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Mr. Michael Howard: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for the Isle of Wight on 30 November 1994, Official Report , column 732 . My Department will study the proposed guidance for Government Departments on how to secure better use of their empty residential property and make every effort to achieve the targets set.
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Asylum Seekers
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many cases he is aware of involving asylum seekers who have absconded after being granted temporary admission; and in what time period these cases arose.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The information requested is not available.
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total cost in the financial year 1993 94 to the Home Office of detaining asylum seekers under Immigration Act powers; and if he will provide a breakdown of these costs.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The available information does not identify separately those costs which relate to asylum seekers.
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers who have been refused asylum have been removed or deported in the last 12 months.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: In the period 1 November 1993 to 31 October 1994, 1,860 asylum seekers were removed or voluntarily departed.
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications for asylum made after 26 July 1993 are still awaiting an initial decision.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: At 31 October 1994--the latest date for which information is available--an estimated 16,790 applications which were lodged after the implementation of the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 on 26 July 1993 were outstanding.
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how asylum seekers are detained in prison establishments other than the designated prisons for that purpose; (2) how many different asylum seekers have been detained over the last 12 months at (a) HMP Birmingham, HMP Haslar, HMP Rochester, HMP Doncaster and HMP Holloway and (b) Campsfield detention centre, Harmondsworth, Gatwick Beehive, Queen's building Heathrow, Stansted airport and Dover docks.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Mrs. Roche) on 23 November 1994, Official Report , column 159-61.
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his estimate of the proportion of the 50,000 asylum applicants whose claims are still under consideration by the Home Office are liable to detention under Immigration Act powers.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: It is not possible to say whether individual applicants are liable to be detained until their cases have been considered. However, only a tiny proportion of people who have sought asylum are currently detained.
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the average cost of transporting and escorting an asylum seeker detained under Immigration Act powers to an appeal or bail hearing before the Immigration Appeals Authority.
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Mr. Nicholas Baker: Separate records are not maintained of the costs of escorting people who have sought asylum to appeal and bail hearings and the information sought is therefore not available.
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers who are held in detention under Immigration Act powers have appealed against refusal of asylum in the last 12 months; and how many of those have been withdrawn.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: Of those currently held in detention who had sought asylum, it is estimated that just over 60 per cent. had lodged an appeal in the last 12 months. Less than 1 per cent. of these appeals had been withdrawn.
Immigration
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total cost to the Immigration Service in the financial year 1993 94 of carrying out reviews of decisions to detain under Immigration Act powers.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The information requested is not available.
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the weekly or monthly cost of detaining someone under Immigration Act powers at (a) a detention centre or (b) a prison service establishment.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: The average cost in 1993 94 of detaining someone under the Immigration Act at an Immigration Service detention centre is estimated at just
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over £800 per week. The Prison Service normally holds detainees in local prisons or remand centres, where the average cost per place in 1993 94 was £411 per week.Police Authorities, Wales
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish for each police authority in Wales, and for Wales as whole, for the last available two years, and with an estimate for the next available two years (a) the total expenditure and (b) the percentage change from the previous year indicating in each case what proportion of expenditure is met by central Government provision.
Mr. Maclean: Table A lists the total current and capital expenditure, together with percentage increases, by each police authority in Wales in each of the last two years for which outturn figures are available. Estimated expenditure for 1994 95 is also shown. Fifty-one per cent. of this expenditure is met by Home Office grants to police authorities. Revenue support grant is also paid by the Welsh Office to the constituent county councils of police authorities in Wales.
From 1995 96, the police authorities will be free standing, precepting bodies with their own standard spending assessment. Police specific grant will be paid as a cash-limited sum not as a proportion of expenditure.
Table B shows the proposals for allocation of police grant to Welsh police authorities for current expenditure, and also the police standard spending assessments proposed by my right hon. Friend. the Secretary of State for Wales. Allocations of capital grant have not yet been determined.
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Police Authority Expenditure (£ million)
Table A
|Per cent. |Per cent. |Per cent.
|Expenditure |change on |Expenditure |change on |Expenditure exp|change on
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Dyfed-Powys
current |38.896 |+10.7 |41.518 |+ 6.7 |43.378 |+4.5
capital |1.982 |+1.2 |3.242 |+63.6 |1.445 |-55.4
|-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |--------
Total |40.878 |+10.2 |44.760 |+9.5 |44.823 |+0.1
Gwent
current |38.965 |+6.2 |41.406 |+6.3 |43.430 |+4.9
capital |3.882 |+4.4 |1.280 |-67.0 |2.141 |+67.3
|-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |--------
Total |42.847 |+6.1 |42.686 |-0.4 |45.571 |+6.8
North Wales
current |55.897 |+10.3 |58.387 |+4.5 |62.780 |+7.5
capital |1.617 |-3.1 |2.604 |+61.0 |1.688 |-35.2
|-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |--------
Total |57.514 |+9.8 |60.991 |+6.0 |64.468 |+5.7
South Wales
current |127.300 |+7.4 |130.885 |+2.8 |134.485 |+2.8
capital |4.420 |+29.3 |5.018 |+13.5 |5.873 |+17.0
|-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |--------
Total |131.720 |+8.0 |135.903 |+3.2 |140.358 |+3.3
All Wales
current |261.058 |+8.3 |272.196 |+4.3 |284.073 |+4.4
capital |11.901 |+10.5 |12.144 |+2.0 |11.147 |-8.2
|-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |--------
Total |272.959 |+8.3 |284.340 |+4.2 |295.220 |+3.8
Table B-Police authority provisional
expenditure allocations
1995-96
£ Million<1>
|Grant |SSA |Total
|£ |£ |£
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Dyfed-Powys |22.557 |21.66 |44.217
Gwent |24.136 |23.26 |47.396
North Wales |32.211 |30.64 |62.851
South Wales |74.775 |71.46 |146/235
|--------|--------|--------
All Wales |153.679 |147.02 |300.699
<1> Excluding capital grant.
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representation he has received from Welsh police authorities regarding their budgets; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Maclean: My right hon. and noble Friend Lord Ferrers met a delegation from the South Wales police authority to discuss its financial situation on 1 February 1994. I have received no subsequent representations from Welsh police authorities about police budgets. It is the responsibility of each police authority to set the budget of its police force.
Passport Office
Mr. Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he plans to report his proposals for the future of the Passport Office.
Mr. Nicholas Baker: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to a question from the hon. Member for Harlow (Mr. Hayes) on 23 November 1994, Official Report, column 163 64.
Police Operation, Alexandra Palace
Mr. Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the estimated cost of the police operation at Alexandra palace, north London on 2 to 3 December; how many officers were involved; and if the organisers of the event being held at Alexandra palace at the time of the police operation have made a contribution towards the costs.
Mr. Maclean: I understand from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that 151 officers were involved in the operation to police the demonstration outside Alexandra palace, north London on 2 December. The additional manpower costs of the operation are estimated at £6,500.
I understand that the organisers of the event held at Alexandra palace did not request the provision of special police services and that there was no question of chargeable services being provided. A police presence would not have been necessary but for the fact that a demonstration was organised to disrupt a private event. The policing costs were therefore occasioned by the demonstrators, who have not made a contribution towards the costs.
Animal Procedures Committee
Sir Ivan Lawrence: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what appointments he has recently made to the Animal Procedures Committee.
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Mr. Michael Howard: I have appointed the following Persons to be members of the Animal Procedures Committee for four years with effect from 1 December:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Ronald S. Anderson |Professor of Animal Husbandry, University of Liverpool. Professor Margaret Boden |Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, University of Sussex. Dr. Yvonne Cripps |Director of Studies in Law, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Dr. David Christopher |Director of Laboratory Sciences, Huntingdon Research Centre. Dr. John Flack |Director of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hazleton Laboratories. Dr. Paul Flecknell |Director, Comparative Biology Centre, the Medical School, University of Newcastle. Mrs. Judy MacArthur-Clarke |Recent past President, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Dr. Ian Purchase |Director Central Toxicology Laboratories, Zeneca.
Police Authorities (Membership)
Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) former Conservative councillors or candidates and (b) other persons known to be supporters of the Conservative party have been included in the lists of names submitted by him to local selection panels for membership of the new police authorities.
Mr. Maclean [holding answer 6 December 1994]: Information about the political affiliation of candidates was not sought on the application forms for these appointments.
Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many names of people from ethnic minorities have been included in the lists he has so far returned to local selection panels as approved by him for membership of the new police authorities.
Mr. Maclean [holding answer 6 December 1994]: Shortlists have been received from the local selection panels in respect of 39 of the 41 new police authorities. The Home Secretary has considered 38 of these. The total number of nominations made by the Home Secretary is 374, of whom 23 are from ethnic minorities.
EMPLOYMENT
Bedfordshire TEC
Mr. Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what progress Bedfordshire TEC is making in meeting the criteria for the award of a three -year licence.
Mr. Paice: I am pleased to announce that Bedfordshire training and enterprise council has now completed the progress of meeting the rigorous standard we set for the award of the new three-year licences. Its licence will be effective from April 1995.
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Employment Service
Mr. Congdon: To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what plans he has to publish the findings of the evaluation of the Employment Service carried out in 1993.
Miss Widdecombe: An evaluation of the effects of agency status on the Employment Service was carried out during 1993 as part of the systematic periodic review to which all agencies are subject. A report on the findings has now been published today and I have arranged for a copy to be placed in the Library.
Ms Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current estimate of the reduction of staff numbers during 1996 97 of those employed within the Benefits Agency and the Employment Service as a result of the introduction of jobseeker's allowance; what are the expected financial savings which will result during 1996 97 and the following year; what functions of the Employment Service are currently subject to market testing; and what plans there are to market test, subcontract or privatise the job-broking functions of the Employment Service.
Miss Widdecombe: We expect the introduction of the jobseeker's allowance in April 1996 to result in efficiency savings. However, it is too early to estimate the impact on staffing in the Employment Service and Benefits Agency.
The level of financial savings resulting from jobseeker's allowance will depend on the level of unemployment at the time of implementation. Our current assumptions are for a reduction in expenditure on benefits by around £140 million in 1996 97 and by about £270 million in 1997 98. Further net administrative savings are expected.
The Employment Service is currently undertaking a full programme of market tests of support services. There are currently no plans to market test, subcontract or privatise the job-broking functions of the Employment Service.
Labour Statistics
Mr. Denham: To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many people are (a) employed on fixed-term contracts, (b) self-employed and (c) employed in part-time jobs; and what is the total in these groups.
Mr. Oppenheim: Estimates from the spring 1994 labour force survey for Great Britain show that there were 732,000 employees on fixed-term contracts, 3,208,000 people who were self-employed, and 6, 006,000 employees and self-employed working part-time. In total, there were 9,076,000 people who belonged to one or more of these categories.
Mr. Denham: To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what percentage of the work force is currently (a) employed on fixed-term contracts, (b)
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self-employed and (c) employed in part-time jobs; and what is the total in these groups.Mr. Oppenheim: Estimates from the spring 1994 labour force survey for Great Britain show that of all people in employment, 3 per cent. were employed on fixed term contracts, 13 per cent. were self-employed, and 24 per cent. worked part-time as employees or self-employed. In total, 36 per cent. of all people in employment belonged to one or more of these groups.
Training
Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the percentage figures for achievement of national vocational qualifications (a) in the pilot areas for output-related funding with the major payment of training for work funding at the end of the training period and (b) the non-pilot areas; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Paice: In 1993 94, 48 per cent. of those leaving training for work achieved national vocational qualifications or their equivalents in the areas where training and enterprise councils were piloting output related funding. In the non-pilot TEC areas of England the figure was 35 per cent. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has recently announced that all TECs in England will move to a starts and outcomes funding regime for training for work from April 1995.
Unemployment
Ms Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the current estimates of the effects on the monthly claimant count of the introduction of the jobseeker's allowance and the introduction of incapacity benefit.
Miss Widdecombe: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East (Mr. Prescott) on 14 April 1994, Official Report , column 345. Current estimates suggest that the relevant figure for the jobseeker's allowance would be approximately 25,000.
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
Overseas Travel
Mr. Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 28 November, Official Report , column 518 , about Overseas Development Administration spending on air travel, what categories of people travel (a) economy, (b) business or club class and (c) first class when on Overseas Development Administration business.
Mr. Baldry: The class of travel for ODA staff is determined by the length of journey and their grade as follows:
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Grade 3 and above Other grades
(or equivalent)
Structure |up to 2 hours|over 2 hours |up to 2 hours|over 2 hours
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First/economy |Economy |First |Economy |Economy
Business/economy (or equivalent |Business |Business |Economy |Business
First/club/economy (or equivalent) |Business<1> |Business |Economy |Business
<1> Ministers and grades 1 and 1A may travel first class.
Mr. Andrew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the progress of the aid -funded Samarinda power station in east Kalimantan, giving details of monitoring visits by Overseas Development Administration staff; what assessment he has made whether the technology provided is going to be suitable; and if he will place in the Library a copy of judgments that have been made on the environmental implications of the project.
Mr. Baldry: The Samarinda project consists of the provision of a 60MW gas fired combined cycle power station and associated transmission facilities. Work on the power station has just commenced while the transmission line contract is presently being negotiated. There have not so far been any monitoring visits by Overseas Development Administration staff. These do not usually commence until the project is under way. We envisage such visits will take place at six-monthly intervals.
The project is part of an extensive Indonesian programme to bring power to the more remote areas of the country. Power at present is generated by a number of disparate, oil-fuelled diesel engines, some of which are old and inefficient. The new facility will utilise a cleaner resource, natural gas, which Indonesia has in abundance. The emissions from the gas turbines will meet United Kingdom/EU environment standards. The technical case for the project is sound.
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The potential environmental risks have been considered fully. Amongst other things, an ODA team investigated the risk of an enhanced power supply leading to plywood factories in the project area using more timber and therefore having an adverse impact on forests and plantations in east Kalimantan. The team's conclusion was that the project was unlikely to have such an impact. Social impacts have also been studied and found to be positive. An environmental impact assessment was undertaken as part of the feasibility study. A copy will be placed in the Libraries of the House shortly.Third World Debt
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth affairs what discussions he has had with his right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, regarding third world debt.
Mr. Baldry: By long-standing convention, discussions of this nature between Departments are confidential.
Concessional Aid Debt
Miss Lestor: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list by country the total stock of existing estimated and outstanding concessional aid debt owed to the United Kingdom by developing countries for each year from 1990 to 2000.
Mr. Baldry [holding answer 6 December 1994]: The amount of concessional aid debt outstanding by country at the end of each financial year from 1990 to 2000 was and is estimated as follows:
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Outstanding Debt-1990-91-1999-2000
|1990-91 |1991-92 |1992-93 |1993-94 |1994-95 |1995-96 |1996-97 |1997-98 |1998-99 |1999-2000
Country |£ |£ |£ |£ |£ |£ |£ |£ |£ |£
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Antigua and Barbuda |1,980 |784,859 |1,290,309 |2,006,893 |2,006,893 |2,006,893 |1,828,323 |1,471,183 |1,114,043 |756,903
Barbados |445,670 |406,970 |368,270 |329,578 |290,870 |252,170 |213,470 |174,770 |136,070 |97,370
Belize |13,698,963 |14,064,634 |15,181,814 |16,585,152 |15,089,336 |13,588,492 |12,121,434 |10,662,986 |9,204,538 |7,746,090
Bolivia |141,276 |141,276 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Brazil |2,808,941 |3,501,297 |3,297,008 |3,297,008 |3,297,008 |3,297,008 |3,297,008 |3,297,008 |3,297,008 |3,297,008
British Virgin Islands |15,340 |10,655 |5,554 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Cambodia |63,748 |45,498 |27,248 |8,998 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Cameroon |66,776 |66,776 |66,776 |66,776 |66,776 |66,776 |66,776 |66,776 |66,776 |66,776
Cayman Islands |719,120 |625,958 |561,398 |496,838 |432,278 |367,718 |303,158 |238,598 |174,038 |111,367
Colombia |2,053,678 |1,784,729 |1,515,780 |1,426,831 |977,882 |708,933 |439,985 |221,642 |169,867 |144,667
Costa Rica |3,214,041 |4,616,928 |5,195,615 |4,785,023 |3,930,839 |2,857,531 |1,952,789 |1,294,770 |921,332 |547,895
Cyprus |293,974 |273,574 |253,174 |232,774 |212,374 |191,974 |171,574 |151,174 |130,774 |110,374
Dominica |8,616,757 |9,025,407 |9,170,735 |9,068,579 |8,527,579 |7,986,579 |7,445,579 |6,904,579 |6,363,579 |5,822,579
Ecuador |7,539,901 |7,539,901 |7,221,935 |7,973,382 |6,913,579 |5,872,564 |4,765,863 |3,638,659 |2,774,240 |2,154,469
Egypt |7,020,961 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Falkland Islands |146,426 |124,126 |101,826 |79,526 |57,226 |34,926 |16,226 |0 |0 |0
Fiji |1,415,886 |1,179,889 |943,911 |707,933 |471,955 |235,978 |0 |0 |0 |0
Gibraltar |710,293 |620,158 |529,001 |453,722 |378,443 |303,164 |227,889 |154,319 |89,869 |42,323
Grenada |3,856,949 |4,244,241 |5,196,703 |5,009,023 |4,383,823 |3,758,623 |3,133,423 |2,508,223 |1,883,023 |1,257,823
Guyana |24,340,689 |36,470,598 |36,470,598 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Honduras |3,994,211 |3,994,211 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
India |138,205,024|112,949,901|89,955,926 |68,743,526 |50,159,026 |35,100,147 |21,596,647 |10,179,819 |2,432,000 |0
Ivory Coast |3,556,463 |3,666,006 |3,690,430 |3,690,430 |3,480,615 |3,364,283 |3,053,352 |2,836,353 |2,619,492 |2,403,787
Jamaica |49,237,837 |58,962,199 |51,910,458 |55,247,129 |49,850,365 |43,904,538 |37,409,651 |31,476,168 |26,104,092 |22,241,857
Jordan |39,985,758 |40,808,280 |42,021,022 |43,728,451 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Laos |27,983 |27,983 |27,983 |27,983 |25,313 |22,643 |19,973 |17,303 |14,633 |13,358
Liberia |77,750 |77,750 |77,750 |77,750 |77,750 |77,750 |77,750 |77,750 |77,750 |77,750
Malaysia |11,005,518 |10,045,084 |8,640,416 |6,791,514 |5,386,846 |3,983,525 |3,467,325 |2,951,125 |2,434,925 |1,418,725
Malta |7,845,531 |7,776,133 |7,765,525 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Mauritius |6,050,066 |5,187,896 |4,182,619 |3,289,311 |2,517,512 |1,888,812 |1,260,112 |631,412 |247,712 |0
Nicaragua |584,705 |584,706 |584,706 |584,706 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Nigeria |4,905,084 |4,905,084 |4,905,084 |4,905,084 |4,905,084 |4,905,084 |4,905,084 |4,905,084 |4,905,084 |4,905,084
Paraguay |4,102,707 |3,868,107 |3,281,607 |3,047,019 |2,812,419 |2,577,819 |2,343,219 |2,108,619 |1,874,019 |1,639,419
Peru |4,194,609 |4,194,609 |4,193,122 |4,193,122 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Philippines |5,481,635 |5,481,535 |5,908,639 |5,612,306 |5,063,014 |4,595,569 |4,001,425 |3,306,680 |2,745,480 |2,184,280
Seychelles |10,631,662 |9,587,477 |8,913,204 |8,243,187 |7,582,878 |6,920,953 |6,259,836 |5,598,719 |4,937,602 |4,276,486
Singapore |5,208,316 |4,166,648 |3,124,980 |2,083,312 |1,041,664 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Solomon Islands |4,744,848 |4,738,148 |4,734,699 |4,684,985 |4,402,485 |4,120,429 |3,842,629 |3,564,829 |3,287,029 |3,009,229
St Kitts-Nevis |844,065 |1,363,409 |2,646,041 |2,813,090 |2,361,550 |1,910,010 |1,480,670 |1,097,836 |740,696 |383,556
St Lucia |3,142,091 |4,156,065 |4,388,070 |4,166,496 |3,833,096 |3,499,696 |3,166,296 |2,832,896 |2,499,496 |2,166,196
St Vincent |839,509 |1,272,576 |1,505,594 |2,390,440 |2,127,240 |1,864,040 |1,600,840 |1,337,640 |1,074,440 |811,240
Swaziland |8,193,097 |7,344,324 |6,155,191 |5,159,977 |4,194,576 |3,278,266 |2,430,291 |1,598,028 |837,292 |158,725
Thailand |772,892 |564,392 |425,392 |286,392 |147,392 |8,392 |0 |0 |0 |0
Tonga |1,367,533 |1,219,061 |1,073,549 |930,708 |787,867 |645,029 |502,703 |371,503 |240,203 |157,803
Tunisia |255,902 |213,942 |171,982 |130,022 |88,062 |54,461 |26,661 |0 |0 |0
Turkey |55,572,641 |50,082,626 |45,056,525 |40,634,159 |36,607,270 |32,733,668 |29,324,867 |25,956,565 |22,588,355 |19,255,409
Turks and Caicos Island |0 |0 |1,883,408 |1,883,408 |1,817,462 |1,751,517 |1,685,571 |1,619,625 |1,553,680 |1,487,734
Vanuatu |86,100 |71,840 |57,580 |36,190 |21,930 |14,800 |0 |0 |0 |0
Vietnam |196,798 |196,798 |196,798 |196,798 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Yemen |4,162,900 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Zambia |45,262,252 |52,086,548 |52,086,548 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Zimbabwe |21,485,121 |20,055,804 |18,594,889 |17,136,249 |13,677,609 |12,218,964 |10,760,629 |9,301,689 |7,843,049 |6,384,409
|-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |-------- |--------
Total |519,191,977|505,176,616|465,557,392|343,241,780|250,005,886|210,969,724|175,199,028|142,554,330|115,382,186|95,130,691
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Ministerial Speeches
Mr. Campbell-Savours: To ask the Attorney-General on what occasions since 1979 civil servants in his Department have been asked to draft speeches of a constituency nature for use in a Minister's own constituency.
The Attorney-General: None. Civil servants may provide briefing of a factual nature for Ministers on matters relating to their own department. In addition, Ministers in preparing for a constituency speech can draw on material produced by their Department during the normal course of business.
Building Refurbishment
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Attorney-General if he will itemise the refurbishment works undertaken on buildings housing departmental staff in the last three years, indicating the costs involved and the nature of the refurbishment.
The Attorney-General: The following refurbishment works were undertaken and funded by the Crown Prosecution Service at headquarters buildings. In each case, the refurbishments included painting and decorating, carpeting, partitioning, screening and the provision of blinds and other equipment. Further refurbishment works have been undertaken in Crown Prosecution Service Areas but the information is not recorded centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Building |Cost |Details
|£
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1991-92
10 Furnival street, London |72,000 |Refurbishment for a new training branch
1992-93 and 1993-94
United house, York |80,000 |Refurbishment of a newly acquired building
50 Ludgate hill, London |1,808,000 |Refurbishment of a newly acquired building
1993-94
50 Ludgate hill, London |204,000 |New security installation for the entrance to the building
TRANSPORT
Rail Fares
Mr. Dobson: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what was the cost of a journey by rail from (a)
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Gospel Oak to Barking, (b) Enfield Town to Liverpool Street and (c) Peckham Rye to London Bridge, giving prices for (i) off-peak return, (ii) standard rate return and (iii) standard rate single for each year from 1979 to the present, and at current and 1994 prices.Mr. Watts: The information requested is not held centrally by either the Department or British Rail and could be collected only at disproportionate cost.
Automated Registrations
Mrs. Dunwoody: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport whether the introduction of automated first registration and licensing involves a transfer of an undertaking from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to motor dealers within the meaning of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981.
Mr. Norris: The application of the regulations in this case is being considered and I will ask the chief executive, Mr. Curtis, to write to the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich about this shortly.
WALES
NHS Trusts
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list by name the start-up costs for each national health service trust hospital, by region.
Mr. Richards: Prior to their operational date, the contribution made available for the shadow running period of established NHS trusts in Wales was as follows:
1992
Pembrokeshire NHS Trust--£104,000
1993 --£215,000 to:
Glan Clwyd District General Hospital NHS Trust
Clwydian Community Care NHS Trust
Wrexham Maelor Hospital NHS Trust
Carmarthen and District NHS Trust
Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust
Llanelli/Dinefwr NHS Trust
Glan Hafren NHS Trust
Gwent Community Health NHS Trust
Bridgend and District NHS Trust
Powys Health Care NHS Trust
Llandough Hospital NHS Trust
Swansea NHS Trust
£300,000 to South and East Wales Ambulance NHS Trust
1994 --£275,000 to:
Derwen NHS Trust
Nevill Hall and District NHS Trust
Gwynedd Community Health NHS Trust
Gwynedd Hospitals NHS Trust
East Glamorgan NHS Trust
Rhondda Health Care NHS Trust
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