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Written Answers
Planning Appeals
11 JANUARY 1977
Mr. David Price asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many planning appeals were received by his Department in each of the last 10 years; how many of these appeals were with drawn in each year; and how many were decided.
Mr. Guy Barnett: Following is the information requested:
Year
1967
1968 1969
1974 1975 1976
Number of appeals withdrawn
Total number of appeals decided
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Number of uppeula received 10,00 9,593 8,212 8,362 9.818 14,408 18.326 13,324 11,690
11,656
2,673 2,765 2,788 2,549 2.788 3,075 3.487 4.173 4,235
3,069
6,658 6,192 5,454 3,516 5,916 10,882 12.198 11,486 9,253
Mr. David Price asked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many planning_appeals were being processed by his Department on 31st December 1976; and how many of these appeals had waited longer than six months, 12 months, 18 months and two years, respec- tively, for his determination and decision.
Mr. Guy Barnett: 8,935 planning appeals were being processed on 31st December 1976; the information sought in the second part of the question is not available in the form requested, but the average periods between receipt and decision taken by appeals decided in December 1976 were as follows:
52 weeks where the appeal was decided by e Secretary of State following a local inquiry 12 per cent. of cases).
decided 36 weeks where the appeal was
written repre- by the Secretary of State on sentations (9 per cent, of cases),
28 weeks where the appeal was decided by an Inspector following a local inquiry (16 per cent. of cases).
22 weeks where the appeal was decided by written representations (6) inspector per cent of cases).
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FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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| wealth Alfairs what regulations governing the amount of overtune worked by young. persons have been in force in Hong Kong. and for how long they have been in force: what changes are proposed in those regulations, and by what date the Hong Kong Government expects to abolish overtime working by young persons.
Hong Kong (Overtime Regulations) Mr. Kenneth Clarke asked the Secre- tary of State for Foreign and Common-
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Mr. Luard : Amendments to the Hong Kong Factories and Industrial Under- fukings Regulations made in 1958 and put into effect in 1959 prohibited overtime working by young persons aged 14 and 15. The same Regulations have been amended on a number of occasions to control overtime working by young per- sons aged 16 and 17. As from 1st Junu- ary 1976 the maximum permissible hours of overtime for young persons in this age. group was 200 hours a year, but on 22nd December last year the Legislative Coun- cil approved the Factories and Indus- trial (Amendinent) (No. 3) Regulations 1976 whereby the maximum permissible hours of overtime are to be proчressively reduced by 50 hours a year, with effect from 1st January 1977. Overtime working by young persons in industrial employ- ment will be completely abolished by 1st January 1980.
Rhodesia
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Mr. Radice asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the Geneva Convention Rhodesia will be reconvened on 17th January.
Mr. Crosland: Since Mr. Richard's consultations in Africa are still continu- ing, it has become necessary to defer the reconvening of the Rhodesia conference in Geneva, which was originally planned' for 17th January. The conference partici- pants have been informed of this. Mr. Richard is pressing on with his consul- tations, and the conference will recon-' vene as soon as he has established a basis upon which it can meet with a good prospect of success.
ENERGY
Participation Agreements
Mr. Dempsey asked the Secretary of State for Energy whether he has reached
further participation agreement.
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