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Written Answers to Questions
Friday 22 April 1994
HOME DEPARTMENT
United Racecourse (Holdings) Ltd.
Mr. Meale : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what assessment he has made of the fairness and confidentiality of the tendering processes used in the recent sale of assets belonging to the publicly owned United Racecourse (Holdings) Ltd. ; (2) if he will investigate the circumstances around the tendering processes used in the recent sale of the publicly owned United Racecourse (Holdings) Ltd. ;
(3) if he will make a statement about the recent sale of the publicly owned United Racecourse (Holdings) Ltd. to the Racecourse Holdings Trust.
Mr. Charles Wardle : United Racecourse (Holdings) Ltd. is owned by the Levy Board and its disposal is a matter for that board.
Mr. Meale : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what meetings he or officials of his Department had with either the Jockey Club or the publicly owned United Racecourse (Holdings) Ltd. prior to, and concerning, the recent sale of United Racecourse's assets.
Mr. Meale : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if the assets of the Racecourse Holdings Trust are publicly owned.
Mr. Charles Wardle : No. Racecourse Holdings Trust is a private company owned by the Jockey Club.
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Parliamentary Boundaries
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will discuss with the chairman of the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Wales the arrangements and timing for holding inquiries into the commission's proposals for the counties of Clwyd and Dyfed ; and if he will urge the commission to move the dates away from the European parliamentary elections.
Mr. Charles Wardle : The arrangements and timing of local inquiries are a matter for the commission. I understand from the commission that, in making arrangements for the inquiries, it took into account the date of the elections to the European Parliament, but decided that it was not possible to postpone the inquiries without an unacceptable risk to its achieving the statutory deadline of 31 December 1994 for submission of the final report on the current review of parliamentary constituencies in Wales.
Asylum Applications, Burundi and Rwanda
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for asylum he has received from refugees from Burundi and Rwanda ; how many have been granted ; where applicants are being held ; and how long the decision-making process takes.
Mr. Charles Wardle : Available information on applications and decisions in the period 1 January 1992 to 31 March 1994 is given in the table. Information for 1990 and 1991 is published in tables 4.1 and 4.2 of Home Office Statistical Bulletin Issue 19/93 "Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 1992", and for prior years in the corresponding tables in earlier volumes of this annual publication. A copy of this publication is in the Library of the House.
Information on the average decision time for decisions in recent months is not yet available.
At 19 April 1994, no asylum applicants from Burundi or Rwanda were held in detention.
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Applications for asylum in the United Kingdom by nationals of Burundi and Rwanda, excluding
dependants, and decisions<1><2>
|1992 |1993 |1994
|(January-March)
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Burundi
Applications |4 |10 |11
Decisions |7 |2 |<4>-
Recognised as refugee and granted
asylum |- |- |<4>-
Not recognised as a refugee but
granted exceptional leave |- |1 |<4>-
Total refused of which: |7 |1 |<4>-
Refused asylum and exceptional
leave after full consideration |2 |1 |<4>-
Refused under para 180F of
immigration rules<3> |5 |- |<4>-
Refused on safe third country
grounds |- |- |<4>-
Rwanda
Applications |4 |7 |7
Decisions |14 |5 |<4>-
Recognised as refugee and granted
asylum |- |- |<4>-
Not recognised as a refugee but
granted exceptional leave |- |3 |<4>-
Total refused of which: |14 |2 |<4>-
Refused asylum and exceptional
leave after full consideration |3 |- |<4>-
Refused under para 180F of
immigration rules<3> |11 |2 |<4>-
Refused on safe third country
grounds |- |- |<4>-
<1> Decisions do not necessarily relate to applications made in the same period.
<2> Figures for decisions in 1993 may understate because of delays in recording. Information on
decisions in the period January-March 1994 is not yet available.
<3> For failure to provide evidence to support the asylum claim within a reasonable period,
including failure to respond to invitation to interview to establish identity (para. 101 prior to
26 July 1993).
<4> Not available.
Fire Safety (Retail Premises)
Mr. French : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) what plans he has to make the fitting of sprinkler systems to all large retail premises mandatory ;
(2) what representations he has received about the fire safety of supermarkets and superstores ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Charles Wardle : We have received three written representations about the use of sprinkler systems as a means of controlling the spread of fire, preserving life and minimising fire damage in supermarkets and superstores.
Under present arrangements the installation of sprinklers in new superstores is a matter for building regulations, and in existing buildings, if appropriate, could be covered by a fire certificate. However, any provisions to require a general installation of sprinkler systems in existing large premises would require primary legislation.
Fire safety issues are under review by a scrutiny team and, as my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment said on 29 March, Official Report, columns 660-61, any changes would be made in the light of its findings and after consultation with interested parties.
The need for such provisions will be carefully considered by the Government in the light of the scrutiny team's findings and those of our recent review of the Fire Precautions Act 1971.
M11 Link Road
Mr. Gapes : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 18 January, Official Report, column 474, what was the total cost in January of the police operations concerning the M11 link road through Wanstead including police overtime payments, expenses and allowances and other costs.
Mr. Charles Wardle [holding answer 22 February 1994] : I understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that the additional manpower costs of policing the M11 link road protest on Wanstead common
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during January were £16,163. This figure includes overtime payments and the related national insurance contribution, but excludes basic pay and allowances.EDUCATION
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list for each local education authority the pupil capacity of those schools which have been approved for grant-maintained status and the number of pupils attending grant-maintained schools.
Mr. Robin Squire : The table below shows full-time pupil numbers in January 1993 at schools which are currently grant-maintained in each local education authority area.
Up-to-date figures on the capacity of grant-maintained schools are not available. However, my right hon. Friend intends to make regulations shortly under section 21 of the Education Act 1993 requiring LEAs and the Funding Agency for Schools, where it has relevant planning responsibilities, to submit annual information on the numbers of surplus places in LEA-maintained and grant-maintained schools respectively, beginning this year.
LEA |Pupils ------------------------------------- Avon |1,569 Barking and Dagenham |0 Barnet |10,612 Barnsley |0 Bedfordshire |9,197 Berkshire |9,631 Bexley |4,224 Birmingham |16,338 Bolton |3,119 Bradford |5,619 Brent |10,379 Bromley |12,493 Buckinghamshire |11,970 Bury |223 Calderdale |6,997 Cambridgeshire |17,020 Camden |2,340 Cheshire |2,813 Cleveland |0 Cornwall |0 Corporation of London |0 Coventry |0 Croydon |6,733 Cumbria |12,977 Derbyshire |16,946 Devon |4,856 Doncaster |0 Dorset |9,952 Dudley |4,839 Durham |0 Ealing |6,122 East Sussex |0 Enfield |5,725 Essex |84,712 Gateshead |0 Gloucestershire |24,404 Greenwich |239 Hackney |87 Hammersmith and Fulham |1,229 Hampshire |19,691 Haringey |0 Harrow |483 Havering |3,813 Hereford and Worcester |3,558 Hertfordshire |22,129 Hillingdon |14,069 Hounslow |2,108 Humberside |257 Isle of Wight |0 Isles of Scilly |0 Islington |0 Kensington and Chelsea |1,159 Kent |56,064 Kingston-upon-Thames |3,050 Kirklees |1,266 Knowsley |719 Lambeth |4,613 Lancashire |7,171 Leeds |1,189 Leicestershire |3,222 Lewisham |361 Lincolnshire |22,542 Liverpool |2,260 Manchester |0 Merton |0 Newcastle-upon-Tyne |0 Newham |556 Norfolk |11,231 North Tyneside |212 North Yorkshire |0 Northamptonshire |12,269 Northumberland |632 Nottinghamshire |1,831 Oldham |0 Oxfordshire |81 Redbridge |1,113 Richmond-upon-Thames |0 Rochdale |2,168 Rotherham |0 Salford |413 Sandwell |658 Sefton |0 Sheffield |2,836 Shropshire |3,847 Solihull |454 Somerset |772 South Tyneside |0 Southwark |4,030 St. Helens |0 Staffordshire |4,347 Stockport |0 Sunderland |0 Suffolk |0 Surrey |13,135 Sutton |7,390 Tameside |2,332 Tower Hamlets |907 Trafford |2,892 Wakefield |0 Walsall |6,118 Waltham Forest |1,915 Wandsworth |7,002 Warwickshire |4,669 West Sussex |0 Westminster |0 Wigan |0 Wiltshire |16,131 Wirral |2,031 Wolverhampton |2,348 Note: Figures for numbers of pupils are derived from the Department's January 1993 Schools Census.
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education when he plans to issue circulars arising from the Education Act 1993 concerning (a) the supply of school places and (b) the promotion of new grant-maintained schools.
Mr. Forth : A draft circular on the supply of school places and guidance for promoters of new grant-maintained schools will be issued by the Department later in the summer.
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many surplus places there are in grant-maintained schools ; and what is the figure as a percentage of the admission limit for such schools.
Mr. Robin Squire : This information is not currently available. However, my right hon. Friend intends to make regulations shortly under section 21 of the Education Act 1993 requiring LEAs and the Funding Agency for Schools, where it has relevant planning responsibilities, to submit annual information on the numbers of surplus placesin LEA maintained and grant-maintained
schoolsrespectively, beginning this year.
Schools (Parents' Choice)
Mr. Byers : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the figures in total and for each local education authority of admission appeals by parents failing to obtain a place for their child in the school of their choice, and of this total how many and what percentage (a) were withdrawn before appeals committee stage, (b) were settled to mutual satisfaction before committee stage, (c) were rejected by committee and (d) were decided in the parent's favour by the committee for the years 1989-90 and 1990-91.
Mr. Robin Squire : The information requested has been placed in the Library.
Sixth-form Colleges
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much was spent by the Further Education Funding Council on (a) sixth-form colleges and (b) further education colleges in North Yorkshire in 1993-94 ; and what is its budget for (i) sixth-form colleges and (ii) further education colleges in North Yorkshire in 1994-95.
Mr. Boswell : The Further Education Funding Council's recurrent funding allocations for 1993-94 covered the period 1 April 1993 to 31 July 1994. Allocations to colleges in North Yorkshire for this period were as follows.
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|£m
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Sixth form colleges |6.509
Further education colleges |31.544
The funding council has not yet announced its allocations to individual colleges for the academic year 1994-95.
Private Security Firms
Mr. George : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many private security firms have been employed by his Department for each of the last 10 years ; what has been the annual value of the contracts ; and if he will estimate how many guards have been employed for each of those years.
Mr. Boswell : Day security in the Department's London offices has been provided by two different private security firms since it was contracted out in 1988. Night security at the Department's Darlington office has been provided by two companies over the past 10 years. The approximate annual value of these contracts has been :
Financial |£000's Year ------------------------------ 1984-85 |8 1985-86 |20 1986-87 |22 1987-88 |23 1988-89 |103 1989-90 |128 1990-91 |163 1991-92 |244 1992-93 |334 1993-94 |95
Between 1988-89 and 1992-93 security was provided, or part-funded, for more than one London site pending consolidation of London-based staff into a single headquarters building.
On average five guards have been employed for each year since 1988.
PRIME MINISTER
Stephan Adolphus Kock
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Prime Minister whether Mr. Stephan Adolphus Kock was at any time between 1 January 1984 and 31 December 1989 in the service of the Government or any of its agencies or wholly owned companies or carried out any functions for, or on behalf of, the Government or any of its agencies or wholly owned companies.
The Prime Minister : I have nothing further to add to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) on 19 April 1994, Official Report, column 432.
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ENVIRONMENT
Urban Development Corporations
Mr. Frank Field : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the planned wind-up dates for each of the urban development corporations and the planned expenditure for each development corporation in each year at current prices until the exit strategies take effect.
Mr. Baldry : The planned wind-up date of each urban development corporation is set out in the table :
|Date
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Bristol |<1>31 December 1994
Leeds |31 March 1995
Central Manchester |31 March 1996
Birmingham Heartlands |}
Sheffield |} |31 March 1997
Trafford Park |}
Black Country |31 March 1995
London Docklands |}
Merseyside |}
Plymouth |} |31 March 1998
Teesside |}
Tyne and Wear |}
<1> An extension of lifetime to 31 December 1995 is currently under
consideration.
Grant in aid voted to each UDC for the current financial year is contained in the supply estimates 1994-95, class VII Environment. The Government's overall expenditure plans for UDCs from 1994-95 to 1996-97 are set out in figure 46 of my Department's annual report Cm. 2507. Formal allocations to individual development corporations for the next financial year will be made upon completion of the current public expenditure survey.
Water Pollution, Worcester
Mr. Luff : To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will make a statement on water quality in the River Severn at Worcester ;
(2) if he will establish an independent inquiry into the National Rivers Authority's responsibility for and response to the pollution of the River Severn and water supplies in the Worcester area on Friday 15 April ;
(3) what advice he has received from the drinking water inspectorate on the quality of water supplies from the Barbourne treatment works in Worcester ; and if he will make a statement ; (4) what inquiry or inquiries are being conducted by his Department, or any organisation for which his Department is responsible, into the pollution of the River Severn and water supplies in the Worcester area on Friday 15 April ; and if he will publish the results of all such inquiries ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Atkins [holding answer 21 April 1994] : The drinking water inspectorate is carrying out an investigation into the effects of this incident on drinking water supplies and the handling of action to deal with it ; its findings will be published. Timing may be affected by whether there is any need for prosecution arising from the incident. The National Rivers Authority is establishing the facts relating to the pollution of the river system and its own response. Subject to any legal constraints relating to possible prosecutions it will make its findings public. When the
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results of these inquiries are available to me, I shall decide whether there is a need for any further investigation of any aspect of the matter.LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
Mr. Jeremy Turner
Mr. Sheerman : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department when he expects to receive a report from the Home Department regarding its investigation into the conduct of the coroner of Ceredigion in relation to the inquiries into the death of Mr. Jeremy Turner.
Mr. John M. Taylor : A report on the outcome of the investigation by the Home Department is expected by the end of May at the latest.
EMPLOYMENT
Parliamentary Questions
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many parliamentary questions to his Department have not been answered over the last five years because of disproportionate costs or because the information requested was not held centrally, how many could be answered now due to computerisation and/or more effective operational systems ; and if he will list each such question along with the name and constituency of the hon. Member who tabled it.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The number of answers given by the Department to parliamentary questions from January 1989 to December 1993 recorded in the POLIS database as including a reference to part or all of the information being available only at disproportionate cost or because the information was not held centrally was 212. This represents around 2 per cent. of the total number of POLIS entries for written answers in that period.
Details of each of these questions can be obtained from the POLIS database, access to which is available in the Library. The further information requested is not currently available and could be answered only at disproportionate cost.
Asthma
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the estimated loss of time from work caused by asthma.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : From answers given in a supplement to the 1990 labour force survey it is estimated that 79,000 days were lost in the previous 12 months as a result of asthma caused by work and a further 223,000 days were lost as a result of pre-existing asthma made worse by work. These figures are based on the interviewees' own report of the cause of their symptoms.
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WALES
Taff Merthyr Colliery
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish details of Government or public funding proposed in connection with the closure of Taff Merthyr colliery ; how much money was pledged in October 1992 ; how much has been paid ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : In October 1992 the then Secretary of State for Wales announced that up to £43 million would be made available to assist all areas in Wales affected by the colliery closures. Subsequently £18.09 million was allocated for coal closure mitigation action in the Taff Merthyr area and of this £16.36 million has been spent. This figure excludes training allowances which cannot be separately identified and £1.73 million of European regional development funding.
Unitary Authorities
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, (1) pursuant to his answer of 11 April, Official Report, column 214, what representation he received prior to the publication of the Bill (a) in favour and (b) in opposition to the inclusion of Pentyrch in the proposed new unitary authority of Cardiff ;
(2) pursuant to his answer of 29 March, Official Report, column 625, what representation he received in favour of the inclusion of Pentyrch in the Cardiff unitary authority prior to the publication of the White Paper.
Mr. Redwood : I will write to the hon. Gentleman and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.
Princess of Wales Hospital
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what provision he has made for funding the Ysbyty Bangor and Princess of Wales hospital, Bridgend ophthalmic treatment centres, and the general surgery treatment centre at Princess of Wales hospital, Bridgend.
Mr. Redwood : 1994-95 funding for the Bridgend treatment centre is :
|£
----------------------------------
Surgical centre |499,535
Ophthalmic centre |908,210
The ophthalmic centre at Ysbyty Bangor ceased operating as a treatment centre from 1 April 1993.
Hip and Knee Replacements
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 19 April, Official Report, column 460, what information he has received from the Rhydlafar treatment centre in relation to the numbers of hip and knee replacement operations carried out via the treatment centre procedure during 1993-94 ; what assessment he has made of the comparison of the numbers of hip and knee joints funded for that year and the numbers carried out ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : The orthopaedic treatment centre, Rhydlafar, carried out 240 hip-knee replacements in
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1993-94--seven less than funded. Those scheduled operations were postponed in late March 1994 for medical reasons, following pre-treatment assessment of the patients at the centre, and are being re-scheduled for the earliest possible opportunity.Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 19 April, Official Report, column 460, of which purchasing health authorities are to be allocated the 291 hip-knee replacement operations at the Rhydlafar centre ; if he will specify knee operations and hip
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operations separately ; if he will list on a comparable basis the knee operations and hip operations allocated to the health authorities in (a) 1992-93 and (b) 1993-94 ; what provisions he has made for general practitioner fundholders within that allocation to each health authority ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Redwood : Allocations of places at the treatment centres are made to health authorities. The hip and knee replacement operations at the orthopaedic treatment centre for 1992-93, 1993-94 and 1994-95 are :
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Authority Hips Knees
|1992-93<1>|1993-94<2>|1994-95<3>|1992-93<1>|1993-94<2>|1994-95<3>
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Clwyd |3 |8 |12 |3 |3 |10
East Dyfed |0 |3 |5 |0 |1 |5
Gwent |53 |36 |29 |26 |38 |35
Gwynedd |1 |0 |8 |0 |0 |3
Mid Glamorgan |37 |30 |33 |10 |16 |20
Pembrokeshire |15 |19 |33 |3 |9 |15
Powys |5 |4 |11 |4 |5 |7
South Glamorgan |29 |30 |22 |12 |12 |14
West Glamorgan |21 |26 |21 |5 |7 |8
|-- |-- |-- |-- |-- |--
Total |164 |156 |174 |63 |91 |117
<1> Completed operations.
<2> Includes 5 hip and 2 knee operations deferred to 1994-95.
<3> Allocation.
GP fundholders have to bid to their district health authority for a share of treatment centre places which are included in the authorities' contracts with the centres. Subject to that, GP fundholders may refer patients direct to the centres and there is no charge to their budgets.
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what consultations he has had with the chairman of the South Glamorgan health authority concerning the discontinuation of the use of the Zimmer CPT artificial hip joint in the hip replacement part of the treatment centre funding allocation ; and what allowance he has made in the allocation of £178,000 for joint revision surgery within the Cardiff Royal group for the excess numbers of replacements required for defective, or defectively fitted Zimmer CPT hip joints.
Mr. Redwood : None. The use of particular items of equipment within the orthopaedic treatment centre, including the joint revision programme, is a matter for South Glamorgan health authority which is required to obtain prostheses from sources on the Department of Health register of approved manufacturers.
Health Statistics
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what provision he has made for the publication of information in Welsh health statistics indicating clearly the relationship between investment in defined health gain target areas and actual realised health gain in those sectors ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : The annual report of the chief medical officer, published in December 1993, summarised the progress being made in each of the 10 health gain priority areas. Further details, including information on the investment in each health gain area, is available from the published plans of local health authorities.
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Education
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what arrangements he has made in relation to the transfer of work from the Welsh Joint Education Committee and the Welsh Language Education Development Committee to the Curriculum and Assessment Committee for Wales ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : The work associated with securing an adequate supply of Welsh language classroom materials, previously done by the Welsh language education development committee--WLEDC--and the Welsh Office is being done by the Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales. ACAC appointments include former WJEC staff previously working for the WLEDC. These appointments, and other arrangements that have been made, should ensure that ACAC is able to benefit from the experience and understanding gained by the WLEDC.
Environment
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what proposals he has to issue guidelines akin to planning policy guidance note 15 regarding development and the environment in Wales.
Mr. Redwood : I consulted on draft planning policy guidance on historic buildings and conservation areas--PPG 15-Wales--on 4 November 1993. We are considering the responses to that consultation exercise.
Wetland Birds
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what proposals he has for providing an alternative habitat for redshank and dunlin and other wetland bird species covered by the 1979 European wild birds directive that are expected to be displaced by the proposed Cardiff Bay barrage.
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Mr. Redwood : The proposals for compensation measures for dunlin, redshank and other wetland bird species are those outlined in the feasibility study by Mason Pittendrigh and David Bellamy Associates published in February 1993.
TRANSPORT
School Minibuses
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer of 19 April, Official Report, column 438, if he will give a breakdown of the regional casualty figures for school minibuses by the number of (a) deaths and (b) injuries.
Mr. Key : Estimates of the information requested are shown in the table. It is not possible to identify school minibuses in the road injury accident data collection system. However, it is possible to identify school pupil casualties in minibuses, during journeys to and from school, and also in other types of journey. Both these categories are included in the table along with children of school age, classified as school pupils, but not necessarily travelling in a school minibus on a school activity.
Minibus<1> casualties: number of school pupils<2> killed or injured:
GB
1988-92
1988
DTp Regions |Fatal |Serious |Slight
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Northern |0 |1 |9
Yorkshire/Humberside |1 |1 |16
East Midlands |0 |0 |9
Eastern |2 |10 |37
South East |3 |3 |28
Greater London |0 |1 |9
South West |0 |1 |23
West Midlands |0 |2 |22
North West |0 |3 |53
England |6 |22 |206
Wales |1 |3 |20
Scotland |0 |13 |38
|------- |------- |-------
Total |7 |38 |264
1989
DTp Regions |Fatal |Serious |Slight
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Northern |0 |0 |9
Yorkshire/Humberside |0 |4 |6
East Midlands |0 |6 |10
Eastern |3 |2 |33
South East |0 |1 |34
Greater London |0 |0 |9
South West |0 |6 |25
West Midlands |0 |2 |24
North West |0 |1 |27
England |3 |22 |177
Wales |0 |6 |27
Scotland |0 |4 |32
|------- |------- |-------
Total |3 |32 |236
1990
DTp Regions |Fatal |Serious |Slight
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Northern |0 |2 |8
Yorkshire/Humberside |1 |6 |18
East Midlands |1 |6 |30
Eastern |0 |4 |37
South-East |1 |6 |43
Greater London |0 |12 |6
South West |0 |0 |28
West Midlands |0 |2 |10
North West |0 |0 |54
England |3 |38 |234
Wales |0 |4 |10
Scotland |0 |5 |43
|------- |------- |-------
Total |3 |47 |287
1991
DTp Regions |Fatal |Serious |Slight
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Northern |0 |0 |9
Yorkshire/Humberside |0 |8 |14
East Midlands |0 |1 |35
Eastern |1 |13 |33
South-East |0 |0 |26
Greater London |0 |0 |0
South West |0 |1 |6
West Midlands |0 |1 |20
North West |0 |2 |19
England |1 |26 |162
Wales |0 |2 |38
Scotland |0 |2 |21
|------- |------- |-------
Total |1 |30 |221
1992
DTp Regions |Fatal |Serious |Slight
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Northern |0 |1 |15
Yorkshire/Humberside |0 |4 |16
East Midlands |0 |0 |34
Eastern |0 |4 |37
South-East |0 |2 |36
Greater London |0 |0 |32
South West |0 |0 |29
West Midlands |0 |1 |9
North West |0 |0 |13
England |0 |12 |221
Wales |0 |2 |43
Scotland |0 |8 |34
|------- |------- |-------
Total |0 |22 |298
Domestic Properties
Mr. Lewis : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what is the total number of domestic properties currently in the ownership of his Department in each region of England ; how many in each region are currently (a) occupied and (b) unoccupied ; and how many of the occupied properties are held on each kind of tenure.
Mr. Key : As this question relates to operational matters of the Highways Agency, I have asked the chief executive, Mr. Lawrie Haynes to write to the hon. Member.
Letter from Lawrie Haynes to Mr. Terry Lewis, dated 21 April 1994 :
As you probably know, since the creation of the Highways Agency earlier this month, it falls to me as Chief Executive to write to MPs who have tabled questions on matters which relate to operational matters of the Highways Agency, and to give the information requested.
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The attached table sets out the position on domestic properties held in management by the Highways Agency as at 31 March 1994 (the latest figures available for our South East Region is 31 December 1993), in the form you asked.Column 688
As at the 31 March 1994 the number of domestic properties in management is 3,816, these are broken down as follows :Column 687
Region |Total |Occupied |Vacant |Fixed tenure |Periodic tenure|Other types of
|tenure
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
EMRO |92 |62 |30 |61 |1 |-
ERO |827 |542 |285 |453 |89 |-
LRO |878 |716 |162 |126 |590 |-
NRO |31 |15 |16 |13 |2 |-
NWRO |476 |255 |221 |193 |62 |-
|Caretaker
|Tenure 2
SERO<1> |947 |900 |47 |889 |7 |Site Offices 2
SW(B) |113 |94 |19 |83 |11 |-
SW(E) |43 |34 |9 |29 |5 |-
WMRO |334 |254 |80 |252 |2 |-
YHRO |75 |49 |26 |47 |2 |-
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |3,816 |2,921 |<2>895 |2,146 |771 |4
<1> The figures for SERO are at the 31 December 1993.
<2> This includes a large number that are unlettable for various reasons.
Birmingham Northern Relief Road
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will now publish the report of the 1987 public inquiry into the proposed Birmingham northern relief road under the terms of the Government's new code on open Government.
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