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Child Tax Credit
Mr. Willetts: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many parents have (a) been eligible for and (b) received the higher child tax credit in respect of a child under one in each year since it was introduced. [171600]
Dawn Primarolo: The child tax credit, which includes a baby addition to the family element, and a disregard for families receiving income support or income-based jobseeker's allowance and who have a child aged under one, have been available from April 2003.
Estimates of the numbers benefiting appear in Table 3.2 of "Child and Working Tax Credits. Quarterly Statistics. April 2004", and the footnote to that table. This document is available on the Inland Revenue website at: www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/stats/personal-tax-credits/menu.htm No estimate of the number of families eligible for such help will be available until the Family Resources Survey for 2003–04 has been analysed.
Mr. Borrow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many families in South Ribble have received child tax credits. [171996]
Dawn Primarolo: I refer my hon. Friend to my answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Burton (Mrs. Dean) on 15 March 2004, Official Report, column 98W.
Demography
Mr. David Willetts: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many mothers in each cohort since 1945 have had three or more children. [171601]
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. David Willetts, dated 11 May 2004:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking for the number of mothers in each cohort since 1945 who have had three or more children. (171601)
Statistics on women by the number of children they have given birth to are not readily available. However, estimates can be produced using information from birth registrations and the General Household Survey, together with estimates of the population by age and sex. This exercise is only carried out for England and Wales.
Summaries of these estimates are regularly published in the annual reference volume "Birth statistics (FM1)", but are normally presented in terms of proportions of women rather than numbers of women. However, I have supplied both the estimated numbers and proportions in the attached table.
Cohorts of women born from 1958 onwards have yet to complete their childbearing. As each more recent annual cohort of women have successively more of their childbearing life remaining there are, therefore, successively fewer women who have had three or more children.
(20) The years of birth shown are by necessity approximate, since births pre 1963 are available only by calendar year of occurrence and age of mother at childbirth. For instance, women aged 32 giving birth to children in 2002 could have been born in either 1969 or 1970; for convenience, however, such women are here regarded as belonging to the 1970 cohort.
(21) Women who have completed their fertility to age 45, population shown at age 45.
(22) Percentage of women of all parities in given cohort at age 45.
(23) Women who have not yet completed their fertility (have not reached age 45) The populations shown are at age they have completed by 2002, for example the 1970 cohort is at age 32.
(24) percentage of women of all parities in given cohort at age reached in 2002.
Source:
Office for National Statistics
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Economic Indicators
John Mann: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his estimates are for gross domestic product growth rates for fiscal years 2004–05 and 2005–06 in (a) France, (b) Germany, (c) Japan and (d) the United States. [171357]
Ruth Kelly: HM Treasury does not publish GDP growth forecasts for individual countries other than for the UK. Forecasts for GDP growth in the G7 and Euro area can be found in table B1 of the 2004 Financial Statement and Budget Report.
A number of international agencies, banks and market analysts publish country-specific forecasts. For example, forecasts of GDP growth for France, Germany, Japan and the US can be found in the OECD's Economic Outlook No.74, December 2003, table 1 of the statistical annex.
John Mann: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what he expects the size in percentage terms will be of budget deficits in fiscal years (a) 2004–05 and (b) 2005–06 in (i) France, (ii) Germany, (iii) Japan and (iv) the United States. [171358]
Ruth Kelly: HM Treasury does not publish projections of budget deficits for individual countries other than the UK. Projections on a calendar year basis, to 2005, for France, Germany, Japan and the US are available from a number of sources. The latest OECD figures are published in its "Economic Outlook" No. 74, December 2003, table 28 of the statistical annex.
John Mann: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the percentage of the workforce employed in the public sector over the last 20 years in (a) France, (b) Germany, (c) Japan and (d) the United States. [171359]
Ruth Kelly: Definitions of public sector employment vary between countries, but Government employment as a percentage of total employment is a comparable and publicly available indicator. The OECD releases data on Government employment as a percentage of total employment through its Economic Outlook database. Data from 1980 for France, Germany, Japan and the US are presented in the following table.
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John Mann: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how income tax receipts as a percentage of the total tax take have varied over the last 20 years in (a) France, (b) Germany, (c) Japan and (d) the United States. [171360]
Ruth Kelly: The OECD publishes figures for "Taxes on personal income as a percentage of total taxation" for each of its member countries, in its annual Revenue Statistics publication (OECD Revenue Statistics 1965–2002, October 2003 edition, p.78, Table 11). A copy of this publication is available in the Library of the House.
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