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Written Answers to Questions
Friday 12 July 1991
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
Newtownards Courthouse (Union Flag)
Mr. John D. Taylor : To ask the Attorney-General whether a union flag has been supplied to the courthouse in Newtownards in the constituency of Strangford ; why the union flag was not flown on Her Majesty's official birthday ; what arrangements have been made to fly the union flag at this courthouse on the designated days ; and if he will make a statement.
The Attorney-General : A union flag has been supplied to the courthouse in Newtownards but was not flown on Her Majesty's official birthday through oversight. The courthouse is in possession of standing instructions for the flying of flags on all appropriate dates.
Legal Aid
Mr. Fraser : To ask the Attorney-General for what reasons the Lord Chancellor has decided not to approve the implementation of the scheme proposed by the Legal Aid Board to provide legal advice for defendants in housing possession proceedings.
The Attorney-General : My noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor has yet to take any decision on these proposals which will be issued by the Legal Aid Board for consultation in the autumn.
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
Local Education Budgets
Mr. French : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many representations he has received about local education authorities adjusting their budgets in a way that reduces the value represented by the 16 per cent. allocated for administrative and advisory purposes and therefore the amount available to grant-maintained schools.
Mr. Eggar : I am aware of general concerns on this issue, and have had one specific representation.
Social Work Diploma
Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if students for the newly validated diploma in social work by the University of Wales will be entitled to a mandatory grant from local education authorities.
Mr. Alan Howarth : The Education Act 1962 restricts mandatory awards to certain categories of course. The diploma in social work course which is provided by the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education and validated by the University of Wales does not fall into any of these
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categories. I understand that the Cardiff institute has now applied to the university for validation of this course leading instead to a diploma of higher education. Eligible students enrolled on Dip HE courses at publicly funded institutions are entitled to mandatory awards under the 1962 Act and regulations.History Curriculum
Mr. Roy Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what extra resources have been made available to fund the new history curriculum.
Mr. Eggar : Resources have not been specifically earmarked for the history curriculum. The implementation of the national curriculum is being supported by the Government via specific grants to local education authorities. These grants totalled some £100 million in 1989-90 ; some £120 million in 1990-91 ; and in 1991-92 they will support LEA expenditure of around £170 million.
Eligible expenditure includes the employment of advisory teachers, support for non-teaching support staff, the provision of extra books, materials and equipment and INSET. It is, however, for individual LEAs to apply for these grants, to identify needs and priorities for different subjects in the light of local circumstances and to direct spending towards them.
TRANSPORT
Weston-super-Mare Distributor Road
Mr. Wiggin : To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects to be making a decision as a result of the public inquiry concerning the compulsory purchase of land for the Weston-super-Mare primary distributor road, stages VA and VB.
Mr. Chope : The decision should be issued shortly.
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
Kenya Wildlife Trust
Mr. Wilshire : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if his Department has considered an application for an exhibition relating to the Kenya wildlife trust to be displayed in the Upper Waiting Hall.
Mrs. Chalker : I understand that, under procedures agreed by the Services Committee, arrangements have been made with the authorities of the House for the exhibition to be held in the Upper Waiting Hall from 16 December to 20 December 1991.
Ethiopia
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what efforts are being made by his Department to ensure that existing food pledges result in immediate food deliveries to the people of Ethiopia.
Mrs. Chalker : The world food programme is responsible for the co- ordination of food aid deliveries to Ethiopia. In order to reach those in need as quickly as possible, we channel our food aid through international
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agencies, including WFP, UNICEF, UNHCR and British non-governmental organisations. Deliveries of United Kingdom food aid are phased to take account of in-country storage and distribution capacity. Britain has pledged 93,366 tonnes of food to Ethiopia since last September. A total of 55,000 tonnes is already in the country.Africa
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list all additional new funds allocated for food aid emergency relief to each country in Africa between January and the present time.
Mrs. Chalker : The list is as follows :
United Kingdom cereals food aid 1991
Country |Tonnage |Estimated
|cost
|£ million
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Ethiopia |67,634 |16.316
Sudan |67,500 |14.531
Somalia<1> |8,000 |2.128
Mozambique |17,630 |2.953
Angola |7,472 |1.700
Malawi |6,000 |1.650
Uganda |6,706 |0.900
Kenya |3,294 |0.400
|------- |-------
Totals |184,236 |40.578
<1>To be committed when security
situation permits.
Operation Lifeline
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to support the restarting of Operation Lifeline to the south of Sudan.
Mrs. Chalker : We have committed almost £14.9 million to Operation Lifeline Sudan--OLS--since it began in 1989. We have already pressed the Government of Sudan and the Sudan Peoples' Liberation movement to co-operate in the continuing implementation of OLS.
Mozambique
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much money has been allocated to the transport and delivery of food to Mozambique by his Department from January to the present time ; and whether he has any plans to make more money available for (a) relief, (b) market food aid and (c) to assist food transport and distribution to Mozambique.
Mrs. Chalker : We have allocated over £10 million for food aid, including transport, for Mozambique since January. This includes : -- £3.5 million bilaterally and £4.4 million through the EC for food and its distribution within Mozambique.
--£1.3 million bilaterally and £1 million through EC for food and its distribution to Mozambique refugees in Malawi.
We shall continue to play our part with other donors in responding to Mozambique's food aid requirements.
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NORTHERN IRELAND
Maydown Incinerator
Mr. William Ross : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether the incinerator proposed for the Maydown, Londonderry site will be required to have gas/gas heat exchanges to maintain the stack gases well above the gas clear point.
Mr. Needham : Any combustion plant including an incinerator will be required to incorporate heat exchangers to ensure that the flue gas temperature does not fall below the acid dew point.
Departmental Telephones
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will bar telephones in his Department from connection to premium rate services.
Dr. Mawhinney [holding answer 8 July 1991] : All Departments in Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Office in London are reminded that, in the battle to reduce departmental running costs, the use of call barring, especially for premium rate services, can be an effective strategy.
Where it is technically achievable, call barring is applied to STD and international calls in addition to premium rate services throughout Departments in Northern Ireland and London.
Experience has shown that there are sound operational reasons for retaining access to premium rate telephone services for selected Government staff.
Call barring is used on a site-by-site basis to prevent misuse of the telephone system, while retaining an operationally effective service to users. The Department of Finance and Personnel provides central advice to all Departments on the effective use of telephone services. Call logging equipment is used to identify telephone traffic at a significant number of sites.
HEALTH
Estate Maintenance
Mr. Robin Cook : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will quantify the total cost of the backlog of maintenance on the national health service estate for each district health authority.
Mr. Dorrell : On 31 March 1990 (the latest information available) the cost of bringing the NHS estate to an overall condition which exhibited only minor deterioration was estimated to be £1.8 billion. The information by health authority is shown in the tables and includes property due to be replaced within three years, property not used for patient care, property awaiting planned preventive maintenance and property awaiting disposal. These four types of property together represent about 30 per cent. of the total NHS estate. In 1982 a report "Underused and Surplus Property in the NHS" said :
"It is clear that the backlog has accumulated over very many years"
and estimated that the cost of the work required to bring property in England up to an acceptable standard would be of the order of £2.9 billion, at 1990 prices.
Between 1979-80 and 1990-91 capital spending in the NHS rose by 62 per cent. in real terms. About 77 per cent.
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of the resources allocated to NHS capital are invested in the estate and in the current year over 400 building projects each costing over £1 million are at various stages of planning, design and construction. The capital building programme for 1991- 92 exceeds £1 billion.
District health authority |Cost to B<2>
|(£ thousands)
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Northern Region |86,189
Hartlepool |5,650
North Tees |13,656
South Tees |5,296
East Cumbria |1,127
South Cumbria |8,622
West Cumbria |12,293
Darlington |4,530
Durham |7,272
North West Durham |926
South West Durham |5,260
Northumberland |14,104
Gateshead |<1>-
Newcastle |<1>-
North Tyneside |1,014
South Tyneside |2,840
Sunderland |3,599
Yorkshire Region |110,446
Hull |5,609
East Yorkshire |6,200
Grimsby |3,531
Scunthorpe |4,809
Northallerton |1,525
York |2,497
Scarborough |1,442
Harrogate |400
Bradford |16,216
Airdale |7,089
Calderdale |<1>-
Huddersfield |1,051
Dewsbury |412
West Leeds |18,240
East Leeds |30,525
Wakefield |8,306
Pontefract |2,595
Trent Region |98,648
Regionally managed schemes |<1>-
North Derbyshire |6,154
South Derbyshire |5,841
Leicester |20,197
North Lincolnshire |2,937
South Lincolnshire |<1>-
Bassetlaw |4,373
Central Nottingham |17,353
Nottingham |20,038
Barnsley |1,200
Doncaster |5,182
Rotherham |1,573
Sheffield |13,801
East Anglia Region |43,151
Cambridge |12,912
Peterborough |<1>-
West Suffolk |3,043
East Suffolk |11,770
Norwich |11,572
Great Yarmouth and Waveney <1>-
West Norfolk and Wisbech |2,617
Huntingdon |1,237
North West Thames Region |67,408
North Bedfordshire |4,967
South Bedfordshire |9,579
North Hertfordshire |<1>-
East Hertfordshire |<1>-
North West Hertfordshire |<1>-
South West Hertfordshire |3,488
Barnet |<1>-
Harrow |<1>-
Hillingdon |<1>-
Hounslow and Spelthorne |<1>-
Ealing |<1>-
Riverside |34,515
Parkside |14,859
North East Thames Region |212,427
Basildon and Thurrock |2,350
Mid Essex |13,781
North East Essex |25,514
West Essex |3,700
Southend |350
Barking, Havering and Brentwood 31,458
Hampstead |21,895
Bloomsbury |<1>-
Islington |7,548
City and Hackney |39,675
Newham |<1>-
Tower Hamlets |16,500
Enfield |5,840
Haringey |7,144
Redbridge |17,441
Waltham Forest |19,231
South Eastern Thames Region |122,805
Brighton |29,374
Eastbourne |3,700
Hastings |6,130
South East Kent |949
Canterbury & Thanet |26,224
Dartford and Gravesham |13,923
Maidstone |3,136
Medway |<1>-
Tunbridge Wells |10,240
Bexley |12,832
Greenwich |5,426
Bromley |<1>-
West Lambeth |10,872
Camberwell |<1>-
Lewisham & North Southwark |<1>-
South West Thames Region |164,932
North West Surrey |12,142
West Surrey and North East Hants 132
South West Surrey |6,965
Mid Surrey |11,411
East Surrey |7,575
Chichester |10,506
Mid Downs |13,526
Worthing |6,682
Croydon |6,592
Kingston & Esher |10,482
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 3,124
Wandsworth |66,421
Merton & Sutton |9,374
Wessex Region |62,060
East Dorset |-
West Dorset |<1>-
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 7,843
Southampton and South West Hampshire <1>-
Winchester |11,035
Basingstoke and North Hampshire |6,132
Salisbury |<1>-
Swindon |3,611
Bath |30,967
Isle of Wight |2,472
Oxford Region |93,010
East Berkshire |14,962
West Berkshire |1,000
Aylesbury Vale |13,795
Wycombe |9,244
Milton Keynes |1,082
Kettering |11,786
Northampton |4,829
Oxfordshire |36,312
South Western Region |100,226
Bristol and Weston |10,741
Frenchay |24,119
Southmead |5,819
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly |8,527
Exeter |4,138
North Devon |1,759
Plymouth |13,389
Torbay |2,867
Cheltenham |2,933
Gloucester |11,700
Somerset |14,234
West Midlands Region |215,903
Bromsgrove and Redditch |3,828
Herefordshire |7,797
Kidderminster |4,283
Worcester |6,665
Shropshire |7,712
Mid Staffordshire |2,424
North Staffordshire |7,410
South East Staffordshire |28,066
Rugby |2,387
North Warwickshire |2,750
South Warwickshire |29,208
Central Birmingham |22,046
East Birmingham |<1>-
North Birmingham |15,251
South Birmingham |<1>-
West Birmingham |11,765
Coventry |17,714
Dudley |7,680
Sandwell |7,093
Solihull |2,857
Walsall |2,805
Wolverhampton |26,162
Mersey Region |74,460
Chester |<1>-
Crewe |3,448
Halton |590
Macclesfield |5,288
Warrington |3,296
Liverpool |36,242
St. Helens and Knowsley |2,881
Southport and Formby |2,857
South Sefton |9,396
Wirral |10,462
North Western Region |83,251
Lancaster |3,068
Blackpool-Wyre and Fylde |5,168
Preston |<1>-
Blackburn, Hynburn and Ribble Valley 5,088
Burnley, Pendle and Rosendale |<1>-
West Lancashire |8,380
Chorley and South Ribble |2,558
Bolton |<1>-
Bury |800
North Manchester |18,804
Central Manchester |<1>-
South Manchester |9,478
Oldham |4,542
Rochdale |8,655
Salford |3,114
Stockport |2,499
Tameside and Glossop |3,296
Trafford |3,512
Wigan |4,290
NHS National Total 84 per cent. |1,534,915
Projected Total 100 per cent. |1,832,304
<1>No returns received to Cost to B.
<2>To an acceptable level.
Guidance on Hospital Discharge
Mr. Andrew Bowden : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent steps his Department has taken to encourage health authorities to ensure that guidance on hospital discharge is followed in hospitals from which they purchase services.
Mr. Dorrell : Existing guidance continues to be binding on health authorities. Purchasers will be able to specify in their contracts with providers the discharge procedures they wish to see followed.
Food Poisoning
Ms. Gordon : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish a table showing for each district health authority in London the number of food poisoning incidents reported for each year since 1979.
Mr. Dorrell : The information is not available in the form requested. Cases of food poisoning reported to the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys by each of the four Thames regional health authorities for the period 1979-90 are set out in the table.
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Notifications of food poisoning which were (a) formally notified, (b) ascertained by other means and (c) total by regional health
authority:
1979-90
Year |North West |North East |South East |South West
|Thames |ThamesThamesThames
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1979 |775 |1,209 |609 |687
1980 |743 |804 |622 |622
1981 |815 |642 |596 |641
1982 |(a) |923 |912 |659 |660
|(b) |281 |435 |96 |606
|(c) |1,204 |1,347 |755 |1,266
1983 |(a) |1,060 |907 |894 |745
|(b) |637 |427 |176 |665
|(c) |1,697 |1,334 |1,070 |1,410
1984 |(a) |1,174 |1,206 |1,024 |620
|(b) |728 |783 |227 |689
|(c) |1,902 |1,989 |1,251 |1,309
1985 |(a) |1,169 |1,174 |1,079 |920
|(b) |717 |480 |260 |550
|(c) |1,886 |1,654 |1,339 |1,470
1986 |(a) |1,143 |1,591 |1,253 |1,111
|(b) |712 |599 |376 |605
|(c) |1,855 |2,190 |1,629 |1,716
1987 |(a) |1,534 |2,073 |1,706 |1,376
|(b) |825 |583 |382 |631
|(c) |2,359 |2,656 |2,088 |2,007
1988 |(a) |1,856 |2,439 |2,315 |1,848
|(b) |736 |582 |405 |869
|(c) |2,592 |3,021 |2,720 |2,717
1989 |(a) |2,205 |3,037 |2,974 |2,314
|(b) |852 |734 |585 |724
|(c) |3,057 |3,771 |3,559 |3,038
1990 |(a) |2,507 |2,756 |2,502 |2,160
|(b) |731 |775 |780 |913
|(c) |3,238 |3,531 |3,282 |3,073
Note:
(a) "formal notifications" are made by the doctor in attendance to the proper officer for each local government district under the
Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984.
(b) cases "ascertained by other means" are identified during outbreak investigation.
NHS Waiting Lists
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proposals he has for curtailing the publication of national health service waiting lists ; what consideration he has given to the implications of such a proposal for health budget holders wishing to shop around for treatment ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Waldegrave : We have no intention of curtailing the collection and publication of information on waiting lists and times. We currently collect and publish information on waiting lists and times in districts within which treatment is provided. However, this does not show waiting performance of individual hospitals, and is a poor guide for "shopping around". From April 1991 we are also collecting figures by district residence. Both sets of figures will be collated within my Department for up to two years so as to ensure continuity of data while the new data flows settle down.
Thereafter we propose to collect centrally only the residence-based figures, in order to monitor purchasing health effectiveness in securing early treatment for their residents. Statistics on waiting times at individual hospitals will continue to be held at local level, as now. Arrangements will be made for ensuring the wide availability of hospital level information to purchasing health authorities, GP fund-holders and others before the central collection of provider-based statistics is finally dropped.
Medical Manpower
Mr. Andrew Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to receive the report of the review of continence services.
Mr. Dorrell : I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington, South (Mr. Butler) on 10 July at column 410.
Children's Homes
Miss Lestor : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many residential placements each local authority in England and Wales intends to provide in children's homes in 1992 ;
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(2) how many new local authority children's homes were opened and in which local authorities in England and Wales in (a) 1988, (b) 1989, (c) 1990 and (d) 1991 ;(3) how many residential placements were provided in children's homes on 1 June in each local authority in England and Wales ; (4) how many local authority children's homes were closed and in which authorities during (a) 1988, (b) 1989, (c) 1990 and (d) 1991.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : The information available centrally relates to the number of children in the care of each local authority who are in children's homes rather than the number of homes or places. This information relates to the local authority responsible for the child not the authority responsible for the home. This information is published in "Children in Care of Local Authorities", a copy of which is available in the Library. The most recent edition is for the year ending 31 March 1988 : the 1989 edition will be published shortly.
Child Care Initiative
Mr. Wray : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement about the recent child care initiative from the European Community Social Affairs Commissioner and Her Majesty's Government's policy towards it.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley : We have no knowledge of any recent child care initiative taken by the European Commission. The Council recommendation on child care mentioned in the press release issued by the Commission on 3 July has not yet been forwarded to the Government.
HIV-AIDS Tests
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many tests for HIV and AIDS have been carried for each health authority in England and Wales for each of the past five years.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley [holding answer 4 July 1991] : Data on the number of tests carried out for the human immunodeficiency virus (there is no test for AIDS) by region and district are not collected. However, an indication of the trends in testing can be obtained by
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examining the total numbers of HIV tests (not including the tests associated with unlinked anonymous testing) carried out by the public health laboratory service laboratories for England, Wales and Northern Ireland. These are given as follows (to the nearest 500).
|Number
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1986 |102,500
1987 |161,000
1988 |142,000
1989 |141,000
1990 |167,500
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many tests for HIV and AIDS have been carried out on pregnant women in the past five years in each health authority in England and Wales ; (2) how many of the pregnant women who have been tested for AIDS in England and Wales over the past five years had positive test results ; and how many were informed of the result of the test, by health authority.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley [holding answer 4 July 1991] : Data on pregnant women tested via voluntary named testing are not collected centrally.
In the anonymised HIV ante-natal survey a total of 52,813 samples were tested between January and September 1990. The numbers tested and the prevalence rates are as follows :
Area |Number of |Prevalence-one
|specimens tested|person in
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Inner London |23,166 |500
Outer London and rest of South East England |13,668 |1,500
Rest of country |15,979 |16,000
CIVIL SERVICE
Polygraphs
Mr. Tony Banks : To ask the Minister for the Civil Service what use has been made of polygraphs in the civil service during the past five years.
WALES
Orthopaedics Treatment Centre
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what bids he has received for expansion of the operating theatre complex at the treatment centre for elective
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orthopaedics at the Prince of Wales hospital, Rhydlafar ; what number of waiting list initiative artificial knee and hip operations are to be undertaken under the terms of the bid ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Nicholas Bennett : A bid of £300,000 for additional theatre facilities to serve the whole of the Prince of Wales hospital, Rhydlafar has been received from South Glamorgan health authority under the 1991-92 waiting times initiative. It does not specify the additional throughput that will result and my officials are in touch with the authority.
Official Visit (America)
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list his full itinerary for the recently completed investment mission to North America.
Mr. David Hunt : During the mission I undertook engagments in the states of California (San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego) Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul), Michigan, Connecticut, New York state (Buffalo, Rochester, New Jersey) and New York city ; and in Canada I visited Toronto, Peterborough and Ottawa. I visited 20 companies and met over 200 senior company representatives.
Footpath Inquiry
Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will now announce the date and venue of the public inquiry regarding the diversion of footpath 46 at Frampton road, Gorseinon, Swansea.
Sir Wyn Roberts : The order was made by Lliw Valley borough council under the Highways Act 1980 in May and has been advertised. There has been one objection. The order must now be submitted to my right hon. Friend for determination. Once it has been received a public inquiry will be held before a decision is reached. As promised in previous correspondence, I shall write to the hon. Gentleman once the inquiry has been arranged and place a copy of my letter in the Library of the House.
Council House Sales
Mr. Alan Williams : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the value of council house sales in each of the Welsh housing authorities since 1979.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : The information which is available is shown in the following table ; figures for 1979-80 and 1980-81 are not available on a consistent basis.
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Receipts from the sale of council houses<1>
£'000s
Local authority |1981-82 |1982-83 |1983-84 |1984-85 |1985-86 |1986-87 |1987-88 |1988-89 |1989-90 |1990-91
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Alyn and Deeside |691 |388 |446 |847 |1,155 |943 |1,150 |2,257 |3,724 |2,147
Colwyn |754 |705 |532 |415 |544 |605 |758 |1,305 |1,407 |787
Delyn |773 |651 |1,068 |3,889 |453 |681 |1,089 |1,070 |1,986 |85
Glyndwr |791 |1,212 |627 |438 |1,498 |727 |709 |1,875 |2,017 |867
Rhuddlan |412 |335 |373 |391 |627 |467 |844 |1,541 |1,457 |881
Wrexham Maelor |2,009 |1,388 |719 |867 |1,320 |1,997 |3,095 |4,433 |10,329 |4,322
Carmarthen |1,628 |1,348 |963 |944 |632 |741 |845 |1,549 |1,793 |1,697
Ceredigion |1,628 |1,888 |1,193 |819 |580 |1,020 |869 |2,291 |3,133 |1,877
Dinefwr |712 |596 |336 |329 |484 |768 |730 |1,198 |1,279 |1,260
Llanelli |1,645 |1,874 |2,139 |1,352 |1,141 |1,695 |1,984 |3,258 |3,383 |2,236
Preseli Pembrokeshire |2,623 |1,539 |1,666 |1,108 |1,053 |1,123 |1,245 |3,137 |4,217 |2,367
South Pembrokeshire |112 |1,121 |1,511 |1,009 |456 |446 |728 |1,745 |1,976 |0
Blaenau Gwent |954 |1,586 |1,005 |723 |3,406 |1,386 |1,511 |2,932 |4,750 |2,162
Islwyn |1,653 |8,274 |2,775 |1,767 |1,541 |2,193 |2,550 |4,118 |4,229 |1,531
Monmouth |285 |260 |3,036 |2,563 |1,974 |2,088 |2,763 |4,097 |4,689 |2,144
Newport |1,878 |2,623 |2,884 |3,135 |7,534 |3,486 |3,490 |6,972 |8,513 |2,745
Torfaen |2,674 |3,722 |3,009 |2,552 |1,465 |4,811 |3,532 |7,170 |9,380 |4,875
Aberconwy |1,095 |1,270 |804 |692 |734 |858 |1,071 |2,566 |3,201 |183
Arfon |1,054 |2,200 |723 |851 |548 |777 |738 |2,085 |2,570 |1,242
Dwyfor |1 |512 |244 |156 |220 |143 |129 |352 |521 |591
Meirionnydd |0 |1,013 |664 |341 |394 |407 |590 |1,054 |1,296 |497
Ynys Mon |1,085 |875 |486 |517 |1,144 |920 |739 |2,918 |3,868 |1,910
Cynon Valley |0 |2,494 |1,120 |560 |526 |1,062 |1,015 |1,302 |557 |2,078
Merthyr Tydfil |1,379 |1,784 |1,032 |849 |1,257 |1,627 |1,842 |2,663 |3,156 |1,213
Ogwr |1,403 |3,816 |9,104 |3,204 |3,106 |3,674 |2,998 |5,144 |6,220 |3,466
Rhondda |362 |191 |230 |202 |275 |398 |355 |557 |738 |628
Rhymney Valley |1,880 |2,659 |2,073 |1,719 |1,615 |2,839 |3,175 |3,023 |4,407 |3,541
Taff Ely |20 |992 |1,886 |1,724 |1,802 |2,910 |3,663 |4,707 |6,155 |365
Brecknock |1,922 |328 |1,149 |1,015 |918 |1,159 |1,324 |1,977 |1,325 |0
Montgomeryshire |10 |104 |946 |648 |782 |1,207 |1,065 |1,864 |2,230 |1,068
Radnorshire |701 |670 |689 |281 |317 |296 |595 |774 |881 |500
Cardiff |2,355 |1,515 |4,015 |5,039 |6,312 |11,529 |9,179 |14,349 |16,819 |8,319
Vale of Glamorgan |1,449 |2,762 |2,766 |2,274 |2,084 |3,297 |2,947 |5,755 |5,079 |2,260
Port Talbot |890 |435 |1,950 |1,850 |2,080 |2,517 |3,063 |4,211 |5,182 |2,624
Lliw Valley |734 |1,266 |502 |623 |960 |1,372 |1,343 |1,731 |2,968 |2,475
Neath |1,636 |1,140 |714 |947 |1,410 |1,539 |1,864 |2,482 |3,038 |1,951
Swansea |0 |1,607 |1,831 |6,027 |1,580 |2,260 |3,588 |8,467 |9,624 |4,375
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total districts |39,198 |57,143 |57,210 |52,667 |53,927 |65,968 |69,175 |118,929 |148,097 |71,269
<1> Includes the repayment of principal on local authority mortgages on council house sales.
Mr. Alan Williams : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much has been received from the sale of council houses in Wales since 1979 ; how much of this sum has been kept by the councils ; and how much has gone to central Government.
Mr. Nicholas Bennett : Capital receipts from council house sales have totalled £734 million from 1981-82 to 1990-91. These receipts are not, and never have been, returned to central Government but are used by councils themselves either to finance new capital expenditure or to redeem debt.
Cardiff-Wales Airport
Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he intends to publish the Government's response to the Welsh Affairs Committee report, HC 166 of Session 1990-91, on Cardiff-Wales airport.
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Mr. David Hunt : I am pleased to announce that the repsonse has been published today as Command Paper 1584.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Criminal Injuries Compensation Board
Mr. Lewis : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was (a) the highest award of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in each year from 1981 to date, (b) the lowest award, (c) the average award and (d) the total award in the same years.
Mr. John Patten : The available information is shown in the following table :
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Year |Highest |Average |Total |Fixed
|award |award |compensation|minimum
|award
|£ |£ |£ |£
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
April 1981-31 March 1982 |136,500 |1,267 |21,976,696 |250
1982-83 |112,000 |1,492 |29,444,675 |250
1983-84 |123,250 |1,553 |32,820,772 |<1>400
1984-85 |303,500 |1,785 |35,293,451 |400
1985-86 |175,809 |1,844 |41,559,996 |400
1986-87 |400,000 |2,200 |48,241,764 |400
1987-88 |496,400 |2,482 |52,042,581 |<2>550
1988-89 |307,781 |2,484 |69,381,286 |550
1989-90 |834,703 |2,679 |72,721,563 |550
1990-91<4> |n/a |3,138 |110,433,000 |<3>750
<1> From 1 February 1983.
<2> From 7 November 1986.
<3> From 1 February 1990.
<4> Provisional figures.
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Mr. Lewis : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was (a) the aggregate amount of compensation paid by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in each year from 1981 to date and (b) the total number of recipients.
Mr. John Patten : The information requested is shown in the following table :
Year |Total value|Number of
|of awards |recipients
|£
-------------------------------------------------------------
April 1981-31 March 1982 |21,976,696 |17,350
1982-83 |29,444,675 |19,733
1983-84 |32,820,772 |21,133
1984-85 |35,293,451 |19,771
1985-86 |41,559,996 |22,534
1986-87 |48,241,764 |21,925
1987-88 |52,042,581 |20,991
1988-89 |69,381,286 |27,752
1989-90 |72,721,563 |27,926
1990-91<1> |110,433,000|35,190
|------ |------
Totals |513,915,784|234,305
<1>Provisional figures.
Mr. Lewis : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the total number of single member decisions of Criminal Injuries Compensation Board awards for each year from 1981 to date.
Mr. John Patten : The available information on awards made by the board, which includes decisions taken by more than one member following a hearing, is given in the following table :
Year |Monetary|Nil |Interim |Total
|awards |awards |awards
-------------------------------------------------------------
April 1981-
31 March 1982 |17,350 |4,395 |3,875 |25,620
1982-83 |19,733 |5,354 |3,297 |28,384
1983-84 |21,133 |7,622 |3,356 |32,111
1984-85 |19,771 |6,940 |3,152 |29,863
1985-86 |22,934 |6,711 |3,792 |33,437
1986-87 |21,925 |6,480 |3,571 |31,976
1987-88 |20,991 |6,484 |3,316 |30,791
1988-89 |27,752 |8,219 |3,977 |39,948
1989-90 |27,926 |8,580 |3,307 |39,813
1990-91<1> |35,190 |14,841 |4,106 |54,137
<1> Provisional figures.
Prison Escapes
Mr. Sheerman : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information his Department received following the foiled attempt at a mass escape from Crumlin Road prison, Belfast, in October 1989 about the smuggling of Semtex, a pistol and ammunition into the prison in the heels of trainer shoes ; and what subsequent action was taken to alert all prisons in the United Kingdom to this technique.
Mrs. Rumbold : Officials from the prison service in England and Wales meet officials from Northern Ireland and Scotland several times each year to discuss security and to share information. This is regular and ongoing.
The problems of concealment of various weapons and other contraband in footwear is very well known. Specific warning advice was issued to governors in England and Wales in December 1985 about the dangers of weapons being concealed in this way. Similar advice on the dangers
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of contraband items being concealed in shoes was issued on eight separate occasions between August 1982 and April 1991. The position in Scotland and Northern Ireland is a matter for my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and for Northern Ireland.Prisons (Industrial Disputes)
Mr. Soames : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the prisons which at 9 July had an industrial dispute ; and if he will also list the nature of the disputes.
Mrs. Rumbold : Industrial disputes, registered under the agreed disputes procedure between prison service management and the Prison Officers Association, were recorded at 49 prisons in England and Wales as at 11 July 1991. The establishments are listed. The majority of the disputes are about staffing figures. Other disputes cover matters including shift systems, local conditions and overcrowding, prison regimes and opposite sex postings policy.
Acklington
Albany
Askham Grange
Bedford
Birmingham
Bristol
Bullwood Hall
Cardiff
Castington
Chelmsford
Coldingley
Durham
Erlestoke
Featherstone
Frankland
Glen Parva
Hatfield
Hindley
Hull
Leeds
Lewes
Lindholme
Littlehey
Liverpool
Long Lartin
Manchester
Moorland
New Hall
Northallerton
Norwich
Nottingham
Onley
Oxford
Pentonville
Preston
Risley
Shepton Mallet
Stafford
Stoken
Styal
Swaleside
Swansea
Swinfen Hall
Thorp Arch
Wakefield
Wetherby
Winchester
Wormwood Scrubs
Wymott
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