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Citizenship

Mr. Gunnell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what right to British citizenship a child of British parents, adopted in babyhood by a couple of other nationality and brought up by them retains; and if he will make a statement. [3558]

Mr. Kirkhope: A child who is a British citizen at birth retains that status irrespective of the nationality of his or her adoptive parents, unless, when of full age, he or she voluntarily renounces it.

Animal Head Transplants

Mr. Tony Banks: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research he has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated in respect of experiments involving the transplantation of heads from one animal to another; and if he will make a statement. [3596]

Mr. Sackville: None.

Repatriations

Mr. Madden: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 5 November, Official Report, column 440, if he will clarify the final sentence of paragraph 1. [3785]

Miss Widdecombe: I regret that, due to an error, the meaning of the original answer was unclear. The sentence in question should have read:


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Criminal Cases Review Commission

Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the members of the selection committee who appointed the chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and, for each, the outside interests which they declared. [3706]

Mr. Kirkhope: The Criminal Appeal Act 1965 provides for the members of the Criminal Cases Review Commission to be appointed by Her Majesty on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. The panel which advised on the selection of the chairman of the commission consisted of Mr. Richard Wilson, permanent under-secretary of state at the Home Office; Mr. David Burr, a civil service commissioner; Professor Sir John Smith, former assessor to Sir John May's inquiry into the convictions arising from the 1974 Guildford and Woolwich bombings; and Sir David Yardley, former chairman of the Commission for Local Administration in England. None of the members of the panel declared an outside interest.

Correspondence

Ms Hodge: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to reply to the letters from the hon. Member for Barking of 4 September, 26 September and 4 October. [3707]

Mr. Kirkhope: I will be replying to the hon. Member very shortly.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

7 Millbank (Newspapers)

Mr. Allen: To ask the Chairman of the Administration Committee what estimate he has made of the cost of the theft of newspapers from the foyer of 7 Millbank over the last 12 months. [2653]

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Mr. Michael J. Martin: The estimated face value of newspapers removed is £520 per year. This estimated annual "cost", based on nine newspapers removed daily, is slightly misleading, given that by their very nature newspapers have a value only on the day of publication.

Initiatives have been taken to reduce the loss, but they do require the co-operation of all hon. Members.

Mr. Allen: To ask the Chairman of the Administration Committee what estimate he has made of the cost of fitting wooden library newspaper holders for daily newspapers in the foyer of 7 Millbank; and if he will make a statement. [2654]

Mr. Martin: The item concerned was taken from stock purchased five years ago. Its cost did not exceed £50.

OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

Zaire

Mr. Tony Lloyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what requests Her Majesty's Government have received from the United Nations or its agencies to investigate the supply of arms from the United Kingdom to the Hutu refugees or other groups in Zaire; when these requests were received; what steps have been taken to undertake such investigations; and when Her Majesty's Government responded to the United Nations. [3610]

Dr. Liam Fox: The Government have a record of having received one letter, dated 12 September 1996, from the United Nations commission of inquiry regarding the supply of arms to the former Rwandan armed forces. Her Majesty's Customs and Excise has not at this stage found evidence to support criminal proceedings in the UK, but will continue to co-operate with the United Nations commission, will investigate as appropriate any new allegations and is responding to the inquiry already made.

UN Refugee Camps

Mr. Parry: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list United Nations refugee camps on the African continent indicating the number of refugees they hold at the most recent available date; and if he will make a statement. [3177]

Dr. Liam Fox: The numbers of refugees in UN camps on the continent of Africa within individual countries are shown in the table. Figures for individual camps within countries are not held centrally.

Refugee population by country 1995

Number 000's
Algeria219.1
Angola10.7
Benin70.4
Burkina Faso50.0
Burundi300.3
Cameroon44.0
Central African Republic47.8
Congo15.5
Cote d'Ivoire360.1
Djibouti33.4
Egypt7.2
Ethiopia348.1
Gambia2.2
Ghana113.7
Guinea553.2
Guinea-Bassau23.9
Kenya252.4
Liberia120.0
Libya2.0
Malawi90.2
Mali15.8
Mauritania82.2
Namibia1.1
Niger15.1
Nigeria6.0
Rwanda6.0
Senegal73.0
Sierra Leone15.9
South Africa91.9
Sudan727.2
Tanzania883.3
Togo12.4
Uganda286.5
Zaire1,724.4
Zambia141.1
Zimbabwe2.2
Other Countries3.7
Total Africa region6,752.0

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Mr. Parry: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the United Nations refugee camps in the Gulf area indicating the number of refugees they contain at the most recent date; and if he will make a statement. [3174]

Dr. Fox: The numbers of refugees in UN camps in the Gulf area within individual countries are shown in the table. Figures for individual camps within countries are not held centrally.

Number 000's
Iran2,236.4
Iraq119.6
Saudi Arabia18.0
Total Gulf region2,374.0

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

Nursery Vouchers

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the value of the contract awarded to Capita Managed Services to administer the national implementation of the voucher scheme; and what is the length of the contract period. [2762]

Mr. Robin Squire: The cost of administering the nursery education voucher scheme will be around £15 million over three years--a cost of less than £10 per child.

Mr. Peter Bottomley: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when she plans to publish her report on phase 1 of the nursery education voucher scheme. [4092]

Mr. Squire: A report on the first phase of the nursery voucher scheme is being published tomorrow morning. Copies of the report will be placed in the Library by 9.30 am.

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Education Expenditure

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was (i) the actual spending per pupil in each local education authority and (ii) the education standard spending assessment per pupil in (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) total in 1996-97. [2758]

Mr. Robin Squire: Actual spending per pupil for 1996-97 will not be known until the year has ended. The following table shows the 1996-97 education standard spending assessment per pupil in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools for each local education authority, and (c) the England averages.

LEAPrimary SSA per pupil 1996-97Secondary SSA per pupil 1996-97
££
Barking and Dagenham2,2733,057
Barnet2,2032,897
Barnsley1,9552,617
Bath and North East Somerset1,8802,462
Bedfordshire2,0572,750
Berkshire2,0472,733
Bexley2,1242,831
Birmingham2,1732,907
Bolton1,9582,603
Bradford2,0702,777
Brent2,5543,504
Bromley2,0742,744
Buckinghamshire2,0212,715
Bury1,9092,517
Calderdale1,9862,650
Cambridgeshire1,9622,615
Camden2,8413,596
Cheshire1,9032,529
City of Bristol2,0112,759
City of Kingston upon Hull2,0802,789
City of London2,7367,422
Cornwall1,9842,644
Coventry2,0492,731
Croydon2,2773,089
Cumbria1,9572,598
Derbyshire1,9112,555
Devon1,9582,609
Doncaster2,0392,719
Dorset1,9092,536
Dudley1,8962,526
Durham1,9832,649
Ealing2,3783,246
East Riding of Yorkshire1,8902,517
East Sussex2,0432,728
Enfield2,2893,034
Essex2,0552,749
Gateshead2,0062,691
Gloucestershire1,9122,542
Greenwich2,7163,620
Hackney2,9914,207
Hammersmith and Fulham2,8083,701
Hampshire1,9892,657
Haringey2,6313,599
Harrow2,1942,951
Hartlepool2,0102,673
Havering2,1042,816
Hereford and Worcester1,9142,556
Hertfordshire2,0742,754
Hillingdon2,1952,930
Hounslow2,3413,072
Isle of Wight Council2,0702,755
Isles of Scilly3,5744,794
Islington2,8653,889
Kensington and Chelsea2,6283,605
Kent2,0322,714
Kingston upon Thames2,1082,787
Kirklees1,9712,637
Knowsley2,2313,055
Lambeth3,0244,431
Lancashire1,9642,616
Leeds1,9472,597
Leicestershire1,9542,601
Lewisham2,8033,769
Lincolnshire1,9692,630
Liverpool2,2032,924
Manchester2,3203,141
Merton2,2162,948
Middlesbrough2,1092,859
Newcastle upon Tyne2,1042,793
Newham2,6203,490
Norfolk1,9712,630
North East Lincolnshire1,9822,638
North Lincolnshire1,9652,595
North Somerset1,8632,462
North Tyneside1,9462,620
North Yorkshire1,9402,560
Northamptonshire1,9272,568
Northumberland1,9352,582
Nottinghamshire1,9732,630
Oldham2,0082,646
Oxfordshire1,9852,625
Redbridge2,2412,970
Redcar and Cleveland2,0422,698
Richmond upon Thames2,0402,660
Rochdale2,0172,711
Rotherham1,9782,609
Salford2,0472,747
Sandwell2,0512,734
Sefton1,9552,590
Sheffield1,9962,679
Shropshire1,9522,596
Solihull1,8722,468
Somerset1,9332,580
South Gloucestershire1,8342,442
South Tyneside2,0122,681
Southwark2,9263,933
St. Helens1,9452,609
Staffordshire1,8942,520
Stockport1,8632,482
Stockton on Tees1,9812,622
Suffolk1,9012,538
Sunderland2,0012,673
Surrey2,0402,723
Sutton2,1622,829
Tameside1,9082,530
Tower Hamlets3,0524,051
Trafford1,9052,518
Wakefield1,9102,536
Walsall1,9912,634
Waltham Forest2,4843,348
Wandsworth2,6543,551
Warwickshire1,9062,543
West Sussex1,9872,647
Westminster2,6673,470
Wigan1,9052,523
Wiltshire1,9212,561
Wirral2,0242,690
Wolverhampton2,0812,807
York1,8882,533
England--average2,0532,728

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