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North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre

Mr. Hanson: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) what plans he has to meet representatives of the North Wales health authority to discuss revenue funding for the proposed north Wales cancer treatment centre; [11207]

(2) what assessment he has made of the ability of North Wales health authority to fund the revenue costs of the proposed cancer treatment centre. [11205]

Mr. Gwilym Jones: My right hon. Friend has no plans to meet the health authority. Welsh Office officials are discussing revenue funding with the health authority and an announcement will be made shortly.

North Wales Ambulance Service

Mr. Barry Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the performance targets set for the North Wales Ambulance Service. [11670]

Mr. Gwilym Jones: The standard set for Conwy, Gwynedd and the Isle of Anglesey is that in response to a 999 call an emergency ambulance should arrive at the scene of the incident within eight minutes for 50 per cent. of calls and within 21 minutes for 95 per cent. The corresponding times for Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham are eight minutes and 18 minutes.

GP Fundholders

Mr. Barry Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the percentage of general practitioners who are fundholders in Wales; and if he will make a statement. [11673]

Mr. Gwilym Jones: Fifty-two per cent. of general practitioners in Wales are fundholders covering 52 per cent. of the population.

CHURCH COMMISSIONERS

Clergy (Full Incumbents)

Mr. William Powell: To ask the right hon. Member for Selby, representing the Church Commissioners, how many clergy enjoying full incumbent status are aged (a) over 70 years and (b) over 80 years. [11073]

Mr. Alison: At 31 December 1996, there were 31 ministers of incumbent status aged 70 or over, of whom 12 were aged 80 or over.

Suffragan Bishops

Mr. William Powell: To ask the right hon. Member for Selby, representing the Church Commissioners if he will list (a) those suffragan bishops for whose salaries the

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commissioners are responsible, with their dates of appointments, (b) such suffragan sees as are currently vacant and (c) those assistant bishops for whose salaries the commissioners are responsible. [11071]

Mr. Alison: The suffragan and full-time assistant bishops whose stipends the commissioners are empowered to pay and their dates of appointment are as follows:

See	Suffragan see	Bishop's name	Date of appointment
Birmingham	Aston	John Austin	3 September 1992
Blackburn	Burnley	Martyn Jarrett	2 February 1994
	Lancaster	John Nicholls	25 April 1990
Bristol	Swindon	Michael Doe	29 September 1994
Canterbury	Dover	Richard Llewellin	9 October 1992
	Maidstone	Gavin Reid	9 October 1992
	Ebbsfleet	John Richards	29 April 1994
	Richborough	Edwin Barnes	20 July 1995
Carlisle	Penrith	Richard Garrard	21 September 1994
Chelmsford	Barking	Roger Sainsbury	17 January 1991
	Colchester	Edward Holland	5 January 1995
	Bradwell	Laurie Green	23 February 1993
Chester	Birkenhead	Michael Langrish	2 March 1993
	Stockport	Geoffrey Turner	21 September 1994
Chichester	Horsham	Lindsay Urwin	30 November 1993
Coventry	Warwick	Anthony Priddis	3 July 1996
Derby	Repton	Henry Richmond	30 January 1986
Durham	Jarrow	Alan Smithson	21 September 1990
Ely	Huntingdon	John Flack	8 January 1997
Exeter	Crediton	Richard Hawkins	2 July 1996
	Plymouth	John Garton	3 July 1996
Glucester	Tewkesbury	John Went	25 January 1996
Gildford	Dorking	Ian Brackley	25 January 1996
Hereford	Ludlow	John Saxbee	29 April 1994
Lichfield	Shrewsbury	David Hallatt	22 July 1994
	Stafford	Christopher Hill	7 March 1996
	Wolverhampton	Michael Bourke	29 September 1993
Lincoln	Grantham	William Ind	23 October 1987
	Grimsby	David Tustin	25 January 1979
Liverpool	Warrington	John Packer	13 November 1996
London	Fulham	John Broadbent	25 September 1996
	Kensington	Michael Colclough	25 September 1996
	Stepney	John Sentamu	25 September 1996
	Willesden	Graham Dow	22 May 1992
	Edmonton	Brian Masters	20 December 1984
Manchester	Hulme	Colin Scott	13 September 1984
	Middleton	Stephen Venner	2 February 1994
	Bolton	David Bonser	13 September 1991
Newcastle	Assistant Bishop	Kenneth Gill	1 September 1980
Norwich	Lynn	David Conner	2 February 1994
	Thetford	Hugo de Waal	17 January 1992
Oxford	Buckingham	Colin Bennetts	29 April 1994
	Dorchester	Anthony Russell	2 February 1988
Peterborough	Brixworth	Paul Barber	25 January 1989
Ripon	Knaresborough	Malcolm Menin	2 December 1986
Rochester	Tonbridge	Brian Smith	2 November 1993
St. Albans	Bedford	John Richardson	23 February 1994
	Hertford	Robin Smith	25 January 1990
St. Edmunds and Ipswich	Dunwich	Tim Stevens	17 November 1995
Salisbury	Ramsbury	Peter Vaughan	21 April 1989
	Sherborne	John Kirkham	1 December 1976
Sheffield	Doncaster	Michael Gear	2 March 1993
Southwark	Kingston	Martin Wharton	3 November 1992
	Woolwich	Colin Buchanan	1 December 1996
	Croydon	Wilfred Wood	25 July 1985
Southwell	Sherwood	Alan Morgan	1 September 1989
Truro	St. Germans	Graham James	23 February 1993
Wakefield	Pontefract	John Finney	14 May 1993
Winchester	Basingstoke	Geoffrey Rowell	2 February 1994
	Southampton	Jonathan Gledhill	20 November 1996
Worcester	Dudley	Rupert Hoare	29 September 1993
York	Hull	James Jones	2 November 1994
	Selby	Humphrey Taylor	1 September 1991
	Whitby	Gordon Bates	9 June 1983
	Beverley	John Gaisford	7 March 1994
Europe	in Europe	Henry Scriven	9 February 1995

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The following suffragan sees are currently vacant, one of which will be filled by the person named:

See	Suffragan See	Bishop's name
Bath and Wells	Taunton	Not yet announced
Chichester	Lewes	Not yet announced
Oxford	Reading	Canon Dominic Walker

Bishops (Expenses)

Mr. Simon Hughes: To ask the right hon. Member for Selby, representing the Church Commissioners, what has been the Church Commissioners' expenditure for the payment of bishops' capital expenses in each year since 1986. [10948]

Mr. Alison: The following figures for diocesan bishops' houses, which include both a chapel and office accommodation for bishops' staff, show the total capital expenditure, excluding fees, from 1986 to 1995, the last year for which figures are currently available. The figures, at December 1995 prices, are net of sale proceeds of any surplus property and also include the purchases of property where appropriate.

As suffragan and full-time assistant bishops' houses are owned by diocesan boards of finance full details of all capital expenditure are not available, but capital grants made by the commissioners are shown.

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	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995
Diocesan bishops	482,087	706,433	494,322	469,947	645,155	660,897	314,192	480,653	732,103	678,457
Suffragan and full-time assistant bishops	136,160	427,608	204,161	684,680	591,468	80,323	2,557	3,815	31,113	27,202

No new moneys were made available for grants for the housing of suffragan and full-time assistant bishops from 1991.

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Mr. Hughes: To ask the right hon. Member for Selby, representing the Church Commissioners, what has been the Church Commissioners' expenditure for the payment of bishops' revenue expenses in each year since 1986. [10949]

Mr. Alison: The table shows the total revenue expenditure from 1986 to 1995, the last date for which figures are currently available, at December 1995 prices. The figures for diocesan bishops' houses include expenditure on furnishings and gardens, but exclude fees and are net of rental income for accommodation not occupied by bishops.

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The figures for suffragan and full-time assistant bishops' houses show half of the total expenditure on periodical outgoings e.g. rates, insurance and repairs, the other half of which were borne by dioceses.

The figures for bishops' administrative costs include their working expenses and staff salaries and pensions, as well as support for the archbishops' appointments secretary, the clergy appointments adviser, the archbishops' adviser for bishops' ministry and the bishops' officer for urban priority areas.

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	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995
Diocesan bishops	1,438,666	1,325,950	1,482,657	1,316,418	1,616,873	1,661,259	1,405,465	1,487,894	1,744,283	1,417,489
Suffragan and full-time assistant bishops	172,761	124,340	179,326	189,973	172,698	126,810	113,048	187,134	154,205	206,745
Bishops' administrative costs	4,724,549	5,121,197	5,439,570	5,565,365	6,278,517	6,718,993	6,785,396	7,060,791	7,199,430	7,414,000

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