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Mr. Bowis: We have been closely monitoring the introduction of the care programme approach in a survey of district health authorities earlier this year. From those responding it was clear that many districts were making rapid progress towards full implementation and over one third had already achieved this. We identified implementation of the care programme approach as a priority for the national health service in the priorities and planning guidance for 1995 96 and we have issued a revised "The Health of the Nation" mental illness key area handbook which contains further advice on implementing it. We have also commissioned an audit tool from the Royal College of Psychiatrists' research unit to enable district health authorities and trusts to monitor their performance. We are continuing to monitor the position closely to ensure that all districts achieve full implementation.
Ms Jowell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research her Department is undertaking or funding into the impact and effectiveness of the Mental Health Act code of practice on decision making by those with powers under the Mental Health Act 1983, with particular reference to the effect of the revisions made to the code in November 1993 on the use of those powers to admit and detain patients in hospital for assessment or for treatment. [30180]
Mr. Bowis: None at present. We have given wide publicity to the 1993 revisions to the code clarifying the grounds on which a patient may be admitted to hospital under the Act, and have no reason to believe that they are not properly understood.
Ms Jowell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on how many occasions she has been requested by the Mental Health Act Commission in accordance with section 121(4) of the Mental Health Act 1983 to direct it to keep under review the care and treatment of any patients other than those detained under the Act to which patients the requests related; and how she responded. [30182]
Mr. Bowis: The Commission made a request in 1986 for its remit to be extended to hospital patients other than those detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. Similar requests have been made with regard to patients subject to guardianship and those who would be receiving after-care under supervision. We have told the commission that we
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consider its overriding priority to be the protection of patients detained under the 1983 Act. This remains our view and we do not consider that an extension of its remit would be justified at this stage. We shall however keep this matter under review.Ms Jowell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to amend the Mental Health Act code of practice; and when draft revisions will be published for consultation. [30184]
Mr. Bowis: We shall be proposing amendments to the code to cover the provisions of the Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Bill, if this receives parliamentary approval. They will be published for consultation after Royal Assent and when the necessary regulations have been laid.
Ms Jowell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what theoretical and practical training is received by general medical practitioners as part of their general syllabus in assessing the risk of harm which a person's mental disorder may pose to that person's health or safety or to the safety of others. [30186]
Mr. Malone: Training in psychiatry is an important part of the basic medical education common to all doctors. The body responsible for general practice vocational training--the joint committee on postgraduate training for general practice--expects general practitioners to be knowledgeable about the impact of psychological factors upon illness and of illness upon patients and their families and skilled in recognising and making appropriate decisions about all problems presented by their patients. The specific curricular arrangements are the responsibility of regional postgraduate organisations. Further training and experience are provided as part of the continuing education of practitioners.
Ms Jowell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the organisations and individuals which have made
representations to her Department during the last two years requesting her to establish a review of the Mental Health Act 1983. [30188]
Mr. Bowis: The Mental Health Act Commission submitted proposals for a review of the Mental Health Act 1983 to my right hon. Friend in September 1993. This was followed by a joint representation by the commission, the Law Society and the Institute of Psychiatry. In her response, my right hon. Friend said that while the Act as a whole would need to be reviewed at some stage this would have to take account of the impact of the Government's proposals for supervised discharge and related initiatives in the field of mental health. Arguments for a review of the Act have been put forward by a number of other organisations and individuals including some of those who responded to our consultation on legal powers on the care of mentally ill people in the community and on Mental Health Act guardianship.
Ms Jowell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what arrangements exist to monitor and evaluate compliance by district health authorities and NHS trusts with the requirements of HSG(94)5; how many district health authority areas she has assessed as having fully and sufficiently implemented this guidance; and what steps her Department is taking to ensure that those remaining introduce the necessary arrangements. [30194]
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Mr. Bowis: The introduction of supervision registers has been closely monitored by the national health service executive. Registers have been established in all districts. We are continuing to monitor the position to ensure that the registers are operating effectively.
Mr. Nicholas Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioners there are in each region approved under section 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983; and what steps are taken to ensure that a section 12 approved doctor can be contacted in an emergency. [31050]
Mr. Bowis: Regional directors of public health are responsible for ensuring that there are sufficient suitably trained and experienced doctors approved under the Act, and that the necessary out-of-hours cover is available. We are satisfied that these requirements are being properly met.
Protection of Young People at Work
Ms Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which groups and bodies she is consulting over her proposal to implement the EC directive on the protection of young people at work; when this consultation is due to end; what documents pertaining to this process have already been issued and to whom; what discussions she or her Department had with the Department of Employment over this issue; and if she will make a statement. [31023]
Mr. Bowis: We shall be consulting a wide range of groups and bodies in due course. We are in touch with all other Government Departments with an interest.
Liverpool Blood Transfusion Centre
Mr. Wareing: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many representations she has received opposing proposed changes to the Liverpool blood transfusion centre. [31137]
Mr. Sackville: Ministers have received 88 letters about the National Blood Authority's proposals for the Liverpool blood transfusion centre since August 1994. In addition, there have been two early-day motions and one parliamentary question relating to the proposals for the Liverpool centre. This is in addition to other representations covering wider areas which include Liverpool.
Mr. Wareing: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the proposed changes to, and the future of, the Liverpool blood transfusion centre. [31139]
Mr. Sackville: This is a matter for the National Blood Authority. We expect it to make its revised recommendations for the organisation to the National Blood Service shortly.
Capital Expenditure
Mrs. Beckett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the capital expenditure on (a) new hospitals, (b) other new medical centres or units and (c) repairing existing NHS building in each of the last 16 years, excluding private capital. [28641]
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Mr. Sackville [holding answer 15 June 1995]: Information is not available in the form requested. Total capital expenditure in each of the last 16 years is shown in the table. The definition of capital has changed during the 16-year period; therefore comparisons between years cannot readily be made. For 1993 94, the threshold value for the definition of capital expenditure was increased from £1,000 to £5,000. This technical change to accounting policy reduced capital expenditure as money spent on tangible assets which was formerly classed as capital was in 1993 94 recorded as revenue. In 1993 94, over £100 million was transferred from capital to revenue to take account of the increase to the capital threshold.
|Total capital
|expenditure
Year |(£000)
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1993-94 |1,719,271
1992-93 |1,809,021
1991-92 |1,713,116
1990-91 |1,485,404
1989-90 |1,292,212
1988-89 |1,087,936
1987-88 |1,001,444
1986-87 |936,291
1985-86 |891,947
1984-85 |795,404
1983-84 |713,947
1982-83 |686,386
1981-82 |671,386
1980-81 |563,174
1979-80 |416,387
1978-79 |367,352
Note:
1. The table shows figures for regional
health authorities, district health
authorities and the London Postgraduate
Teaching Hospitals (SHAs). Figures
post-1991-92 include NHS trusts.
2. Figures for 1993-94 are provisional.
3. The figures for 1991-92 to 1993-94
represent capital additions.
4. The figures pre-1991-92 represent
capital expenditure.
Source:
NHS (England) Summarised Accounts.
Crown Immunity
Mr. Foulkes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list all areas within (a) her Department (b) agencies under her Department's control and (c) organisations for which she has ministerial responsibility to which Crown immunity applies; what consideration she has given to removing this; and if she will make a statement. [28648]
Mr. Sackville [holding answer 15 June 1995]: The detail requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost, but the general position is as follows.
An Act of Parliament is presumed not to bind the Crown, and thus the Department of Health and its agencies, unless the contrary intention is clearly stated, or there is a necessary implication that the Crown is to be bound. Ministers and civil servants do not necessarily share the Crown's immunity from criminal prosecution. Crown immunity was removed from those national health service bodies which had until then enjoyed it, by section 60 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 with effect from 1 April 1991, subject to certain exemptions provided for in schedule 8 to that Act.
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TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Brent Spar
Mr. Betts: To ask the President of the Board of Trade how much public money has been spent to date on Shell's activities with regard to the proposed sinking of the Brent Spar oil platform. [30816]
Mr. Eggar: Consideration of Shell's proposals for disposal of the Brent Spar has taken three years and has involved a number of Government Departments and agencies. It is not practicable to quantify the cost in terms of public expenditure.
Mr. Dobson: To ask the President of the Board of Trade what requests for additional information about future options for the Brent Spar were made to Shell UK by Ministers or officials in his Department subsequent to the Department receiving the Brent Spar abandonment best possible environmental option analysis in early 1994; what date, and by whom and what method, such requests were made; what was the response of Shell UK; and if he will make a statement. [31082]
Mr. Eggar [holding answer 26 June 1995]: The decision to dispose of the Brent Spar at a deep-sea site was the best practicable environmental option. That decision was arrived at after three years of detailed work. Regular discussions with Shell throughout that time ensured that the Government were able to carry out a full assessment of the various alternatives. From 13 possible options, six were studied in detail and two exhaustively. It was concluded that deep-sea disposal was preferable to onshore dismantling. Any proposals that Shell now puts forward relating to land disposal will need to address the problems which led to the identification of deep-sea disposal at the best practicable environmental option.
Mr. Steen: To ask the President of the Board of Trade what assessment he is currently making about the viability of relocating the Brent Spar oil rig to Brixham to form the northern arm of the harbour protection scheme; and if he will make a statement. [30990]
Mr. Eggar: None--it is for Shell UK Ltd. and Esso Exploration and Production UK Ltd. as owners of the installation, to come forward with proposals for its future.
Iraq (Export Credit Guarantees)
Mr. Byers: To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 30 March, Official Report , column 777 , if he will identify which categories of military list goods were supported by the Export Credits Guarantee Department; and which companies were involved. [30868]
Mr. Ian Taylor [holding answer 26 June 1995]: The
defence-related equipment supported by ECGD over the period 1985 to 1990 did not include armaments of any sort. It ranged from radio communications equipment to power supplies, video recording systems and diesel test equipment.
It has been the policy of successive Administrations not to disclose details of exporters' Contracts unless the parties agree.
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Ministerial Visits
Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the President of the Board of Trade pursuant to his answer of 21 March, Official Report , column 183 , if he will list all those occasions on which he did not give prior warning to hon. Members. [30752]
Mr. Heseltine [holding answer 26 June 1995]: As far I am aware, I always let hon. Members know when I visit their constituencies in an official capacity. If the hon. Member knows of occasions where this has not occurred, perhaps he could write to me.
Car Imports
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the President of the Board of Trade what is his estimate of the relative effect of (a) the reduction in the tariff, (b) the removal of tariff protection against EEC countries and (c) the monetary and exchange rate policies of successive United Kingdom Governments on the increase in car imports since 1970; and if he will show the share of the United Kingdom market taken by the EEC, the other eight EEC countries and the rest of the world in 1968, 1972, 1979, 1990 and in the latest 12 months for which figures are available. [29948]
Mr. Ian Taylor: My Department does not make such estimates, which would be very imprecise because of the large number of other factors affecting car production and trade.
UK car production is at its highest for 20 years, with the number of cars exported running at over three times that of a decade ago, while the number imported has fallen by almost 20 per cent. in the last five years.
Figures of UK registration by country of final assembly are in the table; comparable data for 1968 are not available.
UK new car registrations by country of final
assembly
Per cent.
|1972 |1979 |1990 |1994
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Belgium |0.0 |6.3 |5.5 |7.9
Luxembourg |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
France |7.5 |11.5 |11.1 |14.4
Germany |5.9 |13.5 |17.5 |10.8
Italy |3.0 |5.4 |3.0 |2.6
Netherlands |0.9 |0.6 |2.0 |1.3
Ireland |0.0 |0.7 |0.0 |0.0
Denmark |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
Total above |17.3 |38.1 |39.1 |36.9
Rest of world |6.2 |18.2 |17.7 |20.1
Total imported |23.5 |56.3 |56.7 |57.0
United Kingdom |76.5 |43.7 |43.3 |43.0
Total |100.0|100.0|100.0|100.0
BMARC
Mr. Byers: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will place in the Library copies of all board minutes and reports to the board of BMARC which were obtained to enable inspectors to carry out their report into the reasons for the collapse of the company and retained by his Department. [31008]
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Mr. Jonathan Evans [holding answer 26 June 1995]: No. Documents obtained by inspectors under statutory compulsory powers should in principle be used only for the purposes envisaged by the legislation. While I will always consider whether to release such documents for particular purposes where it is in the public interest to do so, it would not be appropriate for me to make information obtained during the course of an inspection generally available.
Imports
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the President of the Board of Trade (1) if he will publish for the industries which correspond most closely with those listed in table
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15.10 of the monthly digest statistics, figures for ratio 1 import penetration on the United Kingdom market for manufactures for the years (a) 1968, (b) 1971, (c) 1979, (d) 1988 and (e) 1993; [29945](2) whether he will publish, for the industries which correspond most closely to those listed in table 15.10 of the monthly digest of statistics, figures for ratio 3 United Kingdom exports, United Kingdom sales of manufacturers for the years (a) 1968, (b) 1971, (c) 1979, (d) 1988 and (e) 1993. [29950]
Mr. Ian Taylor: The information is not available for 1968. Comparable data for all four remaining years are available for only four industries, as given in the table. Data for other industries are not available on a comparable basis and could be produced only in a limited number of cases, at disproportionate cost.
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Industrial Output
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish output figures for the latest possible three months for the industries listed in table 15.10 of the monthly digest of statistics, c50 (95) 109 first release together with the change since 1988 and 1990 in the volume of output, imports and exports. [29448]
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Mr. Ian Taylor: The index of production for the level of detail required is not yet available. Table 1 gives the most detailed information available for Q1 1995.
Import and export figures by SIC(92) division are not available prior to 1990. Available figures at constant prices are given in table 2.
Table 1: Index of production: seasonally adjusted 1990=100
Percentage change
since
SIC 92 sub-section |SIC 92 division |Description |IOP Q1 1995 |1988 |1990
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CB |13, 14 |Other mining and quarrying |71.7 |-34.3 |-28.3
DA |15, 16 |Food drink and tobacco |103.9 |5.7 |3.9
DB |17, 18 |Textile and textile products |90.4 |-14.6 |-9.6
DC |19 |Leather and leather products |81.9 |-28.1 |-18.1
DD |20 |Wood and wood products |85.8 |-16.0 |-14.2
DE |21, 22 |Pulp, paper and paper products; printing and
| publishing |101.9 |9.6 |1.9
DF |23 |Solid fuels and nuclear fuels; oil refining |116.5 |17.3 |16.5
DG |24 |Chemicals and man-made fibres |116.4 |21.8 |16.4
DH |25 |Rubber and plastic products |113.9 |23.1 |13.9
DI |26 |Non-metallic mineral products |95.5 |-6.9 |-4.5
DJ |27, 28 |Basic metals and metal products |86.6 |-14.1 |-13.4
DK |29 |Machinery and equipment |87.1 |-7.2 |-12.9
DL |30, 31, 32, 33 |Electrical and optical equipment |115.8 |24.4 |15.8
DM |34, 35 |Transport equipment |92.1 |3.5 |-7.9
DN |36, 37 |Manufacturing nes |86.3 |-7.5 |-13.7
Source:
CSDB Detailed Index of Production.
Table 2: Exports and Imports
Percentage change
since
Quarter 1 1995 Quarter 1 1990
|Exports |Imports |Exports |Imports
SIC 92 Division |Description |£ million |£ million
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13 |Mining of metal ores |4.0 |191.6 |-8.8 |13.6
14 |Other mining and quarrying |736.2 |673.0 |24.1 |-17.2
15 |Manufacture of food products and beverages |1,695.1 |2,186.5 |32.8 |-0.9
16 |Manufacture of tobacco products |268.5 |40.2 |86.8 |19.7
17 |Manufacture of textiles |641.1 |1,091.7 |2.8 |4.6
18 |Manufacture wearing apparel; dressing fur |401.7 |1,239.9 |29.8 |39.7
19 |Leather tanning; manufacture luggages, etc. |166.7 |451.4 |9.6 |2.9
20 |Manufacture of wood and wood, cork, etc. goods |44.2 |454.5 |13.1 |-21.8
21 |Manufacture of pulp, paper and paper products |546.4 |1,308.5 |44.1 |8.0
22 |Publishing, printing and record media |439.4 |314.7 |21.7 |12.8
23 |Manufacture coke, petroleum, products and nuclear|886.1 |418.1 |23.8 |-36.6
24 |Manufacture chemicals and chemical products |4,353.6 |3,461.9 |22.6 |23.7
25 |Manufacture of rubber and plastic products |710.3 |829.8 |17.7 |8.9
26 |Manufacture other non-metal mineral products |415.6 |352.2 |31.9 |-13.0
27 |Manufacture Of basic metals |1,934.1 |1,988.7 |35.8 |25.0
28 |Manufacture fabricated metal, not machines |547.3 |636.3 |3.8 |-0.8
29 |Manufacture of machinery and equipment nec |2,706.2 |2,218.8 |-8.5 |-23.3
30 |Manufacture Of office machinery and computers |2,774.8 |2,654.2 |73.7 |30.4
31 |Manufacture of electrical machinery etc. Nec |914.8 |1,051.5 |10.1 |20.9
32 |Manufacture of Radio, Tv and equipment |2,287.0 |1,959.1 |115.5 |42.3
33 |Manufacture medical and precision instruments |915.9 |807.6 |1.6 |-11.4
34 |Manufacture Of motor vehicles, trailers etc. |2,540.4 |3,006.9 |32.3 |-11.7
35 |Manufacture of other transport equipment |1,225.7 |775.1 |-20.6 |-52.1
36 |Manufacture of furniture; manufacturing Nec |561.5 |720.7 |32.2 |-5.3
Plant-derived Fuel
Mr. Spearinig: To ask the President of the Board of Trade what support is being given by his Department to research or development into internal combustion engines whose main source of fuel is from vegetable or cereal-based oils. [30809]
Mr. Page [holding answer 26 June 1995]: The Department of Trade and Industry is part funding, through its renewable energy programme, a European Community project, led by Ormrod Diesels of Skelmersdale, to establish whether pyrolysis oils derived from wood and cereal straw have the prospect of providing an economically attractive and environmentally acceptable fuel for internal combustion engines.
Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation
Mr. Tipping: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list (a) the bids that were successful under non-fossil fuel obligations 1 and 2, (b) those projects that are now operational and (c) those projects that are currently under
construction. [29907]
Mr. Page: The status of individual contracts is a commercial matter for the parties to the contracts--the Non-fossil Purchasing Agency Ltd. as agent of the 12 regional electricity companies, and the generators. The Department does not hold information on projects under construction. Aggregate information on projects that were awarded contracts under the first and second renewables orders--SI 1990/1859 and SI 1991/2490 respectively--and on projects that were operational as at 31 March 1995, is as follows:
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Contracted Operational
Projects Projects
|Capacity |Capacity
Technology |Number |MW (DNC) |Number |MW (DNC)
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NFFO-1(1990)
Hydro |26 |11.851 |21 |10.001
Landfill Gas |25 |35.496 |20 |31.676
MIW |4 |40.63 |4 |40.63
Other |4 |45.48 |4 |45.48
Sewage Gas |7 |6.445 |7 |6.445
Wind |9 |12.211 |8 |11.703
Total: |75 |152.113 |64 |145,935
NFFO-2(1991)
Hydro |12 |10.857 |7 |10.052
Landfill Gas |28 |48.449 |26 |46.393
MIW |10 |271.48 |2 |31.5
Other |4 |30.15 |1 |12.5
Sewage Gas |19 |26.859 |19 |26.859
Wind |49 |84.431 |25 |51.909
Total: |122 |472.226 |80 |179.213
Total
(NFFO-1+2): |197 |624.339 |144 |325.148
Source: Energy Technology Support Unit.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Firearms
Mr. Colvin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has now received the report from Messrs Ernst and Young on the design of a recording and reporting system which would allow income and expenditure on the administration of firearms licensing to be monitored more closely; and if he will publish it. [29303]
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Mr. Maclean: The report was received by the Home Office in July 1992 and is publicly available on request to the Home Office. Copies have been placed in the Library.
Mr. Colvin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make available the full report into firearms fees, including all supporting tables, provided to his Department in 1992 by Messrs Ernst and Young. [29310]
Mr. Maclean: A copy of the Ernst and Young report was placed in the Library on 20 July 1994.
Mr. Colvin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police forces are currently processing firearms licensing at a cost below the level of fees charged; and if he will estimate the amount of excess contribution thereby made by firearms users to general police funds in these police areas. [29311]
Mr. Maclean: This information is not available.
Mr. Colvin: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) which police forces now have in place a mechanism for taking into account the views of the shooting public in respect of their administration of firearms licensing as recommended by Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary; [29312]
(2) if he will list for each police force in England and Wales the average time taken from the receipt of an application for (a) a shotgun certificate and (b) a firearm certificate to the issue of that certificate; [29313]
(3) if he will list for each police force in England and Wales how long before the due date for the renewal of a shotgun or firearm certificate a reminder is sent to the certificate holder. [29314]
Mr. Maclean: This information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Child Prostitution
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what powers he has to prosecute British subjects who procure child prostitutes in other countries. [28738]
Mr. Maclean [holding answer 26 June 1995]: The Government deplore the sexual exploitation of children, wherever it may occur. Our own law against such abuse is rightly severe. However, our courts' jurisdiction is territorially based rather than nationality based, and we therefore have no power to prosecute British nationals who commit offences against children in other countries.
The United Kingdom is, however, willing to extradite its nationals to stand trial in the places where they are alleged to have offended, subject to the usual safeguards. We are also willing to provide legal assistance to foreign authorities who wish to prosecute British nationals, under the Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990. In addition, we are currently considering ways in which it may be possible to improve liaison between our police and foreign enforcement agencies, and whether
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there is any scope for further Government action to tackle the dreadful problem of child prostitution and sex tourism.Police Pensions
Mr. Mackinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the estimated cost to each police authority in the south- east of England of funding from revenue police pensions in the years 1995 96 and 1996 97; and what proportion these sums represent of each police authority's budget. [30260]
Mr. Maclean [holding answer 26 June 1995]: The table sets out the budgeted net expenditure on police pensions in 1995 96, as estimated by police forces in the south-east of England.
£ million
|Budgeted net
|Total revenue|pensions |Percentage
Force |budget |expenditure |of budget
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Metropolitan Police |1,628.68 |133.74 |8.2
City of London |61.33 |4.68 |7.6
Kent |158.10 |16.63 |10.5
Surrey |84.10 |7.79 |9.3
Sussex |145.78 |14.44 |9.9
Essex |147.80 |13.68 |9.3
Hertfordshire |87.04 |6.06 |7.0
Thames Valley |194.41 |16.85 |8.7
Equivalent budget information for 1996 97 is not available. It will be for the individual police authorities, in setting their budget requirements for 1996 97, to decide the appropriate provision to set aside to meet pension costs.
Police Funding
Mr. Mackinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make available in the Vote Office copies of the report, "The Critical Analysis of the Police Funding Formula", prepared by Price Waterhouse, which was commissioned by his Department. [30261]
Mr. Maclean [holding answer 26 June 1995]: I have arranged for copies to be placed in the Library.
Mr. Mackinlay: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the losses to police authorities in the south-east of England that would arise from the removal of the area cost adjustment in police authorities' funding in the year 1996 97; and if he will make a statement. [30262]
Mr. Maclean [holding answer 26 June 1995]: The table shows the effect, in 1995 96, of ceasing to pay the area cost adjustment to police authorities. The 1996 97 quantum will not be determined until later this year.
The area cost adjustment reflects the extra costs incurred in providing a service in the more expensive areas of the south-east, and we have no plans to abolish it. My right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment will, however, consider the views of the police and local authority associations about any
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refinements to the calculation of the area cost adjustment which may be put forward.
Effect of removing area cost adjustment factor
]£ million
|Without |Percentage
|With ACA |ACA |change
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Avon and Somerset |147 |154 |5
Bedfordshire |55 |55 |-1
Cambridgeshire |62 |66 |5
Cheshire |93 |98 |5
Cleveland |70 |74 |5
Cumbria |54 |57 |5
Derbyshire |88 |92 |5
Devon and Cornwall |146 |153 |5
Dorset |62 |65 |5
Durham |68 |71 |5
Dyfed-Powys |46 |48 |5
Essex |146 |142 |-3
Gloucestershire |56 |59 |5
Greater Manchester |326 |343 |5
Gwent |49 |52 |5
Hampshire |168 |167 |-1
Hertfordshire |87 |81 |-6
Humberside |98 |103 |5
Kent |158 |155 |-2
Lancashire |155 |163 |5
Leicestershire |89 |94 |5
Lincolnshire |55 |58 |5
Merseyside |214 |225 |5
Metropolitan Police |1,529 |1,383 |-10
Norfolk |71 |75 |5
North Wales |66 |69 |5
North Yorkshire |66 |70 |5
Northamptonshire |55 |58 |5
Northumbria |178 |187 |5
Nottinghamshire |109 |115 |5
South Wales |152 |160 |5
South Yorkshire |146 |154 |5
Staffordshire |101 |106 |5
Suffolk |58 |61 |5
Surrey |80 |75 |-7
Sussex |145 |143 |-1
Thames Valley |192 |187 |-3
Warwickshire |47 |50 |5
West Mercia |97 |102 |5
West Midlands |327 |345 |5
West Yorkshire |248 |261 |5
Wiltshire |58 |61 |5
City of London |54 |35 |-35
Total (including City) |6,270 |6,270 |0
Notes:
1. The above estimates the effect of removing the area cost
adjustment on distribution of the 1995-96 quantum.
2. Allocations shown are the total of police SSA and grant i.e.
without capital financing and other SSAs and SSA reduction grant.
3. A special payment of £130 million to the Metropolitan police
has been assumed, to cover their national and capital city
functions.
Border Controls
Sir Ivan Lawrence: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps have so far been taken by the European Commission in respect of its intention to bring forward a directive relating to the free movement of persons and possible abolition of internal border controls. [30054]
Mr. Nicholas Baker: In March this year, Commissioner Monti indicated his intention to bring forward proposals for Community legislation on the free
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movement of persons crossing the internal frontiers of the European Union. These proposals have not yet been published by the Commission. As we have frequently made clear, the Government will take whatever steps are necessary to maintain our frontier controls.Money Laundering
Sir Ivan Lawrence: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the countries with which the United Kingdom has signed (a) bilateral agreements to supplement the 1990 Council of Europe convention on laundering, search, seizure and confiscation of the proceeds of crime and (b) other bilateral agreements to facilitate mutual assistance in respect of money laundering and confiscation. [30052]
Mr. Maclean: The United Kingdom has concluded one bilateral agreement under article 39(2) of the 1990 convention, with the Netherlands. It entered into force on 2 June 1994. Other bilateral confiscation agreements have been concluded as follows:
All crime agreements in force Country |Date in Force ------------------------------------------------------ 1. Sweden |1 April 1992 2. Canada |17 September 1993 3. Nigeria |30 October 1993 4. Italy |8 May 1994 5. India |1 May 1995
All crime agreements to enter into force Country |Date of signature ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. United States of America |6 January 1994 2. Thailand |12 September 1994
Drug agreements in force Country |Date in force ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. United States of America |11 April 1989 2. Switzerland |21 June 1990 3. Australia |12 September 1990 4. Mexico |1 October 1990 5. The Bahamas |24 October 1990 6. Spain |15 December 1990 7. Saudi Arabia |20 September 1991 8. Bahrain |1 January 1992 9. Ecuador |1 March 1993 10. Barbados |1 June 1993 11. Colombia |25 November 1993 12. Uruguay |19 January 1994 13. Argentina |1 June 1994 14. Panama |1 September 1994 15. Malaysia |1 January 1995
Drug agreements to enter into force Country |Date of signature ------------------------------------------------------ 1. Guyana |17 July 1991 2. South Africa |2 September 1992 3. Paraguay |6 July 1994 4. Bolivia |25 August 1994 5. Grenada |6 February 1995
Organised Crime
Sir Ivan Lawrence: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what changes have taken place in the arrangements for co- ordination of the work of United Kingdom Government bodies concerned with fighting organised crime from those set out in paragraphs 40 to 43 of his Department's November 1993 memorandum to the Home Affairs Committee on organised crime, HC18 II if this Session. [30055]
Drug-related Crimes
Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children and
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young people under the age of 14 years were arrested in connection with drug-related crimes for each of the last 10 years; how many were subsequently charged; and what is the breakdown of these figures (a) by local authority, (b) region and (c) police authority area. [30741]
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