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Alcohol-related Deaths
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many deaths in (a) Tamworth and (b) Staffordshire were primarily caused by alcohol in each of the last five years. [33808]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 5 December 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many deaths in (a)Tamworth and (b) Staffordshire were primarily caused by alcohol. (33808)
The latest year for which figures are available is 2004. The table below shows the numbers of deaths among residents of Tamworth local authority and the current county of Staffordshire where the underlying cause of death indicated a condition directly related to alcohol use in the years 2000 to 2004.
(1)For the year 2000 the cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9). The codes used by ONS to define alcohol-related deaths are listed below:
291—Alcoholic psychoses
303—Alcohol dependence syndrome
305.0—Non-dependent abuse of alcohol
425.5—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
571—Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
E860—Accidental poisoning by alcohol
For the years 2001–04 the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) was used. To maintain comparability with earlier years the following codes were used:
F10—Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol
142.6—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
K70—Alcoholic liver disease
K73—Chronic hepatitis, not elsewhere classified
K74—Fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver
X45—Accidental poisoning by and exposure to alcohol
Deaths were selected using the original underlying cause.
The selection of codes to define alcohol-related deaths is described in: Baker A and Rooney C (2003). Recent trends in alcohol-related mortality, and the impact of ICD-10 on the monitoring of these deaths in England and Wales. Health Statistics Quarterly 17, pp5–14.
(2)Data for the county of Staffordshire excludes figures for the unitary authority of Stoke-on-Trent.
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Annual Death Rate (Gravesham)
Mr. Holloway: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in the Gravesham constituency between the ages of (a) 65 to 67, (b) 67 to 70, (c) 70 to 75, (d) 75 to 80 and (e) 80 or above died in each year since 1997. [33606]
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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 Karen Dunnell, dated 5 December 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many people in the Gravesham Parliamentary Constituency between the ages of (a) 65 to 67, (b)67 to 70, (c) 70 to 75, (d) 75 to 80 and (e) 80 or above died in each year since 1997. (33606)
The latest year for which figures are available is 2004. The table below shows the numbers of deaths by age, at ages 65 and over, of usual residents of Gravesham Parliamentary Constituency in the years 1997 to 2004.
(3)Deaths occurring in each calendar year.
Average Wage
Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average wage in Beverley and Holderness was for (a) men and (b) women in the last period for which figures are available. [33457]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 5 December 2005:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what the average wage in Beverley and Holderness was for (a) men (b) women in the last period for which figures are available. (33457)
Currently average earnings are estimated from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), and are provided for full time employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence. This is the standard definition used for ASHE. The ASHE 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 the parliamentary constituency of Beverley and Holderness for 2005. These statistics are also available on the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=13101.
The ASHE, carried out in April of each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. It is a one per cent sample of all employees who are members of pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) schemes.
| Men | Women | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverley and Holderness | Median | Mean | Median | Mean |
| 2004 | 403.7 | 473.6 | (5)— | 357.9 |
| 2005 | 454.2 | 473.5 | 268.0 | 357.7 |
(4)Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.
(5)Data is suppressed on quality grounds.
Source:
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.
| Men | Women | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beverley and Holderness | Median | Mean | Median | Mean |
| 2004 | 484.5 | 516.5 | 399.5 | 434.2 |
(6)Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.
Source:
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.
(a) 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.
(b) Average gross weekly earnings for adult full-time employees whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.
(c) The median replaces the mean as the headline statistic. The weighted mean is the sum of the weighted values divided by the sum of the weights. The median is the value below which 50 per cent. of employees fall. It is preferred over the mean for earnings data as it is influenced less by extreme values and because of the skewed distribution of earnings data.
CDs and DVDs
Mr. Holloway: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the level of UK VAT on the volume of (a) compact disks and (b) digital versatile disks sold online and delivered within the UK by UK-listed trading entities; [34568]
(2) what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the level of UK VAT on the volume of (a) compact disks and (b) digital versatile disks smuggled into the UK. [34570]
Dawn Primarolo:
No assessment has been made.
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Centenarians
Mr. Amess: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many centenarians live in (a) Southend, (b) Essex, (c) Hertfordshire, (d) Greater London and (e) England and Wales. [33653]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 5 December 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many centenarians live in (a)Southend, (b) Essex, (c) Hertfordshire, (d) Greater London and (e) England and Wales (33653)
Figures on the number of people aged 100 or over on Census day (29 April 2001) in the requested geographical areas are available in table S001 on the CD supplement to the Census 2001 National Report for England and Wales pt 1, which is available in the House of Commons Library. Alternatively the data is available on-line at: http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/home/census2001.asp
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