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Income Tax
Dr. Cable: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individuals paid a combined deduction rate on their income in excess of 40 per cent. for the latest five years for which data is available; and if he will make a statement. [4533]
Dawn Primarolo:
The information requested is unavailable.
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Insurance Availability (Criminals)
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions he has had with the insurance industry on the availability of insurance products for individuals who have a criminal record. [4672]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: I and my officials regularly meet representatives of the insurance industry to discuss a variety of issues.
I understand that cover for ex-offenders seeking general insurance products is available in the market. The practice of insurance companies varies from case to case, however, and it may be necessary for people to look across the market for acceptable cover.
National Income
Mr. Paul Goodman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will break down post-tax national income by (a) decile and (b) quintile for each year since 1997. [3889]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl to Mr. Paul Goodman, dated 15 June 2005:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking for a breakdown of post-tax national income by (a) decile and (b) quintile for each year since 1997. I am replying in his absence. (3889)
Estimates for post-tax national income by quantile are not available but estimates for post-tax household income are shown in the following tables. These have been produced from the Office for National Statistics' analyses 'The effects of taxes and benefits on household income' and the latest analysis for 2002–03 was published on the National Statistics website on 6 May 2004 at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/taxesbenefits. The analyses include measures of income inequality for households in the United Kingdom as a whole based on data from the Expenditure and Food Survey (the Family and Expenditure Survey from 1997–98 to 2000–01). This is a sample survey covering about 6,000 to 7,000 households in the UK. The analysis for 2003–04 is due to be published on the National Statistics website on 7 July 2005.
The tables show a breakdown of post-tax household income in terms of the average annual amount per household for each year between 1997–98 and 2002–03 for all households in the UK, and for each income decile and quintile group where households are ranked by equivalised disposable income. Equivalisation is a standard methodology that takes into account the size and composition of households and adjusts their incomes to recognise differing demands on resources. The tables also show the equivalised disposable income decile and quintile point boundaries, which have been calculated separately for each year. For example, the 1st decile point is the income below which one tenth of all households are estimated to lie. The decile and quintile point boundaries differ between each year as shown in the tables.
Post-tax income is defined as income (after government intervention) net of estimates of direct taxes and indirect taxes. Indirect taxes include intermediate taxes which are the portion of indirect taxes that are passed on by businesses to households.
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(2) Boundary point between equivalised disposable income deciles.
Source:
Office for National Statistics, based on the analysis 'The effects of taxes and benefits on household income', published on the ONS website and in Economic Trends.
(3) Boundary point between equivalised disposable income quintiles.
Source:
Office for National Statistics, based on the analysis 'The effects of taxes and benefits on household income', published on the ONS website and in Economic Trends.
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National Insurance
John Hemming: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people living in the UK qualify for a National Insurance number; and on what basis they qualify. [3726]
Dawn Primarolo: All young people resident in the UK who are the subject of a child benefit claim qualify for a National Insurance number (NINO) which is issued to them around the age of 15 years and 9 months. An individual resident in the UK is qualified to register for a NINO if they meet certain employment or benefit-related criteria. They must never have registered before, be aged 16 or over, be employed and/or self-employed, or not employed but wish to be or would benefit from paying Class 3 voluntary contributions. Alternatively they must be eligible for and seeking to claim a social security benefit or tax credit.
There are 73 million NINOs registered on the National Insurance Recording System (NIRS2) (this total includes, among others, numbers for deceased persons and those who have gone abroad). We do not know how many people who would qualify for NINO registration do not apply.
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to change the rate of national insurance contributions. [1362]
Mr. Amess: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what plans he has to change the rate of national insurance contributions. [3752]
Dawn Primarolo: From April 2003 an additional 1 per cent. national insurance contribution (NIC) by employers, employees and the self-employed was introduced on all earnings above the NICs threshold to deliver the largest sustained spending growth in the history of the NHS while meeting the fiscal rules.
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