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Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the individual value of each (a) compulsory early retirement and (b) flexible early retirement package received by civil servants leaving her Department on grounds of limited efficiency in each of the last five years. [22085]
Mr. Sackville: The information on reasons for awarding different types of early retirement is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Patients Charter
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) on how many occasions each family health services authority failed to provide a list of doctors within two working days to patients wishing to change general practitioners in each of the last eight quarters; [22095]
(2) on how many occasions each family health services authority failed to send a patient's medical records to his or her new general practitioner (a) within two working days for urgent cases and (b) within six weeks for all other cases in each of the last eight quarters. [22094]
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Mr. Malone: Nationally, there has been a considerable improvement in meeting the patients charter standard for transfer of urgent and routine medical records. The percentage of patient records not transferred within two working days has fallen from 52 per cent. at 30 June 1993 to 16 per cent. at 31 December 1994. Those not transferred within six weeks has fallen from 34 per cent. to 19 per cent. for the same period.
At 30 June 1993, 2 per cent. of patients were not allocated to a general practitioner within two days and at 31 December 1994 the patients charter was fully met for the third successive quarter. The information will be placed in the Library showing the performance of individual family health services authorities in meeting each of the patients charter standards for the period 1 April 1993 to 31 December 1994. Data to 31 March 1995 are not yet available.
Environments for Quality Care"
Mrs. Beckett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the total cost for the production and distribution of the NHS executive booklet "Environments for Quality Care: Health Buildings in the Community" first published in 1994. [22003]
Mr. Sackville: The cost for production of the national health service executive booklet "Environments for Quality Care: Health Buildings in the Community" was £60,000. The cost of distribution cannot be quantified. Copies were mainly sent in bulk to family health services authorities which in turn forwarded the booklet to all general practitioner practices in England.
Young Alzheimer's Disease
Mrs. Jane Kennedy: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were suffering from (a) young Alzheimer's disease and (b) severe brain injury (i) nationally and (ii) in Merseyside, broken down by health authority area for each of the last five years. [22334]
Mr. Bowis: It is estimated that 17,000 younger people below the age of 65 suffer from dementia in the United Kingdom. No figures are available for severe brain injury as it is not a recognised medical term.
Medical (Professional Performance) Bill
Mr. Spearing: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she has received the draft regulations that the General Medical Council expects to implement consequent to the coming into force of the Medical (Professional Performance) Bill; and if she will place them in the Library. [22212]
Mr. Malone: No. The rules cannot be made until the Bill has been enacted. The rules will be made in the form of statutory instruments, subject to the negative resolution procedure.
Mr. Spearing: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the oral statements of the Minister for Health in the Special Standing Committee on 25 April, Official Report , columns 748-49; if she will list the names of professional and patient organisations consulted in relation to the Medical (Professional Performance) Bill and place copies of their responses in the Library. [22214]
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Mr. Malone: The names of the professional and patient organisations which were consulted by the General Medical Council are already in the public domain. They were listed in appendix A of the General Medical Council's consultation paper "Proposals for new Performance Procedures", published in May 1992. Copies of the document are available in the Library.
Availability of the responses are a matter for the General Medical Council or the individual organisations to decide on.
Fostering Regulations
Ms Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will place in the Library copies of the responses to her consultations with organisations on the proposed changes to fostering regulations; and when she expects these consultations to be complete. [22219]
Mr. Bowis: Responses are due by 19 May and I shall consider placing a summary of them in the Library after this date.
NHS External Expenditure
Mrs. Beckett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the amount of money in real terms spent by each health authority, outside the NHS in (a) 1991 92, (b) 1992 93, (c) 1993 94 and the same figures for each trust. [19809]
Mr. Malone [holding answer 21 April 1995]: Spending outside the national health service has been defined for the purpose of this parliamentary question as non-pay revenue expenditure plus agency staff costs. Non-pay expenditure includes such items as clinical and general supplies and services, establishment expenses, transport and moveable plant, premises and fixed plant, capital, purchase of health care from the non-NHS bodies, external contract staffing and consultancy services and miscellaneous expenses, for example, net bank charges.
This information will be placed in the Library.
SCOTLAND
Tourist Board (Membership)
Mr. McFall: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the nominees for the Argyll and the Islands, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs tourist board; and if he will make a statement on when elections will take place for this body, whether an individual has to reside in the area covered by the board and if an individual can be a member of more than one board simultaneously. [20520]
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: My right hon. Friend will appoint the first members of the controlling body of the board on the basis of nominations from the existing area tourist boards and from local authorities. Nominations will be sought shortly. Thereafter the controlling body will be appointed by the new board itself from within its own membership.
We are at present consulting on the terms of the statutory scheme which will establish the new board. It is likely, however, that the requirements for membership will follow current practice whereby residence within the
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area covered by a board is not essential and whereby bodies or individuals may also be members of more than one board.Geese, Islay
Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the number of (a) barnacle and (b) Greenland white-fronted geese killed under licence on Islay to prevent agricultural damage in each winter since 1985 86; and how many returns in respect of each of the licences issued were incomplete. [21180]
Sir Hector Monro: The information is as follows:
Year |Barnacles reported|White-fronts
|shot |reported shot
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1985-86 |541 |0
1986-87 |791 |0
1987-88 |505 |76
1988-89 |752 |6
1989-90 |915 |45
1990-91 |1365 |62
1991-92 |914 |37
1992-93 |0 |0
1993-94 |13 |8
Returns, including supplementary information provided at the request of the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department, are generally satisfactory.
Out-patient Waiting Times
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the average waiting time for an ear, nose and throat appointment in (a) Inverclyde, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland in each of the last five years. [21089]
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The requested information for 1993 and 1994 is shown in the table below. Corresponding information for earlier years is not available centrally.
New Out-patient Referrals Average waiting times (
days) for ENT
clinics in Inverclyde, Strathclyde and Scotland
1993 1994
|Mean |Median|Mean |Median
--------------------------------------------------
Inverclyde |45 |37 |48 |44
Strathclyde<1> |63 |51 |56 |45
Scotland |58 |49 |54 |46
<1> Clinics held within Greater Glasgow, Argyll
and Clyde, Ayrshire and Arran and Lanarkshire
health board areas.
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the average waiting time for a hearing aid clinic in (a) Inverclyde, (b) Strathclyde and (c) Scotland in each of the last five years. [21090]
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The information requested is not available centrally.
Class Sizes
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate the cost of adopting a policy which ensures that no class size in schools exceeds 30 pupils in number. [21091]
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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Current class size limits are incorporated in the scheme of salaries and conditions of service determined by the Scottish Joint Negotiating Committee for Teaching Staff in School Education. As these matters are therefore primarily for local authorities to determine, my right hon. Friend has made no estimate of the cost of variation in existing class size limits.
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the number and percentage of pupils
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in secondary schools in (a) January 1980, (b) January 1991, (c) January 1992, (d) January 1993, (e) January 1994 and (f) January 1995 being taught in classes of(i) under 30 and (ii) 40 or more in each local education authority. [21845]Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The available information is given in the tables. This is derived from returns made by education authority secondary schools in the September 1979, September 1991 and September 1993 school censuses. From 1983, information on class size was collected biennially in the school census.
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Pupils in subject classes of under 30 at September
Education Authority Number Per cent.
|<1>1979 |<2>1991 |<2>1993 |<1>1979 |<2>1991 |<2>1993
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Scotland |327,328 |3,176,473|3,360,688|83.4 |95.6 |94.6
Borders |5,849 |66,505 |73,002 |85.5 |99.6 |99.3
Central |17,611 |187,216 |201,246 |82.4 |92.7 |97.2
Dumfries and Galloway |9,008 |103,674 |110,950 |81.0 |98.3 |99.3
Fife |20,395 |223,259 |240,205 |81.9 |97.5 |95.9
Grampian |29,684 |335,079 |341,418 |89.3 |95.4 |95.8
Highland |13,037 |154,612 |171,172 |85.8 |97.1 |95.7
Lothian |43,657 |394,441 |412,359 |87.9 |97.5 |94.9
Strathclyde |159,342 |1,415,974|1,504,629|81.5 |94.1 |92.6
Tayside |24,139 |237,774 |245,017 |83.9 |97.9 |96.9
Orkney |1,286 |15,172 |15,501 |89.1 |100.0 |100.0
Shetland |1,416 |17,685 |19,316 |92.0 |99.5 |99.8
Western Isles |1,904 |25,082 |25,873 |82.8 |99.6 |100.0
Strathclyde Divisions:
Argyll and Bute |4,331 |43,852 |45,838 |90.9 |94.6 |98.3
Ayr |23,457 |246,170 |268,932 |77.6 |97.0 |96.4
Dunbarton |22,875 |233,262 |240,707 |85.3 |95.7 |92.7
Glasgow |48,645 |324,023 |348,905 |82.2 |93.3 |92.8
Lanark |36,877 |336,679 |367,221 |80.1 |92.8 |92.2
Renfrew |23,157 |231,988 |233,026 |79.2 |92.3 |87.9
<1> Subject classes at a single timetable period in census week.
<2> All subject classes running at census week; pupils are counted once for each subject
taken.
The figures for 1993 exclude two schools for which information is not available.
Pupils in subject classes of 40 or over at September
Education Authority Number Per cent.
|<1>1979|<2>1991|<2>1993|<1>1979|<2>1991|<2>1993
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Scotland |1,032 |369 |6,209 |0.3 |0.0 |0.2
Borders |0 |0 |185 |0.0 |0.0 |0.3
Central |0 |119 |0 |0.0 |0.1 |0.0
Dumfries and Galloway |0 |0 |40 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
Fife |0 |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
Grampian |53 |0 |1,634 |0.2 |0.0 |0.5
Highland |220 |0 |94 |1.4 |0.0 |0.1
Lothian |99 |0 |657 |0.2 |0.0 |0.2
Strathclyde |95 |250 |2,907 |0.0 |0.0 |0.2
Tayside |481 |0 |692 |1.7 |0.0 |0.3
Orkney |0 |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
Shetland |0 |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
Western Isles |44 |0 |0 |1.9 |0.0 |0.0
Strathclyde Divisions:
Argyll and Bute |0 |0 |0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
Ayr |40 |0 |1,737 |0.1 |0.0 |0.6
Dunbarton |0 |0 |136 |0.0 |0.0 |0.1
Glasgow |0 |46 |157 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
Lanark |55 |0 |0 |0.1 |0.0 |0.0
Renfrew |0 |204 |877 |0.0 |0.1 |0.3
<1> Virtually all classes of 40 or more involve some form of team teaching.
<2> Subject classes at a single timetable period in census week.
Note:
All subject classes running at census week; pupils are counted once for each
subject taken.
The figures for 1993 exclude two schools for which information is not
available.
Cervical Smear Programme, Greenock
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if all of the recommendations contained in the report of the committee of inquiry into the maladministration of the cervical smear programme at the Inverclyde Royal hospital, Greenock, have been implemented; and if he will make a statement. [21615]
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The report of the inquiry into Cytopathology at Inverclyde Royal hospital recommended action by Argyll and Clyde health board local management and the Scottish Office Home and Health Department.
I am advised that all of the recommendations which applied to local management have been implemented by Argyll and Clyde health board. The Common Services Agency, which has responsibility for the national breast screening co-ordinating unit, was instructed to develop and maintain quality assurance, performance monitoring and evaluation of the cervical screening programme. The unit continues to develop appropriate standards. A key appointment in this new structure is a national co-ordinator for both breast and cervical screening programmes. On the first advertisement, no suitable candidate was found and an interim co-ordinator was appointed. The permanent post will be re-advertised shortly.
A working group to formulate the policy for implementation of internal quality control in all laboratories carrying out cervical cytopathology was set up in February 1994 under the chairmanship of one of the Department's medical officers, and comprises members from the Royal College of Pathologists, the British Society of Clinical Cytology, the Institute of Biomedical Science and representatives from each of the three other UK Departments of Health. The working group has now submitted its report to the four territorial chief medical officers.
Other recommendations which have been implemented or are in the course of implementation are as follows:
In March 1994, a promotional leaflet encouraging women to attend for screening was distributed to all GPs and clinics.
In August 1994, booklets and videos on the current best practice in taking cervical smears produced by the British Society for Clinical Cytology were distributed to all GPs, practice nurses and other health professionals.
In March 1995, guidelines on failsafe actions for the follow-up of women with abnormal cervical smear histories were distributed to health boards, NHS trusts, GPs, practice nurses and laboratories providing a cervical cytology service.
By June 1995, revised guidance should be issued to health boards on purchasing, management and organisation of the cervical cytology service including staffing and appropriate levels of training. I am copying this answer to the hon. Member for Renfrew, West and Inverclyde (Mr. Graham) for information.
Residential Homes for Elderly Citizens
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement about the terms of reference given to his working party which is reviewing the ownership, management and monitoring of privately owned residential homes for elderly citizens; and if he will list the members of the aforesaid committee. [21844]
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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Following is the remit of the Scottish Office working group on residential care home registration procedures:
Purpose
(a) To review, in the light of recent incidents, current registration and inspection procedures and local authority powers under the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, as amended by the Registered Establishments (Scotland) Act 1987.
(b) To review current Scottish Office guidance and practice guidance on these issues.
(c) To have regard to the financial and operational implications of regulatory control for independent sector providers.
(d) To have regard to the parallel exercise relating to the registration and inspection of nursing homes.
(e) To recommend to Ministers such changes as may be necessary concerning (a) to (c).
Objective
To provide local authorities with the necessary framework to achieve effective and equitable regulation of independent sector establishments in order to protect the welfare and interests of residents.
The members of the working group represent the main interest groups as follows:
The Scottish Office
Mr. G. Anderson (Chair)
Ms P. McCaw
Mr. H. MacKenzie
Mr. A. McNaughton
Mrs. J. McNeill
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
Mr. A. Robb, Director, Grampian Regional Council Social Work Department
Association of Directors of Social Work
Miss M. Hartnoll, Director, Strathclyde Regional Council Social Work Department (alternative Mr. R. Winter, Deputy Director) Social Work Department Registration and Inspection Units Mr. I Middleton, Head of Unit, Lothian Regional Council Social Work Department
Local Authority Law and Administration
Mr. R. Marr, Assistant Chief Executive, Borders Regional Council British Federation of Care Home Proprietors
Mr. H. Ross
Scottish Association of Care Home Owners
Mr. C. Cowie
Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
Mr. D. Bookbinder
Voluntary Sector
Mr. I. Baillie, Director of Social Work, Church of Scotland Users Advocacy
Mr. J. Jackson, Executive Director, Alzheimer Scotland--Action on Dementia
Ravenscraig Hospital, Greenock
Dr. Godman: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what recent discussions he has engaged in about the proposed closure of the Ravenscraig hospital, Greenock; and if he will make a statement. [21846]
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Argyll and Clyde health board is considering the role of Ravenscraig hospital as part of the review of community care services for the area. It would not be appropriate to anticipate the board's final view, or the outcome of any future consultation exercise.
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Endangered Species
Mr. Morley: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the population of (a) pine martens, (b) peregrine falcons, (c) hen-harriers and (d) sparrowhawks in each year since 1980; and what is his estimate of the amount of damage each species does to game birds. [21848]
Sir Hector Monro: There are no annual population estimates for any of these species in Scotland. The most recent population estimates are as follows:
|Number
---------------------------------------------------
Pine Marten |3,500 (1993)
Peregrine Falcon |639 pairs (1991)
Hen Harrier |570 pairs (1989)
Sparrowhawk |No estimate
Estimates of the effect of these species on game bird populations are not available, but damage certainly takes place.
NHS Trust Boards
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish an up-to-date list of all the chairs and non-executive directors of each NHS trust board, indicating the gender and occupation of each individual. [21356]
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer1 May 1995]: As the information requested is lengthy, I shall arrange for it to be placed in the House Library.
Health Boards
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish an up-to-date list by region of all the chairs and non-executive members of each health board, indicating the gender and occupation of each individual. [21359]
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton [holding answer1 May 1995]: The information requested in respect of the 15 health boards in Scotland is as follows:
|Ocupation
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Argyll and Clyde Health Board
Chairman:
Mr. Malcolm Jones |Company director
Non-Executive Members:
Mrs. Elizabeth Lander |Company director
Mr. John Mullin |Voluntary sector administrator/regional councillor
Miss Moira Leitch |Retired medical social worker
Mr. Robert Anderson |Retired banker
Mr. Ian Macdonald |Air traffic controller
Mrs. Sheenah Nelson |Primary school teacher
Ayrshire and Arran Health Board
Chairman:
Mr. James Donaldson |Electrical engineer
Non-Executive Members:
Mr. Gerald Curran |Company director
Dr. Kenneth Fegan |General medical practitioner
Mr. John Greene |Solicitor
Miss Katherine Paterson |Retired nursing officer
Mrs. Elizabeth Reid |Health carer
Mr. William Young |Company director
Borders Health Board
Chairman:
Mr. David Kilshaw |Solicitor
Non-Executive Members:
Miss Margaret Marshall |Chartered secretary
Mr. Derek Deans |Chartered accountant
Rev. Alistair Bennett |Minister of religion
Dr. Alistair Paton |Retired general medical practitioner
Lady Sanderson |Business consultant
Mr. Hamish Steven |NFU secretary
Dumfries and Galloway Health Board
Chairman:
Mrs. Jean Tulloch |Partner in farming business
Non-Executive Members:
Dr. Robert Mack |General medical practitioner
Mr. Frank Manson |Chartered accountant
Mr. Hugh McFadzean |Farmer
Mrs. Victoria Jardine-Paterson |Housewife
Dr. John Stubbs |Retired anaesthetist
Mrs. Margery Thomson |Housewife
Fife Health Board
Chairman:
Mr. Raymond Baker |Director, GEC Scotland Ltd.
Non-Executive Members:
Dr. Alan Alexander |General medical practitioner
Miss Joyce Smith |Regional councillor
Mr. Gordon Thomson |Assistant Director, ICAS
Mrs. Avril Campbell |Company director
Mrs. Mary Dunsmore |Company director
Mrs. Martha Steedman |Retired headmistress
Forth Valley Health Board
Chairman:
Mrs. Jane Isbister |Former school teacher
Non-Executive Members:
Mr. Ewan Bell-Scott |Solicitor
Rev. Jean Gallagher |Minister of religion
Mrs. Kristeen Smith |Vice-chairman Scotland and
|emergency services organiser, WRVS
Mr. Keith Harding |Retailer/district councillor
Mr. Peter Joynson |Chartered surveyor
Mr. Colin Stroyan |Solicitor
Grampian Health Board
Chairman:
Dr. Calum MacLeod |Company chairman
Non-Executive Members:
Mrs. Carroll Ferguson |Housewife/farmer
Dr. Jean Stringer |University dean
Professor Derek Ogston |Professor of clinical medicine
Mr. Keith Arbuthnott |Estate owner/manager
Mr. Gordon McLellan |Senior executive
Mrs. Elizabeth Park |Assistant solicitor
Greater Glasgow Health Board
Chairman:
Sir Robert Calderwood |Retired local authority chief executive
Non-Executive Members:
Professor Gordon Dickson |University dean
Mr. William McCreath |Solicitor
Mr. Andrew Scobbie |Retired managing director
Dr. Fiona Marshall |General medical practitioner
Rev. Roderick Campbell |Minister of religion
Mrs. Joan MacKenzie |Housewife
Professor Brian Whiting |Professor of clinical pharmacology
Highland Health Board
Chairman:
Mr. John Robertson |Company director
Non-Executive Members:
Mr. John Ligertwood |Retired bank manager
Mrs. Angela Macpherson |Housewife/farm partner
Mrs. Caroline Thomson |Housewife/company director
Mrs. Lorraine Mann |Principal, research analyst
Mr. Colin Neilson |Retailer
Dr. John MacDonald |Retired general medical practitioner
Lanarkshire Health Board
Chairman:
Mr. Ian Livingstone |Solicitor
Non-Executive Members:
Dr. Angus Cameron |General medical practitioner
Mrs. Linda McDowall |Chief executive, East Kilbride business centre
Mr. James Robertson |Former regional councillor
Mrs. Magdalene Melvin |Teacher
Mr. John Martindale |Retired police officer
Mr. John Thomson |Voluntary sector director
Lothian Health Board
Chairman:
Dr. John Baynham |Company director
Non-Executive Members:
Mr. John Campbell |Chartered surveyor
Mr. Richard Findlay |Deputy chairman and chief executive of Radio Forth Group
Mrs. Vanessa Gaskell |Former GP practice manager
Mrs. Gertrude Barton |Former nurse
Professor David Carter |Regius professor of surgery
Mrs. Lorna Smith |Solicitor
Orkney Health Board
Chairman
Mr. Eoin Leslie |Retired pharmacist
Non-Executive Members:
Mrs Phyllis Brown |Training administrator
Mrs. Edgar Gibson |Retired assistant head teacher
Captain Marcus Gunn |Ships master
Mrs. Elizabeth Kerr |Housewife
Mr. Jim Rendall |Sub-postmaster/postman
Dr. James Walker |General medical practitioner
Shetland Health Board
Chairman:
Mrs. Florence Grains |Housewife/islands councillor
Non-Executive Members:
Mrs. Mary Colligan |Retired teacher
Mr. Brian Gregson |Retired RAF squadron leader
Dr. Michael Hunter |General medical practitioner
Mr. Robert Johnson |Retired business man
Mrs. Thelma Leslie |Teaching auxiliary
Mr. John Telford |Chartered accountant
Tayside Health Board
Chairman:
Mr. James Macfarlane |Company director
Non-Executive Members:
Mr. Malcolm May |Chief officer, council for voluntary services
Mrs. Vera Joiner |Managing director
Mr. Harry Nicoll |Retired local authority director of finance
Professor Richard Olver |Professor of child health
Mr. Ian Sandison |Retired company director
Vacancy
Western Isles Health Board
Chairman:
Mr. Andrew Matheson |Pharmacist
Non-Executive Members:
Mr. Jeffrey Sedgley |Head teacher
Mr. John Harrison |Deputy head teacher
Mrs. Christina MacAskill |Housewife/seasonal tourist officer
Mrs. Fiona MacDonald |Solicitor
Mr. Murdo MacLennan |Building society manager
Dr. Marten Walker |General medical practitioner
European Social Fund
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list those projects in privatised companies which have received European social fund support since privatisation indicating (a) the level of funding and (b) the dates when it was received. [21297]
Mr. Kynoch [holding answer 1 May 1995]: My right hon. Friend took over responsibility for ESF under objectives 1, 2 and 5b in Scotland from 1 January 1994. No European social fund support has been given to projects in privatised companies since then.
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list those public projects which received European social fund support and were subsequently privatised over the last 10 years, indicating (a) the level of funding and (b) the dates when it was received. [21296]
Mr. Kynoch [holding answer 1 May 1995]: Since my right hon. Friend took responsibility for ESF in Scotland from 1 January 1994, no European social fund support has been given to public projects which were subsequently privatised.
Conflicts of Interest
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland on how many occasions during the last five years (a) civil servants and (b) special advisers in his Department or its agencies have declared conflicts of interest; and how many instructions have been issued about their retention, disposal or management. [21396]
Mr. Lang [holding answer 1 may 1995]: In my Department and agencies for which I am responsible, any conflict of interest involving a civil servant would have been dealt with in accordance with established guidance. Records of the numbers of cases are not held centrally.
In the last five years, however, no special advisers have declared a conflict of interest.
Market Testing
Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will estimate the cost of employing consultants in connection with market- testing programmes in which his Department has been engaged since their inception. [21375]
Mr. Lang [holding answer 1 May 1995]: Between 1 April 1992 and 31 March 1995, the cost of employing external consultants to give support to the "Competing for Quality" programme of the Scottish Office has been £1.4 million.
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