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AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
Atrazine
Mr. Colvin : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what measures he will take to limit the use of the chemical atrazine.
Mr. Maclean : The use of atrazine is already restricted under the Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986. The Advisory Committee on Pesticides is at present reviewing atrazine and could if necessary recommend to Ministers that these conditions should be amended.
Poultry Flocks
Mr. Colvin : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when his Department will be issuing details of the regulations for registration by poultry flocks ; and what is the date by which registration is required.
Mr. Maclean : The Poultry Laying Flocks (Testing and Registration etc.) Order 1989 and the Poultry Breeding Flocks and Hatcheries (Registration and Testing) Order 1989 came into operation on 26 October 1989 apart from the registration requirement which applies from 2 April. Details of the arrangements were circulated on a wide scale in October, registration application forms have been circulated and a reminder about registration will be issued shortly.
Mineral Water
Mr. Bowis : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the accuracy of the description of Perrier water as a naturally carbonated mineral water.
Mr. Maclean : The conditions which have to be met by water labelled as naturally carbonated natural mineral water are laid down in annex I, part III, of Council directive 80/777/EEC. Information which came to light during the recent Perrier contamination incident raises a number of questions on the labelling of this natural mineral water and I have asked my officials to write to the European Commission seeking clarification.
Mr. Bowis : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the
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provision in the European Communities directive which permits bottled water not to have the full chemical analysis printed on the label.Mr. Maclean : Article 7(2) of directive 80/777/EEC requires labels on natural mineral waters either to bear a declaration of the water's analytical composition or to state that the composition is in accordance with the results of the official analysis. A proposal to require the mandatory declaration of information on the analytical composition has already been made and the United Kingdom Government will press for such a proposal as being more informative to consumers.
Mr. Bowis : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will raise with the European Communities Commission the question of mineral water purity and labelling.
Mr. Maclean : The European Commission has already indicated that it intends to review Council directive 80/777/EEC and has asked member states for comments. Purity and labelling issues will likely be part of the review.
Mr. Kirkhope : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether describing the practice of the removal of carbon dioxide from water, its cleaning and then reinjection under pressure as naturally carbonated complies with the labelling rules ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Maclean : Council directive 80/777/EEC defines naturally carbonated natural mineral water as
"water whose content of carbon dioxide from the spring after decanting, if any, and bottling is the same as at source, taking into account where appropriate the reintroduction of a quantity of carbon dioxide from the same water table or deposit equivalent to that released in the course of those operations and subject to the usual technical tolerances".
I have asked my officials to write to the European Commission to seek clarification on exactly how this provision operates when gas and water are extracted separately at the source and subsequently mixed during bottling.
Rabies
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he has any contingency plans for the use of vaccinations of wild animals acting as vectors of rabies in the event of an outbreak in the United Kingdom ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Maclean : Oral vaccination of wildlife is not appropriate in a rabies-free country. In the unlikely event of an outbreak in wildlife in the United Kingdom control measures would concentrate on the destruction of foxes in the infected area.
Pesticides
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he proposes to report on his review of maneb, mancozeb and zineb.
Mr. Maclean : The report on immediate concerns was published on 31 January. The report of the ongoing review of remaining areas will be published as soon as possible.
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Animal Waste
Mr. Hind : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what changes have been made in the temperature levels defined as appropriate for the heat treatment of animal waste since 1980 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Maclean : The Government have strict controls which apply to animal protein processors' handling of animal waste, principally to minimise the risk of salmonella contamination, but it has never laid down specific heat treatment requirements.
Commercial technological developments led to a move away from batch processing to continuous rendering. Both batch and continuous systems operate at a range of temperatures ; batch between 100 and 150 deg. C, and continuous between 100 and 145 deg. C.
Livestock (Transit Care)
Mr. Leadbitter : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the trade in horsemeat betwen the United Kingdom and Europe in respect of the care of horses and other livestock in transit, and on any breaches of standards of care of animals ; and if he has any proposals under consideration to bring this trade to an end.
Mr. Maclean : In 1989 the United Kingdom exported 1,932 tonnes of meat derived from horses and other equines, valued at £2.85 million. There is no reason to end this trade. In Community negotiations we shall, however, press to retain existing controls designed to prevent the export of live horses and ponies for slaughter.
Artificial Flavourings
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer of 28 February, Official Report, column 242, if he will introduce legislation to replace the legal term "flavour" with the term "artificial flavour" to assist consumers seeking to avoid the use of artificial flavourings.
Mr. Maclean : No. I believe that the term "artificial flavour" instead of "flavour" would not necessarily help consumers and might be misleading. While the term "strawberry flavour," for example, indicates that the flavour does not come wholly or mainly from strawberries, some of it may come from strawberries and the rest might come from other natural flavourings. The European Commission is, however, expected to make proposals on the labelling of flavourings in food and I shall be pressing for terminology which enables consumers to make an informed choice.
Fish and Cetaceans (Disease)
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if there is any evidence of a change in the levels of disease suffered by fish or cetaceans in British coastal waters.
Mr. Curry : Disease levels in marine fish populations have been found to fluctuate from year to year and in some cases seasonally, but there is no clear evidence of a long-term trend of changing levels of disease in fish. There
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has been no comprehensive collection of data on the incidence of disease in cetaceans, but I understand that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment is considering new research projects on cetaceans and marine mammals, including post-mortem analysis for stranded cetaceans and other marine animals found on our shores.Salmonella
Sir Peter Emery : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many laying breeding flocks in Britain have now been found to have been carrying salmonella enteritidis, and in what regions of the United Kingdom these flocks were found.
Mr. Maclean : Salmonella enteritidis has been isolated from one layer breeder flock located in south-west England.
Eggs
Sir Peter Emery : To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the production and sale by month over the last 12 months of British eggs ; and what was the level of importation and sale month by month of eggs from overseas during the same period.
Mr. Curry : The latest monthly data for throughput at packing stations in Great Britain (that is excluding Northern Ireland) and in the United Kingdom and for imports into the United Kingdom are as follows. Figures are not collected on sales of eggs.
thousand boxes (of 360 eggs) station station
WALES
Cancer Treatment
Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many responses in total have been submitted to date on the review of the provision of cancer treatment services for the people of north Wales ; and how many favour option 4.
Mr. Grist : Of the 18 responses to consultation received by 9 March, eight have specified a preference for a radiotherapy unit in north Wales (option 4).
Roads
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many representations he has received from the local highway authority and others concerning the provision of a pedestrian crossing on the A487(T) at Tremadog ; and what response he has made.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : Three. The request for a pedestrian crossing was refused but Gwynedd county council has been asked to prepare a scheme to improve pedestrian safety by widening the footpath and reducing the width of the carriageway thus making crossing easier.
Special Educational Needs
Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many children received a statement of special educational needs in each year from 1984 to 1989 in each local education authority in Wales ; and what is each figure as a percentage of all pupils in maintained schools in Wales.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : Data for 1989 are not yet available. Prior to 1986 information in the form requested was not collected centrally. Information for 1986, 1987 and 1988 is shown in the table :
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<1> The figures shown indicate the number of children, in each calendar year, for whom statements of special education need were made for the first time.
Storm Damage
Mr. Barry Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what additional finance he will give to borough councils, additional to the Bellwin formula, in north Clwyd consequent upon the February storms ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Walker : The Bellwin scheme represents an entirely appropriate and adequate Government response to the additional costs incurred by local authorities in dealing with emergencies. In view of the scale of the emergency, and the very high expenditure being incurred by the local councils directly affected by the recent flooding in north Wales, I am pleased to say that the rate of grant payable has, exceptionally, been increased to 85 per cent. of eligible expenditure. I have, in addition, announced a Government contribution of £150,000 to the appeal funds launched locally.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will provide help to farmers in north Wales whose land has been affected by sea water.
Mr. Peter Walker : It is too early to assess the full extent of the damage to farms in the affected areas. However, it is clear that immediate steps must be taken to counter the damaging effects of prolonged sea water flooding of agricultural land by the application of gypsum. In these wholly exceptional circumstances my Department will meet the costs of this measure and ADAS will provide free advice. Farmers will also be advised of the assistance available under existing grant schemes to help meet the costs of other work that may be necessary.
Parliamentary approval to this exceptional measure will be sought in a revised estimate for the agricultural services, support for the fishing industry, regional and industrial development, Wales vote 2 (class XVI vote 2, 1990-91).
Cash Limits
Mr. Gwilym Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he proposes making any further cash limits changes.
Mr. Peter Walker : Yes. Provision for regional enterprise grants on class XVII, vote 2, is being reduced by
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£500,000 and the cash limit reduced from £86,448,000 to £85,948, 000. This reduction will provide the necessary public expenditure cover for a temporary borrowing facility required by the Development Board for Rural Wales to meet its expenditure commitments during the remainder of the current financial year. The facility will not add to the board's overall resources but will ease its cash flow position pending the settlement of a substantial claim for repayment of VAT from Her Majesty's Customs and Excise not now expected until the next financial year.Community Charge
Mr. Murphy : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if women's refuges in Wales are exempted from collective community charge ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Grist : I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment on 8 March, Official Report, column 799.
Mr. Alan Williams : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what representations he has received from companies about the additional burden of cost and administration to be placed on them under the terms of the Community Charges (Administration and Enforcement Regulations) 1989 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Peter Walker : I have received no such representations.
Community Care
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list all working papers, implementation documents, consultative documents, departmental circulars, and other publications, whether in draft or final form, that have been issued to date in respect of Wales regarding (a) National Health Service matters and (b) care in the community matters arising from the National Health Service and Community Care Bill, the Government's White Papers on these topics, and associated Government initiatives.
Mr. Grist [holding answer 5 March 1990] : Relevant publications issued by the Department in Wales are shown in the tables :
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Table 1 Documents issued pursuant to the White Paper "Working for Patients" CM 555, January 1989 Resource Allocation
Table 2 Documents issued pursuant to the white paper "Caring for People: Community Care in the next decade and beyond" CM 849, November 1989
Health Service
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make it his policy that all working papers, implementation documents, consultative documents, departmental circulars and other publications in regard to the implementation of (a) the National Health Service aspects and (b) the care in the community aspects of the National Health Service and Community Care Bill and the associated White Papers in Wales shall be numbered sequentially and shall be available in the Vote Office and the Library, together with a comprehensive list of all such publications which is brought up to date from time to time.
Mr. Grist [holding answer 6 March 1990] : The Department's policy of providing the Vote Office and Library with copies of all major consultation documents, circulars, and other papers on National Health Service and community care issues will continue. Lists of such documents together with any other associated publications will be available in the Library and updated quarterly. The documents are not produced in a single series, so sequential numbering would not be appropriate.
EMPLOYMENT
Training
Ms. Short : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish up-to-date figures for Great Britain and each Training Agency region for each month since November 1989 and the cumulative numbers of (a) referrals to ET from the employment service to training agents, (b) agreed ET action plans of training agents, (c) starts with ET training managers, (d) the number in training on ET each month and (e) the number on continuation training.
Mr. Nicholls : The information on referrals, action plans, starts and numbers in training is provided in the tables. Information is not separately available for those on continuation training.
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Table 1
Employment training
Referrals from employment service to employment training
December 1989 to January 1990
(cumulative)
London and South East |12,900 |29,900
South West |3,000 |7,300
West Midlands |5,800 |14,600
East Midlands and Eastern |4,600 |10,700
Yorkshire and Humberside |6,500 |14,900
North West |8,700 |21,300
Northern |4,600 |11,200
Wales |3,800 |9,200
Scotland |9,100 |20,600
Great Britain |59,100 |139,700
Notes:
Regional figures may not equal Great Britain total because of rounding.
Figures for February are not yet available.
Table 2
Employment training
Agreed action plans at training agents
December 1989 to February 1990
(cumulative)
South East |2,400 |5,400 |9,300
London |3,900 |7,800 |12,500
South West |1,800 |3,900 |6,300
West Midlands |3,400 |7,600 |13,100
East Midlands and Eastern 2,54,900 8,200
Yorkshire and Humberside 4,609,400 15,000
North West |4,400 |9,700 |16,400
Northern |3,400 |7,600 |12,300
Wales |1,900 |4,400 |8,000
Scotland |4,300 |8,800 |14,300
Great Britain |32,600 |69,500 |115,400
Note:
Regional figures may not equal Great Britain total because of rounding.
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Table 3
Employment training
Starts with training managers
December 1989 to February 1990 (cumulative)
South East |1,500 |4,300 |6,900
London |2,600 |6,500 |10,600
South West |1,400 |3,400 |5,200
West Midlands |2,900 |6,500 |10,900
East Midlands and Eastern 2,100 4,600 7,700
Yorkshire and Humberside 3,700 8,000 13,200
North West |3,600 |9,000 |14,900
Northern |2,900 |6,200 |10,300
Wales |1,900 |4,400 |7,500
Scotland |3,500 |7,400 |12,700
Great Britain<1> |26,100 |60,500 |100,100
<1> Great Britain total includes small number of starts at Residential Training Colleges and Large
Contractors not inlcuded in regional totals.
Table 4
Employment training
Filled places: December 1989 to February 1990
South East |14,300 |14,700 |14,900
London |21,000 |21,800 |22,300
South West |11,900 |12,100 |11,800
West Midlands |22,500 |21,900 |22,400
East Midlands and Eastern 16,600 16,400 16,400
Yorkshire and Humberside 25,100 24,700 25,000
North West |28,800 |28,900 |29,000
Northern |24,200 |23,700 |23,300
Wales |16,100 |15,900 |16,100
Scotland |26,100 |25,900 |26,300
Great Britain<1> |208,000 |207,000 |209,000
<1> Great Britain total includes small number of trainees at Residential Training Colleges and Large
Contractors not included in regional totals.
Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
Mr. Malcolm Bruce : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he has made an assessment of the incidence of acute myeloid leukaemia among telegraph, radio and radar operators ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Nicholls : A limited review undertaken in 1988 suggests that there may be a small increase in relative risk of acute myeloid leukaemia for telegraph, radio and radar operators. I am not aware of any current studies on this topic.
Gateshead Garden Festival
Mr. Amos : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what assistance his Department is making available to NGF(90)Ltd., organisers of the Gateshead
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garden festival, for the employment and training of unemployed people during the festival ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Eggar : I am making arrangements so that the organisers may employ and train up to 1,140 unemployed people during the festival from public funds. Parliamentary approval to this provision will be sought in a supplementary estimate for the Department of Employment's training and enterprise programmes vote (class VI vote 1). Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £2.7 million will be met by repayable advances from the Contingencies Fund.
Disabled Employees
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many nationalised industries and public authorities ensure that at least 3 per cent. of their employees are registered disabled people.
Mr. Eggar : The figures showing the quota position of a range of individual public sector employers are published with their agreement in the Employment Gazette. In June 1989, the latest date for which figures are available, 26 of these firms employed 3 per cent. or more registered people with disabilities.
Mr. Ashley : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many prosecutions there have been in the last 15 years against employers who fail to fulfil their obligations under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944 ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Eggar : There have been three prosecutions in the last 15 years against employers who have failed to fulfil their obligations under the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944. The policy of successive Governments has been to use education and persuasion to secure and improve the policies and practices of all employers in relation to the employment of people with disabilities and to bring prosecutions only as a last resort.
Wages Councils
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish in the Official Report the statistics on wages council employment and compliance with wages council rates in 1989, in the same format as in the reply given on 1 March 1989, Official Report, columns 201- 06.
Mr. Nicholls : The information requested is given in the following tables :
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Table 1 Establishments covered by wages councils on register-as at January 1989
Table 2Establishments checked and underpayments found in wages council trades-1989
ments checked by all methods |Percentage of register checked
ments checked by visit |Percentage of register checked by visit
underpaying
underpaying |Percentage of establish-ments visited underpaying
Aerated Waters |22 |6.4 |17 |4.9 |1 |4.5 |5.8
Clothing Manufacture |486 |6.9 |436 |6.2 |111 |22.8 |25.4
Boot and Shoe Repairing |216 |7.5 |91 |3.1 |11 |5.0 |12.0
Button Manufacturing |5 |8.7 |5 |8.7 |1 |20.0 |20.00
Coffin Furniture and Cerement Making |3 |15.0 |3 |15.0 |- |- |-
Cotton Waste Reclamation |3 |7.1 |3 |7.1 |- |- |-
Flax and Hemp |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Fur |12 |4.5 |11 |4.1 |3 |25.0 |27.2
General Waste Materials Reclamation |100 |6.5 |59 |3.8 |2 |2.0 |3.3
Hairdressing Undertakings |2,633 |7.8 |1,517 |4.5 |319 |12.1 |21.0
Hat, Cap and Millinery |11 |8.9 |6 |4.8 |- |- |-
Lace Finishing |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Laundry |95 |8.7 |66 |6.0 |16 |16.8 |24.2
Linen and Cotton Handkerchief |14 |12.2 |14 |12.2 |3 |21.4 |21.4
Made-up Textile |27 |9.2 |24 |8.2 |5 |18.5 |20.8
Ostrich and Fancy Feather |6 |20.0 |4 |13.3 |- |- |-
Perambulator and Invalid Carriage |3 |8.3 |3 |8.3 |- |- |-
Retail Bespoke Tailoring |40 |7.8 |33 |6.4 |3 |7.5 |9.0
Rope, Twine and Net |11 |12.9 |10 |11.7 |- |- |-
Sack and Bag |6 |6.9 |5 |5.8 |- |- |-
Toy Manufacturing |18 |7.5 |16 |6.6 |3 |16.6 |18.7
Retail Non-Food Trades |9,551 |8.7 |3,993 |3.6 |1,108 |11.6 |27.7
Retail Food and Allied Trades |10,111 |9.6 |6,228 |5.9 |2,289 |22.6 |36.7
Licensed Non-Residential |5,310 |8.0 |2,963 |4.5 |847 |15.9 |28.5
Licensed Residential and Restaurant |2,781 |8.2 |1,882 |5.5 |475 |17.0 |25.2
Unlicensed Place of Refreshment |2,164 |12.2 |1,050 |5.9 |331 |15.2 |31.5
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |33,628 |8.8 |18,439 |4.8 |5,528 |16.4 |29.9
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Table 3
Workers covered by wages councils and results of checks-1989
Wages Order (Est. 1988) |Workers whose pay was checked by all methods|Workers whose pay was checked by visit |Workers found underpaid
workers checked
workers checked by visit
workers request |Arrears not pursued for other reasons
assessed as due
|£ |£ |£ |£
Aerated Waters |5,500 |848 |421 |1 |0.1 |0.2 |280 |- |- |280
Clothing Manufacture |147,000 |10,875 |10,025 |356 |3.2 |3.5 |30,306 |2,283 |3,039 |35,628
Boot and Shoe Repairing |5,000 |477 |209 |12 |2.5 |5.7 |3,650 |3,165 |- |6,815
Button Manufacturing |1,000 |133 |133 |1 |0.7 |0.7 |164 |- |- |164
Coffin Furniture and Cerement Making |200 |12 |12 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Cotton Waste Reclamation |300 |25 |25 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Flax and Hemp |500 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Fur |1,500 |55 |46 |3 |5.4 |6.5 |323 |- |- |323
General Waste Materials Reclamation |13,000 |967 |556 |7 |0.7 |1.2 |5,091 |- |- |5,091
Hairdressing Undertakings |64,000 |8,245 |4,784 |403 |4.8 |8.4 |47,191 |14,062 |4,540 |65,793
Hat, Cap and Millinery |4,000 |320 |288 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Lace Finishing |900 |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Laundry |26,000 |3,100 |1,606 |36 |1.1 |2.2 |5,756 |- |270 |6,026
Linen and Cotton Handkerchief |2,500 |717 |717 |8 |1.1 |1.1 |366 |- |- |366
Made-up Textile |3,000 |348 |330 |18 |5.1 |5.4 |2,123 |- |- |2,123
Ostrich and Fancy Feather |500 |123 |113 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Perambulator and Invalid Carriage |2,000 |263 |263 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Retail Bespoke Tailoring |4,000 |138 |108 |6 |4.3 |5.5 |62 |2,030 |- |2,092
Rope, Twine and Net |2,500 |1,287 |1,283 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Sack and Bag |1,000 |96 |81 |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
Toy Manufacturing |11,000 |615 |609 |14 |2.2 |2.2 |818 |133 |22 |973
Retail Non-Food Trades |745,000 |68,184 |15,788 |1,820 |2.6 |11.5 |177,515 |74,696 |17,320 |269,531
Retail Food and Allied Trades |465,000 |120,911 |23,793 |4,421 |3.6 |18.5 |360,350 |229,397 |38,788 |628,535
Licensed Non-Residential |492,000 |41,774 |19,599 |2,178 |5.2 |11.1 |147,060 |34,066 |9,100 |190,226
Licensed Residential and Restaurant |379,000 |40,962 |23,028 |1,092 |2.6 |4.7 |83,128 |8,991 |5,648 |97,767
Unlicensed Place of Refreshment |96,000 |25,460 |6,094 |690 |2.7 |11.3 |45,936 |16,860 |2,683 |65,479
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total |2,472,400 |325,935 |109,911 |11,066 |3.3 |10.0 |910,119 |385,683 |81,410 |1,377,212
Table 4 Checks carried out and underpayments found in Wages Inspectorate divisions-1989
Division Estabs checks by all
methods Percentage of register checked Estabs checked by visit Percentage of register checked by visit Estabs found underpaying Percentage of all estabs checked
underpaying Percentage of estabs visited underpaying
London 2,545 4.9 1,399 2.7 229 8.9 16.3
South East 4,462 10.3 1,815 4.2 478 10.7 26.3
Eastern 2,809 7.1 1,866 4.7 432 15.3 23.1
South West 4,297 7.6 2,531 4.5 960 22.3 37.9
Midlands 4,801 7.8 2,369 3.8 822 17.1 34.6
North West 4,939 9.2 3,161 5.9 1,104 22.4 35.0
Yorkshire and Humberside 4,494 12.8 1,804 5.1 569 12.6 31.5 Northern 1,989 9.2 1,306 6.0 387 19.4 29.6
Scotland 3,292 9.5 2,188 6.3 547 16.6 25.0
Great Britain 33,628 8.8 18,439 4.8 5,528 16.4 29.9
All branches of multiple firms are recorded under the division in which the Head Office is located. Account has to be taken of this when comparing divisional figures.
Table 5 Workers whose pay was checked in wages inspectorate divisions-1989
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will update the information given in his answer of 1 March 1989, Official Report, columns 201-02, with the levels of employment in each wages council for 1988 and 1989 ; and if he will explain the methodology behind the collation of these statistics.
Mr. Nicholls : No new estimates have been made. The figures given in the answer of 1 March 1989, as in earlier answers, were based essentially on data collected by wages inspectors in the course of inspections, supplemented where appropriate by other information obtained from employers in the trades concerned and such published material as is relevant.
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Labour Statistics
Mr. Nellist : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish the number of employees, broken down into full-timers and part -timers who are (a) under 18 years, (b) 18 years and over and (c) 21 years old and over in the following standard industrial classifications (i) zero to nine, (ii) one to five, (iii) two to four, (iv) six to nine, (v) zero, (vi) 43, (vii) 45, (viii) 6, (ix) 64 and 65 and their subgroups, (x) 66 and its subgroups, (xi) eight, (xii) 91, (xiii) 92, (xiv) 93, (xv) 95, (xvi) 96, (xvii) 97 and (xviii) 98.
Mr. Nicholls : Preliminary results from the 1989 labour force survey, as requested, are shown in the table.
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Employees in full or part-time employment, by age and industry-Great Britain Spring 1989 Thousands
(Sic 1980) Full-time<1>
Age
Age
Divisions |Classes |Groups |16 or 17 |18 to 20 |21 or over |16 or 17 |18 to 20 |21 or over
<2>0-9 |- |- |296 |1,416 |15,339 |365 |217 |4,413
0 |- |- |<3>- |19 |193 |<3>- |<3>- |42
1-5 |- |- |130 |524 |5,955 |18 |12 |525
2-4 |- |- |99 |391 |4,488 |16 |10 |430
- |43 |- |<3>- |14 |157 |<3>- |<3>- |21
- |45 |- |<3>- |37 |207 |<3>- |<3>- |50
6-9 |- |- |161 |872 |9,167 |333 |215 |3,841
6 |- |- |73 |349 |2,202 |283 |155 |1,319
- |64/65 |- |42 |196 |1,105 |209 |102 |803
- |- |<4>651/2 |<3>- |28 |174 |<3>- |<3>- |36
- |66 |- |14 |62 |342 |66 |49 |406
- |- |661 |<3>- |24 |98 |40 |20 |87
- |- |662 |<3>- |<3>- |46 |<3>- |17 |112
- |- |663 |<3>- |<3>- |24 |<3>- |<3>- |47
- |- |664 |<3>- |<3>- |71 |<3>- |<3>- |107
- |- |665 |<3>- |20 |90 |12 |<3>- |49
- |- |667 |<3>- |<3>- |12 |<3>- |<3>- |<3>-
8 |- |- |49 |236 |1,724 |<3>- |<3>- |344
- |91 |- |<3>- |54 |1,263 |<3>- |<3>- |169
- |92 |- |<3>- |<3>- |133 |<3>- |<3>- |74
- |93 |- |<3>- |11 |970 |<3>- |<3>- |635
- |95 |- |<3>- |45 |675 |<3>- |<3>- |517
- |96 |- |<3>- |20 |404 |<3>- |12 |403
- |97 |- |<3>- |26 |287 |12 |13 |128
- |98 |- |<3>- |30 |84 |<3>- |<3>- |48
<1> Based on the respondent's own assessment, not on the number of hours usually worked.
<2> Includes those who inadequately described their industry.
<3> Sample size too small for reliable estimate.
<4> Other groups in classes 64/65 are not separately identified.
Source: 1989 LFS, preliminary results.
Mr. Speed : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will list the January unemployment percentage figure in the Ashford travel-to- work area for each of the last 10 years.
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Mr. Nicholls : The information in the following table is available from the Library and is affected by seasonal influences, changes to the count, and a redefinition of travel-to-work areas.
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<1> The definition of travel-to-work areas changed in 1984. Earlier data are given for the old Ashford travel-to-work area.
Privatisation
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the total sum paid out in fees to outside organisations in the furtherance of privatisation by his Department in 1979-80 and in each subsequent year ; and what is his estimate for 1990-91.
Mr. Eggar [holding answer 12 March 1990] : There were no fees paid to outside organisations in the furtherance of privatisation by the Employment Department Group (excluding the Training Agency) in the financial period from 1979-80 to 1987-88 inclusive.
Fees to the value of £369,000 were incurred in 1988-89. Costs incurred by the Employment Department Group in connection with the privatisation programme in 1989-90 and 1990-91 will be reported to Parliament in due course in the usual way.
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