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National Census
Mr. Amess: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to review the process of collecting data for the national census. [132]
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John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. David Amess, dated 23 May 2005:
As National Statistician and Registrar General for England and Wales I have been asked to reply to your recent questions asking what plans there are to review the process of collecting data for the national census. (132)
The Office for National Statistics published in March 2004 an information paper which set out the proposed design for the 2011 census. This document can be found on our website at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=10790
Included in the design are proposals to have flexibility in data collection by providing various ways in which the public might respond. Alternative collection methods offer opportunities for increased coverage and allow investigation of suitable completion methods for disadvantaged groups such as the visually impaired. Advances in technology may present further alternatives but the present design covers collection via paper, internet and telephone.
At this stage we see the internet as having the possibility of quite radically changing the range of languages we could use for the census, and the timing and quality of response, although this depends on our processes for effectively developing a register of households, which is in hand elsewhere in Government.
Morbidity Rates
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the death rate has been among people aged over 75 years in each of the last 24 months, broken down by major cause of death. [257]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Andrew Lansley, dated 23 May 2005:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the death rate has been among people aged over 75 years in each of the last 24 months, broken down by major cause of death. (257)
The latest year for which figures are available is 2003. The attached table shows the crude annual death rate at ages 75 and over and the number of deaths in each month in 2002 and 2003 at this age. Figures are given for five major cause groups, based on chapters of the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10).
(5) Rate per 100,000 persons aged 75 and over, based on mid-year population estimate for 2002 and 2003, published in October 2004. In 2002 and 2003, there were 4,004,700 and 4,034,000 persons at ages 75 and over, respectively.
(6) The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10).
The codes used are listed:
Diseases of the circulatory system—I00-I99;
Neoplasms—C00-D48;
Diseases of the respiratory system—J00-J99;
Diseases of the digestive system—K00-K93;
Mental and behavioural disorders—F00-F99.
(7) Figures are based on deaths occurring in each month and calendar year.
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Productivity
Mr. Soames: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps he is taking to improve productivity in the public sector. [175]
Mr. Des Browne: By implementing the recommendations of the Gershon review of public sector efficiency, the Government will achieve £21 billion of annual efficiency gains by 2007–08 and a gross reduction of 84,000 civil service and administrative posts. The Government have already achieved efficiency gains exceeding £2 billion and a reduction of 12,500 posts. By implementing the Lyons review of public sector relocation over 4,300 posts have already been moved out of London and the south east. These efficiency gains will help to drive increases in Government output and productivity. The Government have previously welcomed the Atkinson review as the first step to improve the measurement of Government output and productivity and to ensure that measures of the impact of increased investment in our schools, hospitals and other public services are informative and robust. In the year to October 2004, measured public sector output grew by just over 5 per cent. nearly twice as fast as during the previous 12 months.
School Funding
Mr. Donaldson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the average amount that will be paid to a primary school in respect of the extra payments announced in the Budget for 2005–06. [347]
Mr. Des Browne:
Details of the Budget package for England's primary schools can be found in chapter 6 of Budget 2005 'Investing in our Future'.
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Budget 2005 announced increases in the Schools Standards Grant payment to headteachers of £100 million for 2006–07 and £150 million for 2007–08. These increases were additional to increases already promised for 2005–06. As a result, direct payments to the headteacher of a typical primary school in England will increase from around £30,000 in 2004–05 to £31,000 in 2005–06, rising to around £34,000 in 2006–07 and around £36,000 in 2007–08. Barnett consequentials arising from these resources have been allocated to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the usual fashion.
Self-harm
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the death rate from intentional self-harm and injury of undetermined extent has been in each year since 1975. [245]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Andrew Lansley, dated 23 May 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what the death rate from intentional self-harm and injury of undetermined intent has been in each year since 1975. (245)
The most recent available figures on intentional self-harm and injury of undetermined intent are for the calendar year 2003. The figures in the attached table show the age-standardised mortality rate for intentional self-harm and injury of undetermined intent by sex and for all persons for the calendar years 1975 to 2003.
(8) Directly age-standardised to the European standard population.
(9) The cause of death for intentional self harm was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Eighth Revision (ICD-8) codes E950-E959 for the years 1975 to 1978, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes E950-E959for the years 1986 to 2000, and, for the years 2001 to 2003, the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes X60-X84.
(10) The cause of death for injury of undetermined intent was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Eighth Revision (ICD-8) codes E980-E989for the years 1975 to 1978, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes E980-E989 excluding E988.8 for the years 1986 to 2000, and, for the years 2001 to 2003, the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes YJO-Y34 excluding Y33.9 where the Coroner's verdict was pending.
(11) Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year from 1975 to 1992 and for deaths occurring in each calendar year from 1993 onwards.
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