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Tax Revenue

Lembit Öpik: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequerwhat the total tax revenue collected by the Government from British taxpayers and businesses was in 2004–05. [30098]

John Healey: Table C8 in Budget 2005 provides details of total tax revenue for the UK.

Lembit Öpik: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer(1) what the total tax revenue collected by the Government from (a) taxpayers in Wales and (b) businesses in Wales was in 2004–05; [30099]

(2) what estimate he has made of the percentage of Government revenue during the year 2004–05 which was derived from businesses and taxpayers in Wales. [30100]

Dawn Primarolo: The following figures from the ONS 2005 publication of household income show estimates of income tax, council taxes and vehicle taxes paid by households in Wales and the United Kingdom for 2003. They were produced by ONS for the estimation of sub-national gross disposable household income and were published in April 2005.
Taxes paid by households in 2003⁽⁵²⁾

	Estimate
Wales (£ million)	4,742
United Kingdom (£ million)	137,255
Wales percentage of total	3.5

⁽⁵²⁾Taxes paid by households and non-profit institutions serving households.

No corresponding information is available on taxes paid by organisations or on other taxes paid by households. Information for 2004 is not yet available.

Mr. Crabb: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequerwhat estimate he has made of the proportion of UK tax revenues raised in Wales in each of the last 10years. [31384]

 
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Dawn Primarolo: For years from 1997,1 refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Leominster (Bill Wiggin) on 22 November 2005, Official Report, columns 1914–15W.

The information for years 1995 and 1996 are as follows:
Estimate of taxes paid by households⁽⁵³⁾ £ million

	1995	1996
Wales	3,052	3,187
United Kingdom	86,252	87,070

⁽⁵³⁾Taxes paid by households and non-profit institutions serving households.

These figures show estimates of income taxes, council taxes and vehicle taxes paid by households and were produced by ONS for the estimation of sub-national gross disposable household income (GDHI). Sub-national GDHI was published in April 2005. No corresponding information is available on taxes paid by organisations, or on other taxes paid by households.

Valuation Office Agency

Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what depreciation policy the Valuation Office Agency will apply to the recently purchased desktop valuation software system. [28620]

Dawn Primarolo: The Valuation Office Agency depreciates all of its in-house software on a straight line basis over 10 years and this policy will also be applied to the Automated Valuation Model (AVM) software.
 
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Welsh Assembly (Funding)

Lembit Öpik: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much funding was allocated to the Welsh Assembly in the form of a block grant under the Barnett formula in each tax year since 1997–98. [30102]

Mr. Des Browne: Information on the Welsh Assembly's DEL and grant are published in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses, the most recent version of which was published in April 2005 (Cm 6521), and the Wales Office Estimates. Further details can also be found in the Wales Office departmental reports.

Working Tax Credit

Anne Milton: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many working families tax credit applications are being processed; [17686]

(2) how many working tax credit applications being processed were received (a) up to six months ago and (b) more than six months ago. [17687]

Dawn Primarolo: Working families tax credit was replaced by the child tax credit and the working tax credit in April 2003.

CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT

Arts Funding

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much Arts Council funding has been provided to organisations in the city of Cambridge in the last five years. [31581]

Mr. Lammy [holding answer 24 November 2005]: The following information provided by Arts Council England provides a breakdown of the information requested.
£

	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05	Total
Regular funding for organisations	864,948	1,081,285	1,225,195	1,349,224	1,422,954	5,943,606
Other funding for regularly funded organisations including grants for the arts and recovery	591,895	381,518	878,848	1,333,910	606,461	3,792,632
Regional arts lottery programme (November 2000 to July 2003)	(54)457,070	421,452	—	—	421,452
Grants for the arts—organisations (£25,000 and above)	—	—	—	467,628	242,753	710,381
Total	1,456,843	1,4628,03	2,525,495	3,150,762	2,272,168	10,868,071

⁽⁵⁴⁾2000–02 available only as a countywide figure—not included in final totals.

In addition, the Junction has received £5,529,608 in capital grants up to 2004–05. The total Arts Council England funding to organisations in Cambridge during the period was £16,397,679.

British Library

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many redundancies are planned for the British Library. [32215]

Mr. Lammy: The British Library anticipates there will be 47 redundancies during the remainder of the financial year 2005–06. A further reduction in posts of 60 is planned for financial year 2006–07.

Broadcasting Standards

Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what recent discussions she has had with (a) Ofcom and (b) the BBC about the screening of (a) sex, (b) violence and (c) bad language on television. [32366]

James Purnell: Decisions on broadcast programme standards are a matter for Ofcom, the BBC and S4C to determine independently of Government, according to the provisions of the Broadcasting and Communications Acts.
 
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My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State was briefed by Ofcom about their proposals for the regulation of standards in broadcast content prior to publication of the new programme code which came into effect on 25 July.

Civil Service Relocation (Scotland)

Stewart Hosie: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how many departmental civil service jobs have been relocated to Scotland in each year since 2001. [32374]

Mr. Lammy: None.

Departmental Expenditure

Ed Balls: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much her Department has spent on sports and recreation projects in (a) West Yorkshire and (b) Normanton constituency since 2001. [31561]

Mr. Caborn: The table sets out the funding for sport and recreation projects that has been made available in the West Yorkshire region and the Normanton constituency since 2001 from both lottery and Exchequer sources.
£

	Lottery	Exchequer
West Yorkshire	33,401,776	(55)2,035,176
Normanton constituency	473,403	—
Total	33,875,179	2,035,167

⁽⁵⁵⁾£2,035,167 includes £1,630,167 Community Club Development Programme (CCDP) funding; this funding is not broken down beyond the regional level, so it is not possible to say how much, if any, was spent in the Normanton constituency. The £2,035,167 also includes two projects (£50,000 Active School Development Officer and £60,000 Groundwork Trust) which were awarded to the Wakefield area of the West Yorkshire region. Details of Exchequer funding are not available at constituency level.

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