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Year |Amounts in thousands|As a percentage of
|total CGT collected
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1979 |15,182 |0.51
1980 |3,591 |0.71
1981 |2,734 |0.60
1982 |4,868 |0.78
1983 |6,496 |1.01
1984 |5,998 |0.84
1985 |7,562 |0.93
1986 |10,064 |0.99
1987 |8,822 |0.79
1988 |12,680 |0.80
1989 |10,864 |0.47
1990 |12,002 |0.64
1991 |29,721 |1.58
1992 |57,836 |4.69
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the latest estimated level of uncollected schedule D tax, in figures and as a percentage, for each year since 1979.
Mr. Dorrell : The amounts of schedule D tax remitted or written off as irrecoverable since 1979 are as follows :
Year |Amounts in Thousands|As a percentage of
|total Schedule D
|collected
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1979 |N/A |N/A
1980 |33,081 |0.79
1981 |41,552 |0.75
1982 |52,763 |0.84
1983 |68,536 |1.04
1984 |91,229 |1.32
1985 |90,196 |1.18
1986 |124,297 |1.29
1987 |133,878 |1.88
1988 |252,424 |3.06
1989 |242,024 |2.53
1990 |254,989 |2.35
1991 |383,566 |3.17
1992 |703,422 |5.16
Mr. Matthew Taylor : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the latest estimated level of uncollected corporation tax, in figures and as a percentage, for each year since 1979.
Mr. Dorrell : The amounts of corporation tax remitted or written off as irrecoverable since 1979 are as follows :
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Year |Amounts in Thousands|As a percentage of
|total Corporation
|tax collected
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1979 |15,182 |0.50
1980 |16,214 |0.49
1981 |20,688 |0.70
1982 |34,396 |0.89
1983 |40,912 |0.11
1984 |58,051 |1.23
1985 |75,342 |1.27
1986 |91,365 |1.11
1987 |92,830 |0.93
1988 |225,597 |1.92
1989 |151,368 |1.05
1990 |184,725 |1.17
1991 |320,929 |2.09
1992 |542,233 |4.64
Tax Relief (Domestic Maintenance Work)
Mr. Nicholas Winterton : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent representations he has received concerning the possibility of allowing tax relief against VAT-receipted invoices for domestic maintenance and extension work.
Mr. Dorrell : We have received no recent representations on this subject, although the idea has occasionally been put forward in the past. The Government's policy is to widen the tax base by reducing rather than extending reliefs. This has enabled us to reduce income tax rates for all taxpayers.
Mr. Nicholas Winterton : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Romford (Sir M. Neubert) of 4 February, Official Report, column 299, if he will now make it his policy to estimate the extent of the black market in the construction industry and the annual cost to the Exchequer of lost revenue through tax evasion in that industry.
Mr. Dorrell : No. It is not possible to make an accurate estimate of the revenue effects of tax evasion.
Non-domicile Taxpayers
Mr. Byers : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individuals, for each year since 1979, enjoyed non-domicile tax status ; and what estimate he has made for each year of the revenue lost to the Exchequer through the availability of this status.
Mr. Dorrell : I regret that this information is not available.
Income Tax
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many cases of evasion of payments of (a) income tax and (b) other tax evasion have been discovered in each of the last five years ; and what has been the value of the revenue recovered.
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Mr. Dorrell : The information requested is as follows :
|Income tax |Other investigations|Yield from
|investigations |counter-evasion
|work (£ million)
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1988-89 |52,894 |12,032 |706
1989-90 |57,997 |12,551 |933
1990-91 |61,755 |13,219 |1,091
1991-92 |59,993 |14,421 |1,324
1992-93 |55,611 |12,952 |1,361
Foreign-owned Firms
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what information he has on the percentage of United Kingdom manufacturing output accounted for by foreign-owned firms in each year since 1979.
Mr. Nelson : The information on manufacturing output including that for foreign-owned businesses is contained in "Business Monitor PA 1002, Report on the Census of Production, Summary Volume". Copies of this volume up to 1990, the last year for which figures are available, can be obtained from the Library of the House.
Valuation Office
Mr. Steen : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many staff are employed in the Valuation Office and at what cost to public funds ; when notices were issued requesting supply of information in respect of non -domestic rating ; when these notices were issued ; and at what cost.
Mr. Nelson : The average number of staff employed in the Valuation Office in the 1992-93 financial year was 5,806 at a cost of £121,558, 000.
Notices requesting supply of information in respect of non-domestic rating were issued in a phased programme spread over April to June 1993. The cost of issuing the notices will amount to approximately £500,000.
Nationalised Industries
Mr. Battle : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the total value of the receipts accrued from the sale of nationalised industries for each year since 1979.
Mr. Dorrell : Privatisation proceeds--including from the sale of nationalised industries--from 1979-80 to 1992-93 were about £50 billion, shown in the table by year.
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Privatisation proceeds
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Mr. Morley:To ask the Chairman of the Catering Committee what proposals he has
to engage a cat for rodent control duties in the Pugin Room.
Palace of Westminster Terrace
Mr. Steen : To ask the Chairman of the Administration Committee on what terms the press are permitted access to the Terrace of the Palace of Westminster within the jurisdiction of the House of Commons.
Mr. Michael J. Martin : In accordance with a decision of the Catering Sub-Committee of the former Services Committee and regulations now determined by the Catering Committee, certain members of the Press Gallery may use the Terrace Pavilion and Bar. Parliamentary Lobby correspondents and sketch writers are also allowed access to the southern part of the House of Commons Terrace but are not allowed to entertain guests there.
Mr. Steen : To ask the Chairman of the Administration Committee what restrictions exist as to who may be admitted to the Terrace of the Palace of Westminster within the jurisdiction of the House of Commons ; and how these are monitored and enforced.
Mr. Michael J. Martin : On sitting days throughout the year, Members and Officers of the House may take up to six guests on to the southern part of the House of Commons Terrace from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm or the rising of the House, whichever is the later.
On sitting Mondays to Thursdays between 10.00 am and 1.00 pm ; on sitting Fridays from the rising of the House to 6.00 pm--except during the period from 1 May to the adjournment of the House for the summer recess--Members and Officers of the House may entertain up to 16 guests on the Terrace.
A Peer or Member may give interviews on the Terrace which may involve handheld filming equipment. On sitting days these interviews should be brought to an end by 12 noon ; on non-sitting days they should be completed by 5.30 pm. Visitors may take photographs on the Terrace, but not while either House is sitting.
No guest may be left unattended for more than 15 minutes nor may they be taken to the two northern parts of the Terrace one of which is reserved for the use of Members and Officers of the House alone, and the other for the sole use of the Speaker as she decides. Staff of the House who are Senior or Higher Executive Officers and Parliamentary Lobby correspondents on a list maintained by the Serjeant at Arms may use the southern part of the House of Commons Terrace, but may not take visitors there.
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
World Service Television
Mr. Mullin : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the role Mr. Li Ka Shing has played in the setting up of World Service Television.
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Mr. Douglas Hogg : World service television was set up in 1991 as a commercial subsidiary of the BBC with no outside investors. It has since made commercial agreements for the provision of the service in various parts of the world, including one with Hutchvision of Hong Kong in which Mr. Li Ka Shing has an interest.
Non-proliferation Treaty
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will place in the Library all public statements made by participants at the first meeting of the preparatory committee for the 1995 non-proliferation treaty conference of which his Department has copies, including his Department's translations, where appropriate.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Copies of participants' statements at this meeting have been deposited in the Library of the House, as requested.
Sudan
Mr. Mullin : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent representations he has made to the Government of Sudan about human rights in that country.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : Such representations have been made on many occasions, most recently last week by a European Community Troika ministerial mission, in which the United Kingdom was represented.
Hong Kong Airport
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the latest discussions which have taken place on the future of the Hong Kong airport.
Mr. Goodlad : Meetings with the Chinese side in the airport committee resumed this month. Agreement was reached on the letting of the western harbour crossing franchise, one of the airport core projects. Some progress was also made on the overall financing arrangements for the airport, but further discussions will be required. The next meeting of the airport committee will be held on 30 June.
China
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his latest assessment of the extent of religious persecution in the people's republic of China ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Goodlad : We continue to receive reports, often via non- governmental organisations, of human rights abuses in China including the persecution of religious believers. This matter is covered in chapter 4 of the report of the delegation of my right hon. noble and learned Friend Lord Howe, which is being published today. We regularly raise human rights with the Chinese authorities and urge them to adhere to international standards of behaviour.
Mr. Parry : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the latest situation regarding human rights in China.
Mr. Goodlad : We remain deeply concerned by
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continuing reports of human rights abuses in China. Ministers have made our concerns clear to the Chinese at a high level both in public and in private on many occasions. The report of the delegation led by my right hon. noble and learned Friend, Lord Howe, which visited China last December, is being published today, and copies have been placed in the Library of the House.Mr. Whittingdale : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether the report on Lord Howe's visit to China is complete ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Goodlad : The report on my right hon. noble and learned Friend Lord Howe's visit to China was published on 29 June. Copies have been deposited in the Library of both Houses and are available through Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
I should, on behalf of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, like to thank my right hon. noble and learned Friend and his colleagues, for all their efforts in undertaking this important visit and in producing such a comprehensive and constructive document. Human rights abuses in China, including Tibet, are of continuing conern to Members of the House and to the public. We hope that the Chinese authorities will study the report carefully and give it positive consideration. We, for our part, will consider urgently how to follow up those recommendations which involve action by Her Majesty's Government.
Market Testing
Mr. Flynn : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how much his Department spent on legal advice regarding the implications of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 for the market-testing programme.
Mr. Goodlad : The diplomatic wing of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has spent £438.28 on legal advice from the Treasury Solicitors on the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 since 1 April 1992. The aid wing has spent nothing so far.
Subsidiarity
Mr. Morley : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the EC matters which it was agreed, in connection with the subsidiarity principle, should continue to be dealt with at the EC level rather than the national level, at the meeting between the British and French Governments of 15 June.
Mr. Heathcoat-Amory : The meeting between the United Kingdom and French Governments on 15 June discussed ways to take forward implementation of the subsidiarity principle. This included work to identify existing legislation for amendment or repeal, to strengthen the Commission's report on subsidiarity which it will present at the Brussels European Council in December. There was no specific discussion between the two Governments about which European Community matters should continue to be dealt with at Community level.
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Immigration
Mr. Whittingdale : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which diplomatic posts abroad are designated to accept entry clearance applications.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd : The list of posts designated to accept entry clearance applications is as follows :
Entry Clearance Issuing Posts
Abidjan
Abu Dhabi
Accra
Addis Ababa
Algiers
Amman
Amsterdam
Ankara
Antananarivo
Ascension Island
Athens
Atlanta
Auckland
Bahrain
Bandar Seri Begawan
Bangkok
Banjul
Beirut
Belgrade
Belmopan
Berne
Bogota
Bombay
Bonn
Brasilia
Bridgetown
Brussels
Bucharest
Budapest
Buenos Aries
Cairo
Calcutta
Canberra
Cape Town
Caracas
Casablanca
Chicago
Colombo
Copenhagen
Dakar
Damascus
Dar es Salaam
Dhaka
Doha
Douala
Dubai
Dublin
Dusseldorf
Florence
Freetown
Gaborone
Geneva
Georgetown
Gibraltar
Guatemala City
Hamilton
Hanoi
Harare
Havana
Helsinki
Holy See
Hong Kong
Honiara
Houston
Islamabad
Istanbul
Jakarta
Jedda
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
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