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Water Bill
Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what representations she has received from the farming sector about the proposal in the Water Bill for time-limited licences. [133477]
Mr. Morley: In 1998 the Government first consulted on proposals for all new licences to be issued with a time limit in the consultation paper 'The Review of the Water Abstraction Licensing System in England and Wales'. The majority of responses from the farming sector accepted that there was a need to time limit new abstraction licences. The majority of all the consultation responses received welcomed this proposal, and the Government subsequently included the proposal in the draft Water Bill.
There was similar feedback on our "Water Bill—Consultation on draft legislation" which was published in November 2000.
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TREASURY
MRSA
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what progress the Department has made on implementing a system of enabling MRSA to be recorded on death certificates. [133849]
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. Paul Burstow, dated 27 October 2003:
- As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what progress the department has made on implementing a system of enabling MRSA to be recorded on death certificates. (133849)
- MRSA can already be recorded on death certificates. Doctors are required to certify all deaths to the best of their knowledge and belief. They should start with the immediate cause of death, and then go back through the diseases or injuries which caused it, to the condition which began the sequence leading to death. The death certificate is designed to obtain this first 'underlying cause of death'. It is up to the doctor how many conditions in the sequence, other than the underlying cause, he thinks should be recorded. MRSA may contribute to death, but it is unlikely to be the first event in the sequence.
- It is difficult to produce statistics on MRSA because there are no codes for antibiotic resistance in the International Classification of Diseases. ONS worked with the World Health Organisation to develop new codes in ICD-10 to identify antibiotic resistance. WHO has recommended that these codes may be used from 2006. ONS is working with the US National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS) to ensure that these codes are implemented in NCHS systems used to code cause of death in the UK and many other countries.
- Currently, to obtain figures on the number of deaths where MRSA contributed, it is necessary to identify all deaths with codes relating to staphylococcal infections and study the text of the death certificates. A special study was conducted by ONS and the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre to do this, using data from 1993–1998. The results were published in the British Medical Journal in December 2002. The table below gives figures from this study for 1993 to 1998.
| Number | |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 47 |
| 1994 | 88 |
| 1995 | 187 |
| 1996 | 290 |
| 1997 | 377 |
| 1998 | 398 |
ONS is currently carrying out work to update these figures to 2002, including identifying all possible codes for staphylococcal infections in ICD-10. The results of this analysis are not yet available.
Bechtel
Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list contracts for consultancy or work carried out by Bechtel in each year since 1997 stating in each case (a) the nature of the work, (b) the value of the contract and (c) the duration of the contract; and if he will make a statement. [133855]
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Mr. Boateng: The Chancellor's Departments have not had any contracts with Bechtel in this period.
Child Tax Credit
Mr. Webb: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the number of child tax credit reassessments that will be required in 2003–04 due to rises in income in excess of the £2,500 disregard which occurred between the year of assessment and the award being made. [134108]
Mr. Boateng: The number of awards that are expected to be reassessed owing to rises in income above £2,500 are published in "The Child and Working Tax Credits". Copies are available on the HM Treasury website, www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media//EE15F/new tax credits.pdf.
Correspondence
Sir Michael Spicer: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the hon. Member for West Worcestershire will receive a response to his letter of 16 September. [134325]
John Healey: The hon. Member's letter was transferred to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. I understand a reply was sent 20 October.
Crown Estate Income
Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much income has been received by the Crown Estate from rents paid for cables which use the seabed for each financial year since 1997. [134332]
Ruth Kelly: Since 1997 the following sums have been received by The Crown Estate.
| Financial year(5) | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 1.22 |
| 1998 | 1.63 |
| 1999 | 2.65 |
| 2000 | 3.54 |
| 2001 | 3.79 |
| 2002 | 4.98 |
| 2003 | 5.07 |
(5) To the 31 March
Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much income has been received by the Crown Estate from wind-powered electricity generating installations situated offshore for each financial year since 1997. [134333]
Ruth Kelly: Since 1997 the following sums have been received by The Crown Estate:
| Financial year(6) | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2,500 |
| 2003 | 2,500 |
(6) To 31 March.
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Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much income has been received by the Crown Estate from rents paid by Scottish fish farmers for each financial year since 1997. [134334]
Ruth Kelly: The annual rent paid by Scottish salmon farmers for each financial year since 1997 is as shown in the following table. Separate figures for emerging species (cod and halibut) are not available but are currently calculated with reference to consented cage surface area rather than being linked directly to tonnage and price. The emerging species rent for 2003 was £9,800.
| Financial year(7) | Production year | (8)Salmon rent due1 January |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 1996 | 2.23 |
| 1998 | 1997 | 1.45 |
| 1999 | 1998 | 2.41 |
| 2000 | 1999 | 2.86 |
| 2001 | 2000 | 2.77 |
| 2002 | 2001 | 2.52 |
| 2003 | 2002 | 1.08 |
(7) To the 31 March
(8) 2003 rent due 01.02.03 following rent review w.e.f. 01.01.03
Emigration
Mr. David Marshall: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of UK citizens who have emigrated from the UK in each of the last five years, broken down by destination country. [134727]
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. David Marshall, dated 27 October 2003:
- As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your question on the number of UK citizens who have emigrated from the UK in each of the last five years, broken down by destination country. (134727)
- The most recent edition of the annual reference volume for international migration can be found by following the link to the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme population/MN28.pdf.
- This was published in September and includes data for the years 1992 to 2001. Data regarding country of next residence for 2002 will become available with the publication of the next edition of this volume in Spring 2004.
- Table 2.2 of the volume shows estimates for country of next residence grouped as follows: European Union; Old Commonwealth (which includes Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa); New Commonwealth (which includes all other Commonwealth countries); and Other foreign countries. Tables 2.3 and 2.4 show more detailed breakdowns of the data for the Old and New Commonwealth and the European Union and other foreign countries respectively.
- At present, we are unable to break the data down to individual country beyond those countries included in these tables. The estimates are predominantly based on responses to the International Passenger Survey which samples 0.2% of international travellers using the principal routes to and from the UK. This sample size does not support the production of estimates for country of next residence to a greater level of detail than is currently shown.
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