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Income Trends
Mr. Field: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the proportions of income from work, social security and dividends, which make up total income; and if he will list the equivalent data for (a) 10, (b) 20 and (c) 30 years previously. [112161]
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.
| Source of income | 1968 | 1978 | 1988 | 1998-99 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wages and salaries (including self-employment) | 84 | 80 | 77 | 76 |
| Social security benefits | 9 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| Investments | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
Note:
The balance is made up of annuities and pensions, and other sources.
Like all estimates from sample surveys, these figures are subject to sampling variability.
SCOTLAND
Murder Statistics
Mr. Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies), of 21 February 2000, Official Report, column 743W, on murder statistics, if the entry in the table for 1996 includes the murders committed at Dunblane. [112165]
Dr. Reid: Yes. The entry for 1996 includes the 17 victims who were murdered at Dunblane.
Departmental Staff
Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland in the last five years, what proportion of women employees in (i) his Department and (ii) executive agencies under the control of his Department, (a) returned to work after childbirth; (b) returned to work after childbirth before the end of maternity leave, indicating the (1) time-range and (2) mean time, (c) returned to work after childbirth on reduced working hours, indicating the average hours worked and (d) returned to work after childbirth full-time and subsequently reduced their hours. [109236]
Dr. Reid:
The Civil Service as a whole is striving for an improved balance between work and family life. I understand that my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office has provided my hon. Friend with some information in respect of the family friendly policies being developed as part of the Civil Service Reform programme. My own Department
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follows the arrangements of the former Scottish Office. Wherever possible, we try to accommodate the wishes of those who take or return from maternity leave. This includes arrangements for alternative work patterns. However, I am afraid that detailed information in the form requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Drug Misuse
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Prime Minister which Minister has responsibility for policy on (a) drug misuse and schools and (b) drug misuse and young people. [112382]
The Prime Minister: A number of Government Departments have interests and policy responsibilities for drug misuse and young people, principally the Home Office, the Department of Health and the Department for Education and Employment. Work across Government is co-ordinated by the Minister for the Cabinet Office, advised by the UK Anti-Drugs Co-ordinator.
Ministerial Visits
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Prime Minister on what dates he has visited the United States since 25 April 1999; and on which of these occasions he met President Clinton. [112334]
The Prime Minister: I have not visited the United States since April 1999.
Mr. Matthew Taylor: To ask the Prime Minister on what dates since 3 September 1998 President Clinton has visited Britain to meet him. [112333]
The Prime Minister: President Clinton has not visited the United Kingdom since September 1998.
Performance and Innovation Unit
Dr. Gibson: To ask the Prime Minister what additional projects are planned for the Performance and Innovation Unit; and if he will make a statement. [113147]
The Prime Minister: I have asked the Performance and Innovation Unit (PIU) to undertake a further project looking at effective leadership in delivering public services.
The project will look across the public sector and at international and private sector organisations. It will consider the needs of public sector leadership in the future; carry out an audit of the extent to which current activity aimed at developing leaders can be expected to meet those needs; make recommendations on the action needed across the public sector to get good leaders into place and enable them to operate effectively; and identify practical ways of increasing the diversity of public sector leadership.
My right hon. Friend the Minister for School Standards is the Sponsor Minister.
The PIU aim to complete the project work in the summer.
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Mr. Field:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when he will answer the questions on Millennium Dome attendance and ministerial responsibility tabled by the right hon. Member for Birkenhead for answer on 17 January. [108039]
Janet Anderson
[holding answer 1 February 2000]: I refer my right hon. Friend to the replies I gave on 21 February 2000, Official Report, column 800W, and 28 February 2000, Official Report, column 84W.
Mr. Yeo:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what requirement there was that all foods sold meet the standards required of domestic producers in the contracts with the operators of catering outlets that operate in and around the Millennium Dome at Greenwich. [110506]
Janet Anderson
[holding answer 17 February 2000]: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave him on 10 February 2000, Official Report, column 237W.
Mr. Barry Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many families in Alyn and Deeside will benefit from the introduction of free television licences for households with a member aged 75 years or over. [111293]
Janet Anderson:
This information is not available. 1991 Census information is out of date and no household survey has a sample size sufficient to make reliable estimates of qualifying households at a constituency or local authority level.
Mr. Peter Ainsworth:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (1) if he will publish the list of invitees to the Tourism Summit; [112080]
(3) how many invitations to the Tourism Summit have been issued; and how many (a) acceptances, and (b) refusals have been returned. [112078]
Mr. Chris Smith
[holding answer 28 February 2000]: All Members of the EA Cabinet Committee and the Foreign Secretary were invited to nominate a Minister to attend the Summit. Ministers from the Scottish and Welsh devolved Administrations and from the Northern Ireland Assembly were also invited. Further invitations were also issued to Lord Haskins and Teresa Graham, Chairman and Deputy Chair of the Better Regulation Task Force, to David Quarmby, the Chairman of the British Tourist Authority; Alan Britten, Chairman of the English Tourism Council; Sir Ron Watson, Chairman of the Tourism Executive at the Local Government Association and Bob Cotton, the Chief Executive of the British Hospitality Association.
The following Ministers accepted invitations to the Summit which I chaired: Patricia Hewitt MP, DTI; Beverley Hughes MP, DETR; Tessa Jowell MP, DfEE;
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Mike O'Brien MP, Home Office; Patricia Scotland, FCO; Stephen Timms MP, Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; Joyce Quin MP, MAFF; and Alasdair Morrison MSP.
Lord Haskins, Teresa Graham, David Quarmby, Alan Britten, Sir Ron Watson, and Bob Cotton also attended.
A number of officials were also present.
Mr. Field:
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what is the total cost of providing and administering free television licences for over 75-year-olds, for each of the first five years of the scheme. [112164]
Janet Anderson:
Estimates of £117 million in 2000-01 and £283 million in 2001-02 formed part of the pre-Budget Report. Updated estimates are being prepared and will be incorporated in the Department of Social Security's Departmental Report which is due for publication following the Budget. These are likely to be higher than the earlier estimates as a result of the final structure of the scheme.
(2) which Ministers will be attending the Tourism Summit; [112087]
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