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WALES
European Regional Fund
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the moneys received by local authorities in the county of Clwyd from the regional fund of the EU since its inception.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : The total European regional development fund grant aid received by local authorities in Clwyd since 1975 is £48, 424,961.
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what assessment he has made of the regional challenge basis for ERDF funding allocation in England being used as a suitable basis for allocating funds in Wales ; and what plans he has to top-slice objective 5b funds in Wales.
Mr. Redwood : I have decided that a proportion of the ERDF allocations in both the objective 2 and 5b areas of Wales will be used to fund projects selected through regional challenge competitions, which I believe will enhance the quality and value for money of grant allocations by stimulating the submission of imaginative regeneration and development proposals from local partnerships.
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Meat Hygiene
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what plans he has to establish a meat hygiene service office in Wales ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : Detailed arrangements for the meat hygiene service's organisation are still under consideration.
Farm Workers
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the numbers of (a) part-time and (b) full-time employee workers on Welsh farms for each of the past five years ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : The information is given in the following table. The number of seasonal and casual workers is not recorded as either part-time or full-time and is shown separately.
Employees on Farm Holdings in Wales<1>
Year |Part-time<2>|Full-time<2>|Seasonal or
|Casual
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1989 |3,674 |6,112 |8,252
1990 |3,983 |5,881 |8,196
1991 |3,912 |5,730 |8,504
1992 |4,021 |5,382 |8,286
1993 |4,052 |5,405 |7,918
Source: June Agricultural and Horticultural Census
<1> At June each year. Includes estimate for minor holdings. All
figures
include trainees employed under an official scheme at
Agricultural Wages
Board rates or above.
<2> Includes all family and hired workers, excluding spouses of
farmers,
partners and directors.
Students
Mr. Llwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish for each county and for Wales as a whole how many students receiving further education receive repayments from the further education access fund ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir Wyn Roberts : Access funds are allocated to individual further and higher education institutions. Returns from institutions show that the number of students on further education courses who received payments from the access funds in 1992-93 were :
Institution |Number of stu-
|dents
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North East Wales Institute of Higher Education |168
Llandrillo Technical College |178
Welsh College of Horticulture |11
Llysfasi College |8
Carmarthen College of Technology and Art |30
Pembrokeshire College |41
Coleg Ceredigion |27
Welsh Agriculture College |1
Trinity College |-
Gwent Tertiary College |320
Gwent College of Higher Education |16
Gwynedd Technical College |79
Coleg Pencraig |31
Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor |16
Coleg Normal Bangor |-
Merthyr Tydfil College |58
Aberdare College |63
Bridgend College |22
Rhondda College |10
Ystrad Mynach College |104
Pontypridd College |117
Pencoed College |8
University of Glamorgan |-
Coleg Powys |49
Welsh College of Music and Drama |-
Cardiff Institute of Higher Education |11
Coleg Glan Hafren |67
Barry College of FE |67
Swansea Institute of Higher Education |5
Swansea College |15
Gorseinon College |4
Neath College |11
Afan College |11
Coleg Harlech |53
Arable Farming
Dr. Strang : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the latest total paid to farmers in (a) arable aid scheme set-aside payments and (b) total arable area scheme payments in Wales following the 1993-94 harvest.
Mr. Redwood : Payments made under (a) arable aid scheme set aside payments amount to £617,480 and (b) arable area total payments of £5,526,385, in the 1992-93 harvest year.
No payments have yet been made in respect of the 1993-94 harvest year.
Dr. Strang : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many farms in Wales had arable aid scheme set-aside areas greater than (a) 100 hectares and (b) 50 hectares in the last available year.
Mr. Redwood : No farms in Wales had arable aid scheme set-aside areas greater than 50 hectares.
Dr. Strang : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many farmers in Wales received arable area payments greater than (a) £100,000, (b) £250,000, (c) £500,000 and (d) £1,000,000 in the last available year.
Mr. Redwood : No farmers in Wales received payments greater than £100,000.
Dr. Strang : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many farms in Wales had hectarages of land under cereals greater than (a) 1, 000 hectares, (b) 500 hectares and (c) 250 hectares in the last available year.
Mr. Redwood : Because of the risk of disclosing confidential information it is not possible to answer the question using the size groups given. The information
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available is for those farms growing over 175 hectares of cereals--excluding maize. There were, according to the June 1993 agricultural census, four of these holdings in Wales.SOCIAL SECURITY
Consultants
Mrs. Mahon : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what percentage of the Information Technology Services Agency's current major software developments are undertaken or managed by private consultants.
Mr. Hague : ITSA currently has 59 major software development projects. The use and combination of consultants, contractors and civil servants vary on each of the projects. In 1993-94, 62.3 per cent. of ITSA's total personnel costs for software development was spent on consultancy/contractors.
Internet
Mr. David Shaw : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans his Department has (a) to utilise the Internet, (b) to make available on the Internet press releases and other departmental information which the public may wish to have access to and (c) to use the Internet as a means of increasing the openness of his Department.
Mr. Hague : The Department's press releases issued electronically through the Central Office of Information are accessible to users of the Internet via Data-Star Dialog (Europe) or Mead/Lexis/Nexis. They are also available to subscribers to FT Profile, Reuters Textline and to POLIS.
The Department's press releases are also made available through the COI's fax retrieval service, details of which can be provided by their news distribution service.
There are no immediate plans to use the Internet. However, this Department is currently undertaking a review of its
telecommunications requirements. This includes an evaluation of the services which are available, including Internet, to decide on the most suitable networks to meet its future requirements.
Income Support
Mr. Bradley : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security to what extent a person with no housing costs, who is on income support, and who moves out of the matrimonial home, is entitled to help with the costs of a new mortgage.
Mr. Burt : From May 1994, persons in receipt of income support with no housing costs who move out of the matrimonial home will not receive help with the interest on a new mortgage for a new home unless it relates to the special needs of a disabled person, the need to provide separate sleeping accommodation for children of different sexes over the age of 10 years, or it is for essential repairs and improvements.
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many income support claimants had deductions from their benefit amounting to (a) over 15 per cent. and (b) over 20 per cent. of (i) their benefit income and (ii) their total income.
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Mr. Burt : The latest available information is in the table.
|Number
|of cases
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Benefit income
Deductions over 15 per cent. of benefit income |260,000
Deductions over 20 per cent. of benefit income |156,000
Total income
Deductions over 15 per cent. of total income |244,000
Deductions over 20 per cent. of total income |146,000
Source: Income Support Statistical Enquiry, May 1992.
Notes:
1. The deductions are for direct payments to third parties,
Social Fund
loan repayments, and overpayment recoveries. The third party
deductions include direct payments to lenders of the mortgage
interest allowance for which specific amounts are then added to
claimants' Income Support.
2. Income does not include Council Tax Benefit or Housing
Benefit,
because this information is not available.
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will publish figures on the same basis as series 10 of the income support statistics annual inquiry showing the average total income for each premium group broken down by (a) all cases with one or more deductions and (b) all cases with more than one deduction.
Mr. Burt : The available figures are in the table. We have no plans to publish them in tables at series 10 in the income support statistical annual inquiry.
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Income Support Recipients Cases with Deductions
|Cases with one |Average Total |Cases with more|Average Total
|or more |Income |than one |Income
|deductions |deduction
|Number of Cases |Number of Cases
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Higher Pensioner Premium |23,000 |98.07 |4,000 |99.18
Enhanced Pensioner Premium |4,000 |69.01 |1,000 |60.16
Pensioner Premium |38,000 |74.76 |10,000 |72.12
Severe Disability Premium
(Higher Rate) |- |n/a |- |n/a
Severe Disability Premium
(Lower Rate) |5,000 |144.81 |2,000 |159.76
Disability Premium |97,000 |98.33 |35,000 |104.57
Lone Parent Premium |422,000 |94.69 |176,000 |96.47
Disabled Child Premium |11,000 |183.26 |5,000 |176.99
Family Premium |605,000 |105.78 |245,000 |106.28
Carer Premium |14,000 |147.75 |5,000 |151.14
No Premium |274,000 |48.57 |54,000 |48.44
Source: Income Support Statistics Annual Enquiry May 1992.
Notes:
1. The deductions are for direct payments to third parties, social fund repayments, and overpayment
recoveries.
2. Income does not include housing benefit or council tax benefit because this information is not
available.
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
Know-how Fund
Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many management training projects are currently being supported by the know-how fund in Russia ; and if he will place a list of all current know-how fund projects in Russia in the Library.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Management training is not in itself a priority area for the know-how fund in Russia. But many of the projects we undertake in energy, small business development, food production and distribution and financial services involve training in applied management. A list of all know-how fund projects is placed in the Library every six months.
Russia
Mr. David Atkinson : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made as to the amount of international aid to Russia subsequently transferred to Swiss banks ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Because the majority of the United Kingdom's support for Russia is closely targeted on
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specific projects, we are able to ensure that the money is spent as intended. It is not for us to comment on the aid programmes of other countries.World Bank Programmes, Africa
Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of World bank structural adjustment programmes in Africa ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The recent World bank report "Adjustment in Africa" examined the performance of 29 African countries which drew up adjustment programmes in the 1980s. We endorse its two basic conclusions.
Those countries which consistently implemented comprehensive adjustment policies had achieved better economic performance than those which did not. Economic reform is only part of the effort to secure sustainable growth and poverty reduction in Africa ; parallel efforts are also needed to improve governance ; basic social services ; and infrastructure.
Somalia
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what mechanism the ODA has whereby Somalis in the United Kingdom with specialist skills could be assisted to return to Somalia to assist in their country's redevelopment ; and if he will explore this possibility with the Somali community.
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Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Aid funds are available to support rehabilitation programmes in Somalia carried out by non-governmental organisations and UN agencies. Expatriate Somalis can be employed on these programmes.
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much help, broken down by categories including humanitarian and development aid and other specific categories, has been given in each of the past five years to (a) Somalia as a whole and (b) Somaliland by (i) the British Government, (ii) the European Union countries, (iii) the European Union, (iv)
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the United States and (v) other international organisations ; and what figures are planned for the current financial year and in each of the next five years in each case.Mr. Lennox-Boyd [holding answer 27 April 1994] : I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 24 February at columns 399-400 on British aid to Somalia over the five financial years to 1992-93. Details of other donors' assistance from 1988-1992 are as follows. A breakdown by type of aid and region is not available.
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Net Official Development Assistance to Somalia 1988-1992
£ millions
|1988 |1989 |1990 |1991 |1992
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(i) |European Union Countries
|Belguim |0.15 |0.18 |4.51 |0.80 |4.33
|Denmark |4.70 |3.96 |1.19 |0.02 |0.06
|France |3.76 |1.67 |1.72 |1.26 |8.43
|Germany |17.76 |15.03 |11.69 |5.84 |15.72
|Ireland |0.22 |- |- |0.22 |0.00
|Italy |110.72 |100.32 |62.64 |30.96 |13.73
|Luxembourg |- |- |0.05 |0.03 |0.97
|Netherlands |0.07 |0.16 |0.13 |1.38 |29.05
|Portugal |- |- |- |- |-
|Spain |- |0.01 |5.46 |0.01 |0.46
(ii) |European Commission |8.38 |21.50 |22.91 |20.14 |24.50
(iii) |United States |12.35 |17.08 |40.54 |3.40 |174.33
(iv) |Other Multilateral Organisations
|African Development Fund/Bank |2.02 |8.16 |10.77 |2.79 |0.06
|IDA |12.35 |27.45 |18.02 |- |0.00
|International Fund for Agricultural Development|0.95 |<1>-0.07 |0.86 |0.09 |0.11
|International Monetary Fund |- |<1>-0.8 |- |- |-
|UN Childrens Fund |1.76 |1.40 |2.05 |2.78 |16.18
|UN Development Programme |5.44 |6.01 |4.96 |2.13 |1.54
|UN Fund for Population Activities |0.47 |0.54 |0.46 |- |n.a.
|UN High Commission for Refugees |19.27 |12.08 |6.30 |3.89 |4.67
|UN Technical Assistance |1.03 |1.38 |0.72 |0.81 |0.85
|World Food Programme |13.15 |12.25 |12.12 |6.68 |36.40
|UN Other |0.92 |5.64 |1.21 |0.37 |n.a.
|Arab Funds/Banks |0.43 |0.74 |0.03 |0.12 |<1>-1.08
<1>Repayments of official development assistance loan disbursement from previous years are shown as negative figures.
In 1993-94 the United Kingdom committed £5.39 million of bilateral humanitarian assistance to Somalia of which £1.72 million has been committed to the north-west region. We expect to spend about £3 million in assistance to Somalia in 1994-95. In addition we are currently considering a number of proposals to support rehabilitation in the north west.
Since January 1993 the European Commission has funded activities in Somalia equivalent to £44.27 million of which the United Kingdom share is £7.25 million. A breakdown of EC expenditure is as follows :
|Tonnes |United Kingdom
|equivalent
|(£ million)
------------------------------------------------------------
Food aid |20,476 |4.20
Humanitarian |- |8.05
Rehabilitation |- |32.02
Planning figures for the United Kingdom and other donors beyond the current year are not available.
Rwanda
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what contributions have been made (a) by Britain and (b) other EU countries to the United Nations' humanitarian appeal for Rwanda.
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Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs launched an appeal for Rwanda on 25 April. Since the start of the current emergency, Britain has provided over £1.1 million of humanitarian assistance and last week my noble friend the Minister for Overseas Development made available a further £2 million for British non-governmental organisations working in the region. Other EU countries and the European Commission have announced nearly £2 million of assistance so far.
Sir Russell Johnston : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his latest estimate of the number of people killed in the civil war in Rwanda.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : There are estimates that more than 200,000 people may have perished in the recent fighting in Rwanda. It is a horrific and tragic civil war where we will probably never know the true figure of those killed and injured.
Narmada Dam
Mr. Worthington : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received about the reasons for the recent sit-in protest in India over the Narmada dam project ; what assessment he has made of the implications for local people if the sluice
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gates are opened during the coming monsoon ; and what action his representative at the World bank is taking in this matter.Mr. Lennox-Boyd : We have received no reports of a recent sit-in protest over the Narmada dam project. Responsibility for the project rests with the Indian authorities, who have re-affirmed their commitment to the satisfactory linkage between implementation of resettlement and rehabilitation and construction work on the dam. World bank funding of the project ceased when the Indian authorities asked it to cancel the balance of the loan in March 1993.
Commonwealth Development Corporation
Mr. Tom Clarke : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his timetable for legislation concerning the Commonwealth Development Corporation.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : I refer the hon. Member to the reply to the hon. Member for Darlington (Mr. Milburn) by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on 3 May at columns 420-21. The Government's legislative programme for 1994-95 will be announced in the Queen's Speech.
Soft Loans
Mr. Alan Williams : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on which occasions since 1986 a soft loan has been paid to a body other than a Government ; to whom payments were made ; when and for what sum ; why the payment was not made to the appropriate Government ; and which British companies were the major parties to the contract.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd [holding answer 21 April 1994] : Soft loans, made by commercial banks and involving Her Majesty's Government paying interest make-up to support the concessional rates offered, have been made direct to a body other than the recipient Government on four occasions since 1986. In all these cases the soft loans were made direct at the request of the recipient Government. Details are given in the table.
Colombia--
Title : System X Project.
Borrower : Empresa Nacional de Telecominicaciones de Colombia. Loan amount : £8.6 million with effect from June 1988. Lead contractor : Plessey UK Limited.
Jordan--
Title : Walking Draglines.
Borrower : Jordan Phosphate Mining Company Ltd.
Loan amount : £9 million with effect from April 1987.
Lead contractor : Ransomes and Rapier plc.
Malaysia--
Title : Pergau hydroelectric project.
Borrower : Tenaga Nasional Berhad
Loan amount : £305.443 million with effect from July 1991. Lead contractor : Balfour Beatty Construction Ltd. and Cementation International Limited.
Turkey--
Title : Ankara Natural Gas Conversion.
Borrower : Electricity, Gas and Omnibus Authority of Ankara. Loan amount : £68 million with effect from May 1988.
Lead contractor : British Gas plc.
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China
Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the projects in China which received technical co-operation assistance from Her Majesty's Government in 1992-93 together with the amount allocated to each project and the organisations receiving the funds.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd [holding answer 3 May 1994] : Listed are those projects in China which received more than £20,000 of technical co-operation assistance with the expenditure per project in 1992-93 and the organisations involved :
Project Title |Figures in
|£s millions
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|English Language Teaching Programme (British
Council) |1.28
Sino-British Friendship Scholarship Scheme (British
Council) |1.37
Technical Co-operation Training Programme (British
Council) |2.76
Royal Fellowships Scheme (Royal Society) |0.10
Forestry Project (various) |0.13
Support for projects under the Agricultural
Memorandum of Understanding (Ministry of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) |0.06
Transport Planning Study for Peking (The MVA
Consultancy) |0.09
Energy Conservation in Buildings for Peking (Building
Research Establishment) |0.10
Water Quality Monitoring study for Chongqing (Binnie
and Partners) |0.02
Control of Air Pollution Study for Chongqing
(Environmental Resource Management) |0.06
Investment Techniques for Project Appraisal (Crown
Agents) |0.18
Shanghai Water Management Study (Mott MacDonald) |0.05
Shanghai Environment Project (Mott MacDonald) |0.95
Computer Management Training for Coal (British Coal) |0.03
Energy Efficiency and Demonstration Project for
Taiyuan (Coal Research Establishment) |0.51
Solid Waste Disposal Study for Tianjin (Binnie and
Partners) |0.07
Pollution Control Study of the Grand Canal at Wuxi
(Watson Hawksley Ltd.) |0.19
Resettlement Studies (The World Bank) |0.06
China Council for International Co-operation on
Environment and Development Pricing Policy
Working Group (Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver) |0.03
Training for Xinhua News Agency (Thomson
Foundation) |0.02
Remote Sensing Data Acquisition (Scott Wilson
Kirkpatrick) |0.03
Support for projects under Heads of Mission Small
Projects Scheme (British Embassy, Peking) |0.04
Mr. Alton : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the projects and organisations in China which received aid and trade assistance from Her Majesty's Government together with the amount allocated in each case.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd [holding answer 3 May 1994] : Listed are those projects in China which received aid and trade assistance in 1992-93 with the organisations involved and the expenditure per project in 1992-93 :
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|Figures in
Project title |£s millions
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Urban Traffic Control System for Peking |0.01
(Plessey Controls Ltd)
Chongqing Tyre Factory |0.12
(Dunlop International Projects Ltd)
Modernisation of Peking Subway |1.70
(Balfour Beatty Ltd)
Danyang Aluminium Plant |1.82
(Davy McKee (Poole) Ltd)
Cotton Textile Mills |0.22
(Platt Saco Lowell (UK) Ltd)
Shanghai Telecommunications |0.45
(GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd)
Duck Processing Plants |1.11
(APV Baker Ltd)
Flour and Feed Mills |1.00
(Robinson Milling Systems Ltd)
Pre-stressed Concrete Wire |0.68
(Marshall Richards Barcro Ltd)
Dalian Power Station |1.40
(Gibson Wells Engineering Ltd)
Fushun Power Station |5.11
(Gibson Wells Engineering Ltd)
Training of operators for Yue Yang Power Station |0.45
(GEC Alsthom)
Container ships for COSCO |1.11
(British Shipbuilders)
Yue Yang Power Station |7.38
(GEC Turbine Generators Ltd)
Bohai Aluminium Plant |0.99
(Davy McKee (Poole) Ltd)
Dushanzi Ethylene Complex |1.45
(Snamprogetti Ltd)
Urumqi Pure Terephthalic Acid Plant |0.48
(Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd)
Urumqi Para-xylene Plant |0.16
(Babcock contractors Ltd)
Traffic Study for Peking |0.06
(The MVA Consultancy)
Training and advisory Services for Peking Subway |0.62
(Balfour Beatty Ltd)
EDUCATION
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will publish his estimate for the reduction in Government funding of grant- maintained schools for 1994-95 and 1995-96 as a result of new funding rules introduced by the DFE.
Mr. Robin Squire : The Government's expenditure plans provide for the Exchequer funding of grant-maintained schools to increase from £244 million to £446
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million net between 1994-95 and 1995-96 reflecting the increase in their number. These plans take account of the announced revisions to the detailed grant regime for GM schools in 1994-95. The plans for 1995-96 and later years will be subject to review in the normal way.Further Education
Mr. Llwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will publish for each county and for England as a whole for the last available year (a) the number of students aged 19 years and over receiving further education and (b) the estimated proportion of those students aged 19 years and over in further education who are not receiving grants.
Mr. Boswell : The number of students in each LEA in England aged 19 and over who are undertaking further education and the estimated proportion of those students who do not receive an award under section 2 of the Education Act 1962 are shown in the table.
Number of FE students aged 19 and over by Home LEA showing number
of students not receiving grants under section 2 of the 1962
Education
Act
1991-92
Local education |Number of |Students aged
authority
|students aged |19 and over
|19 and over |not receiving
|grants
|Number |Percentage
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Corporation of London |243 |99
Camden |2,988 |100
Greenwich |2,927 |96
Hackney |4,659 |97
Hammersmith |4,051 |98
Islington |3,592 |97
Kensington |6,952 |98
Lambeth |7,069 |98
Lewisham |4,553 |96
Southwark |4,344 |98
Tower Hamlets |3,145 |97
Wandsworth |6,199 |n/a
Westminster |4,016 |100
Barking |1,686 |91
Barnet |12,122 |96
Bexley |2,235 |88
Brent |7,280 |96
Bromley |2,791 |95
Croydon |4,562 |99
Ealing |6,501 |94
Enfield |9,725 |98
Haringey |7,456 |100
Harrow |9,495 |100
Havering |3,560 |92
Hillingdon |3,794 |100
Hounslow |3,153 |100
Kingston upon Thames |1,527 |96
Merton |3,223 |92
Newham |7,778 |95
Redbridge |4,240 |100
Richmond upon Thames |15,847 |99
Sutton |9,443 |98
Waltham Forest |4,629 |98
Birmingham |22,722 |88
Coventry |8,188 |95
Dudley |12,291 |98
Sandwell |7,058 |91
Solihull |4,818 |96
Walsall |5,336 |71
Wolverhampton |7,316 |100
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Numbers of FE students aged 19 and over by Home LEA showing
number of students not receiving grants
1991-92
Local Education |Number of |Percentage of
Authority
|students aged |students aged
|19 and over |19 and not re-
|ceiving grants
|Number |Percentage
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Knowsley |3,783 |86
Liverpool |14,498 |93
St. Helens |5,356 |95
Sefton |8,383 |99
Wirral |16,215 |97
Bolton |4,546 |88
Bury |3,080 |83
Manchester |9,595 |88
Oldham |2,354 |90
Rochdale |5,103 |83
Salford |8,151 |97
Stockport |4,221 |90
Tameside |6,539 |96
Trafford |8,025 |98
Wigan |8,710 |97
Barnsley |4,635 |93
Doncaster |11,560 |96
Rotherham |10,915 |95
Sheffield |22,053 |95
Bradford |22,984 |96
Calderdale |3,946 |97
Kirklees |10,942 |90
Leeds |18,059 |96
Wakefield |10,476 |97
Gateshead |4,725 |97
Newcastle-upon-Tyne |4,492 |92
North Tyneside |3,664 |82
South Tyneside |4,006 |94
Sunderland |7,071 |93
Avon |30,177 |91
Bedfordshire |13,396 |93
Berkshire |24,613 |100
Buckinghamshire |9,925 |99
Cambridgeshire |11,746 |99
Cheshire |27,988 |95
Cleveland |16,716 |99
Cornwall (including I.o.Scilly) |4,579 |82
Cumbria |7,596 |84
Derbyshire |21,594 |94
Devon |16,008 |90
Dorset |9,331 |85
Numbers of FE Students aged 19 and over by Home LEA showing
number of students not receiving grants, 1991-92
Local Education |Number of |Percentage of
Authority
|students aged |students aged
|19 and over |19+ not
|receiving
|grants
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Durham |16,533 |95
East Sussex |22,461 |99
Essex |23,986 |93
Gloucestershire |21,649 |97
Hampshire |29,696 |95
Hereford and Worcester |21,806 |99
Hertfordshire |44,767 |99
Humberside |19,333 |86
Isle of Wight |4,492 |95
Kent |14,591 |80
Lancashire |61,824 |89
Leicestershire |17,012 |83
Lincolnshire |8,780 |85
Norfolk |9,234 |89
North Yorkshire |21,913 |92
Northamptonshire |16,492 |98
Northumberland |4,030 |95
Nottinghamshire |48,840 |99
Oxfordshire |14,081 |98
Shropshire |18,487 |96
Somerset |14,067 |95
Staffordshire |27,396 |95
Suffolk |20,403 |96
Surrey |9,965 |94
Warwickshire |14,372 |100
West Sussex |7,762 |100
Wiltshire |27,764 |98
England |1,247,006 |95
Note: These tables do not include data for sixth form college
students.
Sixth form colleges transferred to the new FE sector on 1 April 1993.
History
Mr. Hawksley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will make a statement on the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority's draft views on the history curriculum.
Mr. Robin Squire : My right hon. Friend will be publishing his proposals for a revised history curriculum very shortly. Publication will be followed by a period of public consultation which will last until the end of July.
School Curriculum and Assessment Authority
Mr. Hawksley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what resources are provided for the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority by his Department ; and if he will announce his plans for its future.
Mr. Robin Squire : The authority was established in October 1993, and has a substantial programme of work, focused on the current review of the national curriculum, the national tests, and the scrutiny of public examinations. Its total grant from the Department for 1994-95 is likely to be around £30 million.
Special Educational Needs
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children in each local education authority were assessed for statements of special educational needs in each of the last five years ; and what proportion of these children received statements.
Mr. Forth : Figures for the years 1988 to 1992 for each local education authority in England have been placed in the Library.
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