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National Insurance
Ms Corston: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to his answer of 9 December 1996, Official Report, columns 70-72, what was the total expenditure on national insurance benefits as a percentage of total income in each year from 1979-80 to 1995-96 at 1995-96 prices. [13020]
Mr. Heald: The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the table.
| Year | National insurance benefit expenditure as a percentage of total income to the national insurance fund(41) |
|---|---|
| 1979-80 | 92.1 |
| 1980-81 | 93.0 |
| 1981-82 | 101.1 |
| 1982-83 | 96.0 |
| 1983-84 | 93.5 |
| 1984-85 | 94.2 |
| 1985-96 | 95.0 |
| 1986-87 | 94.7 |
| 1987-88 | 90.7 |
| 1988-89 | 85.2 |
| 1989-90 | 88.7 |
| 1990-91 | 86.1 |
| 1991-92 | 98.2 |
| 1992-93 | 101.5 |
| 1993-94 | 86.8 |
| 1994-95 | 87.0 |
Source:
National Insurance Fund accounts.
Note:
(41)Excludes income from national insurance contributions allocated to the national health service.
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Departmental Estate
Mr. Derek Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the preferred bidders in the Government's sale of the Department of Social Services's estate and indicate which have been fined for financial irregularities. [13094]
Mr. Roger Evans: The information is as follows:
Mapeley Holdings Ltd.
Opus
Partnership Property Management Ltd. (PPM)
War Pensions Agency
Mr. Rooney: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans he has to require claimants of the War Pensions Agency to pay for their medical and service records. [13029]
Mr. Heald: These are matters for Mr. Kevin Caldwell, chief executive of the War Pensions Agency. He will write to the hon. Member.
Letter from K. C. Caldwell to Mr. Terry Rooney, dated 27 January 1997:
The Secretary of State for Social Security has asked me to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about charges to claimants of War Pension, for medical and service records.
The War Pensions Agency has no plans to charge claimants for the service and medical records it obtains when dealing with claims or appeals.
The Agency obtains service records from the Ministry of Defence, based on information supplied by the claimant. The Agency also obtains any medical evidence required by the Agency's medical advisors. This evidence may already exist: for example the claimant's hospital medical records are loaned to the Agency free of charge by National Health Service Hospitals under a long standing agreement.
In many cases, particular medical evidence is commissioned by the Agency. This may include medical examination of the claimant or a report from the claimant's General Practitioner. Payment for these services is made by the Agency.
Claimants may submit any evidence they consider will assist their claim. The Agency does not reimburse claimants for the cost of obtaining such evidence and this is made clear in claim forms.
I hope you find this information useful.
Asylum Seekers
Mr. John Marshall: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what has been the impact of the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 on the costs of social security payments to asylum seekers. [12116]
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Mr. Roger Evans: It is not possible to measure the impact of the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993 on the costs of social security payments as no data are held on how many asylum seekers appealing against a refusal of refugee status were in receipt of benefit.
DEFENCE
Military Museums
Mr. Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list the regimental and corps museums which (a) have and (b) have not achieved registration from the Museums and Galleries Commission. [12874]
Mr. Soames [holding answer 27 January 1997]: The information is as follows:
| Museum | Location |
|---|---|
| a. Fully registered museums | |
| Queen's Dragoon Guards | Cardiff |
| Royal Scots Dragoon Guards | Edinburgh |
| Royal Dragoon Guards | York |
| Chester | |
| Queen's Royal Hussars | Eastbourne |
| Warwick | |
| 9th/12th Royal Lancers | Derby |
| Kings's Royal Hussars | Preston |
| Light Dragoons | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Queen's Royal Lancers | Belvoir Castle |
| Royal Armoured Corps and Royal Tank Regiment | Bovington |
| Royal Regiment of Artillery | Woolwich |
| Corps of Royal Engineers | Chatham |
| Royal Corps of Signals | Blandford |
| Foot Guards | London |
| Royal Scots | Edinburgh |
| Royal Highland Fusiliers | Glasgow |
| King's Own Scottish Borderers | Berwick upon Tweed |
| Black Watch | Perth |
| Highlanders | Aberdeen |
| Fort George | |
| Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment | Dover |
| Winchester | |
| Guildford | |
| Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | Alnwick |
| Warwick | |
| Royal Anglian Regiment | Bury St. Edmunds |
| Norwich | |
| Kings Own Royal Border Regiment | Carlisle |
| Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire | York |
| Green Howards | Richmond |
| York and Lancaster Regiment | Rotherham |
| Devonshire and Dorset Regiment | Dorchester |
| Cheshire Regiment | Chester |
| Royal Welch Fusiliers | Caernarfon |
| Royal Regiment of Wales | Cardiff |
| Brecon | |
| Royal Gloucester, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment | Gloucester |
| Salisbury | |
| Worcester and Sherwood Foresters Regiment | Worcester |
| Nottingham | |
| Staffordshire Regiment | Lichfield |
| Light Infantry | Winchester |
| Bodmin | |
| Shrewsbury | |
| Royal Green Jackets | Winchester |
| Royal Irish Regiment | Enniskillen |
| Parachute Regiment | Aldershot |
| Gurkhas | Winchester |
| Royal Army Medical Corps | Aldershot |
| Royal Army Dental Corps | Aldershot |
| Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps | Aldershot |
| Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers | Arborfield |
| Army Air Corps | Middle Wallop |
| Royal Army Chaplains Department | Upavon |
| Adjutant General's Corps (Royal Military Police) | Chicester |
| Army Physical Training Corps | Aldershot |
| b. Provisionally registered museums | |
| Household Cavalry | Windsor |
| King's Royal Hussars | Winchester |
| Light Dragoons | Barnsley |
| Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders | Stirling |
| Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | London |
| Bury | |
| Royal Anglian Regiment | Chelmsford |
| Northampton | |
| Queen's Lancashire Regiment | Preston |
| Royal Irish Regiment | Ballymena |
| Armagh | |
| Royal Logistic Corps | Camberley |
| c. Not registered | |
| Royal Irish Regiment | Belfast |
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Low Flying
Mr. Alan W. Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many representations his Department has received against low-flying aircraft during each year since 1990. [12164]
Mr. Soames: I refer the hon. Member to the answer givne to the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) on 3 February 1995, Official Report, column 885, for the years 1990 to 1994. The numbers of inquiries and complaints about military low flying received in 1995 and 1996 are as follows:
1995: 6,790
1996: 6,465
Mr. Soames: The central Wales tactical training area comprises the south-west proportion of Montgomery, the north-west corner of Brecon and Radnor, the north-east corner of Carmarthen and north Pembroke. The area, which is designated as low-flying area 7T, is shown on the map of the day low-flying system which is available in the Library of the House. There have been no changes to its boundaries since 1993. The numbers of operational low-flying movements authorised into the central Wales TTA in each year since 1992 are as follows:
1992: 174
1993: 192
1994: 89
1995: 147
1996: 140
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Mr. Soames: It is not possible to provide the detailed information required without disproportionate cost. However, the amounts paid to farmers in Wales in compensation for livestock and agricultural production losses due to military low flying since 1992 were:
| Year | £ |
|---|---|
| 1992 | 35,811 |
| 1993 | 38,964 |
| 1994 | 65,723 |
| 1995 | 67,138 |
| 1996 | 40,363 |
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