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TREASURY

Alcohol-related Deaths

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many alcohol-related deaths there have been in each year since 1997, (a) in total and (b) broken down by (i) sex and (ii) socio-economic group. [41959]

John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 January 2006:
 
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Number of deaths in persons aged between 16 and 74 from alcohol-related causes(95), by (a) sex, and (b) socio-economic classification, England and Wales, 1997 to 2004(96)

Men
Women
Social class19971998199920001997199819992000
I. Professional112117129131510910
II. Intermediate529540607584221240249282
III. (nm) Skilled, non-manual215229233258251215263260
III. (m) Skilled, manual83790896394761608186
IV. Partly skilled484500524527129140175174
V. Unskilled30232731133767688057
Other(97)295374360436781893863898
Total deaths2,7742,9953,1273,2201,5151,6261,7201,767

Men
Women
NS SEC20012002200320042001200220032004
1. Managerial and professional occupations701724798765261213262281
2. Intermediate occupations173193219221190185171224
3. Small employers and own account workers38046950947858696066
4. Lower supervisory and technical48443950250753605959
5. Semi-routine and routine1,2181,1561,3961,314378376419426
Other(98)477460510563866946968964
Total deaths2,7742,9953,1273,2201,5151,6261,7201,767


(95)For the years 1997–2000 the cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9). The codes selected 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 2001–2004 the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) was used. To maintain comparability with earlier years the following codes were selected:
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
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, pp 5–14.
Deaths were extracted using the original underlying cause of death.
(96)Data are for occurrences of death in each calendar year.
(97)Includes armed forces, inadequately described occupations, full time care/dependent relative, housewife/house husband, full time student, independent means, and sick.
(98)Includes never worked, long-term unemployed and not classified.


Arm's Length Management Organisations

Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the impact on his targets for the public sector borrowing requirement of the additional funds made available to arm's length management organisations to improve council homes. [41151]


 
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John Healey: Funding of arm's length management organisations is from within the department expenditure limits set for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and does not represent additional expenditure. As a result there is no impact on public sector net borrowing.

Common Agricultural Policy

Mr. Drew: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the planned level of expenditure on the common agricultural policy is for each of the next 10 years; and how much and what percentage each member state will contribute of the total. [41458]

John Healey: The EU budget agreed by the European Council on 17 December for the period 2007–13 will be €863 billion (in 2004 prices) on a commitments basis. The following amounts will be allocated to agriculture, including rural development (Heading 2).
€ billion, 2004 prices
200755.0
200854.3
200953.7
201053.0
201152.4
201251.8
201351.1

Equivalent expenditure in 2006 is estimated at €55.5 billion in 2004 prices. Member states do not contribute to individual programmes within the EC budget. The UK's post abatement financing share for the EC budget as a whole was estimated at 11.97 per cent. in 2005.

Correspondence

Sir Michael Spicer: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Paymaster General will respond to the letter from the hon. Member for West Worcestershire of 31 October 2005, PO reference: 4/23543/2005. [41975]

Dawn Primarolo: The Paymaster General has already done so.

Council Tax

Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his latest estimate is of council tax as a percentage of gross income in each (a) decile and (b) quintile (i)before and (ii) after council tax benefit. [41574]

Dawn Primarolo: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 January 2006:

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Council tax as a percentage of gross income by equivalised disposable income decile, 2003–04 Great Britain

Council tax as percentage of
gross income
DecileIncome boundary(99)
(£ per year)
before council tax benefitafter council
tax benefit
Bottom9.75.9
9,368
2nd6.74.3
11,690
3rd5.33.8
13,767
4th4.43.7
16,006
5th3.63.2
18,519
6th3.23.0
21,291
7th2.92.7
24,565
8th2.52.4
29,677
9th2.22.2
38,509
Top1.41.4
Average for all households
2.92.5


(99)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.




Council tax as a percentage of gross income by equivalised disposable income quintile, 2003–04, Great Britain

Council tax as percentage of
gross income
DecileIncome boundary(100)
(£ per year)
before council tax benefitafter council tax benefit
Bottom7.95.0
11,690
2nd4.83.7
16,006
3rd3.43.1
21,291
4th2.62.6
29,677
Top1.71.7
Average for all households
2.92.5


(100)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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