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Northern Ireland Housing Executive

Mr. Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list for each year since 1971 the number of (a) new houses built, (b) improvements made to the housing stock and (c) existing houses purchased by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. [2370]

Mr. Moss: The information is provided in the table. The data requested at part (c) are available only at disproportionate cost.

New build completions and improvements by Northern Ireland housing executive 1971 to 1995

New build completionsImprovements
19711,710305
19725,589244
19735,808296
19745,012249
19755,022152
19767,224325
19776,724746
19785,1321,277
19792,9521,207
19802,701319
19812,3424,791
19823,6283,763
19833,8741,439
19843,3846,250
19853,1603,860
19862,222852
19871,8052,484
19881,6533,049
19891,5772,943
19901,3243,178
19919612,656
19929582,498
19938882,823
19948782,239
19951,3622,464

Mr. Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the income and expenditure of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for each year of its existence expressed as an actual figure and as a percentage of the Northern Ireland budget. [2371]

Mr. Moss: The information is provided in the table. Although the Northern Ireland Housing Executive was formed in 1971, expenditure and income figures are available only from 1973-74.

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Income and expenditure 1973-74 to 1995-96 Northern Ireland Housing Executive NIHE)

Capital expenditureCapital receiptsRevenue expenditureRental incomeNet capital and revenue expenditure
1973-7465.10.234.221.777.4
1974-7546.50.748.323.270.9
1975-7673.51.862.131.3102.5
1976-77108.24.781.739146.2
1977-78109.65.1100.550.5154.5
1978-79102.77.1130.358.5167.4
1979-8097.59.3171.353206.5
1980-81110.716.7199.272.6220.6
1981-82119.954241100206.9
1982-83177.455.2248.4119.5251.1
1983-84177.255.6269.4126.7264.3
1984-85174.248.6308.6131.6302.6
1985-86171.941.9328135.5322.45
1986-87151.334.1341.2141.6316.8
1987-88150.230.2350.1147.6322.5
1988-89151.336358.8160.3313.8
1989-90141.546.4334.6174.6255.1
1990-91124.542.3347.9189241.1
1991-92123.334.6370.2198.3260.6
1992-93122.336.7369.3213.1241.8
1993-94129.145378.4225.3237.2
1994-95132.955.6393.6235.7235.2
1995-96136.456.3414.1247.5246.7

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Public expenditure 1973-74 to 1995-96 Northern Ireland block

Expenditure
1973-74803
1974-751,116
1975-761,414
1976-771,620
1977-781,808
1978-792,132
1979-802,446
1980-812,889
1981-823,215
1982-833,500
1983-843,816
1984-854,121
1985-864,275
1986-874,499
1987-884,828
1988-895,111
1989-905,395
1990-915,525
1991-926,018
1992-936,580
1993-947,085
1994-957,407
1995-967,823

NIHE net expenditure expressed as percentage of total NI public expenditure

Percentage
1973-749.6
1974-756.4
1975-767.2
1976-779
1977-788.5
1978-797.9
1979-808.4
1980-817.6
1981-826.4
1982-837.2
1983-846.9
1984-857.3
1985-867.5
1986-877
1987-886.7
1988-896.1
1989-904.7
1990-914.4
1991-924.3
1992-933.7
1993-943.3
1994-953.2
1995-963.2


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Millennium Date Change

Mr. Ingram: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment he has made of the cost effects of the millennium date change on the computer systems operated by his Department. [2608]

Sir John Wheeler: Northern Ireland Departments are progressing the audits of their computer systems to determine which systems will continue to be in operation as year 2000 approaches and the amount of work that will be necessary to make them compliant. The audits will include an assessment of costs, priorities and time scales.

DUCHY OF LANCASTER

Statutory Instruments

Mr. Bennett: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many civil servants are employed in the drafting and production of statutory instruments. [1683]

Mr. Freeman: Civil servants in many areas of government are involved from time to time in preparing and drafting statutory instruments relating to their areas of work. The staff time spent on this is not recorded separately and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD

Rendering Facilities

Mr. Martyn Jones: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many inspectors are currently appointed by the Government to ensure existing (a) legislation and (b) guidelines are met with regard to rendering facilities; and if he will make a statement. [432]

Mrs. Browning: All veterinary staff employed by the Department are appointed as veterinary inspectors under the Animal Health Act 1981 and are empowered to carry out inspections at rendering facilities. A total of 356 veterinary inspectors are employed at present. In addition, 152 technical staff are currently appointed by the Department and they, too, are able to carry out inspections.

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Mr. Jones: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the procedure for registering as a rendering facility. [424]

Mrs. Browning: Owners of premises wishing to operate a rendering facility must submit an application to the appropriate MAFF animal health divisional office. The premises are then inspected by State Veterinary Service staff to ensure that the hygiene, structural and processing requirements set out in EC directive 90/667, as amended, and implemented in Great Britain by the Animal By-Products Order 1992, as amended, are met before approval to operate a rendering plant is granted.

Operators wishing to process specified bovine material must be similarly approved but under the Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) Order 1996.

Mr. Jones: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the dates on which those rendering plants which deal exclusively with cattle culled in the 30-month scheme began dealing solely with such cattle; if he will indicate for each the products they were previously rendering; and if he will make a statement. [434]

Mr. Baldry: Details of when those rendering plants processing solely over-30-month scheme--OTMS--material, and in some cases specified bovine material from cattle under 30 months also, began to take OTMS carcases and the material that they processed immediately before that date are listed below:

Date started rendering
Name of companyOTMS carcases Material previously rendered
Canterbury Mills Ltd.May 1996SBM and other animal waste
Granox Ltd.May 1996SBM and other animal waste
J. G. Pears (Newark) Ltd.October 1996animal waste other than SBM
J. L. Thomas Ltd.May 1996animal waste other than SBM
Peninsular Proteins Ltd.May 1996animal waste other than SBM
Prosper de Mulder and Sons Ltd.(Hartshill)October 1996animal waste other than SBM

Mr. Jones: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list all rendering facilities that render mammals without producing mammalian meat and bonemeal; and if he will make a statement. [430]

Mrs. Browning: In Great Britain, the following premises are approved under the Animal By-Products Order 1992, as amended, to part render mammalian by-products, the proteinaceous end product from which must be sent to an approved full renderer for further processing.


Mr. Jones: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list all rendering facilities, indicating for each whether they render (a) exclusively cattle culled under the 30-month scheme, (b) exclusively cattle not included in the 30-month scheme and (c) both cattle within the 30-month scheme and cattle not within the scheme; and if he will make a statement. [433]

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Mr. Baldry: Of the plants rendering cattle by-products in Great Britain the following are processing:

(a) Over-30-month scheme cattle, and in some cases specified bovine material from under-30-month cattle, on an exclusive basis:


On (b), no rendering plant in Great Britain is exclusively processing cattle which are under 30 months of age. Generally plants processing non-SBM from cattle under 30 months of age also process other clean offals--for example, from pigs, sheep, and so on. The plants falling into this category--that is, plants which operate without processing OTMS cattle carcases or SBM are as follows:



    ABP Ltd., Shrewsbury
    Chambers Ltd., Huddersfield
    D. S. Cooper Ltd., Huddersfield
    Croda Colloids Ltd., Market Harborough
    A. Hughes (Skellingthorpe) Ltd., Skellingthorpe
    J. Knights Ltd., Silvertown
    Mitchell By-Products Ltd., Bradford
    Pimlotts Ltd., Norwich
    Smith Brothers, Manchester
    Sykes, Castleford
    Waddington, Bradford
    Dundas Chemicals Ltd., Dumfries
    McIntosh Donald Ltd., Aberdeen

On (c), the following Great Britain rendering plants are processing OTMS carcases and SBM from cattle under 30 months of age in dedicated rendering lines and, separately, non-SBM in dedicated clean rendering lines:



    Fats and Proteins (UK) Ltd., Lancaster
    Gilberts Animal By-Products Ltd., Stafford
    Dundas Bros Ltd., Aberdeen
    William Forrest and Son (Paisley) Ltd.

Mr. Jones: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the conditions required to be met prior to approval being granted to a rendering facility; and if he will make a statement. [425]

Mrs. Browning: Prior to approval being granted under the Animal By-Products Order 1992, rendering plants must meet the range of hygiene, constructional and processing requirements set out in schedule 4 to the order.

Prior to approval being granted under the Specified Bovine Material (No.3) Order 1996, rendering plants must meet the range of hygiene, constructional and processing requirements set out in schedule 1 and article 18 of the order.

Mr. Jones: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the names and locations of rendering plants that (a) produce and (b) do not produce mammalian meat and bonemeal in the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement. [423]

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Mrs. Browning: In Great Britain, the following premises are approved under the Animal By-Products Order 1992, as amended, to render fully mammalian by-products and could therefore produce mammalian meat and bonemeal:


In Great Britain, the following premises are approved under the Animal By-Products Order 1992, as amended, to part render animal by-products or render materials other than mammalian by-products--for example fish, poultry--and do not, therefore, produce mammalian meat and bone meal:



    ABP Ltd., Shrewsbury
    Alba Proteins Ltd., Penrith
    Chaettles Ltd., Nottingham
    Croda Colloids, Market Harborough
    D. S. Cooper Ltd., Huddersfield
    F. Howard Jones and Sons Ltd., Gwent

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    Grampian Ltd., Aberdeen
    Grimsby Fish Products Ltd., Grimsby
    Interfish Ltd., Plymouth
    Marshall Foods Ltd., Perthshire
    Mitchell By-Products, Bradford
    Shetland Fish Ltd., Shetland
    Sun Valley Ltd., Hereford
    United Fish Ltd., Aberdeen.

Mr. Jones: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many Government inspections during (a) 12 June to 12 July, (b) 12 July to 12 August and (c) 12 August to 12 September 1996, were carried out to ensure existing (i) legislation and (ii) guidelines have been met with regard to rendering facilities; and if he will make a statement. [431]

Mrs. Browning: The number of inspection visits made by State Veterinary Service staff to rendering plants during the periods concerned are:


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