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Football (Taxation)
John Mann: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the overall liability from the Premier League and football league clubs to the Treasury in unpaid taxes, deferred taxes and business rates is. [176082]
Dawn Primarolo:
Individual businesses are monitored by both revenue Departments when they fall into arrears. However information on the debts of particular
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groups according to the nature of their business is not held centrally in both Departments. The information requested is therefore not readily available.
Fuel Sales (VAT)
Mr. Evans: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much VAT was raised from fuel sales in April. [175961]
John Healey: Customs and Excise do not collect data on VAT from individual goods and services. VAT from household expenditure on road fuels can be broadly estimated from ONS Consumer Trends data. However, data are published on a quarterly basis only.
Honours
Brian White: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much time his Department spent dealing with honours in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by Civil Service grade. [173045]
Ruth Kelly: The Treasury has a designated honours secretary at Range D (HEO/SEO) level for whom work in this area takes up around 10 per cent. of working hours.
The Management Board meets twice a year for an hour to consider nominations. Members of the Management Board also spend a very small amount of their time considering honours-related issues, but it is not possible to disaggregate this.
Information is not available on time spent on honours-related work by other staff within the Treasury and across its associated bodies.
Industrial Wages
Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average industrial wage in Great Britain is. [175854]
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. Gregory Campbell, dated 27 May 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking for the average industrial wage in Great Britain. (175854)
Average earnings are estimated from the 2003 New Earnings Survey (NES) and are provided for full-time employees on adult rates of pay whose pay was unaffected by absence during the pay period, by their place of work. This is the standard definition used for NES tables. The NES does not collect data on the self employed and people who do unpaid work.
The 2003 NES estimates that the total average industrial weekly earnings of full-time adult employees in Great Britain was £469.00.
The industrial wage covers all Production, Distribution and Service sectors of the economy. More detailed information on earnings is available in the published tables from the 2003 NES. They are available on the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme labour/NES2003Analyses By Industry/NES2003 Analyses By Industry.pdf.
The NES, carried out in April of each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in Great Britain. It is a one per cent. sample of all employees who are members of pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) schemes but, because of its sampling frame,
- it has difficulty capturing data on people with very low pay. It is therefore likely to under-represent relatively low paid staff earning below the tax threshold.
The New Earnings Survey publication criteria ensures that all estimates are undisclosive and of reliable quality. A number of estimates have been removed from the published tables for these reasons.
International Development
Tom Brake: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many representations he has received in the past 12 months in relation to the target for spending 0.7 per cent. of gross national income on development, broken down by type of representation. [175793]
John Healey: The Government have received the usual representations on all subjects relating to official development assistance (oda). Data on the numbers and types of representations are not held centrally in the format requested.
Since 1997 the UK's level of oda has increased in real terms by 93 per cent. It reached 0.34 per cent. of Gross National Income (GNI) in 2003–04, and is expected to exceed the EU target of 0.39 per cent. for member states in 2005–06. The UK remains committed to the UN target of 0.7 per cent. oda/GNI and to meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
Tom Brake: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in drawing up spending plans in the 2004 Comprehensive Spending Review, he will treat funds committed through the International Finance Facility as counting towards the target of spending 0.7 per cent. of gross national income on development. [176034]
John Healey: The results of the Spending Review will be made public in due course. The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) rules on the eligibility for official development assistance (oda), and it will be a matter for the DAC to decide what contribution IFF monies would make towards the UK oda/GNI level. The precise arrangements for the operation of the International Finance Facility (IFF) are still the subject of discussions between the UK and other interested governments.
The IFF has been designed to front-load the aid to reach the $50 billion extra per year that it is estimated is needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). On current trends few of the MDGs will be met by the target date of 2015, and many will remain off-track without increased investment by donor countries. By delivering aid now, when it will have the most impact, the IFF will be able to provide the world's poorest countries with the funds they desperately need.
National Minimum Wage (Manchester)
Tony Lloyd: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many workers in Manchester, Central have benefited from the national minimum wage. [175716]
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 Colin Mowl to Mr. Tony Lloyd, dated 27 May 2004:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question about the number of workers in Manchester Central who have benefited from the national minimum wage (NMW). I am replying in his absence. (175716)
Estimates for Parliamentary Constituencies are not available.
However, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) calculates estimates of the number of jobs paid less than NMW rates for the United Kingdom and Government Office Regions. A guide to measuring low pay and associated articles and data can be found on the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=5837&Pos=1&ColRank=1&Rank=272
Official Vehicles
John Barrett: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of official vehicles used by his Department are run on (a) petrol, (b) diesel, (c) liquid petroleum gas and (d) compressed natural gas. [172768]
Ruth Kelly: HM Treasury's ministerial vehicles are provided by the Government Car Service. Detailed information on the breakdown of the GSC vehicle fleet was provided by the Cabinet Office on 25 May 2004, Official Report, column 1538W.
Petrol and Diesel Duty
Mr. Redwood: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what estimate he has made of the revenue which would be raised from petrol and diesel duty if pump prices rose to 90 pence a litre on average in the week beginning 17 May and stayed at that price for the rest of 2004–05; [174568]
(2) what the tax take is from each additional one penny on the litre price of fuel at the pumps; [174569]
(3) what estimate he has made of the amount of tax revenue which the Government would raise from petrol and diesel if pump prices remain at their current level for the rest of the financial year; [174570]
(4) what his latest forecast is for the revenue from all taxes on petrol and diesel for 2004–05; [174571]
(5) what the Budget forecast was for all tax revenues on petrol and diesel for 2004–05. [174572]
John Healey: The forecast revenue from fuel duty is published in table C.8 of the 2004 Financial Statement and Budget Report (HC 301). Estimates of the impact of duty changes were published in "Tax Ready Reckoner and Tax Reliefs", alongside the 2003 pre-Budget report (Cm 6042). Reliable estimates of the impact of changes in prices are not available.
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