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WRITTEN ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Friday 31 October 1980
“LEAD AND HEALTH"
Mr. Rooker asked the Prime Minister why the Department of the Environment has become responsible for having a re- sponse to "Lead and Health ", which was a report of a Department of Health and Socialt Security working party pulished in March of the current year, and of which the Secretary of State for Social Services wrote the foreword; and when such res- ponsibility was assumed.
The Prime Minister: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment is responsible for co-ordinat- ing Government action on environmental pollution. He is therefore taking the lead in the Government's overall review of policy on lead in the environment, in the light of the Lawther working party's assessment of the health evidence.
WARNOCK REPORT
Mr. Morgan asked the Prime Minister when the Government's reactions to the recommendations of the Warnock report will be made known.
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The Prime Minister: The Govern- ment's views were published in the White Papers "Special Needs in Education " (Cmnd 7996) and "Special Educational Needs in Scotland" (Cmnd 7991).
HOUSE OF COMMONS
Salary Increases
© Mr. Arthur Lewis asked the right hon. Member for Middlesbrough, as represent- ing the House of Commons Commission, if he will provide a full and comprehen- sive list of all workers for whom he is responsible within the Palace of West- minster who, additionally to hon. Mem- bers, have settled their salary or wage claims for 9.6 per cent. or less during the current year.
Mr. Arthur Bottomley: Three Officers of the House (the Clerk of the House, the Clerk Assistant and the Clerk of Committees) received salary increases in the current year of 9.6 per cent. or less. The increases were applied as the result
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FOREIGN & COMMONWEALTH
AFFAIRS
Continental Shelf
Dr. Edmund Marshall asked the Lord Privy Seal what was the outcome of the meeting held this month with the Gov- ernment of the Republic of Ireland con- cerning the delimitation of the continental shelf between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Mr. Luce: The meeting scheduled for October has been postponed and will now take place in Dublin on 1 December.
Vietnamese Refugees
Dr. Edmund Marshall asked the Lord Privy Seal how many Vietnamese refugees are still in Hong Kong.
Mr. Blaker: There were 30,530 Viet- namese refugees in Hong Kong on 29 October, of whom 288 had arrived in the preceding month.
NATIONAL FINANCE
Income Tax
Mr. Sproat asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what best approximate esti- mate he has made of the loss, each year, to the Treasury in tax revenue of cutting 10 per cent. off marginal rates of income tax, each year, for three years.
Mr. Peter Recs: "The full-year cost of reducing the income tax rates by 10 per cent. at 1980-81 income levels would be about £8.5 billion. The new rates would then be 20 per cent., 35 per cent., 40 per cent., 45 per cent. and 50 per cent. The cost of further reductions in later years would depend on incomes and allowances in those years.
Value Added Tax
Mr. Spearing asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if there is any EEC regu- lation that requires national legislation by the United Kingdom to impose value added tax charge on entry fees by amateur
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