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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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As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many alcohol-related deaths there have been in each year since 1997, in total and broken down by (a)sex and (b) socio-economic group. (41959)
The latest year for which figures are available is 2004. The table below shows the number of deaths by sex and socio-economic group which were certified as due to alcohol abuse, dependence and poisoning, and diseases directly related to alcohol use from 1997 to 2004.
In 2001, National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification (NS SEC) replaced Social Class based on Occupation (SC) for coding socio-economic status. For this reason, figures for years prior to 2001 are not comparable to figures for subsequent years. Information on the deceased's own occupation is only requested at death registration for those aged between 16 and 74. The table below shows deaths at these ages by Social Class for the years 1997 to 2000 and by NS-SEC for the years 2001 to 2004.
(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 | |
|---|---|
| 2007 | 55.0 |
| 2008 | 54.3 |
| 2009 | 53.7 |
| 2010 | 53.0 |
| 2011 | 52.4 |
| 2012 | 51.8 |
| 2013 | 51.1 |
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:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question to asking what the 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)
Estimates for taxes and benefits are based on the Office for National Statistics analyses 'The effects of taxes and benefits on household income' and the latest analysis for 2003–04 was published on the National Statistics website on 7th July 2005 at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/taxesbenefits. The analysis includes
- measures of income inequality for households in the United Kingdom as a whole based on data from the Expenditure and Food Survey. This is a sample survey covering approximately 7,000 households in the UK. The analysis for 2004–05 is due to be published on the National Statistics website in April 2006.
The following tables show estimates of council tax as a percentage of gross income for each income decile and quintile where households are ranked by equivalised disposable income. Council tax figures are shown both before and after the deduction of council tax benefit. Each table also shows the equivalised disposable income boundaries which separate deciles and quintiles.
(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.
(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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