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Endowments
Dr. Cable: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of tax payers in (a) the current tax year and (b) the 1998-99 tax year who have paid extra tax as a result of increasing their endowment payments in the last 10 years of their policy; and how much revenue is involved. [98334]
Miss Melanie Johnson: I regret that no estimates are available for 1998-99 or the current tax year.
Dr. Cable: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what revenue projections he has made for the tax yield from taxable additional payments in the last 10 years of endowment policies. [98332]
Departmental Accommodation
Mr. Campbell-Savours: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make it departmental practice where Government Departments are seeking to rent or lease property from companies registered overseas in (a) tax havens or (b) otherwise to require the landlords to provide lessees with information as to corporate structure, directors' names and United Kingdom shareholdings prior to entering into such rent or leasing arrangements. [98269]
Miss Melanie Johnson: Departmental accommodation policy is a matter for individual Departments.
Inland Revenue Staff
Mr. Field: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer of 1 November 1999, Official Report, column 47, if he will add an additional column to the Table indicating the numbers of staff at each grade transferred from the Department of Social Security to the Inland Revenue. [98349]
Dawn Primarolo: All the staff of the Contributions Agency transferred to the Inland Revenue on 1 April 1999, the numbers being as follows:
| CA grade | Number | IR grade | Civil service grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | 2,484 | E2 | AA |
| A2 | 67 | E1 | AO |
| B1 | 2,867 | E1 | AO |
| B2 | 1,963 | D | EO |
| B3 | 319 | D | EO |
| C1 | 196 | C2 | HEO |
| C2 | 263 | C2 | HEO |
| C3 | 115 | C1 | SEO |
| D1 | 41 | B | UG7 |
| D2 | 2 | B | UG7 |
| D3 | 10 | B | UG6 |
| SCS | 6 | SCS | SCS |
| Total | 8,333 | -- | -- |
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Departmental Targets
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many targets have been agreed between his Department and (i) local authorities and (ii) other bodies apart from his own agencies and non-departmental public bodies. [98318]
Mr. Andrew Smith: Departments have set out their key performance targets in Public Service Agreements (Cm 4181), and the measures of success they will use in the Output and Performance Analysis published by the Treasury on 31 March 1999.
The Treasury has agreed shared Public Service Agreement targets with the Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Social Security and Department for Education and Employment. They are listed in the Output and Performance Analysis.
Cash Planning Total
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if the present public expenditure cash planning total for the year 2001-02 will remain unchanged when the Comprehensive Spending Review is rolled forward in 2000; and if he will make a statement. [98357]
Mr. Andrew Smith: The Spending Review in 2000 will roll forward the spending plans agreed in the Comprehensive Spending Review for a further two years. The third year of the current plans (2001-02) will become the first year of the new planning period.
Public spending classified within the control regime as Annually Managed Expenditure continues to be planned and managed on an annual basis; the level of Annually Managed Expenditure for 2001-02, and hence of Total Managed Expenditure, will be reviewed again in 2000.
Windfall Tax
Mr. Willis: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 27 October 1999, Official Report, column 910, (1) what the total value is of the Windfall Tax reserve in the current financial year; and what it was in financial years 1997-98 and 1998-99; [98324]
- (2) if he will list the amounts of, and purposes for which, expenditure from the Windfall Tax reserve has been authorised to date; and whether such expenditure (i) may be authorised by the Department for Education and Employment alone or (ii) requires the prior agreement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. [98326]
Mr. Andrew Smith: The Windfall Tax reserve and the allocation of the Windfall Tax receipts as currently estimated are outlined in Table 4.1 of the 1999 Pre Budget Report.
Expenditure from the Windfall Tax reserve is a matter for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as chair of the Cabinet committee EA(WW).
Primary Teachers
Mr. Pickthall:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many trained primary teachers are registered as unemployed. [97917]
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Miss Melanie Johnson:
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. Colin Pickthall, dated 11 November 1999:
Mr. Burstow:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the number of deaths linked with hypothermia in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) England, (c) Scotland, (d) Wales, (e) Greater London and (f) Sutton and Cheam for each of the last five years for those aged (i) 60 to 64 years, (ii) 65 to 79 years, (iii) over 80 years and (iv) all ages. [98351]
Miss Melanie Johnson:
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question on trained primary teachers registered as unemployed.
In September 1999, there were 3,584 people claiming unemployment-related benefits in the United Kingdom whose usual occupation was in the primary and nursery education teaching profession. 4,058 claimants said they were seeking a job in that profession. Separate figures for primary and nursery education are not available. Nor is information available on the number of claimants who have actually trained as primary school teachers.
| Year of death | All ages | 0-59 | 60-64 | 65-79 | 80+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 345 | 49 | 10 | 100 | 186 |
| 1995 | 338 | 46 | 9 | 91 | 192 |
| 1996 | 414 | 51 | 7 | 112 | 244 |
| 1997 | 357 | 52 | 14 | 98 | 193 |
| 1998 | 352 | 54 | 14 | 102 | 182 |
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list excess winter mortality rates in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) England, (c) Scotland, (d) Wales, (e) Greater London and (f) Sutton and Cheam for each of the last five years in terms of (i) numbers and (ii) percentages for those aged (1) 60 to 64 years, (2) 65 to 79 years, (3) over 80 years and (4) all ages. [98352]
Miss Melanie Johnson: 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. Paul Burstow, dated 11 November 1999:
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As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question asking for excess winter mortality rates.
Because of time constraints, figures are only provided for England and Wales and are also only available for age-groups which are slightly different from those requested.
These are given in the table below.
| Year | 0-64 | 65-74 | 75-84 | 85+ | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-4 | 2,116 | 4,164 | 9,291 | 10,330 | 25,900 |
| 1994-5 | 2,200 | 5,487 | 9,703 | 9,905 | 27,295 |
| 1995-6 | 2,900 | 7,073 | 14.367 | 15,855 | 40,194 |
| 1996-7 | 3,040 | 6,969 | 17,537 | 20,140 | 47,685 |
| 1997-8 | 1,698 | 4,203 | 7,869 | 9,130 | 22,899 |
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