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EU Funding
Mr. Foulkes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the construction projects in each region of the UK which have received whole or partial funding from the EU in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area; and what the value of the EU funding was (a) per project and (b) as a percentage of the total cost. [184520]
Mr. Boateng:
Information on UK receipts from the EC budget can be found in Table 3.3 of the 2004 European Community Finances White Paper (Cmd 6134). Detailed information on individual projects is not held centrally, and the question could only be answered at disproportionate cost.
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Mr. Foulkes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the total value of funding received by each region of the UK from the European Union in each of the last five years, broken down by type of funding; and what the value of matching UK funding is in each case. [184521]
Mr. Boateng: The UK is eligible for EU spending through Structural Funds, which is managed by DTI, the Common Agricultural Policy, which is managed by DEFRA, and internal policies, which are managed by DTI, DfES, DWP, DCMS, the Department of Health, the Department for Transport, and the Home Office. Information on UK receipts from the EC budget can be found in Table 3.3 of the 2004 European Community Finances White Paper (Cmd 6134).
Detailed information on individual projects is not held centrally, and so the actual funding received in each year by region, broken down by type of funding, and the value of matching UK funding, could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Euro (Pension Liabilities)
Mr. Webb: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the implications of British membership of the Euro for the UK's liability to share in the unfunded pension liabilities of other Eurozone countries; and if he will make a statement. [185068]
Ruth Kelly: Article 103 of the EC Treaty explicitly rules out adoption of liabilities of one member state by others or by the EU as a whole. EMU membership would not change this.
KF Concept
Mr. David Stewart: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions he has had with the Financial Services Authority on its investigations into the KF concept. [183216]
Ruth Kelly: I understand that there have been no discussions between the Treasury and the Financial Services Authority concerning its investigations into the KF Concept and the activities of Mr. Kevin Foster and his associates. The FSA has issued public statements on its website www.fsa.gov.uk about the progress of its investigation and it would be inappropriate to comment further. Anyone with relevant information about or who has suffered detriment because of the KF Concept should contact the FSA.
MRSA (Frimley Park Hospital)
Andrew Mackinlay: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people have died in the past three years at Frimley Park Hospital where the cause of death has been wholly or partly attributable to MRSA; and if he will make a statement. [184668]
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 Len Cook to Mr. Andrew Mackinlay, dated 19 July 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many people have died at Frimley Park Hospital where the cause of death has been wholly or partly attributable to MRSA. (184668)
The total number of deaths in Frimley Park Hospital where the cause of death was wholly or partly attributable to MRSA 1 in the years 2000 to 2002, the latest year for which figures are available, was seven.
1 Identified using the methodology described in Griffiths C, Lamagni TL, Crowcroft NS, Duckworth G and Rooney C (2004) Trends in MRSA in England and Wales: analysis of morbidity and mortality data for 1993–2002. Health Statistics Quarterly 21, 15–22.
Non-departmental Public Bodies
Llew Smith: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many new employees of non-departmental public bodies will be created as a result of the announcements made in the Comprehensive Spending Review. [184383]
Mr. Boateng: All areas of the public service are committed to achieving efficiency gains of 2.5 per cent. per year over the Spending Review period. How these savings are delivered within non-departmental bodies (NDPBs) and the resulting changes to workforce number will be decided by the Department and their respective NDPBs.
Postal Services (Dangerous Goods)
Mr. David Stewart: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on his assessment of the possible security threats posed by the importation of firearms, drugs and other dangerous goods into the UK by post. [183498]
John Healey: HM Customs and Excise are responsible for the detection of prohibited and restricted goods into the United Kingdom. With other agencies, they keep possible security threats under constant review and align their deployment of resources according to the level of assessed risk.
Public Sector Employees
Mr. Collins: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what roles education employees counted in the Office for National Statistics survey of public sector employees published in May fulfilled, broken down by (a) job title and (b) salary. [183155]
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. Tim Collins, dated 19 July 2004:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about public sector employees. (183155)
The estimates of public sector employees in the UK published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are based on survey sources that do not capture information on job title or salary, and so the ONS is unable to provide the data requested. The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) publishes information on the school workforce in England, and provisional data for January 2004 were published in a DfES statistical First Release on 29 April 2004. The ONS and DfES data sets are not directly comparable due to differences in geographical coverage,
- and the fact that ONS estimates are headcounts while DfES estimates are calculated in terms of full-time equivalents. Additionally, DfES publishes information on teachers' pay, for both England and Wales, in a document "School Workforce in England". Information on teachers' pay is given in tables 32 to 38 in the most recent edition, which relates to 2003. It can be accessed via the DfES website at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000443/index.shtml.
Information on the school workforces in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is published by the relevant devolved administration.
Public Service Agreements
Mr. Hammond: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many of the public service agreements negotiated for the current spending review period are on course for all targets contained in them to be met in their original form; how many have seen targets set in them amended since the original agreement; and in the case of how many he does not expect all targets originally set within them to be achieved during the spending review period. [184200]
Mr. Boateng: Departments' performance against the PSA targets agreed in the 2002 Spending Review is reported in Departmental Reports, Autumn Performance Reports and on the PSA performance website. Departments will continue to report their performance against these targets until the targets have reached their outturn dates.
The full details of how PSA targets have evolved between the 2002 and 2004 Spending Reviews will be published on the HM Treasury website on 31 July 2004.
State Pension/Average Weekly Earnings
Mr. Hurst: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much the (a) state pension for a single person and (b) average weekly earnings were in each year from 1974 to 2003. [184495]
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. Alan Hurst, dated 19 July 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how much the (a) state pension for a single person and (b) the average weekly wage earnings were in each year from 1974 to 2003. (184495)
Average earnings are estimated from the 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 attached table shows the average gross weekly wage and basic pension for a single person from 1974 to 2003.
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.
| Average gross weekly earnings | Basic state pension | |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 41.7 | 10.0 |
| 1975 | 54.0 | (22)11.6 |
| (23)13.3 | ||
| 1976 | 64.2 | 15.3 |
| 1977 | 70.2 | 17.5 |
| 1978 | 79.1 | 19.5 |
| 1979 | 89.6 | 23.3 |
| 1980 | 110.2 | 27.2 |
| 1981 | 124.9 | 29.6 |
| 1982 | 136.5 | 32.9 |
| 1983 | 147.4 | 34.1 |
| 1984 | 159.3 | 35.8 |
| 1985 | 171.0 | 38.3 |
| 1986 | 184.7 | 38.7 |
| 1987 | 198.9 | 39.5 |
| 1988 | 218.4 | 41.2 |
| 1989 | 239.7 | 43.6 |
| 1990 | 263.1 | 46.9 |
| 1991 | 284.7 | 52.0 |
| 1992 | 304.8 | 54.2 |
| 1993 | 317.3 | 56.1 |
| 1994 | 325.7 | 57.6 |
| 1995 | 337.6 | 58.9 |
| 1996 | 351.6 | 61.2 |
| 1997 | 367.6 | 62.5 |
| 1998 | 385.8 | 64.7 |
| 1999 | 401.5 | 66.8 |
| 2000 | 419.7 | 67.5 |
| 2001 | 444.2 | 72.5 |
| 2002 | 464.7 | 75.5 |
| 2003 | 475.8 | 77.5 |
Notes:
1. Average gross weekly earnings are for adult full-time employees whose pay for the survey period was unaffected by absence. For the years 1974 to 1982 the estimates shown are for men aged 21 and over, and women aged 18 and over.
2. The basic state pension was increased in the following months
1974—July
1975—(22) April and (23) November
1976—1985 November
1986—July
1987—2003 April.
Source:
ONS New Earnings Survey.
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