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Bosnian Refugees

Mr. Bennett: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many refugees from Bosnia have been convicted of criminal offences in the United

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Kingdom; and how many have been deported as a result of conviction. [24042]

Mr. Kirkhope: The information requested is not held centrally.

Category C Prisoners

Ms Lynne: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the number of prisoners who have failed to return from authorised leave from each male category C prison and have subsequently been caught or returned voluntarily since 14 December 1994. [24097]

Miss Widdecombe: Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from Richard Tilt to Ms Liz Lynne, dated 3 April 1996:

The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question asking the number of prisoners who have failed to return from authorised leave from each male category C prison and have subsequently been caught or returned voluntarily since 14 December 1994.
The attached table shows the relevant information from 14 December 1994 to 29 February 1996 inclusive.

Prison	Number of prisoners
Acklington	11
Aldington	1
Ashwell	3
Blantyne House	3
Brockhill	1
Buckley Hall	21
Camp Hill	10
Channings Wood	6
Coldingley	20
Downview	25
Erlestoke	22
Everthorpe	13
Featherstone	16
Guys Marsh	4
Haverigg	6
Highpoint	2
Kirklevington	19
Lancaster	4
Latchmere House	11
Lindholme	15
Littlehey	10
The Mount	6
Ranby	9
Risley	21
Send	13
Shepton Mallet	9
Stafford	4
Stocken	17
Usk	3
The Verne	3
Wayland	8
Wealstun	15
Wellingborough	7

Regulations

Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which of the 1,000 regulations identified for

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repeal or amendment by the Prime Minister are the responsibility of his Department; of those, which (a) have been repealed or amended and (b) are planned to have been repealed or amended by the end of the 1995-96 parliamentary Session; and if he will list those whose repeal has saved business more than £1 million per annum. [23658]

Mr. Howard [holding answer 2 April 1996]: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on 2 April, Official Report, column 85.

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

Mature Students

Mr. Kevin Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many mature students currently enter higher education in the Yorkshire and Humberside area; and what was the figure in each year since 1986. [23831]

Mr. Forth: The available information is given in the following table:

Mature(13) entrants to higher education in Yorkshire and Humberside(14)

Academic year	Number
1987-88	15,395
1988-89	17,211
1989-90	18,034
1990-91	19,587
1991-92	23,324
1992-93	25,707
1993-94	26,427
1994-95 (provisional)	29,740

(13) Those aged 21 and over on an undergraduate course, and those aged 25 and over on a postgraduate course. Data for ex Universities Funding Council institutions are for full-time home entrants only throughout the time series.

(14) Entrants to institutions located in Yorkshire and Humberside.

EDS Ltd.

Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what savings to date have been made by her Department as a result of out-sourcing arrangements made with EDS computer system; what assessment she has made of the equivalent costs for carrying out this work in house; and if she will make a statement. [24239]

Mr. Robin Squire: The Department has made no out-sourcing arrangements for computer systems with EDS.

Barnsley and Doncaster TEC

Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many days were taken over the European social fund audit at Barnsley and Doncaster training and enterprise council; what was the cost; and if she will make a statement. [24492]

Mr. Forth: The last visit to Barnsley and Doncaster training and enterprise council was made by auditors from

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Directorate General V of the European Commission in October 1993. The audit took one day to complete. Information on costs is not available.

Higher Education Expenditure

Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the public expenditure per higher education student in cash and real terms for the years (a) 1993-94, (b) 1994-95 (c) 1995-96 and (d) planned for 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99 (i) in total, (ii) on student support costs, (iii) on tuition costs and (iv) in capital expenditure terms; and if she will list these figures for the universities of (1) Teeside, (2) Sunderland, (3) Durham, (4) Northumbria and (5) Newcastle upon Tyne. [23702]

Mr. Forth: The total public expenditure per higher education student is set out in the tables. Information is not readily available for individual universities.

Public expenditure per student in cash terms (£)

	Actual		Planned
Year	1993-94	1994-95	1995-96	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99
Total	6,519	6,655	6,681	6,501	6,368	6,271
Student support	1,505	1,691	1,732	1,692	1,631	1,571
Teaching and
research	4,649	4,622	4,589	4,560	4,512	4,518
Capital	365	342	360	249	225	182

Public expenditure per student in cash terms (£)£, 1995-96 prices

	Actual		Planned
Year	1993-94	1994-95	1995-96	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99
Total	6,786	6,805	6,681	6,327	6,046	5,824
Student support	1,567	1,729	1,732	1,647	1,549	1,458
Teaching and research	4,840	4,726	4,589	4,438	4,284	4,196
Capital	380	350	360	242	214	169

Capital Spending

Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list in rank order of spending per pupil the initial Government borrowing allocation for education capital spending for the years (a) 1994-95, (b) 1995-96 and (c) 1996-97 for each local education authority. [23703]

Mrs. Gillan: Education annual capital guidelines totals for 1994-95 and 1995-96, pupil numbers in county and voluntary controlled schools at January 1994 and January 1995, and ACG cover per pupil are given in the following tables, in descending order. Pupil numbers for January 1996 are not yet available. Apart from small amounts for local education authority liability at voluntary-aided schools, ACGs cover capital work at county and controlled schools only. Bids are assessed against clear priority criteria, which are not based on pupil numbers, and the ACG cover is used for particular schools, not spread across all schools in the LEA.

Amounts actually spent by LEAs on capital work at their schools will differ from their ACG totals and full details are not yet available. In many cases the amount is somewhat higher than the ACG.

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Full-time equivalent pupil numbers in maintained schools: by status January 1995

LEA	County and controlled school pupils	1995-96 ACG	ACG per pupil (£)
Corporation of London	0	0	0
Tower Hamlets	26,992	12,131	449
Manchester	48,254	17,190	356
Isle of Wight	16,042	4,693	293
Gloucestershire	43,385	10,611	245
Salford	27,553	5,625	204
Wakefield	44,139	8,704	197
East Sussex	76,363	15,026	197
Wandsworth	15,384	2,994	195
Redbridge	28,302	5,132	181
Lincolnshire	58,617	9,867	168
Shropshire	53,155	7,423	140
Kent	157,204	21,248	135
Isles of Scilly	283	37	131
Haringey	22,851	2,713	119
Buckinghamshire	80,147	9,245	115
Enfield	29,591	3,234	109
Sutton	15,226	1,660	109
Barnsley	30,446	3,314	109
Calderdale	20,824	2,193	105
Sunderland	41,972	4,159	99
Liverpool	46,313	4,576	99
Oxfordshire	69,041	6,767	98
Newcastle upon Tyne	32,247	3,093	96
Devon	124,546	11,627	93
Coventry	38,729	3,587	93
Suffolk	87,261	7,676	88
Cumbria	47,078	4,105	87
Tameside	27,659	2,403	87
Cambridge	77,288	6,669	86
Hereford and Worcester	81,968	6,865	84
Barking and Dagenham	23,420	1,899	81
Essex	120,824	9,668	80
Hampshire	187,546	14,762	79
Wigan	26,836	2,066	77
Waltham Forest	26,912	2,028	75
Avon	123,775	9,318	75
Cleveland	80,588	6,051	75
Bradford	67,689	5,076	75
Hounslow	27,341	2,035	74
Birmingham	130,472	9,210	71
Harrow	23,742	1,644	69
Surrey	81,449	5,545	68
Solihull	26,723	1,805	68
St. Helens	19,028	1,236	65
Sheffield	65,160	4,177	64
Lewisham	24,024	1,540	64
Croydon	29,173	1,860	64
Sefton	28,433	1,698	60
Cornwall	63,432	3,719	59
Barnet	24,050	1,408	59
North Tyneside	26,353	1,520	58
Lancashire	141,422	8,105	57
Oldham	29,455	1,660	56
Knowsley	16,632	935	56
Cheshire	123,181	6,657	54
Bromley	24,877	1,335	54
Dorset	62,871	3,340	53
Gateshead	24,669	1,306	53
Bexley	27,693	1,420	51
Camden	11,822	570	48
Wiltshire	60,029	2,786	46
Wirral	41,344	1,912	46
Northamptonshire	75,616	3,454	46
Somerset	58,597	2,608	45
Durham	82,146	3,545	43
Kingston upon Thames	11,710	487	42
Merton	16,675	681	41
North Yorkshire	92,632	3,647	39
South Tyneside	21,042	827	39
Humberside	132,267	4,994	38
Norfolk	86,063	3,122	36
Derbyshire	111,327	4,031	36
Ealing	24,743	,891	36
Southwark	21,250	740	35
Northumberland	44,157	1,499	34
Wolverhampton	33,482	1,087	32
Hillingdon	14,986	475	32
Leicestershire	126,622	3,845	30
West Sussex	81,151	2,400	30
Bolton	30,243	884	29
Bury	20,224	557	28
Kirklees	54,199	1,455	27
Trafford	23,420	575	25
Lambeth	16,488	389	24
Newham	36,114	829	23
Leeds	93,362	2,081	22
Berkshire	89,641	1,961	22
Stockport	35,801	736	21
Bedfordshire	71,608	1,455	20
Warwickshire	56,193	1,074	19
Greenwich	28,879	487	17
Kensington and Chelsea	4,822	67	14
Dudley	38,032	499	13
Hackney	18,691	241	13
Rochdale	23,607	301	13
Nottinghamshire	136,029	1,677	12
Walsall	35,091	430	12
Islington	17,316	207	12
Doncaster	45,148	536	12
Brent	16,968	179	11
Hertfordshire	112,070	1,109	10
Hammersmith and Fulham	9,238	91	10
Staffordshire	143,972	1,291	9
Richmond upon Thames	14,178	121	9
Havering	26,694	199	7
Rotherham	39,405	267	7
Sandwell	45,137	275	6
Westminster	7,857	40	5

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