122
Written Answers
County
6 NOVEMBER 1991
Number of
1980
1990
Holdings
Hampshire
1
79
Hereford and Worcestershire
43
79 43
Huniberside
102
102
Kent
3
101
85
Leicestershire
34
34
2
189
189
2
518
518
3
353
353
1
123
nil
3
204
204
491
491
1
nil
113
1
S
5
1
2
2
2
226
226
2
60
60
Lancashire
Lincolnshire
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Warwickshire
Wiltshire
Yorkshire (North)
Yorkshire (South)
Yorkshire (West)
Hectarage of agricultural land owned by the prison service but let to
County
Warwickshire
Surrey
Oxfordshire
tenants
Number of
1980
1990
Tenants
'(Tenancies not in existence in 1980)
Cash Limits
1
5.5
95.0 19.0 5.5
Sir John Wheeler: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he intends to make any changes to the 1991-92 cash limits within his responsibilities.
Mr. Kenneth Baker: The cash limit for class IX, vote 3 will be reduced by £365,000 from £891,317,000 to £890,952,000 to reflect transfers of provision to the Department of Education and Science for additional resource units for probation students at universities (£205,000) and to the Lord Chancellor's Department for training material for magistrates on the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (£160,000).
OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT
Aid Budget
Mr. McAllion: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the Government's spending on aid in 1990, expressed both in actual sum spent and as a percentage of gross national product; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Chalker: Official development assistance in 1990 was £1,490 million, which was 0.27 per cent. of gross national product. We plan the aid programme on financial years, so that figures based on calendar years may not reflect the planned level of expenditure. Our planning figure for 1991-92 as a proportion of estimated GNP is 0-31 per cent.
Cash Limits
Mr. Butler: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what changes have been made in the 1991-92 cash limit for expenditure by the Overseas Development Administration.
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Mrs. Chalker: Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the cash limit on the Overseas Aid Vote (class II vote 5) will be increased by £65,225,000 from £1,573,117,000 to £1,638,342,000. The increase provides for humanitarian relief responses in respect of Iraqi refugees, the African famine and the Bangladesh cyclone, and balance of payments support for India. It also takes account of two small transfers of resources in respect of eastern Europe involving the Department of Education and Science and the Department of Health. The running costs cash limit for the ODA has also been increased by £50,000 from £44,843,000 to £44,893,000. The increase is within the forecast outturn for the planning total included in the Chancellor's autumn statement today.
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Hong Kong
Mrs. Gorman: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the new obligations and undertakings contained in the recently agreed memorandum of understanding between the United Kingdom and Chinese Governments.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd: The details of the memorandum of understanding were placed in the Library of the House on the same day as my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary made a statement to the House on this subject.
Mrs. Gorman: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the autonomy of Hong Kong before and after 1997.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd: Hong Kong has in practice long enjoyed substantial autonomy in most areas, particularly in economic, commercial and financial matters. Under the joint declaration, from 1 July 1997 the Hong Kong special administrative region of the People's Republic of China will enjoy a high degree of autonomy except for foreign and defence affairs. It will be vested with executive, legislative and independent judicial power.
Cambodia
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on progress in Cambodia arising from the Paris peace agreement of 23 October.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd: I refer the honourable Member to the answer that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Exeter (Mr. Hannam) on 22 October. Since then, on 31 October, the UN Security Council has adopted Resolution 718 authorising the UN Secretary General to designate a Special representative for Cambodia and carry out preparatory work for the establishment of UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia.
Mr. Mariusz Kuziak
Sir Eldon Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs why Mariusz Kuziak, a Polish citizen, was denied an entry visa to spend a fortnight with his relatives in Bury St. Edmunds.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd: I will write to my hon. Friend as soon as possible.
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