dental services provided under arrangements made by family health services authorities are met centrally from the general dental services fund.

Health Authority Publications

Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the publications produced by each health authority in London during the current financial year ; and what were the costs involved in each publication.

Dr. Mawhinney : The hon. Member may wish to contact the chief executives of the regional health authorities for details.


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Children's Rights

Mr. Bellingham : To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the United Kingdom's initial report to the United Nations committee on the rights of the child will be published ; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Bowis : I am pleased to announce that the United Kingdom's initial report on implementation of the United Nations convention on the rights of the child was submitted to the United Nations committee on the rights of the child today. The report is also published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office today. Copies have been placed in the Library. A distribution of copies will be made shortly to the large public libraries, local authorities, health authorities and national health service trusts and to a selection of voluntary child care organisations. Similar distributions will take place in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The report details how United Kingdom law, policy and practice meet the provisions of the convention. It reveals a positive record in the United Kingdom on the treatment of children, as well as detailing the safeguards that exist, and which we are constantly seeking to improve, to ensure children's rights to special consideration and protection are met.

Transitional Grant

Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how the needs of carers are accounted for in the formula used to distribute the special transitional grant.

Mr. Bowis : In 1993-94 the distribution of the grant is based predominately on personal social services standard spending assessments. These include factors which are intended to reflect needs for community care expenditure in the round, including the needs of carers. In 1994-95 the grant will be based exclusively on PSS SSAs.

Youth Initiatives

Mr. Brazier : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list her current major initiatives involving youth and voluntary youth organisations.

Mr. Bowis : The Children Act gives local authorities responsibility to support children in need and their families wherever possible, and to provide services for young people. Standard spending on children's services for 1993-94 has increased by 32 per cent. since 1990-91. The Department is funding a programme of grants to the voluntary sector exceeding £8 million to help them develop family support services, day care services, services for the young homeless and young people leaving care, and initiatives to divert young people from crime.

We are also encouraging and supporting organisations which provide information and services for young people in the fields of mental health, drug prevention and HIV/AIDS.

Press and Public Relations

Mr. Hardy : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the total expenditure on press and public relations and on publications for issue to the public by (a) her Department, (b) health authorities and (c) NHS trusts, in 1992-93 ; what were the figures for (a) and (b) in 1982-83 ; and what is her estimate of changes in this expenditure in the current year.


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Mr. Sackville : The information available centrally is for 1992-93 and relates to the Department of Health and health authorities only. Estimates of changes in expenditure for 1993-94 are not available. Information for 1992-93 is as follows :


Functions which are commonly associated with press and public            

relations are carried out by the Department's Information Division       

                                                     |£ million          

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Manpower and running costs                           |1.749              

Publications for issue to the public                 |4.622              

Provisional health authority expenditure on public                       

 relations functions taken from the annual financial                     

 returns of regional health authorities, district                        

 health authorities is                               |5.350              

Note: Information on publications for wider issue to the public is not   

available centrally.                                                     

Mental Health Services, London

Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) from what part of the budget for 1994-98 the extra £10 million allocated for community-based mental health services in London will be found ; (2) how the extra £10 million allocated for community-based mental health services in London will be spent.

Dr. Mawhinney : The extra £10 million for community-based mental health services in 1994-95 forms part of the total £85 million available for primary and community developments in the London initiative zone in 1994-95. Decisions on how the resources will be allocated will be taken by the London implementation group and the Thames regional health authorities in the light of development plans and proposals received from local health authorities and national health service trusts.

Psychiatric Nurses

Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many community psychiatric nurses have been employed in the national health service in each year since 1983.

Mr. Sackville : The information available is shown in the table. The figures show that there has been an increase in the number of nurses working in community psychiatrics between 1983 and 1992 of 194.4 per cent.


Community psychiatric   

nursing-England at 30   

September 1983 to 1992  

Whole-time equivalent   

        |Numbers        

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1983    |1,430          

1984    |1,880          

1985    |2,310          

1986    |2,530          

1987    |2,770          

1988    |3,080          

1989    |3,380          

1990    |3,600          

1991    |3,750          

1992    |4,210          

Notes:                  

1. All figures are      

rounded to the nearest  

ten and exclude agency  

staff.                  

2. The figures include  

both qualified and      

unqualified nurses      

working in              

the community           

psychiatric nursing     

area of work. We are    

unable to               

identify nurses with a  

community psychiatric   

nursing qualification.  

3. Previous published   

figures included 10     

whole-time equivalent   

senior                  

nurses in error.        

Smoking

Mr. Hinchliffe : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the full cost of producing printing and distributing the action plan document on reducing smoking.

Mr. Sackville : The cost of production and printing was £35,321. It is not possible to give an accurate figure for the cost of distribution.

Supervised Discharge

Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he plans to introduce legislation to provide supervised discharge.

Mr. Bowis : At the earliest opportunity.

Limb Defects

Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action is now being taken to investigate clusters of babies born with limb defects ; what form the inquiry will take ; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Sackville : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson) on 1 March at column 678.

Doctors' Performance

Mrs. Ray Michie : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to put forward a Bill to widen the scope of the General Medical Council's disciplinary remit to introduce a new procedure on professional performance ; and if she will make a statement.

Dr. Mawhinney : We are considering proposals put forward by the General Medical Council about new performance procedures to deal with cases where a doctor's pattern of professional performance is seriously deficient but does not amount to serious professional misconduct.

Administrative Staff

Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many managerial and administrative staff have been employed by each family health services authority in each region since 1989 ; (2) if she will publish a table showing the total number of staff employed by family practitioner committees (a) in total and (b) by region in 1989.

Dr. Mawhinney [holding answer 24 February 1994] : The information available is shown in the tables. Family health services authorities manage the introduction of general practitioner fundholding, the monitoring of GP prescribing and the development of clinical audit in primary care--all initiatives introduced since 1989 aimed at improving the effectiveness of patient care and value for money. In 1992-93 FHSA administrative expenditure represented only 2.5 per cent. of the £6.5 billion of taxpayers' money spent on the FHS.


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General and Senior Managers (G and SM) and Administrative and Clerical (A and C) staff in Family   

Health Services Authorities (FPCs in 1989)                                                         

by region in England, September 1989-92 (whole-time equivalent)                                    

                   1989              1990              1991              1992                      

Region            |G and SM|A and C |G and SM|A and C |G and SM|A and C |G and SM|A and C          

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Northern          |0       |270     |30      |290     |40      |310     |80      |340              

Yorkshire         |0       |310     |60      |350     |100     |340     |90      |350              

Trent             |0       |320     |60      |350     |50      |460     |100     |510              

East Anglia       |0       |180     |30      |180     |40      |230     |70      |200              

North West Thames |0       |420     |30      |240     |70      |470     |80      |480              

North East Thames |0       |400     |40      |340     |60      |430     |60      |500              

South East Thames |0       |370     |50      |340     |70      |270     |130     |380              

South West Thames |0       |290     |50      |340     |10      |90      |70      |370              

Wessex            |-       |230     |40      |230     |40      |270     |30      |270              

Oxford            |-       |180     |50      |260     |40      |230     |50      |240              

South Western     |0       |260     |30      |270     |40      |300     |40      |320              

West Midlands     |0       |480     |90      |590     |100     |530     |100     |540              

Mersey            |0       |180     |20      |150     |40      |300     |50      |260              

North Western     |10      |460     |70      |430     |70      |440     |100     |490              

                  |---     |---     |---     |---     |---     |---     |---     |---              

  England Total   |30      |4,360   |640     |4,350   |790     |4,650   |1,040   |5,240            

Sources of data:                                                                                   

Figures for 1989 and 1990 are from the Department of Health Non Medical Workforce Census.          

For 1991 and 1992 figures are from the Department of Health form KM49.                             

Notes:                                                                                             

1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10, with "0" denoting less than 5 and "-" denoting zero.     

2. Totals may not add due to rounding.                                                             


Staff in Family Practitioner      

Committees by Region in England   

at                                

30 September 1989 (whole time     

equivalents)                      

Region            |Numbers        

----------------------------------

Northern          |280            

Yorkshire         |320            

Trent             |320            

East Anglia       |190            

North West Thames |430            

North East Thames |420            

South East Thames |370            

South West Thames |300            

Wessex            |230            

Oxford            |190            

South Western     |260            

West Midlands     |520            

Mersey            |190            

North Western     |480            

                  |---            

England Total     |4,510          

Source of data:                   

Department of Health Non Medical  

Workforce Census.                 

Note:                             

Figures are rounded to the        

nearest 10 and may not add due to 

rounding.                         

CHURCH COMMISSIONERS

Archbishop of Canterbury

Mr. Frank Field : To ask the right hon. Member for Selby, representing the Church Commissioners, if he will list, for each of the last five years, how much money has been given towards running the Archbishop of Canterbury's office or his charitable activities.

Mr. Alison : The following sums were paid by the Commissioners towards the running costs of the Archbishop of Canterbury's office. These include staff salaries, clergy and lay, travel and subsistence and general administrative costs. The commissioners do not contribute to the archbishop's charitable activities.


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        |£              

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1989    |544,000        

1990    |676,000        

1991    |811,000        

1992    |882,000        

1993    |911,000        

DUCHY OF LANCASTER

Advertising

Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Prime Minister (1) if he will list all television advertising, newspaper advertising, radio advertising and other promotional campaigns with a budgeted cost in excess of £10,000 conducted by the Cabinet Office (a) in the current financial year and (b) planned for 1994-95, showing for each the objectives and mechanisms for assessing the effectiveness of the advertising ; (2) if he will list all television advertising, newspaper advertising, radio advertising and other promotional campaigns with a budgeted cost in excess of £10,000 conducted by the Office of Public Service and Science and his agencies (a) in the current financial year and (b) planned for 1994-95, showing for each the objectives and mechanisms for assessing the effectiveness of the advertising ; (3) if he will list all television advertising, newspaper advertising, radio advertising and other promotional campaigns with a budgeted cost in excess of £10,000 conducted by the Central Office of Information (a) in the current financial year and (b) planned for 1994-95, showing for each one the objectives and mechanisms for assessing the effectiveness of the advertising.

Mr. David Davis : I have been asked to reply.

Television, radio and newspaper advertising and other promotional campaigns with a budgeted cost in excess of £10,000 conducted by the Cabinet Office, including the Office of Public Service and Science and its agencies, in the curent year are listed. In addition, newspaper


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advertising is used for recruitment. The Central Office of Information conducts no television advertising, newspaper advertising, radio advertising or other promotional campaigns on its own behalf. The budget for 1994-95 will be finalised shortly.


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Campaign aims and objectives                                     |Mechanism for assessing effectiveness                                        

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OPSS                                                                                                                                           

Publicity for 1993 charter mark winners to highlight the         |Assessed through market research.                                            

 achievements of the 93 winners and encourage other                                                                                            

 organisations to measure their performance against the                                                                                        

 charter mark criteria.                                                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                               

Promotion of the 1994 charter mark scheme to encourage as        |Analysis of applications received and                                        

 many public service organisations as possible both to           | market research.                                                            

 assess their performance against the criteria and to take part                                                                                

 in this year's competition.                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                               

Charterline advertising to raise awareness of the service and to |Analysis through qualitative and quan-                                       

 assess, during the pilot service, the effectiveness of          | titative research.                                                          

 different forms of advertising.                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                               

HMSO                                                                                                                                           

Promotion of publications, videos and IT product range.          |Analysis of coupon responses, orders                                         

                                                                 | received directly and sales.                                                

                                                                                                                                               

Promotion of HMSO's status as a British Standards Institution    |Analysis of sales.                                                           

 agent.                                                                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                               

Strengthening of awareness of HMSO in central and local          |Market research before and after cam-                                        

 government, the health service and public utilities.            |paign, plus analysis of coupon                                               

                                                                 | responses.                                                                  

                                                                                                                                               

Civil Service College                                                                                                                          

Promotion of courses and other activities to ensure that enough  |Results are assessed by customer                                             

 customers are attracted to meet its financial and other         |response.                                                                    

 targets.                                                                                                                                      

Correspondence

Ms Estelle Morris : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) if he will publish a table indicating the average length of time Government Ministers take to respond to letters from hon. Members ; (2) what are the targets for the time taken for Government Ministers to respond to letters from hon. Members.

Mr. David Davis : I refer the hon. Member to the reply by my hon. Friend the Member for Wantage (Mr. Jackson) on 23 March 1993, columns 551- 52, showing the volume of correspondence from hon. Members to Ministers and agency chief executives in 1992, the targets set for reply and the percentage of replies sent within target. The corresponding 1993 figures will be published shortly.

Public Appointments

Dr. Wright : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will give details of the public appointments he is responsible for making in addition to those identified in "Public Bodies 1993", including non- executive agency and other departmental management boards.

Mr. Waldegrave : I make appointments to the complaints task force and the technology foresight steering group. There are seven members of the complaints task force, including the chairman. The technology foresight programme has 13 members and three advisers.

I am responsible for appointing the chief executives of the following executive agencies : Chessington Computer


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Centre ; Civil Service College ; Occupational Health Service ; Recruitment and Assessment Services ; Central Office of Information and Her Majesty's Stationery Office. I am responsible for appointing the non-executive directors of the HMSO board.

EDUCATION

Voluntary Youth Organisations

Mr. Brazier : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are his current major initiatives involving voluntary youth organisations.

Mr. Boswell : The Department is providing grants of some £8.6 million over the three years to 1995-96 to 60 national voluntary youth organisations. In addition, the Department is providing support to regional and local voluntary youth bodies through the youth work development grants scheme and through a partnership scheme with the London Boroughs Grants Committee.

Technology Colleges (Sponsorship)

Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the amount of sponsorship by each sponsor for each of the technology colleges announced on 28 February.

Mr. Robin Squire : The value of sponsorship pledged by the main sponsors for each of the 12 technology colleges is listed in the table.


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School/sponsor                                     |Value                        

                                                   |£ thousands                  

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Chalvedon Grant Maintained School                                                

Garfield Weston Foundation                         |50.0                         

Fairfield Catering                                 |37.0                         

Roy Millard Associates                             |15.0                         

SIMS Centre                                        |5.0                          

PMD Associates                                     |4.0                          

                                                                                 

Chatham Grant Maintained Grammar School for Girls                                

Garfield Weston Foundation                         |50.0                         

GEC Marconi Avionics                               |20.0                         

Clifton Reed Consultants                           |15.0                         

Research Machines                                  |10.0                         

Klick Technology                                   |7.5                          

Data Collection Systems                            |5.0                          

Architects Joint Partnership                       |3.0                          

                                                                                 

Collingwood Grant Maintained School                                              

Garfield Weston Foundation                         |50.0                         

GTi Educational Systems                            |25.0                         

Oracle Corporation (UK)                            |15.0                         

Motorola                                           |10.0                         

                                                                                 

Deacon's Grant Maintained School                                                 

Perkins Group                                      |49.0                         

Database and Apricot Computers                     |27.0                         

Greater Peterborough TEC                           |20.0                         

Pearl Assurance                                    |3.0                          

                                                                                 

George Spencer Grant Maintained School                                           

Sir Harry Djanogly                                 |79.0                         

Database and Apricot Computers                     |20.0                         

Midland Bank                                       |1.0                          

                                                                                 

Glyn Grant Maintained School                                                     

ADT Group                                          |100.0                        

                                                                                 

Harraby Grant Maintained School                                                  

Carnaud Metal Box                                  |25.0                         

Cavaghan & Gray                                    |25.0                         

Talk-Tel Communication                             |20.0                         

Cumbria TEC                                        |10.0                         

                                                                                 

Kemnal Manor Grant Maintained County High School                                 

Philip and Pauline Harris Charitable Trust         |50.0                         

Architects Joint Partnership                       |12.5                         

Ballast Nedam Construction                         |12.5                         

Klick Technology                                   |12.5                         

Research Machines                                  |12.5                         

                                                                                 

Saffron Walden Grant Maintained County High School                               

Garfield Weston Foundation                         |50.0                         

Acorn Computers                                    |30.0                         

Messrs. Wilby and Burnett                          |5.0                          

                                                                                 

St. George's Grant Maintained Technology School                                  

Mr. Reg Brearley                                   |100.0                        

Database and Apricot Computers                     |20.0                         

                                                                                 

St. Peter's Collegiate Church of England Voluntary                               

 Aided School                                                                    

Garfield Weston Foundation                         |50.0                         

Database and Apricot Computers                     |20.0                         

Lucas Aerospace                                    |22.0                         

Dixons Wallcoverings                               |5.0                          

Unilab                                             |5.0                          

                                                                                 

Saintbridge Grant Maintained Technology School                                   

Garfield Weston Foundation                         |50.0                         

Systems Integrated Research                        |25.0                         

Chartwells                                         |15.0                         

Denford Machine Tools                              |35.0                         

AT Poeton (Gloucester Plating)                     |2.5                          

Permali (Gloucester)                               |2.5                          

CM Downton                                         |2.5                          


Column 772

Assisted Places

Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what assessment he has made as to how many of those pupils currently covered by the assisted places scheme would have entered private education without the support offered by the scheme.

Mr. Forth : Very few. Over 80 per cent. of parents covered by the scheme have annual incomes below the national average and about 40 per cent. have incomes so low that the pupil is entitled to a free place. Such parents could not afford to meet school fees themselves.

Education (Lewisham)

Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what proportion of the Further Education Funding Council's budget supports institutions in Lewisham.

Mr. Boswell : The Further Education Funding Councils' recurrent funding allocations to institutions for 1993-94 covered the period 1 April 1993 to 31 July 1994 and amounted to £3.201 billion. Allocations to institutions in the London borough of Lewisham amounted to £24 million, or about 0.7 per cent. of the total.

Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the total budget for each grant-maintained (a) primary school and (b) secondary school in (i) Lewisham and (ii) London for 1993-94.

Mr. Robin Squire : The information is given in the lists.


Total budget for each Grant Maintained School in:                     

                                            |Total budget             

                                            |(£)                      

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(i) Lewisham                                                          

                                                                      

(a) Primary Schools                                                   

Turnham Primary with nursery GM School      |1,046,106                

                                                                      

(b) Secondary Schools                                                 

There are none                                                        

                                                                      

(ii) London                                                           

                                                                      

(a) Primary Schools                                                   

All Saints (Carshalton) CE School           |284,425                  

Barnehurst Infant GM School                 |401,814                  

Barnehurst Junior GM School                 |472,137                  

Charville Primary School                    |858,178                  

Corpus Christi RC Primary School<1>         |240,009                  

Crofton Junior School                       |1,177,722                

Dollis Junior School                        |761,032                  

Dormers Wells First School<1>               |233,829                  

Dormers Wells Middle School<1>              |223,095                  

Ethelburga Primary School                   |439,828                  

Friars Primary School<1>                    |140,512                  

Grange Park Infant School                   |555,895                  

Grange Park Junior School                   |578,793                  

Hayes Park Infant School<1>                 |126,479                  

Hayes Park Junior School<1>                 |158,727                  

Hillbrook Primary School                    |925,909                  

Hillside Infants School                     |251,830                  

Hillside Junior School                      |287,213                  

Holy Innocents Roman Catholic School        |488,590                  

Oak Farm Infant School                      |568,784                  

Oak Farm Junior Mixed School                |729,645                  

Oakington Manor Primary School              |727,025                  

Osidge Primary School                       |503,369                  

Selsdon Primary School<1>                   |342,959                  

St. Andrews CE Primary School               |154,619                  

St. Andrews RC Primary School<1>            |278,195                  

St. Annes RC Primary School<1>              |194,144                  

St. Anthony's RC Primary School<1>          |218,552                  

St. Bedes RC Infant School<1>               |234,617                  

St. Bernadette RC Junior Mixed School       |146,022                  

St. Charles RC Primary School<1>            |281,613                  

St. Francesca Cabrini GM School             |985,427                  

St. James the Great RC Primary School<1>    |232,350                  

St. Josephs RC Infant School<1>             |151,523                  

St. Josephs RC Junior School<1>             |191,390                  

St. Laurence CE Junior School               |289,306                  

St. Lukes CE Primary School<1>              |172,076                  

St. Matthews CE Primary School<1>           |94,607                   

Stanley Park Infants School<1>              |144,741                  

Stanley Park Junior School<1>               |165,482                  

Wood End First School                       |720,628                  

Wood End Middle School                      |576,885                  

                                                                      

(b) Secondary Schools                                                 

                                                                      

Abbotsfield School                          |1,950,200                

Abbs Cross School                           |1,880,323                

Albany School                               |1,854,018                

Alperton High School                        |1,842,781                

Archbishop Tenison School                   |1,687,063                

Ashmole School                              |1,560,002                

Beaverwood School for Girls                 |2,523,313                

Beverley School                             |1,081,348                

Bexley Erith Technical GM School            |1,020,078                

Bishop Douglass RC School<1>                |782,607                  

Bishop Thomas Grant School                  |2,909,556                

Bishopshalt School                          |2,551,075                

Brentside High School                       |2,637,138                

Broomfield GM School                        |1,743,264                

Bullers Wood School for Girls               |2,748,877                

Burntwood School                            |4,487,358                

Cardinal Hinsley High School                |1,227,373                

Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School            |2,729,542                

Chadwell Heath High School                  |2,112,265                

Charles Darwin School                       |2,738,262                

Cheam High School                           |2,736,790                

Chingford School                            |1,441,363                

Claremount High School                      |3,454,916                

Convent of Jesus and Mary GM High School    |2,697,063                

Coopers School                              |3,110,095                

Copland Community School and Tech School    |3,217,865                

Drayton Manor High School                   |3,219,216                

Dunraven GM School                          |3,753,813                

Edenham School                              |2,573,840                

Elliott School                              |3,870,951                

Enfield Grammar School<1>                   |743,425                  

Finchley Catholic High School               |1,507,554                

Graveney School                             |5,244,434                

Greenford High School                       |2,916,472                

Gumley House Convent School                 |2,634,950                

Gunnersbury Catholic School for Boys        |2,551,931                

Harlington Community School<1>              |825,192                  

Haydon School                               |3,136,670                

Hayes School                                |3,284,877                

Hendon School                               |3,028,952                

Highams Park School                         |2,959,096                

Holy Cross Convent School                   |1,769,791                

Jews Free School                            |2,228,040                

John Paul II RC School                      |1,633,050                

Kelsey Park School                          |2,488,746                

Kingsbury High School                       |5,344,018                

La Retraite RC Girls GM School              |1,929,728                

La Sainte Union Convent School              |1,856,608                

Langley Park School for Boys                |2,966,972                

Mellow Lane School                          |2,707,249                

Mill Hill GM High School                    |3,476,578                

Newstead Wood School for Girls              |2,119,866                

Nonsuch High School for Girls               |2,407,563                

Northolt High School                        |2,925,776                

Northwood School                            |2,465,238                

Notre Dame High School                      |1,071,845                

Queen Elizabeth GM School for Boys          |2,796,642                

Queens Park Community School                |2,532,850                

Queensmead School                           |2,680,510                

Raines Foundation School                    |3,432,149                

Ravens Wood School for Boys                 |2,589,922                

Richard Challoner School                    |1,692,418                

Riddlesdown GM School                       |2,939,118                

Sacred Heart of Mary Girls School           |1,138,361                

Sacred Heart RC School<1>                   |579,657                  

Salesian College                            |1,653,473                

Salvatorian College                         |790,326                  

Southfields School                          |3,645,574                

St. Catherines RC School for Girls          |1,028,617                

St. Columba's RC Boys School                |1,761,471                

St. Gregorys RC High School                 |1,932,523                

St. Ignatius College                        |1,569,158                

St. James Catholic High School              |942,535                  

St. John Rigby School                       |2,542,122                

St. Josephs College                         |1,649,960                

St. Martin in the Field High School         |1,196,551                

St. Mary's and St. Joseph's GM School       |1,709,573                

St. Mary's CE High School                   |1,721,788                

St. Michaels Catholic Grammar School        |1,083,517                

St. Michaels School                         |1,094,571                

St. Olave's and St. Saviours Grammar School |1,729,329                

St. Philomena's Catholic High for Girls     |2,098,339                

Stratford School                            |2,158,996                

Sutton Grammar School for Boys              |1,556,234                

Swakeleys School                            |1,959,550                

The Coopers Company and Coborn School       |3,443,500                

The Douay Martyrs School                    |2,669,865                

The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls        |2,823,045                

The Frances Bardsley School for Girls       |2,877,329                

The Hayes Manor School                      |1,933,220                

The John Fisher School                      |1,840,742                

The Latymer School                          |1,859,059                

The London Nautical School                  |1,680,058                

The London Oratory School                   |4,559,637                

The St. Thomas the Apoostle GM College      |1,212,528                

Thomas More GM School                       |976,222                  

Triffin School                              |2,289,250                

Uxbridge High School                        |2,199,164                

Vyners School                               |2,099,170                

Wallington High School for Boys             |1,670,559                

Wallington High School for Girls            |1,882,587                

Wilsons School                              |1,855,838                

The amount shown for total budget includes Annual Maintenance         

Grant, Special Purpose Grants for Restructuring Development,          

Premises, VAT, Transitional Grant, Section 11 Grant and Capital       

Grants payable to the Schools in 1993-94.                             

EMPLOYMENT

Banking and Financial Services

Mr. Raynsford : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the figures from his Department's Employment Gazette showing the total number of people employed in banking and financial services, standard industrial classification 8, in Greater London in the latest quarter and the equivalent quarters of 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992.

Miss Widdecombe : The information can be obtained from the NOMIS database and table 1.5 of the Employment Gazette , both of which are accessible from the Library.


Column 775

Paid Annual Leave

Mr. Boyes : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will produce a table showing entitlement to paid annual leave in each EU country.

Mr. Michael Forsyth : A table showing statutory annual leave entitlement and public holidays in all EU countries was published in an article in the September 1993 edition of Employment Gazette --"Working time and holidays in the EC : how the UK compares". The article also presents "Labour Force Survey" results on paid annual leave entitlement actually received in practice by United Kingdom employees. Fully representative, comparable, data on actual paid annual leave entitlement in other EU states are not available.

Labour Statistics (Lewisham)

Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people were signed off from the Lewisham and Catford jobcentres without reason being given after a Restart interview during 1993.

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 P. J. Walsh to Mrs. Bridget Prentice, dated 2 March 1994 :

The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question about the number of people who were signed off without a reason being given after a Restart Interview at Lewisham and Catford Jobcentres. Unfortunately, the information you request is not available. Statistics on people who leave the register after a Restart Interview are collected only where we can demonstrate that the sign off was the direct result of the interview. Undoubtedly this somewhat underestimates the total effectiveness of Restart Interviews but the alternative would be to include numerous people who would have left the register anyway. The figures I can, therefore, give you are in the attached table.

These figures reflect only the direct results of Restart. We do not know how many people subsequently take up a job or a place on an employment or training programme as a result of the guidance given to them at their interview.

I hope this is helpful.


                                         |Lewisham |Catford            

                                         |jobcentre|jobcentre          

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Number of Restart Interviews carried out                               

 in 1993                                 |5,040    |5,137              

Number of people placed into jobs        |122      |161                

Number of people who took up other                                     

 benefits                                |38       |8                  

Number of people who signed off as a                                   

 direct result of Client Adviser Action  |146      |21                 

                                                                       

Number of people who started on the                                    

 following ED programmes:                |1,576    |1,605              

 Jobclub                                                               

 Restart Courses                                                       

 Jobplan Workshops                                                     

 Job Review Workshops                                                  

 Training for Work                                                     

 Community Action                                                      

 Work Trials                                                           

 Business Start-Up Scheme                                              

 Job Interview Guarantee                                               


Column 776

Industrial Tribunals

Mr. Donohoe : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the average level of awards in cases where industrial tribunals have recommended the reinstatement of an employee dismissed by their employer and this has not been implemented by the company concerned in the last year for which figures are available.

Miss Widdecombe : The average total award of compensation where an order for reinstatement or re-engagement was not complied with was £13,602 in the 12 months ended 31 March 1993.


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