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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:
- the capital and interest repayment holiday offered to SFTL borrowers is now based on the amount of the loan. Loans up to £700 receive a six-month holiday, loans between £701 and £15,000 receive nine months and those over £15,000 receive 12 months;
- endorsement of applications by a training and enterprise council or local enterprise company is now mandatory only for loan applications for amounts over £15,000 submitted to a bank other than the bank holding the applicant's main business accounts;
- eligibility for SFTL support has been extended to cover the costs of an employee acting as in-house trainer, providing that the named trainer is relieved of normal operational duties while training others;
- the application form has been simplified.
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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- (2) what estimate she has made of the additional cost of increasing the length of the school day to an average of eight hours; and if she will make a statement. [12076]
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]
1993: 69,195
1994: 90,350
1995: 82,677
1996 (to 30 September): 84,485
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.
| £000 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Trust | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | 1995-96 |
| Aberdeen Royal Hospitals NHS Trust | -- | -- | 126 |
| Angus NHS Trust | -- | 48 | 185 |
| Argyll and Bute NHS Trust | -- | -- | 157 |
| Ayrshire and Arran Community Healthcare NHS Trust | 864 | 229 | 126 |
| Borders Community Health Services NHS Trust | -- | -- | 8 |
| Borders General Hospital NHS Trust | -- | -- | 1 |
| Caithness and Sutherland NHS Trust | 67 | 1 | 92 |
| 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 | -- | 43 | 32 |
| Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 4 | -- | 51 |
| East and Midlothian NHS Trust | -- | -- | -- |
| Edinburgh Healthcare NHS Trust | -- | 6 | 22 |
| Edinburgh Sick Children's NHS Trust | -- | 541 | -- |
| Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary NHS Trust | -- | -- | 280 |
| Fife Healthcare NHS Trust | -- | 31 | 243 |
| Glasgow Dental Hospital and School NHS Trust | -- | -- | 1 |
| Glasgow Royal Infirmary University NHS Trust | -- | -- | -- |
| Grampian Healthcare NHS Trust | 2,427 | 1,170 | 1,626 |
| Greater Glasgow Community and Mental Health Services NHS trust | -- | -- | 98 |
| Hairmyres and Stonehouse Hospitals NHS Trust | -- | -- | 8 |
| Highland Communities NHS Trust | -- | 27 | 362 |
| 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 Trust | 1 | -- | -- |
| Moray Health Services NHS Trust | 37 | -- | 42 |
| North Ayrshire and Arran NHS Trust | -- | -- | 333 |
| Perth and Kinross Healthcare NHS Trust | -- | 219 | 261 |
| Queen Margaret Hospital NHS Trust | -- | 119 | 16 |
| Raigmore Hospital NHS Trust | 6 | 24 | 13 |
| Renfrewshire Healthcare NHS Trust | -- | 27 | 12 |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust | -- | 114 | 13 |
| Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh NHS Trust | -- | 30 | 16 |
| Scottish Ambulance Service NHS Trust | -- | -- | 302 |
| South Ayrshire Hospitals NHS Trust | 299 | 99 | 7 |
| Southern General Hospital NHS Trust | 4 | 12 | -- |
| Stirling Royal Infirmary NHS Trust | -- | 11 | -- |
| Stobhill NHS Trust | -- | -- | 2 |
| Victoria Infirmary NHS Trust | -- | -- | 751 |
| West Glasgow Hospitals University NHS Trust | -- | -- | -- |
| West Lothian NHS Trust | 40 | 18 | 34 |
| Western General Hospitals NHS Trust | -- | -- | 106 |
| Yorkhill NHS Trust | -- | 20 | -- |
| Total | 3,770 | 2,880 | 5,549 |
(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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| 1993-94 | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| £000 | £000 | £000 | |
| Argyll and Clyde | 701 | 534 | 0 |
| Aryshire and Arran | 120 | 945 | 180 |
| Borders | 45 | 171 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 104 | 612 | 3,285 |
| Fife | 0 | 1,800 | 0 |
| Forth Valley | 93 | 1,068 | 575 |
| Grampian | 474 | 425 | 0 |
| Greater Glasgow | 1,822 | 2,969 | 3,899 |
| Highland | 824 | 523 | 0 |
| Lanarkshire | 1,347 | 1,531 | 969 |
| Lothian | 6,648 | 5,737 | 3,789 |
| Orkney | 0 | 130 | 14 |
| Shetland | 2 | 68 | 32 |
| Tayside | 299 | 0 | 150 |
| Western Isles | 125 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 12,604 | 16,513 | 12,893 |
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