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Departmental Property
Mr. Malcolm Bruce:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his estimate of the annual cost to his Department and his Department's agencies and non-departmental public bodies of their empty and under-utilised properties for (a) 1979-80, (b) 1989-90, (c) 1991-92, (d) 1993-94, (e) 1994-95, (f) 1995-96 and (g) 1996-97. [11405]
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Mr. Hague:
Welsh Office accommodation is part of the common user estate held in the name of the Secretary of State for the Environment and managed by Property Holdings, a directorate of DOE. Surplus accommodation and space on the common user estate are the responsibility of Property Holdings. Information for the common user estate will be provided by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment in his reply.
Information is not held centrally for agencies and NDPBs which are not housed on the common user estate.
Mr. Flynn:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his latest calculation of the numbers of Welsh jobs that have been moved out of Wales in each of the past five years indicating those which have been relocated (a) elsewhere in the United Kingdom, (b) elsewhere in the EU and (c) elsewhere in the world. [12167]
Mr. Gwilym Jones:
No estimates of this kind have been made by the Welsh Office.
Mrs. Clwyd:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will be making additional funds available to build a new school at Pemrhiwceiber in the Cynon valley. [12738]
Mr. Richards:
My right hon. friend is making available more than £508 million for local authority capital spending in 1996-97.
It is for individual local authorities to determine how the resources that are made available are allocated between services, including education, in the light of their statutory responsibilities and their perception of local needs and priorities.
Mr. Morgan:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what consultations he has had with trusts and health authorities in relation to the performance of consultants who are listed in the waiting times information bulletin of the Welsh Health Common Services Authority published in November 1995 as having total combined out-patient and in-patient waiting times in excess of 104 weeks. [12532]
Mr. Hague:
The purpose of the waiting times information bulletin is to help GPs offer informed advice to those patients who need to be referred to hospital. Patients are, of course, entitled to be referred to the consultant of their choice, even where charter targets may not be met, provided that they are aware of this and are offered alternative referrals.
My Department continues to work closely with health authorities and hospitals in Wales to reduce hospital waiting times, and my officials are currently visiting hospitals where progress has been below expectation. The waiting times information bulletin serves as useful background information to this dialogue with the NHS and for the hospital visits in particular.
Mr. Morgan:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what plans he has to issue new guidelines on the private earnings of medical consultants employed by NHS trusts;
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and what plans he has to make their NHS earnings directly proportionate to the number of sessions worked for the NHS. [12570]
Mr. Hague:
I have no plans to issue new guidelines on the private earnings of medical consultants.
NHS earnings of consultants employed on national terms and conditions of service are already directly proportionate to their NHS work.
Mr. Alex Carlile:
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list all (a) loans, (b) grants and (c) other payments in excess of £100,000 made in each of the last five years by the Welsh Office to (a) the Tesco company and (b) other companies; and if he will make a statement. [12719]
Mr. Hague:
The Welsh Office made an offer of regional selective assistance of £2 million in 1989 to the Tesco company in respect of a project to locate its administration centre in Cardiff. In 1992, an offer of £3.8 million was made to encourage the company to locate a distribution centre in Magor. Details of the amounts paid against these offers are commercially confidential.
The Welsh Office has made no other loans or payments to the company.
| RSA payments £ million (Gross) | |
|---|---|
| 1999-91 | 31.0 |
| 1991-92 | 55.1 |
| 1992-93 | 61.7 |
| 1993-94 | 50.8 |
| 1994-95 | 56.9 |
Mr. Prescott: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the expenditure on regional selective assistance offers accepted by companies in (a) 1991-92, (b) 1992-93, (c) 1993-94 and (d) 1994-95, the proportion of regional selective assistance expenditure on foreign-owned firms and regional selective assistance expenditure per employee in manufacturing. [12702]
Mr. Hague: The information is given in the following table.
| 1991-92 | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value of RSA offers accepted | £76.9 million | £72.5 million | 94.6 million | 38.2 million |
| Percentage to foreign-owned firms | 55.7 | 42.2 | 58.2 | 33.0 |
| Grant per job in manufacturing projects | £5,764 | £5,784 | £7,361 | £6,031 |
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Welsh Health Common Services Authority
(Correspondence)
Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he willl place in the Library a copy of the corrective letter issued by the Welsh Health Common Services Authority to its September 1995 waiting times information bulletin with respect to the information on the orthopaedic waits for the University hospital of Wales; if he will specify what the inaccuracies were in that corrective letter, as referred to in the apology issued in the November information bulletin; and if he will make a statement. [12572]
Mr. Hague: A copy of the letter of 4 October 1995, distributed with the September 1995 edition of the NHS Wales waiting times information bulletin, will be placed in the Library of the House.
The table of hospital waiting times at University Hospital of Wales Healthcare NHS trust, which accompanied the letter, quoted a zero waiting time or that no data were available for first out-patient appointments in respect of the consultants listed for trauma and orthopaedic specialities. This mistake was corrected in the November 1995 edition of the bulletin.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Departmental Expenditure
Mr. Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is his estimate of his Department's expenditure on administration for (a) 1979-80, (b) 1989-90, (c) 1991-92, (d) 1993-94, (e) 1994-95, (f) 1995-96 and (g) 1996-97. [11424]
Sir John Wheeler: Information for 1979-80 could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Details of my Department's expenditure on administration for the years 1989-90 to 1996-97 are contained in table 11.1 of my Department's annual report, Cm 2816, copies of which are available in the Library.
Departmental Property
Mr. Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is his estimate of the annual cost to his Department and his Department's agencies and non-departmental Ministerial public bodies of their empty and under-utilised properties for (a) 1979-80, (b) 1989-90, (c) 1991-92, (d) 1993-94, (e) 1994-95, (f) 1995-96 and (g) 1996-97. [11425]
Sir John Wheeler: The information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Mr. Shiji Lapite
Mr. Cohen:
To ask the Attorney-General what action he proposes to take following the jury verdict of unlawful killing of Mr. Shiji Lapite; and if he will make a statement. [12763]
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The Attorney-General:
Following the verdict of the inquest jury, the Crown Prosecution Service has requested transcripts of the evidence given at the inquest together with copies of any documents which may have been produced to the jury. Once this material has been carefully considered, together with the pre-inquest evidence, and any further inquiries which may prove necessary have been completed, the Crown Prosecution Service will decide whether criminal proceedings should be instituted.
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