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Seasonal Agricultural Workers

Ian Stewart: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the estimated (a) national insurance contributions and (b) tax revenues would be of the 50,000 seasonal agricultural workers recommended by the Curry Report over their period of employment. [140190]

Dawn Primarolo: People working under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme are entitled to earn up to the single personal allowance tax free. Most are students engaged during their vacation periods and this is sufficient to remove them from any UK tax liability. SAWS students are not EU nationals and the majority are engaged in agricultural or similar courses in their home countries. This means there is no National Insurance liability for the first 52 weeks of their stay in the UK. It is therefore unlikely that there would be any additional tax or NICs revenue arising from proposals to increase the number of SAWS students.

Tax Credits

Mr. Drew: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the availability to the public of the Code of Practice 26 leaflet concerning what to do in the case of overpayments of tax credits. [140136]

Dawn Primarolo: The code can be found on the Inland Revenue website (www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/taxcredits).

Mr. Drew: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people have received a tax credit overpayment of more than (a) £1,000 and (b) £5,000; what plans there are for these sums to be repaid; and over what timescale. [140243]

Dawn Primarolo: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave the hon. Member for Northavon (Mr. Webb) on 12 November 2003, Official Report, column 394W.

Mr. Drew: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the advice that has been given to those people who have received a tax credit overpayment of over £5,000; and what alternative methods of repayment have been suggested to them. [140244]

Dawn Primarolo: Advice on the recovery of overpayments of tax credit is provided by the Inland Revenue's code of practice 26 "What happens if we have paid you too much tax credit?", which is on their internet site www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/taxcredits. A copy of the code has also been placed in the House Library.

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Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people benefited from the working family tax credit in each parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom, listed in descending order. [140390]

Dawn Primarolo: I refer my hon. Friend to my answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Tyne Bridge (Mr. Clelland) on 13 January 2003, Official Report, column 412W.

Mrs. Liddell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people are in receipt of the disabled person's tax credit in Airdrie and Shotts constituency. [140379]

Dawn Primarolo: Disabled Person's Tax Credit was replaced by Working Tax Credit in April 2003.

The number of families who received Working Families' or Disabled Person's Tax Credit in each local authority appears in "Working Families' and Disabled Person's Tax Credit Statistics. Geographical analyses".

The number of families who receive the new tax credits appear in "Child and Working Tax Credit Statistics—Geographical Analyses" and analyses of the disabled elements appear in "Child and Working Tax Credit Quarterly Statistics".

All three publications are available on the Inland Revenue website at http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats/personal-tax-credits/menu.htm.

Mrs. Liddell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps are being taken to increase the take up of child tax credit in Airdrie and Shotts constituency. [140380]

Dawn Primarolo: There are now 5.9 million families benefiting from the Child and Working Tax Credits meaning that, after just seven months, we have reached 98 per cent. of those families we expected to reach over a whole year. National Statistics show that, as at 11 July, there were 5,800 families in Airdrie and Shotts receiving Child or Working Tax Credit, including 5,700 families with children, containing 9,800 children.

A high-profile publicity campaign has been running since September 2002 to alert people to their entitlement to Child Tax Credit (and Working Tax Credit) and to encourage them to claim.

The campaign has so far included national television advertising, local radio advertising across the UK, adverts in the national press as well as on-line publicity and the use of direct mail.

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Teenage Pregnancies

Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many teenage pregnancies there were in each constituency in each of the past 20 years. [140426]

Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from John Pullinger to Mr. Chris Ruane, dated 20 November 2003–11–21:

The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many teenage pregnancies there were in each constituency in each of the past 20 years. I am replying in his absence. (140426)

Figures are not available prior to 1988. Figures since that date would only be available at a disproportionate cost. Figures for ward, local authority and health authority areas are produced annually.

The following link provides teenage conception data by local authority and quarter of occurrence from 1998 to 2001:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Expodata/Spreadsheets/D4877.xls

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Teenage conceptions data by ward from 1992 to 2000 is available on CDROMs from ONS, Vital Statistics Customer Services, Segensworth Road, Titchfield, Fareham, Hampshire, PO15 5RR

The following link provies teenage conception data by health authority http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/ssdataset.asp? vInk=6624&More=Y

Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many births to girls conceiving under the age of 16 years there were in each local authority area in Wales in each of the past 20 years. [140435]

Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from John Pullinger to Mr. Chris Ruane, dated 20 November 2003

The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many births to girls conceiving under the age of 16 there were in each local authority in Wales in each of the past 20 years. I am replying in his absence. (140435) Prior to 1987, the method used for calculating mother's age at conception was not comparable to that used in later years.

Figures shown in the attached table are for 1987 to 2001, the latest year available.

Births to girls conceiving under the age of 16, Wales—1987 to 2001

Unitary authority	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	(45)2001
Blaenau Gwent	8	10	7	12	10	8	11	16	14	16	10	17	9	13	13
Bridgend	19	12	16	14	10	18	14	16	22	27	16	21	13	20	11
Caerphilly	14	30	21	36	15	28	28	27	36	36	32	26	24	28	16
Cardiff	30	34	30	14	23	33	30	20	40	39	37	40	34	23	25
Carmarthenshire	12	6	7	13	7	9	10	12	7	11	12	15	12	12	12
Ceredigion			5						-		5			5
Conwy	10	10		11		6	10	9	12	16	11	7	14	7	8
Denbighshire	4	8	10	10	5	5	6	9	(46)	8	7	9	5	10	6
Flintshire	10	7	8	14	4	8	14	9	10	14	10	13	21	5	7
Gwynedd	5	6	5	11	7	10	9	7	(46)	12	9		5	10	12
Isle of Anglesey	8		4		5	7	9	5	6			5	5
Merthyr Tydfil	19	11	17	14	7	16	13	14	12	8	9	13	11	11	12
Monmouthshire	9	8		(46)	4	5		5	7	9				5	4
Neath Port Talbot	18	12	8	17	10	8	12	8	25	9	11	16	9	16	13
Newport	10	17	18	24	21	16	19	25	14	16	19	12	21	10	13
Pembrokeshire	8	7	7				7	6	7	10	5	12	5	10
Powys		11	5	5	7	4	6		6	7	4	8	8	7	4
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff	35	29	32	30	39	25	26	25	40	39	45	32	25	26	32
Swansea	16	17	13	18	22	12	15	20	27	34	30	38	25	23	21
The Vale of Glamorgan	6	10	8	9	8	9		13	10	12	17	9	10		8
Torfaen	9	9	7	14	7	9	9	18	12	17	10	12	6	9	7
Wrexham	6	16	7	15	13	12	11	8	14	13	15	8	15	9
Wales	259	275	240	290	230	253	267	276	330	360	318	322	282	265	235

⁽⁴⁵⁾ Figures for 2001 are provisional

⁽⁴⁶⁾ Figure suppressed to prevent disclosure of a count less than 3 or disclosure by differencing

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