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1989 |4,964 |144.5
1990 |4,990 |156
1991 |5,113 |183
1992 |5,307 |197.5
1993 |4,938 |209
It is not our practice to speculate on our likely future manpower requirements.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to change the role of the Ministry of Defence police.
Mr. Hanley : The future role of the Ministry of Defence police is under consideration as part of the study being conducted by Sir John Blelloch and his team. The final report is currently expected at the end of this month.
Nuclear Submarines (Used Cores)
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the estimated cost of providing an interim capability to transport used nuclear submarine reactor cores.
Mr. Aitken : The estimated cost of providing an interim capability using the two commercial containers will be in the order of £5 million.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the estimated cost of replacing the used core transport packages.
Mr. Aitken : The cost of replacing the used core transport packages with the new purpose-built containers is not yet finalised. We would not wish to prejudice contract negotiations currently taking place with industry by providing an estimated figure.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is the estimated cost of obtaining a licence for the replacement for the used core transport package ; and from which subheads of which votes these funds are taken.
Mr. Aitken : Until contract negotiations are complete, we are not in a position to speculate as to the likley cost of licensing the new purpose- built containers. Provision for funding of this work is currently contained in vote 03, sub-heading F.
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Nuclear Test Ban
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's current policy on the retention of the right to conduct safety tests under the comprehensive nuclear test ban regime currently being negotiated in Geneva.
Mr. Aitken : The Government are committed to playing an active and constructive part in the negotiation of a comprehensive nuclear test ban. We will look for a verifiable and effective prohibition of all nuclear tests, with the aim of making a contribution to our international non- proliferation objectives. Previously, a minimal programme of nuclear testing has been an important part of proving the safety and reliability of our nuclear warheads. We now aim to use and develop alternative technologies.
Fissile Materials
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what is his Department's current policy on a fissile materials cut-off.
Mr. Aitken : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given by the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs--my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Grantham (Mr. Hogg)--on 7 February to the hon. Member for Blaenau, Gwent (Mr. Smith), Official Report, column 15.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give further consideration to publication of his Department's inventory of fissile materials that are not currently in use in nuclear weapons.
Mr. Aitken : It would not be in the national interest to make public details of fissile material held for our nuclear weapons programme.
Civilian Guard Force
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to change the role of his Department's civilian guard force.
Mr. Hanley : We have no plans to change the role of the Ministry of Defence guard service.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on his Department's plans for a home guard force to supplement the Ministry of Defence police and the civilian guard force.
Mr. Hanley : In the context of the defence costs study we are looking at the idea of creating military home service engagements for carrying out guarding duties. However, this is only one of a number of proposals relating to security which have emerged. Much more work is needed before we can decide to proceed with this particular idea.
Public Consultation
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence in what circumstances it is his Department's practice, when issuing a public consultation document, to inform those consulted that their responses will be made public unless they explicitly ask for them to be kept confidential ; and if he will arrange for his Department to do so in all cases in future.
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Mr. Hanley : When conducting consultation exercises, my Department considers carefully the need to publicise the background to Government decision making and the individual's right to privacy. Decisions on the need to publish are taken on a case by case basis, and responses are not published where an individual has asked that their remarks be treated as confidential. We have no plans to change this policy.
Hospitals
Mr. Viggers : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much was spent on capital improvements during the last (a) 20 and (b) 10 years at (i) royal naval hospital, Haslar and (ii) Royal Air Force Hospital, Wroughton.
Mr. Hanley : The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost and effort.
Trident
Mr. Cran : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what was the outcome of the test firing of the United Kingdom Trident II D5 missile.
Mr. Aitken : Pursuant to my answer of 26 May 1994 at column 234, HMS Vanguard successfully launched an unarmed Trident II D5 ballistic missile on 26 May 1994. This was the first such test firing by a United Kingdom submarine, marking an important stage in the Trident programme. HMS Vanguard remains on schedule to deploy around the turn of the year.
WALES
Forestry
Mr. Martyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list forestry land in Wales previously owned by the Forestry Commission, or Forestry
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Enterprise, which has been sold into private ownership since 1 January 1989, with the dates of each sale and the yearly total amount of forestry land sold in each year in terms of (a) land area and (b) financial value.Sir Wyn Roberts : Lists giving details of all areas of forest land sold in Wales by calendar year from 1981 to December 1993 are held in the Library of the House. The total areas sold and the receipts from the sales in each year since 1 April 1988 are given in the following table.
D Year ending |Forest land sold|Total receipts 31 March |(Hectares) |£ million -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1989 |1,226 |1.5 1990 |1,102 |1.8 1991 |934 |2.0 1992 |1,231 |2.2 1993 |1,014 |1.2 1994 |<1>1,222 |<1>1.8 <1>Provisional figures.
Strategic Development Programme
Mr. Llwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish for each county and district council what allocation of funding has been made under the strategic development scheme and its predecessor schemes, including the urban programmes, rural initiative, projects of national and regional importance and special projects, for the last three years and for 1994-95.
Mr. Redwood [pursuant to his reply, 19 April 1994, c. 460-66] : I regret that the table provided with my reply to the hon. Member was incorrect. A revised table providing the corrected information is given as follows :
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Local Authority Urban Programme (UP), Rural Initiative (RI) Project of National and Regional Importance/Special Projects (
PRNI/SP)
and Strategic Development Scheme (SDS) allocations between 1991 and 1995
Local authority and |1991-92 including UP|1992-93 |<1>1993-94 |<4>1994-95
programme
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Clwyd CC
RI |165,000 |170,000 |279,000 |-
UP |1,769,020 |1,777,985 |804,817 |-
PRNI/SP |2,390,000 |2,361,000 |2,000,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,297,237
Alyn and Deeside CC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |267,613 |100,000 |337,500 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,337,527
Colwyn DC
RI |40,000 |- |32,000 |-
UP |279,707 |133,000 |70,000 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |580,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,447,000
Delyn BC
RI |120,000 |- |- |-
UP |669,141 |756,658 |337,998 |-
PRNI/SP |650,000 |2,000,000 |1,950,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |828,758
Glyndwr DC
RI |180,000 |270,000 |174,540 |-
UP |118,987 |225,237 |118,131 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |186,956
Rhuddlan BC
RI |147,000 |- |27,000 |-
UP |544,500 |1,125,000 |1,137,554 |-
PRNI/SP |840,000 |825,000 |1,200,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |820,867
Wrexham Maelor BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |1,449,203 |549,559 |246,401 |-
PRNI/SP |1,350,000 |200,000 |2,085,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,487,336
Dyfed CC
RI |553,000 |2,312,700 |838,500 |-
UP |472,538 |308,684 |351,184 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |<2>1,289,653
Carmarthen DC
RI |557,650 |126,500 |120,000 |-
UP |136,438 |17,865 |17,865 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |<3>183,933
Ceredigion DC
RI |140,000 |240,000 |302,000 |-
UP |137,127 |107,163 |76,781 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |500,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |<3>975,194
Dinefwr BC
RI |78,000 |125,000 |236,000 |-
UP |687,731 |1,080,375 |427,830 |-
PRNI/SP |900,000 |600,000 |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,443,915
Llanelli BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |442,327 |1,095,627 |764,057 |-
PRNI/SP |1,000,000 |1,200,000 |1,500,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |2,224,300
Preseli Pembs DC
RI |33,450 |347,104 |1,021,460 |-
UP |283,080 |112,439 |140,000 |-
PRNI/SP |650,000 |700,000 |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |927,015
South Pembs DC
RI |60,000 |146,000 |678,340 |-
UP |219,247 |193,000 |221,792 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |1,000,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |2,481,272
Gwent CC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |5,499,696 |2,234,987 |1,355,759 |-
PRNI/SP |1,054,000 |500,000 |500,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |2,389,256
Blaenau Gwent, BC
RI |9,800 |- |- |-
UP |5,885,725 |1,680,885 |915,728 |-
PRNI/SP |1,055,000 |700,000 |655,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,752,723
Islwyn BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |1,070,884 |840,476 |722,920 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,266,908
Monmouth DC
RI |236,000 |211,000 |56,911 |-
UP |31,683 |29,724 |203,306 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |57,873
Newport BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |703,392 |815,426 |1,039,886 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,153,335
Torfaen BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |821,739 |464,436 |345,344 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |640,075
Gwynedd CC
RI |410,000 |208,000 |641,000 |-
UP |674,774 |1,495,728 |1,460,011 |-
PRNI/SP |248,000 |- |806,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |2,310,629
Aberconwy BC
RI |- |617,983 |440,000 |-
UP |260,900 |190,900 |170,450 |-
PRNI/SP |759,000 |2,185,000 |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,150,000
Arfon BC
RI |300,000 |94,500 |590,000 |-
UP |512,403 |656,932 |381,854 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,126,060
Dwyfor DC
RI |250,000 |156,400 |501,300 |-
UP |- |150,000 |121,475 |-
PRNI/SP |1,400,000 |1,900,000 |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |787,464
Meirionnydd DC
RI |- |100,000 |526,100 |-
UP |402,039 |221,029 |157,595 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |667,826
Ynys Mon BC
RI |52,000 |135,000 |390,000 |-
UP |538,406 |318,282 |127,071 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,140,368
Mid Glamorgan CC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |2,183,187 |2,374,309 |2,195,545 |-
PRNI/SP |7,430,000 |3,550,000 |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |2,595,176
Cynon Valley BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |2,284,621 |2,322,765 |1,775,532 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,946,880
Merthyr Tydfil BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |1,071,184 |1,487,581 |987,046 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |902,769
Ogwr BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |1,195,108 |1,355,902 |1,165,412 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |1,102,276
SDS |- |- |- |-
Rhondda BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |1,836,311 |1,899,285 |2,804,766 |-
PRNI/SP |900,000 |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |4,460,290
Rhymney Valley DC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |655,358 |1,161,266 |744,720 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |800,000
Taff-Ely BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |675,850 |1,084,591 |533,282 |-
PRNI/SP |350,000 |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |430,789
Powys CC
RI |277,122 |500,000 |317,000 |-
UP |491,158 |114,640 |90,566 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |774,738
Brecknock BC
RI |360,000 |- |110,000 |-
UP |27,000 |250,000 |- |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |1,316,000 |2,330,000
SDS |- |- |- |-
Montgomeryshire DC
RI |580,000 |196,826 |262,000 |-
UP |- |- |- |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |125,790
Radnor DC
RI |420,000 |31,000 |- |-
UP |14,686 |15,836 |15,836 |-
PRNI/SP |805,000 |250,000 |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |182,918
South Glamorgan CC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |1,166,343 |1,624,470 |1,339,602 |-
PRNI/SP |400,000 |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,227,698
Cardiff CC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |1,229,534 |1,076,683 |1,310,492 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |988,961
Vale of Glamorgan BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |298,710 |577,677 |760,882 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |1,189,632
West Glamorgan CC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |1,123,304 |1,344,746 |1,632,821 |-
PRNI/SP |- |300,000 |1,879,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |2,281,353
Port Talbot BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |630,700 |183,047 |323,809 |-
PRNI |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |252,797
Lliw Valley BC
RI |- |- |8,344 |-
UP |309,300 |432,078 |338,504 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |281,758
Neath BC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |823,520 |679,811 |314,785 |-
PRNI/SP |- |- |- |-
SDS |- |- |- |352,311
Swansea CC
RI |- |- |- |-
UP |574,727 |544,277 |964,804 |-
PRNI/SP |1,239,000 |- |165,000 |-
SDS |- |- |- |2,625,245
<1>Includes additional in-year allocations.
<2>Includes £0.5 million available to any local authority within the West Wales task force area.
<3>Does not include £1.9 million set aside for projects supported in principle for Carmarthen DC and Ceredigion DC.
<4>Includes slippage on schemes carried forward from 1993-94 and £10,000 revenue allocation for each of the five successful
Community revival strategies, but excludes the capital allocations which will not be confirmed until receipt of the business
plans in June 1994 or the money set aside for the development of the industrial village concept.
Consultants
Mrs. Dunwoody : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list for each of the last five years the cost to public funds of consultancy work provided by (a) KPMG Peat Marwick, (b) Touche Ross, (c) Price Waterhouse, (d) Ernst and Young, (e) CSL, (f) Prime, (g) Basis, (h) Theodore Goddard, (i) Dibb Lupton Broomhead, (j) Capita and (k) Shreeveport to his Department ; and if he will list any other firms which have provided consultancy work and the costs to public funds for each of the last five years.
Mr. Redwood : I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Darlington (Mr. Kilburn) on 15 April 1994, Official Report, columns 318-20, which provides details of individual consultancy firms employed by the Welsh Office since 1988-89. The Department's total expenditure on management consultancies is as follows :
|£ thousands
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1988-89 |479
1989-90 |342
1990-91 |229
1991-92 |1,109
1992-93 |1,416
1993-94 |1,454
Details of expenditure with individual firms cannot be disclosed for reasons of commercial confidentiality.
Government Information
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he plans to publish his departmental guidance on the implementation of the code of practice on access to Government information, as promised at paragraph 3(ii) of the code issued on 4 April ; and what has been the cause of the delay in publishing the departmental guidance.
Mr. Redwood : The Welsh Office guidance on implementing the code of practice was issued internally on 19 April. I have sent a copy to the hon. Member and copies have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses and of the Welsh Office, Cardiff. A bilingual leaflet for the public is in preparation and will be distributed to advice centres and public libraries in Wales.
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School Buildings
Mr. Llwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what amount was spent on repair and maintenance of school buildings by each local education authority in Wales and in Wales as a whole for each financial year since 1989-90 ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir Wyn Roberts : The available information is given in the following table. Figures for 1993-94 are not yet available.
Gross current expenditure on repair and maintenance of
local authority school buildings, fixed plant and
grounds,
at cash prices<1>
£ million
|1989-90|1990-91|1991-92|1992-93
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Clwyd |3.0 |3.3 |3.7 |3.7
Dyfed |2.7 |3.9 |3.5 |4.3
Gwent |4.4 |4.9 |5.5 |6.4
Gwynedd |3.0 |2.5 |2.5 |2.5
Mid Glamorgan |9.6 |10.3 |12.5 |11.5
Powys |1.5 |1.5 |1.9 |2.1
South Glamorgan |4.2 |4.4 |4.7 |5.5
West Glamorgan |5.4 |6.4 |6.6 |5.9
|-------|-------|-------|-------
Total Counties |33.8 |37.0 |40.9 |42.0
Source: Local authority returns.
<1>Excludes all capital expenditure. Excludes
grant-maintained schools. Includes salaries of building
maintenance workers and groundsmen, cost of materials,
recharges by external agencies, charges from direct
service organisations, architects, engineers and
surveyors and expenditure on energy conservation and on
health and safety. From 1990-91 onwards, also includes
contract charges-including those relating to compulsory
competitive tendering arrangements. Excludes salaries
of caretakers, cleaners, etcetera.
Arable Aid
Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what are the yield figures set for land in (a) less-favoured areas and (b) non-less- favoured areas in the calculation of arable aid payments in Wales for the 1994-95 marketing year ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : The yield in the LFA is set at 3.32 tonnes per hectare --t/ha--and the yield in the non-LFA is set at 5.17 t/ha. These yields give an overall average yield for Wales of 4.65 t/ha, the historical average yield for 1986-89, excluding the lowest and highest annual yields, as required by the EC regulation. It would require an EC change of regulation to allow more up-to-date yields to be used.
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Mr. Alex Carlile : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much a farmer growing cereals will be paid in arable aid for each hectare of cereals grown in 1993-94 in (a) less-favoured areas in Wales and (b) non- less-favoured areas in Wales ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : The payment under the arable area payments scheme for cereals grown in Wales in 1993-94 will be 116.20 ecu per hectare in the LFA and 180.95 ecu per hectare in the non-LFA. These will be converted to
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sterling at the green rate prevailing on 1 July 1994 but are likely to amount to some £107 in the LFA and £167 in the non-LFA. Payments will be reduced if the base area is exceeded.Mr. Tipping : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will set out by county a breakdown of the 1993 arable area payments scheme.
Mr. Redwood : The number of hectares claimed by county in Wales as at end March 1994 is as follows :
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Simplified Scheme Main Scheme
County |Area Claimed |Cereals Area |Oilseeds Area |Protein Area |Set-aside Area|Total
|(ha) |(ha) |(ha) |(ha) |(ha)
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Clwyd |3,707 |1,823 |209 |178 |442 |2,652
Dyfed |9,284 |3,508 |309 |240 |810 |4,867
Gwent |2,342 |2,501 |389 |129 |547 |3,566
Gwynedd |1,830 |783 |35 |43 |165 |1,026
Mid Glamorgan |320 |1,097 |139 |76 |238 |1,550
Powys |3,290 |2,421 |192 |75 |488 |3,176
South Glamorgan |882 |1,889 |98 |102 |398 |2,487
West Glamorgan |655 |114 |30 |- |- |170
|--- |--- |--- |-- |--- |---
Total |22,310 |14,136 |1,401 |843 |3,114 |19,494
The total number of claims received were Main Scheme 299.
Simplified scheme, 2,223-this information is not available on a county basis.
Education Policy (Representations)
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will meet the Buckley and Mynydd Isa head teachers' consortium to discuss their representations on educational policy for the early years.
Sir Wyn Roberts : My right hon. Friend has no plans for such a meeting.
Nursery and Reception Classes
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement concerning his policies for nursery and reception classes in local education authority schools.
Sir Wyn Roberts : The provision of education for children aged under five in local education authority schools remains at the discretion of the local education authorities themselves.
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many (a) male and (b) female (i) teachers and (ii) ancillary staff are employed in each local education authority in Wales in nursery and reception classes ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir Wyn Roberts : The number of qualified teachers in nursery and primary schools in each local education authority, as at January 1993, are shown in the table. Data
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on males and females are not separately available for nursery schools. The numbers of ancillary staff in nursery and primary schools and the numbers of teachers in nursery and reception classes are not collected centrally.
Number of qualified teachers<1>
Nursery Primary schools
|schools|Males |Females
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Clwyd |7 |388 |1,441
Dyfed |9 |332 |1,478
Gwent |22 |396 |1,547
Gwynedd |- |246 |743
Mid Glamorgan |54 |48 |1,972
Powys |- |127 |415
South Glamorgan |24 |287 |1,537
West Glamorgan |5 |327 |1,420
<1>Includes all full-time and part-time
qualified teachers.
Health Authority Funding
Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the cash allocation for health authorities discretionary use in each year since 1988-89, including 1994-95 ; and what was the percentage change in each year.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : The overall level of cash increases for hospital and community health services including the provision to health authorities is as follows :
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|Overall cash |Percentage revenue |Revenue cash |Percentage revenue
|previous year |previous year |health authorities'|health authorities
|discretionary use
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1988-89 |46.5 |6.2 |39.3 |5.3
1989-90 |<1>44.0 |4.8 |51.3 |6.3
1990-91 |72.8 |8.2 |57.6 |6.5
1991-92 |103.7 |10.6 |92.0 |9.8
1992-93 |102.3 |9.1 |79.0 |7.0
1993-94 |46.5 |3.7 |29.0 |2.2
1994-95 |53.0 |4.3 |<2>34.9 |2.8
<1>Net of estimated saving of £16.3 million from the reduction in the rate of employers' superannuation contributions
from 7.5 per cent. to 4 per cent. This sum, although not additional to the overall level of resources available for
hospital and community health service in 1989-90 was redistributed to health authorities as additional cash resources
for their discretionary use.
<2>Includes £1 million transferred from the resources previously allocated to the Welsh Health Common Services
Authority.
The difference between the overall level of the cash increases and that provided to health authorities for their discretionary use represents the amount of money that has been earmarked each year for development in specific services from which health authorities derive benefit and which is allocated to health authorities during the financial year.
St. Dogmael's Landslip
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what representations he has received regarding the St. Dogmael's landslip ; when he will visit the area to inspect the site ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : My right hon. Friend has received
representations from a number of organisations and individuals. He has no plans to visit the area at present.
Rugby Union
Mr. Hain : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what assistance his Department has given, directly or indirectly, to the sport of rugby union in Wales ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir Wyn Roberts : Central Government funding for sport in Wales is channelled for the most part through the Sports Council for Wales. In 1993- 94 the council provided financial assistance of £167,241, to the sport of rugby union football.
National Parks
Mr. Dafis : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish for (a) each district council, (b) each county council, (c) each of the proposed new unitary council areas and (d) for Wales as a whole (i) the total area, (ii) the area of national parks and (iii) the percentage of the area occupied by national parks.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : With regard to the new unitary authority areas, I will write to the hon. Gentleman when the boundaries of the new authorities have been agreed by Parliament and will place a copy of my reply in the Library of the House.
(i) The total area of (a) each district council, (b) each county council and (d) Wales as a whole are published in Table 1.06 of the "Environmental Digest for Wales", No. 8, 1993, copies of which are available in the Library of the House.
(ii) and (iii)
(a) The approximate area of each district council covered by national parks and the percentage of the area covered by the national parks are readily available only in respect of the Brecon Beacons and Pembrokeshire Coast national parks. Details are given in the following table.
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District |Area covered by|Percentage of
|(thousand |covered by
|hectares) |national parks
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Brecon Beacons:
Brecknock |89.4 |50.0
Dinefwr |22.7 |23.2
Cynon Valley |5.4 |30.4
Merthyr Tydfil |2.5 |22.5
Blaenau Gwent |1.9 |15.0
Torfaen |0.1 |0.8
Monmouth |13.1 |15.7
Pembrokeshire Coast:
Preseli Pembrokeshire |41.5 |36.0
South Pembrokeshire |16.9 |38.7
Source:
Brecon Beacons national park.
Pembrokeshire Coast national park.
(b) For each county council the approximate area covered by national parks and the percentage of the area covered by national parks are as follows :
County |Area covered by|Percentage of
|hectares) |national parks
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Dyfed |81.1 |14.0
Gwent |15.1 |11.0
Gwynedd |217.1 |56.2
Mid Glamorgan |7.9 |7.8
Powys |89.4 |17.6
Source:
Brecon Beacons national park.
Pembrokeshire Coast national park.
Countryside Council for Wales.
(d) For the whole of Wales, national parks cover 409.8 thousand hectares, which is 20 per cent. of the total area of Wales.
Rural Transport Innovation Grant Scheme
Mr. Jonathan Evans : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the amount of each grant approved by his Department in respect of the rural transport innovation grant scheme, under section 108 of the Transport Act 1985 for each year since 1987.
Sir Wyn Roberts : Three grants of £7,000, £8,762 and £2,450 were approved in 1987 ; three of £12,250, £11,000 and £11,000 in 1988 ; and one of £11,880 in 1990. No grants were approved in 1989 and none has been since 1990.
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Public Consultation
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales in what circumstances it is his Department's practice, when issuing a public consultation document, to inform those consulted that their responses will be made public unless they explicitly ask for them to be kept confidential ; and if he will arrange for his Department to do so in all cases in future.
Mr. Redwood : It is my Department's normal practice, when issuing a public consultation document, to state that responses may be made public, unless respondees explicitly ask for their replies to be kept confidential. Non-confidential responses, or a summary, may be made available in a report or may be placed in the Library of the House and the Welsh Office, Cardiff.
Hospice Care
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will issue guidelines on the payment arrangements for hospice care to health authorities and the social services departments of councils ; what representations he has received in relation to the appropriate source of funding for hospice care ; what provision he intends to make in relation to the means-testing of hospice care ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : Guidance will be included in a forthcoming Welsh health circular, notifying health authorities of their additional allocations for support of the voluntary hospice movement. My Department has received representations on funding for hospice care from Marie Curie Cancer Care and the George Thomas Centre for Hospice Care.
Where palliative care during terminal illness is arranged by the NHS, whether it is at home or as a hospice resident, there are of course no charges except where specifically allowed by statute--for example, prescription charges. Where, however, some support is provided by a social services authority, the usual rules for means-testing apply.
Block Grant
Mr. Ainger : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much in percentage and cash terms of the Welsh Office block grant was allocated to each of the 12 votes within class XV of the supply estimates between 1988- 89 and 1994-95.
Mr. Redwood : The information requested is set out in the following table.
Welsh Office public expenditure in the supply
estimates (£ million)
|1988-89 |Percentage
|of block
----------------------------------------------
Vote 1 |82 |NB
Vote 2 |75 |NB
Vote 3 |111 |NB
Vote 4 |- |NB
Vote 5 |215 |7
Vote 6 |87 |3
Vote 7 |278 |9
Vote 8 |856 |27
Vote 9 |42 |1
Vote 10 |-
Vote 11 |-
Vote 12<2> |-
Vote 13<2> |-
|------- |-------
The Block<1> |3,173
|Cm. 288
|1989-90 |Percentage
|of block
----------------------------------------------
Vote 1 |79 |NB
Vote 2 |90 |NB
Vote 3 |118 |NB
Vote 4 |- |NB
Vote 5 |258 |7
Vote 6 |122 |3
Vote 7 |305 |9
Vote 8 |963 |28
Vote 9 |46 |1
Vote 10 |-
Vote 11 |-
Vote 12<2> |-
Vote 13<2> |-
|------- |-------
The Block<1> |3,488
|Cm. 617
|1990-91 |Percentage
|of block
----------------------------------------------
Vote 1 |99 |NB
Vote 2 |101 |NB
Vote 3 |112 |NB
Vote 4 |- |NB
Vote 5 |322 |8
Vote 6 |485 |12
Vote 7 |315 |8
Vote 8 |1,096 |26
Vote 9 |52 |1
Vote 10 |1,604 |39
Vote 11 |30 |1
Vote 12<2> |-
Vote 13<2> |-
|------- |-------
The Block<1> |4,142
|Cm 1,016
|1991-92 |Percentage
|of block
----------------------------------------------
Vote 1 |112 |NB
Vote 2 |113 |NB
Vote 3 |84 |NB
Vote 4 |- |NB
Vote 5 |403 |9
Vote 6 |543 |12
Vote 7 |332 |7
Vote 8 |1,284 |28
Vote 9 |55 |1
Vote 10 |1,828 |40
Vote 11 |-
Vote 12<2> |-
Vote 13<2> |-
|------- |-------
The Block<1> |4,609
|Cm 1,516
|1992-93 |Percentage of
--------------------------------------------------------
Vote 1 |151 |NB
Vote 2 |121 |NB
Vote 3 |71 |NB
Vote 4 |156 |NB
Vote 5 |503 |9
Vote 6 |594 |11
Vote 7 |353 |6
Vote 8 |1,435 |26
Vote 9 |60 |1
Vote 10 |2,173 |40
Vote 11 |67 |1
Vote 12<2> |- |-
Vote 13<2> |- |-
|------- |-------
The Block<1> |5,473
|Cm 1916
|1993-94 |Percentage of
|Block
--------------------------------------------------------
Vote 1 |193 |NB
Vote 2 |174 |NB
Vote 3 |7 |NB
Vote 4 |147 |NB
Vote 5 |787 |14
Vote 6 |619 |11
Vote 7 |371 |6
Vote 8 |1,525 |27
Vote 9 |64 |1
Vote 10 |2,150 |37
Vote 11 |3 |0
Vote 12<2> |4 |0
Vote 13<2> |2 |0
|------- |-------
The Block<1> |5,735
|Cm 2215
|1994-95 |Percentage of
--------------------------------------------------------
Vote 1 |204 |NB
Vote 2 |34 |NB
|157 |2
Vote 3 |6 |0
Vote 4 |564 |9
Vote 5 |488 |8
Vote 6 |605 |9
Vote 7 |365 |6
Vote 8 |1,628 |25
Vote 9 |66 |1
Vote 10 |2,214 |35
Vote 11 |5 |0
Vote 12<2> |7 |0
Vote 13<2> |14 |0
|------- |-------
The Block<2> |6,410
|Cm 2515
Note: The symbol (-) denotes nil or less than £0.5
million.
NB=Non-Block. In 1994-95 the industry and training
programmes became part of the block.
<1>The totals shown for the block are not the sum of
the figures for block programmes shown against
individual votes. They include non-voted items such as
local authority credit approvals, and for years before
1990-91, local authority grants which, although paid
through the votes, did not score in the planning total.
<2>The expenditure covered by these votes has changed
over the years as follows: vote 12: 1988-1991, rate
rebate grant; 1991-92, water privatisation; 1992-93, no
vote; 1993 onwards, OHMCI; vote 13, 1988-89, transport
supplementary grants; 1989-91, water privatisation;
1991-93, no vote; 1993 onwards, ERDF.
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Ministerial Visits
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many times since his appointment he has had an engagement in the area of Ogwr borough council ; and how many times he has travelled through (a) the borough of Ogwr and (b) the Bridgend constituency going to and from official engagements.
Mr. Redwood : I have visited the area of Ogwr borough council six times since I became Welsh Secretary, as follows :
1993
1 June Bridgend
14 October Bridgend
3 November Laleston, Bridgend
1994
15 February Porthcawl
28 March Bridgend
30 March Ogmore
It is not possible to estimate the number of times I have passed through the area, as this information can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
I frequently travel through Bridgend on the train on the way to Port Talbot, Swansea and the south-west.
Civil Servants (Outside Appointments)
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many job offers were reported by staff in his Department under the requirements of the rules on the acceptance of outside appointments in each of the last 10 years by (a) staff of grade 3 and above, (b) staff below grade 3, (c) staff in sections concerned with procurement or contract work, under section 15 of the rules of 1 February 1993 and (d) staff in other sections, under section 14 ; and how many of these reports were followed by an application to join the company concerned.
Mr. Redwood : The following statistics are available :
Year Number of job
offers reported by
staff
|Grade 3 |Below |Number
|and above |grade 3 |of staff
|involved in
|procurement
------------------------------------------------------------------
1990 |1 |3 |-
1991 |- |4 |-
1992 |- |4 |1
1993 |- |1 |-
1994 (to end May) |- |1 |-
All those job offers resulted in applications to join the company concerned.
Information covering the years 1986 to 1989 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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