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Mr. Denham : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what studies have been conducted by (a) the Overseas Development Administration and (b) the World bank on the Pak Mun World bank project ; what were the results of such studies ; which social and environmental experts from the area were consulted ; what advice was given to the United Kingdom executive director of the World bank in respect of voting on the project ; and how the United Kingdom executive director voted.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : We have not commissioned any studies of this project. When the World bank's board approved the loan in December 1991, we asked the bank to undertake a mid-term review given the concerns expressed at the time about the environmental impact and resettlement aspects of the project. The board is currently considering the report of a bank mission which concluded that the Thai authorities were complying with agreements reached with the bank on the resettlement and environmental aspects of the project, although much more needed to be done to improve communications with the affected population and NGOs.
Mr. Denham : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if the United Kingdom executive director of the World bank will be attending the non-governmental organisations meeting in Washington on 19 November concerning the environmental impact of the Pak Mun project in Thailand ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Our executive director was represented at the briefing meeting held in Washington on 19 November when presentations were made by a Thai NGO and academics about the potential environmental impact of the Pak Mun dam.
Energy Efficiency
Mr. Denham : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what proposals the United Kingdom executive director has made to the World bank to ensure that energy efficiency should be encouraged in developing countries rather than increasing the number of power plants.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Our executive director played a full part in board discussion of a bank policy paper on energy efficiency and conservation in 1992. The report on the 10th replenishment of the International Development Association--IDA-10--which was approved by the board
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in January 1993, noted the importance of promoting end-use energy efficiency alongside increases in supply. It also underlined the need for IDA to expand its least cost planning analysis to take account of both demand side and alternative supply side options employing proven technologies in energy conservation and renewable energy sources.Policy Information Markers
Mr. Denham : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in what are the policy information markers going to consist ; and when they will be established.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The Overseas Development Administration's policy information marker system--PIMS--has been operational since 1 October 1993. It is a computer based system which allows ODA's commitments of aid to be marked against one or more of 19 policy markers. The markers include ODA's seven priority objectives already announced by my right hon. and noble Friend the Minister for Overseas Development in her speech at the Royal Institute of International Affairs on 18 October. PIMS will provide a means of closer monitoring of ODA's performance against the objectives set for the aid programme. Initial data from PIMS will appear in the ODA section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office departmental report 1994.
Russia
Mr. Denham : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what evaluations his Department has conducted of the quality of World bank lending to Russia ; and what has been the level of lending in each of the last three years.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : World bank lending to Russia began in August 1992 with a $600 million rehabilitation loan. In the bank's fiscal year ended June 1993--FY93--commitments totalled $760 million. Approvals in the current year--FY94--include a $610 million loan to the oil sector. Further details of the bank's activities are contained in its 1993 annual report, copies of which are available in the Library of the House.
It is too early to assess the impact of bank lending to Russia, but we have been impressed by the preparatory work they have undertaken in support of its lending programme.
Arun-3 Project
Mr. Denham : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what studies of the social and environmental effects of the Arun-3 project in Nepal have been conducted by the Overseas Development Administration ; what were the results and which groups in Nepal were consulted ; and what is the current status of the project.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : ODA has made no bilateral financial commitment to the Arun-3 dam project in Nepal, and has commissioned no studies. The Nepalese authorities have prepared an environmental assessment. The World bank, together with other co-financiers,
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initiated its appraisal of the project in May ; and has stated that it intends to disseminate information about the project to NGOs and other interested parties to facilitate informed discussion.Soviet Union
Mr. Harry Greenway : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what support the ODA has given recently to humanitarian crises in the emerging countries of the former Soviet Union.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Over the last two years we have provided over £8 million in humanitarian assistance to countries of the former Soviet Union. Details are as follows :
Bilateral aid £'000s
|Financial year |Financial year
|1992-93 |1993-94
|(expenditure) |(commitments to
|date)
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Armenia |227 |270
Azerbaijan (Inc.
Nagorno-Karabakh) |533 |1,541
Georgia |498 |456
Khazakhstan |- |33
Kyrgyzstan |27 |67
Russian Federation |475 |-
Tajikistan |100 |140
Ukraine |- |24
|------- |-------
Total |1,860 |2,531
United Kingdom share of EC aid £'000s
|Calendar 1992 |Calendar 1993 (to
|date)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Armenia |182 |768
Azerbaijan |182 |1,088
Georgia |- |934
Russian Federation |- |64
Tajikistan |97 |576
|------- |-------
Total |461 |3,430
Cyprus
Mr. David Atkinson : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has as to the per capita income of Greek Cypriots living in southern Cyprus ; and what considerations underlie the giving of United Kingdom aid to Cyprus.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : Information on the per capita income of the two communities in Cyprus is not available. The figure for Cyprus as a whole was $8,640 in 1991. The considerations underlying our small aid programme to Cyprus are our historical relationship and an even-handed approach towards both communities.
DUCHY OF LANCASTER
Official Information
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list the statutory provisions which (a) restrict the disclosure of official information and (b) provide legal rights of access to official information.
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Mr. Waldegrave : A list of some 200 statutory provisions which have been identified as restricting the disclosure of official information can be found in the "Open Government" White Paper--Cm 2290--published earlier this year.
Statutory provisions which provide legal rights of access include : the Data Protection Act 1984 ; the Access to Personal Files Act 1987 ; the Education Reform Act 1988 ; the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988 ; the Access to Health Records Act 1990 ; the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 ; the Health Service Joint Consultative Committees (Access to Information) Act 1986 ; the Community Health Councils (Access to Information) Act 1988 ; the Environmental Information Regulations 1992 ; and the Education (School Records) Regulations 1989.
Official Hospitality
Mr. Meacher : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what has been the amount spent on official hospitality by each Department, including the Prime Minister's Office, for each year since 1979.
Mr. Waldegrave : The expenditure on official hospitality by those Departments for which I have responsibility is as follows :
|OPSS £|COI £
-----------------------------
1984-85 |17,618|3,911
1985-86 |45,707|4,121
1986-87 |26,595|4,802
1987-88 |13,514|4,499
1988-89 |29,775|2,895
1989-90 |37,276|3,267
1990-91 |32,689|530
1991-92 |48,642|3,187
1992-93 |45,154|3,042
The figures for Office of Public Service and Science include expenditure by the Prime Minister's Office. In addition to the amount shown under OPSS for 1991-92, a further £234,126 was spent in that year in respect of official hospitality for the 1991 economic summit.
Expenditure by HMSO on official hospitality in 1992 was £15,984. Figures for hospitality were not recorded centrally by HMSO before 1992.
Expenditure records prior to financial year 1984-85 do not provide information in the form requested.
Scott Inquiry
Mr. Gunnell : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what instructions have been given to Departments of State concerning requests to them from the Scott inquiry for confidential documentary material.
Mr. Waldegrave : Departments have been instructed to make available to Lord Justice Scott's inquiry all material upon request, irrespective of classification, and have not been issued with specific instructions concerning requests for classified material.
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Magistrates
Mr. Gordon Prentice : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many magistrates in Lancashire have resigned this year citing as a reason dissatisfaction with the Government's policies on the administration of justice.
Mr. Waldegrave : The total number of resignations in Lancashire this year, less those retiring for reasons of age, has been 40. Only a small proportion of these have given dissatisfaction with the administration of justice as a reason for their resignation.
British Geological Survey Laboratory
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1) what consultations he has had with the chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council concerning the proposed closure of the British geological survey laboratory and office, Aberystwyth ; (2) what consultations he has had with the quarrying, mining, civil engineering and academic research interests in Wales concerning the proposed closure of the British geological survey laboratory and office, Aberystwyth ;
(3) what representations he has received in relation to the proposed closure of the British geological survey laboratory and office, Aberystwyth ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Waldegrave : These are matters for the British geological survey --BGS--and the Natural Environment Research Council--NERC--of which the BGS is a constituent part. I have received no representations.
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Brussels
Mr. Allen : To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will consider proposals for hon. Members to be allowed to visit Brussels more than once each year on parliamentary business up to the maximum of the overall allocated budget ; and if he will make a comment.
Mr. Newton : I have no plans to do so.
Parliamentary Broadcasting
Mr. Allen : To ask the Lord President of the Council if he will propose to the Select Committee on Broadcasting that the Central Office of Information should supply the live television feed for hon. Members in their offices.
Mr. Newton : No purpose would be served by my placing this matter before the Broadcasting Committee at this juncture. As I have explained in my previous answers to the hon. Gentleman's questions, the factors influencing the time scale within which Members can be supplied with the clean feed in their offices are the complexity and cost of the comprehensive cabling exercise involved and their relationship to decisions yet to be taken by the House on the proposed parliamentary data and video network. This remains the case whatever agency or organisation might eventually be employed to carry out the necessary work.
Child Care
Mr. Steen : To ask the Chairman of the Administration Committee what is the cost to public funds for arranging for a comprehensive survey of potential demand for a
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parliamentary child care facility ; how much Research Services Ltd. is being paid to prepare a questionnaire ; to how many people the questionnaire has been sent ; and when he hopes to make a statement as to the conclusions.Mr. Michael J. Martin : Following deliberations in the Administration Committee, the Department of Finance and Administration commissioned the preparation and circulation of the questionnaire on parliamentary child care facilities to some 4,100 recipients who work in the parliamentary estate. The Committee expects to report the results of the suvey to the House of Commons Commission early in the new year. For reasons of commercial confidentiality it is not appropriate to publish the cost of the exercise.
Vote Bundle
Mr. Allen : To ask the Chairman of the Administration Committee if his Committee will send a questionnaire to hon. Members about the Vote bundle to ascertain what use hon. Members make of the Vote bundle, what ideas they may have for improving the service and what suggestions they have for reducing the amount of public money currently spent on the bundle.
Mr. Michael J. Martin : As I mentioned in reply to my hon. Friend's similar question on this matter on 3 November in the last session of Parliament at column 198, the form and content of the Vote bundle remain under review by the Committee. I therefore see no reason for any survey of the kind suggested. Members are, however, always free to submit specific suggestions to the Committee.
Note Taking
Mr. Allen : To ask the Chairman of the Administration Committee what are the current restrictions applied to note taking in the Strangers' Gallery.
Mr. Michael J. Martin : The Administration Committee has agreed for an experimental period of six months that the taking of informal notes of the proceedings of the House for personal purposes should be allowed in the Strangers' Gallery. These arrangements will not extend to any kind of formal reporting from that Gallery, for which the current prohibition will remain.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Disability Working Allowance
Dr. Wright : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many current awards of disability working allowance there are ; what is the total number of claims for disability working allowance received in the last six months for which statistics are available ; how many claims were adjudicated upon in those six months ; what proportion of those claims adjudicated in the last six months resulted in an award ; and what were the reasons for unsuccessful claims with numbers and percentage for each ground for disallowance.
Mr. Scott : As of 31 October 1993 there were 3,176 current awards of disability working allowance.
The total number of claims for DWA in May to October 1993 was :
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|Number
----------------------------
New claims |4,688
Repeat claims |2,256
|----
Total |6,944
The number of claims adjudicated upon in the last six months is 6, 547.
The proportion of adjudicated claims which resulted in an award is 54.06 per cent.
The reasons for unsuccessful claims with numbers and percentages for each ground for disallowance in the last six months are in the table.
Reason |Number |Percentage
----------------------------------------------------------
Capital exceeds £16,000 |8 |0.26
Not in remunerative work |1,108 |36.83
Income exceeds DWA level |443 |14.73
No qualifying benefit |1,264 |42.02
Disability test |4
Other reasons |181 |6.02
Mr. Bradley : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people are currently claiming disability working allowance ; what is the average payment to a person receiving disability working allowance ; and how many people were expected to receive disability working allowance at any one time when it was launched.
Mr. Scott : There are 3,176 people currently in receipt of disability working allowance. The average payment for October 1993 was £40.63. Our original estimate was that once the benefit was fully established about 50,000 people might be entitled to disability working allowance based on the surveys of disabled people carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.
Pensions Law Review Committee
Mr. Harris : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the cost of producing and printing the report of the Pensions Law Review Committee under the chairmanship of Professor Roy Goode.
Mr. Hague : The Pensions Law Review Committee--PLRC--report was published as two separate volumes. The cost, which was met by this Department, of producing these volumes to final art work was £73,375. As a priced publication, the printing costs of £42,737 were borne by HMSO and will be recovered from sales via HMSO.
In addition, a summary version of volume one of the report was produced at a cost of £18,640 and copies of the summary are available free of charge.
Lone Parents
Mr. Gordon Prentice : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many (a) lone mothers and (b) lone fathers were in receipt of social security benefits by type in (i) Lancashire and (ii) the Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Benefits Agency district in each year since 1987.
Mr. Burt : The information is not available in the form requested.
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Benefit Fraud
Sir Thomas Arnold : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his latest estimate of the extent of be Agency. Last year the Benefits Agency caught over 270,000 people defrauding the system which resulted in benefit savings of £558 million.
Maintenance
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the income ceiling at which an absent parent, having met the maintenance payment at 50p in the pound, no longer has to contribute at 25p in the pound.
Mr. Burt : The 25 per cent. rate of deduction from assessable income, which applies to income left after the absent parent has met the basic maintenance requirement, applies until a maximum amount is reached. For each child, the maximum additional amount is equivalent to three times the total of the income support personal allowance for the child plus the income support family premium.
The parent with care of the children may apply to the courts for additional maintenance once the maximum is reached.
Overseas Visits
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many visits abroad he has made during 1993 ; and what was (a) the cost to public funds and (b) the purpose of each visit.
Mr. Hague : My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made two trips abroad on departmental business during 1993. The details are in the table.
Event |Cost to public funds ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ World Economic Forum |735.00 Meeting with Mme. Veil (the senior French Minister for Social Affairs) in Paris |165.00
Suicide
Mr. Kirkwood : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) how many suicides he has estimated have occurred in the last five years as a result of decisions taken by his Department about benefit entitlement ;
(2) if he will commission research to establish whether the rate of incidence of suicides is higher among those on benefits and whether suicides have been caused by his Department's benefit decisions.
Mr. Scott : Information on the reasons for suicides is not collected. There are no plans to commission research on the rate of suicides among people receiving social security benefits.
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Invalidity Benefit
Mr. Denham : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is his estimate of the total sum of money being withheld from women as a result of the suspension of payment of the increased award for invalidity benefit, pending the result of the court case concerning Council directive (EEC) 79/7.
Mr. Scott : Benefits Agency records show that around 30,000 women are having increased benefit suspended pending the outcome of this case. Statistics concerning the amount of money involved are not routinely kept and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Income Support
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what it would cost to introduce a £5 and £10 disregard on income support for parents with care in receipt of maintenance from an absent parent for a child or children but still receiving income support assuming that this involved (a) one third, (b) one half or (c) two thirds of lone parents on income support.
Mr. Burt : The latest estimates in costs are in the table.
Cost £ million |Cost of (a) |Cost of (b) |Cost of (c) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- £5 disregard |90 |130 |170 £10 disregard |170 |260 |350 Notes: 1. Estimates are based on the number of lone parents in receipt of income support as at February 1993. 2. Costs given are full year costs and rounded to the nearest £10 million.
SCOTLAND
Civil Servants
Mrs. Clwyd : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each civil service grade in his Department (a) the total number of persons employed and (b) the total number of women employed.
Mr. Lang : The number of staff and the number of women in post in the Scottish Office and associated departments as at 1 October 1993--but excluding the Scottish prison service--are shown by grade equivalent in the table :
Grade (and |Women |Total Staff
equivalents)
----------------------------------------------------------------
1 |- |1
2 |- |8
3 |4 |28
4 |3 |19
5 |18 |133
6 |35 |199
7 |85 |492
Senior Executive Officer |60 |500
Higher Executive Officer |294 |995
Executive Officer |507 |1,188
Administrative Officer |951 |1,396
Administrative Assistant |902 |1,408
Industrial Staff |18 |491
|--- |---
Total |2,877 |6,858
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Equal Opportunities
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether his Department operates an equal opportunities policy of recruitment to all departments for which he has responsibility.
Mr. Lang : Yes. In common with other civil service employers my departments and agencies have in place equal opportunities policies based on the principle of fair and open competition for recruitment.
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Nursery Education
Mr. McFall : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many and what percentage of children aged three and four years were in receipt of nursery education in each region and islands area of Scotland in each school year from 1978-79.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The information is set out in the table. The numbers of three and four-year-old pupils shown are those attending education authority nursery schools and departments as at September in each school year. The percentages shown are based on the relevant mid-year estimate of the three and four-year-old population.
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Number of 3 and 4-year-olds attending education authority nursery schools/departments at September
|1978-79|1979-80|1980-81|1981-82|1982-83|1983-84|1984-85|1985-86|1987-88|1988-89|1989-90|1990-91|1991-92|1992-93
|1986-87
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Scotland |31,037 |31,531 |32,231 |32,913 |34,411 |36,356 |37,601 |n/a |38,851 |40,204 |41,785 |43,274 |44,488 |46,144
Borders |299 |313 |301 |363 |387 |394 |359 |n/a |390 |438 |447 |470 |484 |481
Central |1,399 |1,512 |1,681 |1,858 |1,960 |2,166 |2,210 |n/a |2,492 |2,568 |2,744 |2,732 |2,733 |2,818
Dumfries and
Galloway |253 |257 |266 |247 |271 |287 |316 |n/a |428 |550 |625 |630 |825 |1,204
Fife |3,192 |3,235 |3,280 |3,142 |3,439 |3,805 |3,993 |n/a |4,193 |4,402 |4,329 |4,388 |4,552 |4,538
Grampian |2,233 |2,196 |2,222 |2,244 |2,235 |2,425 |2,433 |n/a |2,678 |2,985 |3,171 |3,391 |3,867 |4,686
Highland |331 |455 |484 |519 |567 |580 |618 |n/a |617 |645 |622 |730 |835 |891
Lothian |6,718 |6,529 |6,795 |6,799 |7,045 |7,477 |7,966 |n/a |7,965 |8,064 |7,969 |8,457 |8,709 |8,819
Strathclyde |14,501 |14,768 |14,841 |15,406 |16,071 |16,793 |17,376 |n/a |17,551 |17,828 |18,683 |18,911 |18,799 |18,695
Tayside |1,841 |1,933 |2,007 |2,014 |2,097 |2,112 |2,136 |n/a |2,344 |2,516 |2,975 |3,326 |3,357 |3,565
Orkney |78 |96 |93 |74 |85 |89 |92 |n/a |83 |97 |101 |102 |89 |192
Shetland |32 |86 |99 |91 |85 |82 |102 |n/a |110 |111 |119 |137 |238 |255
Western Isles |160 |151 |162 |156 |169 |146 |0 |n/a |0 |0 |0 |0 |0 |0
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|1985-86|1987-88|1988-89|1989-90|1990-91|1991-92|1992-93
|1986-87
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Scotland |n/a |30.8 |31.9 |32.2 |33.0 |33.8 |35.4
Borders |n/a |16.6 |18.7 |19.2 |19.5 |19.5 |19.6
Central |n/a |37.8 |39.2 |40.7 |41.4 |40.1 |42.2
Dumfries and Galloway |n/a |12.7 |15.8 |17.4 |17.8 |22.4 |33.2
Fife |n/a |48.5 |50.4 |48.4 |47.6 |49.3 |49.7
Grampian |n/a |21.2 |24.0 |25.0 |26.1 |29.0 |34.9
Highland |n/a |11.6 |12.3 |11.8 |13.6 |15.5 |16.9
Lothian |n/a |47.8 |47.9 |44.5 |45.9 |46.9 |47.4
Strathclyde |n/a |29.6 |30.1 |30.7 |30.9 |31.1 |31.3
Tayside |n/a |25.1 |26.5 |31.0 |34.2 |34.9 |37.3
Orkney |n/a |18.3 |20.7 |20.9 |20.4 |16.4 |34.8
Shetland |n/a |17.7 |18.1 |19.3 |20.5 |34.4 |39.2
Western Isles |n/a |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
|1985-86|1987-88|1988-89|1989-90|1990-91|1991-92|1992-93
|1986-87
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Scotland |n/a |30.8 |31.9 |32.2 |33.0 |33.8 |35.4
Borders |n/a |16.6 |18.7 |19.2 |19.5 |19.5 |19.6
Central |n/a |37.8 |39.2 |40.7 |41.4 |40.1 |42.2
Dumfries and Galloway |n/a |12.7 |15.8 |17.4 |17.8 |22.4 |33.2
Fife |n/a |48.5 |50.4 |48.4 |47.6 |49.3 |49.7
Grampian |n/a |21.2 |24.0 |25.0 |26.1 |29.0 |34.9
Highland |n/a |11.6 |12.3 |11.8 |13.6 |15.5 |16.9
Lothian |n/a |47.8 |47.9 |44.5 |45.9 |46.9 |47.4
Strathclyde |n/a |29.6 |30.1 |30.7 |30.9 |31.1 |31.3
Tayside |n/a |25.1 |26.5 |31.0 |34.2 |34.9 |37.3
Orkney |n/a |18.3 |20.7 |20.9 |20.4 |16.4 |34.8
Shetland |n/a |17.7 |18.1 |19.3 |20.5 |34.4 |39.2
Western Isles |n/a |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0 |0.0
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Revenue Support Grant
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the amount of revenue support grant allocated to each district council in
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Scotland in the current financial year on a per capita basis ; if he will explain the formulae applied in calculation of these grants ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Stewart : The information requested is set out in the table. An explanation of how the amount of RSG
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payable to each authority in 1993-94 was determined is set out in the report to the Local Government Finance (Scotland) Order 1993, copies of which are in the Library.
|1993-94 RSG
|<1>Per Capita
|£
----------------------------------------------------
Berwickshire |112.89
Ettrick and Lauderdale |104.32
Roxburgh |116.04
Tweeddale |100.78
Clackmannan |143.29
Falkirk |130.11
Stirling |162.54
Annandale and Eskdale |100.99
Nithsdale |112.66
Stewartry |98.10
Wigtown |136.10
Dunfermline |121.12
Kirkcaldy |127.51
North East Fife |122.71
Aberdeen |145.41
Banff and Buchan |118.48
Gordon |112.44
Kincardine and Deeside |99.49
Moray |126.92
Badenoch and Strathspey |103.12
Caithness |131.37
Inverness |102.12
Lochaber |150.65
Nairn |102.14
Ross and Cromarty |162.06
Skye and Lochalsh |186.57
Sutherland |166.31
East Lothian |135.56
Edinburgh |177.42
Midlothian |133.34
West Lothian |137.70
Argyll and Bute |214.65
Bearsden and Milngavie |100.88
Clydebank |170.36
Clydesdale |138.55
Cumbernauld and Kilsyth |122.33
Cumnock and Doon Valley |141.02
Cunninghame |150.31
Dumbarton |128.43
East Kilbride |107.04
Eastwood |81.85
Glasgow |230.24
Hamilton |138.35
Inverclyde |159.73
Kilmarnock and Loudoun |129.12
Kyle and Carrick |131.65
Monklands |175.72
Motherwell |154.17
Renfrew |147.98
Strathkelvin |125.58
Angus |113.99
Dundee |173.69
Perth and Kinross |126.69
<1> The per capita figures have been calculated
using the Registrar General for Scotland's mid-1992
estimates of total population.
Johnstone
Mr. McMaster : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will visit the town of Johnstone to evaluate the need for a generation strategy similar to that in place in Barrhead.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The method of selecting areas for regeneration initiatives is one of the issues raised in the consultation document "Progress in
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Partnership" which my right hon. Friend and I published on 4 October. We look forward to receiving responses by the deadline of 14 January 1994.Public Appointments
Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list each of the sources his Department uses for names from which to make appointments to non-departmental public bodies.
Mr. Lang : As can be seen from the current edition of "Public Bodies", copies of which are available in the Libraries of the House, I make appointments to more than 160 different non-departmental public bodies which differ widely in nature and remit. The sources of names for appointment are equally diverse. I am always pleased to receive names for public appointment from any source.
Civil Servants (Dismissal)
Mrs. Fyfe : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his policy on the grounds for summary dismissal of civil servants in each Department.
Mr. Lang [holding answer 25 November 1993] : It is Scottish Office policy to dismiss staff only after agreed internal procedures have been followed and, in serious disciplinary cases, after a full investigation of the circumstances has taken place. Where appropriate, staff may be suspended from duty while these investigations are being carried out.
PRIME MINISTER
Overseas Visits
Mr. Vaz : To ask the Prime Minister how many visits abroad he has made during 1993 ; and what was (a) the cost of each visit to public funds and (b) the purpose of each visit.
The Prime Minister : I have made 11 overseas visits involving 16 countries. The cost and purpose of each visit was as follows :
Destination |1993 |Purpose |Cost £
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India |23-28 January |Republic Day |}
|celebrations |}
Oman |28 January |Bilateral |} |179,512.00
Saudi Arabia |28 January |Bilateral |}
USA |23-25 February |Bilateral |46,696.00
Switzerland |5-6 April |Bilateral |} |7,246.00
Austria |6 April |Bilateral |}
France (Paris) |27-28 May |Bilateral |4,421.00
Denmark |20-22 June |European Council |11,690.00<1>
Japan (Tokyo) |7-9 July |G7 Economic |68,500.00<1>
|Summit
Sweden |11-13 August |Bilateral |31,724.00
(Stockholm)
Portugal |22-23 August |Bilateral |5,296.00
(Lisbon)
Japan |17-21 September |Bilateral |}
Malaysia |21-22 September |Bilateral |} |173,907.00
Monaco |23 September |Manchester |}
|2000 |}
Cyprus |21-25 October |CHOGM |43,873.00
Belgium |29 October |Special European |4,243.00
(Brussels) |Council
Germany |25 November |Bilateral |Not yet
(Bonn) |available
<1> Costs also include those of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
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