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Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish his estimate of the average gross weekly wage for men, women and all workers in each standard region of Great Britain for the latest available period.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Information on the average weekly earnings of employees in the standard regions of England, and in Scotland and Wales, is published in part A of the 1993 new earnings survey. Tables 12 and 13 cover full-time males and full-time females respectively, and table X5 covers all full-time employees.
A copy of the report is available in the Library.
Sir Ralph Howell : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many participants are currently taking part in Government-run or financed work experience schemes ; and what percentage are claiming unemployment benefit while on the scheme.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The latest figures available show that at the end of February there were 12,227 participants in Government-run or financed work experience programmes. None of these people was in receipt of unemployment benefit.
Mr. Gapes : To ask the Secretary of state for Employment what consultation there has been with Health and Safety Executive customers before the distribution arrangements for its free and priced publications were changed from HMSO to Prolog ; if he will state the terms of the agreement with Prolog ; and what market research was conducted on the working of the previous arrangement.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : A review of distribution of the Health and Safety Executive's publications was carried out in 1993 by HSE and external consultants. This review focused on the existing arrangement with HMSO for the distribution of priced publications and other arrangements that existed for the distribution of free publications. The review did not involve consultation with customers. Following the review and an open tender, HSE decided that its customers could be accessed more satisfactorily and economically through a single contract with Prolog for warehousing, distribution and direct mail services. The contract with Prolog is for a three-year period from4 October 1993.
Mr. Spearing : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list those topics of legislation contained in the social charter of the European Community signed by 11 members at Strasbourg (a) which can be implemented within the treaties of the Community operative prior to the coming into force of the treaty on European Union and (b) those which may flow from the latter treaty.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The social charter, signed by the other 11 member states, was a political declaration and as
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such contained no specific proposals for legislation. The social action programme, which followed the social charter, listed particular proposals for Community action. All of these proposals have a legal basis in the treaty of Rome, but many of them require unanimity.The agreement of the Eleven on social policy contained in a protocol annexed to the treaty on European Union contains considerably more explicit provision for the other member states to adopt social legislation, in many cases by qualified majority voting.
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his answer of 16 March, Official Report, column 719, what information is collected, and in what form, on visits by the Health and Safety Executive to outdoor education centres.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Following visits to outdoor education centres, inspectors prepare reports which include factual information about the centres, their size and the types of activities undertaken. The reports include an assessment of how providers manage health and safety.
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment on what basis his Department will decide which outdoor education centres will be inspected by the Health and Safety Executive.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Decisions on which education centres are inspected are a matter for the Health and Safety Executive, not the Department.
Mr. Jamieson : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if his Department holds a comprehensive list of the outdoor education centres in England.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him on 15 March 1994, Official Report, column 625.
Mr. Rooney : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the criteria used by Employment Service staff to decide whether a client they refer to an
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employment rehabilitation course should remain on their disability or unemployment-related benefits or be placed on a rehabilitation allowance ; if those who remain on unemployment-related benefits may participate in full-time rehabilitation courses of more than 21 hours per week ; and what changes are planned in these arrangements as a result of the introduction of the new incapacity benefit.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. Terry Rooney, dated 28 March 1994 :
The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question about whether a client referred to an employment rehabilitation course should remain on disability or unemployment related benefits. Clients attending full-time rehabilitation programmes are entitled to claim Rehabilitation Allowance according to their circumstances or may choose to remain on their existing benefits. My people will discuss the options with each client and help them to decide which course of action will be most advantageous in their particular circumstances.
Clients may continue to claim benefits for unemployment (unemployment benefit, Income Support or a combination of both) for as long as they remain eligible, with the exception of those in receipt of Income Support as a sole benefit. They must claim Rehabilitation Allowance to satisfy the Benefits Agency rules about payment of benefits.
Similarly, as long as all the conditions of entitlement remain satisfied, a person who remains incapable of work may continue to receive benefits for incapacity (Sickness Benefit, Invalidity Benefit or Severe Disablement Allowance). Department of Social Security (DSS) inform us that there are no plans to change these rules under the new incapacity benefit.
I hope this is helpful.
Ms Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list for each civil service grade in his Department the number of (a) male and (b) female, (i) full-time and (ii) part-time employees.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information requested is listed in the tables.
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Non-industrial staff in post 1 January 1994 education group Men Women hours hours Grade |full-time|part-time|all |full-time|part-time|all ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Administrative assistant |743 |11 |754 |1,860 |304 |2,164 Administrative assistant ADP |5 |- |5 |35 |32 |67 Enrolled nurse |- |- |- |- |- |- Support grade band 2 |327 |9 |336 |105 |145 |250 Teleprinter operator |- |- |- |- |- |- Trainee typist |- |- |- |- |- |- Typist |2 |- |2 |442 |221 |663 Total AA level |1,077 |20 |1,097 |2,442 |702 |3,144 Administrative officer |7,848 |126 |7,974 |18,680 |5,320 |24,000 Administrative officer ADP |12 |- |12 |16 |1 |17 Assistant photographer |- |- |- |- |- |- Driver |- |- |- |- |- |- Personal secretary |2 |- |2 |330 |42 |372 Personal secretary trainee |- |- |- |- |- |- Support grade band 1 |67 |1 |68 |114 |21 |135 Trainee graphics officer |- |- |- |- |- |- Total AO level |7,929 |127 |8,056 |19,140 |5,384 |24,524 Assistant information officer |2 |- |2 |10 |2 |12 Assistant librarian |5 |1 |6 |13 |4 |17 Assistant scientific officer |7 |- |7 |3 |- |3 Assistant statistician |9 |- |9 |9 |- |9 Economic assistant |7 |- |7 |4 |- |4 Executive officer |5,009 |54 |5,063 |8,438 |2,452 |10,890 Graphics officer |2 |- |2 |2 |- |2 Graphics technical grade |- |- |- |2 |- |2 Graphics technical grade (GO4 RR) |4 |- |4 |2 |- |2 Management trainee |19 |- |19 |32 |4 |36 Photographic officer |4 |- |4 |- |- |- Professional and technology officer |3 |- |3 |- |- |- Psychologist graduate trainee |2 |- |2 |13 |- |13 Scientific officer |55 |- |55 |35 |2 |37 Senior personal secretary |- |- |- |55 |2 |57 Social worker |8 |- |8 |6 |2 |8 Support manager 3 |15 |- |15 |9 |- |9 Technical grade 1 |5 |- |5 |1 |- |1 Technical grade 2 |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Translator EO |- |- |- |- |- |- Typing manager |- |- |- |43 |3 |46 Total EO level |5,157 |55 |5,212 |8,677 |2,471 |11,148 Administration trainee |2 |- |2 |4 |- |4 Assistant agricultural assistant |40 |- |40 |7 |- |7 Chief typing manager |- |- |- |2 |- |2 Controller of typists |- |- |- |- |- |- Departmental sister |- |- |- |- |- |- Higher Executive Officer |2,083 |12 |2,095 |1,419 |227 |1,646 Higher Executive Officer ADP |- |- |- |- |- |- Higher Executive Officer AT |- |- |- |- |- |- Higher Executive Officer D |10 |- |10 |9 |- |9 Higher Graphics Officer |1 |- |1 |- |1 |1 Higher Instructional Officer |80 |- |80 |2 |- |2 Higher Photographic Officer |2 |- |2 |- |- |- Higher Professional and Technology Officer |17 |- |17 |- |- |- HPTO/Assistant Inspecting Officer (Railways) |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Higher Psychologist |17 |- |17 |38 |3 |41 Higher Scientific Officer |75 |- |75 |21 |4 |25 Higher Social Worker |3 |- |3 |2 |- |2 Information Officer |23 |- |23 |21 |3 |24 Inspector Class 2 |112 |- |112 |74 |- |74 Instructional Officer 1 1987 |115 |- |115 |9 |- |9 Librarian |- |- |- |9 |4 |13 Research Officer Resource and Planning |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Research Officer Social Science |- |- |- |3 |- |3 Senior Assistant Statistician |6 |- |6 |7 |1 |8 Senior Economic Assistant |12 |- |12 |3 |- |3 Senior Enrolled Nurse |- |- |- |- |- |- Senior Physiotherapist |1 |- |1 |2 |1 |3 Support Manager 1 |2 |- |2 |- |- |- Support Manager 2 |1 |- |1 |4 |- |4 Training Officer TW1 |- |- |- |- |- |- Translator HEO |- |- |- |- |- |- UVP Field Organiser |- |- |- |- |- |- Ward Sister |1 |- |1 |3 |- |3 Total HEO Level |2,605 |12 |2,617 |1,639 |244 |1,883 Agricultural Inspector |96 |- |96 |10 |- |10 Employment Nursing Adviser |4 |- |4 |38 |1 |39 Inspector 1B |214 |3 |217 |74 |27 |101 Inspector (Nuclear Installations) |62 |- |62 |2 |- |2 Inspector of Mines |20 |- |20 |- |- |- Inspector of Quarries |14 |- |14 |- |- |- Petroleum Specialist 5 |- |- |- |- |- |- Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 5 |- |- |- |- |- |- Senior Executive Officer |708 |3 |711 |229 |28 |257 Senior Graphics Officer |- |- |- |- |- |- Senior Industrial Relations Officer |- |- |- |- |- |- Senior Information Officer |20 |- |20 |8 |1 |9 Senior Instructional Officer |20 |- |20 |1 |- |1 Senior Librarian |1 |- |1 |2 |- |2 Senior Photographic Officer |- |- |- |- |- |- Senior Professional and Technology Officer |12 |- |12 |- |- |- SPTO/Inspecting Officer (Railways) |17 |- |17 |- |- |- Senior Psychologist |13 |1 |14 |15 |1 |16 Senior Research Officer Resource and Planning |- |- |- |2 |- |2 Senior Research Officer Social Science |10 |- |10 |18 |6 |24 Senior Scientific Officer |78 |1 |79 |15 |- |15 Senior Social Worker |- |- |- |- |- |- Senior Training Adviser |24 |- |24 |7 |3 |10 Specialist Inspector |100 |1 |101 |12 |- |12 SPTO Marine Surveyor Grade 1 |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Training Officer TWI Higher Grade |- |- |- |- |- |- Training Services Officer 1 |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Training Services Officer 2 |- |- |- |- |- |- Total SEO Level |1,415 |9 |1,424 |433 |67 |500 District Inspector of Mines (1982) |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Grade 7 |536 |4 |540 |142 |29 |171 Inspector 1A |167 |1 |168 |12 |2 |14 Petroleum Specialist 4 |132 |- |132 |3 |- |3 Petroleum Specialist 4 (SIMI) |- |- |- |- |- |- Principal Agricultural Inspector |32 |- |32 |- |- |- Principal Inspecting Officer (Railways) |11 |- |11 |- |- |- Principal Inspector (Nuclear Installations) |79 |- |79 |2 |- |2 Principal Marine Surveyor |2 |- |2 |- |- |- Principal Specialist Inspector |106 |2 |108 |7 |- |7 Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 4 |- |- |- |- |- |- Senior Employment Nursing Adviser |2 |- |2 |2 |- |2 Senior Inspector of Quarries |2 |- |2 |- |- |- Total Grade 7 Level |1,070 |7 |1,077 |168 |31 |199 Chief Employment Nursing Adviser |- |- |- |1 |- |- Deputy Superintending Inspector of Agriculture |- |- |- |- |- |- Deputy Superintending Inspector of Factories |24 |- |24 |3 |- |3 Employment Medical Adviser |16 |8 |24 |9 |1 |10 Grade 6 |113 |- |113 |11 |- |11 Nursing Consultant |1 |- |1 |3 |- |3 Petroleum Specialist 3 |19 |- |19 |- |- |- Principal Inspector of Quarries |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 3 |2 |- |2 |- |- |- Superintending Inspector (Nuclear Installations) |25 |- |25 |- |- |- Superintending Specialist Inspector Band C |23 |- |23 |- |1 |1 Total Grade 6 Level |224 |8 |232 |27 |2 |29 Chief Nursing Consultant |- |- |- |1 |- |1 Deputy Chief Inspector of Agriculture |2 |- |2 |- |- |- Grade 5 |90 |- |90 |18 |3 |21 Petroleum Specialist 2 |5 |- |5 |- |- |- Principal Inspector of Mines (1982) |11 |- |11 |- |- |- Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 2 |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Superintending Inspector of Factories |17 |- |17 |7 |- |7 Superintending Specialist Inspector Band B |12 |- |12 |- |- |- Total Grade 5 level |138 |- |138 |26 |3 |29 Chief Inspector of Agriculture |- |- |- |- |- |- Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories |6 |- |6 |- |- |- Deputy Chief Inspector (Nuclear Installations) |5 |- |5 |- |- |- Deputy Chief Inspector (Specialist) |- |- |- |- |- |- Deputy Director of Medical Services |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Grade 4 |11 |- |11 |- |- |- Senior Area Director |11 |- |11 |- |- |- Senior Employment Medical Adviser |18 |2 |20 |5 |- |5 Total Grade 4 level |52 |2 |54 |5 |- |5 Deputy Chief Inspector of Mines |2 |1 |3 |- |- |- Grade 3 |24 |- |24 |1 |- |1 Petroleum Specialist 1 |- |- |- |- |- |- Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 1 |- |- |- |- |- |- Total Grade 3 level |26 |1 |27 |1 |- |1 Chief Inspector of Mines |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Grade 2 |4 |- |4 |1 |- |1 Total Grade 2 level |5 |- |5 |1 |- |1 Grade 1 |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Grade 1A |1 |- |1 |- |- |- Total Grade 1 level |2 |- |2 |- |- |- Total |19,700 |241 |19,941 |32,559 |8,904 |41,463
Non-industrial staff in post 1 January 1994 ED group Grade Total hours |Full-time|Part-time|All ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Administrative Assistant |2,603 |315 |2,918 Administrative Assistant ADP |40 |32 |72 Enrolled Nurse |- |- |- Support Grade Band 2 |432 |154 |586 Teleprinter Operator |- |- |- Trainee Typist |- |- |- Typist |444 |221 |665 Total AA Level |3,519 |722 |4,241 Administrative Officer |26,528 |5,446 |31,974 Administrative Officer ADP |28 |1 |29 Assistant Photographer |- |- |- Driver |- |- |- Personal Secretary |332 |42 |374 Personal Secretary Trainee |- |- |- Support Grade Band 1 |181 |22 |203 Trainee Graphics Officer |- |- |- Total AO Level |27,069 |5,511 |32,580 Assistant Information Officer |12 |2 |14 Assistant Librarian |18 |5 |23 Assistant Scientific Officer |10 |- |10 Assistant Statistician |18 |- |18 Economic Assistant |11 |- |11 Executive Officer |13,447 |2,506 |15,953 Graphics Officer |4 |- |4 Graphics Technical Grade |2 |- |2 Graphics Technical Grade (GO4 RR) |6 |- |6 Management Trainee |51 |4 |55 Photographic Officer |4 |- |4 Professional and Technology Officer |3 |- |3 Psychologist Graduate Trainee |15 |- |15 Scientific Officer |90 |2 |92 Senior Personal Secretary |55 |2 |57 Social Worker |14 |2 |16 Support Manager 3 |24 |- |24 Technical Grade 1 |6 |- |6 Technical Grade 2 |1 |- |1 Translator EO |- |- |- Typing Manager |43 |3 |46 Total EO Level |13,834 |2,526 |16,360 Administration Trainee |6 |- |6 Assistant Agricultural Inspector |47 |- |47 Chief Typing Manager |2 |- |2 Controller of Typists |- |- |- Departmental Sister |- |- |- Higher Executive Officer |3,502 |239 |3,741 Higher Executive Officer ADP |- |- |- HEO AT |- |- |- HEOD |19 |- |19 Higher Graphics Officer |1 |1 |2 Higher Instructional Officer |82 |- |82 Higher Photographic Officer |2 |- |2 Higher Professional and Technology Officer |17 |- |17 HPTO/Assistant Inspecting Officer (Railways) |1 |- |1 Higher Psychologist |55 |3 |58 Higher Scientific Officer |96 |4 |100 Higher Social Worker |5 |- |5 Information Officer |44 |3 |47 Inspector Class 2 |186 |- |186 Instructional Officer 1 1987 |124 |- |124 Librarian |9 |4 |13 Research Officer Resource and Planning |1 |- |1 Research Officer Social Science |3 |- |3 Senior Assistant Statistician |13 |1 |14 Senior Economic Assistant |15 |- |15 Senior Enrolled Nurse |- |- |- Senior Physiotherapist |3 |1 |4 Support Manager 1 |2 |- |2 Support Manager 2 |5 |- |5 Training Officer TW1 |- |- |- Translater HEO |- |- |- UVP Field Organiser |- |- |- Ward Sister |4 |- |4 Total HEO Level |4,244 |256 |4,500 Agricultural Inspector |106 |- |106 Employment Nursing Adviser |42 |1 |43 Inspector 1B |288 |30 |318 Inspector (Nuclear Installations) |64 |- |64 Inspector of Mines |20 |- |20 Inspector of Quarries |14 |- |14 Petroleum Specialist 5 |- |- |- Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 5 |- |- |- Senior Executive Officer |937 |31 |968 Senior Graphics Officer |- |- |- Senior Industrial Relations Officer |- |- |- Senior Information Officer |28 |1 |29 Senior Instructional Officer |21 |- |21 Senior Librarian |3 |- |3 Senior Photographic Officer |- |- |- Senior Professional and Technology Officer |12 |- |12 SPTO/Inspecting Officer (Railways) |17 |- |17 Senior Psychologist |28 |2 |30 Senior Research Officer Resource and Planning |2 |- |2 Senior Research Officer Social Science |28 |6 |34 Senior Scientific Officer |93 |1 |94 Senior Social Worker |- |- |- Senior Training Adviser |31 |3 |34 Specialist Inspector |112 |1 |113 SPTO Marine Surveyor Grade 1 |1 |- |1 Training Officer TWI Higher Grade |- |- |- Training Services Officer 1 |1 |- |1 Training Services Officer 2 |- |- |- Total SEO Level |1,848 |76 |1,924 District Inspector of Mines (1982) |1 |- |1 Grade 7 |678 |33 |711 Inspector 1A |179 |3 |182 Petroleum Specialist 4 |135 |- |135 Petroleum Specialist 4 (SIMI) |- |- |- Principal Agricultural Inspector |32 |- |32 Principal Inspecting Officer (Railways) |11 |- |11 Principal Inspector (Nuclear Installations) |81 |- |81 Principal Marine Surveyor |2 |- |2 Principal Specialist Inspector |113 |2 |115 Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 4 |- |- |- Senior Employment Nursing Adviser |4 |- |4 Senior Inspector of Quarries |2 |- |2 Total Grade 7 Level |1,238 |38 |1,276 Chief Employment Nursing Adviser |1 |- |1 Deputy Superintending Inspector of Agriculture |- |- |- Deputy Superintending Inspector of Factories |27 |- |27 Employment Medical Adviser |25 |9 |34 Grade 6 |124 |- |124 Nursing Consultant |4 |- |4 Petroleum Specialist 3 |19 |- |19 Principal Inspector of Quarries |1 |- |1 Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 3 |2 |- |2 Superintending Inspector (Nuclear Installations) |25 |- |25 Superintending Specialist Inspector Band C |23 |1 |24 Total Grade 6 Level |251 |10 |261 Chief Nursing Consultant |1 |- |1 Deputy Chief Inspector of Agriculture |2 |- |2 Grade 5 |108 |3 |111 Petroleum Specialist 2 |5 |- |5 Principal Inspector of Mines (1982) |11 |- |11 Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 2 |1 |- |1 Superintending Inspector of Factories |24 |- |24 Superintending Specialist Inspector Band B |12 |- |12 Total Grade 5 Level |164 |3 |167 Chief Inspector of Agriculture |- |- |- Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories |6 |- |6 Deputy Chief Inspector (Nuclear Installations) |5 |- |5 Deputy Chief Inspector (Specialist) |- |- |- Deputy Director of Medical Services |1 |- |1 Grade 4 |11 |- |11 Senior Area Director |11 |- |11 Senior Employment Medical Adviser |23 |2 |25 Total Grade 4 Level |57 |2 |59 Deputy Chief Inspector of Mines |2 |1 |3 Grade 3 |25 |- |25 Petroleum Specialist 1 |- |- |- Reservoir Evaluation Specialist 1 |- |- |- Total Grade 3 Level |27 |1 |28 Chief Inspector of Mines |1 |- |1 Grade 2 |5 |- |5 Total Grade 2 Level |6 |- |6 Grade 1 |1 |- |1 Grade 1A |1 |- |1 Total Grade 1 Level |2 |- |2 |------- |------- |------- Total |52,259 |9,145 |61,404
Ms Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what responsibility the Birminghan training and enterprise council has to ensure that all young people in the youth training guarantee group receive a training allowance up to their 18th birthday ; how this responsibility
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will be met if local training providers are not paid by Birmingham TEC to provide allowances after 17-year-olds have reached NVQ level 2 ; and if he will make a statement.Miss Widdecombe : I understand that Birmingham training and enterprise council acknowledges its responsibility to ensure that all young people in the youth training guarantee group receive a training allowance up until their 18th birthday. For the 1994-95 financial year it will be a contractual requirement for the TEC's training providers to ensure that young people are able to remain in training and in receipt of a training allowance until their 18th birthday. The TEC will pay all training providers a contribution towards the training allowance and trainee support costs.
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment, pursuant to his answer of 23 March, Official Report, column 288, if he will list the number of contracts and their cost with management consultants in the latest year for which figures are available.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : In the period April 1993-March 1994, the Employment Department let 20 management consultancy contracts which had been drawn up by its business consultants lead buying unit to a value of £212,300. Information on contracts drawn up by the Department could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 4 November 1993, Official Report, column 474, if he will set out the reason for his policy of not to disclose stocks of nerve agent pretreatment sets.
Mr. Hanley : It is not my Department's practice to disclose information relating to stock levels of nerve agent pretreatment as it relates to operational capability.
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will now publish the results of the monitoring of the Eskmeals testing range conducted by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution.
Mr. Aitken : As my hon. Friend the Minister of State for the Environment and Countryside made clear in his answer on 2 February 1994, Official Report, column 799, environmental monitoring at Eskmeals is carried out by the Ministry of Defence. Copies of environmental monitoring reports and data going back to 1981 were placed in the House of Commons Library last July.
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what major building projects, valued at over £1 million, are being or have been wholly or partly financed since 1989 in (a) Doncaster, (b) Barnsley, (c) Rotherham and (d) Wakefield by his Department ; and what was the cost of each project to his Department.
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Mr. Hanley : There is no record of my Department having financed any major building projects valued at over £1 million in Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham or Wakefield since 1990. Information relating to the period before 1990 could be provided only at disproportionate cost as this would involve researching Property Services Agency archives.
Mr. Davidson : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give details of the results of the trials on random drug testing conducted by the Army last year ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Hanley : The purpose of the trials carried out last year was to assess the proposed methodology for compulsory drug testing. The trials showed that adjustments were necessary. These have been made.
Mrs. Ray Michie : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 21 March, Official Report, column 117, if he will give details of the number of redundancies by rank and the total to date in each of the three services as a result of "Options for Change" ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Hanley : I will write to the hon. Member.
Ms Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list for each civil service grade in his Department the number of (a) male and (b) female, (i) full-time and (ii) part-time employees.
Mr. Aitken : I refer the hon. Member to the Answer I gave to the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Mrs. Clwyd) on 29 November, Official Report, columns 371-76.
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to his answer of 23 March, Official Report, column 337, if he will list the number of contracts, and their cost, with management consultants in the latest year for which figures are available.
Mr. Aitken : My Department does not maintain statistics centrally on the number and value of contracts placed with management consultants ; thus, an answer to this question could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence when he expects the auxiliary oil replenishment vessels 1 and 2 to enter service with the Royal Navy.
Mr. Aitken : The RFA's Fort Victoria--AOR-01--and Fort
George--AOR-02--are currently undergoing post-acceptance trials and defect rectification work. They are planned to enter full service with the Royal Navy this summer.
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Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what evidence is available to Her Majesty's Government of shelling of villages occupied by indigenous peoples of the marshes where the Tigris meets the Euphrates.
Mr. Hanley : Evidence drawn from aerial surveillance and other sources indicates that there has been systematic destruction of villages belonging to the indigenous people of the southern marshes of Iraq. This has not necessarily been caused by shelling.
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the organisations and individuals outside his Department who are sent information on, or consulted about, individuals who are, or may be, proposed to the Minister for appointment to posts for which a Minister has to approve the person appointed or the shortlist for the appointment.
Mr. Goodlad : Consultation for appointments to public bodies is carried out as appropriate with other Government Departments and outside organisations depending on the circumstances of the appointment and the body involved.
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list each appointment for which a Minister has to approve the appointment or shortlist for the appointment, showing for each appointment (a) which Minister exercises the responsibility, (b) the salary, if any, attached to the post, (c) the term of the appointment and (d) the person currently appointed to the post.
Mr. Goodlad : The information is as follows :
Wilton Park Academic Council --All appointments :
(a) Secretary of State
(b) No salaries are paid
(c) Three years renewable at the Secretary of State's discretion for a further three years
(d) See :
1987 --Mrs. Liliana Archibald (Chairman) --* December 1995 Director, Holman Wade Ltd.
1992 --Mr. John Hanson, CBE--ex officio
Director General, British Council
(Vacant)--ex officio
Head of EC Office, London
1991 --Dr. Connie Martin--ex officio
Secretary General, Anglo-German Foundation
1987 --Dr. John Scates--ex officio
International Director, CBI
1991 --Professor Jack Spence--ex officio
Director of Studies, Chatham House
1983 --Mr. Michael Kaser--* December 1995
St. Antony's College, Oxford
1989 --Dr. Janet Morgan--* June 1995
Director, WH Smith
1989 --Mr. Bruce George, MP--* June 1995
Labour, Walsall South
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1989 --Mr. John Lyons, CBE--* June 1995Formerly General Secretary Engineers' and Managers' Association 1990 --Mr. Peter Temple-Morris, MP--* December 1996
Conservative, Leominster
1990 --Sir Julian Bullard, GCMG--* December 1996
Pro-Chancellor, Birmingham University
1993 --Mr. Anthony Bruce--June 1996
Deputy Director Exports, The General Electric Company plc 1993 --Mrs. Juliet Campbell, CMG--June 1996
The Mistress, Girton College, Cambridge
1993 --Professor Helen Wallace--June 1996
Director, Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex 1993 --Mr. Nicholas Harvey, MP--June 1996
Liberal, North Devon
1993 --Mr. Edward Mortimer--November 1996
Foreign Affairs Editor, The Financial Times
1994 --Mr. Michael Walsh--June 1997
Secretary, International Department, Trades Union Congress Wilton Park Departmental Board
All appointments
(a) Secretary of State
(b) No salaries are paid
(c) No formal arrangements
(d) Mrs. Ruth Watts Davies
Miss Valerie Le Moignan
Wilton Park Conference Centre
Director
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