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Overseas Haulage Companies
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the cost to his Department of the loss of revenue from (a) fuel and (b) road tax, from overseas haulage companies operating in the UK. [77443]
Ms Hewitt
[holding answer 18 March 1999]: HM Customs and Excise do not have sufficient reliable information on which to base a published estimate of the loss of revenue from fuel from overseas haulage companies operating in the UK.
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The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions have not published any estimate of any loss of vehicle excise duty arising from overseas haulage companies operating in the UK, but believe the amounts involved to be negligible at worst.
Mr. Whittingdale:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the level of duty on a litre of (a) leaded petrol, (b) unleaded petrol, (c) ordinary diesel and (d) ultra-low sulphur diesel in the year (i) 2001, (ii) 2005 and (iii) 2010 if the road fuel duty escalator is maintained at its present level. [78018]
Ms Hewitt:
Because the escalator is defined in real terms, actual duty rates will depend in future on inflation.
Mr. Moore:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what is the percentage of full-time workers in (a) Scotland, (b) each unitary local authority area in Scotland and (c) Great Britain earning in terms of gross pay (A) including and (B) excluding overtime, less than (i) £261.46, (ii) £241.86, (iii) £181.40 and (iv) £136.44 per week for the categories (1) male manual, (2) male non-manual, (3) all male workers, (4) female manual (5) female non-manual, (6) all female workers, (7) all manual, (8) all non-manual and (9) all workers; [78241]
Ms Hewitt:
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Michael Moore, dated 26 March 1999:
Mr. Alasdair Morgan:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will list for (a) Scotland and (b) each local authority area in Scotland the (i) average weekly earnings, (ii) weekly median earnings and (iii) the distribution of earnings for those in (1) the lowest and (2) the highest decile broken down by (A) manual, (B) non-manual and (C) all workers; [77784]
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Ms Hewitt
[holding answers 23 March 1999]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Alasdair Morgan, dated 26 March 1999:
Mr. Chope:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer for what reason no external assessment has been made of the plans of his Department for millennium compliance. [78464]
Ms Hewitt
[holding answer 24 March 1999]: It is accepted that year 2000 plans need some form of overall independent assessment. The Treasury use their internal audit team to carry out this function. Internal Audit is independent of the programme and has the necessary skills to oversee the task.
An external IT assessor is, however, engaged in validating the completed compliance work.
Ms Lawrence:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the final outturn for 1997-98 for (a) each running costs limit and (b) the MOD's operating costs limit. [79408]
Mr. Milburn:
The final outturn for 1997-98 for each running costs limit and the Ministry of Defence's operating costs limit is shown in the table.
(2) if he will list the average gross weekly earnings (a) including overtime and (b) excluding overtime for full-time workers in (i) Scotland, (ii) each unitary local authority area in Scotland and (iii) Great Britain for (A) all manual, (B) all non-manual and (C) all workers. [78240]
As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary questions on average earnings.
The New Earnings Survey (NES) can provide earnings data for small geographical areas. However, the release of NES data is restricted to figures which are derived from a sufficiently large sample of employees, and have an acceptable level of accuracy. I have provided the available data for Scotland, the Scottish local authorities and Great Britain in the attached tables. These are based on the 1998 NES, the latest survey for which data are available. These tables are voluminous and copies of them are being placed in the Library of the House rather than reproduced in Hansard.
The NES is based on a one per cent. sample of employees in the PAYE system and is therefore likely to under-represent relatively low paid staff earning below the tax threshold and in particular those who work part-time.
(2) if he will list the proportion of full-time workers in (a) Scotland, (b) each local authority area in Scotland and (c) Great Britain, with gross hourly earnings below (i) £6.90, (ii) £6.38, (iii) £4.79 and (iv) £3.60 broken down into (1) male, (2) female and (3) all (x) manual and (y) non-manual workers. [77785]
As the Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary questions on average earnings.
The New Earnings Survey (NES) can provide earnings data for small geographical areas. However, the release of NES data is restricted to figures which are derived from a sufficiently large sample of employees, and have an acceptable level of accuracy. I have provided the available data for Scotland, the Scottish local authorities and Great Britain in the attached tables. These are based on the 1998 NES, the latest survey for which data are available. These tables are voluminous and copies of them are being placed in the Library of the House rather than reproduced in Hansard.
The NES is based on a one per cent. sample of employees in the PAYE system and is therefore likely to under-represent relatively low paid staff earning below the tax threshold and in particular those who work part-time.
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