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Written Answers to Questions
Monday 8 March 1993
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Market Testing
Mrs. Gorman : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will subject his legal advisers to market testing ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Goodlad : We have no plans to market test the work of the FCO legal advisers.
Hong Kong
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are Governor Patten's proposals for current economic reforms in Hong Kong ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Goodlad : The Governor of Hong Kong made it clear in his address to the Legislative Council on 7 October 1992 that he would maintain the policies that have generated economic success in Hong Kong, including low predictable taxes, Government spending which does not outpace economic growth and the encouragement of competition. In his Budget on 3 March, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary confirmed that Hong Kong's economy continues to perform strongly. He proposed tax cuts, increased expenditure on priority areas, and measures to assist Hong Kong's most disadvantaged citizens. He also forecast an increase of HKD6.8 billion in Hong Kong's projected reserves in 1996-97.
Immigration
Mr. Madden : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs when a decision is to be taken on applications to enter the United Kingdom made to the post in Islamabad by Mrs. Salim Bi (born 2-1-1934) and her son, Shah Jehan (born 16-1-1976) (Ref : Imm/67849) ; when DNA test results concerning these applicants were received at the post ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : In the absence of any information about this case, I have asked the High Commission in Islamabad for a full report. I shall arrange for the hon. Member to receive a substantive reply from the migration and visa correspondence unit of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as soon as possible.
Israel
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the number of nuclear warheads in Israel's possession ; and what are the implications of this for his foreign policy.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : We have no direct evidence that Israel has developed a nuclear weapons programme. However, we are well aware of reports that Israel has such
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a programme and we shall continue to call on the Israeli Government to allay suspicions categorically by acceding to thenon-proliferation treaty as a non-nuclear weapon state. We also call on Israel to work with her neighbours to create a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in the middle east.
Employment Protection Regulations
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will place in the Library copies of all circulars and other advice issued by his Department concerning the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 and the acquired rights directive.
Mr. Goodlad : The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not yet issued any circulars or other advice concerning the transfer of undertakings regulations 1981 and the acquired rights directive.
Rwanda
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations Her Majesty's Government have made to the Rwandan authorities concerning human rights abuses in Rwanda.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The EC and its member states have repeatedly expressed their concern at the present situation in Rwanda and have appealed to all parties concerned to be flexible so that a peaceful solution can be found to their difficulties. The most recent EC statement was issued on 15 February and a copy has been placed in the Libraries of the House.
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how his Department are monitoring the human rights situation in Rwanda.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : We have no diplomatic mission in Rwanda. Other United Kingdom missions in the region follow closely developments in that country. We also have regular consultations with EC partners and other western countries who have resident representations in Rwanda.
Malawi
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what arrangements have been made for international observers to be present for the referendum in Malawi on a multi-party system.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : In conjunction with other members of the international community we are prepared in principle to provide observers to the referendum process, subject to the Malawian Government and the Opposition pressure groups reaching a satisfactory agreement on the conduct of the referendum.
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy to provide assistance on request to the two main opposition political parties in Malawi for printing of leaflets and posters for the referendum on a multi-party system.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : We have made it clear to both the Malawian Government and the political pressure groups that we shall not become involved in any way in the campaigning leading up to the referendum.
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Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what arrangements have been made by his Department to monitor the referendum in Malawi ; and what assistance has been provided by Her Majesty's Government to the Government of Malawi and the main opposition parties in connection with the referendum on a multi-party system.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : I refer the hon. Member to my answer today on the arrangements for observers. We are ready to consider offering financial assistance through the United Nations to support the referendum process under the same conditions.
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations Her Majesty's Government have made to the Government of Malawi concerning the referendum on a multi-party system planned for 15 June 1993.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The referendum in Malawi is scheduled to take place on 14 June. We have repeatedly made clear to the Malawian Government that the conditions under which it is held must be fair and in accordance with internationally accepted criteria if it is to have any credibility with the international community.
LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT
Staff (Working Hours)
Mr. David Porter : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will undertake a survey of all offices and agencies for which he has responsibility to ascertain to what extent staff supplying a service to the public are curtailing their work on a Friday afternoon earlier than other days of the week ; and if he will make a statement on his policy on hours of staff working each week.
Mr. John M. Taylor : I have no plans to carry out such a survey. In common with civil servants generally, the conditioned working hours of most full-time staff in the Lord Chancellor's Department and its agencies are 41 gross per week in London and 42 gross per week elsewhere.
Subject to the requirement for all staff to fulfil their conditioned hours, managers have discretion to vary the office hours of individual staff. Court offices are open to the public from 10 am to 4 pm Monday to Friday. Chief clerks ensure that sufficient staff are available at all times when courts are open to the public.
Acquired Rights Directive
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will place in the Library copies of all circulars and other advice issued by his Department concerning the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 and the acquired rights directive.
Mr. John M. Taylor : My Department has no plans to issue any circulars on general advice concerning either the regulations or the directive.
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Stipendiary Magistrates
Mr. Stephen : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will make it his policy to work towards the appointment of stipendiary magistrates in every town with a population exceeding 70,000.
Mr. John M. Taylor : The Lord Chancellor has no plans to work towards the appointment of stipendiary magistrates in every town with a population exceeding 70,000. Stipendiary magistrate appointments are to commission areas and the Lord Chancellor will consider such appointments normally when he receives requests from those local areas and he considers that the workload warrants that course. The Lord Chancellor has full confidence in the ability of the lay magistracy to cope with the bulk of work. The purpose of stipendiary appointments is to support the lay magistracy.
Law of Domiciles
Mr. Harvey : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department when the Government plan to introduce legislation based on the conclusions of the report of the Law Commission on the law of domiciles ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. John M. Taylor : The Lord Chancellor hopes to make an announcement about this subject in the near future.
Committal Proceedings
Mr. Stephen : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what assessment he has made of the extent to which magistrates are aware of, and use, their powers to hold full committal hearings in cases where there is genuine doubt as to whether the accused has a case to answer before a higher court.
Mr. John M. Taylor : The provisions in the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 in respect of committal proceedings place the onus on the accused's representative to request that the court consider a submission of no case to answer. For this reason it is not appropriate that I make any assessment of magistrates' awareness of the provisions of section 6 of the Act. The future of committal proceedings is one of many issues on which my Department has submitted views to the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice.
Legal Aid
Mr. Boateng : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what representations he has received regarding the accuracy of the statistics given in the leaflet "Legal Aid--How It Works", with particular reference to the average payments to solicitors under the duty solicitor schemes in 1992-93 ; and how the figure given was arrived at.
Mr. John M. Taylor : No formal representations have been made. However, it has since come to my attention that there is an inconsistency in the way in which the estimate of the average payment to solicitors in 1992-93 under the duty solicitor schemes was calculated. Average payments to solicitors in the years 1988-89 to 1991-92 were derived by dividing gross expenditure on the schemes by the total number of people helped under the schemes. The
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estimate for 1992-93 was calculated by dividing estimated gross expenditure by the estimated number of bills that will be paid under the schemes. This resulted in an incorrect figure of £101 for 1992-93 because it is not unusual for claims to be aggregated, that is, a single claim may include a number of acts of assistance given to a number of people.It is estimated that 885,000 people will receive assistance under the schemes in 1992-93 and that gross expenditure will amount to £72 million. Therefore, the average payment to solicitors in 1992-93 will be £81.
Mr. Boateng : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many copies of the leaflet "Legal Aid--How it Works" were published by the Lord Chancellor's Department.
Mr. John M. Taylor : Three thousand copies of the leaflet "Legal Aid --How it Works" were published by the Lord Chancellor's Department.
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Mr. Boateng : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department to whom the leaflet, "Legal Aid--How it works" produced by the Lord Chancellor's Department, was distributed.
Mr. John M. Taylor : Individual copies of the booklet were sent to legal journalists and to peers and Members of Parliament. Since publication in December 1992 copies have been supplied on demand to the Legal Aid Board, the Law Society, individual solicitors, branches of NACAB and members of the public.
Mr. Mullin : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what proportion of the legal aid bill is accounted for by (a) solicitors' fees and (b) barristers' fees for each of the last five years.
Mr. John M. Taylor The proportion of legal aid expenditure accounted for by solicitors' and barristers' fees for each of the last five years was as follows--
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|1987-88|1988-89|1989-90|1990-91|1991-92
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Gross Expenditure-£ million |543 |610 |715 |848 |1,097
Solicitors-Per cent. |71 |71 |69 |68 |68
Barristers-Per cent. |17 |19 |18 |18 |17
Mr. Mullin : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what was the average payment by the legal aid fund to (a) barristers and (b) solicitors in 1991-92.
Mr. John M. Taylor : The average payment made to barristers and solicitors from the legal aid fund in 1991-92 was as follows :
|Barristers|Solicitors
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Legal Aid Fund |£335.77 |£236.29
For barristers this is an average of payments made in respect of civil legal aid and criminal legal aid in the magistrates' courts. For solicitors this figure is an average of payments made in respect of civil legal aid, criminal legal aid in the magistrates courts, assistance by way of representation, the green form scheme and the duty solicitor schemes. Payments in respect of criminal legal aid in the higher courts are not made from the legal aid fund administered by the Legal Aid Board. Average payments in those cases in 1991-92 were £677.64 for barristers and £741.68 for solicitors.
Mr. Boateng : To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what was the cost of the leaflet produced by the Lord Chancellor's Department entitled "Legal Aid--How it Works".
Mr. John M. Taylor : The cost of the leaflet "Legal Aid--How it Works" produced by the Lord Chancellor's Department was £3,557.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Street Collections
Mr. Barry Field : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will be issuing guidelines to local authorities on street collections from 1 September.
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Mr. Jack : The current legislation governing street collections--the Police, Factories etc (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1916 and the Charitable Collections (Transitional Provisions) Order 1974--will remain in force until replaced by the new provisions in part III of the Charities Act 1992.
The date for commencement of these provisions has not yet been finally settled, although we hope to make an announcement shortly. There will be full consultation on the new regulations before they are brought into force.
Secure Training Centres
Mr. Tipping : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many places at secure training centres will be provided to meet needs arising in Nottinghamshire ; where these places will be available ; when they will be provided ; and how much they will cost in capital and revenue terms ;
(2) what consultations he intends to hold, and with whom, about his plans to establish secure training centres ;
(3) how many places at secure training centres will be necessary to meet needs in England and Wales ; where these centres will be located ; when they will be open ; and how much they will cost in capital and revenue terms.
Mr. Jack : As my right hon. and learned Friend made clear in his statement to the House on 2 March, at columns 139-42, we are now preparing for the introduction of a new secure training order. In so doing, we are considering, inter alia, such matters as location, costs and numbers of places for the projected secure training centres. As part of this process, we will be seeking the views of representatives from a range of criminal justice agencies, voluntary agencies and interest groups.
Staff (Working Hours)
Mr. David Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will undertake a survey of all offices and agencies for which he has responsibility to
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ascertain to what extent staff supplying a service to the public are curtailing their work on a Friday afternoon earlier than other days of the week ; and if he will make a statement on his policy on hours of staff working each week.Mr. Kenneth Clarke : Staff work the number of hours specified in their conditions of service, but there is flexibility on how that is achieved. Where there is a direct service to the public--for example, in passport offices or in the public inquiry office of the immigration and nationality department--public counters and telephone bureaux are manned for the advertised hours. If my hon. Friend has encountered a specific problem, I should be glad to have details.
Operation Container
Mr. Alfred Morris : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 11 February, Official Report, column 773, about the future of Operation Container, in how many cases in Greater Manchester police officers were involved in the operation other than on rest day working ; how many worked on their rest days at the latest date for which figures are available ; what information was obtained by the prison service area manager for the Trans-Pennine area at his meeting on 5 February about the implications of police cell usage on police operations in Greater Manchester ; and if he will make a further statement.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : The information requested is being obtained from the Greater Manchester police and I will write to the right hon. Member as soon as possible. As was explained in my answer of 11 February, the implications for the Greater Manchester police of the prisoners in police cells problem was discussed with senior headquarters officers on 5 February. It was explained then that Operation Container had been run largely on the basis of rest day working.
Baby Food, Styal Prison
Mr. Gerrard : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what arrangements currently exist for the supply of baby food to women with young children in Her Majesty's prison, Styal ; and what changes have recently occurred in the arrangements.
Mr. Peter Lloyd : Fresh raw materials are supplied by the main kitchen to the mother and baby unit at Her Majesty's prison Styal. Babies' meals are then prepared by the mothers in the unit kitchen. Pre-packaged baby food supplements are also available. Until 2 March, these
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supplements have been bought centrally wholesale. In order to be more sensitive to the individual needs and preferences of the children and offer a greater choice to mothers the unit, from 2 March local purchases of baby food supplements have been made. There is no extra cost to the food budget.Prevention of Terrorism Acts
Mr. McNamara : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were (a) arrested or (b) stopped and questioned under the terms of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Acts in 1990.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke [holding answer 4 March 1993] : The available information is contained in the Home Office statistical bulletin on the operation of the prevention of terrorism legislation--No. 5/93.
Mr. McNamara : To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have had their period of detention under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act extended pending the results of forensic tests.
Mr. Kenneth Clarke [holding answer 4 March 1993] : In considering each application for an extension of detention under the prevention of Terrorism Act, I have regard to the criteria set out by Lord Colville in paragraph 5.1.6. of his 1987 review of the Act--Cm. 246--which include the need for further forensic work. It is not possible to give statistics of the kind requested based on the specific relevant criteria that applied in each individual case.
HEALTH
Nurses
Ms Janet Anderson : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list, by regional health authority area, the number of qualified nurses in employment in the national health service for each year since 1979.
Mr. Sackville : The information requested is shown in the tables. All figures are independently rounded to the nearest 10 whole-time equivalents. Figures exclude agency staff. For 1989 to 1991, England totals include staff working in the London ambulance services and family health services authorities. In 1991, the special health authorities total include qualified nurses working in the special hospitals service authority-- Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth. Figures for 1982 can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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Qualified nurses in each regional health authority
September 1979 to 1991
Whole-time equivalents
|1979 |1980 |1981 |1982 |1983 |1984 |1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991
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Northern |14,580 |14,880 |15,170 |- |15,720 |16,040 |16,590 |16,910 |17,280 |17,410 |17,260 |16,950 |16,880
Yorkshire |15,180 |15,740 |16,250 |- |16,810 |17,290 |17,880 |18,060 |18,530 |18,700 |18,670 |18,540 |18,480
Trent |18,180 |18,190 |18,830 |- |19,800 |20,400 |21,370 |21,830 |22,540 |22,840 |22,720 |23,090 |23,290
East Anglia |7,220 |7,430 |7,580 |- |8,020 |8,420 |8,820 |8,970 |9,280 |9,550 |9,720 |9,760 |9,810
North West Thames |15,390 |15,590 |16,490 |- |16,250 |16,850 |16,870 |16,740 |16,040 |16,060 |15,850 |15,590 |16,280
North East Thames |16,690 |16,490 |16,420 |- |19,180 |19,210 |19,580 |19,560 |19,850 |20,000 |19,570 |19,800 |20,050
South East Thames |16,560 |17,090 |17,040 |- |17,780 |17,770 |18,030 |18,430 |18,520 |18,880 |19,070 |18,740 |16,620
South West Thames |13,730 |13,990 |13,970 |- |14,160 |14,160 |14,260 |14,060 |13,860 |14,090 |14,150 |13,760 |14,120
Wessex |11,080 |11,330 |11,250 |- |12,140 |12,430 |12,810 |12,990 |13,190 |13,660 |13,660 |13,970 |14,130
Oxford |8,580 |9,000 |9,070 |- |9,320 |9,870 |10,110 |10,250 |10,540 |10,690 |10,680 |11,030 |11,320
South Western |13,200 |14,110 |14,550 |- |14,560 |14,680 |15,220 |15,460 |15,770 |15,730 |15,870 |16,320 |16,130
West Midlands |19,850 |20,790 |21,360 |- |22,560 |23,020 |23,820 |24,380 |25,090 |24,770 |25,140 |25,460 |25,210
Mersey |11,860 |12,130 |12,120 |- |12,540 |12,570 |12,930 |13,040 |12,910 |13,130 |13,260 |12,930 |12,620
North Western |18,140 |19,270 |19,440 |- |21,010 |21,810 |22,470 |22,810 |22,770 |22,960 |23,160 |22,920 |23,230
London postgraduate SHAs 22,930 2,990 - 3,480 3,200 3,360 3,310 3,240 3,450 3,390 3,390 5,050
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Total |205,670|212,500|216,880|219,300|223,320|227,720|234,130|236,770|239,360|241,920|242,190|242,340|243,250
Cancer Screening
Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans there are to make the national screening programme for breast and cervical cancer available to women aged over 65 years.
Mr. Sackville : Breast and cervical screening is already available to women aged 65 and over. In respect of breast screening, it is available every three years on request. For cervical screening, women over 64 are no longer invited for screening under the call-recall programme but may ask to have a cervical smear at any time. Women aged 65 or over who have not had two consecutive negative smears in the last 10 years should continue to be recalled for screening as part of the national programme.
Mobile Phones (Brain Cancer)
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research her Department has currently commissioned as to whether non-ionising radiation in mobile telephones can cause brain cancer ; and if she will make a statement.
Mr. Sackville : The National Radiological Protection Board advises the Government on risks to human health from non-ionising electromagnetic radiation, including emissions from mobile radiotelephones. The board's advice is that the radio frequency energy emitted by hand-held radiotelephones does not constitute a cancer hazard on the basis of available research evidence. The Department of Trade and Industry, together with the Science and Engineering Research Council and a number of industrial participants are funding a research study of the physical interaction of fields from hand-held radiotelephones and the human head. The results from this and other studies will enable a better assessment of the extent to which emissions from these devices comply with recommended restrictions on human exposure.
Doctors
Ms. Primarolo : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the number and percentage of female, male and ethnic minority doctors with A , A, B and C merit awards.
Dr. Mawhinney : Information on the ethnic origin of award holders is not held centrally. The breakdown requested by sex and level of award is as follows :
Male Female All consultants
|per cent. |per cent. |per cent.
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A+ 195 |1.3 |8 |0.3 |203 |1.1
A 655 |4.4 |48 |1.7 |703 |4.0
B 1,451 |9.8 |115 |4.0 |1,566 |8.9
C 3,184 |21.6 |402 |13.8 |3,586 |20.3
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5,485 |37.2 |573 |19.7 |6,058 |34.3
Note: Percentages relate to total of female, male and all consultants
respectively. Figures for England and Wales.
Health Service Staff
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make available details of the full-time equivalent numbers of (a) medical, (b) nursing, (c) professional and technical, (d) administration, (e) management and (f) other staff employed by health authorities and trusts in England on 30 September in each year since 1990.
Mr. Sackville : The information is given in the table.
NHS staff by main staff group at 30
September-England
Whole-time
equivalent
|1990 |1991<1>
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Medical and Dental |45,390 |46,530
Nursing and Midwifery |395,360|392,200
Professional and Technical |83,990 |86,890
Administrative and Clerical |120,040|127,370
General/Senior Managers |9,680 |13,340
Other |133,740|128,530
<1> Includes some redesignation between staff
groups, for example Nursing and Midwifery to
general/senior managers.
Information for 30 September 1992 is not yet
available.
Source: Medical Manpower Census; Non Medical
Workforce Census; Aggregate Form KM49).
NHS Trusts
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will review the actual time contribution of chairmen and non-executive directors of NHS trusts and the basis on which their emoluments are assessed.
Dr. Mawhinney : I shall be considering these matters in due course.
Surcharges
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will introduce for health authority and trust chairmen and non-executive directors the same liability to surcharge as applies to local government councillors.
Dr. Mawhinney : I have no plans to do so.
NHS Chairmen and Directors
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will give the number of (i) chairmen and (ii) non-executive directors in England in 1991-92 who declined to receive emoluments in respect of membership of (a) regional health authorities, (b) district health authorities, (c) family health service authorities and (d) hospital trusts.
Dr. Mawhinney : This information is not held centrally.
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Staff (Working Hours)
Mr. David Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will undertake a survey of all offices and agencies for which she has responsibility to ascertain to what extent staff supplying a service to the public are curtailing their work on a Friday afternoon earlier than other days of the week ; and if she will make a statement on her policy on hours of staff working each work.
Mr. Sackville : We do not believe that such a survey is required and are not aware of any difficulties experienced
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by members of the public on Friday afternoons. If my hon. Friend has a particular case in mind perhaps he will let me have the details.Liver Disease
Mr. Gapes : To ask the Secretary of State for Health what have been the death rates from (i) cancer of the liver, (ii) cirrhosis of the liver and (iii) other liver diseases for each year since 1972.
Mr. Sackville : The information is shown in the table.
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disease and cirrhosis of the liver
(i)Death from (ii)Death from(iii) Death from
malignant neoplchronic liver other diseases of
of the liver disease and the liver
cirrhosis of the
liver
|Male |Female|Male |Female|Male |Female
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1972 |1.4 |0.7 |3.6 |3.2 |0.6 |0.6
1973 |1.4 |0.8 |3.9 |3.4 |0.7 |0.6
1974 |1.4 |0.9 |3.8 |3.4 |0.7 |0.8
1975 |1.5 |0.8 |3.8 |3.6 |0.6 |0.7
1976 |1.5 |0.7 |4.3 |3.4 |0.7 |0.6
1977 |1.5 |0.9 |4.1 |3.3 |0.7 |0.6
1978 |1.6 |0.8 |4.3 |3.6 |0.8 |0.7
1979 |2.4 |1.3 |5.0 |3.9 |0.8 |0.7
1980 |2.2 |1.5 |4.8 |4.2 |0.9 |0.8
1981 |2.6 |1.6 |4.8 |4.1 |1.0 |0.9
1982 |2.5 |1.8 |4.7 |4.0 |0.9 |0.9
1983 |2.5 |1.6 |4.6 |4.2 |0.7 |0.8
1984 |2.9 |1.8 |5.0 |4.2 |0.6 |0.7
1985 |2.8 |1.9 |5.7 |4.7 |0.8 |0.7
1986 |3.1 |2.0 |5.7 |4.5 |0.8 |0.8
1987 |3.0 |2.0 |6.1 |4.7 |0.7 |0.8
1988 |3.4 |2.3 |6.1 |5.1 |0.8 |0.8
1989 |3.3 |2.2 |6.5 |5.4 |0.9 |0.7
1990 |3.3 |2.2 |6.8 |5.3 |0.7 |0.6
1991 |3.5 |2.5 |7.0 |5.2 |0.7 |0.5
Waiting Lists
Mr. Redmond : To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will give the number of patients on the in-patient waiting list by health authority and trust in England on 31 March 1990, 1991 and 1992 ; and if she will make a statement.
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