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TREASURY
Cancer
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the survival rates for (a) lung, (b) breast, (c) testicular, (d) prostate, (e) ovarian, (f) bowel and (g) other cancers in the most recent period for which figures are available. [45201]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked her to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 24 January 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the survival rates for (a) lung, (b) breast, (c) testicular, (d) prostate, (e) ovarian, (f) bowel and (g) other cancers have been in the most recent period for which figures are available. (45201)
Cancer survival rates are only produced for specific cancers and are calculated by combining several years of diagnosis. For this reason no single figure is available for the category 'other cancers'.
Survival rates for 21 common cancers among adult patients in England diagnosed during 1998–2001 and followed up to the end of 2003 (covering about 90 per cent. of all cancer cases in these patients) were published on the National Statistics website on 9 May 2005, and are available at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Expodata/Spreadsheets/D8982.xls
One- and five-year survival rates relating to the cancers listed in (a)—(f) are given in the attached table.
(24) As cancer survival varies with age at diagnosis, the relative rates for all ages (15 to 99) have been age-standardised to control for changes in the age profile of cancer patients over time, thus making them comparable with previously published figures.
(25) Aged 15 to 99 years.
(26) Cancers registered in 1998–2001 are defined by codes in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD10). Therefore, lung cancer is defined by codes C33-C34, breast cancer by code C50, testicular cancer by code C62, prostate cancer by code C61, ovarian cancer by codes C56-C57.7, colon cancer by code CIS and rectal cancer by codes C19-C21.
Source:
Office for National Statistics
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Employment Statistics
John Cummings: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) private sector (i) manufacturing and (ii) service sector and (b) public sector jobs there were in Easington constituency in each year since 2000. [45018]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 24 January 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about private and public sector employment in Easington constituency. (45018)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles statistics for the United Kingdom of public sector employment from a quarterly survey of public sector organisations. However, estimates at local area level are not available.
Information at local area level is available from the annual local area Labour Force Survey (LFS) of individual people in households. However, in this source, the categorisation of employment in the public or private sector depends upon the responses from the individuals interviewed. As reported by QMS in October 2005 in the publication Public Sector Employment Trends", some individuals tend to misreport private sector employment as being in the public sector hence leading to overestimates of the share of public sector employment.
With this reservation about the data quality, the attached table shows the number of persons in private sector employment, by the specified splits, and for the public sector, for people resident in the Easington constituency as shown by the annual local area LFS for the 12 month periods ending February 2001 to February 2004.
These estimates, as with any from sample surveys, are subject to a margin of uncertainty. Changes in the estimates from year to year should be treated with particular caution.
(27) Public/private sector split based on responses from individuals responding to the annual local area labour force survey—generally overestimate public sector employment.
(28) Other industries are agriculture, fishing, energy and water and construction.
Note:
Estimates are subject to sampling variability. Changes from year to year should be treated with particular caution.
Source:
Annual local area labour force survey.
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London Congestion Charge
Mr. Prisk: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate his Department has made of the change in receipts from (a) VAT, (b) corporation tax and (c) national insurance contributions from businesses within the existing London Congestion Charge area since its introduction. [39907]
Dawn Primarolo: Information on VAT, corporation tax and national insurance contributions from businesses within the London Congestion Charge area is not available.
Pensions
Mr. Newmark: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 11 November 2005, Official Report, column 775W, on pensions, how allowance was made for future improvement in life expectancy in calculating the estimates of the accrued liability for unfunded public sector pensions. [44831]
Mr. Des Browne: Significant allowance was made for future improvement in mortality, drawing on national population projections and mortality studies undertaken by the actuarial profession. The key actuarial assumptions used to value the liabilities of individual schemes are set out in relevant reports by the scheme actuary and they have, for example, been reported in their respective financial statements such as resource accounts.
Post Office Card Accounts
Danny Alexander: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people use the Post Office card account for receipt of child benefit (a) in total and (b) broken down by region. [45371]
Dawn Primarolo: 622 thousand child benefit recipients were being paid via post office card accounts at December 2005. The breakdown by region is shown as follows.
(29) Including Abroad and not known
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