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Theatr Clwyd, Mold

Mr. Hanson: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he plans to respond to Flintshire county council's proposals for future funding of Theatr Clwyd, Mold; and if he will make a statement. [25827]

Mr. Richards: My right hon. Friend wrote to the leader of Flintshire county council about the package of support proposed for Theatr Clwyd on 19 April 1996.

Local Authorities (Negligence Claims)

Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what guidelines he (a) has issued and (b) plans to issue to local authorities on the quality of insurance cover required by them to cover negligence claims arising from the compiling and publication of independent reports commissioned by them. [25890]

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Mr. Hague: I have issued no such guidelines and have no immediate plans to do so. However, in the light of the recent developments in north Wales, I have asked my officials, in collaboration with those of other Government Departments, to look at this issue further.

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer on 2 April, Official Report, column 207, (1) if he will list the numbers of cattle affected by each outbreak of BSE, broken down by (a) year, (b) county and (c) type of herd; [25404]

(2) if he will list the figures for BSE outbreaks by cases and farms affected by (a) county and (b) year of notification. [25403]

Mr. Hague: Figures for the number of herds and number of cases of BSE by old county names and year of notification are as follows:

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Number of cases by county and year of notification

County	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	Total
Dairy herds
Clwyd	1	11	59	163	280	399	451	303	184	19	1,870
Dyfed	12	70	215	486	1,075	1,680	1,465	902	479	47	6,431
Glamorgan Mid	0	4	9	33	35	27	26	22	15	0	171
Glamorgan South	1	8	28	20	52	94	88	49	26	3	369
Glamorgan West	0	1	1	7	9	24	12	8	6	0	68
Gwent	2	21	45	73	127	227	207	113	81	11	907
Gwynedd	1	5	16	13	46	84	69	56	29	8	327
Powys	0	8	25	53	113	229	242	182	104	14	970
Total	17	128	398	848	1,737	2,764	2,560	1,635	924	102	11,113
Beef suckler herds
Clwyd	1	1	6	9	85	145	119	71	37	4	478
Dyfed	1	2	11	43	94	171	213	112	40	4	691
Glamorgan Mid	0	0	1	3	7	12	18	17	9	0	67
Glamorgan South	0	2	1	1	3	16	15	3	2	0	43
Glamorgan West	0	0	0	1	1	8	16	6	8	0	40
Gwent	0	3	11	12	9	22	27	18	17	0	119
Gwynedd	0	1	5	11	24	74	84	41	28	4	272
Powys	0	8	43	74	133	278	322	234	150	14	1,256
Total	2	17	78	154	356	726	814	502	291	26	2,966
Mixed production herds
Clwyd	0	2	5	5	6	26	27	16	4	0	91
Dyfed	0	3	11	45	83	135	129	86	35	3	530
Glamorgan Mid	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	2	1	0	8
Glamorgan South	0	0	0	1	3	4	2	1	0	0	11
Glamorgan West	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	2	0	0	6
Gwent	0	1	3	4	18	17	12	6	2	0	63
Gwynedd	0	0	5	5	10	9	16	11	6	2	64
Powys	0	0	3	1	2	5	14	6	3	0	34
Total	0	6	28	61	122	201	203	130	51	5	807

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Number of herds by county and year of notification

County	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	199	1996
2,806 Dairy herds
Clwyd	1	2	49	79	143	216	250	192	128	19
Dyfed	12	54	159	313	582	826	835	606	343	42
Glamorgan Mid	0	1	6	12	13	14	17	10	7	0
Glamorgan South	1	3	16	12	23	30	41	26	20	3
Glamorgan West	0	1	1	5	7	13	8	6	5	0
Gwent	2	16	33	45	66	109	110	80	50	11
Gwynedd	1	5	15	13	36	57	53	41	24	7
Powys	0	6	20	38	69	129	139	111	69	14
Total(3)	17	88	299	517	939	1,394	1,453	1,072	646	96
1,631 Beef suckler herds
Clwyd	1	1	5	8	32	58	65	42	16	3
Dyfed	1	2	11	39	77	139	167	91	37	4
Glamorgan Mid	0	0	1	2	7	12	15	10	9	0
Glamorgan South	0	1	1	1	2	7	6	3	1	0
Glamorgan West	0	0	0	1	1	6	11	5	5	0
Gwent	0	2	8	11	8	20	27	13	16	0
Gwynedd	0	1	5	11	22	63	79	38	25	4
Powys	0	8	39	64	115	225	263	183	124	11
Total(3)	2	15	70	137	264	530	633	385	233	22
321 Mixed production herds
Clwyd	0	2	5	5	5	17	19	14	4	0
Dyfed	0	3	11	30	54	98	95	67	28	3
Glamorgan Mid	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	2	1	0
Glamorgan South	0	0	0	1	1	2	2	1	0	0
Glamorgan West	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	2	0	0
Gwent	0	1	2	3	8	8	5	4	2	0
Gwynedd	0	0	5	4	8	9	12	7	6	2
Powys	0	0	2	1	1	3	9	4	3	0
Total(3)	0	6	26	44	77	141	145	101	44	5

(3) An individual herd may be included in the figures for more than one year.

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Children's Homes

Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 2 April, how many visits members of his social services inspectorate made to children's homes in Clwyd (a) during the period covered by the John Jillings report and (b) thereafter. [25405]

Mr. Hague: The social services inspectorate for Wales--until 1989, the social work service--made 37 visits to childrens' homes in Clwyd between 1974 and 1995. The visits covered a range of matters, including premises, staffing and the homes' daily routine.

Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales on what date he received the amended version of the John Jillings report into child sex and physical abuse in north Wales children's homes; what further independent advice he has sought; and what further actions he proposes to take to assess its contents. [25891]

Mr. Hague: I refer the hon. Member to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Eltham (Mr. Bottomley) on 18 April, Official Report, columns 592-93. My Department received an amended version of this report on 1 April 1996. I am seeking legal advice on a range of issues relating to this report.

Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what representations he has received concerning (a) the placing in the Library of the John Jillings report commissioned by Clwyd county council into child abuse, (b) its publication in a full or expurgated form and (c) the conducting of an inquiry under the terms indicated by the Welsh Office ministerial press release of 7 September 1992. [25889]

Mr. Hague: Since 22 March 1996, there have been 15 letters to the Department calling for publication of the report of the independent panel of inquiry chaired by Mr. John Jillings. In three of these letters, parliamentary publication in some form was suggested. One further correspondent was not in favour of the report being published, but supported the holding of a public inquiry.

HEALTH

Children in Care

Mr. John Townend: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the average annual cost for a child in local authority care; and what is the average annual cost of a child in a foster home. [24815]

Mr. Bowis: The average annual gross cost of a child looked after by a local authority is £14,800. For a child in a foster home, the figure is £8,000.

Financial Data

Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what in-year financial data his Department will publish on trusts and health authorities. [25879]

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Mr. Horam: In-year financial data are not subject to audit and are used for internal management purposes only. They are not therefore suitable for publication.

Extra-contractual Referrals

Mr. Milburn: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what data his Department (a) collects and (b) will publish on extra-contractual referrals. [25886]

Mr. Malone: Information on the number of extra-contractual referrals--ECRs--has not been collected centrally.

Figures for total expenditure on ECRs by health authority are collected on a "management in confidence" basis as a prompt for investigation if necessary and are not suitable for publication.

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