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Private Finance Initiative
Mr. Gunnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his oral statement of 21 January, Official Report, column 765, if he will list the 32 private finance initiative schemes which have been finished. [14103]
Mr. Horam: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for City of Durham (Mr. Steinberg) on 29 January 1997 at columns 269-72.
Dental Services
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists are employed in dental
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practices by general dental practitioners who contract with the health service in the latest year for which figures are available. [14066]
Mr. Malone: The table sets out the number of dental assistants and vocational trainees employed by general dental practitioners at 30 September 1996.
| Number of dentists | |
|---|---|
| Assistants(15) | 560 |
| Vocational trainees(16) | 496 |
| Total | 1,056 |
(15) Assistants are fully qualified dentists who do not have their own health authority contract number but work on that of a principal.
(16) Vocational trainees are newly qualified dental graduates who must complete a year's vocational training in a selected practice before commencing unsupervised dental practice as a principal in the general dental service.
TREASURY
Census (Languages)
Mr. Charles Kennedy: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he is taking to collect information on the level and location of spoken indigenous languages in the next census; and if he will make a statement. [10551]
Mrs. Angela Knight [holding answer 23 January 1997]: A major census test will be conducted in selected areas of England and Scotland in June this year. Test questionnaires to be used in Scotland will include a question asking if the respondent can speak, read, write or understand Gaelic but this question will not be asked in England. Following consultation and research, the Government have concluded that a question on Scots could not be justified for inclusion in the next census and therefore will not be included in the June test. For the 2001 census, we expect to ask questions about Welsh in Wales and Gaelic in Scotland. There are no plans to extend questions on Scottish Gaelic, and the Welsh language outside the respective countries. The Government will publish their proposals for questions to be included in the census in a White Paper in mid-1998. The White Paper will invite comment.
EU Education Expenditure
Mr. John Marshall: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the percentage of GDP spent on education in (a) the United Kingdom and (b) other EU countries. [13253]
Mrs. Angela Knight: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the chief executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. John Marshall, dated 3 February 1997:
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Source:
Education at a Glance, OECD December 1996.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply as the Director of the Office for National Statistics to your recent question on the percentage of GDP spent on education in the United Kingdom and other EU countries.
The information requested for the latest year for which data are available for all EU countries is shown in the table. The latest figure for the United Kingdom is 5 per cent for 1995. The figures are published in table DD of Education Statistics for the United Kingdom 1996, which in turn is derived from information provided by each country to OECD for its latest edition of Education at a glance. Copies of both publications are available in the House of Commons Library.
Per cent.
Austria 5.3
Belgium 5.6
Denmark 6.7
Finland 7.3
France 5.6
Germany 4.6
Greece 3.4
Ireland 5.3
Italy 5.0
Luxembourg n/a
Netherlands 4.9
Portugal 5.3
Spain 4.5
Sweden 6.7
United Kingdom 5.0
Lone Parents
Ms Corston: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the number of lone parents who are out of work (a) in Great Britain and (b) in other European countries. [11392]
Mrs. Angela Knight [holding answer 28 January 1997]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the chief executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Tim Holt to Ms Jean Corston, dated 3 February 1997:
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply as the Director of the Office for National Statistics to your recent question on the number of lone parents who are out of work in Great Britain and other European countries.
According to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) there was in Great Britain in summer 1996 a total of 136,000 unemployed lone parents with dependent children (15 year olds and under and 16-18 year olds in non-advanced further education). The LFS uses the International Labour Organisation (ILO) definition of unemployment. This covers people without a job who were available to start work in the two weeks following their LFS interview and who had either looked for work in the four weeks prior to interview or were waiting to start a job they had already obtained. The ILO unemployment rate for lone parents was 15.7 per cent. This rate is defined as all those ILO unemployed as a percentage of all those either ILO unemployed or in employment.
European comparisons are published in the annual Eurostat publication Labour Force Survey Results which is available in the House of Commons Library. The lower half of Table 115 gives unemployment rates for various household types including '1 adult and children'. A copy of this table is attached. The EUR15 figure is a weighted average of the national figures, weighted by the size of the relevant economically active population in each country.
The rates published in the table are not directly comparable with the rate quoted above for a variety of reasons. The Eurostat figures do not cover all lone parents with dependent children. For example they exclude lone parents whose youngest dependent child is aged 15 to 18 and those lone parents who are not the only adult in the household. These exclusions are likely to increase the unemployment rate. The Eurostat figures are also less up to date and refer to the United Kingdom rather than Great Britain as specified in your question. Estimates of the number of unemployed lone parents are not available from the Eurostat publication.
Percentage
Labour force survey 1995 I L NL A P FIN S UK
Activity rates
1 person households 28.5 36.4 47.6 43.2 31.6 48.0 -- 42.4
1 male adult aged 15 to 64 years 78.2 82.0 76.8 80.7 72.1 74.6 -- 8.17
1 female adult aged 15 to 64 years 47.5 59.4 66.1 66.8 53.1 69.8 -- 68.6
1 male adult aged 65+ years 4.3 -- 4.5 -- 19.4 -- -- 5.8
1 female adult aged 65+ years 1.2 -- 0.9 (1.3) 9.4 -- -- 2.2
Several adults and no children 43.0 43.3 56.6 54.0 52.3 57.0 -- 60.3
2 adults, both aged 15 to 64 years 56.4 59.7 71.1 67.2 64.3 71.2 -- 78.1
2 adults, 1 or both aged 65+ years 10.5 6.5 7.0 11.8 22.2 10.3 -- 13.0
3 or more adults and no children 48.6 48.2 63.7 62.1 57.6 64.0 -- 70.7
1 adult and children 78.1 76.9 51.5 88.6 79.6 73.7 -- 46.8
1 male adult and 1 or more children 90.6 -- 74.4 (98.8) (73.6) 95.0 -- 66.3
1 female adult and 1 or more children 75.4 75.2 49.7 88.1 80.1 71.7 -- 45.1
2 adults and children 73.6 70.5 76.1 82.8 84.6 81.6 -- 79.8
2 adults and 1 child 75.9 73.1 77.8 85.2 84.7 81.0 -- 81.1
2 adults and 2 children 72.1 69.2 77.5 81.8 85.8 83.9 -- 81.8
2 adults and 3 children 67.6 68.3 71.9 79.6 80.9 79.5 -- 75.8
2 adults and four or more children 65.5 (60.4) 63.8 72.5 69.3 69.3 -- 61.3
3 or more adults and children 50.5 55.0 61.9 65.7 63.0 68.1 -- 67.0
Total private households 47.4 50.8 59.2 59.4 58.1 61.1 -- 61.5
Unemployment rates 1 person household 7.9 2.4 12.9 4.5 5.2 23.2 -- 14.4
1 male adult aged 15 to 64 years 7.2 0.8 14.0 4.1 9.7 28.0 -- 18.5
1 female adult aged 15 to 64 years 9.4 5.0 11.7 5.1 4.5 17.9 -- 8.9
1 male adult aged 65+ years 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.7 0.0 0.0 -- 5.4
1 female adult aged 65+ years 6.1 0.0 0.0 3.5 0.0 0.0 -- 4.5
Several adults and no children 13.3 2.8 5.6 4.2 7.2 15.7 -- 7.2
2 adults, both aged 15 to 64 years 8.6 2.6 5.0 5.0 6.3 13.8 -- 6.1
2 adults, 1 or both aged 65 + years 9.2 2.7 5.2 4.5 1.6 13.5 -- 7.2
3 or more adults and no children 14.8 2.9 6.5 3.7 8.1 19.1 -- 8.3
1 adult and children 11.9 5.4 18.0 8.5 12.5 27.7 -- 22.7
1 male adult and 1 or more children 9.3 -- 15.5 (0.0) (9.9) 14.9 -- 18.2
1 female adult and 1 or more children 12.5 6.0 18.3 9.0 12.7 29.3 -- 23.3
2 adults and children 8.1 2.4 6.5 4.2 6.0 14.1 -- 8.2
2 adults and 1 child 7.7 3.2 7.6 4.2 6.6 15.4 -- 7.9
2 adults and 2 children 7.9 1.7 5.9 4.7 5.1 12.6 -- 6.7
2 adults and 3 children 11.2 1.8 5.9 2.6 5.5 13.7 -- 10.8
2 adults and 4 or more children 13.0 3.7 7.0 1.6 9.7 19.3 -- 20.2
3 or more adults and children 13.9 4.2 8.9 4.5 7.7 17.3 -- 9.4
Total private households 11.8 2.9 7.2 4.3 7.1 16.9 -- 8.7
Percentage
Labour force survey 1995 EUR 15 B DK D GR E F IRL
Activity rates
1 person households 40.8 34.3 -- 46.0 27.7 22.0 42.0 39.9
1 male adult aged 15 to 64 years 79.3 74.0 -- 81.4 73.0 74.7 76.5 76.0
1 female adult aged 15 to 64 years 64.8 54.5 -- 69.9 45.6 53.5 65.9 62.0
1 male adult aged 65+ years 4.3 (2.6) -- 3.0 6.2 4.1 2.0 15.2
1 female adult aged 65+ years 1.4 (0.6) -- 1.2 1.6 1.1 0.8
Several adults and no children 50.3 43.3 -- 54.2 45.3 42.9 47.8 52.6
2 adults, both aged 15 to 64 years 68.6 57.8 -- 70.1 59.9 61.3 66.5 70.8
2 adults, 1 or both aged 65+ years 10.0 6.7 -- 8.4 13.8 10.3 6.6 18.0
3 or more adults and no children 55.9 59.4 -- 62.9 51.9 48.0 55.1 55.3
1 adult and children 65.8 73.5 -- 74.1 72.1 81.3 85.2 46.6
1 male adult and 1 or more children 81.4 85.8 -- 87.4 (95.4) 85.9 91.4
1 female adult and 1 or more children 64.2 71.9 -- 72.7 68.2 80.9 84.5 45.5
2 adults and children 78.9 84.1 -- 78.5 73.6 74.5 84.7 71.6
2 adults and 1 child 81.1 85.2 -- 81.5 74.3 76.9 87.5 75.2
2 adults and 2 children 79.3 86.4 -- 78.3 74.0 73.8 86.8 73.8
2 adults and 3 children 73.0 78.7 -- 69.1 69.1 69.2 75.6 68.9
2 adults and 4 or more children 62.8 62.9 -- 61.8 68.2 62.4 62.6 60.7
3 or more adults and children 57.0 49.7 -- 61.9 52.6 52.0 54.5 49.0
Total private households 54.9 50.5 -- 57.7 49.2 48.2 55.4 53.9
Unemployment rates
1 person household 11.7 15.8 -- 10.2 7.5 12.9 12.3 13.7
1 male adult aged 15 to 64 years 13.3 16.1 -- 11.5 6.4 14.3 13.5 17.0
1 female adult aged 15 to 64 years 9.9 15.8 -- 8.7 9.4 12.5 11.2 11.2
1 male adult aged 65 + years 2.4 0.0 -- 2.3 1.5 3.6 0.0 0.4
1 female adult aged 65 + years 3.2 8.5 -- 1.6 3.4 0.0 4.2 6.4
Several adults and no children 10.7 8.1 -- 7.7 10.6 23.6 11.7 10.3
2 adults, both aged 15 to 64 years 8.4 7.7 -- 8.4 6.9 18.4 10.4 9.5
2 adults, 1 or both aged 65 + years 9.0 9.1 -- 8.4 4.5 18.7 11.2 8.3
3 or more adults and no children 12.5 8.3 -- 7.0 12.7 25.0 13.2 10.9
1 adult and children 19.6 27.5 -- 17.0 11.9 28.7 21.1 31.1
1 male adult and 1 or more children 13.1 16.9 -- 13.0 8.6 4.2 10.7 --
1 female adult and 1 or more children 20.5 29.2 -- 17.5 12.7 30.7 22.4 33.7
2 adults and children 9.1 8.2 -- 7.3 5.8 18.6 10.3 11.2
2 adults and 1 child 9.3 9.1 -- 7.6 6.8 19.4 10.8 10.1
2 adults and 2 children 8.2 6.6 -- 6.8 5.2 17.4 8.9 11.3
2 adults and 3children 10.0 8.8 -- 6.9 5.1 18.9 11.2 10.9
2 adults and 4 or more children 17.0 16.3 -- 12.9 5.4 28.6 21.5 14.2
3 or more adults and children 13.3 10.3 -- 8.0 8.6 25.2 14.5 15.3
Total private households 10.8 9.3 -- 8.2 9.1 22.7 11.9 12.0
Mr. Milburn:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the number of lone parents who are out of work in (a) Great Britain and (b) other European countries. [11394]
Mrs. Knight [holding answer 28 January 1997]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the chief executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Alan Milburn, dated 3 February 1997:
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