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Customs and Excise (Scotland)
Mr. Weir: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many investigation officers employed by Customs and Excise work (a) full-time and (b) part-time or on secondment within Scotland. [200979]
Dawn Primarolo: The information is as follows:
(a) HM Customs and Excise has 85 Law Enforcement investigation staff based in Scotland including two officers seconded to the Crown Office, Financial Crime Unit and Civil Recovery Unit to support the Lord Advocate's Proceeds of Crime Act strategy.
(b) There are no part-time investigation officers or investigation officers seconded from elsewhere in the UK to Scotland. However any Law Enforcement investigation officer employed by HM Customs and Excise may be required to work in Scotland in response to operational circumstances.
Departmental Jobs
Sir Archy Kirkwood: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) full-time, (b) part-time and (c) temporary jobs his Department and its executive agencies have had in (i) the Scottish Borders and (ii) Scotland since 1997. [199576]
Mr. Timms:
The answer is given as in the table.
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Note:
The Office of Government Commerce has been in existence since 1 April 2001.
Notes:
1. Information is not available for the years marked "n/a" .
2. The main reason for the IR staffing increase in Scotland over the years is the sitting of a number of the new IR Contact Centres in the Scotland.
Notes:
1. Information is not available for the years marked "n/a" .
2. The Customs and Excise data for 2004 is to be regarded as provisional as it is from internal C&E sources and not from the Civil Service Staffing statistics.
3. HM Customs and Excise have no offices within the Scottish Borders area and did not have any offices in 1997. Work within this area is covered by staff officially based in Edinburgh and other parts of the Scottish region.
Note:
Information prior to 1 April 1999 is not available.
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HM Treasury, Debt Management Office, Office for National Statistics, Royal Mint, and Government Actuary's Department have no full-time, part-time and temporary jobs in the Scottish Borders or Scotland since 1997.
Departmental Training
Charles Hendry: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the (a) cost to the Department, (b) title and (c) location was of each training course organised by his Department for its staff in each financial year since 1997–98. [200395]
Mr. Timms: The information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. For example, HM Customs and Excise alone delivered over 117,000 learning interventions last year.
Charles Hendry: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what financial penalties were paid in each financial year since 1997–98 to training providers by the Department for training courses prepared for its staff which were subsequently cancelled at the Department's request. [200415]
Mr. Timms: The information requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Disabled Pension Tax Credits (Scotland)
David Hamilton: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how the introduction of the working and disabled pension tax credits has changed support to low income families in (a) Scotland and (b) Midlothian. [200078]
Dawn Primarolo: The introduction of the working and child tax credits has sharply increased the number of working families with low or moderate incomes in Scotland and in Midlothian who are benefiting from financial support. The number of disabled workers in Scotland benefiting from tax credits has increased even more sharply.
By April 2004, 201,800 families with children were receiving more than the family element of child tax credit in Scotland, 56 per cent. more than the number of families receiving working families' tax credit in November 2002. By January 2004, 3,100 families were receiving more than the family element of child tax credit in Midlothian, 57 per cent. more than the number receiving working families' tax credit in November 2002.
By April 2004, 7,600 households in Scotland were benefiting from the disabled worker element of working tax credit, more than double the number of households receiving disabled person's tax credit in October 2002.
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Data on the number of households in Midlothian benefiting from the disabled worker element of working tax credit are not yet available.
Economic Activity (Wandsworth)
Tom Cox: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the economic activity rate in the London borough of Wandsworth was in each of the last three years. [199667]
Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Dennis Roberts to Mr. Tom Cox, dated 30 November 2004:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about economic activity. I am replying in his absence. (199667)
The attached table shows the working age economic activity rates in the London Borough of Wandsworth for the twelve month periods ending in February each year from 2002 to 2004. These estimates from the Labour Force Survey are, as with any sample survey, subject to sampling variability.
| Percentage | |
|---|---|
| 2002 | 84.2 |
| 2003 | 80.5 |
| 2004 | 80.9 |
(6) Economically active persons as a percentage of all working age population. Working age refers to men aged 16 to 64 and women 16 to 59.
Source:
ONS Labour Force Survey
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