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Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list, for each national health service trust in the former East Anglian region, those chairmen and non-executive directors who live outside the boundaries of the district health authority in which that trust is situated.
Dr. Mawhinney [holding answer 28 June 1994] : Some 99, or 84 per cent., of the 118 chairmen and non-executive directors appointed to national health service trusts within the former East Anglian region live within the boundaries of the district health authority in which that trust is
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situated. The names of the appointees who live outside the relevant district health authority boundaries are given as follows : Addenbrookes Hospital NHS TrustMr. C. J. Mellor
Allington NHS Trust
Ms S. Rendall
Anglian Harbours NHS Trust
Mrs. K. Currie
Mr. M. J. Barnard
Mrs. D. H. Addison
Mr. M. Upcroft
Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust
Mr. A. Cumber
Mr. J. Barrett
James Paget Hospital NHS Trust
Mr. N. Johnson
Mr. N. Brighouse
Mrs. L. M. Handford
Kings Lynn and Wisbech Hospital NHS Trust
Mr. E. Hubbard
Mr. T. F. Shephard
Mrs. P. A. Jeffery
Norfolk and Norwich Health Care NHS Trust
Mr. A. Holden
Papworth Hospital NHS Trust
Sir D. Williams
Mr. A. R. Tyrrell
Mr. P. Pemberton
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust
Mr. R. Allan
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of state for Health if she will list, for each NHS trust in the former Wessex region, those chairmen and non-executive directors who live outside the boundaries of the district health authority in which that trust is situated.
Dr. Mawhinney [holding answer 29 June 1994] : Some 135, or 89 per cent., of the 151 chairmen and non-executive directors appointed to National Health Service trusts within the former Wessex region live within the boundaries of the district health authorities in which that trust is situated. The names of the appointees who live outside the relevant district health authority boundaries are listed. Swindon and Marlborough Hospitals NHS Trust
Mr. Vyv Attwood
Mrs. Victoria Pickering
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust
Mrs. Elizabeth Broderick
Mr. David D'Arcy Hughes
Southampton Community Services NHS Trust
Mrs. Jane Buchanan
Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Trust Mrs. Sheila Collins
Mr. Sydney Jackson
Miss Jane Manning
Bath and West Community NHS Trust
Mrs. Gillian Corney
North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Madame Anne de Montpensier-Budd
Mrs. Annette Moor
Mr. Andrew Prince
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Salisbury Health Care NHS TrustMrs. Helena Feltham
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Ms Kay Glendinning
Wiltshire Ambulance NHS Trust
Dr. John Moxon
Portsmouth Health Care NHS Trust
Mrs. Sue Todd
Mr. Blunkett : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list for each NHS trust, in the former South Western region, those chairmen and non-executive directors who live outside the boundaries of the district health authority in which that trust is situated.
Dr. Mawhinney [holding answer 30 June 1994] : Some 127, or 94 per cent., of the 135 chairmen and non-executive directors appointed to national health service trusts within the former South Western region live within the boundaries of the district health authorities in which that trust is situated. The names of the appointees who live outside the relevant district health authority boundaries are listed.
Southmead NHS Trust
Professor Ian Silver
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
Sir Vernon Seccombe
Plymouth Community Services NHS Trust
Mr. Eric Distin
East Somerset NHS Trust
Mr. Timothy Chappel
Mr. John Keegan
Mr. Thomas George
Gloucestershire Royal NHS Trust
Lady Sonia Hornby
Mr. Gerard Lane
Necrotising fasciitis
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list research projects into (a) vaccination and (b) other preventive measures against necrotising fasciitis in British hospitals and universities in the past 10 years ; and what consultations she has had with the chief medical officer of health and the Medical Research Council concerning their assessment and funding.
Mr. Sackville [holding answer 30 June 1994] : Necrotising fasciitis is a very rare condition which may be caused by a large number of different infections. For this reason, it is not feasible to develop a single vaccine against necrotising fasciitis. It is difficult to envisage the circumstances in which a vaccine might be useful against such a rare condition, which is associated with varying aetiological organisms.
There is a large body of research on the prevention of hospital-acquired infection of all types, which would include prevention of infections that might cause post-operative necrotising fasciitis.
There is considerable general research into infection with group A streptococci, the organism which was the cause of the recent cases of necrotising fasciitis in Gloucestershire.
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My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State regularly consults the Chief Medical Officer and others about research matters.For details of Medical Research Council research into necrotising fasciitis, I refer the hon. Member to the reply that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster gave to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) on 14 June, Official Report, column 434.
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NORTHERN IRELAND
Talks
Mr. Trimble : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on which dates the Minister of State met representatives of each of the major constitutional parties since 1 September 1993 to discuss political developments in Northern Ireland.
Mr. Ancram : Since 1 September 1993, I have had meetings with the main Northern Ireland parties on the following dates :
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Z
Ulster Unionist |Ulster Democratic|Social Democratic|Alliance Party
Party (UUP)
|Unionist Party |and Labour Party
|(UDUP) |(SDLP)
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25 September 1993 |1 October 1993 |22 September 1993|15 September 1993
11 November 1993 |22 October 1993 |21 October 1993 |20 October 1993
13 January 1994 |- |24 January 1994 |18 January 1994
7 March 1994 |- |12 April 1994 |24 February 1994
14 April 1994 |- |- |-
I have also attended meetings between the Prime Minister and the UDUP on 9 November 1993 and 21 March 1994, and between my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State and the Alliance party on 22 March 1994.
Disabled Voters
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what steps he takes to ensure that all disabled people are able to exercise their right to vote in elections for which he is responsible ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Ancram : Section 14(4) (d) of the Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1962 as substituted by article 6(1) of the Electoral Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 requires the Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland to prepare polling station schemes. Such a scheme can require the provision of facilities to be made available for the disabled. The Government also provide financial assistance towards the cost of providing temporary ramps for access at polling stations and, in addition, disabled people may take advantage of the arrangements for postal and proxy voting should they find this more convenient.
Tourism
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many tourist visitors there are in each council area, by such categories as are convenient ; and what is his estimate of the number of day trippers to each council area for each of the last three years.
Mr. Tim Smith : The table indicates estimated total visitor numbers to each council area for 1991, 1992 and 1993. Figures are not available for day trippers.
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Thousands Council area |1991 |1992 |1993 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Antrim |73.1 |65.1 |59.7 Ards |93.5 |78.9 |82.3 Armagh |52.8 |39.4 |39.1 Ballymena |52.8 |45.3 |51.4 Ballymoney |14.2 |15.8 |14.4 Banbridge |14.2 |13.8 |12.3 Belfast |341.3 |339.1 |331.2 Carrickfergus |20.3 |19.7 |20.6 Castlereagh |8.1 |7.9 |10.3 Coleraine |282.4 |270.1 |267.4 Cookstown |30.5 |23.7 |22.6 Craigavon |44.7 |43.4 |41.1 Derry |79.2 |74.9 |82.3 Down |172.7 |187.3 |187.2 Dungannon |24.4 |21.7 |20.6 Fermanagh |136.1 |126.2 |146.0 Larne |81.3 |74.9 |82.3 Limavady |28.4 |29.6 |32.9 Lisburn |52.8 |53.2 |51.4 Magherafelt |16.3 |11.8 |12.3 Moyle |117.8 |126.2 |123.4 Newry and Mourne |85.3 |92.7 |107.0 Newtownabbey |50.8 |53.2 |59.7 North Down |103.6 |110.4 |141.9 Omagh |30.5 |27.6 |30.9 Strabane |24.4 |19.7 |26.7
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Iron and Steel Industry
Mr. Bates : To ask the President of the Board of Trade by how many the number of jobs in the British iron and steel industry changed in each successive year since 1979 ; and what was the output in million tonnes of the British iron and steel industry in each year since 1979.
Mr. Sainsbury : The figures are as follows :
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Year |Employment in |Percentage |Pig iron |Crude steel
|the iron and |change year |production |production
|steel industry |on year |(millon tonnes) |(million tonnes)
|(thousands)
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1979 |156.6 |-5.32 |12.9 |21.5
1980 |112.1 |-28.42 |6.3 |11.3
1981 |88.2 |-21.32 |9.6 |15.6
1982 |74.5 |-15.53 |8.4 |13.7
1983 |63.7 |-14.50 |9.6 |15.0
1984 |61.9 |-2.83 |9.6 |15.1
1985 |59.0 |-4.68 |10.5 |15.7
1986 |55.9 |-5.25 |9.8 |14.7
1987 |54.9 |-1.79 |12.1 |17.4
1988 |55.1 |0.36 |13.2 |19.0
1989 |53.8 |-2.36 |12.8 |18.7
1990 |50.8 |-5.58 |12.5 |17.8
1991 |45.1 |-11.22 |12.1 |16.5
1992 |40.8 |-9.53 |11.7 |16.2
1993 |40.2 |-1.47 |11.6 |16.5
Source: ISSB.
Notes:
(1) All figures are based on ECSC figures.
(2) The figure for pig iron production should not be added to the crude steel production figures to
give a total figure as this would involve double counting.
Mr. Hardy : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what is his estimate of the public moneys which have been devoted to sustaining the engineering steel industries of each of the other EC states in each of the last three years and of the sums which will be so expended during 1994-95.
Mr. Sainsbury : There is insufficient information available on which to base a reliable estimate.
Receivers
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what consideration he has given to preventing accountants who have acted as advisers to banks from acting as receivers of client companies.
Mr. Neil Hamilton : I have considered the arguments for and against preventing accountants who act as advisers to banks from acting as receivers of client companies and I am not convinced that the practice should be proscribed.
Post Office
Mr. Hain : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what assessment he has made as to the possibility of a conflict of interest arising from the business relationship between the Post Office and Lex Service Group for the chief executive of the Post Office.
Mr. McLoughlin : My right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade is satisfied that there is no conflict of interest.
Mr. Hain : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he was consulted over the appointment of the chief executive of the Post Office as a non-executive director of the Lex Service Group.
Mr. Hain : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if the advice of his Department has been sought over commercial relations between Lex Service Group and the Post Office in the last 12 months ; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. McLoughlin : No, nor would my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade expect to be consulted. Such matters are within the operational responsibilities of the Post Office.
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