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Israel

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the value in each of the last five years of (a) EU exports to Israel and (b) Israeli exports to the EU. [160158]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: Data on the EU's trade with Israel are given in the following table.

EU15 countries trade in goods with Israel 1998–2002£ million

	EU exports to Israel	EU imports from Israel
1998	7,360	4,677
1999	8,464	5,032
2000	9,662	6,071
2001	8,984	5,945
2002	8,444	5,373

Source:

Eurostat Intra and Extra EU Trade

Manufacturing

Simon Hughes: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the levels of (a) manufacturing output and (b) employment in the manufacturing sector were in (i) Greater London and (ii) each London borough in each of the last five years. [158452]

Ruth Kelly: I have been asked to reply.

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

Letter from Colin Mowl to Simon Hughes dated 15 March 2004:

The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on levels of (a) manufacturing output and (b) employment in the manufacturing sector in (i) Greater London and (ii) each London Borough in each of the last five years. I am replying in his absence. (158452)

The information given in the attached tables on employment and Gross Value Added (GVA) in the manufacturing sector is taken from the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI). Data on GVA are provided from 1998 to 2001, the most recent year for which estimates are available. Data on employment are provided from 1998 to 2002, although estimates for 2002 are provisional. Data have not been supplied prior to 1998 since this was the first year in which the ABI was carried out; 1997 data would be from a different data collection exercise and would therefore not be comparable.The Annual Business Inquiry samples businesses on a national level stratified by country (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) as well as by industrial classification and size

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band. Outputs are primarily produced at national level, with sub-national outputs (as shown in the tables) produced subsequently using a regression model to apportion the data to local units. All sub-national data should therefore be treated with caution. This particularly applies to borough-level data since small area estimates have greater sampling and modelling uncertainty.

Approximate Gross Value Added represents the income generated by businesses, encompassing wages and salaries, the cost of capital investment and financial charges, and profit. It includes taxes on production (e.g. business rates) net of subsidies but excludes subsidies and taxes on products (e.g. VAT and excise duty). The estimates shown are at current prices and hence are not adjusted for inflation The estimates for the number of employees by area are based on the location of the employing company, but it must be emphasised that they are derived from a regression model and are not actual counts of employees.

Gross Value Added (GVA)⁽⁶⁾ at current⁽⁷⁾ basic prices by the manufacturing sector⁽⁸⁾ in Greater London and in London boroughs, 1998–2001£ million

		Gross Value Added (GVA) at basic prices
Area	1998	1999	2000	2001
Greater London	13404.4	14274.8	13050.1	13606.2
London Boroughs
Barking and Dagenham	1179.7	838.2	372.3	381.5
Barnet	150.8	153.8	132.6	147.5
Bexley	329.1	400.2	329.4	446.0
Brent	588.9	551.7	500.7	527.9
Bromley	194.9	206.2	183.0	262.7
Camden	598.1	665.2	702.8	700.1
City of London	212.0	174.5	188.7	167.5
Croydon	378.6	431.4	378.5	336.2
Ealing	618.0	846.3	797.1	1155.5
Enfield	479.8	487.3	410.6	404.5
Greenwich	425.1	388.5	483.9	244.6
Hackney	346.0	321.4	276.8	277.9
Hammersmith and Fulham	280.0	351.0	460.8	518.9
Haringey	264.2	265.4	214.9	223.8
Harrow	435.5	691.4	305.6	203.1
Havering	234.9	270.4	208.8	230.9
Hillingdon	607.6	727.1	726.0	1070.9
Hounslow	526.1	481.7	611.6	470.1
Islington	419.7	475.6	476.2	520.8
Kensington and Chelsea	337.9	316.3	285.5	295.1
Kingston upon Thames	222.8	242.4	265.0	271.2
Lambeth	152.0	159.0	149.2	159.5
Lewisham	99.3	112.4	107.1	127.3
Merton	318.4	462.7	292.6	307.6
Newham	288.9	434.3	303.1	331.8
Redbridge	159.0	171.0	163.2	161.2
Richmond upon Thames	185.5	275.6	291.5	244.8
Southwark	614.6	746.7	814.9	669.7
Sutton	202.4	238.0	218.4	253.4
Tower Hamlets	1129.1	948.7	1128.1	1062.1
Waltham Forest	251.9	281.9	242.9	230.8
Wandsworth	181.1	181.0	189.4	199.4
Westminster	992.5	977.8	839.0	1001.9

Source:

ONS Annual Business Inquiry

⁽⁶⁾ Gross Value Added (GVA) was used as the most appropriate measure of manufacturing output as it excludes intermediate consumption that could lead to double counting

⁽⁷⁾ Current price estimates are not adjusted to take account of inflation

⁽⁸⁾ The data provided are for the manufacturing sector defined as sector D (Manufacturing) in the Standard Industrial Classification 1992 (SIC92)

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Employment

Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many manufacturing jobs have been lost so far in 2004 in (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland. [160258]

Jacqui Smith: Estimates of the change in the number of workforce jobs in manufacturing are not yet available for 2004. The Office for National Statistics will publish workforce jobs estimates for March 2004 for manufacturing by region in July 2004.

Mark Gilbert Morse Solicitors

Mr. Kevan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many chronic obstructive pulmonary disease claims have been settled with her Department by Mark Gilbert Morse Solicitors of Newcastle. [159468]

Nigel Griffiths: As of 31 January 2004 the Department had settled 5,227 claims with Mark Gilbert Morse solicitors.

Maternity Leave

Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many and what percentage of women in Crosby have taken 26 weeks maternity leave since 1997. [160521]

Mr. Sutcliffe: Take-up of maternity leave is not recorded centrally. It is possible to make an estimate of the numbers of women taking maternity leave based on employer returns to Inland Revenue for payment of Statutory Maternity Pay (since 2003 this has covered the first 26 weeks of leave). However, figures for the take-up of SMP are not available on a regional basis.

In addition, there will be some women who will qualify for maternity leave but not SMP (because they do not meet the earnings criteria) and similarly some who qualify for SMP but not leave (because they are employed earners for the purposes of SMP but not employees in order to qualify for leave).

Miners' Compensation

Mr. Denis Murphy: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much compensation has been paid to claimants in the Wansbeck constituency for (a) vibration white finger and (b) chronic bronchitis and emphysema. [159584]

Nigel Griffiths: Figures as of 31 January 2004 are:

£ million

	Total amount paid
Respiratory disease	11.9
Vibration white finger (VWF)	26.7

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Constituency figures can be found on the DTI website www.dti.gov.uk/coalhealth. The information is compiled in the middle of the month and shows the figures for the end of the previous month.

Mr. Todd: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many mining compensation claims have reached full and final settlement using the interim pensions spreadsheet. [159591]

Nigel Griffiths: As at 7 March 2004, 23,438 respiratory disease claims had received a full and final settlement in respect of pension loss. The Department does not distinguish between claims settled using the pension calculator and claims settled using the pension loss speadsheet. However, claimants who accept a pension loss payment using the spreadsheet have the option of accepting that payment in full and final settlement of pension loss, or accepting that payment as an interim award and claiming a top-up payment if appropriate once the pension calculator has been finalised.

Mr. Denis Murphy: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many claims have been received for chronic bronchitis and emphysema. [159692]

Nigel Griffiths: As of 29 February 2004, the Department had received nearly 463,000 claims for respiratory disease.

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