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Westwood St. Thomas School

Mr. Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when she will announce her decision on the application of Westwood St. Thomas school, Salisbury, for grant-maintained status. [11007]

Mr. Forth: The application is under consideration. A decision will be made as soon as possible, consistent with full consideration of the proposals.

Public Examination Boards

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans she has to reduce the number of public examination boards; and if she will make a statement. [11186]

Mrs. Gillan: My right hon. Friend made it clear in response to the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority--Office for Standards in Education report on "Standards in Public Examinations 1975 to 1995", published on 5 December, that she believed that it was now right to consult on moves to reduce and rationalise the number of examining and awarding bodies. She will be publishing a consultation paper on possible options early next month.

Small Firms Training Loan Scheme

Mrs. Roche: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when she plans to re-launch the small firms training loan scheme; and with what changes. [11230]

Mr. Paice: The small firms training loans scheme was re-launched in September 1996. The following changes in rules and procedures were introduced at that time:





School Day

Mr. Blunkett: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what plans she has to change the current regulations on the length of the school day; [12075]

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Mr. Robin Squire: It is for governing bodies to determine the length of the school day and we have no plans to change this. The Department has carried out no studies of the cost of extending the school day, although it is known that some schools have a significantly longer compulsory day than others.

SCOTLAND

Arrestments

Mr. Worthington: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many (a) bank arrestments and (b) earnings arrestments there were in each year since 1993; and what statistics his Department (i) collects and (ii) publishes on this subject. [10946]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Details of the numbers of arrestments of moveable property in the hands of third parties have been collected centrally only since 1 January 1996. These figures do not distinguish between arrestment of bank accounts and arrestment of other property. The total to 30 September 1996, the latest date for which figures are currently available, is 65,570. The statistics which are collected on arrestments are published in the annual "Civil Judicial Statistics, Scotland".

The information requested in relation to earnings arrestments is given in the table.


Mr. Worthington: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what research he has conducted on the trends and impact of bank arrestments arising from civil court judgments. [10947]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: None.

NHS Property Sales

Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer of 28 November, Official Report, column 338, if he will list for each health board and NHS trust in Scotland for the (a) 1993-94, (b) 1994-95 and (c) 1995-96 financial years and in total for each of these periods (i) how much has been raised from the sale of surplus property and (ii) how much of this has been reallocated to the health board or NHS trust which disposed of the surplus property. [10965]

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The information is set out in the tables.

With regard to NHS trusts, all receipts are retained by the trust responsible for the sale. The expenditure of these receipts is controlled by the external financing limit.

As for health boards, for 1993-94 and 1994-95 all receipts were retained by the board responsible for the sale. Since 1995-96, receipts from the sale of surplus land and buildings by health boards are normally remitted to the management executive and are used to offset the

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capital programme for the whole of the NHS in Scotland. A case can be submitted by health boards to retain capital receipts. In 1995-96 Dumfries and Galloway health board and Tayside health board retained £3.285 million and £0.15 million, respectively.

Receipts from disposal of assets

£000
Trust1993-941994-951995-96
Aberdeen Royal Hospitals NHS Trust----126
Angus NHS Trust--48185
Argyll and Bute NHS Trust----157
Ayrshire and Arran Community Healthcare NHS Trust864229126
Borders Community Health Services NHS Trust----8
Borders General Hospital NHS Trust----1
Caithness and Sutherland NHS Trust67192
Central Scotland Healthcare NHS Trust(12)21--80
Dumfries and Galloway Acute and Maternity Hospitals NHS Trust--4--
Dumfries and Galloway Community Health NHS Trust----45
Dundee Healthcare NHS Trust--4332
Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust4--51
East and Midlothian NHS Trust------
Edinburgh Healthcare NHS Trust--622
Edinburgh Sick Children's NHS Trust--541--
Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary NHS Trust----280
Fife Healthcare NHS Trust--31243
Glasgow Dental Hospital and School NHS Trust----1
Glasgow Royal Infirmary University NHS Trust------
Grampian Healthcare NHS Trust2,4271,1701,626
Greater Glasgow Community and Mental Health Services NHS trust----98
Hairmyres and Stonehouse Hospitals NHS Trust----8
Highland Communities NHS Trust--27362
Inverclyde Royal Infirmary NHS Trust--87--
Kirkcaldy Acute Hospitals NHS Trust----2
Lanarkshire Healthcare NHS Trust----24
Law Hospital NHS Trust------
Lomond Healthcare NHS Trust----72
Monkslands and Bellshill Hospitals NHS Trust1----
Moray Health Services NHS Trust37--42
North Ayrshire and Arran NHS Trust----333
Perth and Kinross Healthcare NHS Trust--219261
Queen Margaret Hospital NHS Trust--11916
Raigmore Hospital NHS Trust62413
Renfrewshire Healthcare NHS Trust--2712
Royal Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust--11413
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust--3016
Scottish Ambulance Service NHS Trust----302
South Ayrshire Hospitals NHS Trust299997
Southern General Hospital NHS Trust412--
Stirling Royal Infirmary NHS Trust--11--
Stobhill NHS Trust----2
Victoria Infirmary NHS Trust----751
West Glasgow Hospitals University NHS Trust------
West Lothian NHS Trust401834
Western General Hospitals NHS Trust----106
Yorkhill NHS Trust--20--
Total3,7702,8805,549

(12) These receipts relate to the Royal Scottish National Hospitals NHS Trust which merged with Forth Valley Healthcare to become Central Scotland NHS Trust in 1994-95.


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Health boards

1993-941994-951995-96
£000£000£000
Argyll and Clyde7015340
Aryshire and Arran120945180
Borders451710
Dumfries and Galloway1046123,285
Fife01,8000
Forth Valley931,068575
Grampian4744250
Greater Glasgow1,8222,9693,899
Highland8245230
Lanarkshire1,3471,531969
Lothian6,6485,7373,789
Orkney013014
Shetland26832
Tayside2990150
Western Isles12500
Total12,60416,51312,893


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