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Valuation Office Agency
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many full-time equivalent staff areemployed in each office of the Valuation Office Agency. [11538]
Dawn Primarolo: The following table shows the number of staff in each location of each Valuation Office Group. These figures exclude staff employed in the District Valuer Business Stream, Chief Executive's Office and other specialist offices.
This report was run as at 1 April 2005.
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Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 15 June 2005, Official Report, column 386W, on council tax, what criteria the Valuations Office Agency will use to assess whether to enter a property for inspection. [11572]
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Dawn Primarolo: Valuation Office Agency staff will make arrangements to undertake internal inspections of properties only where information cannot be gathered by an external inspection or through other sources.
Wage Statistics
Mr. Hands: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average gross weekly wage of full-time workers in (a) Hammersmith and Fulham, (b) Greater London and (c) the United Kingdom was in the most recent year for which figures are available. [10901]
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. Greg Hands, dated 13 July 2005:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question what the average gross earnings of full time workers in (a) Hammersmith and Fulham (b) Greater London and (c) the United Kingdom were in the most recent year for which figures are available. (10901)
Average earnings are estimated from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and are provided for employees on adult rates of pay whose pay was unaffected by absence during the pay period, by their place of work. This is the standard definition used for Annual Survey of Hours and Earning tables. The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings does not collect data on the self employed and people who do unpaid work.
I attach a table showing the average gross weekly earnings for full time employees in Hammersmith and Fulham, Greater London and the United Kingdom in 2004. These statistics are also available on the National Statistics website on table 7:
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, carried out in April of each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. It has a one per cent sample of all employees.
(9) Guide to quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) is given to indicate the quality of a figure, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV, e.g. for an average of 200 with a CV of 5 per cent., we would expect the population average to be within the range 180 to 220.
Notes:
1. The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, (ASHE), carried out in April of each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. It is a 1 per cent. sample of all employees.
2. The ASHE replaces the New Earnings Survey (NES) from October 2004. The main difference between the ASHE and NES being that estimates are weighted to population totals from the Labour Force Survey.
3. Average gross weekly earnings for adult full-time employees whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.
Source:
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, ONS
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NORTHERN IRELAND
Organised Crime
9. Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what discussions he has had with the (a) Police Service of Northern Ireland and (b) Irish Government on combating organised crime. [10661]
Mr. Woodward: Regular discussions on organised crime are held at ministerial and senior official level with the Chief Constable and senior officers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Devolved Government
12. Anne Snelgrove: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent assessment he has made of the prospects for restoring devolved Government in Northern Ireland. [10664]
Mr. Mackay: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the future of devolved Government in the Province. [10662]
Mr. Hain: I refer the hon. Members to the answer I gave earlier to the hon. Members for Wirral, South (Ben Chapman), for Congleton (Ann Winterton) and for Glasgow, South (Mr. Harris).
Mr. Malik: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent assessment he has made of the prospects for restoring devolved Government in Northern Ireland. [10659]
Mr. Hain: The Government are committed to the restoration of a fully inclusive, devolved, power-sharing Executive in Northern Ireland at the earliest possible opportunity, which is, in turn, dependent on a complete and verifiable end to all paramilitary and criminal activity, and the decommissioning of illegally held weapons.
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