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Licences

Mr. Steen: To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list the licences issued by his Department; for what purpose they are issued; and what are the administrative costs involved for each. [37596]

Mr. Lang [holding answer 16 july 1996]: The information requested on licences and their purposes is as follows. The administrative costs involved for each could not be assessed without incurring disproportionate cost.

Exports
Open General Export licences.
Open General Transhipment licence.
Individual Specific Export licence.
Temporary Export licence.
Open Individual export licence.
Transhipment licence.

Export licensing is imposed on certain goods for a variety of reasons including national security and international treaty obligations and commitments.

Imports
Import licences issued against quota.
Import licences issued for surveillance purposes.
Special import licenses for national provisions.
Open individual licences.

Import licensing controls are imposed to implement internationally agreed policies, designed to stabilise markets and generate free trade, to protect UK and EU industry, to protect health and safety, and to enforce international trade sanctions.

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Insurance

Authorisation of insurance companies, to maintain confidence in the market and protect policy holders.
Postal services
The Post Office has the exclusive statutory privilege of conveying all letters from one place to another in the UK except for the activities covered by the following "class" licences:
Time-sensitive/value mail (i.e. courier services: conditions published 1981)
Charities delivery of Christmas cards (conditions published 1981)
Document exchanges (conditions published 1982)
Delivery of mail between Government departments (conditions published 1983)

In addition, there is one company licence for delivery of brokers' material under specified conditions.

Radiocommunications
Broadcasting services (3 categories).
Fixed services (4 categories).
Hobby radio (5 categories).
Public mobile radio (2 categories).
Private mobile radio (2 categories).
Maritime radio (7 categories).
Paging (3 categories).
Programme making and special events (7 categories).
Satellite services (5 categories).
Local authority (emergency alarm) radio.
Long range alarms.
Radar gauges.
RF tagging, temporary use.
Testing and development.

The purpose of radiocommunications licensing is to manage the use of the UK civil radio spectrum.

Telecommunications
Individual licence.
Class licence.

Telecommunications licences define the systems that can be run, the services that can be provided and the other systems to which the licensee can connect. The licences also contain conditions concerning the provision of services to the public, relations with other operators and service providers and the provision of information to the Secretary of State and the Director General of Telecommunications.

Oil and gas
Seaward production licence.
Seaward exploration licence.
Landward petroleum exploration and development licence.
Supplementary seismic survey licence.
Methane drainage licence.

The purpose of oil and gas licensing is to manage the exploitation of the UK's petroleum resources.

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

Parliamentary Questions

Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer

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of 25 March, Official Report, column 433, about parliamentary questions what method would be used by her Department in collating the information requested. [37525]

Mr. Robin Squire: The examination of more than 36,000 files dating back to 1987.

Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer of 26 March, Official Report, column 484, about parliamentary questions, what method would be used by her Department in collating the information requested. [37524]

Mr. Squire: The examination of more than 24,000 files dating back to 1989.

Administration Costs

Ms Estelle Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for each local education authority in England the cash per pupil of the schools' budget spent on administration in 1995-96 and estimated to be so spent in 1996-97. [37512]

Mr. Robin Squire: The information set out in the following table is derived, for both years, from local management of schools budget statements produced by local education authorities.

Outturn figures for 1995-96 are not yet available. The budget figures for that year are as previously given on 28 February in my answer to the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth (Mr. Pawsey), Official Report, columns 594-95.

	1996-97	1995-96
	Management and administration	Management and administration
	(per pupil)	(per pupil)
Avon	--	63
Barking/Dagenham	45	73
Barnet	44	48
Barnsley	16	14
Bath and North East Somerset	68	--
Bedfordshire	37	39
Berkshire	36	37
Bexley	57	55
Birmingham	36	50
Bolton	30	28
Bradford	33	33
Brent	61	78
Bristol	70	--
Bromley	80	63
Buckinghamshire	71	77
Bury	41	46
Calderdale	42	41
Cambridgeshire	32	33
Camden	78	113
Cheshire	31	29
City of London	262	352
Cleveland	--	54
Cornwall	29	29
Coventry	41	39
Croydon	20	35
Cumbria	26	27
Derbyshire	21	25
Devon	25	33
Doncaster	44	42
Dorset	45	48
Dudley	18	25
Durham	38	39
Ealing	68	65
East Riding	75	--
East Sussex	24	26
Enfield	55	57
Essex	36	40
Gateshead	45	47
Gloucestershire	34	49
Greenwich	96	93
Hackney	84	87
Hammersmith/Fulham	49	52
Hampshire	42	47
Haringey	48	49
Harrow	49	64
Hartlepool	57	--
Havering	36	38
Hereford/Worcester	32	30
Hertfordshire	12	17
Hillingdon	91	96
Hounslow	47	47
Humberside	--	57
Hull	42	--
Isle of Wight	32	32
Isles of Scilly	51	95
Islington	106	79
Kensington/Chelsea	121	133
Kent	84	81
Kingston	49	61
Kirklees	38	46
Knowsley	38	23
Lambeth	91	160
Lancashire	24	35
Leeds	26	28
Leicestershire	22	42
Lewisham	61	67
Lincolnshire	42	39
Liverpool	60	52
Manchester	55	49
Merton	33	42
Middlesbrough	73	--
North East Lincolnshire	60	--
Newcastle	56	59
Newham	57	51
Norfolk	25	18
North Lincolnshire	67	--
North Somerset	63	--
North Tyneside	33	35
North Yorkshire	35	37
Northamptonshire	29	28
Northumberland	43	41
Nottinghamshire	27	43
Oldham	48	44
Oxfordshire	26	28
Redbridge	60	60
Redcar and Cleveland	56	--
Richmond	39	33
Rochdale	39	39
Rotherham	65	64
Salford	58	59
Sandwell	19	35
Sefton	74	74
Sheffield	39	42
Shropshire	36	37
Solihull	11	11
Somerset	11	18
South Gloucestershire	64	--
South Tyneside	36	34
Southwark	77	82
St. Helens	41	49
Staffordshire	19	20
Stockport	29	32
Stockton-on-Tees	60	--
Suffolk	25	27
Sunderland	17	40
Surrey	43	51
Sutton	64	74
Tameside	32	32
Tower Hamlets	54	51
Trafford	40	37
Wakefield	38	35
Walsall	41	40
Waltham Forest	56	54
Wandsworth	84	125
Warwickshire	31	43
West Sussex	40	42
Westminster	125	108
Wigan	30	29
Wiltshire	32	31
Wirral	34	30
Wolverhampton	28	30
York	67	--

(15) Is shown in columns for the year that the relevant LEA did not exist.

(16) The figures have been calculated by dividing planned expenditure on management and administration, as recorded in each LEA's LMS budget statement for the appropriate year, by pupil numbers from the same source.

(17) The amount per pupil is rounded to the nearest pound.

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University Graduates

Mr. Wigley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the rate of employment for young people who graduated from universities in Wales in 1994-95; and what is the equivalent figure for graduates from universities in England. [37115]

Mr. Forth: Information for 1994-95 is not yet available. The available data for 1993-94 are as follows:

UK domiciled graduates employed six months after graduation

	Number	As a percentage of all graduates with known destinations
England	64,747	54.4
Wales	3,778	46.8

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