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Written Answers to Questions
Tuesday 26 June 1990
WALES
Eye Tests
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many relatives of glaucoma sufferers in each district health authority area in Wales received free eyesight tests in each quarter of 1988-89 and in each quarter of 1989-90.
Mr. Grist : Estimates of numbers of sight tests for different types of patient are based on a 2 per cent. sample. This sample is not sufficient to make robust estimates by patient type within district health authority areas.
Schools (Mid Glamorgan)
Dr. Kim Howells : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) if he has any plans to help fund the replacement of dilapidated temporary classrooms with permanent structures in Mid Glamorgan ;
(2) what plans the Welsh Office has for helping Mid Glamorgan county council to meet its ongoing annual commitment on repairs and maintenance of the county's schools ;
(3) if any provision will be made for the captial building programme to provide funds to replace any of the Mid Glamorgan schools.
Sir Wyn Roberts : Local education authorities are responsible for the provision, repair and maintenance of their schools. As in previous years the level of potential capital investment for 1990-91 is sufficient to enable all Welsh education authorities, including Mid Glamorgan county council to continue to meet their obligations according to their own priorities. Nationally the 1990-91 capital settlement included an allowance of £53.7 million
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for education, a 60 per cent. increase over the equivalent 1985-86 figure. Mid Glamorgan had its fair share of that allowance.Children Act 1989
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the circulars and other documents of guidance he has issued on the workings, implementation or interpretation of the Children Act 1989 in Wales.
Mr. Grist : The following documents have been issued in Wales : Circulars
Welsh Office Circular 62/89 : the Children act 1989 : Notice of Royal Assent and the provisions to take immediate or early effect. Welsh Office Circular 10/90 : Training Support Programme 1990-91--Children Act 1989.
Welsh Office Circular 12/90 : The children Act (Admission of Hearsay Evidence) Order--Statutory Instrument 143/90.
Other Documents
Children Act 1989 : Training Together--Training and Curriculum Model.
An Introduction to the Children Act 1989.
The Care of Children : Principles and Practice in Regulations and Guidance.
Consultation Paper No.1--Secure Accommodation (Guidance and Regulations.)
Obstetricians
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many consultant obstetricians are employed by the national health service in Wales ; and what is the number on a full-time equivalent basis (a) in Wales and (b) in each district health authority in Wales in the current year and in each of the past five years.
Mr. Grist : The available information, which relates to consultants in obstetrics and gynaecology, is given in the following table :
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Consultants in post as at 30 September<1>
1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989<3>
|No. |WTE |No. |WTE |No. |WTE |No. |WTE |No. |WTE |No. |WTE
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Clwyd |6 |5.4 |6 |5.9 |6 |5.9 |6 |5.9 |6 |5.9 |7 |6.9
East Dyfed |7 |3.2 |7 |3.3 |8 |3.9 |8 |4.3 |8 |3.7 |7 |4.1
Gwent |6 |5.7 |7 |7.0 |7 |7.0 |7 |7.0 |7 |7.0 |7 |7.0
Gwynedd |6 |3.0 |6 |3.2 |7 |3.1 |7 |3.1 |7 |3.1 |7 |3.2
Mid Glamorgan |9 |8.5 |8 |7.8 |9 |8.8 |10 |9.8 |11 |10.8 |11 |10.4
Pembrokeshire |2 |2.0 |2 |2.0 |2 |2.0 |2 |2.0 |3 |3.0 |3 |3.0
Powys |5 |0.5 |5 |0.5 |5 |0.8 |5 |0.5 |4 |1.0 |8 |0.3
West Glamorgan |6 |4.6 |6 |5.5 |6 |5.5 |6 |5.5 |6 |5.5 |7 |7.0
|------ |------ |------ |------ |------ |------ |------ |------ |------ |------ |------ |------
Wales<2> |44 |39.3 |44 |41.8 |46 |43.7 |47 |44.7 |50 |47.7 |53 |50.1
<1> Excluding locums.
<2> Individual authority numbers will not add to Wales total as consultants working in more than one authority are counted in each.
<3> Provisional.
Mental Illness
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what criteria have been used by his Department to determine how sums of money allocated to support the all-Wales strategy for mental illness should be distributed.
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Mr. Grist : Allocations are made on the basis of individual county plans, having regard to their quality and the extent to which they are in line with the principles of the all-Wales strategy. Allocations for the current year have been targeted particularly to help establish the essential infrastructure for the new patterns of services, including the development of community mental health teams, the provision of accommodation and of community-based services such as drop-in centres.
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Planning Appeals
Mr. Ron Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 16 May, Official Report, column 472, if he will give for each year and each district the number of planning appeals (a) determined, (b) dismissed and (c) undetermined.
Mr. Grist : The information is set out in the following table :
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DeterminedDismissed Undetermined
|1989|1990|1989|1990|1989|1990
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Snowdonia NP
Meirionnydd |18 |11 |14 |8 |2 |7
Dwyfor |1 |1 |0 |0 |1 |0
Arfon |0 |0 |0 |0 |1 |0
Aberconwy |6 |6 |2 |6 |0 |6
Montgomery |0 |1 |0 |1 |0 |0
Brecon Beacons
Dinefwr |1 |2 |1 |2 |0 |5
Brecknock |13 |17 |10 |13 |0 |11
Cynon Valley |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Merthyr Tydfil |1 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Blaenau Gwent |0 |1 |0 |1 |0 |0
Torfaen |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
Monmouth |0 |1 |0 |1 |1 |4
Pembrokeshire Coast
South Pembrokeshire |10 |9 |6 |6 |2 |9
Preseli Pembrokeshire |7 |7 |5 |7 |2 |10
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
Poverty
Mrs. Clwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proportion of United Kingdom bilateral aid was allocated to poverty alleviation, for the most recent three years available, using the same criteria used for the figures supplied by the Overseas Development Agency in the NAO report, "Bilateral Aid to India", fig. 2, page 10.
Mrs. Chalker : Figures for expenditure on poverty alleviation for the bilateral aid programme overall are not available. The figures for India supplied to the NAO by the Overseas Development Administration related to specific projects in the housing, welfare, education and renewable natural resources sectors which were regarded as being for direct poverty alleviation.
Poverty alleviaton is an important objective of the aid programme and is pursued indirectly through support for sustainable economic growth and by direct action. Projects and programmes supported with aid vary in the extent to which they contribute directly to poverty alleviation. It is not possible to collate meaningful statistics on expenditure that can be categorised as concerned with poverty alleviation and that which cannot.
European Development Fund
Mrs. Clwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has as to how many ecologists are employed at the European development fund and as to how many administrative staff are employed to deal specifically with environmental issues.
Mrs. Chalker : There are seven staff in the environmental unit within DG VIII, which is responsible for the
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administration of the European development fund. There are two administrators responsible for environmental policy ; an ecologist with responsibility for the relevant budget line ; two foresters (both seconded to the Commission as "national experts", one from the United Kingdom) ; and two support staff. The unit is able to call on additional assistance as required from DG XI, which has responsibility within the Commission for environmental matters.Climate Change
Mrs. Clwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the contributions by the United Kingdom and other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development donors to assist developing countries to participate in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Mrs. Chalker : According to the report of the IPCC special committee on the participation of developing countries (June 1990), the following contributions were received in 1989 from OECD members other than the United Kingdom :
|Equivalent in
|Swiss francs
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Australia |$ 15,175 |24,963.05
Canada |C$ 11,000 |14,519.50
Denmark |$ 5,000 |7,550.00
Finland |$ 5,000 |7,950.00
France |FF 100,000 |25,303.00
Federal Republic of Germany |SFr 43,750 |43,750.00
Japan |$ 50,000 |75,500.00
Netherlands |$ 25,000 |40,250.00
Norway |$ 15,000 |25,050,00
Switzerland |SFr 55,000 |55,000.00
United States of America |$ 120,000 |199,500.00
The United Kingdom paid £50,000 (approximately equal to SFr 129, 400), making us the second largest contributor in 1989. This year, we have offered a further £25,000.
Natural History Museum
Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will discuss with the Governments of France and West Germany the means of continuing taxonomic support for teams working in Malaysia and Cameroon in the light of staff reductions at the natural history museum.
Mrs. Chalker [holding answer 19 June 1990] : In common with many other Government-funded institutions, including national museums and galleries, the natural history museum is now expected to develop its ability to attract non-Exchequer revenue. The work referred to in Malaysia and Cameroon yields no financial remuneration to the museum, and the museum authorities consider that it will be more appropriate to develop research projects in those countries in collaboration with the ODA's executive agency--the Natural Resources Institute--and with other external funding agencies. I shall be keeping in view the museum's progress to that end, but I have no plans at present to discuss the matter with the French and West German Governments.
Mr Dalyell : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the implications of reductions in the Heteroptera section of the natural history museum for work sponsored by his Department (a) in Surinam on shield-bugs as transmitters of agricultural diseases and (b) coccid research and its agricultural implications for United Kingdom supported agricultural development programmes.
Mrs. Chalker [holding answer 19 June 1990] : My Department is not funding any work in Surinam on shield-bugs, nor is it commissioning any research on coccids. There are specialists on both insect groups working at the natural history museum for the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International's institute of entomology, without any duplication of effort as the range of insect species is so vast. I do not anticipate that the planned staff reductions at the museum will have a serious impact on agricultural development programmes supported by the United Kingdom. However ODA's Natural Resources Institute will be continuing to discuss with the museum and the institute of entomology the future of taxonomic and identification needs in support of agricultural development and pest management programmes funded by my Department.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Iraq
Mr. Rogers : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether trade protocols one, two and three with Iraq contained any military components, explosives or propellants.
Mr. Redwood : The British exporters supplying goods to Iraq under the 1983-1986 financial protocols were of course responsible for applying for obtaining export
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licences for controlled goods in the normal way, and were required to confirm that the relevant Government approvals had been obtained.Film Industry
Mr. John Evans : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on assistance to the British film industry.
Mr. Forth : The Government provide support of £1.5 million a year through British Screen Finance Ltd. for feature film production, together with a further £0.5 million a year for short films and script development. Our present five-year commitment to British Screen is due to expire at the end of this year, but we announced in July 1989 that funding will continue at the present level of £2 million a year for a further three years, until the end of 1993. We announced on Friday 15 June that the Government would in addition provide £5 million over the next three years to provide pump-priming finance to support producers seeking to enter European co-production. We also announced a range of other measures including the setting up of a working party to be chaired by my Department to look at the structure of the film industry and how to attract greater private sector finance into United Kingdom film production, and to report back in the autumn.
Mr. Janman : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what representations he has received in opposition to the Exchequer subsidising the British film industry.
Mr. Forth : My Department has received no representations in opposition to the Exchequer subsidising the film industry.
Civil Servants (Workplaces)
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessments under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations have been undertaken at all workplaces used by civil servants in his Department.
Mr. Forth : My officials have carried out the assessments required under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations in all workplaces occupied by the Department, in accordance with the guidance issued by the Health and Safety Executive.
Energy Consumption
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has anything to add to his answer of 30 April, Official Report, column 387, in respect of solid fuels.
Mr. Forth : The Department does not use solid fuels.
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to the answer of 30 April, Official Report, column 383, about energy consumption, if he will give the square footage of office space to which these figures relate.
Mr. Forth [holding answer 25 June 1990] : The energy consumption figures relate to the total space of 5.8 million square feet occupied by the Department, including office space, specialised and storage buildings.
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Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much was invested in improving the energy efficiency of his Department in the latest available year.Mr. Forth [holding answer 25 June 1990] : In past years, responsibility for such investment has been divided between the Property Services Agency and the Department, with the result that this information could be assembled only at disproportionate cost. However, it is being collected for future years.
Stock Group (Channel Islands) Ltd.
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what authorisations were granted by his Department for the activities of Stock Group (Channel Islands) Ltd.
Mr. Redwood [holding answer 25 June 1990] : Stock Group (Channel Islands) Ltd. has never received authorisations from the Department. It has carried on stockbroking business in the United Kingdom by virtue of its membership of the international stock exchange until the entry into force of the Financial Services Act on 29 April 1988 and thereafter through authorisation from the Securities Association.
Dunsdale Securities
Mr. Cousins : To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether Dunsdale Securities made annual returns of audit certificates for each year it had business authorisation from his Department.
Mr. Redwood [holding answer 25 June 1990] : Under the Prevention of Fraud (Investments) Act 1958, audit certificates in support of an application for a licence to deal in securities were not required until Aptil 1983 when revised licensing regulations were introduced. After that date each application and monitoring return submitted by Dunsdale Securities was duly verified by an auditor.
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
School Closures
Mr. Norris : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if, in respect of each of those local education authority-maintained single -sex schools in South and West Yorkshire which have been closed since 1985, he will list (i) the gender of pupils, (ii) the maintaining local authority and (iii) the number of pupils on roll and physical capacity of the school at the most recent convenient date before closure.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The information requested is given in the table. Information on school capacity is not available centrally. There have been no closures of single-sex schools in South Yorkshire since 1985.
Pupils on roll in January
preceding closure date
Local education authority |Boys |Girls
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Calderdale
The Heath School |345 |-
The Princess Mary School |- |368
Brighouse Girls Grammar School |- |712
Hipperholme Grammar School<1> |377 |1
Rastrick Grammar School |339 |6
Leeds
Moor Grange Boys High School |98 |-
West Park Girls High School |- |93
St. Michael's RC College |364 |-
Notre Dame High School |- |396
<1>Became an independent school in September 1985.
Mr. Norris : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if, in respect of each of those local education authority-maintained single -sex schools in (a) the former county of West Midlands and (b) Tyne and Wear which have been closed since 1985, he will list (i) the gender of pupils, (ii) the maintaining local authority and (iii) the number of pupils on roll and physical capacity of the school at the most recent convenient date before closure.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The information requested is given below. Information on school capacity is not available centrally. There have been no closures of single-sex schools in Tyne and Wear since 1985.
Pupils on roll in January preceding closure date
Local education authority |Boys |Girls
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Birmingham
Erdington School<1> |- |529
Alderlea School |55 |-
Longmeadow School |- |73
Selly Oak School |97 |-
Coventry
Cardinal Wiseman Roman Catholic
Secondary School for Boys<1> |717 |-
Cardinal Wiseman Roman Catholic
Secondary School for Girls<1> |- |961
Dudley
Old Swinford Hospital School<2> |544 |-
<1> Closed for the purposes of amalgamation.
<2> Became a grant-maintained school in September 1989.
Scientists
Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the meeting of the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Jackson) with Professor Duff and representatives of British scientists abroad.
Mr. Jackson : I met Professor Michael Duff on 20 June. The main points which I made at our meeting were set out in Department of Education and Science press notice 202/90, dated 20 June, in which I pointed out that :
Science is international, and it is highly desirable that scientific careers should include experience of working abroad. No single country in the modern world can afford first class facilities in every branch of science--and the British Government are actively promoting the development of first-class research facilities in selected areas in Britain, through :
(a) an overall increase in the science budget--up 27 per cent. in real terms since 1979 ;
(b) the development of specialist "interdisciplinary research centres" ; and
(c) the more selective allocation of university research funding by the UFC.
The "brain drain" is a field in which anecdotes are drawn upon for lobbying purposes, but in which facts are hard to
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come by. The only overall statistics which are available are those collected by the universities and published in the Universities Statistical Record. These show (a) that there has been a net inflow of academic staff into British universities from abroad in every year since 1983 ; and (b) that there tends to be a net inflow at the professional level, indicating a net gain in quality. This conforms with the finding of the 1987 Royal Society study of the brain drain, that there was a broad balance between the outflows and inflows of scientists from Britain.The Government accept that the Universities Statistical Record data may not provide a complete picture. This is why I asked the CVCP last year to conduct a review. In the meantime, however, I stressed that, in determining public policy it is better to make use of such information as is available rather than simply to ignore it. Not all British post-doctoral scientists can, or should, expect to find jobs in British higher education. At least a third of those whose council-funded research studentships ended in 1988 proceeded to work in British industry and public service--and more should do so. Meanwhile, the proportion of "Post Docs" going abroad has fallen from 35 per cent. in 1963 to 12 per cent. in 1988. Recent data from the United States National Science Foundation show that, while the numbers of scientists immigrating into the United States from abroad increased by 19 per cent. between 1984 and 1987, the numbers from the United Kingdom decreased by 6 per cent. during that period. The USR statistics do not support recent suggestions that there is an "internal" brain drain from the universities into other employment within Britain. They indicate that, in each year since 1983, there was a net inflow of university staff from industry/commerce and public service.
Finally, I suggested to BSA that they should reflect on the implications of their statements for the image and self-image of British science. International comparisons of scientific publications suggest that Britain remains second only to the United States in world science--a position it has maintained throughout the 1980s. I suggested that there is something profoundly wrong with a style of lobbying for public expenditure that leads self-appointed spokesmen for British science to run down their country's scientific achievements and prospects.
Grant-maintained Schools
Mr. David Nicholson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the applications for grant-maintained school status notified to his Department from within the seven counties of the south-west.
Mrs. Rumbold : Of the 54 proposals for GM Status that have so far reached my right hon. Friend for a decision, he has approved 44 schools. The approvals include seven schools in the south-west. Three schools in that area had their applications rejected. The list of applications is as follows.
List of schools in the seven counties of the south west who have
applied for grant-maintained status
County and School |Application Details
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Avon
Beechen Cliff School, Bath |Approved, now incorporated.
Dorset
Bournemouth Grammar School |Approved for incorporation on
| 1 September 1990.
Foster's Grammar School for |Rejected.
Boys' Sherborne
Lord Digby's School for Girls, |Rejected.
Sherborne.
Devon
Colyton Grammar School |Approved, now incorporated.
Gloucestershire
Ribston Hall High School, |Approved, now incorporated.
Gloucester
Marling School, Stroud |Approved for incorporation on
| 1 September 1990.
Stroud Girls' High School |Approved for incorporation on
| 1 September 1990.
Pate's Grammar School, |Approved for incorporation on
Cheltenham | 1 September 1990.
Highwood, School, Nailsworth |Rejected.
Currently, no schools in Cornwall, Somerset and Wiltshire have applied for GM status.
Computers
Mr. Martyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of the school timetable on average English school pupils spend using computers.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The information requested is not available.
Energy Consumption
Mr. Dobson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has anything to add to his answer of 30 April, Official Report, column 392, in respect of solid fuel.
Mrs. Rumbold : No. The Department does not occupy any accommodation which consumes solid fuel.
Assessment Tests
Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what restrictions he has placed on the circulation within the National Foundation for Educational Research of its work on standard assessment tests commissioned by his Department.
Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the cost of each of the pilot assessments for seven-year- olds.
Mrs. Rumbold : Separate figures for the costs of the pilot assessments are not available. However, the pilots were mounted by the three agencies undertaking the development of standard assessment tasks for seven-year-olds in the core subjects as one aspect of their contracts for this work with the School Examinations and Assessment Council. The total provision made in the School Examinations and Assessment Council's published corporate plan for the continuation of these contracts in 1990-91 is £2.5 million.
National Curriculum
Mr. Fatchett : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list by individual subject the key phases of the national curriculum which will be introduced in September 1990.
Mrs. Rumbold : National curriculum subject requirements will be introduced with effect from 1 August 1990 for key stages as follows :
Key stage |Pupils aged|Subject
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1 |5/6 |Technology
2 |7/8 |English
|Mathematics
|Science
|Technology
3 |11/12 |English
|Technology
Last year, English, mathematics and science were introduced at key stage 1, starting with five to six-year-olds. Mathematics and science were also introduced at key stage 3 last year, starting with 11 to 12-year-olds.
In addition, national curriculum subjects must be taught for a reasonable time as follows :
Key stage |Pupils aged |Subjects |With effect from
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1 |5/6-7/8 |}
2 |7/8-11/12 |} |All |1st August 1989
3 |11/12-13-14 |}
|English |}
4 |14/15 |Mathematics |} |1 August 1990
|Science |}
Assessment Tests
Ms. Armstrong : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his answer of 20 June, Official Report, column 558, what assessments of each of the pilot studies of standard assessment tests at age seven years are to be made by bodies which are independent of the agencies which developed the pilot studies.
Mrs. Rumbold : Responsibility for evaluation rests with the School Examinations and Assessment Council which will collect common data about the performance of the SATs used in the pilot assessments from each of the SAT development agencies, and which will report to my right hon. Friend in due course.
CIVIL SERVICE
Civil Servants (Appointments)
Mr. McLeish : To ask the Minister for the Civil Service what civil service guidelines lay down concerning civil servants becoming company directors prior to the termination of employment ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Luce [holding answer 25 June 1990] : The civil service pay and conditions of service code states that civil servants may not accept a directorship, except as a nominee of the Government or with the express permission of the permanent head of their Department, in any company holding a contract with their Department. More generally, the code provides that civil servants must not subordinate their public duties to their private interests, and must avoid conflicts of interest.
THE ARTS
Film Industry
Mr. Andrew Mitchell : To ask the Minister for the Arts what responsibilities fall to him with regard to the British film industry ; and if he will make a statement.
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Mr. Luce : My Department funds both the British Film Institute and the national film and television school. I also take the lead in co- ordinating Her Majesty's Government's views on the Commission's proposals for a MEDIA programme designed to strengthen the European audio-visual industry.
Theatres (Audio-description)
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Minister for the Arts what steps his Department is taking to encourage audio-description in theatres.
Mr. Luce : The Arts Council is committed to improving access to the arts for disabled people. As part of its arts and disability initiative, it is encouraging audio-description in all its theatres. From October, the council will be monitoring how its clients are implementing this initiative.
Natural History Museum
Mr. Dalyell : To ask the Minister for the Arts what representations he has had about the circumstances of the redundancy payments to long- employed scholars in the service of the natural history museum in South Kensington.
Mr. Luce : I have received no formal representations from trade unions about redundancy payments at the natural history museum. However, I understand that, at a recent meeting between the Office of Arts and Libraries and union representatives, officials of the Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists outlined their concerns about the museum's proposals, including the nature of redundancy arrangements. My officials have subsequently briefed me on the outcome of this meeting and have discussed a number of the points with the museum's management.
All questions of staff management such as the circumstances of redundancy payments are the responsibility of the natural history museum's director and trustees.
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