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Climate Change Levy
Mr. Stunell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 23 April 2002, Official Report, columns 127–28W, what percentage of revenue raised by the climate change levy in 2001–02 has been (a) recycled to business through a reduction in employers' national insurance contributions and (b) funds targeted programmes of support measures for business investing in energy- saving technologies and practices; and if he will make a statement. [53054]
Mr. Boateng: As set out in the answer of 23 April 2002, Official Report, columns 127–28W, climate change levy receipts for the year 2001–02 were £551 million. The 0.3 percentage point reduction in employers' national insurance contributions was worth approximately £1 billion in 2001–02. The scheme of enhanced capital allowances was expected to cost £70 million in 2001–02 and an additional £50 million was allocated to support for energy efficiency and renewable energy.
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Data Protection Act
Matthew Taylor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library copies of each version of the internal guidance which have been drawn up by his Department since 1 January 1999 to assist staff in his Department to answer subject access requests under the Data Protection Act 1998. [53388]
Ruth Kelly: The internal guidance to the Data Protection Act 1998 that is used to assist staff in answering subject access requests is being placed in the Library.
Departmental Underspends
Mr. Flight: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much departmental underspend was carried over from financial years (a) 2000–01 to 2001–02 and (b) 2001–02 to 2002–03 (i) in total and (ii) in the health budget. [53591]
Mr. Andrew Smith: Table 6 of "Public Expenditure 2000–01—Provisional Outturn" (CM 5243) shows details of departmental entitlements to carry forward underspends from 2000–01 into 2001–02. The individual entitlements may also include an element of underspending from earlier years.
Details of the carry forward of 2001–02 underspends into 2002–03 are not available at present but will be announced before the summer recess.
Mr. Flight: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he plans to allow underspend to be carried forward to Departments other than the initial recipient Department. [53586]
Mr. Andrew Smith: The End Year Flexibility (EYF) scheme, introduced with effect from 1 April 1999, allows Departments to carry forward their departmental expenditure limits (DEL) underspends (normally less the value of DEL Reserve claims agreed during the year) from one year to the next. There are no plans to amend the scheme to allow the reallocation of one Department's underspending to another.
Mr. Flight: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the underspends were in the financial year 2001–02; for the Departments of (a) Health, (b) Education and Skills, (c) Defence, (d) Home and (e) Transport, Local Government and the Regions. [53592]
Mr. Andrew Smith: Table C14 of the "Financial Statement and Budget Report" shows estimated outturn by Department. Details of Department's final plans and provisional outturn figures for 2001–02 will be published before the summer recess.
National Insurance
Mr. Cousins: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage share of expenditure from the national insurance fund was allocated to (a) the NHS, (b) each category of contributory benefit expenditure and (c) pension rebates in each year since 1996–97; and what the estimate is for 2001–02. [53475]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is provided in the national insurance fund accounts for 1996–97 (HC465), 1997–98 (HC130), 1998–99 (HC146), 1999–2000 (HC446) and for 2000–01 and 2001–02 in the
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report by the Government Actuary on the drafts of the Social Security Up-rating Order 2002 and the Social Security (Contributions) (Re-rating and National Insurance Funds Payments) Order 2002 (CM5383).
Tax Credits
Mr. Willetts: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer following his account of classification of personal tax credits on page 216 of the Budget Red Book, how much of the expenditure on the WFTC in the latest year for which figures are available is less than equal to the tax liability of the household; how much expenditure on credits is exceeding liability; and what estimates he has made of his breakdown for the (a) child tax credit and (b) workers tax credit. [53648]
Dawn Primarolo: For 2001–02, around 12 per cent. of the working families tax credit scores as negative tax.
For the working tax credit (WTC) and child tax credit (CTC), the latest available estimates are that about 10–11 per cent. of the new tax credits will score as negative tax in 2004–05 and later years. The proportion will be slightly higher, at about 13.5 per cent., in 2003–04. As part of the transitional arrangements child allowance payments (at enhanced CTC rates) to income support and jobseeker's allowance recipients will still count as social security benefits in the first year of the new credits, and are not included in the tax credit total until 2004–05. As these recipients are likely to have much lower income tax liabilities than other WTC and CTC recipients, the proportion scoring as tax falls in 2004–05.
Separate figures for WTC and CTC are not available.
Stamp Duty
Matthew Taylor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many properties per annum he expects to benefit over the next three years from the exemptions from stamp duty for properties in disadvantaged areas listed in line 2 of Table A2.1 of the Financial Statement and Budget report. [53406]
Ruth Kelly: The number of properties per annum benefiting over the next three years from the current stamp duty exemption listed in Table A2.1 of the FSBR is estimated at around 40,000. At present the exemption applies to property transactions in designated wards where the consideration does not exceed £150,000. The Government intend to abolish stamp duty for all non-residential property transactions in these wards, subject to state aid approval.
Lung Cancer
Dr. Gibson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the lung cancer mortality rates were in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [53532]
Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
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Letter from John Kidgell to Mr. Ian Gibson, dated 30 April 2002:
- The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your question concerning lung cancer mortality rates for each of the last five years for which figures are available. (53532) I am replying in his absence.
- The figures requested are given in the table below:
| Rate per 100,000 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Calendar year | Males | Females |
| 1996 | 681 | 292 |
| 1997 | 649 | 285 |
| 1998 | 641 | 291 |
| 1999 | 609 | 289 |
| 2000 | 590 | 285 |
(39) Directly age-standardised to the European Standards Population.
(40) Selected using code 162 from the International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision.
(41) Data are for occurrences of death per calendar year.
Source:
Office for National Statistics, 'Mortality Statistics: Cause, Review of the Registrar General on deaths by cause, sex and age, in England and Wales 2000.' Series DH2, Number 27, The Stationery Office (London: 2001).
Emigration
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many UK citizens emigrated in each of the last five years. [53136]
Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Jim Cunningham, dated 30 April 2002:
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As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your question on emigration of UK citizens. (53136)
The British Nationality Act 1981, which came into force on 1st January 1983, replaced citizenship of the United Kingdom and Colonies, with British citizenship, British Overseas citizenship, and British Dependent Territories citizenship. Therefore, the attached table shows outward international migration by British citizens during the last five years from 1996 to 2000.
| British citizens | |
|---|---|
| 1996 | 142.8 |
| 1997 | 134.5 |
| 1998 | 114.6 |
| 1999 | 126.5 |
| 2000 | 152.3 |
Note:
Figures in these tables represent total international migration combining data from the International Passenger Survey, Home Office data on asylum seekers, and people who entered the UK as short-term visitors but were subsequently granted an extension of stay for a year or longer for other reasons, and estimates of migration between the UK and the Irish Republic.
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