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Illegal Fuel Smuggling
Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many Revenue and Customs staff in Northern Ireland have been involved during 2005 in operations aimed at disrupting the smuggling of illegal fuel into the UK. [42132]
John Healey: In 2004–05 159 members of staff in Northern Ireland were involved in operations aimed at disrupting the smuggling of illegal fuel into the UK. These officers were deployed across Customs and Excise including Intelligence, Criminal Investigation, Assurance and Detection activity.
Landfill
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much revenue has been generated from (a) the landfill tax and (b) landfill sites within the London borough of Hillingdon in each year since 1997. [41039]
John Healey: Information on revenue from landfill tax can be found in the HM Revenue and Customs 'Landfill Tax Bulletin', which can be found on the HM Revenue and Customs website: http://www.uktradeinfo.co.uk/index.cfm?task=landfill.
A breakdown of landfill tax by borough is not available.
Leaked Letter
Mr. Laws:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what evidence the Prime Minister's Office has given to his
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Department's inquiry into the leaking of a letter from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Lord Turner in November 2005; and if he will make a statement. [41344]
John Healey: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave him on 10 January 2006, Official Report, column 543W.
Lone Parents
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what proportion of lone parents were in employment (a) in total, (b) where the youngest child is under 11 years and (c) where the youngest child is between 11 and 18 years in the last period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement; [41220]
(2) what assessment he has made of the employment rate of lone parent families in the UK; and if he will make a statement. [41293]
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:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Questions about lone parents in employment. (41293, 41220)
The attached table gives the levels and proportion of the number of lone parents who were in employment (a) in total, (b) where the youngest child is under 11 years and (c) between 11 and 18 years, also the lone parent employment rate, for the three months ending May 2005.
Estimates are taken from the Office for National Statistics's Labour Force Survey (LFS). As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
(112) Refer to people who are not married or cohabiting and have dependent children, who are defined as 0 to 15 year olds, or 16 to 18 year olds in full-time education
(113) Includes lone parents aged under 16 who have been excluded from the employment rates.
(114) People in employment as a percentage of all persons.
Source:
ONS—Labour Force Survey
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Lung Cancer (Doncaster and Barnsley)
Jeff Ennis: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in (a) Doncaster and (b) Barnsley were diagnosed with lung cancer in each of the last 10 years. [42117]
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:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question concerning how many people in (a) Doncaster and (b) Barnsley were diagnosed with lung cancer in each of the last 10 years. (42117)
The most recent available information on registration of newly diagnosed cases (incidence) are for the year 2003. Numbers of newly diagnosed cases registered in the county districts of Doncaster and Barnsley, are given in the table below.
(115) For 1994, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) code 162; from 1995 to 2003, International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes C33-C34.
Source:
Office for National Statistics
New Jobs (Wales)
Mr. Crabb: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many new jobs have been created in Wales in each year since 1997. [42389]
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:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about jobs in Wales. (42389)
While statistics of new jobs created are not available explicitly, statistics from surveys enable comparisons to be made of net changes in numbers of jobs from year to year.
The attached table shows the information requested, relating to net change in jobs in Wales from June 1997 to June 2005; the latest period for which information is available.
These estimates are from the Workforce Jobs series and, as with any sample survey, are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
Source:
Workforce Jobs series
Older Workers
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what proportion of (a) men and (b) women, aged (i) 50 to 54, (ii) 55 to 59 and (iii) 60 to 64 years have been (A) in full-time work, (B) in part-time work, (C) in early retirement and (D) on out-of-work benefits in each of the last 20 years broken down by benefit. [40481]
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:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about the numbers and proportions of men and women in specific age categories who are in full and part-time employment or have taken early retirement, also those who are on out of work by benefits for the last twenty years. (40481)
Table 1 shows the numbers and proportions of people who are in full and part-time work and those who have taken early retirement for the three month period ending in May each year from 1984 to 2005. These estimates from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) are, as with any sample survey, subject to a margin of uncertainty.
Table 2a shows people claiming out of work benefits for the period ending in May each year from 1995 to 2005. This information is from the Information Directorate, Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS). Table 2b shows proportions where the number claiming benefits represents the estimated population in each age group.
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