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Brewing Industry
Mr. Wareing: To ask the President of the Board of Trade when he expects to receive the report of the Director of Fair Trading on the brewing industry.
Mr. Jonathan Evans [holding answer 3 March 1995]: My right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade expects to receive the report when the inquiry has been completed to the satisfaction of the Director General of Fair Trading. When announcing the inquiry on 7 February, the Office of Fair Trading indicated that it expected it to last three months, although this is dependent on receiving the full co-operation of the industry.
Coal Privatisation
Mr. Wilson: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list the consultants retained by his Department in connection with the sale of British Coal giving in each case the fees paid.
Mr. Eggar: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, North (Ms Walley) on 21 July 1994, Official Report , columns 522 23 .
WALES
Career Breaks
Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many (a) men and (b) women applied for career breaks in his Department or its agencies; and how many have had their employment terminated in the last five years.
Mr. Redwood: Eighty-five women and no men in my
Department--including Cadw--have applied for career breaks in the last five years. None of these has had her employment terminated.
Community Areas and Councils
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish for each county and district council area in Wales and for Wales as a whole the number of (a) community areas, (b) community and town councils and (c) community or town councils which have (i) ceased to exist or (ii) been established during each of the last 10 years.
Mr. Gwilym Jones [pursuant to his reply, 16 February 1995, c.763 64.]: Unfortunately, some district councils have provided inaccuratinformation. The correct figures are set out in the following table:
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Numbers of community areas and town/community councils
in Wales
|Numbers of |Numbers of
County |District/borough|community |town/community
councils |councils |areas |councils
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Clwyd |127 |122
|Alyn and Deeside|13 |13
|Colwyn |19 |16
|Delyn |21 |21
|Glyndwr |35 |35
|Rhuddlan |10 |8
|Wrexham Maelor |29 |29
Dyfed |202 |202
|Carmarthen |41 |41
|Ceredigion |51 |51
|Dinefwr |23 |23
|Llanelli |9 |9
|Preseli
| Pembrokeshire |52 |52
|South
| Pembrokeshire |26 |26
Gwent |98 |67
|Blaenau Gwent |9 |5
|Islwyn |12 |0
|Monmouth |32 |32
|Newport |29 |14
|Torfaen |16 |16
Gwynedd |122 |122
|Aberconwy |18 |18
|Arfon |17 |17
|Dwyfor |17 |17
|Meirionnydd |30 |30
|Ynys Mon |40 |40
Mid Glamorgan |85 |50
|Cynon Valley |11 |3
|Merthyr Tydfil |12 |1
|Ogwr |22 |22
|Rhondda |16 |0
|Rhymney Valley |14 |14
|Taff Ely |10 |10
Powys |108 |108
|Brecknock |36 |36
|Montgomeryshire |45 |45
|Radnorshire |27 |27
South Glamorgan |54 |28
|Cardiff |30 |5
|Vale of
| Glamorgan |24 |23
West Glamorgan |69 |43
|Port Talbot |12 |0
|Lliw Valley |15 |15
|Neath |14 |14
|Swansea |28 |14
Total for Wales 865 742
Industrial Output
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the estimate total output of production industries in Wales at (a) factor cost and (b) current prices for (i) 1993, (ii) 1990 and (iii) 1987; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. Gwilym Jones: Total output of production industries in Wales at factor cost and current prices if estimated by the Central Statistical Office to have been (i) £7,111 million in 1993, (ii) £6, 702 million in 1990 and (iii) £5,420 million 1987.
Minority Languages Charter
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he expects Her Majesty's Government to signify their approval of the Council for Europe charter of minority languages; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood: Government Departments with an interest in the European charter for regional or minority languages are still considering its implication for the United Kingdom. The decision on whether to sign the charter must take into account the situation of each of the indigenous minority languages spoken within the United Kingdom.
Llanrwst Bypass
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales which figures are being used by his Department for the cost-benefit analysis for the proposed Llanrwst bypass; if he will recalculate the cost-benefit analysis using the current figures submitted by a local group to his Department on 8 December 1994, and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Gwilym Jones: The cost-benefit analysis displayed at the 1993 public consultation on the proposed A470 Llanrwst bypass was based on a 1988 traffic survey. A further traffic survey is to be undertaken shortly and the results of that survey will be used in any recalculation of the analysis. The traffic information supplied by the local group is not statistically robust enough to be used in that way.
Radioactive Waste
Mr. Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what consultations have taken place with local authorities in Wales on their opinion on the proposals contained in paragraph 128 and 129 of the Government consultation paper on radioactive waste policy.
Mr. Gwilym Jones: These proposals were included in the Government's recent consultation document "Review of Radioactive Waste Management Policy --Preliminary Conclusions". It was sent to all local authorities in Wales and representations were received from South Glamorgan and Gwynedd county councils and Ynys Mo n borough council.
NHS Administrative Costs
Mr. Ron Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the administrative costs of the NHS in Wales for each year since 1979 in (a) cash prices and (b) current prices.
Mr. Redwood: The information is not available in cash terms. The following table shows the reported costs in
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column 1 and those amounts converted to 1993 94 prices in column 2.
Administrative costs of the NHS in
Wales
|(1) £000|(2) £000
------------------------------------
1991-92 |67,495 |72,330
1992-93 |68,298 |70,388
1993-94 |65,579 |65,579
Source:
Annual accounts of district health
authorities, Welsh Health Common
Services Authority, Family health
services authorities, NHS trusts
and Health Promotion Wales.
Notes:
1. The figure for the cost of
administration is taken to be that
covering authority administration
and purchasing expenses. This
represents the total revenue
expenditure on the pay and
accommodation costs of staff of all
disciplines and their support staff
employed at headquarters levels
together with the costs of the
purchaser function. They exclude
administration support in hospital
departments and at other local
levels which is regarded as
operational expenditure.
2. 1993-94 figures are provisional
and the latest available. It is not
possible to provide information on
a consistent basis for the years
prior to 1991-92 because of changes
to the format of accounts as a
consequence of the NHS reforms.
Local Environment Charter
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the response he has received from county and district councils to the model charter, "Your Council and the Environment", issued on 25 November 1994; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Gwilym Jones: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales sent copies of the local environment charter to all the county and district councils in Wales at the end of November 1993. Feedback received suggests that the document was generally well received; and many councils in Wales have developed their own environmental charters.
Training for Work
Mr. Ron Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, what is the expected outturn for each training and enterprise council in Wales for training for work with respect to training weeks used by those training after finding work.
Mr. Redwood: The information requested is provided in the following table:
Number of employed status
training weeks expected to be
delivered in 1994-95
|Number
-------------------------------
Gwent |10,285
Mid-Glamorgan |11,435
North-East Wales |11,058
Powys |2,882
South Glamorgan |3,505
Targed |1,451
West Wales |6,262
Wales |46,878
NORTHERN IRELAND
Rateable Values
Mr. Dunn: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans he has to carry out a general revaluation of rateable values in Northern Ireland.
Sir John Wheeler: The current valuation list was published on 31 December 1975 and came into effect on 1 April 1976. Since that time, major shifts in rental patterns have taken place in Northern Ireland and these are not reflected in the net annual values appearing in the list. The relative antiquity of the present list has given rise to many anomalies between different areas and between different classes of property, particularly in the non-domestic sector. A revaluation of the whole of the non-domestic sector will, therefore, be undertaken by the Valuation and Lands Agency and work on this will commence immediately. The domestic sector is not being reviewed at this time but the situation will be kept under review.
The new valuation list will be published on or before 31 December 1996 and will come into effect on 1 April 1997. Any ratepayer who is aggrieved by his or her valuation will have a statutory right of appeal.
Turf Lodge Area, Belfast
Dr. Hendron: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) how many people in the Turf Lodge area of west Belfast are currently receiving social security benefits of any kind; (2) how many people in the Turf Lodge area applied for (a) disability living allowance and (b) attendance allowance in each of the last three years up to the end of 1994.
Mr. Moss: The information is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Dr. Hendron: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in the Turf Lodge area have been unemployed for longer than three years.
Mr. Ancram: The information requested is not available. However, the Turf Lodge area falls within the boundaries of the Upper Springfield ward and at January 1995, the latest date for which information is available, 355 people in this ward had been unemployed for longer than three years.
Dr. Hendron: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people in the Turf Lodge area are currently in receipt of (a) disability living allowance, (b) attendance allowance and (c) housing benefit.
Mr. Moss: Statistics on social security benefits administered by the Social Security Agency cannot be broken down into small geographic areas without incurring disproportionate costs. The number of people in the rented sector in the Turf Lodge area who are currently in receipt of housing benefit is 586. The number of owner-occupiers in the area in receipt of housing benefit cannot be provided as this information is only kept at district council level.
Dr. Hendron: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people from the Turf Lodge area are currently employed on action for community employment schemes.
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Mr. Ancram: Responsibility for the subject in question has been delegated to the Training and Employment Agency under its chief executive, Mr. Ian Walters. I have asked him for a reply to be given.
Letter from Ian Walters to Dr. Joe Hendron, dated 3 March 1995: Your recent parliamentary question to the Secretary of State regarding the number of people from the Turf Lodge area currently employed under ACE has been passed to me for reply.
In the absence of statistical information specifically relating to the Turf Lodge area, this response is based on ACE participants resident in the BT11 postal code area which, as your know, encompasses Turf Lodge. On 1st March 1995, 433 persons from the BT11 area were employed by 46 separate ACE Sponsors. Of course ACE Sponsors are not restricted to geographical areas from which they may recruit and it is therefore difficult to provide data which relates strictly to Turf Lodge.
You will be interested to know also that one of the organisations funded by the Agency under ACE is Turf Lodge Enterprise Scheme Ltd which primarily serves the Turf Lodge area. Although its employees are not recruited exclusively from the Turf Lodge area, the company currently receives funding to employ 70 people and can attract annual funding of more than £376,000.
I hope you find this information helpful.
Career Breaks
Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) men and (b) women applied for career breaks in his Department or its agencies; and how many have had their employment terminated in the last five years.
Sir John Wheeler: In the last five years, 338 males and 773 females in the Northern Ireland Departments and the Northern Ireland Office have applied for career breaks. Eleven of those individuals have had their employment terminated.
Framework Document
Mr. Boyes: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he is yet in a position to announce the result of his Department's inquiry into who was responsible for leaking parts of the framework document to The Times ; and if he will make a statement.
Sir John Wheeler: A senior member of the Northern Ireland Office who has had no previous involvement in the work of the joint framework document is conducting an inquiry into the source of the leak. A confidential report will be sent to the permanent under-secretary at the Northern Ireland Office upon completion of the inquiry and further action will be taken as necessary.
Punishment Beatings
Mr. Wilshire: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many punishment beatings have been recorded since the announcements of the ceasefires in 1994.
Sir John Wheeler: Since 31 August 1994 to 26 February 1995 there have been 88 punishment beatings recorded.
Prior Options Studies
Mr. Dunn: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans he has for a further programme of prior options studies to be undertaken by Northern Ireland Departments and the Northern Ireland Office.
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Sir John Wheeler: I have decided, following an examination of the remaining executive activities being undertaken within the Northern Ireland civil service and the Northern Ireland Office, that prior options studies would be appropriate for each of the areas listed. These studies will determine for each area whether agency status or other options would be appropriate. Comments from interested parties will be welcome when commencement of the prior options studies is announced.
|Area |Study completion
|date
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DANI |Forestry Service |December 1995
DANI |Agricultural Colleges |June 1996
DANI |Agricultural Development Service|June 1996
DANI |Veterinary Service |December 1996
DFP |Government Purchasing Service |May 1995
DFP |Recruitment |June 1995
In addition, the study previously announced of possible agency status for the superannuation branches of the Department of Finance and Personnel and the Department of Health and Social Services will now be extended to embrace the teachers' superannuation branch of the Department of Education of Northern Ireland. The proposed completion date for this enlarged study is June 1995. A prior options study of the urban affairs area in the Department of the Environment was completed in December and is under consideration, and a prior options study of the Department of Economic Development's companies registry has been similarly completed. These two studies are in addition to those included in the announcement made on 18 January 1994, Official Report , columns 521 22 .
ENVIRONMENT
Sites of Special Scientific Interest
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list each site of special scientific interest for which development permission has been given (a) by a local authority and (b) by his Department
Sir Paul Beresford: My Department maintains no central record of planning permissions in sites of special scientific interest.
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many times development permission on a site of special scientific interest has been refused by (a) local authorities and (b) his Department, for each year since 1979.
Sir Paul Beresford: My Department maintains no central record of planning permissions refused in sites of special scientific interest.
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many development plans on sites of special scientific interest have been refused by local authorities and consequently given permission on appeal to his Department, for each year since 1979.
Sir Paul Beresford: My Department maintains no central record of planning permissions given on appeal in sites of special scientific interest.
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Local Government Finance
Mrs. Currie: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) if he will list in rank order the metropolitan councils outside London showing the totals held in reserves at the latest available date;
(2) if he will list in rank order the London boroughs showing the totals held in reserves at the latest available date.
Mr. Robert B. Jones: The latest available estimates of the level of reserves as at 1 April 1994 are given below. The authorities are ranked by order of reserves excluding those held by schools, non-LMS; schools' reserves are shown separately, LMS. The first column, "Non-LMS reserves", includes funds, which may be substantial, held for specified purposes which may not be available to the council for general use--for example, funds to finance capital projects to which the authority is committed; and insurance funds where the authority is bearing its own insurance risk. These estimates are subject to amendment as authorities finalise their accounts. Compatible data on the use of balances in 1994 95 which would be needed to derive an estimate of the level of reserves at 1 April 1995 are not yet available.
Estimated level of reserves at 1 April 1994
|Non-LMS|LMS
|£000 |£000
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London boroughs
Islington |-5,773 |2,548
Brent |-214 |4,545
Lewisham |1,278 |7,993
Hounslow |2,576 |4,884
Kingston upon Thames |2,694 |1,803
Merton |2,717 |2,441
Lambeth |3,050 |450
Hammersmith and Fulham |3,948 |2,390
Richmond upon Thames |4,205 |2,116
Camden |4,690 |4,757
Waltham Forest |5,284 |5,330
Sutton |7,643 |1,808
Bexley |7,704 |4,699
Hillingdon |10,117 |2,675
Greenwich |10,950 |5,729
Tower Hamlets |11,911 |4,200
Hackney |12,521 |2,179
Havering |13,734 |3,676
Haringey |14,332 |4,312
Barnet |14,744 |4,508
Southwark |15,152 |2,723
Redbridge |15,417 |3,385
Newham |18,505 |4,695
Westminster |18,659 |3,722
Harrow |22,191 |2,699
Enfield |23,742 |5,527
Kensington and Chelsea |24,231 |1,382
Croydon |28,307 |5,606
Ealing |40,891 |2,791
Barking and Dagenham |41,766 |3,136
Wandsworth |54,547 |2,811
Bromley |74,093 |3,154
City of London |204,706|73
Metropolitan districts
Bradford |-2,139 |12,287
Sefton |3,034 |5,610
Wirral |3,992 |3,687
Walsall |4,262 |4,033
Tameside |4,977 |1,303
North Tyneside |5,269 |373
Knowsley |6,066 |1,817
Manchester |7,253 |2,912
Sheffield |7,326 |5,014
St. Helens |7,932 |4,262
Bury |8,000 |2,225
Liverpool |8,337 |9,486
South Tyneside |8,593 |1,859
Doncaster |9,373 |7,197
Wigan |9,774 |4,197
Calderdale |10,045 |2,311
Rochdale |10,582 |211
Bolton |10,850 |2,291
Stockport |11,183 |2,613
Coventry |11,194 |4,305
Wakefield |13,614 |3,686
Rotherham |14,342 |3,128
Salford |15,919 |2,476
Gateshead |16,636 |1,625
Wolverhampton |17,299 |4,301
Solihull |19,218 |4,581
Barnsley |19,412 |3,081
Kirklees |21,833 |4,214
Sandwell |23,093 |5,756
Trafford |26,964 |2,169
Dudley |27,066 |1,493
Sunderland |29,592 |2,053
Newcastle upon Tyne |31,659 |4,271
Oldham |33,508 |2,381
Leeds |41,207 |4,728
Birmingham |89,526 |16,696
Source:
Level of reserves (outturn) at 1/4/93 +/-
appropriations to/withdrawals from reserves
1993-94 (RS return for 1993-94).
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what plans he has to relax constraints on spending for local authorities and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Robert B. Jones: The Secretary of State announced his provisional capping criteria for local authorities on 1 February. He will announce his final criteria once authorities have set their budget requirements for 1995 96.
Sir Irvine Patnick: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the value of reserves for the core cities of Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield, Manchester and Leeds; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Curry: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by the Under- Secretary, the hon. Member for Hertfordshire, West (Mr. Jones) to my hon. Friend, the Member for Derbyshire, South (Mrs. Currie) earlier today. This provided data on the level of reserves held by each metropolitan district.
Mr. Tipping: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what extra finance would be available to local authorities in 1995 96 if the capping level for all local authorities was set at 3.2 per cent. above their 1994 95 budgets.
Mr. Robert B. Jones: If the capping limits for 1995 96 were set at 3.2 per cent. above local authorities' 1994 95 budgets--net of a local precepts and adjusted for various changes of function, boundary and financing--they would claw a little under £600 million of additional public expenditure compared to the cap limits implied by the current provisional capping criteria.
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Government Cars (Palace of Westminster)
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what action he proposes to take to stop Government drivers within the Government car pool parking their vehicles with their engines running within the precincts of the Palace of Westminster.
Sir Paul Beresford: Government car service drivers are under clear instructions while parked within the precincts of the Palace of Westminster to keep their vehicles engines to a minimum consistent with passenger and security requirements. That instruction has been re-inforced recently by GCS management.
Coalfields Communities Campaign
Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what consideration was given to the attendance of his Ministers at the launch by the Coalfields Communities Campaign of its campaign on pollution of rivers by water from abandoned mine workings.
Mr. Atkins: The invitation to attend was given the usual careful consideration. We were aware of the views of the Coalfields Communities Campaign in its response to the consultation paper "Paying for our Past" and in subsequent correspondence.
Council House Sales, Westminster
Mr. Gapes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many council houses were sold in each of the wards within the borough of Westminster in each of the last 10 years.
Mr. Robert B. Jones: Tables showing the available information on total council house sales for each English local authority for every financial year since 1979 80 and a cumulative total to March 1994 are in the Library.
Information about disposals at ward level is not collected by the Department.
Mr. Gapes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what response he had made to the district auditor's interim report on Westminster city council's designated sales policy; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Robert B. Jones: No response has been made. This is a matter for the local authority and its appointed auditor.
Ferro-Alloys Chimney (Emissions)
Mr. Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what have been the results of the monitoring that has been carried out by his Department of the emissions from the Ferro-Alloys chimney in Glossop, Derbyshire for the last 12 months for which figures are available, giving the average and maximum levels for each month.
Mr. Atkins: My Department has not carried out any monitoring itself. However, the company has supplied information about sulphur dioxide releases over the 12-month period to the end of February 1995. Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution is writing to the company to seek its consent to release this information, and I will be writing to the hon. Member.
Single-tier Local Authorities
Mr. Thurnham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many single-tier local authorities have
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formally merged their housing and social services departments.Mr. Robert B. Jones: This information is not collected centrally.
Single Regeneration Budget
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if the single regeneration budget has a designated fund for promoting the development of electronic village halls and cyber skills by local councils.
Ms Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the ratio of the single regeneration budget to the housing association-approved development programme in (a) the west Midlands and (b) London; and what considerations underlie the variation between (a) and (b) .
Mr. Curry: Planned single regeneration budget expenditure for 1994 95 is some £175 million in the west midlands and £374 million in London. Allocations made at the start of 1994 95 from the Housing Corporation's approved development programme were some £126 million and £465 million respectively.
The ratios sought are thus (a) 1.4:1 and (b) 0.8:1. As the two programmes have different objectives, outputs and areas of operation there is no reason why there should be any relationship between these ratios.
Non-hazardous Waste
Ms Ruddock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) for what reason the planned European Commission timetable for the development of the proposed draft directive on the incineration of non- hazardous waste has been delayed beyond that originally proposed by Directorate General XI;
(2) what is the current status of the proposed draft EU directive on the incineration of non-hazardous waste; and if he will make a statement;
(3) what representations have been made by his Department regarding the lack of cost-benefit analysis contained in the draft EU proposal for a directive on the incineration of non-hazardous waste.
Mr. Atkins: The Commission tabled a first draft of this proposed directive in April 1994 and a second draft in August 1994. Three meetings of Government experts have been held, two of which included representatives of trade associations and environmental bodies, and there has also been a meeting of a technical sub-group. I believe that the Commission is currently considering the proposal in the light of the adoption last December of the hazardous waste incineration directive--94/67/EC--and the proposal for a directive on integrated pollution prevention and control.
My Department has made a number of written and verbal representations concerning the importance of assessing both costs and benefits in coming forward with proposals for new standards for non-hazardous waste incineration.
Housing Stock Transfers
Mr. Denham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment pursuant to his answer of 7 February, Official Report, column 132 36 , if he will publish a list
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showing the date on which each local authority conducted a ballot on proposed large-scale voluntary transfer of their housing stock.Mr. Robert B. Jones: The 64 local authorities which have balloted tenants on proposed large-scale voluntary transfers are listed below, together with the month and the year in which each ballot took place.
Successful ballot results
Local authority |Date of ballot
----------------------------------------------------------
Chiltern |September 1988
Sevenoaks |December 1988
Newbury |April 1989
South Wight |June 1989
Medina |July 1989
Rochester |July 1989
Swale |October 1989
North Bedfordshire |October 1989
Mid Sussex |December 1989
Broadland |January 1990
East Dorset |January 1990
South Buckinghamshire |July 1990
Tonbridge and Malling |July 1990
Ryedale |August 1990
Suffolk Coastal |November 1990
Christchurch |November 1990
Tunbridge Wells<1> |April 1991
|June 1991
Bromley |October 1991
East Cambridgeshire |April 1992
Surrey Heath |June 1992
Breckland |August 1992
West Dorset |October 1992
Hambleton |December 1992
Epson and Ewell |June 1993
Havant |June 1993
Hart |July 1993
Leominster |September 1993
South Ribble |October 1993
Hertsmere |October 1993
Penwith |October 1993
South Shropshire |November 1993
North Dorset |November 1993
Thanet |November 1993
Wychavon |November 1993
Mid Bedfordshire<2> |December 1993
Basingstoke and Deane<2> |April 1994
Windsor and Maidenhead<2> |June 1994
Vale of White Horse |June 1994
Maldon |July 1994
Malvern Hills |August 1994
Kennet |November 1994
Rushmoor |December 1994
<1> Held two consecutive ballots.
<2> Proposed split transfer to two housing associations.
Two ballots held.
Unsuccessful ballot results Local authority |Date of ballot ---------------------------------------------------- Torbay |October 1988 Rochford |November 1988 Salisbury |December 1988 Arun |January 1989 Three Rivers |March 1989 Canterbury |November 1989 Brentwood |November 1989 Redbridge |December 1989 Bournemouth |January 1990 Wokingham |April 1990 South Holland |July 1990 North Kesteven |December 1990 Hillingdon |July 1992 Kingston |August 1992 Woodspring |August 1992 Mendip |July 1993 Rother |October 1993 Westminster |October 1993 Maidstone<1> |November 1993 Poole<1> |November 1993 Thanet<1> |November 1993 Mid Bedfordshire<1> |December 1993 Cherwell<1> |April 1994 Castle Point |September 1994 <1> Proposed split transfer to two housing associations. Two ballots held.
Government Environmental Policy
Mr. Dafis: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what role the meetings of all Green Ministers play in the integration of environmental considerations into all aspects of Government policy.
Mr. Atkins: Meetings of Green Ministers provide a valuable opportunity to discuss collectively aspects of environmental integration of common interest, such as energy conservation, environmental management and the forthcoming Environment White Paper. The meetings do not replace the individual responsibility of each Green Minister to ensure that environmental considerations are integrated into the strategies and policies of his or her Department.
Local Government Reorganisation
Mr. Robathan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what response was received to the consultation paper on arrangements for local taxation appeals and disputes in the event of a structural or boundary change in respect of any local government area in England; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Curry: The list of responses received has been placed in the Library of the House; copies of individual responses may be obtained through the Library. Regulations will be introduced shortly to give effect to the following measures to be applied in respect of all local taxation appeals and disputes in the event of a structural or boundary change:
if an authority has been abolished, and the corresponding listing officer, valuation officer or valuation tribunal ceases to exist, the case is to be handled by the successor bodies;
if the case has been listed for hearing by a valuation tribunal, and notice of the hearing has been served, or it has been agreed that it should be disposed of on the basis of written representations and notice thereof has been served, there is to be no change in arrangements;
in all other circumstances, the acquiring authority, listing officer, valuation officer and valuation tribunal, as the case may be, is to assume responsibility for the case; and
if the case relates in part to the period before the structural or boundary change, the relinquishing billing authority (if it elects to do so), listing officer and valuation officer should be a party to the proceedings.
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