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Lottery Funding (Southwark)

Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will list the projects within the London borough of Southwark that have received funding from each of the national lottery funds. [27426]

Mr. Sproat: To date, 19 awards totalling £63.6 million have been made to projects within the London borough of Southwark. The information is contained in the following table:

Body Announced Recipient Amount
Arts 21 September 1995 William Penn Steel Band 29,357.00
Arts 16 October 1995 Shakespeare's Globe Trust 12,400,000.00
Arts 23 November 1995 Opera Factory 41,470.00
Arts 6 February 1996 Bankside Gallery Ltd. 17,000.00
Arts 6 February 1996 Strathcona Theatre Company 44,059.00
Arts 11 April 1996 Method and Madness 411,375.00
MC 30 October 1995 Tate Gallery of Modern Art 50,000,000.00
NLCB 19 December 1995 12th Camberwell Scouts 27,406.00
NLCB 19 December 1995 Amott Road Pre-School Nursery 800.00
NLCB 19 December 1995 Bird in the Bush Community Centre 21,414.00
NLCB 19 December 1995 Dachwyng Supplementary School 12,000.00
NLCB 19 December 1995 Downtown Community Project 30,000.00
NLCB 19 December 1995 Edward Henry Housing Co-op 4,500.00
NLCB 19 December 1995 Elephant Jobs Charity 57,850.00
NLCB 19 December 1995 Pelican Estate Tenants and Residents Association 5,000.00
NLCB 19 December 1995 Southwark Victim Support scheme 25,500.00
NLCB 19 December 1995 The Lorrimore 172,000.00
NLCB 19 December 1995 The Southwark Branch of Arthritis Care 3,000.00
Sports 6 December 1995 London Borough of Southwark 350,000.00
Totals (19 awards)63,652,731.00

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Greenwich Millennium Exhibition

Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage how much national lottery funding has been allocated to the Greenwich millennium exhibition project by each of the funds. [27428]

Mr. Sproat: The Millennium Commission has announced, in principle, a commitment of up to £200 million in lottery grant to the exhibition; the remaining capital and operating cost will be raised from other sources.

Office Space

Mrs. Bridget Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if he will list the space footage and cost of office space rented by her Department and its agencies and the number of her Department or agencies' buildings partly, or fully unoccupied together with the square footage of that unoccupied office space and its estimated rental value where available in each of the past five financial years. [27733]

Mr. Sproat: My Department and its agencies fully occupy 97,670 sq ft. of office square on which we will pay £520,857 in respect of service charges for the year 1996-97. The rents paid for Government offices are a commercial in confidence matter between the Government and their landlords

AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what evidence he has evaluated of (a) BSE being hereditary and (b) BSE infecting land; and if he will make a statement. [23562]

Mrs. Browning [holding answer 3 April 1996]: MAFF has funded research into the possible heritability of BSE. Details of this study have been published as "A study of the inheritance of susceptibility to bovine spongiform encephalopathy" by Wijeratne W. V. S. and Curnow R. N., in The Veterinary Record in 1990, vol. 126, p5-8, and "The incidence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the progeny of affected sires and dams" by R. N. Curnow

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and C. M. Hau, in The Veterinary Record on 27 April 1996, p407-408. Investigation of any association between bulls used in artificial insemination and incidence of BSE in offspring has also been carried out. This work is an ongoing part of the epidemiological monitoring, and has not identified any evidence of heritability. It has been published in part in "Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Related Diseases--An Epidemiological Overview" by J. Wilesmith, in the New Zealand Veterinary Journal, 1994, vol. 42, p1-8. No heritable mutations that result in spontaneous or heritable BSE have been identified in bovines.

There is no evidence of any link between BSE transmission and possibly contaminated land. Were this to occur, it would be seen as horizontal transmission of the disease from cattle to cattle. This is not seen. Details of this work was published in The Veterinary Record on 1 April 1995, p312 Hoinville et al. A copy of the paper was also annexed to the May 1995 progress report to Parliament, which is in the Library of the House.

Mr. Byers: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what plans he has to introduce the Narang test to identify cattle infected with BSE before they are destroyed. [25909]

Mrs. Browning [holding answer 23 April 1996]: I refer the hon. Member to the answer that I gave to the hon. Members for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe) and for Pembroke (Mr. Ainger) on 26 April 1996, Official Report, column 325.

Mr. Garrett: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many BSE-infected cow carcases have been dumped in the Attlebridge tip in Norfolk. [27410]

Mrs. Browning [holding answer 2 May 1996]: Approximately 360 carcases of BSE suspect animals were disposed of at the Attlebridge tip between September 1988 and December 1990. No carcases have been disposed there since 1990. Only three BSE carcases have been disposed of by burial since the end of 1991; these were all on remote sites where the preferred option--incineration in specialist plant--was not practicable.

Mr. Welsh: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will estimate the cost of the slaughter of cattle of five years old and above in herds in Scotland which have had an incidence of BSE. [23364]

Mr. Raymond S. Robertson: I have been asked to reply. It is estimated that there are just over 149,000 animals aged five years or above in Scotland in herds which have an incidence of BSE. Slaughtering animals alone at a cost of about £50 per head would cost around £7.5 million. More substantial would be the economic costs to the meat and dairy industries and compensation to farmers for losses of stock and replacement.

EU Directives

Mr. Steen: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the directives which have affected his Department in each of the past three years and (a) the United Kingdom legislation introduced as a result of the directive, (b) the United Kingdom legislation which goes beyond the minimum standards set out in the

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directive and (c) the clauses within each piece of United Kingdom legislation which amplify the minimum standards set out in the directive. [27081]

Mr. Boswell [holding answer 29 April 1996]: The directives made in the years 1993 to 1995 and involving the Ministry's policy responsibilities are as follows:


The cost of providing the other information sought would be disproportionate.

Intergovernmental Conference

Mr. McAvoy: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what representations the Government have made to the intergovernmental conference about reforming the common agricultural policy and the common fisheries policy. [27499]

Mr. Baldry: The Government's approach to the 1996 intergovernmental conference was set out in the White Paper, "A Partnership of Nations". This explained that efforts to secure further reforms of the common agricultural policy would continue in parallel with the intergovernmental conference since such reforms do not require treaty change. The White Paper also made clear the Government's determination to achieve improvements in the operation of the common fisheries policy, including addressing the problem of quota hoppers. If necessary, proposals for amending the treaty to deal with this problem will be submitted to the conference in due course.

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