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Written Answers to Questions

Tuesday 18 November 1997

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Kenya

Mr. McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development on what projects the current United Kingdom bilateral aid to the Government of Kenya is being spent. [15013]

Mr. Foulkes: Major projects (with commitments of £1 million or over) implemented in partnership with the Government of Kenya are:

	£ million
Education
Primary School management Project	4.8
Strengthening of Primary Education Phase II	18.9
Health
Kenya Family Health Programme	11.5
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Project	8.9
Family Planning Interim Support Project	3.5
Natural Resources/Environmental Protection
National Agricultural Research Programme Phase II	10.6
Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute Phase III	2.4
Protected Areas and Wildlife Support Project	2.9
Small Enterprise Development
Improving the Regulatory Environment Phase II	1.0

Mr. McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what safeguards are currently in place within her Department to prevent the misuse of aid provided directly to the Kenyan Government. [15015]

Mr. Foulkes: Project funds are not normally provided directly to the Kenyan Government, but are controlled and disbursed by project management agents appointed by the British Government, and are subject to independent audit.

Mr. McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) what recent investigations her Department has undertaken into the misuse of aid provided by the United kingdom to the Kenyan Government; [15018]

(2) what estimate she has made of the amount of aid provided by the United Kingdom to the Kenyan Government which is misused. [15019]

Mr. Foulkes: We know of no misuse of our development assistance funds by the Kenyan Government.

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Mr. McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much aid has been offered to non-governmental organisations in Kenya to assist with an election-observing programme. [15020]

Mr. Foulkes: My Department has offered up to £264,000 for this purpose.

DUCHY OF LANCASTER

Compliance Cost Assessments

Mr. Jim Marshall: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list those compliance cost assessments published during the latest six-month period. [16904]

Dr. David Clark: The Government are committed to ensuring that regulations are necessary, fair to all parties and properly costed. In accordance with this, we require Departments to produce and publish CCAs for all regulatory proposals likely to have an impact on business, charities and the voluntary sector.

I have presented to Parliament today a Command Paper listing 90 CCAs published between 1 January 1997 and 30 June 1997 plus 1 CCA published in December 1996 which was omitted from the previous Command Paper. Copies of the CCAs listed have been placed in the Libraries of the House. This is the seventh such Command Paper.

CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT

Film Industry

Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many films were produced in the United Kingdom in each of the last six years broken down by production type. [15448]

Mr. Tom Clarke: Total production figures for the six years are as follows:

1996: 128

1995: 78

1994: 84

1993: 67

1992: 47

1991: 59

Classification by the production types used by the British Film Institute is available only for the last four years:

Category A: Films where the cultural and financial impetus is from the UK and the majority of personnel is British.

1996: 53

1995: 28

1994: 35

1993: 32

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Category B: Majority UK Co-Productions; films in which, although there are foreign partners, there is a UK cultural content and a significant amount of British finance and personnel.

1996: 20

1995: 9

1994: 8

1993: 27

Category C: Minority UK Co-Productions. Foreign (non-US) films in which there is a small UK involvement in finance or personnel.

1996: 30

1995: 23

1994: 20

1993: --

Category D: American films with a UK creative and/or financial involvement.

1996: 25

1995: 18

1994: 21

1993: 10

National Lottery

Mr. Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what procedures he proposes that lottery funding bodies should adopt to take account of public opinion when considering grant applications; and if he will make a statement. [15605]

Mr. Banks: In the White Paper "The People's Lottery" we announced our intention to ensure that lottery money is spent according to a strategy which reflects distributors' assessment of need in their sectors. These strategies should take account of public opinion. It is for distributors to determine the means by which they intend to assess public opinion and reflect it in their strategies.

Tourism (Crown Scheme)

Mr. Keetch: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when the English Tourist Board review of the Crown Scheme will be completed; if he will support changes to the scheme to allow resorts which choose not to have telephones in their lodges to be granted a Five Key rating; and if he will make a statement. [15309]

Mr. Tom Clarke: The English Tourist Board, the AA and the RAC are now considering the responses from the industry consultation on their proposals for replacing the existing Crown and Star schemes. They intended to make a final announcement about the new schemes, which will cover serviced accommodation, before the end of the year.

The English Tourist Board will be reviewing their separate Key Scheme for self-catering accommodation in the spring. The first stage will be to commission research into consumer expectations about this sector.

Academy of Sport

Mr. Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) what plans he has to include team sports in the British Academy of Sport; [16567]

(2) when he expects to make an announcement on the location of the British Academy of Sport. [16568]

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Mr. Banks: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State met the United Kingdom Sports Council on 14 November and agreed the basis on which the competition will be completed. I have arranged for copies of his announcement and the paper which was considered at that meeting to be placed in the Library. I expect an announcement on the location of the United Kingdom Sports Institute to be made before Christmas. Team sports will be embraced by the Institute. The distribution of training facilities for team sports between the Headquarters, sports specific institutes, and network institutes, will be decided over time with the governing bodies concerned.

Dance and Drama

Mr. Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what financial contribution his Department has made towards the costs of the Arts Council for England interim scheme for students of dance and drama; and what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of this expenditure. [15599]

Dr. Howells: I have been asked to reply.

The Department will be contributing a minimum of £9 million of new funds to the interim bursary scheme over the four academic years the scheme will run. £15 million has been made available in the current year. We are currently assessing the impact of the scheme with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Arts Council of England.

CABINET OFFICE

Millennium Experience

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Minister without Portfolio how many accidents have been recorded at the dome site since construction began. [15730]

Mr. Mandelson: There have been three minor accidents, involving three people in all, since construction started at the dome site. None of the incidents were classed as "major" injuries under RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries; Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995). Although all those involved were back at work within a week or less, all three incidents were reported to the HSE as the time off work in each case exceeded three days.

HOME DEPARTMENT

Cleared-up Crime (Definition)

Mr. Beith: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his Department's definition of a cleared-up crime; and if he will make a statement. [16547]

Mr. Michael: The full details of the Home Office definition of a cleared-up crime are set out on page 9 of Volume IV of the "Criminal Statistics Instructions, Annual and Miscellaneous Returns", last issued in Janaury 1997.

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An offence is regarded as cleared up when:

1. a person has been charged or summonsed for the offence (irrespective of any subsequent acquittal);

2. the offence has been taken into consideration by the court or the unequivocal consent of the offender is obtained by way of statement of admission and desire to have further offences taken into consideration;

3. the offender has been proceeded against in another police force area for the offence;

4. the offender dies before proceedings could be initiated or completed;

5. the offender has been cautioned by the police;

6. the offender is ill and is unlikely to recover or is too senile or too mentally disturbed for proceedings to be taken;

7. the complainant or an essential witness is dead and the proceedings cannot be pursued;

8. the guilt of the offender is clear but the victim refuses, or is permanently unable, or if a juvenile is not permitted, to give evidence;

9. the offender admits the offence but it is decided that no useful purpose would be served by proceeding with the charge;

10. it is ascertained that an offence has been committed by a child under the age of criminal responsibility;

11. an offence is admitted by a juvenile of the age of criminal responsibility and police take no action other than reporting the particulars to a local authority for action under the Children and Young Persons Act 1969;

12. there is sufficient evidence to charge the offender but

(a) the police prosecuting department, the Crown Prosecution Service or a senior police officer decide that no useful purpose would be served by proceeding with the charge; or

(b) for summary offences of unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle or criminal damage value over £20 the time limit of six months for commencing prosecution has been exceeded.

In cases where a warrant for the arrest of an offender, although issued, remains unexecuted, the offence should be regarded as undetected until the offender has been apprehended or until the case comes within the scope of the above paragraphs. As a general principle and apart from the particular examples given above, it should be noted that where there is insufficient evidence for proceedings to be taken against a known and available person, the offence should be regarded as undetected.

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