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Child Support Commissioners (Appeals)

Ms Lynne: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many appeals to a child support commissioner have been (a) lodged and (b) determined. [4681]

Mr. Jonathan Evans: Between April 1993, when the Child Support Act 1991 came into force and 6 December 1995, 50 appeals had been lodged with the child support commissioners and 18 determined.

OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

Family Planning

Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many and which non-governmental organisations are being funded by the seedcorn fund for family planning and reproductive health projects; in which countries they are based; what are these projects; what is the amount of funding granted; and for what length of time. [4840]

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Mr. Hanley: ODA's seedcorn fund for reproductive health presently supports 13 projects. Further details are given in the table.

Organisation	Title	Country	Budget £000s	Time in years
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine	Voucher system to improve health services and control sexually transmitted diseases	Nicaragua	227	3
University of Cambridge	Action-orientated initiative relating to female genital mutilation and fistulae	Ethiopia	17	1
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine	Subsidising adolescent sexually transmitted disease services through a private laboratory	Nigeria	91	2
Population Services International	Social marketing of female condoms	Bolivia, Guinea, Haiti, South Africa and Zambia	99	1
AVSC International	Factors affecting the safe provision of IUDs: A service delivery perspective	Russia	122	2
Family Care International	Safe motherhood health posts--A community outreach strategy to maternal mortality and morbidity	Mexico	80	2
Marie Stopes International	Research to develop blueprints for family planning and reproductive health products and services	Non-country specific	26	1
Population Services International	Social marketing for reproductive health	Russia	127	2
International Planned Parenthood Federation	Contraceptive social marketing	Latvia	218	2
Population Services International	Improving health care in Zambia through the franchising of private sector clinics	Zambia	52	1
Population Concern	Community-based reproductive health services for young people	South Africa	280	2
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Expanding choice for women: initiating and evaluating a new emergency contraceptive service in Fortaleza	Brazil	172	2
Marie Stopes Consultancy	To ascertain the practicalities and economics of initiating a social publishing programme in Almaty	Kazakhstan	6	1

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Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the total budget of the seedcorn funding for family planning and reproductive health projects for each of the years 1994 and 1995. [4839]

Mr. Hanley: ODA's seedcorn fund for reproductive health was established in 1995 to support small-scale, innovative projects to improve reproductive health in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Expenditure in the 1994-95 financial year was £69,000. The budget for the 1995-96 financial year is £472,000.

Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest

Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to consult non-governmental organisations on the Government's involvement in the consultative group to assist the poorest. [5192]

Mr. Hanley: ODA advisers have taken part in setting up an informal network of British NGOs and other organisations interested in micro-finance. In September, they briefed a meeting of relevant NGOs, hosted by Action Aid, on the formation and operation of the consultative group to assist the poorest. The network will be meeting again in February 1996, and ODA advisers will use the opportunity to consult with NGOs on the current progress at the consultative group.

Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to ensure that credit from the consultive group to assist the poorest initiative will be directed at the very poorest. [5191]

Mr. Hanley: The consultative group to assist the poorest is a forum where donors supporting the provision if micro-financial services exchange experiences, and review options for extending and improving the impact of their programmes. The difficulties of providing appropriate financial services, both credit and savings facilities, to the very poorest is a central issue for all donors. ODA is actively feeding the lessons from its programmes in countries such as Bangladesh and Kenya into the CGAP process, and likewise learning from the experiences of other donors' programmes.

Micro-enterprise Development

Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what steps he is taking to develop micro-enterprises in bilateral United Kingdom aid programmes. [5190]

Mr. Hanley: There are a growing number of micro-enterprise development activities within the current UK bilateral aid programme. These are principally in

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Bangladesh, India, Kenya, South Africa and also in Poland and Russia. There are also some in other Asian and African countries. We are now supporting well over 100 projects, with a total value of nearly £100 million in the small enterprise sector. We are looking, within available resources, to further develop the small and micro-enterprise component of our bilateral aid.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL

High Court Cases

Ms Harman: To ask the Attorney-General on how many occasions for each year since 1960 High Court judges have referred details of a case to the Director of Public Prosecutions. [5548]

The Attorney-General: The Crown Prosecution Service does not maintain such records.

WALES

"General Household Survey"

Mr. Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what plans he has to ensure the statistics collected in Wales as part of the United Kingdom's annual "General Household Survey" permit a reliable disaggregated report on the state of wealth and poverty in Wales to be isolated from the aggregated United Kingdom database. [5023]

Mr. Gwilym Jones: I understand from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, which conducts the "General Household Survey" on a Great Britain basis, that there are no plans at present to increase the coverage in Wales. Further information relating to Wales is available from a range of other sources including the "Family Expenditure Survey" and the "Family Resources Survey".

Accidents in Schools

Mr. Barry Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many fatal and major accidents occurred in the schools of Wales, by local education authority area in (a) 1990-91, (b) 1991-92, (c) 1992-93, (d) 1993-94; and if he will make a statement. [4801]

Mr. Richards: I refer the hon. Member to the information I provided on 30 November, a copy of which I have placed in the Library of the House.

Access to Work Scheme

Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what evaluation the Welsh Office had undertaken into the working of the access to work scheme; and if he will make a statement. [5244]

Mr. Gwilym Jones: None. The access to work programme for disabled people was introduced from 6 June 1994 to extend and simplify the existing special schemes provided by the Employment Service. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment announced a review of the scheme in July.

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Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many representations his Department has received on the working of the present access to work scheme; and if he will make a statement. [5245]

Mr. Gwilym Jones: None. The access to work programme is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment.

School Expenditure

Mr. Barry Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much has been spent per head per pupil in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) 1993-94 and (ii) 1994-95; what is the figure for the 1996-97 year; and what account has been taken in that figure of the increase in the school population. [5247]

Mr. Richards: Figures for 1993-94 are currently being calculated. As soon as they become available they will be incorporated in a new issue of the Welsh Office's "Education Finance Bulletin", a copy of which will be placed in the Library of the House. Local government expenditure outturn figures for 1994-95 will not be available before spring 1996; spending per head figures will be calculated as soon as possible after that and incorporated in the "Education Finance Bulletin". Figures for 1996-97 will not be available until 1998. Changes in school population influence the calculation of standard spending assessments for local authorities but actual expenditure on education is determined by the local authorities themselves.

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