DONALD ANDERSON the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee was facing Tory demands to resign last night after he

DONALD ANDERSON, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, was facing Tory demands to resign last night after he admitted disclosing "certain aspects" of the Arms to Sierra Leone inquiry. Sixty-seven Labour MPs, including Frank Field and several other former ministers, voted against the Government. "The real story is not that disabled people are abusing the system but that the system is abusing them," Lord Morris said, as peers debated the committee stage of the Bill in the Lords. He added that the disabled regarded the cut of 50 per cent of any personal pension above pounds 50 as especially mean.The Government's 176 majority was slashed to 40 in the Commons rebellion. He said Tony Blair's claims that benefit fraud amounted to pounds 4bn a year were "entirely bogus" and had been dismissed by Baroness Hollis of Heigham, the Social Security minister in the Lords, as being "based on old information from the previous government".Disabled people were failing to claim benefits because they feared being branded as scroungers. "We believe the principle of the Bill is right," said a spokesman. Some of the rebel Labour peers who criticised the Bill during its committee stage last night in the Lords believe Mr Darling is digging in for a defeat in the Lords in the autumn, with the intention of using Labour's Commons majority to drive the Bill through.

Mr Darling has been individually meeting MPs who voted against the Bill in May to win them over."It is an admission of defeat in the Lords because he is clearly preparing for it to come back to the Commons," a Labour peer said. "He should back down now."The rebels, led by Lord Ashley of Stoke, the veteran Labour campaigner for the handicapped, were encouraged in their threats to knock out the two clauses by Labour MPs who voted against the Government in the Commons and are urging them not to bow to pressure from the whips.Lord Morris of Manchester, who became Labour's first minister for the disabled in 1974 and was the architect of invalidity benefit, was among the most outspoken critics of the Government's cuts, accusing it of "piling handicap upon handicap for thousands of severely disabled people". In May, the Government suffered its biggest backbench revolt of this Parliament, when more than 80 Labour MPs refused to support the Welfare Reform and Pensions Bill or voted against it. Mr Darling was refusing to give way last night. A coalition of Labour, Conservative and crossbench peers gave the Secretary of State for Social Security three months to make the concessions or they will knock out two of the Bill's key clauses.

ALISTAIR DARLING was warned last night by former Labour ministers that the Government will be defeated in the House of Lords unless he makes concessions on a Bill to cut payments of incapacity benefits. "British acts have made significant impacts overseas," said Geoff Hoon, minister for trade at the Foreign Office, at the report's launch.Leading article,Review, page 3. The total value of the music industry is expected to increase in the same period to pounds 6.7bn.Some of the jobs include those in record shops, but 42,000 Britons are employed as songwriters, composers or performers. About 130,000 full-time jobs are dependent on music in the UK and KPMG forecasts that this is to grow to more than 200,000 by 2007. In total, music boosts Britain's economy by pounds 3.2bn a year. Music products, from compact discs to musical instruments and live performances, account for 15 per cent of overseas sales, a figure exceeded in United Kingdom industry only by whisky sales and the manufacture of Formula 1 racing cars. The industry's value was revealed yesterday by the accountant KPMG, in the most detailed report on the business.

THE BRITISH music industry contributes as much to the nation's balance of payments as steel exports do, with overseas sales of more than pounds 1.3bn a year. It is being driven by increased consumer expenditure on luxury goods and much of it is being directed to an industry where Britain is the second biggest in the world.". Record companies made pounds 724m overseas in 1997 and overseas tours by British bands brought in pounds 108m."This is the first time the real value of the music industry has been fully known," said David Murrell, the chairman of KPMG's media department."The sector has grown by 30 to 50 per cent in the last five years and it is going to go on growing. The total value of the music industry is expected to increase in the same period to pounds 6.7bn."British acts have made significant impacts overseas," said Geoffrey Hoon, a Foreign Office minister.

"These include relative newcomers such as All Saints, Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers; but we also have a wealth of talent including Sting, Eric Clapton and Pink Floyd whose popularity remains high in many countries."All these acts have contributed to the UK's success overseas and as a result, the music industry contributes as much to this country's trade surplus as the steel industry."Britain had a trade surplus in musical products and services in 1997 of pounds 519m, thanks to overseas sales of pounds 1.3bn, compared with imported goods worth pounds 813m. About 130,000 full-time jobs are dependent on music in the UK and KPMG forecasts that this is to grow to more than 200,000 by 2007. In total, music boosts Britain's economy by pounds 3.2bn a year. Music products, from compact discs to musical instruments and live performances, account for 15 per cent of overseas sales, a figure exceeded in United Kingdom industry only by whisky sales and the manufacture of Formula 1 racing cars. The industry's value was revealed yesterday by the accountant KPMG, in the most detailed report on the business. THE BRITISH music industry contributes as much to the nation's balance of payments as steel exports do, with overseas sales of more than pounds 1.3bn a year. Fifty-one per cent of young women compared to 37 per cent of young men are likely to skip meals, neglect exercise, and drink and smoke heavily in pursuit of their career goals.While drinking levels for men are relatively stable, women's consumption of alcohol is on the increase.Helen Wilkinson, a member of the the independent thinktank Demos, which launched the report yesterday, said: "The desire and drive for success on male terms means that women are increasingly mimicking male dysfunctions particularly in relation to erratic and unhealthy eating patterns."There is an urgent need for a more sustainable model of success and women must break free of these dysfunctional and self-destructive patterns of behaviour by linking our notions of success and power, with healthy eating."A separate survey published yesterday showed that more men are seeking medical attention for a vice traditionally seen as the plight of the bored housewife - compulsive shopping.According to a report in the medical journal Addiction Today an increasing number of men are finding themselves in a spiral of debt because of their addiction.Chris Westwood, director of the Addiction Treatment Programme at a Bristol Hospital, which deals with compulsive shoppers, commented: "Marketing has increasingly targeted men to sell them more clothes, toiletries and some areas like cosmetics which they were previously excluded from."He said men could be secretive and added: "If the man is in charge of the family finances then it can go on undiscovered until there is a real problem with debt.".