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Written Answers
9 JUNE 1975
The number of places available at skillcentres for each occupational group in which training is given is as follows: Training places available
Occupational group Catering, cleaning, hair- dressing and other personal service Making and repairing, excluding metal and electrical
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at March 1975 Kirkby Merseyside
25
12
Processing, making, re-
pairing and related
(metal and electrical)
106
599
Construction, mining and
related not identified
elsewhere
28
189
134
825
In both tables the figures given for Kirkby are included in the figures for Merseyside.
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH
AFFAIRS
Trade Promotion
61. Mr. Stonehouse asked the Secre- tary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs whether he is satisfied with the implementation of the recommenda- tions of the Duncan Report; and what further measures he intends to implement to secure the more efficient use of diplo- matic and consular staff in foreign and Commonwealth countries and their increased application to the promotion of British trade.
Mr. Ennals: Yes. British diplomatic and consular missions are regularly reviewed to ensure the efficient use of our manpower in support of overseas objec- tives, including the promotion of British trade.
Hong Kong
Sir P. Bryan asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he is satisfied that the indepen- dent commission against corruption in Hong Kong is being given the necessary resources in finance and manpower to deal with its task.
Mr. Ennals: Yes.
Notwithstanding the present restrictions on governmental expenditure in Hong Kong, financial pro- vision for the commission in the financial
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year 1975-76 is 42 per cent. higher than in 1974-75. The commission's staff, which at present numbers 480, will be increased to over 700 by the end of this financial year.
Departmental Staff
Mr. Cormack asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many clerical and other white collar workers were employed in his Department on 1st January 1973, 1st January 1974 and 1st January 1975, respectively.
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Mr. Ennals: The figures, which relate to the non-industrial grades, are as follows:
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1st January 1973 1st January 1974 1st January 1975
10,191
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...
9,955
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10,020
Cyprus
Mr. Rossi asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy that no arms will be supplied for use in the Turkish occupied area of Cyprus by. Turkish Cypriots or others; and how many sales of this nature have taken place since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Mr. Hattersley: It is not our policy to supply arms for use in the Turkish- occupied area of Cyprus. My right hon. Friend set out Her Majesty's Govern- ment's position on the question of arms sales to Turkey in the House on 21st May.
Australia (Immigration)
Mr. Stonehouse asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what estimate he has made of the number of United Kingdom citizens per- manently resident in Australia; and if he will take steps to improve the services of the High Commission in dealing with individual anomalies under the Australian
immigration regulations which adversely affect persons who were originally United Kingdom citizens.
Mr. Ennals: About 1 million of the present Australian population were born in the United Kingdom; many of them now have citizenship of both countries. No estimate is available of United Kingdom citizens by descent permanently resident