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Departmental Vehicles (Traffic Violations)
Ms Glenda Jackson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the number of traffic violations involving departmental vehicles, the nature of the violations, and the total amount of fines arising from those violations, in each year since 1986. [39299]
Mrs. Angela Knight: The Treasury does not own any vehicles.
Parliamentary Questions (Meetings)
Mr. Barnes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on how many occasions ministerial conference and
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meeting rooms in the parliamentary estate have been booked in his name, or that of other Ministers in his Department, for meetings with Conservative Members immediately preceding questions to his Department in the current parliamentary Session. [39529]
Air Passenger Duty
Ms Glenda Jackson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much revenue has been raised from air passenger duty since its introduction. [39286]
Mrs. Angela Knight: Air passenger duty receipts, together with those for all other Customs and Excise taxes, are published every month by the Office for National Statistics in table 2.1D of the publication "Financial Statistics", which is held in the House of Commons Library.
Diesel Vehicles
Sir Graham Bright: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what (a) fiscal and (b) other measures he has evaluated to encourage research into particulate traps for diesel vehicles; [39757]
- (2) what (a) fiscal and (b) other measures he has evaluated to encourage the use of low-sulphur diesel fuel. [39756]
Mr. Jack: I have continued to look at a wide range of measures to promote the use of cleaner vehicles, technologies and fuels. I will carefully consider all these measures before reaching a judgment for the forthcoming Budget.
Publications
Ms Harman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what was the average price of (a) "Social Trends" publications and (b) Economic Trends publications in each year since 1993. [39753]
Mrs. Angela Knight: The prices for the "Social Trends" and "Economic Trends" group of publications in each year since 1993 have been:
| 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social Trends (Annual) | 26.00 | 27.00 | 34.95 | 35.95 |
| Economic Trends (Monthly) | 12.75 | 13.25 | 19.95 | 21.00 |
| ET Quarterly Supplement | 9.00 | 18.00 | 18.00 | 21.00 |
| ET Annual Supplement | 16.50 | 17.00 | 24.95 | 26.95 |
| Economic Trends annual subscription (all three titles including postage) | 155.00 | 196.00 | 320.00 | 335.00 |
Prices and subscriptions are fixed for the calendar year.
Ministerial Visits
Mr. Rendel: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many visits (i) he and (ii) his Ministers made to (a) the Newbury constituency and (b) other constituencies in the last 12 months. [39867]
Mr. Kenneth Clarke: In the past 12 months my ministerial colleagues and I have made a number of visits to constituencies but have made no visits to the Newbury constituency.
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Redundancies
Mr. Meacher: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many redundancies have been notified to his Department by employers in (a) the York parliamentary constituency, (b) the York travel-to-work area and (c) North Yorkshire in each of the last five years. [39569]
Mrs. Angela Knight: Information is not available for York parliamentary constituency, the travel-to-work area, or for North Yorkshire. In the Yorkshire, Humberside region the 1995 winter labour force survey estimates 19,000 people had been made redundant in the three months prior to interview.
Abortions
Mr. Sumberg: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will give a breakdown by gestation of pregnancy of the number of abortions performed in the north-west region in the latest year for which figures are available; [39865] (2) how many abortions have now been performed in total within the north-west region under the provisions of the Abortion Act 1967; and how many and what percentage of those abortions were performed in emergency to save the life of the woman; [39863] (3) if he will make a statement on the statistically most likely candidate for an abortion within the north-west region after the 24th week of pregnancy in the latest year for which figures are available in terms of (a) the age of the woman, (b) the marital status of the woman, (c) the number of previous children of the woman and (d) the grounds under which the abortion is performed; [39862] (4) if he will give a breakdown by the procedure adopted of the number of abortions performed in the north-west region in the latest year for which figures are available. [39864]
Mr. Merchant: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will indicate the statistically most likely candidate for an abortion within the NHS South Thames region after the 24th week of pregnancy, in the latest year for which figures are available, in terms of (a) the age of the woman, (b) the marital status of the woman, (c) the number of previous children of the woman and (d) the grounds under which the abortion is performed. [39781]
Mrs. Angela Knight: I regret that it has not been possible to provide a substantive answer before the summer recess. I shall write to the hon. Members shortly and place a copy of the letter in the Library.
Mr. Sumberg: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the statistically most likely candidate for an abortion within the north-west region in the latest year for which figures are available in terms of (a) the age of the woman, (b) the marital status of the woman, (c) the number of previous children of the woman and (d) the grounds under which the abortion is performed. [39861]
Mr. Waldegrave: The statistically most likely candidate for an abortion for each of the variables listed is defined as the category with the highest recorded frequency of legal terminations. The percentages are based on all legal terminations performed in 1993, to women usually resident in the north-west health region.
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The categories with the highest frequencies found in each of the variables are as follows:
Mr. Merchant:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give a breakdown by gestation of pregnancy of the number of abortions performed in the NHS South Thames region in the latest year for which figures are available. [39775]
age of the woman: 20-24 age group comprised 32 per cent. (3,742) of all terminations.
Marital status: single women comprised 29 per cent. (3,232) of all terminations.
Number of previous children born by the woman: women with no previous (live and still born) children born to them, comprised 49 per cent. (5,669) of all terminations.
Legal ground under which abortion was performed: statutory ground C alone comprised 84 per cent. (9,689) of all terminations. The definition of ground C is "that the pregnancy has not exceeded its 24th week and that the continuance of pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, or injury to the physical or mental health of the woman".
Reference: 1993 Abortion Statistics, England and Wales, Series AB no. 20.
Mr. Waldegrave: Figures for 1994 which give a breakdown of the number of abortions performed to usually resident women in the South Thames health region by gestation of pregnancy can be found in the OPCS monitor series AB95/9, "Legal abortions in England and Wales 1994: residents of regional and district health areas".
Mr. Merchant: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will indicate the statistically most likely candidate for an abortion within the South Thames region in the latest year for which figures are available in terms of (a) the age of the woman, (b) the marital status of the woman, (c) the number of previous children of the woman and (d) the grounds under which the abortion is performed. [39772]
Mr. Waldegrave: The statistically most likely candidate for an abortion for each of the variables listed is defined as the category with the highest recorded frequency of legal terminations. The percentages are based on all legal terminations performed in 1993, to women usually resident in the South East and South West Thames health regions.
The categories with the highest frequencies found in each of the variables are as follows:
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Age of the woman: 20-24 age group comprised 29 per cent. (7,113) of all terminations.
Marital status: single woman comprised 25 per cent. (6,140) of all terminations.
Number of previous children born by the woman: women with no previous (live and still born) children born to them, comprised 37 per cent. (9,245) of all terminations.
Legal ground under which the abortion was performed: statutory ground C alone comprised 85 per cent. (21,328) of all terminations. The definition of ground C is "that the pregnancy has not exceeded its 24th week and that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, or injury to the physical or mental health of the women".
Reference: 1993 Abortions Statistics, England and Wales, Series AB no. 20.
Mr. Merchant:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many abortions have been performed in total within the NHS South Thames region under the provisions of the Abortions Act 1967; and how many and what percentage of those abortions were performed in emergency to save the life of the mother. [39776]
Mr. Waldegrave: The total number of abortions carried out under the Abortion Act, to women usually resident in the South Thames health region 1 from 1970 to 1994 2 was 529,032. During this period 10 abortions, 0 per cent. of the total number of abortions performed were carried out in an emergency, certified by the operating practitioner as immediately necessary, to save the life of the woman 3 .
1 Figures are based, where possible, on 1994 health authority boundaries. Other boundary changes have not been reflected in the figures.
2 Figures for 1968-69 are not held on a comparable basis.
3 Abortions performed under statutory grounds 5 (1970--31st March 1991) and F (1st April 1991--present) i.e. where in the case of emergency it was necessary to save the life of the woman.
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