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estate. It is not now possible to quantify that expenditure. An investment appraisal in 1987 showed that it would be less expensive completely to refurbish the grade I listed building than to provide new accommodation for the FCO. It had not been refurbished since being first occupied by four separate Departments of State in 1875. Responsibility was transferred from the PSA to the FCO in 1988. Expenditure has been incurred as follows :
!
Year |£
---------------------------------
1988-89 |5,453,170
1989-90 |7,580,608
1990-91 |8,483,080
1991-92 |12,973,778
1992-93 |11,150,596
1993-94 |12,564,053
|-------
Total |58,205,285
The estimated out-turn for 1994-95 is £7.5 million.
Design work is proceeding on the final phase, which is provisionally estimated to cost about £20.3 million, including works, resources and VAT, over the 1995-96, 1996-97 and 1997-98 financial years. On completion, the building will provide modern office accommodation, meeting health and safety and fire requirements. It will also provide 25 per cent. more office space, allowing leased buildings to be given up, thus reducing future running costs and improving operational efficiency.
Greece
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what has been the stance of Greece in respect of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation action against Bosnian Serb positions ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Greece formally dissociated itself from the 9 February NATO decision on Sarajevo. However, it remains supportive of NATO's provision of close air support to UNPROFOR.
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the current relations between Greece and Serbia ; and what assessment he has made as to the extent to which those relations are compatible with Greece's North Atlantic Treaty Organisation membership and with European Union policy.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : It is not our policy to comment on relations between other states.
European Human Rights Court
Mr. Allen : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is Her Majesty's Government's policy regarding the permanent right of individual application to the new single court that will replace the European Commission and the European Court of Human Rights ; what factors led to the adoption of this policy ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department on 19 April, Official Report, column 457.
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Russia
Mr. Elletson : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he last discussed British interests in Transcaucasia with the Russian Government ; what is his view of Russian intentions towards the so-called Chechen Republic ; and when he last discussed the situation in the northern Caucasus with the Russian Government.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : When my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs visited Moscow in February he discussed a wide range of issues with members of the Russian Government, including the internal situation in the Russian Federation and Russia's relations with her near neighbours.
Mr. Elletson : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when he last discussed the situation in Bosnia with President Yeltsin ; and what were his conclusions.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : We remain in close contact with the Russians about the situation in Bosnia. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs has not spoken in person to President Yeltsin recently, but he has discussed recent developments with Foreign Minister Kozyrev.
Lin Qi Qun
Mr. Kaufman : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 31 March, Official Report, column 1020, with regard to Lin Qi Qun, wife of Mr. Chiu Hung Ing of 1 Princes parade, Manchester, when he intends to reply to the letter sent to him by the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs does not appear to have received the right hon. Member's correspondence on this matter, except for a letter dated 26 October 1993 to which he replied on 10 November. My officials have asked for copies. We shall then look into this matter and write to the right hon. Member as quickly as possible.
Departmental Publications
Mr. Rowe : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs for how many regular publications he was responsible in 1993-94 ; what was their circulation ; and how many were obtainable by subscription.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary is responsible for a wide range of publications. A list of 93 publications is included on page 101 of the FCO departmental report for 1994 (Cm 2502), a copy of which is in the Library of the House. In addition, over 150 publications on aspects of Britain are produced each year, in various languages, for distribution by posts abroad. To provide details of all the assorted circulations would be disproportionate to the time and cost involved. Most publications are distributed free. A few are available by subscription and others can be purchased from HMSO.
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Rwanda and Burundi
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how the Foreign Office is represented in Rwanda and Burundi ; and what action his representatives have been taking to alleviate distress and hardship for British and other citizens in these countries.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : We no longer have representation in Rwanda. The honorary consul in Kigali was evacuated, with other British nationals, from Rwanda during the week beginning 10 April. The contingency arrangements with the Belgians worked well.
Currently we have no representation in Burundi. Nominally the protection of British nationals there falls to the British high commissioner in Kampala. However, British nationals seeking emergency assistance in any country where we have no permanent representation can contact the diplomatic mission or consular post of any European Union member state.
Bosnia
Lady Olga Maitland : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which countries have pledged troops to Bosnia as a result of the United Kingdom's initiative which have so far not yet arrived ; and what are their estimated dates of arrival.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : The United Nations has received offers of 7,717 troops following our lobbying exercise. Of these, Security Council authority exists only for a further deployment of 5,802 troops. So far British--905--French--300--and Spanish--170--contingents have been deployed. The deployment of Russian--300--and Ukranian--555--contingents are in train, the Swedes--165--are expected to deploy in early May and the Pakistanis--3,000--are expected to deploy in July. We have no information about the deployment of the remainder.
CHURCH COMMISSIONERS
Commissioners' Assets
Mr. Cormack : To ask the right hon. Member for Selby, as representing the Church Commissioners if he will make a statement giving details of the steps that have been taken by the commissioners, and are proposed, following the decrease in value of the commissioners' assets.
Mr. Michael Alison : The Commissioners' board of governors has taken a number of steps to strengthen the commissioners' financial management and accountability. The board's actions come as a direct result of the recommendations of the Lambeth report and are part of a vigorous process, overseen by a steering group of the board, to address all the issues raised in it.
The board has strengthened its relationship with the commissioners' assets committee through general rules under which the assets committee is to work. These rules offer direction and guidance to the assets committee and reinforce the link between the two bodies. They provide, among other things, for the assets committee to review, at least annually with external professional advice, asset allocation and investment performance and for the committee to report quarterly to the board.
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An Audit Committee has been established. Alan McLintock CA, chairman of the Church's central board of finance, is chairman and Derek Fellows, FIA is a member, neither are commissioners, thus ensuring the independent membership recommended by the Lambeth report. The committee is responsible, among other things, for considering matters relating to the audit and for reviewing the effectiveness of internal management controls, the implementation of investment policies and decisions and accounting policies and practices.In January the commissioners appointed a new deputy secretary, finance and investment.
The firm of DTZ Debenham Thorpe has been appointed as independent valuer for the commercial property portfolio. The commissioner acknowledge that their asset base is too heavily weighted towards property and their long- term aim is to redress this imbalance. With this in mind, the assets committee's property sub-group is reviewing the commissioners' property interests with the benefit of a recent report on the portfolio from DTZ.
Watsons has been appointed as the commissioners' independent consultant actuaries. It will advise on the commissioners' liabilities for pensions and other expenditure, as well as investment strategy and management. The commissioners and the Church of England pensions board will discuss the future funding of clergy pensions with dioceses in the coming months.
The commissioners have also taken steps, after extensive consultations with dioceses and others, to reduce their expenditure commitments to a sustainable level through a programme of phased cuts in their contributions towards clergy pay and housing. The precise scope and amount of future cuts will be the subject of further consultations.
The commissioners are scrutinising their own administrative costs and have embarked on a review of each of their activities to ensure they are necessary and that they are carried out cost effectively. My hon. Friend will be pleased to know that provisional year end figures for 1993 show an increase of about 10 per cent. in the value of the commissioners' assets.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Air Crashes
Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Attorney-General how many of his staff have been allocated to duties relating to air crashes.
The Attorney-General : No member of my chambers is specifically allocated to duties relating to air crashes.
Crown Prosecuters' Code
Mr. Heald : To ask the Attorney-General when he expects to complete the new code for crown prosecutors.
The Attorney-General : The publication of the code for crown prosecutors is a matter for the Director of Public Prosecutions. As I announced to the House on 15 December last year, the code is presently being reviewed in order to simplify its language and to make it a document which is more easily understood by police officers and
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members of the public who are not lawyers. The limited public consultation phase has just been completed and the director, with her staff, are presently considering the responses which have been received. I understand that the director is hoping to publish the code in the early summer.Residence Test
Mr. Madden : To ask the Attorney-General what representations he has received from his counterparts in the European Union regarding the proposal to introduce a test of habitual residence in the United Kingdom affecting EC nationals seeking work in the United Kingdom ; and if he will make a statement.
Crown Prosecution Service
Mr. Duncan Smith : To ask the Attorney-General if he will make a statement on the activities of the Crown Prosecution Service.
The Solicitor-General : The main activity of the Crown Prosecution Service is the efficient and effective prosecution of criminal cases.
Racial Crimes
Mr. Janner : To ask the Attorney-General what are the prosecution policies in respect of racial crimes.
The Attorney-General : The code for crown prosecutors provides that a clear racial motivation for an offence should be regarded as an aggravating feature pointing towards prosecution, provided that the evidence is sufficient for there to be a realistic prospect of conviction.
EMPLOYMENT
Human Resource Management
Mr. Frank Field : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will place in the Library a copy of the National Audit Office's report into the human resource management in the employment department group.
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Mr. Michael Forsyth : Although the National Audit Office undertook a study of the Department's human resource management in 1992 it decided not to publish the results of this examination.
North Yorkshire Training and Enterprise Council
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much was spent by North Yorkshire training and enterprise council in 1993-94 ; and what is its budget for 1994-95.
Miss Widdecombe : The total amount spent by North Yorkshire training and enterprise council in 1993-94 was £16,103,574. The budget for 1994 -95 is £18,980,931.
Passive Smoking
Mr. Spellar : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what research he has commissioned into health risks from passive smoking in the workplace ; and what have been the conclusions.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : None. Workplace risks do not differ from those from passive smoking generally which were reviewed by the Independent Scientific Committee on Smoking and Health. The findings were published in the committee's fourth report. The need for further research is kept under regular review.
Manufacturing Industry Pay
Mr. Cummings : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the average weekly earnings in manufacturing industry in the north- east and the south-east over the last five years.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Information is available for standard statistical regions. The north-east is part of the north region. The latest available information for the north, south-east, Greater London and the south-east excluding Greater London, is provided in the following table :
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Average gross weekly earnings of full-time employees in manufacturing on adult rates whose pay was unaffected by absence: in
April of each year
Year |North |South-east |Greater London |South-east excluding
|Greater London
|£ |£ |£ |£
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1989 |229.9 |275.3 |295.7 |265.4
1990 |250.3 |303.4 |329.3 |291.1
1991 |267.4 |323.8 |349.7 |311.5
1992 |289.1 |345.0 |374.6 |332.1
1993 |299.4 |365.6 |397.7 |352.0
Source: New Earnings Survey.
First Aid Packs
Mr. Spearing : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what enactments of the European Community determine to limit the contents of first aid packs suitable for places of employment ; and which of them include limitations on the inclusion of scissors or other sharp instruments.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : Various enactments of the European Community make provision for first aid in the workplace but none specify the contents of first aid packs.
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Objective 3 Programme
Mrs. Ewing : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how much was allocated to the voluntary sector in each of the past two years in Scotland through the use of European social fund objective 3 programme (a) in total and (b) per project.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : The information is set out for voluntary sector objective 3--the long-time unemployed--projects in Scotland :
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|ESF |Number of projects
|£ million
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
1992 |5.23 |66
1993 |7.55 |93
The figures for 1992 are for amounts claimed in total : the figures for 1993 are four amounts approved. The amount claimed per project varies significantly and could be produced only by manual scrutiny at disproportionate cost.
Mrs. Ewing : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment (1) how many representations he has received in connection with the delay of allocation of European social fund objective 3 programme in Scotland for the year January to December 1994 ; and if he will make a statement as to the future allocation ;
(2) when he expects to announce the outcome of negotiations on the voluntary sector budget for January to December 1994 in Scotland in connection with European social fund objective 3.
Mr. Michael Forsyth : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has received 15 representations from Scotland in connection with the delay in making allocations for the European social fund objective 3 programme. The European Commission is still considering the Great Britain objective 3 plan which was submitted to it last November. Although the Government have pressed consistently for speedy progress, formal negotiations are only just beginning. It will not be possible to agree sectoral allocations until annual funding allocations and priorities for support have been confirmed.
EDUCATION
Pupils (Drug Abuse)
Mr. Robert Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils have been permanently excluded from schools in the north Yorkshire area for drug abuse in each of the past five years.
Mr. Forth : Figures for each of the past five years are not available. Information on permanent exclusions from maintained schools in England was collected by the Department over a two-year period, starting with the summer term 1990, under the national exclusions reporting system. In England, 81 pupils were excluded for drug-related offences and solvent abuse in year one and 179 in year two. It is not possible to provide an area breakdown of the figures because of assurances given as to confidentiality.
Schools (Exclusion of Pupils)
Mrs. Bridget Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils have been permanently excluded from schools in each of the London boroughs in each of the past 10 years.
Mr. Forth : Figures for each of the past 10 years are not available. Information on permanent exclusions from maintained schools in England was collected by the Department over a two-year period, starting with the summer term 1990, under the national exclusions reporting
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system. In England, 2,910 pupils were excluded in year one and 3, 833 in year two. It is not possible to provide an area breakdown of the figures because of assurances given as to confidentiality.Departmental Publications
Mr. Rowe : To ask the Secretary of State for Education for how many regular publications he was responsible in 1993-94; what was their circulation ; and how many were obtainable by subscription.
Mr. Forth : The Department for Education produces four regular publications.
Schools Update , a free newsletter for teachers and governors, is produced and distributed to schools in England once per term, (i.e. three times a year). It is also sent to individuals who have asked to receive copies. The circulation is approximately 300,000.
Inside Story , an in-house staff journal, is produced bi-monthly and distributed to DFE staff. The circulation is 2,200.
Education Publications , a list of publications and press releases issued by the Department, is produced monthly. The circulation is 634.
DFE Circulars and Green Papers , a listing, is produced monthly. The circulation is approximately 100.
Schools Update and Inside Story are free publications. The others are available by subscription. Inside Story was launched in September 1993. The other titles ran throughout the year.
Rising-fives
Mr. Robert Ainsworth : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the authorities which maintain a full system of admitting rising-fives to primary school and those who admit no rising-fives at all ; and what information he has on intermediate systems.
Mr. Robin Squire : Information is not available in the form requested. Most primary schools and local education authorities now have a policy of admitting children as rising-fives or earlier and in every authority in England in 1993 some children were admitted to primary schools on that basis.
School Rolls, Greenwich
Mr. Austin-Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children were on the roll (a) of Linton Mead and (b) Hawksmoor schools in the London borough of Greenwich on the last day of spring term March 1994 and the first day of summer term April 1994 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Robin Squire : My right hon. Friend understands that there were 150 pupils on roll at Linton Mead school and 190 at Hawksmoor on the last day of the spring term 1994. Numbers on the first day of the summer term at each school were 165 and 189 respectively.
Statemented Children
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list by local education authority for 1984 and the latest date for which information is available (a) the number of educational psychologists employed, (b) the ratio of educational psychologists to school age children, (c) the number of children with statements and (d) the ratio of children with statements to the school-age population.
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Mr. Forth : The information requested for each of the years 1985 and 1993, the earliest and latest dates for which information is readily available, is shown in the tables.
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Educational psychologists and children with statements of special educational needs maintained by each LEA in England (January 1993)
Educational Children for whom
psychologists a statement
of special
educational needs
is
maintained by the
LEA
LEA |All pupils in |Full-time equivalent|Per 10,000 pupils |Number<1> |Per 10,000 pupils in
|schools |inschools<2> |schools<2>
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Corporation of London |1,795 |0.0 |0.00 |5 |27.9
Camden |27,541 |7.0 |2.54 |508 |184.5
Greenwich |38,182 |12.0 |3.14 |1,200 |314.3
Hackney |28,246 |7.5 |2.66 |1,027 |363.6
Hammersmith and Fulham |19,605 |7.0 |3.57 |497 |253.5
Islington |23,295 |9.0 |3.86 |567 |243.4
Kensington and Chelsea |21,053 |8.0 |3.80 |285 |135.4
Lambeth |28,366 |11.1 |3.91 |598 |210.8
Lewisham |35,601 |10.0 |2.81 |912 |256.2
Southwark |36,788 |10.5 |2.85 |814 |221.3
Tower Hamlets |33,841 |8.5 |2.51 |829 |345.0
Wandsworth |33,088 |10.0 |3.02 |920 |278.0
Westminster |22,616 |6.0 |2.65 |523 |231.3
Barking and Dagenham |25,373 |8.5 |3.35 |404 |159.2
Barnet |49,462 |14.5 |2.93 |781 |157.9
Bexley |34,112 |6.5 |1.91 |873 |255.9
Brent |37,168 |8.5 |2.29 |629 |169.2
Bromley |43,202 |10.0 |2.31 |946 |219.0
Croydon |52,305 |11.8 |2.26 |992 |189.7
Ealing |45,378 |10.8 |2.38 |1,024 |225.7
Enfield |42,479 |14.0 |3.30 |397 |93.5
Haringey |31,106 |10.8 |3.47 |479 |154.0
Harrow |32,474 |10.0 |3.08 |594 |182.9
Havering |36,552 |9.7 |2.65 |671 |183.6
Hillingdon |37,753 |9.8 |2.60 |423 |112.0
Hounslow |34,493 |6.0 |1.74 |1,038 |300.9
Kingston-upon-Thames |21,623 |4.0 |1.85 |437 |202.1
Merton |26,387 |7.6 |2.88 |706 |267.6
Newham |41,018 |10.2 |2.49 |794 |193.6
Redbridge |38,043 |8.4 |2.21 |681 |179.0
Richmond-upon-Thames |25,040 |6.0 |2.40 |491 |196.1
Sutton |26,232 |4.0 |1.52 |673 |256.6
Waltham Forest |34,980 |7.0 |2.00 |672 |192.1
Birmingham |186,603 |31.5 |1.69 |3,598 |192.8
Coventry |52,194 |12.0 |2.30 |1,025 |196.4
Dudley |47,308 |7.1 |1.50 |940 |198.7
Sandwell |52,058 |14.0 |2.69 |660 |126.8
Solihull |37,788 |8.4 |2.22 |713 |188.7
Walsall |49,300 |10.0 |2.03 |951 |192.9
Wolverhampton |44,517 |9.0 |2.02 |1,044 |234.5
Knowsley |28,566 |5.8 |2.03 |810 |283.6
Liverpool |85,654 |18.0 |2.10 |2,092 |244.2
St. Helens |31,189 |9.0 |2.89 |1,020 |327.0
Sefton |51,055 |11.0 |2.15 |1,119 |219.2
Wirral |58,939 |10.5 |1.78 |1,431 |242.8
Bolton |48,594 |7.4 |1.52 |823 |169.4
Bury |30,656 |4.6 |1.50 |990 |322.9
Manchester |79,242 |21.2 |2.68 |1,217 |153.6
Oldham |43,496 |7.0 |1.61 |768 |176.6
Rochdale |35,982 |7.5 |2.08 |810 |225.1
Salford |39,654 |7.6 |1.92 |445 |112.2
Stockport |50,256 |9.5 |1.89 |1,397 |278.0
Tameside |38,200 |8.0 |2.09 |1,086 |284.3
Trafford |35,665 |4.0 |1.12 |757 |212.3
Wigan |51,747 |6.5 |1.26 |1,409 |272.3
Barnsley |34,221 |4.5 |1.31 |631 |184.4
Doncaster |52,278 |11.0 |2.10 |1,112 |212.7
Rotherham |44,311 |9.3 |2.10 |1,207 |272.4
Sheffield |74,487 |18.2 |2.44 |1,483 |199.1
Bradford |92,063 |20.0 |2.17 |1,270 |137.9
Calderdale |34,345 |6.5 |1.89 |488 |142.1
Kirklees |65,890 |17.0 |2.58 |1,691 |256.6
Leeds |116,599 |19.0 |1.63 |3,011 |258.2
Wakefield |55,190 |10.5 |1.90 |1,074 |194.6
Gateshead |31,711 |8.5 |2.68 |536 |169.0
Newcastle upon Tyne |46,367 |11.0 |2.37 |1,019 |219.8
North Tyneside |33,374 |8.0 |2.40 |1,066 |319.4
South Tyneside |26,125 |6.0 |2.30 |501 |191.8
Sunderland |51,762 |11.5 |2.22 |1,200 |231.8
Isles of Scilly |282 |0.0 |0.00 |1 |35.5
Avon |152,529 |25.5 |1.67 |4,054 |265.8
Bedfordshire |96,505 |15.9 |1.65 |2,448 |253.7
Berkshire |128,493 |19.5 |1.52 |3,009 |234.2
Buckinghamshire |108,659 |24.0 |2.21 |3,793 |349.1
Cambridgeshire |109,421 |16.0 |1.46 |1,842 |168.3
Cheshire |164,525 |25.3 |1.54 |4,154 |252.5
Cleveland |109,011 |16.5 |1.51 |2,353 |215.8
Cornwall |72,987 |12.0 |1.64 |2,571 |352.3
Cumbria |78,559 |19.0 |2.42 |2,076 |264.3
Derbyshire |149,862 |30.3 |2.02 |4,066 |271.3
Devon |151,459 |26.5 |1.75 |4,740 |313.0
Dorset |95,282 |20.6 |2.16 |2,320 |243.5
Durham |100,028 |24.5 |2.45 |2,133 |213.2
East Sussex |101,216 |19.7 |1.95 |2,200 |217.4
Essex |236,202 |42.3 |1.79 |5,067 |214.5
Gloucestershire |85,011 |17.4 |2.05 |2,070 |243.5
Hampshire |241,328 |54.8 |2.27 |6,802 |281.9
Hereford and Worcester |109,495 |16.0 |1.46 |1,676 |153.1
Hertfordshire |172,273 |33.0 |1.92 |4,145 |240.6
Humberside |149,240 |24.0 |1.61 |2,373 |159.0
Isle of Wight |19,005 |3.0 |1.58 |391 |205.7
Kent |251,214 |40.5 |1.61 |6,008 |239.2
Lancashire |230,232 |40.2 |1.75 |6,556 |284.8
Leicesterhsire |150,771 |32.6 |2.16 |n/a |n/a
Lincolnshire |91,813 |13.0 |1.42 |2,810 |306.1
Norfolk |111,564 |19.0 |1.70 |3,060 |274.3
North Yorkshire |113,766 |19.0 |1.67 |2,193 |192.8
Northamptonshire |103,060 |19.0 |1.84 |1,983 |192.4
Northumberland |51,155 |11.0 |2.11 |1,200 |230.1
Nottinghamshire |164,830 |30.5 |1.85 |1,934 |117.3
Oxfordshire |89,774 |14.5 |1.62 |1,521 |169.4
Shropshire |69,257 |11.6 |1.67 |2,112 |305.0
Somerset |73,998 |11.1 |1.50 |1,594 |215.4
Staffordshire |171,943 |28.4 |1.65 |3,699 |215.1
Suffolk |100,542 |14.0 |1.39 |2,704 |268.9
Surrey |158,228 |32.3 |2.04 |4,449 |281.2
Warwickshire |79,728 |12.7 |1.59 |1,458 |182.9
West Sussex |107,039 |17.1 |1.60 |1,930 |180.3
Wiltshire |87,914 |13.3 |1.51 |3,419 |388.9
|---- |--- |-- |---- |---
England |7,841,783 |1,540.9 |1.96 |176,698 |225.3
<1> Derived from returns received from LEAs-Special Educational Needs Survey (SEN 2) 1993. Includes children in maintained nursery, primary,
secondary and special schools; non-maintained special and independent schools and children being educated otherwise than in a school.
<2> Divisor includes pupils in maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools, and non-maintained special and independent schools.
n/a Information not available for Leicestershire LEA.
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Educational psychologists and children with statements of special educational needs maintained by each LEA in England (January 1985)
Educational Children for whom
psychologists a statement
of special
educational needs
is maintained by
the LEA
LEA |All pupils in |Full-time equivalent|Per 10,000 pupils in|Number<1> |Per 10,000 pupils in
|schools |schools<2> |schools<2>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barking and Dagenham |24,916 |7.0 |2.81 |384 |154.1
Barnet |47,108 |8.5 |1.80 |644 |136.7
Bexley |34,661 |5.0 |1.44 |713 |205.7
Brent |36,652 |9.6 |2.62 |<3>- |<3>-
Bromley |44,604 |8.0 |1.79 |766 |171.7
Croydon |57,297 |9.0 |1.72 |791 |151.3
Ealing |42,923 |5.4 |1.26 |513 |119.5
Enfield |41,229 |9.0 |2.18 |779 |188.9
Haringey |30,142 |7.0 |2.32 |556 |184.5
Harrow |31,923 |6.0 |1.88 |596 |186.7
Havering |39,504 |8.0 |2.03 |626 |158.5
Hillingdon |37,805 |5.0 |1.32 |698 |184.6
Hounslow |33,089 |5.9 |1.78 |12 |3.6
Kingston upon Thames |21,227 |2.0 |0.94 |340 |160.2
Merton |26,278 |5.0 |1.90 |160 |60.9
Newham |37,848 |11.0 |2.91 |755 |199.5
Redbridge |34,390 |6.0 |1.74 |724 |210.5
Richmond upon Thames |22,934 |4.0 |1.74 |305 |133.0
Sutton |25,050 |4.0 |1.60 |190 |75.8
Waltham Forest |35,130 |8.0 |2.28 |716 |203.8
Birmingham |184,359 |37.2 |2.02 |3,478 |188.7
Coventry |55,309 |12.3 |2.22 |1,232 |222.7
Dudley |49,963 |7.5 |1.50 |908 |181.7
Sandwell |54,299 |8.0 |1.47 |1,103 |203.1
Solihull |38,072 |7.3 |1.92 |84 |22.1
Walsall |52,349 |7.0 |1.34 |777 |148.4
Wolverhampton |48,014 |6.0 |1.25 |720 |150.0
Knowsley |31,238 |7.0 |2.24 |348 |111.4
Liverpool |88,435 |15.5 |1.75 |1,663 |188.0
St. Helens |34,913 |4.0 |1.15 |647 |185.3
Sefton |53,157 |9.0 |1.69 |581 |109.3
Wirral |60,362 |8.0 |1.33 |1,277 |211.6
Bolton |49,842 |4.0 |0.80 |675 |135.4
Bury |30,558 |3.5 |1.15 |507 |165.9
Manchester |79,867 |14.0 |1.75 |345 |43.2
Oldham |41,485 |5.0 |1.21 |661 |159.3
Rochdale |38,674 |9.0 |2.33 |618 |159.8
Salford |42,680 |6.0 |1.41 |815 |191.0
Stockport |51,685 |6.7 |1.30 |862 |166.8
Tameside |38,065 |7.0 |1.84 |669 |175.8
Trafford |34,995 |3.0 |0.86 |278 |79.4
Wigan |57,079 |8.0 |1.40 |108 |18.9
Barnsley |39,441 |4.0 |1.01 |443 |112.3
Doncaster |53,271 |9.0 |1.69 |14 |2.6
Rotherham |47,218 |9.0 |1.91 |844 |178.7
Sheffield |85,230 |13.6 |1.60 |1,383 |162.3
Bradford |88,613 |14.0 |1.58 |1,391 |157.0
Calderdale |34,956 |2.0 |0.57 |338 |96.7
Kirklees |70,252 |12.0 |1.71 |929 |132.2
Leeds |120,865 |13.5 |1.12 |1,038 |85.9
Wakefield |57,486 |6.0 |1.04 |981 |170.7
Gateshead |33,838 |8.0 |2.36 |598 |176.7
Newcastle upon Tyne |46,882 |12.0 |2.56 |882 |188.1
North Tyneside |33,870 |8.0 |2.36 |604 |178.3
South Tyneside |26,577 |6.0 |2.26 |467 |175.7
Sunderland |55,941 |9.0 |1.61 |1,000 |178.8
Isles of Scilly |287 |0.0 |0.00 |<3>- |<3>-
Inner London |332,916 |87.7 |2.63 |7,349 |220.7
Avon |155,467 |28.6 |1.84 |617 |39.7
Bedfordshire |94,075 |12.0 |1.28 |1,529 |162.5
Berkshire |129,156 |17.3 |1.34 |2,121 |164.2
Buckinghamshire |106,670 |16.0 |1.50 |2,859 |268.0
Cambridgeshire |105,133 |12.0 |1.14 |1,252 |119.1
Cheshire |165,879 |17.0 |1,02 |3,468 |209.1
Cleveland |109,668 |18.0 |1.64 |2,290 |208.8
Cornwall |72,603 |8.0 |1.10 |965 |132.9
Cumbria |82,187 |9.0 |1.10 |1,353 |164.6
Derbyshire |156,355 |21.5 |1.38 |2,698 |172.6
Devon |149,133 |20.4 |1.37 |2,807 |188.2
Dorset |92,600 |14.5 |1.57 |1,590 |171.7
Durham |104,981 |17.4 |1.66 |1,569 |149.5
East Sussex |97,571 |11.8 |1.21 |1,766 |181.0
Essex |250,118 |31.4 |1.26 |4,555 |182.1
Gloucestershire |87,235 |11.0 |1.26 |483 |55.4
Hampshire |244,958 |31.5 |1.29 |5,252 |214.4
Hereford and Worcester |112,025 |11.0 |0.98 |14 |1.2
Hertfordshire |179,696 |21.5 |1.20 |3,472 |193.2
Humberside |152,528 |21.0 |1.38 |2,417 |158.5
Isle of Wight |19,004 |3.0 |1.58 |317 |166.8
Kent |252,808 |19.0 |0.75 |5,137 |203.2
Lancashire |235,132 |34.0 |1.45 |4,708 |200.2
Leicestershire |151,164 |19.0 |1.26 |1,797 |118.9
Lincolnshire |91,827 |10.0 |1.09 |2,001 |217.9
Norfolk |114,594 |14.0 |1.22 |1,494 |130.4
North Yorkshire |113,740 |15.2 |1.34 |1,723 |151.5
Northamptonshire |101,392 |15.0 |1.48 |1,858 |183.2
Northumberland |51,380 |4.1 |0.80 |806 |156.9
Nottinghamshire |171,777 |30.0 |1.75 |2,617 |152.3
Oxfordshire |90,417 |12.5 |1.38 |1,046 |115.7
Shropshire |70,551 |8.0 |1.13 |780 |110.6
Somerset |75,157 |9.0 |1.20 |1,320 |175.6
Staffordshire |177,835 |17.7 |1.00 |2,671 |150.2
Suffolk |102,989 |13.0 |1.26 |1,532 |148.8
Surrey |165,910 |22.0 |1.33 |3,384 |204.0
Warwickshire |84,128 |9.8 |1.16 |1,547 |183.9
West Sussex |106,569 |12.0 |1.13 |1,394 |130.8
Wiltshire |88,570 |13.0 |1.47 |1,795 |202.7
|---- |---- |---- |---- |----
England |7,955,735 |1,173.4 |1.47 |127,889 |160.8
<1> Derived from returns from LEAs-Special Educational Needs Survey (SEN 2) 1985. Includes children in maintained nursery, primary, secondary and
special schools; non-maintained special and independent schools and children being educated otherwise than in a school.
<2> Divisor includes pupils in maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools; and non-maintained special and independent schools.
<3> Information not available.
Grant-maintained Publication Centre
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the total cost in the last financial year of the Department's grant- maintained publication centre ; and what part of that total cost relates to the freephone number.
Mr. Robin Squire : The grant-maintained publication centre was set- up in January 1994. The total cost to the end of March is £34,000, including VAT. Of this, £6,000 relates to the cost of setting up the freephone number and the handling of calls by the contractor. These figures do not include the cost of call charges still to be billed by British Telecom.
Going GM Conferences
Mrs. Ann Taylor : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the total expenditure on travel and subsistence costs of civil servants attending the Going GM conferences at Darlington, Manchester, Newcastle and Huddersfield in February and March.
Mr. Robin Squire : Those costs are recorded with all other travel and subsistence costs for civil servants in the Department. Disaggregated costs could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
St. Paul's Church of England Primary School
Mr. Soley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education when he expects to make a decision about the funding of the nursery class in St. Paul's Church of England primary school in Hammersmith.
Mr. Robin Squire : Those proposals were approved by my right hon. Friend on 18 April 1994.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Transport Licensing
Mr. McGrady : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make it his policy to keep the Transport Licensing Enforcement Division separate from the driver and vehicle licensing authority ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Tim Smith : There is a commitment on Government when undertaking the three-year review of the
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Driver and Vehicle Testing Agency to consider whether the enforcement function provided by Department of the Environment should be undertaken by the agency. This review is due to be completed early in 1995 and it would therefore not be appropriate to anticipate the outcome at this stage.Mr. McGrady : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the role of the transport licensing enforcement division ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Tim Smith : The role of the Transport Licensing and Enforcement Branch is to ensure that hauliers and passenger carrying operators who operate for reward are suitably licensed and conform with the conditions of their licences, and that their vehicles are roadworthy.
Glanders
Mr. Morley : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the number of cases of glanders and farcy in each year since 1985.
Mr. Ancram : There has been no cases of glanders or farcy recorded in Northern Ireland since 1913.
Right to Silence
Mr. Stott : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what representations he has received from the Chief Constable of Northern Ireland concerning the right to silence ; what specific issues have been raised with him by the Chief Constable relating to the proposed changes to the present criminal justice and public order legislation in Northern Ireland ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir John Wheeler : I assume that the hon. Member is referring to the "right of silence" provisions contained in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill. My right hon. and learned Friend has received no representations from the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary about the provisions on inferences from silence contained in the Bill.
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