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Mr. Mackinlay : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if a Minister from his Department will meet with representatives of the Atomic Energy Authority Police Federation to discuss the ramifications of (a) the Sheehy report, (b) the White Paper on police and (c) matters of general concern to federation members which are not operational matters reserved for the chief constable.
Mr. Eggar : No. Regular meetings take place between representatives of the Atomic Energy Police Federation and AEA management through the Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary joint consultative committee to discuss matters affecting the force.
Mr. Mackinlay : To ask the President of the Board of Trade to what extent Home Office police regulations are applied to members of the Atomic Energy Authority police.
Mr. Eggar : Home Office regulations do not apply to members of the Atomic Energy Authority Constabulary (AEAC). Their conditions of service are governed by the UKAEA staff conditions memoranda. However, these include many special provisions which apply only to members of the constabulary and which are based on the Home Office police regulations. Broadly, these provisions cover such matters as pay and allowances, duty, overtime, leave, housing, uniform and equipment.
Clean Coal Technology
Ms Walley : To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will give details of research (a) current and (b) planned to begin within the next 12 months in respect of clean coal technology ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Eggar : Over 80 projects with a value of £144 million are currently under way in my Department's coal research and development programme. My Department is
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contributing £28 million to this project portfolio. Over the next 12 months we expect to initiate at least 30 projects on clean coal technology involving British Coal, United Kingdom industry, universities and overseas organisations such as the European Community and United States Department of Energy. Since the end of May of this year we have announced the start of 34 projects committing £7.2 million of Government funding.To ensure there is adequate support for R and D on clean coal technology the Government announced in the coal White Paper increased support for coal R and D rising from approximately £3 million per annum to £7 million per annum for the period 1993-94 to 1995-96. This will enable research in developing advanced power generation technology and other coal science activities to continue at the Coal Research Establishment, universities and in industry and help ensure that full advantage can be taken of international collaboration.
Companies House
Mr. Morgan : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what proposals he has to (a) publish and (b) consult on the study by SRU Ltd. on the future of Companies House ; what assessment he has made on the impact on employment in Wales of any major alteration in the status of Companies House itself as the primary registrar of companies.
Mr. Neil Hamilton : The SRU Ltd. report represents advice to Ministers, and I have no plans to publish it at present. During the preparation of the report, there was consultation on a number of issues with Companies House staff and with users of the registry's services, and there will be further consultation when we come to a view on the options before us.
Until a clear picture emerges of what Companies House would look like, no accurate assessment can be made of the impact on employment.
Timeshares
Mr. Pickthall : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what action he has taken on the Office of Fair Trading report on timeshare of June 1990 ; and if he proposes to press for EC regulations on the subject.
Mr. McLoughlin : The Timeshare Act 1992 provides a mandatory cooling -off period for timeshare contracts entered into in the United Kingdom or under United Kingdom law.
The United Kingdom Government consider that regulation at Community level is also required. The EC Commission submitted a draft timeshare directive to the Council of Ministers in July 1992. Negotiation of the draft directive is continuing and a common position is hoped for in the near future.
Trade Regulation
Mr. Spearing : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what is the nature of the evidence he has received concerning statutory regulation of trade, manufacture, or commerce that constitutes obstruction to their success ; and what is the purpose of each respective instrument currently available to him.
Mr. Neil Hamilton : A wide variety of evidence on the impact of regulation on business has been received from a
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number of sources in business, local authorities, pressure groups and academia. The purpose and effect of all regulatory instruments having an impact on business are currently being examined as part of the Government-wide review of all such regulation. The review aims to establish whether regulation is achieving what it was intended to and how necessary protections can be assured in a way that is least obstructive to trade and industry.Gas-fired Power Stations
Mr. Spearing : To ask the President of the Board of Trade what is the approximate base load in thermal units of gas he expects to be generated by gas-burning electricity power stations from 1994 onward, the consequential depletion rate of known gas reserves in percentage of those known supplies, and the period he expects such supplies to be available.
Mr. Eggar : The Government's coal review, published in March 1993 as Cm 2235 "The Prospects for Coal", contains a range of estimates of electricity generation from gas-fired power stations over the period 1993- 94 to 1997-98 (table 11.3). The Department's Energy Paper No. 59 contains projections of the use of gas in power stations over a longer period up to 2020 (table 4.4). Drawing on these projections, the coal review contains estimates of the period over which United Kingdom gas reserves might meet overall gas demand (paras 7.12 to 7.14).
WALES
National Health Service Provider Units
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what assessment he has made of the numbers of provider units which have not made price lists for treatments available to purchaser units for the present financial year ; what sanctions against late provision of treatment price lists he has authorised ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : The provision of contract price lists is a matter for commissioners and providers within a timetable agreed for the national health service in Wales as a whole.
Asbestos
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what information he has in regard to the areas of land in Wales contaminated by asbestos wastes ; what representations he has received from owners of small businesses or domestic properties erected on land now found to be contaminated by asbestos ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : The 1988 Welsh Office survey of contaminated land in Wales identified three former asbestos waste tips covering, in total, 3.5 hectares. Remedial work has already been carried out at two of these sites.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales has received no representations from owners of small businesses or domestic properties.
Building regulations require precautions to be taken to avoid danger to health and safety caused by substances found on, or in, the ground to be covered by buildings.
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Ophthalmology
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what were (i) the average waiting times and (ii) the year end waiting list for (a) in- patient and (b) out-patient treatment in ophthalmology for each health authority and for Wales in each year since 1985.
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Mr. Gwilym Jones : The available information is given in the following tables, which relate to hospital providers in each area. For in- patients median waiting times are available and for out-patients the notional time to clear the out-patient waiting list is given. Further information is available from the Welsh Hospital Waiting List Bulletin 1993 No. 2, a copy of which is available in the Library of the House.
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Median waiting time (days) for in-patients admitted from the waiting list during the calendar year<1>
|1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990 |<2>1991-92
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Clwyd |80 |63 |49 |46 |56 |55 |114
East Dyfed |34 |38 |43 |85 |83 |158 |<4>-
Gwent |196 |124 |97 |117 |155 |203 |<4>-
Gwynedd |65 |58 |47 |66 |82 |97 |86
Mid Glamorgan |39 |76 |34 |47 |53 |56 |48
Pembrokeshire |(26) |(33) |(29) |(36) |(33) |(36) |126
Powys<3> |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
South Glamorgan |77 |86 |92 |111 |112 |106 |129
West Glamorgan |167 |170 |121 |192 |213 |135 |<4>-
Wales |71 |75 |51 |72 |77 |89 |94
<1> For patients admitted from the waiting list during the calendar year. A median waiting time is such
that approximately half the patients waited less than this time to be admitted and half waited longer;
median waiting times based on fewer than 50 cases are given in parentheses.
<2> A new information system for collation of hospital activity data was introduced from 1 April 1991.
Figures for 1991-92 financial year are therefore not directly comparable with those for earlier years.
Only districts for which reliable information has been received from hospitals have been included for
1991-92.
<3> There are no in-patient ophthalmology services provided by hospitals in Powys.
<4> Denotes not available.
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Notional time (days) to clear out-patient waiting list at 31
March
|1985|1986|1987|1988|1989|1990|1991|1992|1993
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Clwyd |30 |61 |54 |76 |71 |52 |81 |80 |43
East Dyfed |54 |40 |24 |56 |28 |35 |54 |69 |52
Gwent |46 |58 |19 |37 |42 |27 |20 |47 |54
Gwynedd |41 |73 |44 |64 |109 |57 |50 |65 |102
Mid Glamorgan |163 |122 |101 |74 |119 |77 |67 |93 |98
Pembrokeshire |18 |15 |19 |20 |24 |22 |32 |78 |92
Powys |31 |49 |45 |45 |105 |117 |146 |50 |120
South Glamorgan |31 |18 |33 |38 |68 |68 |84 |129 |167
West Glamorgan |215 |164 |103 |125 |92 |37 |82 |203 |208
Wales |74 |70 |50 |62 |73 |51 |62 |94 |100
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The notional time to clear a waiting list is calculated by dividing the total waiting list at 31 March each year by the average daily number of new out-patients seen during the previous 12 months.Column 159
Provider Based Waiting Lists as at 31 March
|1985 |1986 |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990 |1991 |1992 |1993
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In-patients:
Clwyd |744 |425 |260 |284 |356 |429 |626 |907 |1,126
East Dyfed |201 |181 |158 |418 |674 |1,080 |1,738 |1,370 |1,016
Gwent |746 |659 |572 |767 |868 |1,307 |1,081 |1,196 |1,247
Gwynedd |90 |181 |251 |390 |611 |654 |568 |633 |500
Mid Glamorgan |548 |718 |510 |359 |397 |397 |587 |617 |996
Pembrokeshire |- |- |- |- |- |6 |17 |6 |-
Powys<1> |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |-
South Glamorgan |372 |421 |399 |552 |633 |550 |769 |875 |641
West Glamorgan |382 |512 |624 |738 |964 |1,190 |1,382 |902 |842
Wales |3,083 |3,097 |2,774 |3,508 |4,503 |5,613 |6,768 |6,506 |6,368
Out-patients:
Clwyd |421 |790 |728 |1,074 |1,043 |753 |1,114 |1,255 |846
East Dyfed |503 |399 |272 |606 |360 |440 |625 |950 |810
Gwent |858 |1,113 |386 |662 |864 |620 |451 |1,081 |1,309
Gwynedd |332 |616 |452 |711 |1,302 |646 |596 |648 |1,010
Mid Glamorgan |1,979 |1,590 |1,302 |1,098 |1,787 |1,569 |1,371 |1,928 |2,203
Pembrokeshire |44 |39 |62 |75 |84 |96 |146 |394 |487
Powys |47 |73 |76 |72 |186 |243 |297 |108 |239
South Glamorgan |660 |383 |739 |925 |1,523 |1,564 |1,896 |2,440 |3,440
West Glamorgan |2,533 |2,142 |1,392 |1,766 |1,377 |621 |1,195 |2,624 |3,263
Wales |7,377 |7,145 |5,409 |6,989 |8,526 |6,552 |7,691 |11,428|13,607
<1> There are no in-patient ophthalmology services provided by hospitals in Powys.
Drawing Office
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what consultations he has had with staff in the Welsh Office Drawing Office in relation to market testing in-house bids, the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 and management reviews of the Drawing Office operation.
Mr. Redwood : My officials have had substantial consultations both with staff and their trade union side representatives about these issues.
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on public access to the central register of air photography for Wales following the market-testing exercise in respect of the Welsh Office Drawing Office.
Mr. Redwood : The central register of air photography for Wales is not included in the market test of the Drawing Office and public access to the register is not affected.
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what consultations he has had with contractors and their representative organisations in relation to the application of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981 to private contractors tendering for the Welsh Office Drawing Office functions via the market-testing procedure ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the tender specifications for the market testing of the Welsh Office Drawing Office.
Mr. Redwood : The tender specifications will be issued to those invited to bid, including the in-house team, in the near future.
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the future location of Welsh Office land use records in the light of the market-testing procedure for the Drawing Office.
Mr. Redwood : The land use records unit is not included in the market test of the Drawing Office.
Urban Safety Management
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what representations he has received in relation to the designation of the canton urban safety management study as a pilot urban safety management scheme for Wales.
Sir Wyn Roberts : South Glamorgan county council has submitted a proposal and my right hon. Friend has received the hon. Member's letter of support of 20 September.
Cardiff Bay
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what communications he has received from the Wales regional office of the National Rivers Authority with respect to the classification of the proposed impoundment
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at Cardiff bay as a sensitive water in the at risk of eutrophication category, under the urban waste water directive of the European Community ; and if he will make a statement.Mr. Gwilym Jones : The National Rivers Authority has yet to submit to my right hon. Friend its proposed list of candidate sensitive areas for Wales in connection with the implementation of the EC urban waste water treatment directive. The NRA has provided its current working list of candidate eutrophic sensitive areas which includes Cardiff bay, assuming the barrage is constructed. A copy of the list has been placed in the Library of the House pursuant to the reply my hon. Friend the Minister for the the Environment and Countryside gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Brighton, Kemptown (Mr. Bowden) on 27 July, column 905 .
Wales Engineering Centre
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the Wales engineering centre proposal ; what consultations he has undertaken ; and if he will place a copy of the Brodie report in the Library.
Mr. Redwood : The initiative to establish the Engineering Centre for Wales was taken in response to the need to raise the image and status of science, engineering and technology and to create awareness of the important contribution these subjects make to wealth creation. It is being driven forward by the Engineering Council, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Welsh Office and the Welsh Development Agency.
At an early stage, the views of about 100 representatives of industry, academia, various agencies and professional institutions were sought at a workshop held in March 1992. Since then, the views of the centre's key customers have continually been canvassed for consideration in the planning process.
I have arranged for a copy of my Department's engineering skills consultation paper to be placed in the Library of the House.
Welsh Church Act Funds
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what consultations he has had in relation to the administration of Welsh Church Act funds in the light of his local government reorganisation proposals ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Redwood : I have consulted the two local authority associations and the Church in Wales. The Wales Council for Voluntary Action has submitted a proposal about the future of the funds : I have yet to reach a decision on this.
Radioactive Sulphur, Wylfa
Mr. Llew Smith : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on the leak of radioactive sulphur 35 from the Wylfa nuclear plant on 31 July and 1 August.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : Sulphur-35 was released to the atmosphere on 2 August 1993 during shutdown of reactor 1 following equipment failure during refuelling on 31 July. The release was in excess of the weekly authorised limit and was graded as a category 1 incident on the international nuclear event scale--anomaly beyond the authorised operating regime.
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The authorising departments considered the release to have resulted in negligible off-site consequences and monitoring of foodstuffs found no activity above European Commission maximum permitted levels. The authorising departments are conducting an extensive investigation into the incident.Wrexham Maelor Hospital
Dr. Marek : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give details of the source and scope of the fund that is providing the expenditure for a revolving door at the Wrexham Maelor hospital.
Mr. Gwilym Jones : The revolving door at Wrexham Maelor hospital is included within the expansion of the hospital currently under way, which is funded from the major capital building programme for hospital and community health services.
Training and Enterprise Councils
Mr. Morgan : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what consultations he has had with the chairman of the West Wales training and enterprise council in relation to (a) the deadline for publication of all TEC accounts and (b) the latest estimate for the publication date of the 1992-93 accounts for West Wales TEC.
Sir Wyn Roberts : My officials wrote to all TECs on 24 June 1993 to remind them of their contractual obligations under the TEC operating agreement for the submission of annual reports and audited accounts. This letter was subsequently followed up informally by officials. A copy of the TEC's 1992-93 annual accounts is available in the Library of the House.
SOCIAL SECURITY
Family Credit
3. Mr. Barry Porter : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the annual spending on family credit ; and what was the spending on family income supplement in 1979.
Mr. Burt : Family credit expenditure for 1992-93 was £864 million. This is 13 times more in real terms than the £24 million spent on family income supplement in 1978-79.
Fraud
7. Mr. Heald : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what progress his Department has taken to reduce the level of fraudulent claims for social security benefits.
Mr. Lilley : Record fraud savings of £558 million were made last year when the Benefits Agency caught over 270,000 people cheating the system. Through a range of measures already introduced or planned for the future we are cracking down on opportunities for fraud.
19. Mr. Clifton-Brown : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what extra investment in anti-fraud work his Department is making over preceding years.
21. Mr. Milligan : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what extra investment in anti-fraud work his Department is making.
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Mr. Burt : To help step up the fight against fraud we have allocated an extra £10 million to the Benefits Agency this year, to be continued in succeeding years. We have also introduced new incentives to encourage local authorities to crack down on housing benefit and council tax benefit fraud.
Pensioners (Incomes)
12. Mr. Lewis : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what percentage of pensioner households had an income below half of the contemporary average in 1990-91.
Mr. Hague : In 1990-91, an estimated 34 per cent. of pensioners had income below half the national average before housing costs ; and estimated 37 per cent. after housing costs.
16. Mr. Lidington : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what proportion of pensioners have some form of second income to add to the basic state pension.
Mr. Hague : Eighty-five per cent. of pensioner units had income on top of state benefits in 1990-91, the latest year for which information is available. State benefits include both basic state pension and income- related benefits.
Benefits
Mr. Scott : Through my hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Security's Mais lecture in June and "The Growth of Social Security" published in July we have fuelled a widespread debate on the British social security system. In due course, we will put forward specific proposals for reform. These will be subject to extensive debate in Parliament and elsewhere.
Mr. Milburn : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the number of recipients of (a) housing benefit, (b) income support, (c) family credit and (d) invalidity benefit by region and the percentage of the eligible regional population receiving this benefit in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Mr. Burt [holding answer 22 July 1993] : I wrote to the hon. Member on 24 August 1993. The information is as follows :
Pursuant to my reply of 22 July in which I said I would let you have such information as is available. I am now pleased to be in a position to give you a reply.
Information on the eligible population for each benefit on a regional basis is not available. Such information as is available is in the tables attached.
Housing Benefit Recipients without Income Support (000) Region/year |1990 |1991 |1992 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Northern |171 |151 |140 Yorkshire and Humberside |143 |126 |158 East Midlands |104 |99 |117 East Anglia |50 |53 |59 South East |445 |451 |458 South West |118 |107 |112 South Midlands |91 |181 |181 North West |260 |194 |182 Scotland |238 |239 |237 Wales |89 |84 |86 Great Britain |1,709 |1,685 |1,730
Income Support Recipients (000) Region/year |1990 |1991 |1992 -------------------------------------------------------------- North Eastern |674 |688 |753 London North |638 |735 |891 South Western |274 |310 |357 Wales |248 |257 |287 Midlands |665 |699 |800 North Western |643 |669 |731 Scotland |481 |487 |519 London South |558 |641 |749 Great Britain |4,180 |4,487 |5,088
Family Credit Recipients (000) Region/Year |1990 |1991 |1992 -------------------------------------------------------------- North Eastern |59 |63 |82 London North |35 |38 |52 South Western |26 |28 |37 Wales |22 |22 |29 Midlands |59 |66 |84 North Western |56 |58 |74 Scotland |40 |43 |54 London South |29 |32 |45 Great Britain |327 |350 |457
Invalidity Benefit Recipients(000) Region/Year |1989 |1990 |1991 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Northern |110 |117 |126 Yorkshire and Humberside |107 |118 |125 East Midlands |61 |66 |74 East Anglia |24 |26 |29 South East |192 |205 |219 South Western |60 |66 |72 West Midlands |90 |97 |106 North Western |185 |200 |220 Scotland |158 |169 |181 Wales |132 |137 |147 Overseas |7 |7 |7 Great Britain |1,126 |1,209 |1,306 Sources: Housing Benefit/Community Charge Benefit annual 1 per cent. sample, May 1990-1992. Income Support Statistics Annual Enquiry, May 1990-1992. Family Credit 5 per cent. sample of awards, October 1990-1992. Invalidity Benefit 1 per cent. sample of claimants, April 1989, March 1990-1991 Notes: 1. All figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand. 2. The regions given for Income Support and Family Credit are the Social Security Administrative Regions used by the Department prior to 1988. The regions given for Housing Benefit and Invalidity Benefit are the Standard Statistical Regions. 3. Figures are given for each benefit. People receiving one benefit may also receive one or more of the others. 4. Figures come from "Point in time" surveys carried out on different dates; care should be taken in comparing figures between benefits. 5. Invalidity Benefit figure includes overseas recipients. 6. Figures for the eligible regional population for each benefit are not available.
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Goode Report
18. Mr. Heppell : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make a statement about the findings of the Goode committee report on occupational pensions.
Mr. Hague : The Government will be giving careful consideration to the committee's detailed recommendations.
Child Support Agency
20. Mr. Connarty : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what assessment he has made of the first three months operation of the Child Support Agency ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Burt : The Child Support Agency is a new business operating under new legislation.
In its first three months of operation the agency issued 177,000 maintenance application forms to parents with care of children, sent 38,500 maintenance inquiry forms to absent parents and made 4,000 maintenance assessments.
We are closely monitoring its performance and I am satisfied that the start it has made in introducing these new arrangements will ensure that parents meet their responsibilities for child maintenance whenever they can afford to do so.
The Growth of Social Security"
22. Mr. Matthew Banks : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what representations he has had about his Department's publication of "The Growth of Social Security" ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Scott : "The Growth of Social Security" was intended to stimulate and inform public debate on the social security programme. The Department has received a substantial number of comments and representations reflecting a wide range of opinion.
Incomes
23. Mr. Boyce : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how the incomes of the poorest and richest 10 per cent. of households have changed in real terms, after housing costs, between 1979 and 1990-91.
Mr. Burt : I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave to the hon. Member for Bristol, East (Ms Corston) on 26 July 1993, Official Report, column 460 .
Ms Corston : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the percentage change in income during the period 1979 to the latest date for which information is available before and after housing costs, of each percentile group in the population.
Mr. Burt [pursuant to his reply, 27 July 1993, c. 1010] : I am advised that a figure was omitted from the table included in my reply. The correct information is :
Real increases in income between 1979 and 1990-91 for each decile group in the income distribution are provided in the table; greater disaggregation would not give statistically reliable results. These figures relate to the United Kingdom and are based on income equivalised for household size and composition.
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Percentage changes in real income by decile group 1979-1990-91
Decile Group Medians |Income before |Income after housing
|housing costs |costs
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Decile 1 |-1 |-14
Decile 2 |6 |0
Decile 3 |11 |7
Decile 4 |17 |16
Decile 5 |23 |22
Decile 6 |27 |28
Decile 7 |31 |33
Decile 8 |36 |38
Decile 9 |43 |45
Decile 10 |58 |62
Note: All estimates are subject to sampling error.
Pensions
24. Mr. French : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people currently contribute to (a) a final salary occupational pension scheme, (b) a money purchase occupational pension scheme and (c) a personal pension ; and what is his estimate of the corresponding figures in five years' time.
Mr. Hague : The Government Actuary provisionally estimates that in 1991, 8.4 million people made personal contributions to final salary occupational pension schemes ; and 0.7 million made personal contributions to money purchase occupational pension schemes. Figures on the number of people who are making additional voluntary contributions to occupational pensions schemes are not available. In the financial year 1991-92, 2 million people made personal contributions to appropriate personal pensions in place of the state earnings-related pension scheme, and a further 3 million made contributions to other personal pensions.
The information on the corresponding position in five years time is not available.
Sources :
Occupational Pension Schemes : The Provisional Results of the 1991 Government Actuaries Department Survey of Occupational Pension Schemes.
Personal Pensions : Inland Revenue, Statistics and Economics Office.
Mr. Booth : To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what proportion of pensioners currently have an occupational pension ; and how many had one in 1979.
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