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Written Answers
20 OCTOBER 1976
Unemployment (Building and Engineering Workers)
Mr. Wyn Roberts asked the Secretary of State for Wales how many building and civil engineering workers were un- employed in Wales in September 1976 compared with the same month in each of the preceding four years.
Mr. Golding: I have been asked to reply.
The following table shows the num- bers of people registered as unemployed in Wales who last worked in the con- struction industry. Industrial analyses are now made quarterly and the latest is for August 1976:
August 1972
Written Answers
476
Mr. Luard : There were 111 administra- tive officers on overseas terms of service at 1st October 1976. This represented 57 per cent. of the total number of administrative officers in the Hong Kong Government. The figures for each of the previous 10 years are necessarily detailed and are in the table below. The recruit- ment of expatriate officers is undertaken only when local candidates are not avail- able in sufficient numbers and, in certain categories, in order to maintain the special relationship with Britain.
Hong Kong: Overseas and Local Officers In THE ADMINIstrative Grades of THE CIVIL SERVICE
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1966
75
25
1967
76
24
9,455
1968
72
33
13,883
1969
70
40
15,182
1970
71
46
1971
67
50
1972
73
32
1973
84
65
1974
93
77
1975
104
79
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64
61
57
58
56
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111
85
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China
Mr. Wyn Roberts asked the Secretary of State for Wales what is the anticipated rate of decline in the secondary school population in Wales from 1979.
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Mr. Barry Jones: It is estimated that the number of children at maintained secondary schools in Wales aged between 11 and 15 at the beginning of the school year will decline by 22 per cent. between 1979 and 1989 and will rise by about 25 per cent. between 1989 and 1999. The estimates necessarily become more speculative for the later period. It is not possible to make meaningful esti- mates of the number of secondary school pupils staying on beyond the statutory school age.
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Hong Kong
6. Mr. Hal Miller asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many expatriate civil ser- vants there were in the administrative grades of the Hong Kong Government at 1st October 1976 compared with each of the 10 preceding years; and if he will make a Statement as to his policy ou expatriate recruitment for the colony.
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7. Mr. Kenneth Lewis asked the Secre- tary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs whether he will strengthen the trade attaché representation in Peking. China, at the United Kingdom embassy there.
Mr. Luard: There are no plans at present to strengthen our commercial staff in Peking, although its size is kept con- stantly under review.
India
21. Mrs. Wise asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he will seek to pay an official visit to India.
Mr. Luard: My right hon. Friend has no immediate plans to do so.
Southern Africa
23. Mr. Biggs-Davison asked the Sec- retary of State for Foreign and Common- wealth Affairs whether he will make a statement about the situation in Southern Africa.
Mr. Crosland : I hope to make a state- ment on this subject in today's debate.
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