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maintenance grants paid to part-time students in each of the past 10 years in (a) cash terms and (b) real terms with 1979 = 100.
Mr. Jackson: This information is not collected centrally.
Mr. Andrew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the projected cost of maintenance grants to be paid to part-time students in each of the next five years.
Mr. Jackson: The information which would be required to provide such a projection is not collected centrally.
College Lecturers (Schoolteachers)
Mr. Andrew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what plans he has to encourage college lecturers to become school-teachers.
Mrs. Rumbold: Last October the Department published a discussion paper on the staffing implications of projected student numbers in LEA maintained FE colleges in England. That paper suggested that local education authorities should consider redeploying suitably qualified surplus FE lecturers to teach shortage subjects in schools. Under the proposed licensed teacher scheme, FE lecturers with two years' experience will become eligible for qualified teacher status after one year's service as a licensed teacher instead of two as will be the case generally.
Incentive Allowances
Mr. Win Griffiths: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Bridgend of 5 May, Official Report, column 256, that no further information is at present available, what further information he intends to collect in relation to awards of incentive allowances, for each school or financial year since 30 September 1987; when and by what means he intends to collect such further information; if he will estimate the date or dates of publication of such further information; and if he will make a statement.
Mrs. Rumbold: The database of teacher records will provide detailed information on an annual basis about the numbers of teachers in receipt of incentive allowances. The first such data, showing the position in March 1988, are likely to become available early next year.
Universities' Statistical Record
Mr. Andrew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he collects information from, or has access to, the Universities' Statistical Record.
Mr. Jackson: The Department has no direct access to the University Statistical Record. Given prior notice, the USR can on occasions supply information not available in published reports, although details of individual in- stitutions normally remain confidential.
CONS.
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
British Citizens Imprisoned Abroad
Mr. Wheeler: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will give the figures for
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each of the last five years for which records are available of the numbers of British citizens imprisoned abroad who returned to this country within that year.
Mr. Eggar: The information requested is not available.
Mr. Wheeler: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will state for the last year for which figures are available how many British citizens imprisoned abroad received (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four and (e) more than four visits from consular officials.
Mr. Eggar: The information requested is not readily available and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Wheeler: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in the Official Report all those consular posts which have a local benevolent fund or charity on which they can draw for buying extra food, soap, etc. for British citizens imprisoned abroad, stating against each (a) the total drawn for each of the last five years for which figures are available and (b) the total amount available from each source in this financial year.
Mr. Eggar: Many of our consular posts around the world have access to local benevolent funds. Such funds exist purely due to private donations. Since public funds are not involved we do not keep a central list. The funds also vary enormously in their extent and purpose as well as the degree to which consular posts may draw on them.
Lorrain Esme Osman
низ PROJUCOl Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the issue in Hong Kong on 30 November 1985 of a warrant for the arrest of Lorrain Esme Osman, and the quashing of the warrant by the Hong Kong Court of Appeal on 4 May 1989 on the grounds that it was vitiated by bias.
Mr. Eggar: These are matters for the relevant authorities in Hong Kong and for the courts here.
Mr. Alex Carlile: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations he has received from the Government of the Republic of Liberia in respect of Lorrain Esme Osman; whether Mr. Osman has diplomatic immunity; and if he will make a
statement.
Mr. Eggar: There has been an exchange of notes with the Liberian Government through its embassy in London about Mr. Osman's appointment as Liberian ambassador- at-large to the European Community and his status in the United Kingdom. It is for the courts to decide whether Mr. Osman has any diplomatic immunity, in accordance with the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964 and the facts presented
to them.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Gas Masks (Israel)
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Mr. John Marshall: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster why his Department is refusing an export licence to allow gas masks to be sold to Israel for purely defensive purposes.
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