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Departmental Properties
Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many properties are held by the Department; what total floor space these properties provide; how many properties are vacant; and how much floor space vacant properties comprise. [206483]
Mr. Boateng: The Treasury occupies 1 Horse Guards Road, which has a net internal area of 31,200 square metres. No other properties are held or occupied.
Employment Rates
Mr. Willetts: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many adults of working age were economically inactive in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many of these were in each of the 10 largest cities in terms of population. [206390]
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Mr. Boateng: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl to Mr. David Willetts, dated 10 January 2005:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about economic inactivity. I am replying in his absence.
The table overleaf gives estimates for the working age people who are economically inactive (i.e. neither in employment nor unemployed) and resident in each of the 10 largest cities in the UK for the three month period ending in August 2004. The data are the numbers of economically inactive people resident in each City Unitary Authority area, except for London where the data are for the sum of the London Boroughs. The cities are listed in the order of size of population in the Unitary Authority areas.
These estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) are, as with any sample survey, subject to sampling variability.
(5507180025) This refers to working age people (male 16 to 64, female 16 to 59) who are neither in employment nor unemployed.
(5507180026) Each of the 10 largest cities in the United Kingdom are sorted in descending order of population size.
(5507180027) Sum of London boroughs.
Source:
ONS Labour Force Survey
Mr. Willetts: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer the Chancellor of the Exchequer,(1) what the rates of (a) economic activity and (b) employment amongst men aged (i) under 25 years, (ii) 25 to 34 years, (iii) 35 to 44 years, (iv) 45 to 54 years, (v) 55 to 64 years, (vi) 65 to 74 years and (vii) 75 years or over were on the latest date for which figures are available; [206419]
(2) what (a) economic activity rate and (b) employment rate amongst women aged (i) under 25 years, (ii) 25 to 34 years, (iii) 35 to 44 years, (iv) 45 to 54 years, (v) 55 to 60 years, (vi) 61 to 64 years, (vii) 65 to 74 years and (viii) 75 years or over was on the latest date for which figures are available. [206422]
Mr. Boateng: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Mr. Colin Mawl to Mr. David Willetts, dated 10 January 2004:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Questions about employment and economic activity. I am replying in his absence.
The table overleaf gives numbers and rates of employment and economic activity by age and by gender in the United Kingdom for the three-month period ending in August 2004.
These estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) are, as with any sample survey, subject to sampling variability.
(5507180028) This refers to people aged 16 to 24.
(5507180029) The rates refer to people in employment as percentage of the population in the relevant gender and age group.
(5507180030) The rates refer to people who are economically active (either in employment or unemployed) as a percentage of the total population in the relevant gender and age group.
Source:
ONS Labour Force Survey
European Union
Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the UK financial contribution to the European Union is calculated on the VAT (a) due to and (b) actually received by Customs and Excise. [207316]
Dawn Primarolo:
The European Union budget is financed by four resources, as explained in the Government's annual White Paper on European Community Finances (Cm 6134): customs duties, including those on agricultural products, sugar levies, a VAT-based resource, and a GNI-based resource . The VAT-based resource currently makes up about 14 per cent. of total EC Budget revenue. It is calculated on the
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basis of a notional harmonised rate and reflects finally taxed expenditure across the EU.
The method for calculating the VAT-based resource is set out in the Own Resources Decision:
a weighted average of the rates at which VAT is charged in the member state is then applied to the net total to produce the member state's intermediate national base;
the intermediate base is then adjusted for derogations operated under the Sixth VAT Directive to produce the harmonised base;
a notional rate of 1 per cent. is then applied to this base. The base is then capped at 50 per cent. of 1 per cent. of the member state's GNI; and
a call-up rate (currently a maximum of 0.5 per cent.) is applied to produce a member state's VAT-based contribution.
Food Imports
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what quantities of UK produced foods have been transported to (a) EU member states and (b) other countries and then imported back into the UK since 2002. [205251]
Alun Michael: I have been asked to reply.
It is not possible to determine whether exported foods are produced in the UK or imported, processed and then exported. Additionally HM Customs and Excise only record country of dispatch rather then county of origin.
Inland Revenue/Customs and Excise (Merger)
Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the documents his Department has published since 1997 relating to the potential (a) cost and (b) efficiency savings resulting from a merger of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise. [207287]
Dawn Primarolo: Documents published by the Chancellor's departments since 1997 relating to the potential cost and efficiency savings resulting from a merger of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise are:
Financing Britain's Future, Review of Revenue Departments by Gus O'Donnell (March 2004, ISBN 0–010–161632–5)
Copies are available in the House Library.
Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to carry out further assessments of the potential (a) cost and (b) efficiency savings resulting from a merger of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise. [207288]
Dawn Primarolo:
As the necessary changes are developed, the management designate of HMRC is committed to assessing costs and benefits. Work on this
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has already commenced and has to date produced the current known costs of integration of £75 million as stated in the Regulatory Impact Assessment for the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Bill, and the expected staff savings from integration were identified in the efficiency technical notes published by the departments.
Mr. Liddell-Grainger: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many (a) gross job losses, (b) net job losses and (c) job relocations from (i) the Inland Revenue and (ii) HM Customs and Excise would result from implementing (A) the Gershon Review, (B) the Lyons Review and (C) the merger of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise; [207289]
(2) what efficiency savings from (a) the Inland Revenue and (b) HM Customs and Excise would result from implementing (i) the Gershon Review, (ii) the Lyons Review and (iii) the merger of the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise. [207290]
Dawn Primarolo: The efficiency and relocation recommendations of the Gershon and Lyons reviews apply to the integrated Revenue and Customs department announced in the 2004 Budget.
I refer the hon. Member to the Efficiency Technical Note published by HM Revenue and Customs, http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/psa/hmrc_etn.pdf.
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