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Charitable Status (Northern Ireland)
Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many charitable institutions in Northern Ireland have had their charitable status withdrawn in the last 10 years. [46792]
Dawn Primarolo: HM Revenue and Customs does not maintain records of the number of charities in Northern Ireland who have had their charitable status withdrawn.
Employment (Denbighshire)
Chris Ruane:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) private sector jobs in (i) agriculture,
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(ii) manufacturing and (iii) the service sector and (b) public sector jobs there were in (A) Vale of Clwyd constituency and (B) Denbighshire in each of the last 20 years. [46078]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 30 January 2006:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Questions about private and public sector employment. I am replying in her absence. (46078)
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 ONS 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, Table 1 shows the number of persons in private sector employment, by the specified splits, and for the public sector for people resident in the Denbighshire Unitary Authority as shown by the annual local area LFS for the 12 month periods ending February 1999 to February 2004. Table 2 shows similar data for persons resident in the Vale of Clwyd Parliamentary Constituency. Data for earlier years are not available.
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.
(28) Public/private sector split based on responses from individuals responding to the annual local area Labour Force Survey—generally overestimate public sector employment.
(29) 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.
(30) Public/private sector split based on responses from individuals responding to the annual local area Labour Force Survey generally overestimate public sector employment.
(31) 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.
Film Industry
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 19 January 2006, Official Report, column 1495W, on the film industry, if he will give details of the specific tax reliefs available for film production in each year since 1997; and what the cost of those reliefs was in each year. [46391]
Dawn Primarolo: Details of the specific tax reliefs for film production can be found in Chapter 3 of the Treasury consultation document Reform of film tax incentives: Promoting the sustainable production of culturally British films" (July 2005).
Regarding the costs of these reliefs, I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave on 13 December 2005, Official Report, column 1823W.
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Financial Ombudsman Service
Dr. Cable: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many complaints have been received by the Financial Ombudsman Service in relation to the sale of (a) critical illness insurance, (b) payment protection insurance, (c) term life assurance and (d) income protection in each of the last five years. [45470]
John Healey: The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) assumed its powers under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 on 1 December 2001, and record data for cases received by product type. The following table shows the number of cases received in the requested product categories by the FOS in each full financial year since year ending 31 March 2001.
| 2001–02 | 2002–03 | 2003–04 | 2004–05 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loan protection | 513 | 803 | 802 | 833 |
| Income protection | 523 | 726 | 820 | 980 |
| Term assurance | 376 | 468 | 519 | 504 |
| Critical illness | 408 | 492 | 582 | 717 |
Dr. Cable:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many of the complaints referred to the Financial
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Ombudsman Service in the last five years related to the suitability of the product purchased; and how many of those complaints were upheld in each year. [45471]
John Healey: The Financial Ombudsman Service records complaint numbers in relation to product type. Unfortunately, as they do not record data (or sub-categorise) by complaint type, figures for complaints received about the suitability of products purchased are not available.
Dr. Cable: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many complaints have been referred to the Financial Ombudsman Service in each of the last five years; and how many were upheld in each year. [45472]
John Healey: The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) assumed its powers under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 on 1 December 2001.
The following table shows the number of new inquiries and investigated cases that the Financial Ombudsman Service has received for each year since 31 March 2001. The table shows the percentage breakdown of cases upheld (either wholly or in part) in the consumers favour, for each year that data is available for.
n/a=not available.
Fuel Duty
John Hemming: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the level of fuel duty for a liquid fuel produced from (a) biomass and (b) waste cooking oil that is (i) diesel quality and (ii) not diesel quality. [45897]
John Healey: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave him on 15 December 2005, Official Report, column 2265W.
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