119
Written Answers
15 DECEMBER 1981
Written Answers
IZU
121
796.
21
69
154
369
100
128
100
1,101
72
61
543
211
District Authority
Kyle and Carrick Monklands
Motherwell
Renfrew
Strathkelvin
1976
LA
Private
1977
LA Private
1978
LA Private
1979. LA Private
237
1980
170001
LA Private
329
161
205
127
158
M
184
29
394
21
39
32
106
take
210
204
320
209
696
26
124
Maj
314
100
355
89
312
212
437
Afri
582
216
615
538
40
353
TAYSIDE
257
1,252
483
993
534
1,384
Angus
73
560
79
236
84 HK
265
N
196
289.
men
50
City of Dundee
124
332
278
164
83 Y at 340
82
109
Perth and Kinross
60
360
126
593
65
272
114
130
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ORKNEY ISLANDS
AREA
208
106
SHETLAND ISLANDS
AREA
236
135
2 23
29
55
DESK OFFICER 17
83
28
110
52
103
INDEX
PA
136
140
WESTERN ISLES
ISLANDS AREA
64
135
138
176
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151
Note:
Edinburgh figures represent building warrants issued.
Mr. Strang asked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many houses the Scottish Special Housing
Association started in Scotland in each of the last five
years.
Mr. Rifkind: The information requested is as follows:
Year
1977
1978
1979 1980
Number of new houses
started
1,631
1,174
1,046
1,511
Figures for the whole of 1981 are not yet available: 127 new houses were started in the first three-quarters. This reflects the moratorium which the association placed on the letting of new contracts from July 1980 to April 1981 to keep within expenditure limits, and also, to a lesser extent, a shift of the association's efforts from new building to rehabilitation and modernisation.
Sex Shops
Mr. Gordon Wilson asked the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he now intends to make legislative provision to enable local authorities to carry out the function of granting licences for the control of sex shops. Mr. Rifkind: This matter is presently under consideration.
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Hong Kong (Corruption Commission)
61. Sir Anthony Royle asked the Lord Privy Seal what is the total number of employees of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong; how many cases have been dealt with by the Commission in 1979, 1980 and 1981; and if he is satisfied with co- operation between the Independent Commission Against Corruption and Government Departments.
Mr. Humphrey Atkins: There are 1.125 employees in the Independent Commission Against Corruption. There were 1,031 cases in 1979, 861 in 1980 and 873 in 1981 up to 30 November.
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Co-operation between the commission and Government Departments is excellent.
Namibia
Mr. Murphy asked the Lord Privy Seal what he regards as the necessary confidence building measures in respect to the Five's plans for progress towards an independent Namibia.
Mr. Luce: The constitutional principles proposed by the Five as guidance for the Namibian constituent assembly are among confidence-building measures under consideration. Others to be put forward by the Five in the next phase are assurances of the impartiality of the transitional process and practical measures for the establishment of the United Nations transition assistance
group.
Armed Mercenaries
Mr. John Grant asked the Lord Privy Seal if he will raise at the United Nations the threat to small States of invasion by armed mercenaries, such as the recent attempted coup in the Seychelles, with a view to obtaining international action to prevent further actions of this kind.
Mr. Hurd: We are already participating in a committee which has been set up by the United Nations General Assembly to examine possible international solutions to the problem of mercenaries. In addition, the Security Council is seized of the question of the attempted coup in the Seychelles.
South African Members of Parliament (Visit)
Mr. McNamara asked the Lord Privy Seal what is the cost to public funds of the current visit of two South African Members of Parliament as
guests of his Department to the United Kingdom.
Mr. Luce: The cost to Her Majesty's Government of the visit of Mr. Samuel de Beer MP and Mr. Wynand Malan MP is expected to be £9,725.
As part of our general policy of encouraging change in South Africa through contact and persuasion, the Government sponsor visits to the United Kingdom by representatives of a wide cross-section of South African opinion of all races.
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