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VAT Registrations (Tyne and Wear)
Mr. Cousins: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many VAT registrations there were in each local authority in Tyne and Wear in (a) 1999, (b) 2001 and (c) each year for which figures are available. [220397]
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Dawn Primarolo:
Customs and Excise do not collect data on the number of VAT registered businesses by local authority. However, information on the number of enterprises registered for VAT at the start of the year is available via the Small Business Service website at
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www.sbs.gov.uk. This can be used to give an indication of the size of the business population within Tyne and Wear. Table 1 shows the number of VAT registered enterprises in this area at the start of each year between 1999 and 2004.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Alzheimer's Disease
Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health on the withdrawal from the NHS in Northern Ireland of certain Alzheimer's drugs following the recent recommendation by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. [220462]
Angela Smith: I have had no discussions regarding the withdrawal of any drugs used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Drugs in the generic categories Donepezil, Galantamine, Memantine and Rivastigmine remain available on Health Service prescription in Northern Ireland.
Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland whether he intends to extend to Northern Ireland the recent National Institute for Clinical Excellence recommendations in relation to thewithdrawal from the NHS of certain Alzheimer's drugs. [220463]
Angela Smith: Guidelines produced by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) are only applicable to England and Wales and do not currently extend to Northern Ireland, Following completion of the NICE consultation on recommendations on the use of these drugs and the issue of their Final Appraisal Determination, the Department will then consider what local implications, if any, these final recommendations might have.
Clinical guidance on drugs and dementia, which is currently being produced by the locally based Clinical Resource Efficiency Support Team (CREST), will also be taken into account by the Department when considering local implications for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Ards Borough (Planning)
Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will set out the number of (a) planning applications which have come before Ards borough council (b) which have come before Ards borough council with recommendation for refusal, (c) the number of site meetings which have been requested by Ards borough councillors and (d) the number of applications which have been overturned and given approval, each year for the past six years. [208979]
Angela Smith: The information requested is as follows.
(12)For the years 2000–02 the figures have been collected electronically and as a result include deferred applications presented to council. For 2003 and 2004 a manual exercise was carried out and these figures relate to the number of planning applications taken to council with an initial opinion to refuse. Deferred applications are not included.
(13)Information on the number of site meetings requested is not routinely collected and extracting the information for the period from 1999 to 2002 would be at a disproportionate cost.
(14)Not available.
It is only possible to provide answers to parts a, b and d of the question for the last five years, as the information for previous years is not held electronically by the planning service. Information for 1999 could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
There is no correlation between the data within a specific year. The data refers to the year in which (columns B and C) applications were presented to council and column D the year that the final approval decision was taken by the planning service. It cannot be assumed that the number of applications overturned in one year is directly related to the number of applications presented to council with a recommendation to refuse. Neither can it be assumed that the number of site meeting requested relates to the number of applications overturned and given approval. Due to the complexity of the planning process it can be a considerable time between the receipt of an application and a final decision being taken.
Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many site meetings have been requested by each member of Ards borough council, in relation to planning applications which have come before council with a recommendation for refusal in each year for the last six years. [208983]
Angela Smith:
The Planning Service does not record or hold any information on which members have requested meetings or how many they may have requested.
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Cannabis
Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) arrests and (b) cautions there have been in each police district command unit area in Northern Ireland for the (i) possession and (ii) sale of cannabis since its reclassification. [218224]
Mr. Pearson: The number of persons either arrested or cautioned by the Police Service of Northern Ireland for Class C drugs offences from 29 January 2004 to 31 January 2005 are detailed in the following tables.
Note:
Statistics are provisional and may be subject to minor amendment.
Source:
Central Statistics Unit, Police Service of Northern Ireland, Lisnasharragh.
Note:
Statistics are provisional and may be subject to minor amendment.
Source:
Central Statistics Unit, Police Service of Northern Ireland, Lisnasharragh
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