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Child Tax Credit
Mr. Djanogly: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families in the Huntingdon constituency are in receipt of child tax credit. [170849]
Ruth Kelly: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Burton (Mrs. Dean) on 15 March 2004, Official Report, column 98W.
Mr. Meacher: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families in Oldham West and Royton have received child tax credit. [170900]
Ruth Kelly: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Burton (Mrs. Dean) on 15 March 2004, Official Report, column 98W.
Citizen Information Project
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on progress on (a) the Citizen Information Project and (b) the objectives of the UK Population Register. [170336]
Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the General Registrar, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Dennis Roberts to Mr. Nick Gibb, dated 5 May 2004:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on progress on the Citizen Information Project and the objectives of the UK Population Register. I am replying in his absence. (170336)
The objective of the Citizen Information Project (CIP) is to put in place a common government infrastructure to enable the sharing of basic contact information (name, address, date and place of birth, sex, date of death (where relevant)) about citizens.
- This should lead to improved accuracy of the information held, more effective and efficient delivery of public services, and greater convenience and empowerment for citizens across the lifetime of their dealings with the state. It should also improve the base of statistical information underpinning the development and implementation of government policy.
CIP is being managed by the General Register Office, part of the Office for National Statistics. It is being taken forward as a staged project, subject to regular Ministerial review. A feasibility study was completed in 2003, and approval to proceed to the next stage of work (project definition) was announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 6 January 2004. In the project definition phase we will explore a range of options for delivering the project's aims, taking account of ongoing developments in related areas of work, including in particular the Identity Cards programme being led by the Home Office.
Departmental Procurement
Michael Fabricant: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of the (a) crockery, (b) cutlery and (c) glassware procured by his Department over the last five years is of British manufacture. [170810]
Ruth Kelly: The Treasury's catering service has been contracted out for several years and the cutlery, crockery and glassware used in providing that service has been procured by the suppliers of that service.
Employment
Mr. Djanogly: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many job vacancies there were in the Huntingdon constituency in (a) 1997 and (b) 2003. [170855]
Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Jonathan Djanogly, dated 5 May 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about job vacancies in Huntingdon parliamentary constituency.
According to Jobcentre Plus administrative records the number of unfilled vacancies in the Huntingdon travel-to-work area was 866 on average during 1997. This represents only a proportion of all the vacancies available, as not all vacancies are notified to Jobcentres.
Jobcentre vacancy statistics were withdrawn from National Statistics in September 2001 as a result of distortions to the data, which occurred following the introduction of new administrative procedures by Jobcentre Plus. Comparable figures for vacancies in 2003 are therefore unavailable.
Results from the ONS Vacancy Survey were released as National Statistics from July 2003, but are not available for local areas.
Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what the (a) change and (b) percentage change was in full-time permanent jobs in Wirral, South from 1997 to 31 December 2003; [170302]
(2) how many new jobs have been created in Wirral, South since 1997. [170303]
Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Ben Chapman, dated 5 May 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions about full-time jobs and jobs created in Wirral South. (170302, 170303)
While statistics of new jobs created are not available explicitly, statistics from surveys enable comparisons to be made of net changes, in numbers of jobs, from year to year.
The following table shows the information requested, relating to all jobs and full-time jobs, in Wirral South, for 1997 and the latest year available, 2002. No information is available about whether the jobs were permanent.
| Number, percentage | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number of employees | Full-time | Total |
| 1997 | 16,000 | 22,700 |
| 2002 | 16,500 | 23,800 |
| Change from 1997 to 2002 | ||
| Absolute | 500 | 1,100 |
| Percentage | 3.0 | 4.9 |
(11) Employee jobs only, not self-employed jobs.
Source:
1997; Annual Employment Survey, rescaled 2002; Annual Business Inquiry (ABI).
Gift Aid
John Barrett: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his answer of 23 April 2004, Official Report, column 686W, on gift aid, what assessment he has made of the effect of the abolition of gift aid claims on day memberships on donations to charities. [170046]
John Healey: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave him on 30 March 2004, Official Report, column 1351W, and 23 April 2004, Official Report, column 686W, and the answer my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary gave him on 4 March 2004, Official Report, column 1042.
In last year's pre-Budget report, the Chancellor announced changes to the Gift Aid rules which aim to maintain the principles of Gift Aid as a scheme designed to encourage donations to charity.
The Inland Revenue is consulting closely with affected charities in the heritage and conservation sectors on how this may best be achieved, and to ensure that there are no unintended side-effects.
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These so-called "Day Membership" schemes do not generate additional donations, but merely reclassify admission fees as donations on which Gift Aid is then claimed. The changes are therefore not expected to reduce the total amount received from individuals by these charities in donations and admission fees, although the gift aid tax relief from the Government would no longer be claimable.
Household Debt/Income
Simon Hughes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the average (a) household debt per annum and (b) household monthly income in each year since 1997 in Greater London, broken down by borough. [170494]
Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Simon Hughes, dated 5 May 2004:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on average household debt per annum, and average household monthly income for the boroughs of Greater London. (170494)
The Office for National Statistics does not compile estimates of household debt below the UK level. Similarly estimates of quarterly household income are only available at the UK level. No estimates of monthly income are compiled.
ONS has published gross disposable household income (GDHI) at current prices at the NUTS1, 2 and 3 sub-national geographies. An explanation of how boroughs fit into these geographies is provided in the attached annex. These estimates were last published on 26 March 2002 and are presented in the table below. This data set runs from 1995 to 1999 and is consistent with the 2001 National Accounts. The estimates are available at. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/article.asp?ID=128&Pos=2&Col
Rank=1&Rank=224
| Area | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11,485 | 11,811 | 12,207 |
| Inner London | 12,089 | 12,363 | 12,935 |
| Outer London | 11,110 | 11,467 | 11,748 |
At the NUTS3 geographic level, data was only of sufficient quality for ONS to publish estimates of household income on a three year average basis. These are presented as indices relative to the UK average.
| £ per capita (average over whole period) | |
|---|---|
| Area | GDHI Index |
| London | 121 |
| Inner London | 127 |
| Inner London—East | 106 |
| Inner London—West | 164 |
| Outer London | 117 |
| Outer London—East and North East | 112 |
| Outer London—South | 120 |
| Outer London—West and North West | 119 |
(12) Index value is 100 for the UK as a whole.
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| NUTS-3 | LAU 1 level/Boroughs |
|---|---|
| Inner London—West | Camden, City of London, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Wandsworth, Westminster. |
| Inner London—East | Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Lambeth, Newham, Southwark, Lewisham, Tower Hamlets. |
| Outer London—East and North East | Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Enfield, Greenwich, Havering, Redbridge, Waltham Forest. |
| Outer London—South | Bromley, Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Sutton. |
| Outer London—West and North West | Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Richmond upon Thames. |
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