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Statemented Children
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills to whom responsibility for the on-costs falls when a child has a statement and the child has quantified support of a given number of hours from a learning support assistant. [157359]
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Mr. Stephen Twigg: Local education authorities are under a statutory duty, by virtue of section 324(5)(a) of the Education Act 1996, to arrange the special educational provision specified in statements they maintain for children, unless a child's parent has made suitable arrangements.
PRIME MINISTER
Katharine Gun
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Prime Minister what discussions he has had in the last 12 months with the (a) Department for Constitutional Affairs and (b) Attorney-General on the Katharine Gun case. [158095]
The Prime Minister: I had no discussions with the Department for Constitutional Affairs on this matter.
I had no discussions with the Attorney-General. However, I was copied in on the "Shawcross Exercise", the process of which the Solicitor-General has already outlined to the House on 26 February 2004, Official Report, column 428.
After the decision to discontinue the case had been made, the Attorney-General confirmed this to me.
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Prime Minister what discussions he has had in the last 12 months with the Secretary of State for Defence on the Katharine Gun case. [158780]
TREASURY
Asthma
Simon Hughes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many deaths from asthma there were in (a) Greater London and (b) each London borough during the last five years. [158444]
Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Simon Hughes, dated 5 March 2004:
- As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many deaths from asthma there were in (a) Greater London and (b) each London borough during the last five years. (158444)
- The latest year for which the figures requested are available is 2002. Figures for the five-year period 1998 to 2002 are given in the attached table.
(17) The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for 1998–2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) for 2001–2O02. The codes used are listed below:
Asthma-ICD-9 493; ICD-10 J45-J46.
Details of the effect of the change in classification in 2001 are described in a report published in May 2002:
Office for National Statistics. Results of the ICD-10 bridge coding study, England and Wales, 1999. Health Statistics Quarterly 14 (2002), 75–83.
(18) Usual residents of these areas.
(19) City of London is included with the figure for Hackney to avoid disclosure of small numbers.
(20) Deaths occurring in each calendar year.
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Money Laundering
Mr. Llwyd: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many alternative or parallel remittance brokers have been registered as money service businesses since the introduction of the Money Laundering Regulations 2001. [158899]
Ruth Kelly: Customs and Excise are required to keep a register of money service operators, under the 2001 Money Laundering Regulations. The register does not distinguish between conventional and alternative or parallel remittance brokers. To provide a breakdown of the overall number of businesses on the register would entail a disproportionate cost.
Carers
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of people providing unpaid care to people aged 65 and over. [158054]
Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
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Letter from John Pullinger to Sandra Gidley, dated 5 March 2004:
- The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the estimate of the number of people providing unpaid care to people aged 65 and over. I am replying in his absence. (158054)
- The General Household Survey (GHS), carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) asked a module of questions on care-giving in 2000 (the most recent year available). The GHS 2000 "Carers" report, showed that around 11% of adults in Great Britain (representing 4.7 million people) were caring for someone aged 65 and over. These estimates have been obtained by weighting the survey results to the relevant population estimates. As with any statistical sample survey, estimates from the GHS are subject to sampling variability.
- In 2000 as in previous years, 'carers' were defined as people who were looking after, or providing some regular service for, a sick, disabled or elderly person living in their own or another household. Certain types of caring have been excluded: caring for someone in the capacity of volunteer for a charity or other organisation, caring for someone receiving care in an institution, providing financial support only, and caring for someone with a temporary illness or disability (as defined by the respondent). It is not possible to identify from this data source whether carers were paid or unpaid.
- The 2001 Census asked a question about whether people provided unpaid care for a family member or friend, and for how many hours. Around 5.2 million people in England and Wales reported that they were providing unpaid care for a family member or friend, including over a million providing more than 50 hours a week. Around 950,000 people aged 65 and over provided care of this sort, including around 340,000 providing more than 50 hours a week. The Census did not collect information on the ages of those to whom care was given.
- Further information on carers from the 2001 Census and other sources is available on the National Statistics website at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nscl.asp?id=8467
Causes of Death
Simon Hughes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the latest figures for the death rate from (a) cancer and (b) coronary heart disease are in (i) Greater London, (ii) each London borough and (iii) the UK; and what they were in 1997. [158403]
Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Simon Hughes, dated 5 March 2004:
- As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning the latest figures for the death rate from (a) cancer and (b) coronary heart disease in (i) Greater London, (ii) each London borough and (iii) United Kingdom; and what they were in 1997. (158403)
- The latest year for which the figures requested are available is 2002 and these are given, with figures for 1997, in the table.
(21) Rates per 100,000 population standardised to the European Standard Population.
(22) The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for1997, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) for 2002. The codes used are listed as follows:
Cancer (malignant neoplasms)—ICD-9 140–208; ICD-10 C00-C97;
Coronary Heart Disease—ICD-9 410–414; ICD-10 I20-I25.
(23) Usual residents of these areas.
(24) Figures for the City of London are not presented in the table because the annual number of deaths is too small to calculate age-standardised mortality rates.
(25) Deaths occurring in each calendar year in England and Wales, and deaths registered in each calendar year in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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