| Previous Section | Home Page |
Column 647
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list for each local authority area in England and Wales the minimum, maximum and average numbers of students in sixth forms for each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Column 648
Mr. Boswell: Information on the size of sixth forms in maintained secondary schools in each local education authority in England is shown in the table. Information on schools in Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
Column 647
Size of sixth forms in maintained secondary schools in each LEA in England 1992-1994 Position in January each
year
1992 1993 1994
|Smallest|Largest |Average |Smallest|Largest |Average |Smallest|Largest |Average
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Corporation of London |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Camden |70 |277 |165 |48 |284 |177 |31 |298 |170
Greenwich |36 |392 |119 |37 |380 |130 |20 |319 |129
Hackney |40 |125 |72 |105 |127 |117 |116 |123 |120
Hammersmith |26 |315 |86 |12 |331 |73 |14 |309 |63
Islington |80 |213 |142 |60 |137 |89 |71 |151 |94
Kensington and Chelsea |155 |341 |248 |157 |336 |247 |144 |297 |221
Lambeth |4 |76 |35 |14 |104 |45 |15 |32 |22
Lewisham |37 |208 |84 |20 |207 |93 |48 |200 |103
Southwark |39 |64 |52 |9 |51 |30 |8 |52 |30
Tower Hamlets |11 |297 |100 |27 |325 |128 |16 |307 |126
Wandsworth |23 |294 |133 |27 |318 |156 |28 |326 |154
Westminster |87 |275 |162 |96 |292 |164 |92 |314 |163
Barking |61 |199 |116 |71 |194 |122 |50 |204 |119
Barnet |80 |225 |157 |83 |223 |160 |100 |227 |158
Bexley |86 |109 |99 |91 |118 |105 |89 |194 |129
Brent |45 |302 |131 |4 |333 |149 |46 |315 |153
Bromley |81 |224 |149 |88 |242 |148 |83 |239 |148
Croydon |139 |191 |171 |158 |196 |176 |127 |190 |161
Ealing |39 |316 |145 |11 |264 |120 |108 |219 |180
Enfield |78 |235 |137 |76 |238 |147 |51 |277 |143
Haringey |49 |223 |107 |51 |217 |120 |43 |211 |109
Harrow |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Havering |50 |295 |163 |68 |278 |163 |59 |286 |163
Hillingdon |12 |227 |106 |15 |271 |123 |19 |292 |126
Hounslow |93 |249 |135 |82 |265 |143 |78 |258 |143
Kingston upon Thames |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Merton |152 |201 |183 |182 |235 |212 |185 |224 |204
Newham |2 |150 |74 |13 |176 |84 |49 |175 |118
Redbridge |95 |302 |176 |102 |331 |194 |132 |311 |197
Richmond upon Thames |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Sutton |144 |197 |161 |147 |191 |166 |78 |184 |127
Waltham Forest |123 |123 |123 |127 |127 |127 |99 |120 |110
Birmingham |38 |258 |124 |26 |262 |136 |33 |238 |128
Coventry |13 |220 |119 |24 |214 |124 |37 |247 |118
Dudley |96 |165 |131 |121 |173 |147 |123 |165 |144
Sandwell |68 |182 |111 |50 |174 |109 |64 |164 |113
Solihull |123 |191 |168 |148 |214 |186 |146 |211 |176
Walsall |51 |204 |98 |40 |229 |111 |14 |223 |107
Wolverhampton |9 |224 |96 |42 |221 |103 |48 |226 |103
Knowsley |48 |185 |104 |45 |201 |108 |31 |172 |91
Liverpool |15 |222 |106 |25 |226 |110 |13 |247 |109
St. Helens |2 |310 |146 |67 |271 |170 |92 |283 |166
Sefton |9 |272 |139 |85 |262 |152 |82 |281 |156
Wirral |82 |168 |134 |89 |206 |147 |76 |209 |144
Bolton |42 |284 |191 |48 |352 |208 |51 |329 |214
Bury |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Manchester |41 |233 |121 |33 |204 |106 |13 |213 |81
Oldham |25 |181 |76 |11 |168 |74 |87 |176 |135
Rochdale |131 |315 |219 |141 |395 |243 |132 |397 |243
Salford |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Stockport |276 |276 |276 |112 |451 |234 |16 |635 |184
Tameside |48 |48 |48 |55 |55 |55 |60 |60 |60
Trafford |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Wigan |198 |276 |237 |204 |232 |218 |220 |226 |223
Barnsley |163 |163 |163 |171 |171 |171 |161 |161 |161
Doncaster |62 |409 |171 |69 |494 |181 |65 |464 |173
Rotherham |130 |260 |190 |129 |273 |185 |135 |270 |187
Sheffield |84 |350 |199 |31 |355 |188 |100 |334 |206
Bradford |67 |281 |165 |74 |308 |179 |52 |310 |180
Calderdale |75 |173 |117 |98 |181 |129 |94 |187 |130
Kirklees |91 |326 |172 |103 |330 |172 |97 |300 |160
Leeds |16 |281 |115 |15 |276 |121 |6 |307 |119
Wakefield |95 |245 |174 |93 |245 |175 |82 |255 |176
Gateshead |37 |228 |117 |51 |257 |143 |37 |236 |135
Newcastle upon Tyne |39 |283 |131 |41 |284 |131 |25 |257 |124
North Tyneside |82 |266 |141 |64 |271 |139 |58 |295 |139
South Tyneside |163 |163 |163 |179 |179 |179 |196 |196 |196
Sunderland |156 |244 |211 |192 |276 |238 |178 |301 |235
Isles of Scilly |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Avon |36 |388 |137 |32 |439 |129 |37 |434 |140
Bedfordshire |63 |359 |198 |54 |397 |201 |43 |412 |204
Berkshire |29 |597 |151 |29 |647 |153 |29 |645 |150
Buckinghamshire |134 |334 |209 |107 |343 |207 |10 |342 |168
Cambridgeshire |55 |290 |172 |50 |336 |183 |34 |345 |176
Cheshire |52 |331 |140 |49 |366 |144 |42 |329 |139
Cleveland |159 |191 |178 |145 |194 |174 |155 |205 |183
Cornwall |72 |486 |186 |70 |549 |195 |64 |273 |166
Cumbria |28 |294 |121 |31 |323 |122 |21 |327 |119
Derbyshire |40 |384 |193 |84 |363 |202 |82 |340 |194
Devon |52 |371 |162 |96 |435 |179 |105 |441 |179
Dorset |68 |451 |212 |68 |439 |231 |62 |432 |235
Durham |56 |437 |133 |51 |532 |141 |31 |577 |135
East Sussex |97 |312 |159 |105 |305 |161 |111 |299 |162
Essex |35 |259 |144 |7 |295 |145 |50 |274 |154
Gloucestershire |31 |412 |153 |29 |451 |163 |24 |450 |162
Hampshire |86 |253 |155 |93 |252 |158 |86 |230 |143
Hereford and Worcester |25 |261 |131 |21 |248 |139 |21 |260 |140
Hertfordshire |22 |248 |122 |37 |259 |126 |42 |266 |127
Humberside |45 |254 |128 |39 |286 |135 |42 |323 |135
Isle of Wight |166 |279 |220 |145 |285 |220 |148 |265 |219
Kent |56 |288 |165 |37 |286 |160 |53 |261 |143
Lancashire |59 |281 |161 |52 |256 |161 |15 |255 |163
Leicestershire |61 |614 |254 |56 |501 |250 |48 |557 |251
Lincolnshire |51 |278 |157 |48 |301 |169 |56 |261 |153
Norfolk |79 |601 |224 |37 |660 |223 |76 |748 |212
North Yorkshire |51 |400 |172 |51 |378 |174 |59 |390 |167
Northamptonshire |47 |244 |124 |17 |269 |132 |38 |280 |137
Northumberland |77 |340 |189 |92 |337 |199 |103 |330 |198
Nottinghamshire |13 |225 |106 |32 |251 |111 |42 |246 |113
Oxfordshire |56 |304 |147 |58 |352 |150 |41 |366 |154
Shropshire |61 |178 |124 |72 |186 |132 |67 |200 |130
Somerset |118 |259 |187 |94 |330 |192 |114 |315 |185
Staffordshire |37 |247 |111 |46 |244 |119 |40 |263 |114
Suffolk |94 |486 |206 |95 |472 |204 |86 |581 |213
Surrey |75 |350 |177 |76 |345 |177 |54 |351 |174
Warwickshire |77 |266 |153 |85 |271 |161 |79 |296 |149
West Sussex |72 |314 |186 |67 |320 |193 |57 |307 |190
Wiltshire |96 |264 |155 |80 |246 |161 |79 |263 |164
England |2 |614 |144 |4 |660 |150 |6 |748 |150
This file is intentionally left blank
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list for each local authority area in England and Wales the number of sixth forms in local education authorities and grant-maintained schools which had (a) under 100 students, (b) between 100 and 150 students, (c) between 151 and 200 students and (d) over 201 students for each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Column 650
Mr. Boswell: Information on the number of maintained secondary schools in each local education authority in England, with sixth forms in the size bands requested for the years requested is shown in table. Information on schools in Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
Column 649
Number of maintained secondary schools with sixth forms by size
position in January each year
1992 1993 1994
Number of pupils Number of pupils Number of pupils
in sixth form in sixth form in sixth form
|Less |100 to |151 to |Over |Less |100 to |151 to |Over |Less |100 to |151 to |Over
|than 100|150 |200 |200 |than 100|150 |200 |200 |than 100|150 |200 |200
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Corporation of
London |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Camden |2 |3 |2 |4 |1 |3 |3 |4 |1 |3 |2 |5
Greenwich |8 |4 |2 |1 |6 |3 |1 |2 |5 |3 |2 |2
Hackney |9 |1 |0 |0 |0 |3 |0 |0 |0 |3 |0 |0
Hammersmith |7 |0 |0 |1 |7 |0 |0 |1 |7 |0 |0 |1
Islington |2 |4 |2 |1 |3 |1 |0 |0 |3 |0 |1 |0
Kensington and
Chelsea |0 |0 |1 |1 |0 |0 |1 |1 |0 |1 |0 |1
Lambeth |5 |0 |0 |0 |2 |1 |0 |0 |3 |0 |0 |0
Lewisham |9 |4 |0 |1 |8 |2 |0 |1 |6 |2 |2 |0
Southwark |2 |0 |0 |0 |2 |0 |0 |0 |2 |0 |0 |0
Tower Hamlets |5 |1 |0 |1 |4 |1 |1 |1 |2 |3 |1 |1
Wandsworth |3 |2 |2 |1 |2 |1 |2 |2 |2 |2 |1 |2
Westminster |1 |3 |2 |1 |1 |2 |3 |1 |1 |3 |2 |1
Barking |4 |2 |2 |0 |4 |1 |3 |0 |4 |1 |2 |1
Barnet |1 |6 |6 |3 |3 |4 |5 |4 |0 |7 |7 |2
Bexley |1 |2 |0 |0 |1 |2 |0 |0 |1 |2 |1 |0
Brent |7 |1 |4 |2 |6 |2 |1 |5 |5 |2 |1 |5
Bromley |2 |6 |6 |1 |3 |6 |4 |2 |2 |8 |3 |2
Croydon |0 |1 |2 |0 |0 |0 |3 |0 |0 |1 |2 |0
Ealing |4 |3 |4 |2 |6 |1 |3 |2 |0 |2 |2 |3
Enfield |4 |6 |4 |1 |2 |4 |7 |2 |3 |7 |4 |1
Haringey |5 |2 |1 |1 |3 |5 |0 |1 |3 |4 |1 |1
Harrow |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Havering |1 |1 |2 |1 |1 |2 |1 |1 |1 |2 |1 |2
Hillingdon |9 |2 |5 |1 |5 |4 |5 |1 |7 |1 |5 |2
Hounslow |2 |8 |3 |1 |1 |8 |4 |1 |2 |8 |3 |1
Kingston upon
Thames |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Merton |0 |0 |2 |1 |0 |0 |1 |2 |0 |0 |1 |2
Newham |9 |4 |0 |0 |3 |1 |1 |0 |1 |1 |1 |0
Redbridge |1 |3 |6 |2 |0 |2 |4 |6 |0 |3 |3 |6
Richmond upon
Thames |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Sutton |0 |2 |2 |0 |0 |1 |3 |0 |2 |3 |2 |0
Waltham Forest |0 |1 |0 |0 |0 |1 |0 |0 |1 |1 |0 |0
Birmingham |11 |9 |8 |1 |7 |11 |8 |4 |10 |8 |10 |3
Coventry |5 |10 |3 |1 |6 |7 |4 |2 |9 |5 |2 |3
Dudley |1 |0 |1 |0 |0 |1 |1 |0 |0 |1 |1 |0
Sandwell |4 |3 |1 |0 |4 |1 |3 |0 |4 |1 |3 |0
Solihull |0 |1 |2 |0 |0 |1 |1 |1 |0 |1 |1 |1
Walsall |11 |7 |0 |1 |9 |6 |3 |1 |10 |6 |2 |1
Wolverhampton |11 |1 |3 |1 |10 |3 |1 |2 |11 |3 |1 |2
Knowsley |3 |0 |2 |0 |3 |1 |0 |1 |3 |1 |1 |0
Liverpool |14 |13 |7 |1 |13 |14 |7 |1 |16 |12 |6 |1
St. Helens |2 |2 |2 |1 |1 |2 |0 |3 |1 |2 |1 |2
Sefton |4 |3 |4 |2 |3 |3 |3 |3 |3 |3 |3 |3
Wirral |1 |3 |3 |0 |1 |2 |3 |1 |1 |3 |2 |1
Bolton |1 |1 |0 |3 |1 |1 |0 |3 |1 |1 |0 |3
Bury |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Manchester |2 |0 |0 |1 |2 |0 |0 |1 |3 |0 |0 |1
Oldham |12 |2 |1 |0 |7 |1 |2 |0 |1 |2 |2 |0
Rochdale |0 |1 |0 |2 |0 |1 |1 |1 |0 |1 |1 |1
Salford |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Stockport |0 |0 |0 |1 |0 |2 |0 |1 |3 |0 |0 |1
Tameside |1 |0 |0 |0 |1 |0 |0 |0 |1 |0 |0 |0
Trafford |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Wigan |0 |0 |1 |1 |0 |0 |0 |2 |0 |0 |0 |2
Barnsley |0 |0 |1 |0 |0 |0 |1 |0 |0 |0 |1 |0
Doncaster |2 |4 |3 |5 |2 |3 |5 |4 |3 |5 |2 |4
Rotherham |0 |2 |3 |3 |0 |2 |4 |2 |0 |2 |4 |2
Sheffield |1 |3 |1 |3 |2 |2 |0 |4 |0 |3 |1 |3
Bradford |4 |6 |7 |7 |4 |4 |5 |11 |3 |7 |5 |9
Calderdale |3 |6 |1 |0 |2 |5 |3 |0 |2 |6 |2 |0
Kirklees |1 |3 |3 |2 |0 |4 |3 |2 |2 |2 |3 |2
Leeds |17 |10 |8 |6 |15 |9 |10 |5 |18 |8 |9 |5
Wakefield |1 |2 |1 |2 |1 |1 |2 |2 |1 |1 |1 |3
Gateshead |6 |1 |2 |1 |3 |2 |1 |3 |2 |3 |3 |1
Newcastle upon
Tyne |5 |2 |5 |1 |6 |2 |4 |1 |5 |3 |3 |2
North Tyneside |3 |2 |2 |1 |2 |4 |1 |1 |2 |3 |1 |1
South Tyneside |0 |0 |1 |0 |0 |0 |1 |0 |0 |0 |1 |0
Sunderland |0 |0 |1 |2 |0 |0 |1 |2 |0 |0 |1 |2
Isles of Scilly |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a |n/a
Avon |17 |10 |9 |7 |21 |12 |8 |8 |15 |14 |10 |6
Bedfordshire |2 |2 |7 |8 |1 |3 |7 |8 |1 |3 |7 |8
Berkshire |10 |11 |8 |6 |8 |13 |6 |8 |10 |10 |8 |7
Buckinghamshire |0 |3 |1 |4 |0 |2 |2 |5 |4 |3 |1 |5
Cambridgeshire |3 |1 |11 |5 |2 |1 |11 |6 |2 |3 |11 |5
Cheshire |13 |19 |7 |8 |11 |22 |7 |7 |16 |18 |4 |9
Cleveland |0 |0 |3 |0 |0 |1 |2 |0 |0 |0 |2 |1
Cornwall |1 |4 |6 |3 |2 |2 |5 |5 |2 |2 |6 |3
Cumbria |11 |9 |5 |2 |11 |10 |4 |2 |12 |8 |5 |2
Derbyshire |2 |5 |9 |9 |1 |7 |8 |9 |1 |9 |4 |11
Devon |7 |6 |8 |7 |1 |13 |6 |8 |0 |13 |8 |7
Dorset |1 |4 |4 |6 |1 |4 |2 |8 |1 |3 |3 |7
Durham |9 |6 |2 |3 |8 |7 |2 |3 |8 |7 |2 |3
East Sussex |1 |8 |4 |3 |0 |9 |4 |3 |0 |9 |4 |3
Essex |9 |18 |9 |8 |11 |13 |10 |10 |8 |12 |10 |10
Gloucestershire |7 |3 |4 |5 |4 |6 |4 |5 |4 |7 |2 |6
Hampshire |1 |4 |1 |2 |1 |4 |0 |3 |2 |3 |1 |2
Hereford and
Worcester |6 |13 |6 |3 |6 |10 |8 |3 |7 |12 |4 |5
Hertfordshire |30 |25 |19 |5 |29 |27 |16 |7 |32 |19 |18 |10
Humberside |8 |9 |6 |3 |5 |11 |8 |2 |6 |11 |7 |2
Isle of Wight |0 |0 |2 |3 |0 |1 |1 |3 |0 |1 |1 |3
Kent |3 |6 |5 |5 |3 |3 |8 |4 |8 |3 |7 |4
Lancashire |2 |6 |2 |6 |1 |7 |2 |6 |3 |6 |2 |6
Leicestershire |3 |3 |4 |14 |2 |4 |6 |12 |3 |4 |4 |13
Lincolnshire |2 |4 |1 |3 |1 |6 |0 |3 |2 |3 |4 |2
Norfolk |1 |3 |4 |11 |2 |3 |3 |12 |3 |5 |5 |9
North Yorkshire |3 |9 |6 |5 |2 |10 |3 |8 |5 |8 |3 |6
Northamptonshire |16 |12 |6 |5 |13 |12 |8 |6 |14 |11 |6 |7
Northumberland |1 |5 |4 |6 |1 |4 |4 |7 |0 |6 |4 |6
Nottinghamshire |22 |27 |2 |3 |21 |24 |7 |2 |21 |23 |8 |1
Oxfordshire |4 |15 |2 |6 |4 |14 |5 |4 |7 |11 |3 |6
Shropshire |2 |6 |1 |0 |2 |4 |3 |0 |2 |5 |2 |0
Somerset |0 |1 |5 |2 |1 |1 |4 |2 |0 |2 |3 |3
Staffordshire |27 |9 |8 |5 |23 |14 |7 |5 |23 |15 |8 |3
Suffolk |1 |6 |8 |10 |1 |7 |6 |11 |1 |7 |5 |12
Surrey |3 |9 |6 |9 |5 |7 |7 |8 |6 |6 |7 |8
Warwickshire |4 |4 |0 |4 |4 |2 |2 |4 |3 |4 |2 |2
West Sussex |3 |4 |6 |8 |2 |5 |5 |9 |3 |3 |4 |11
Wiltshire |3 |6 |4 |4 |1 |7 |4 |5 |1 |8 |4 |4
England |467 |464 |342 |283 |391 |468 |339 |325 |415 |463 |322 |318
This file was intentionally left blank
Pupil Numbers
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils aged (a) seven, (b) eight, (c) nine and (d) 10 years attend schools in each of the local authority area in England and Wales.
Mr. Forth: The number of pupils in each local education authority area in England in January 1994 who were aged seven, eight, nine and 10 years at the beginning of the school years are shown in the table. Information on pupils by age in schools in Wales is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
Pupils aged 7-10 years of age<1> in schools in each local education
authority in England
January 1994
Local education Pupils by age
authority |7 years |8 years |9 years |10 years
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Corporation of London |71 |76 |75 |91
Camden |1,907 |1,921 |1,850 |1,836
Greenwich |2,880 |2,859 |2,728 |2,742
Hackney |2,427 |2,468 |2,365 |2,283
Hammersmith |1,350 |1,336 |1,294 |1,260
Islington |2,078 |1,995 |1,966 |1,803
Kensington and
Chelsea |1,815 |1,652 |1,574 |1,466
Lambeth |2,694 |2,720 |2,492 |2,419
Lewisham |2,877 |2,848 |2,577 |2,668
Southwark |3,131 |2,970 |2,764 |2,842
Tower Hamlets |2,836 |2,815 |2,727 |2,564
Wandsworth |2,548 |2,510 |2,269 |2,232
Westminster |1,584 |1,545 |1,457 |1,488
Barking |1,947 |1,988 |1,921 |1,928
Barnet |3,442 |3,432 |3,256 |3,299
Bexley |2,793 |2,824 |2,557 |2,572
Brent |3,155 |3,024 |2,961 |2,865
Bromley |3,520 |3,409 |3,226 |3,321
Croydon |4,041 |4,002 |3,766 |3,887
Ealing |3,573 |3,507 |3,481 |3,486
Enfield |3,234 |3,275 |3,091 |3,064
Haringey |2,677 |2,588 |2,468 |2,411
Harrow |2,542 |2,535 |2,483 |2,438
Havering |2,815 |2,886 |2,729 |2,704
Hillingdon |3,023 |3,034 |2,798 |2,841
Hounslow |2,503 |2,542 |2,317 |2,302
Kingston upon Thames |1,663 |1,608 |1,531 |1,551
Merton |1,990 |1,928 |1,922 |1,914
Newham |3,458 |3,460 |3,401 |3,237
Redbridge |2,971 |2,990 |3,055 |2,906
Richmond upon
Thames |1,943 |1,953 |1,754 |1,816
Sutton |1,939 |2,029 |1,855 |1,876
Waltham Forest |2,784 |2,711 |2,656 |2,569
Birmingham |14,808 |14,791 |14,195 |14,254
Coventry |4,191 |4,123 |3,953 |3,812
Dudley |4,005 |3,893 |3,651 |3,708
Sandwell |4,040 |4,007 |3,777 |3,830
Solihull |2,761 |2,766 |2,572 |2,609
Walsall |3,636 |3,717 |3,440 |3,578
Wolverhampton |3,328 |3,286 |3,158 |3,184
Knowsley |2,355 |2,385 |2,197 |2,305
Liverpool |6,835 |6,892 |6,515 |6,379
St. Helens |2,435 |2,328 |2,250 |2,332
Sefton |3,792 |3,797 |3,723 |3,794
Wirral |4,499 |4,611 |4,253 |4,435
Bolton |3,721 |3,726 |3,569 |3,603
Bury |2,343 |2,386 |2,240 |2,190
Manchester |6,397 |6,186 |5,946 |5,814
Oldham |3,359 |3,304 |3,204 |3,138
Rochdale |2,975 |2,977 |2,822 |2,908
Salford |3,132 |3,107 |2,941 |2,940
Stockport |3,821 |3,831 |3,717 |3,723
Tameside |3,038 |3,029 |2,868 |2,848
Trafford |2,891 |2,858 |2,767 |2,775
Wigan |4,069 |4,091 |3,897 |3,918
Barnsley |2,819 |2,745 |2,749 |2,694
Doncaster |4,123 |4,041 |3,871 |3,923
Rotherham |3,390 |3,401 |3,166 |3,343
Sheffield |6,228 |5,875 |5,812 |5,585
Bradford |7,096 |7,150 |7,016 |6,924
Calderdale |2,556 |2,676 |2,527 |2,451
Kirklees |5,061 |5,059 |5,028 |4,879
Leeds |9,254 |8,778 |8,542 |8,646
Wakefield |4,296 |4,241 |4,021 |4,016
Gateshead |2,529 |2,477 |2,445 |2,346
Newcastle upon Tyne |3,483 |3,393 |3,241 |3,329
North Tyneside |2,452 |2,536 |2,342 |2,406
South Tyneside |2,218 |2,110 |1,893 |1,865
Sunderland |4,091 |4,159 |3,898 |4,055
Isles of Scilly |31 |23 |18 |33
Avon |11,730 |11,592 |11,224 |11,062
Bedfordshire |7,584 |7,449 |7,137 |7,227
Berkshire |10,034 |9,785 |9,581 |9,499
Buckinghamshire |8,503 |8,754 |8,230 |8,303
Cambridgeshire |8,482 |8,647 |8,170 |8,303
Cheshire |12,797 |12,788 |12,265 |12,330
Cleveland |8,187 |8,303 |8,120 |7,889
Cornwall |5,647 |5,814 |5,566 |5,613
Cumbria |5,861 |5,979 |5,895 |5,889
Derbyshire |11,699 |11,698 |11,259 |11,388
Devon |12,435 |11,923 |11,958 |11,936
Dorset |7,315 |7,467 |7,065 |7,046
Durham |7,570 |7,724 |7,405 |7,468
East Sussex |7,640 |7,968 |7,577 |7,780
Essex |19,421 |19,012 |18,714 |18,400
Gloucestershire |6,630 |6,698 |6,439 |6,447
Hampshire |19,864 |19,950 |18,852 |19,299
Hereford and
Worcester |8,520 |8,446 |8,421 |8,623
Hertfordshire |12,865 |12,391 |12,318 |12,326
Humberside |11,767 |11,725 |11,260 |11,039
Isle of Wight |1,432 |1,441 |1,495 |1,430
Kent |19,605 |19,334 |18,839 |18,775
Lancashire |18,717 |18,537 |18,226 |18,014
Leicestershire |11,833 |11,848 |11,575 |11,488
Lincolnshire |7,166 |7,287 |7,119 |7,175
Norfolk |8,742 |8,567 |8,396 |8,411
North Yorkshire |8,327 |8,544 |8,313 |8,423
Northamptonshire |8,009 |7,956 |7,713 |7,637
Northumberland |3,847 |3,942 |3,723 |3,803
Nottinghamshire |13,036 |12,895 |12,288 |12,509
Oxfordshire |7,026 |6,884 |6,728 |6,847
Shropshire |5,393 |5,480 |5,251 |5,403
Somerset |5,743 |5,726 |5,671 |5,729
Staffordshire |13,367 |13,518 |13,063 |13,401
Suffolk |7,668 |7,775 |7,622 |7,482
Surrey |12,074 |12,135 |11,657 |11,688
Warwickshire |6,211 |6,129 |5,966 |5,991
West Sussex |8,238 |8,001 |8,101 |8,184
Wiltshire |7,469 |7,421 |7,048 |7,087
England |614,723 |611,778 |589,840 |590,597
<1> Ages as at 31 August 1993.
This file was intentionally left blank
Absenteeism
Mr. Chidgey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) what was the absenteeism rate for her Department in each year since 1991; (2) what was the absenteeism rate for the Teachers Pensions Agency in each year since 1991.
Mr. Forth: The staff of the Teachers Pensions Agency are employed by the Department of Education and TPA absence rates are not collected separately.
The average number of working days lost due to sickness by DFE staff over the last three years is as follows:
1991 |1992|1993 -------------------- 8.9 |10 |9.8 (days per staff year
Nursery Education
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children under the age of five years were attending on a (a) full-time basis and (b) part-time basis (i) nursery classes, (ii) nursery schools or (iii) reception classes in primary schools on the latest date for which information is available
Mr. Forth: The number of full-time pupils under five being taught in maintained nursery and primary schools in England in January 1994 is shown in table.
|Full-time|Part-time
----------------------------------------------
Nursery Schools |8,930 |43,332
Primary Schools
Nursery Classes |27,292 |267,039
Infant Classes |299,155 |28,848
Student Loans Company Ltd.
Mr. Maclennan: To ask the Secretary of State for Education when she expects to receive the report of Coopers and Lybrand into alleged corruption within the Student Loans Company Ltd.; and if she will place a copy in the Library.
Mr. Boswell: My right hon. Friend has received the provisional conclusions of Coopers and Lybrand's investigation into allegations of impropriety at the Student Loans Company. The investigation is nearing completion. Its full conclusions will be reported to the Committee of Public Accounts in the normal way.
Grant-Maintained Schools (Condition Survey)
Mr. Andrew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education which company won the contract for undertaking the forthcoming condition survey of grant-maintained schools; what is the price of the contract; and what criteria for standards of work on the survey were employed in assessing the tenders.
Mr. Robin Squire: These matters are now the responsibility of the Funding Agency for Schools. I have asked the chairman of the funding agency to write to the hon. Member.
ENVIRONMENT
Dioxins and Furans
Mr. Denham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what assessment he has made of the contribution of municipal waste incineration to the presence of dioxins and furans in the environment; and if he will make a statement.
Column 658
Mr. Atkins: So long as municipal waste incineration used older technologies and standards, it was a significant source of dioxins and furans. The Royal Commission on environmental pollution, in its 17th report "Incineration of Waste", Cm 2181, concurred with pollution paper 27, "Dioxins in the Environment", in estimating that in the 1970s and 1980s domestic waste incineration may have been contributing one fifth of the man made releases of dioxins and furans to the United Kingdom environment. In 1991, we introduced far stricter emission standards on incineration. This led the royal commission to conclude that the proportion of the dioxin and furan load attributable to municipal waste incineration would undergo substantial percentage reductions. The royal commission has recently confirmed its view that incinerators which meet present-day emission standards are environmentally acceptable. Further work is being done to assess the origins, scale and impacts of dioxin emissions; but the royal commission's conclusion should remain unaffected.
National Waste Strategy
Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when he expects to announce details of the national waste strategy.
Mr. Atkins: We are aiming to issue a draft waste strategy for England and Wales for consultation later this month and to publish the final version of the strategy in the summer.
Business Rates
Mr. Heppell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what the average business ratepayer paid in 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992 and in the latest available year in (a) actual and (b) real terms.
Mr. Robert B. Jones: Average business rates per ratepayer prior to April 1990 cannot be compared with figures for later years. The following table gives the available information:
Column 657
Non-domestic rate Number of Non-domestic rate
yield England hereditaments at yield per
hereditament
|£ million |£ million 1993-94|start of year<1> |£ |£ 1993-94 prices
|prices |millions
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1979-80 |3,354 |8,235 |3.52 |953 |2,339
1983-84 |6,042 |10,198 |3.57 |1,692 |2,857
1987-88 |8,188 |11,498 |3.65 |2,243 |3,150
1992-93<2> |11,479 |11,830 |1.64 |6,999 |7,213
1994-95<2> |10,664 |10,455 |1.64 |6,502 |6,375
Notes:
<1> There were a number of changes to the definition of a non-domestic hereditament on 1 April 1990, when the uniform
business rate was introduced; in particular, domestic garages outside the curtilage of the dwelling ceased to be treated as
non-domestic properties. Figures for years prior to April 1990 are not therefore comparable with later years.
<2> Figure for yield are based on the estimated gross contribution to the non-domestic rates pool for 1992-93 and 1994-95 i.e
before the allowance for the cost of collection and the City of London offset are netted off. They include an allowance for
adjustments to the yield in respect of prior years, as a result of successful appeals decided in the year, and other changes
in rateable values. The estimates do not include amounts contributed by central Government to compensate the non-domestic
rates pool for loss of income resulting from changes to the transitional arrangements, as announced in recent budgets.
Single Regeneration Budget
Mr. Heppell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what proportion of projects approved under the single regeneration budget and the last five years' operation of the urban programme were for (a) economic, (b) social and (c) community projects.
Column 658
Mr. Curry: Partnership bids approved under the first single regeneration budget bidding round, address a wide range of local needs and priorities, reflecting the objectives set out in paragraph 10 of the published bidding guidance, copies of which are in the Library of the House. Information is not held in the form requested; but I sent details of all the successful bids to the hon. Member on 5 December.
Column 659
For the urban programme, the proportion of projects by category is as follows:
Year |Economic |Environmental|Social |Housing
|Per cent. |Per cent. |Per cent. |Per cent.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1990-91 |29 |17 |46 |8
1991-92 |33 |23 |44 |-
1992-93 |26 |24 |50 |-
1993-94 |33 |27 |40 |-
1994-95 (provisional) |34 |22 |44 |-
Notes:
"Housing" ceased to be a separate category in 1990-91; from 1991-92 most "housing" activity
was recorded under "environmental".
Most "community" projects would have been classified as "social" and could be disaggregated
only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Heppell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what extra resources are available in the single regeneration budget following the ending of targeted programmes.
Mr. Curry: Targeted programmes have not ended. All existing commitments under the 20 programmes which now form part of the single regeneration budget continue to be honoured.
Following the first bidding round, £125 million is available for new SRB projects in 1995 96 and £225 million in both 1996 97 and 1997 98. A second bidding round, to be launched later this year, will build up to expenditure of £200 million in 1997 98, with £40 million available in 1996 97 for early funding of approved projects. Total SRB expenditure over the next three years on current plans will be almost £4 billion, of which over £800 million will be available for new projects. The balance of resources--over £1 billion a year--will fund the commitments on existing programmes.
Houses in Multiple Occupation
Mr. Denham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received suggesting that planning legislation should be amended to enable local authorities to require planning permission for houses in multiple occupation shared by six or fewer adults not of the same family; and if he will make a statement.
Sir Paul Beresford: Few representations have been made for greater planning controls in this area. The present arrangements reflect that, in land use terms, the amenity of a neighbourhood is not much altered whether a house is occupied by a large family or by six unrelated adults living as a single household.
Local Government Finance
Mr. David Nicholson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the amount of Government grant to each of the county councils in the seven-county south-west region, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Kent, per head of population, for each of the financial years 1991 92, 1992 93, 1993 94 and 1994-95; and what is his estimate for 1995 96.
Mr. Robert B. Jones: The available information is shown in the tables below. Figures for revenue support grant per head of population are not comparable between years, because RSG is paid to compensate authorities for the difference between their standard spending assessment and the sum of redistributed non-domestic rates and
Column 660
council tax for standard spending. Note that for the community charge years--1991 92 and 1992 93--there are no figures for RSG to the counties because RSG was paid into the collection fund of the districts under the community charge system.
RSG per head of population
|1995-96
|1993-94 |1994-95 |£
|£ |£ |Settlement<1>
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Avon |217 |239 |217
Cornwall |235 |266 |258
Devon |214 |241 |234
Dorset |172 |196 |189
Gloucestershire |206 |225 |215
Somerset |207 |233 |212
Wiltshire |202 |224 |201
Oxfordshire |181 |212 |195
Hampshire |212 |239 |214
Kent |268 |302 |282
Notes:
<1> 1995-96 provisional settlement figures
Special and Specific Grants in AEF per head of
population<1>
|1991-92|1992-93|1993-94|1994-95
|£ |£ |£ |£
|Outturn|Outturn|Outturn|Outturn
--------------------------------------------------------
Avon |54 |60 |74 |76
Cornwall |53 |58 |75 |75
Devon |56 |63 |81 |79
Dorset |54 |58 |70 |77
Gloucestershire |59 |64 |77 |81
Somerset |58 |64 |80 |83
Wiltshire |59 |61 |73 |77
Oxfordshire |54 |59 |67 |74
Hampshire |51 |57 |67 |71
Kent |56 |61 |75 |78
Note:
<1> Special and specific grants information for 1995-96
is not yet available.
Mr. Barry Porter: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what representations he has received on his proposed notional amounts and adjustments to the capping criteria in 1995 96; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Curry: We have received a large number of representations from authorities, including new information and revised data, which we are considering carefully. However, we have now reached preliminary views on all these representations, and we are informing authorities of our current proposals reflecting these preliminary conclusions. I am arranging for tables
Column 661
showing our current proposals to be placed in the Library of the House.Mr. Heppel: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment by how much the levels of (a) local government expenditure and (b) total public expenditure have changed over the last five years in (i) actual and (ii) real terms.
Mr. Aitken: I have been asked to reply
The information requested is given in the table.
Changes between
1988-89 and
1993-94 per cent.
|Actual|Real
---------------------------------------------------------
General Government expenditure
excluding privatisation proceeds: |+51 |+15
of which local authorities: |+47 |+12
There were some major changes in responsibility between 1988 89 and 1993 94. The main ones are the transfer of responsibility for sixth form colleges higher education colleges from local authorities to central Government and the transfer of responsibility for community care from central Government to local authorities. If the local authority figures are adjusted to take account of these, the actual change would be 54 per cent. and the real change would be 17 per cent. for local authorities. Grant- maintained schools have been included as part of local authority spending.
Council Houses
Mr. Ronnie Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many council houses were completed by northern councils in each year since 1988; and what are the estimated totals for the next five years.
Mr. Robert B. Jones: Estimates of the total numbers of housebuilding completions for each local authority area in the northern region of England are shown in the publication "Local Housing Statistics". Figures are shown for the years indicated in table 1 of the following issues:
Year |Issue number |Table numbers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1988-90 |103 |1(d) , 1(e) and 1(f) 1991 |105 |1(b) 1992 |109 |1(b) 1993-94<1> |110 |1(b) and 1(a)<1> <1> first quarter of 1994 only.
Estimates for the region as a whole are shown in the publication "Housing and Construction Statistics". Figures for 1988 to 1993 are in table 6.4(b) of the latest annual edition. Figures for the first nine months of 1994 are in table 1.3 of the quarterly edition, part 1, for the September quarter 1994. Copies of these publications are in the Library.
The Department does not forecast the number of new dwellings to be built by local authorities.
Waste Incinerators
Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will remove the disparity of environmental standards imposing on clinical waste
Column 662
incinerators of differing sizes via his guidance notes PG5/1 and regulations IPR5/2.Sir Paul Beresford: The different standards were set because of the different size and pollution potential of the incinerators coming under these two guidance notes. PG5/1 is currently under review and consideration is being given to raising the standards having regard to those in IPR5/2 concerning air pollution control. Most, if not all, clinical waste incinerators are likely to be subject to the EC hazardous waste incineration directive which was adopted last month.
Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will issue directives enforcing agencies to ensure that the deadline of 1 October set out in his guidance notes PG5/1 relating to clinical waste incinerators is enforced in a rigorous and timely manner.
Sir Paul Beresford: Local authorities are required by section 7(11) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to have regard to the guidance issued by the Secretary of State, which specifies a compliance deadline of 1 October 1995. There is no reason to believe that this guidance will not be followed. Failure to comply with an authorisation condition which requires higher air pollution standards after this date would be an offence and would render an incinerator operator liable to fines of up to £20,000 on summary conviction, and an unlimited fine and up to two years' imprisonment on conviction on indictment.
Mr. Denham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what advice he has given to local authorities on the role to be played by domestic waste incineration in waste disposal strategies.
Mr. Atkins: The Department is currently preparing a waste strategy for England and Wales. This will aim to provide a coherent framework for waste management policies throughout the country and will consider the use of domestic waste incineration and the role of local authorities in waste management. We are aiming to issue a draft for consultation later this month and to publish the final version of the strategy in the summer.
Absenteeism
Mr. Chidgey: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what was the absenteeism rate for Ordnance Survey in each year since 1991.
Sir Paul Beresford: Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to Ordnance Survey under its chief executive, Professor Rhind. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from David Rhind to Mr. David Chidgey, dated 16 January 1995:
The Secretary of State for the Environment has asked me to reply to your Question about rates of absenteeism in Ordnance Survey. The information you requested is contained in the table below. It has been supplied by the Occupational Health Service who have confirmed that similar information for 1994 is not yet available.
|1991|1992|1993
--------------------------------------------------------
Average number of working days sick
absence per head of staff |8.6 |8.9 |9.0
Percentage of working days lost due
to sick absence |3.8 |3.9 |4.0
Please let me know if you require any additional information or clarification.
Orimulsion
Mr. Dafis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make it his policy to require the introduction of gasification processes in any power plant licensed to burn orimulsion; what studies his Department has made of the environmental impact of the use of orimulsion to generate power; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Atkins: In line with their statutory obligations under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution will include in the authorisation for any individual plant such conditions as are needed to meet the objective of ensuring that the operator will use the best available techniques not entailing excessive cost for that plant to prevent or, where that is not practicable, to reduce to a minimum and to render harmless releases of prescribed substances, having regard to the best practicable environmental option for the environment as a whole.
Various studies on orimulsion have been conducted for the Department and for Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution. These have addressed such issues as: SO2 emissions from orimulsion compared with heavy fuel oil or UK coal; emissions of particulates, vanadium and nickel and the production of acid smuts from the combustion of orimulsion; and the effects of spillage of orimulsion.
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution
Ms Ruddock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many inspectors were employed by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution on 31 March of each year since 1990; and how many were engaged in work concerned with (a) waste disposal and (b) disposal of radioactive substances.
Mr. Atkins: The information is as follows:
Number of inspectors in post as at: --------------------------------------------------------------- 31 March 1990 |105 31 March 1991 |115 31 March 1992 |148 31 March 1993 |170 31 March 1994 |188
Under HMIP's integrated structure, work on waste disposal and disposal of radioactive substances is undertaken by staff working in multi-disciplinary teams where individuals address all aspects of the inspectorate's responsibilities for pollution regulation and control.
Radioactive Waste
Ms Ruddock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what action has been taken in respect of the owner of the field at Poplar farm, Chelveston, Northamptonshire, in which drums of uranium 238 filings were found in mid-January.
Mr. Atkins: The legislation under which radioactive waste is controlled is the Radioactive Substance Act 1993. The question of possible enforcement action under this Act is a matter for the chief inspector of Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution. At this time, the matters are
Column 664
under investigation and any actions taken will depend on the outcome of these investigations.Ms Ruddock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he has received a report from Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution on the source of the drums of uranium 238 filings found recently at Poplar farm, Chelveston, Northamptonshire; if the carrier who took the drums from the point of production has been identified; whether the carrier was a registered carrier; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Atkins: The scrap metal containing uranium found on land at Poplar farm, Caldecott, Northamptonshire is of unknown origin. Investigations are continuing to try and trace the source of the material and those involved in its movement.
Mr. Foulkes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the nature of the uranium recently discovered in Northampton; what action has been taken to protect the interests of local people; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Atkins: The scrap metal containing uranium found on land at Poplar farm, Caldecott, Northamptonshire consists of metal turnings commonly called swarf. It is believed to contain depleted uranium. When this was discovered, HMIP informed the local police force and other relevant bodies. The local standing emergency plan was put into force. HMIP arranged for the scrap metal to be removed from the site; any remaining contamination will be removed shortly. Operations were managed so that the risk to the public was minimal. A 24-hour police presence was arranged to restrict access to the site by unauthorised persons. The United States air force authorities were consulted about the accommodation they use opposite the site.
A local health telephone help line was put in place so that residents or other members of the public could seek advice or monitoring.
Mr. Foulkes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what regulations control the disposal of uranium by civil bodies; what consideration has been given to bringing these into line with regulations concerning disposal of uranium from military sources; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Atkins: Disposal of radioactive waste is subject to regulation under the Radioactive Substances Act 1993. Premises occupied by armed forces are exempt from the terms of the Act, although under arrangements agreed with the Ministry of Defence, Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution and Her Majesty's industrial pollution inspectorate control disposal from military sites as if the Act applied to those premises. The arrangements are kept under review.
Ms Ruddock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what volume of (a) low-level, (b) medium-level and (c) high-level radioactive waste was produced in England and Wales in each year since 1990;
(2) what volume of (a) low-level, (b) medium-level and (c) high-level radioactive waste is expected to be produced in England and Wales in each year from 1995 to 2000.
Column 665
Mr. Atkins: Information about radioactive waste produced in the UK can be found in the "The United Kingdom Radioactive Waste Inventory 1991", a copy of which is held in the Library of the House. A 1994 edition of the inventory is currently in preparation.
Sustainable Development
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment when the first meeting of the United Kingdom round table on sustainable development is to be held; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Gummer: The inaugural meeting of the round table will be held on Monday 23 January. Professor Sir Richard Southwood and I will be co- chairmen.
This is a major new body with a vital role in driving forward environmentally sustainable development. It will have the following objectives:
to help identify the agenda and priorities for sustainable development;
to develop new areas of consensus on difficult issues of sustainable development and where this is not possible, to clarify and reduce difference;
to provide advice and recommendations on actions to achieve sustainable development;
to help evaluate progress towards objectives; and
to inform and involve others, building wider support for emerging consensus.
A copy of my letter of invitation to members has been placed in the House Library. A list of members will be placed in the Library shortly.
Site Rebate Scheme
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give the cost of the site rebate scheme in 1966 and the cost of the council tax rebate in the current year.
Mr. Robert B. Jones: Local authorities in England and Wales were paid £22,350,000 in rating relief in 1966 67. The cost of council tax benefit is currently estimated to be £2,011 million for 1994 95.
SCOTLAND
Departmental Responsibilities
Ms Janet Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the division of responsibilities and relationship between his departmental Ministers and agencies.
Mr. Lang: Information about the respective roles and responsibilities of the Secretary of State and the agency chief executive is set out in the framework document for each individual executive agency. Copies of framework documents for all eight of my executive agencies were placed in the Library of the House when each agency was launched or following a triennial review of the agency, where this has taken place.
Asylum Seekers
Sir David Steel: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer of 29 November 1994 to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Pollok (Mr. Dunnachie) Official Report , columns 691-92 , if his intention not to
Column 666
change how refugees are treated with regard to charges for further education extends to those seeking asylum.Mr. Lang: As I explained in my answer to the right hon. Member on 9 December 1994, Official Report , column 350 , the position of those seeking asylum is currently part of the consultations to which I referred in that answer.
Flooding
Mr. Graham: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what extra finance he is making available to the local authorities who have been affected by the recent floodings in Scotland.
| Next Section
| Home Page |