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Parliamentary Answers

Mrs. Clwyd: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many questions were tabled for reply by his Department in each Session since 1979-80; in how many instances in each year the reply has been that providing

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the information involved disproportionate cost; and in how many instances in each year questions have been given the reply that the information was not available centrally. [16788]

Mr Burt: The information is not available in the form requested. Such information as is available is in the table.

Session	Total PQs tabled	Disproportionate cost replies	Not centrally available replies
1983-84(49)(50)	7,058	n/a	n/a
1984-85(49)(50)	5,703	n/a	n/a
1985-86(49)(50)	6,056	n/a	n/a
1986-87(49)(50)	4,184	n/a	n/a
1987-88(49)(50)	7,312	n/a	n/a
1988-89(50)	2,510	n/a	n/a
1989-90(50)	2,526	n/a	n/a
1990-91(50)	2,120	n/a	n/a
1991-92(50)	1,140	n/a	n/a
1992-93(51)	3,244	117	17
1993-94(51)	2,359	129	6
1994-95(51)	2,749	123	25
1995-96(51)	2,817	145	17
1996-97(52)	1,541	30	9

(49) Figures are for the Department of Health and Social Security.

(50) Source: POLIS Database.

(51) Source: Department archive of Written Answers; figures were obtained by a count and may be subject to error.

(52) As at 17 March 1997.

Fraud

Mr. Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans the Government have to derogate from paragraph 4.3 of Council of Europe recommendation R(86)1 as a consequence of the enactment of the Social Security Administration (Fraud) Bill; and if he will make a statement. [21418]

Mr. Heald: We have no such plans.

National Insurance

Mr. Steinberg: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what were (a) the amounts of national insurance contributions paid by (i) employers and (ii) employees and (b) any Exchequer supplement, and the proportion of the NI fund accounted for by each, in today's prices for each year since 1979; and what estimate he has made of future revenues. [21062]

Mr. Heald [holding answer 20 March 1997]: The information is in the tables.

Estimates of future income from contributions are set out in the "National Insurance Fund Long Term Financial Estimates" (HC160) published in January 1995.

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	1979-80		1980-81		1981-82		1982-83		1983-84
	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.
Total income	45.53	--	46.43	--	45.01	--	45.78	--	44.93	--
Class 1(53): Employees	11.23	25	11.63	25	13.04	29	15.59	34	16.60	37
Employees	18.01	40	18.20	39	17.36	39	17.95	39	18.64	41
Class 1A	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0
Class 2/4 (self-employed)	0.71	2	0.68	1	0.75	2	0.87	2	0.99	2
NI surcharge(54)	7.72	17	7.73	17	7.37	16	5.05	11	3.10	7
Treasury payment	6.13	13	6.42	14	4.90	11	4.88	11	5.06	11
Other sources(55)	1.73	4	1.78	4	1.59	4	1.43	3	0.54	1

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	1984-85		1985-86		1986-87		1987-88		1988-89
	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.
Total income	43.43	--	42.34	--	44.49	--	45.81	--	47.14	--
Class 1(53): Employees	16.94	39	17.38	41	17.99	40	18.97	41	19.80	42
Employers	18.95	44	19.94	47	21.18	48	22.56	49	24.13	51
Class 1A	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0
Class 2/4 (self-employed)	1.06	2	1.07	3	1.10	2	1.16	3	1.31	3
NI surcharge(54)	1.53	4	0.06	0	0.02	0	0.00	0	0.00	0
Treasury payment	4.46	10	3.50	8	3.78	8	3.23	7	2.35	5
Other sources	0.50	1	0.39	1	0.42	1	-0.12	0	-0.44	-1

	1989-90		1990-91		1991-92		1992-93		1993-94
	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.
Total income	45.47	--	45.18	--	44.85	--	44.68	--	53.61	--
Class 1(53): Employees	18.99	42	17.16	38	17.14	38	16.92	38	16.60	31
Employers	25.27	56	25.17	56	25.01	56	24.73	55	25.88	48
Class 1A	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.49	1	0.48	1
Class 2/4 (self-employed)	1.39	3	1.36	3	1.34	3	1.36	3	1.53	3
NI surcharge(54)	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0
Treasury payment	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	8.31	16
Other sources	-0.17	0	1.48	3	1.34	3	1.19	3	0.80	1

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	1994-95		1995-96
	£ billions	Per cent.	£ billions	Per cent.
Total income	53.15	--	51.12	--
Class 1(53): Employees	18.92	36	19.62	38
Employers	24.90	47	25.18	49
Class 1A	0.51	1	0.49	1
Class 2/4 (self-employed)	1.52	3	1.54	3
NI surcharge(54)	0.00	0	0.00	0
Treasury payment	6.69	13	3.69	7
Other sources(55)	0.60	1	0.61	1

(53) Gross of Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) and Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) deductions.

(54) The National Insurance surcharge was part of general taxation and not paid into the National Insurance Fund.

(55) Figures take into account deductions made by employers in respect of statutory sick pay (SSP) from April 1993 and statutory maternity pay (SMP) from April 1987. The combined SSP and SMP deductions SMP deductions between 1987-88 and 1989-90 exceed other sources of income. From April 1990 figures include amounts paid from the Consolidated Fund as compensation for SSP and SMP deductions.

1. National insurance contribution figures include the NHS element.

2. Figures may not sum due to rounding.

HEALTH

Departmental Policies (Bournemouth)

Mr. David Atkinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the effect of his Department's policies on the residents of Bournemouth since 1992, with special reference to the effects of changes in the resources provided in real terms. [14951]

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Mr. Horam: Bournemouth has benefited from the increases in the real resources available to the national health service which the Government has made available every year since 1979.

Since 1991, the number of general practitioners in Dorset has increased by 10 per cent. and 50 per cent. of the population of Dorset are currently served by a fundholding GP.

Dorset health authority's integrated allocation for the financial year 1997-98 will be £329.6 million, a real terms increase of £6.1 million over the last year's allocation.

Hospital Staff (North Yorkshire)

Mr. Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) consultants, (b) junior hospital doctors, (c) nurses, (d) staff in professions allied to medicine, (e) accident and emergency staff, (f) ancillary staff and (g) other staff were employed in NHS hospitals in north Yorkshire in 1992; and how many there are currently.[20881]

Mr. Malone [holding answer 18 March 1997]: Individual hospital units cannot be separately identified in the Department of Health's hospital and community health services work force censuses, but in some cases staff can be sub-divided between those working in hospitals and those working in the community on the basis of their area of work.

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In the area covered by North Yorkshire district health authority there were 210 whole-time equivalent, wte, hospital consultants, 210 wte hospital junior doctors--excluding registrars and senior registrars--and 90 wte other hospital doctors employed by the national health service hospital and community health services (HCHS) at September 1995, of which 30 wte worked in the accident and emergency area of work; this information is not available centrally for earlier years. There were 4,010 wte nursing and midwifery staff employed by the NHS HCHS working in hospital areas of work at September 1992 in the same health authority area, of which 50 wte worked in the accident and emergency area of work; information for 1995, the latest year for which results are available, is not available centrally. It is not possible to separately identify other non-medical staff in the same way.

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