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Domiciliary Care
Mr. Barry Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what monitoring his Department has undertaken of public and domiciliary care; and if he will make a statement. [2926]
Mr. Richards: The Welsh Office collects the following information form local authorities:
care arrangements, including those for domiciliary care, made each quarter following assessments of individuals' needs;
the number of people receiving different types of care arranged by the local authorities at 31 March each year;
local authority annual budgets and expenditure for home care arrangements and annual expenditure on private and voluntary non-residential care.
Figures on privately arranged domiciliary care are not collected centrally.
Private Finance Initiative
Sir Wyn Roberts: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what progress has been made with the private finance initiative in Wales: and if he will make a statement. [3486]
Mr. Hague: Good progress is being made. Twenty-five projects, with a combined capital value of some £1 billion are being examined at the moment with a view to taking them forward under the initiative. I estimate that £360 million of private finance will be generated by the PFI in Wales over the next three years.
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Mr. Jon Owen Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will recover the grants paid to Chemical bank following its decision to close its branch in Wales. [3681]
Mr. Hague:
Discussions with companies are commercial in confidence and I cannot comment on particular cases. However, all offers of regional selective assistance contain clawback provisions which are deployed where appropriate.
Mr. Ainger:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he expects the Welsh Development Agency to make its contribution to Leader and 5b projects in west Wales. [3738]
Mr. Hague:
This is an operational matter for the agency. I have asked the chief executive to write to the hon. Member and will arrange for a copy of his letter to be placed in the Library of the House.
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Mr. Dafis:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make it his policy to require landlords to issue a specific prior notice concerning shorthold tenancies; and if he will make a statement. [3388]
Mr. Gwilym Jones:
The consultation paper "The Legislative Framework for Private Renting", issued in July, outlined proposals to change current notification arrangements for shorthold tenancies. My right hon. Friend and I are currently considering the responses.
Mr. Dafis:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will for each county and for Wales as a whole the total number of ballots held in (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) in total to determine whether grant-maintained status should be adopted, indicating the numbers of votes cast for and against the proposals; and what percentage of schools held such ballots in each case. [1855]
| Votes cast | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Authority | Type of school | Number of ballots | For grant-maintained status | Against grant-maintained status | Percentage of schools holding ballots(15) |
| Clwyd | Primary Secondary | 5 (16)8 | 598 4,074 | 735 2,104 | 2.1 21.9 |
| Dyfed | Primary Secondary | 1 1 | 27 37 | 155 426 | 0.3 3.2 |
| Gwent | Primary Secondary | 1 (16)6 | 151 2,432 | 44 1,699 | 0.5 15.2 |
| Gwynedd | Primary Secondary | 1 1 | 195 84 | 48 311 | 0.5 4.3 |
| Mid Glamorgan | Primary Secondary | 1 0 | 26 0 | 2 0 | 0.3 -- |
| Powys | Primary Secondary | 1 1 | 36 209 | 12 499 | 1.0 7.7 |
| South Glamorgan | Primary Secondary | 2 (16)5 | 122 1,687 | 273 1,560 | 1.3 15.4 |
| West Glamorgan | Primary Secondary | 0 4 | 0 1,771 | 0 3,053 | -- 14.8 |
| Wales | Primary Secondary | 12 26 | 1,155 10,294 | 1,269 9,652 | 0.7 10.1 |
(15) These figures represent the number of schools holding a grant-maintained ballot since the Education Reform Act 1988 as a percentage of
LEA maintained and grant-maintained schools existing at September 1995.
(16) These figures include schools which have held more than one ballot.
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Autism
Mr. Hain: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many children of school age there are with communication autistic spectrum disorders; and how many places there are in schools appropriate to their needs. [2711]
Mr. Richards: According to returns made by schools to the January 1995 schools census, 240 pupils in Wales had statements of special educational needs in which autism was identified as the major need. All these pupils were in maintained schools: 146 were in special schools, 79 were in primary schools, 14 were in secondary schools and one was in a nursery school.
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Mr. Wigley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the latest number of staff employed for each civil service grade by his office, indicating the percentage who are Welsh speaking where this is known. [2067]
| Grade | Number of people | Percentage who have notified they have some ability in the use of Welsh |
|---|---|---|
| G1 | 1 | -- |
| G2s and equivalents | 2 | 50 |
| G3s and equivalents | 11 | 9 |
| G4s and equivalents | 6 | 33 |
| G5s and equivalents | 48 | 15 |
| G6s and equivalents | 29 | 10 |
| G7s and equivalents | 159 | 16 |
| SEOs and equivalents | 139 | 24 |
| HEOs and equivalents | 312 | 17 |
| EOs and equivalents | 488 | 17 |
| AOs and equivalents | 570 | 16 |
| AAs and equivalents | 457 | 8 |
| Industrial and museum support grades | 120 | 13 |
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Measles and Rubella Immunisation
Mr. Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the monitoring and aftercare support programme established in conjunction with the vaccination campaign instituted in November last year against measles and rubella, covering (a) Blaenau Gwent and (b) Wales. [2766]
Mr. Richards: I am content that there is a well- established satisfactory system in place, covering the United Kingdom as a whole, to monitor adverse reactions to all medicines, including vaccines. Aftercare support, following vaccination, would be a matter for the clinical judgment of an individual patient's practitioner.
European Funding
Mr. Ainger: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) how much matching funding the Welsh Development Agency is committing to Leader and 5b projects in Wales this year; and if he will list those projects; [3739]
(2) if he will list those Leader and 5b projects that have received official approval by his Department this financial year; how much each will receive from the EU and from each of the partners involved on the projects; and how many jobs will be supported or created in each project; [3737]
(3) if he will list the Leader and 5b projects the Welsh Development Agency contributed to in each of the last two financial years; how much each received; how many jobs were supported or created; and what was the contribution from other partners on the projects; [3736]
(4) how much the Welsh Development Agency contributed to Leader and 5b projects in each of the last two financial years. [3732]
Mr. Hague: I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my reply in the Library of the House.
Breast Cancer Mortality
Mrs. Clwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what research he has initiated to examine the reasons for the higher rates of mortality from breast cancer in Wales relative to the rest of the United Kingdom. [4003]
Mr. Richards: Whilst a number of factors influence the mortality rate from breast cancer, the higher rate in Wales may partly be a reflection of its higher incidence in Wales. The Government's priorities in this area have
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been directed at achieving a reduction in the overall mortality rate from this disease, through improved diagnosis and treatment.
European Education Programmes
Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the organisations which bid for the provision of the advisory and information service for further and higher education establishments in Wales on European matters, when put out to tender by the Welsh Office; how many had knowledge and experience of further and higher education in Wales and the activities relevant to this field in the European Union; how many had the support of organisations representing and involved in the relevant activity areas in Wales and the European Union; and what considerations led to the selection of Euclid of Liverpool for this contract. [3945]
Mr. Richards: The following seven organisations tendered for the provision of services for European education programmes in Wales:
City college, Manchester and Cardiff institute of higher education--joint tender
Cynefin Environmental
Euclid
Friarsgrove Management Services Ltd.
Gwent Tertiary college
Penzer Allen Ltd.
Welsh joint education committee.
One tenderer declared expressions of support for its tender by other organisations.
The contract was awarded to Euclid because its tender met the specification at the lowest price.
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