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LEA maintained special schoolsBrookside Special School, Derbyshire
Fred Nicholson Special School, Norfolk
Secondary School Performance Tables
Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the cost of circulating a copy of the secondary school performance tables for 1994 to every school.
Mr. Forth: The secondary schools performance tables 1994 were distributed to schools as part of the same exercise as the distribution of 1994 tables of school and college performance 16 to 18 age group. It is not possible to disaggregate these costs. Single photocopied pre-publication tables were mailed to all schools and colleges listed in the tables at an estimated cost of £4,500. Further printed copies, to pass on to parents, were sent to all schools and colleges for an additional cost estimated at £106,000.
Nursery Education
Mr. Steinberg: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many three-year-olds and four-year-olds there are in nursery classes in schools, not including primary reception classes, in each local education authority in England and Wales; and what percentage this represents of the population in those age groups for the latest figures available.
Mr. Forth: Information about the number of pupils under five years of age being taught in nursery classes in maintained primary schools in each local education authority area in England in January 1994 is shown in the table. Under fives provision in Wales is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
Pupils under five years of age in nursery classes in maintained
primary schools in each LEA in England January 1994
|Percentage of
LEA |Pupils<1> |population
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Camden |794 |20
Greenwich |2,354 |34
Hackney |2,038 |33
Hammersmith and Fulham |898 |24
Islington |1,134 |28
Kensington and Chelsea |560 |17
Lambeth |1,742 |25
Lewisham |2,264 |32
Southwark |2,038 |29
Tower Hamlets |2,088 |36
Wandsworth |1,885 |28
Westminster<3> |880 |23
Barking and Dagenham |1,833 |40
Barnet |1,669 |20
Bexley |1,373 |22
Brent |2,270 |33
Bromley |156 |2
Croydon |1,080 |11
Ealing |2,720 |34
Enfield |1,622 |22
Haringey |2,223 |38
Harrow |1,003 |19
Havering |454 |8
Hillingdon |3,049 |45
Hounslow |2,493 |43
Kingston upon Thames |851 |24
Merton |2,142 |44
Newham |3,496 |44
Redbridge |1,156 |19
Richmond upon Thames |723 |17
Sutton |1,603 |34
Waltham Forest |2,270 |34
Birmingham |7,935 |26
Coventry |1,837 |21
Dudley |2,390 |29
Sandwell |3,687 |44
Solihull |1,837 |35
Walsall |2,943 |40
Wolverhampton |2,478 |35
Knowsley |2,059 |42
Liverpool |4,597 |37
St, Helens |1,401 |30
Sefton |1,746 |22
Wirral |1,894 |21
Bolton |2,255 |29
Bury |1,341 |26
Manchester |6,441 |48
Oldham |2,429 |37
Rochdale |1,174 |18
Salford |2,511 |40
Stockport |1,007 |13
Tameside |1,991 |31
Trafford |1,872 |33
Wigan |1,898 |22
Barnsley |2,665 |45
Doncaster |3,427 |41
Rotherham |2,822 |39
Sheffield |4,640 |35
Bradford |5,146 |35
Calderdale |1,834 |34
Kirklees |3,425 |32
Leeds |7,139 |37
Wakefield |3,857 |43
Gateshead |1,514 |30
Newcastle upon Tyne |2,318 |33
North Tyneside |2,005 |42
South Tyneside |1,537 |37
Sunderland |2,237 |28
Avon |3,334 |13
Bedfordshire |3,906 |24
Berkshire |4,181 |19
Buckinghamshire |2,152 |12
Cambridgeshire |1,452 |8
Cheshire |3,791 |14
Cleveland |6,815 |42
Cornwall<2> |1,466 |12
Cumbria |2,223 |18
Derbyshire |7,440 |30
Devon |2,395 |9
Dorset |741 |5
Durham |3,949 |25
East Sussex |1,178 |7
Essex |2,218 |5
Gloucestershire |- |-
Hampshire |1,554 |4
Hereford and Worcester |1,276 |7
Hertfordshire |7,074 |26
Humberside |7,414 |31
Isle of Wight |143 |5
Kent |1,723 |4
Lancashire |3,870 |10
Leicestershire |5,093 |20
Lincolnshire |1,165 |8
Norfolk |466 |3
North Yorkshire |3,222 |18
Northamptonshire |2,308 |14
Northumberland |2,318 |30
Nottinghamshire |11,995 |43
Oxfordshire |1,768 |11
Shropshire |1,784 |16
Somerset |425 |3
Staffordshire |4,560 |16
Suffolk |2,906 |16
Surrey |2,349 |9
Warwickshire |1,301 |10
West Sussex |518 |3
Wiltshire |548 |3
England<2><3> |268,361 |21
<1> Excludes pupils who became five years of age by 1 January
1994.
<2> Includes the Isles of Scilly.
<3> Includes the Corporation of London.
Schools, Warwickshire
Mr. Pawsey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much Warwickshire is spending on non-statutory areas of education.
Mr. Robin Squire: This information is not collected centrally. Local education authorities' returns of their expenditure do not distinguish between expenditure on pupils of statutory and non-statutory school age. However, I understand that Warkwickshire LEA may be able to provide this information, and I suggest that the hon. Member writes to the chief education officer.
Training Courses
Mr. Kirkwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list each training and tuition course with a total cost exceeding £5,000 paid for by (a) her Department and (b) her agencies during the last 12 months, showing the title and objectives of each course, the name of the organisations engaged, the total cost of each course, a summary of the responsibilities of staff members taking part and the process for course evaluation by the Department or agency.
Mr. Boswell: Only one course costing £5,000 or more was attended by a member of DFE staff in the last 12 months. The course was "Challenges for Change" organised by Shell International Petroleum Company Ltd. group training. The cost of the course was £5,136 plus VAT. The main course objective was:
"to identify emerging social, political, economic and technological trends".
The officer concerned was responsible for providing advice on schools policy for a region of England. The officer was required to report on the value of the course both to himself and to the Department.
Education Committee, Warwickshire
Mr. Pawsey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the current number of officers employed by the Warwickshire county council's education committee; and what the number was in 1990.
Mr. Robin Squire: The employment of LEA officers is entirely a matter for the LEA concerned. The Department does not collect such information.
Further Education Colleges
Mr. Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education (1) how many further education colleges have achieved their student targets;
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(2) how many further education colleges have had their budgets cut because of non-attainment of student targets;(3) if the methodology used by the Further Education Funding Council in allocating money to further education colleges includes criteria covering socio-economic factors.
Mr. Boswell: Details of individual colleges' student targets, the funding of individual colleges, and the funding methodology, are matters for the Further Education Funding Council. I am asking the council's chief executive to write to the hon. Member.
Severance Payments
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what advice and guidance she offers to universities and other institutions of higher and further education concerning severance payment to senior staff.
Mr. Boswell: The Secretary of State does not offer advice and guidance on severance payments to institutions within the higher and further education sectors. However, the Further Education Funding Council has required its institutions, from their first accounting period in 1993 94, to disclose in their final accounts emoluments of senior postholders, showing the principal separately; and the aggregate amount paid to senior postholders as compensation, together with the number of persons receiving such compensation.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England requires the institutions for which it is responsible to disclose separately details of any compensation for loss of office to the vice-chancellor, or equivalent, and higher paid staff whose annual remuneration exceeds £50,000, together with the salaries of senior staff and vice-chancellor's emoluments. This requirement will be effective for institutions' 1994 95 accounts.
Patent Royalties
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list for each university the amount of patent royalties received for each year since 1986; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Boswell: This information is not currently available centrally.
Religious Festivals
Mr. Kilfoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what account has been taken of religious festivals in drawing up the 1995 GCSE timetable.
Mr. Forth: The construction of the GCSE common timetable is a matter for the examining groups, acting through the joint council for the GCSE.
Advertisements
Ms Corston: To ask the Secretary of State for Education on how many occasions and in what circumstances in the last five years advertisements have been placed in newspapers or periodicals which have been described as being issued by or on behalf of Ministers in her Department rather than on behalf of Her Majesty's Government.
Mr. Forth: In the last five years all departmental advertisements have been issued under the Department's name.
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Pupil Statistics
Mr. Congdon: To ask the Secretary of State for Education if she will list for each local education authority (a) the education standard spending assessment per pupil for (i) primary, excluding non-statutory age pupils, (ii) secondary and (iii) post-16 and (b) the actual expenditure per sector and the percentage difference between the standard spending assessment and the actual expenditure.
Mr. Robin Squire: The information is not available in the form in which it has been requested. I will write to my hon. Friend.
Independent Schools
Mr. Walden: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many applications she has had from independent schools to join the grant- maintained sector.
Mr. Robin Squire: To date, applications have been received from three independent schools to join the grant-maintained sector. One is from an interdenominational Christian school in Bradley Stoke, Avon. The other two are from independent Catholic grammar schools in Wirral. Other schools have expressed interest or sought further information.
Assisted Places Scheme
Mr. MacShane: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what account is taken of savings, investments or value of property in determining who is eligible for assisted places at independent schools.
Mr. Robin Squire: I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave to the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) on 20 January, Official Report column 722 . Eligibility for an assisted place is determined by reference to parents'gross income from all sources. No account is taken of capital and other assets or the value of property in assessing parental means.
Direct Grant Schools
Mr. Walden: To ask the Secretary of State for Education from which former direct grant schools she has received applications to enter the grant-maintained sector.
Mr. Robin Squire: The following grant-maintained schools were formerly direct grant schools:
Canon Slade School, Bolton
Notre Dame School, Sheffield
St. Boniface's College, Devon
St. Anne's Convent School, Hampshire
St. Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool
Ursuline Convent High School, Essex
National Youth Agency
Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what have been the main components of the cost of the National Youth Agency in each year since its establishment, including (a) the yearly Government grant and (b) the initial start-up costs.
Mr. Boswell: Grants paid or allocated to the National Youth Agency by the Department for Education in the period 1991 92 to 1995 96 were as follows:
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£ million
|Additional
|Core grant |grants |Total grant
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1991-92 |1.165 |0.180 |1.345
1992-93 |1.236 |0.068 |1.304
1993-94 |1.287 |0.399 |1.686
1994-95 |1.336 |0.380 |1.716
1995-96 |1.297 |0.358 |1.655
Core grant provides funding for the agency's agreed annual work programme including internal audit and the administration of youth work development grants. Additional grant covers funding for initial start-up costs, special initiatives, and grants for disbursement to other bodies.
In addition to these grants, the agency received in 1991 92 grants from the Home Office--£232,640--the Department of Health--£69,000--and the Welsh Office--£18,000. It received further grants from the Home Office in 1992 93--£143,834--1993 94--£149,000 and 1994 95-- £151,111.
SCOTLAND
NHS Supplies Division
Mr. McAllion: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps he is taking to ensure that the redundancies announced at the NHS supplies division of the Common Services Agency do not impair that division's ability to monitor and advise trusts on potential hazards in equipment involved in patient care.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The restructuring of the supplies division makes provision for the continued availability of the defects and hazards service. A service level contract with the management executive of the NHS will provide for defects in equipment and other items to be fully investigated and the outcomes reported to the NHS in Scotland.
Mr. McAllion: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many staff were employed in each of the past five years in the NHS supplies division of the Common Services Agency.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The number of staff-- whole time equivalent--employed was:
1990: 139
1991: 139
1992: 139
1993: 137
1994: 106
Mr. McAllion: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the turnover of the NHS supplies division of the Common Services Agency in the most recent year; and what is his estimate of the savings it achieved through discounts for bulk purchase.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The turnover in 1993 94--the latest year for which information is available--was £201 million. Savings through discount on bulk purchases are estimated to be in the region of £23 million per annum. This level of savings is expected to continue to be achieved through the mechanism of central contracts.
Mr. McAllion: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many NHS trusts in Scotland (a) have
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contracts with the NHS supplies division of the Common Services Agency for equipment service and (b) have switched such contracts to alternative suppliers.Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Six trusts have entered into firm contracts for equipping work for the next year. Information is not available on alternative contracts which trusts may have entered into with other providers. Not all trusts will require an equipping service in the course of the coming year and in the past some directly managed units who have since become trusts provided their own in-house equipping service.
Mr. McAllion: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when the meeting took place between Mr. Dunmore, the director of the NHS supplies division of the Common Services Agency, and the NHS executive in Scotland to discuss the future of the division; if he will place copies of the minutes of that meeting in the Library; and what guidance was issued to NHS trusts in Scotland relating to purchasing of equipment through the NHS supplies division.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Staffing and organisation of the supplies division is a matter for the board of the Common Services Agency.
There have been no meetings between the NHS management executive and Mr. Dunmore, the director. No specific guidance has been given to NHS Trusts, but they are expected to obtain best value for money in purchasing.
Mr. McAllion: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what studies he has undertaken to assess the additional administrative costs to the NHS in Scotland if NHS trusts cease to purchase equipment in common through the NHS supplies division of the Common Services Agency, and instead enter into separate contracts with individual suppliers.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: No studies are required since in making purchasing decisions NHS trusts will ensure that best value for money is achieved.
Disabled People
Mr. McAllion: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what proportion and number of non-industrial civil servants in the Departments and agencies for which he has responsibility are registered disabled and disabled as defined by the Cabinet Office document "Focus on Ability".
Mr. Lang: The number and proportion of non-industrial staff who were registered disabled in the Departments and agencies for which I have responsibility are set out in the table that follows. The table records the position as at 1 July 1994. The table also lists those cases where central personnel records indicate that an individual is disabled although not registered.
The Scottish Office, moreover, recently undertook a survey of disability and long-term health conditions in the workplace, which covered staff in the Scottish Office and its agencies--for the Scottish Prison Service only headquarters staff were covered. The survey of some 7,680 staff--including 493 industrial staff--revealed that 97 felt that they were affected "a great deal" and a further 300 "to some extent" by a disability or long-term health condition in the workplace. This represented a total of 5.2 per cent. of all staff. These results suggest that there may be at least as many non-registered disabled people in Departments as there are registered.
Non industrial staff at 1 July 1994-Disability
Headcounts
Department/Agency Disabled-Registered Disabled-Not
Registered
|Number |Percentage|Number |Percentage|All Staff
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The Scottish Office and its Executive Agencies:
SO Core |63 |1.4 |8 |0.2 |4,590
Historic Scotland |1 |0.3 |- |- |386
Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency |1 |0.5 |- |- |193
Scottish Agricultural Scientific Agency |1 |0.8 |1 |0.8 |125
Scottish Office Pensions Agency |7 |4.0 |2 |1.1 |174
Student Awards Agency for Scotland |4 |2.6 |- |- |151
Scottish Prison Service |2 |<0.1 |- |- |4,110
Associated Departments:
General Register Office for Scotland |2 |0.8 |- |- |257
Scottish Records Office |2 |1.6 |- |- |129
Other Responsibilities of the Secretary of State
for Scotland:
Forestry Commission |21 |1.0 |51 |2.4 |2.092
Crown Office |6 |0.5 |- |- |1,126
Scottish Courts Administration |6 |0.8 |7 |0.9 |760
Registers of Scotland |37 |3.1 |- |- |1,186
School Class Sizes
Mrs. Ray Michie: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) what was the number and percentage of pupils in primary schools in (a) January 1992 and (b) January 1994, being taught in classes of over 30 in (i) each local education authority and (ii) in total; and what was the percentage change;
(2) what was the number and percentage of pupils in secondary schools in (a) January 1992 and (b) January
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1994, being taught in classes of over 30 in (i) each local education authority and (ii) in total; and what was the percentage change.Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The information on class size is that which is collected biennially in the September school census. The information requested, for education authority primary and secondaryschools at September 1991 and September 1993, is given:
Education authority primary schools
September 1991 September 1993
|Number of |Number of
|pupils in |pupils in
|classes |Percentage |classes |Percentage |Percentage
Education authority |over 30 |of all pupils |over 30 |of all pupils |change
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Scotland |72,202 |16.4 |74,894 |17.1 |+0.7
Borders |448 |5.3 |544 |6.3 |+1.0
Central |3,954 |16.9 |3,972 |17.1 |+0.2
Dumfries and Galloway |2,137 |16.7 |2,052 |15.9 |-0.8
Fife |4,944 |15.9 |5,435 |17.5 |+1.6
Grampian |6,900 |15.6 |6,556 |14.6 |-1.0
Highland |1,503 |7.6 |1,996 |10.4 |+2.8
Lothian |11,344 |20.2 |11,885 |20.7 |+0.5
Strathclyde |34,235 |16.7 |34,642 |17.2 |+0.5
Tayside |6,580 |20.3 |7,558 |23.1 |+2.8
Orkney |157 |8.7 |64 |3.5 |-5.2
Shetland |- |0.0 |- |0.0 |0.0
Western Isles |- |0.0 |190 |7.2 |+7.2
Strathclyde Divisions
September 1991 September 1993
|Number of |Number of
|pupils in |pupils in
|classes |Percentage |classes |Percentage |Percentage
Education authority |over 30 |of all pupils |over 30 |of all pupils |change
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Argyll and Bute |538 |9.5 |287 |5.3 |-4.2
Ayr |6,424 |18.7 |6,478 |19.2 |+0.4
Dunbarton |5,798 |19.2 |5,138 |17.5 |-1.7
Glasgow |8,321 |14.6 |8,068 |14.3 |-0.3
Lanark |7,172 |15.4 |6,717 |14.8 |-0.5
Renfrew |5,982 |18.8 |7,954 |25.2 |+6.3
Education authority secondary schools<1>
September 1991 September 1993
|Number of |Number of
|pupils in |Percentage of |pupils in |Percentage of
|subject classes|all pupils in |subject classes|all pupils in |Percentage
|over 30 |subject classes|over 30 |subject classes|change
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Scotland<2> |57,109 |1.7 |89,069 |2.5 |+0.8
Borders |31 |0.0 |342 |0.5 |+0.5
Central |3,497 |1.7 |535 |0.3 |-1.4
Dumfries and Galloway |1,530 |1.5 |615 |0.6 |-0.9
Fife |1,765 |0.8 |2,371 |0.9 |+0.1
Grampian<2> |1,129 |0.3 |4,189 |1.2 |+0.9
Highland |2,015 |1.3 |3,616 |2.0 |+0.7
Lothian |2,311 |0.6 |8,996 |2.1 |+1.5
Strathclyde |41,869 |2.8 |62,282 |3.8 |+1.0
Tayside |2,962 |1.2 |6,123 |2.4 |+1.2
Orkney |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0.0
Shetland |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0.0
Western Isles |0 |0.0 |0 |0.0 |0.0
Strathclyde Divisions
September 1991 September 1993
|Number of |Number of
|pupils in |Percentage of |pupils in |Percentage of
|subject classes|all pupils in |subject classes|all pupils in |Percentage
|over 30 |subject classes|over 30 |subject classes|change
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Argyll and Bute |2,153 |4.6 |155 |0.3 |-4.3
Ayr |4,246 |1.7 |2,715 |1.0 |-0.7
Dunbarton |560 |0.2 |13,975 |5.4 |+5.2
Glasgow |11,501 |3.3 |15,224 |4.0 |+0.7
Lanark |14,595 |4.0 |9,168 |2.3 |-1.7
Renfrew |8,814 |3.5 |21,045 |7.9 |+4.4
<1> The information available only allows the numbers of pupils in classes over 30 to be estimated from the
average class size of a subject-stage entry in each school's timetable. Pupils are counted once for each
subject taken.
<2> The figures for 1993 exclude two schools for which information is not available.
Countryside Commission
Mr. Galbraith: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the cost of remuneration and expenses for the board members of the Countryside Commission for Scotland during its last full year of existence.
Sir Hector Monro: The chairman and vice-chairman of the Countryside Commission for Scotland received remuneration and reimbursed expenses. The other 12 board members received reimbursed expenses only. The annual report of the commission for 1991 92 shows that total remuneration was £23,793 and the total of reimbursed expenses was £28,216.
Civil Servants
Mr. McAllion: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many staff have (a) retired at age 60 years or (b) retired early before age 60 years in each of the
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department's and agencies for which he is responsible, in each of the past five years; and what was the cost to the public purse of retirement packages in each case in each of these years.Mr. Lang: This information can be provided only at
disproportionate cost.
Nature Conservancy Council
Mr. Galbraith: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the cost of remuneration and expenses for the board members of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland during its year of existence.
Sir Hector Monro: Members of the main board, the regional boards and of the science, research and development board of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland received remuneration, according to their time commitment, and reimbursed expenses. The annual
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report for the council for 1991 92 shows that total remuneration for the 67 people involved for all or part of the year was £418,000 and the total of reimbursed expenses was £80,000.Patients Charter
Mr. Barnes: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the cost to public funds of the production, printing, distribution and advertising of the patients charter when launched in 1991; and how many copies were printed.
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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The total cost of launching the patient's charter in Scotland in 1991, was £32,550. This included printing and distributing 16,000 copies.
Hospital Admissions
Mr. Galbraith: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the number of admissions for each health board for the last five years for which figures are available.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The information requested is shown in the table.
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NHSiS-discharges<2> by health board area of residence; years ending 31 March
|1990 |1991 |1992 |1993 |1994<1>
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All areas<3> |1,015,151|1,059,951|1,094,827|1,158,055|1,230,326
Argyll and Clyde |86,596 |90,655 |96,979 |102,200 |108,616
Ayrshire and Arran |70,803 |75,092 |78,822 |83,365 |91,556
Borders |20,039 |21,129 |21,619 |23,755 |25,092
Dumfries and Galloway |26,489 |28,827 |29,966 |32,446 |35,198
Fife |65,583 |68,727 |72,955 |75,394 |78,756
Forth Valley |51,994 |56,956 |59,797 |62,927 |65,158
Grampian |101,205 |104,052 |104,368 |108,474 |112,057
Greater Glasgow |202,695 |207,707 |210,736 |221,818 |236,531
Highland |37,712 |39,130 |40,980 |43,536 |45,600
Lanarkshire |106,942 |110,783 |114,259 |121,948 |130,692
Lothian |142,158 |149,851 |154,798 |168,549 |182,389
Orkney |3,426 |3,628 |3,593 |3,759 |3,966
Shetland |4,495 |4,828 |4,630 |5,023 |5,275
Tayside |81,919 |84,927 |86,232 |89,265 |93,453
Western Isles |5,784 |5,887 |6,466 |6,666 |7,056
<1> Provisional.
<2> Comprises inpatient and day case discharges for non-psychiatric specialties
and inpatient admissions for psychiatric specialties.
<3> Includes those patients resident outwith Scotland and those whose area of
residence was not recorded, Excludes patients treated outwith Scotland.
Labour Statistics
Mr. Ingram: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many jobs there were in (a) the manufacturing
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industry, (b) the engineering industry and (c) the aerospace industry in Scotland in each year since 1979; and what those figures represented in percentage terms of the total Scottish work- force.Mr. Stewart: The information is given in the table.
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Employees in employment, in each industry, at September
Manufacturing Engineering<1> Aerospace<2>
|Number of |As percentage of all|Number of |As percentage of all|Number of |As percentage of all
Year |employees |industries |employees |industries |employees |industries
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1979 |601,700 |28.5 |255,200 |12.1 |10,600 |0.5
1980 |549,700 |26.6 |231,000 |11.2 |11,200 |0.5
1981 |502,400 |25.3 |211,300 |10.6 |11,100 |0.6
1982 |470,600 |24.4 |203,400 |10.5 |9,900 |0.5
1983 |441,700 |23.3 |194,100 |10.2 |8,500 |0.4
1984 |433,700 |22.8 |187,500 |9.8 |7,900 |0.4
1985 |433,000 |22.7 |184,600 |9.7 |8,200 |0.4
1986 |415,500 |22.2 |170,300 |9.1 |8,200 |0.4
1987 |406,900 |21.6 |163,200 |8.7 |8,200 |0.4
1988 |412,600 |21.2 |163,900 |8.4 |8,100 |0.4
1989 |402,400 |20.5 |165,800 |8.4 |8,600 |0.4
1990 |403,300 |20.2 |170,600 |8.5 |8,800 |0.4
1991 |381,000 |19.0 |160,200 |8.0 |8,900 |0.4
1992 |368,800 |18.5 |155,400 |7.8 |8,000 |0.4
1993 |361,800 |18.2 |151,000 |7.6 |7,800 |0.4
1994 |352,100 |17.9 |149,800 |7.6 |6,800 |0.3
Main source:
Employment Department, Quarterly Employment Estimates.
Notes:
<1> Figures represent Standard Industrial Classification (1980), Division 3, Metal Goods, Engineering and Vehicles Industries.
Source:
<2> Scottish Register of Employment.
Private Health Contracts
Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) when the hon. Member for Cunninghame, South can expect a reply to his letter of 9 November 1994 to the general manager of Orkney health board concerning private contracts for non-NHS facilities entered into by the health board;
(2) when the hon. Member for Cunninghame, South can expect a reply to his letter of 9 November 1994 acknowledged on 10 November 1994, to the general manager of Greater Glasgow health board concerning private contracts for non-NHS facilities entered into by the health board.
(3) when the hon. Member for Cunninghame, South can expect a reply to his letter of 9 November 1994 to the general manager of Highland health board concerning private contracts for non-NHS facilities entered into by the health board.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The acting general manager of Greater Glasgow health board replied to the hon. Member for Cunninghame, South on 2 December 1994. Replies to his letters to the general managers of Orkney and Highland health boards are for these boards to consider.
Scottish Homes
Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) how many properties have been transferred by Scottish Homes from its ownership to that of other landlords; if he will indicate (a) when these properties were transferred, (b) the results of the ballots undertaken among the tenants prior to these properties being transferred, (c) the numbers of tenants in each case transferred against their expressed wishes to another landlord and (d) the name of the landlord to whom the properties in these cases were transferred;
(2) how much Scottish Homes has spent on its public relations function during the financial year 1993 94; how much it has set aside for tenant information relating to its stock transfer proposals; and how much money has been spent up until this point on publicising its stock transfer proposals.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The information requested is a matter for Scottish Homes. I have asked the chairman of Scottish Homes, Sir James Mellon, to write to the hon. Member with the relevant information.
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