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Seizure Information Notices
Mr. David Hamilton: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many cigarettes were confiscated by HM Customs and Excise through the use of seizure information notices in Scotland in 2005. [53019]
Dawn Primarolo: There were 4,795 seizures of cigarette consignments involving 20,548,903 cigarettes, in Scotland in 2005.
Mr. David Hamilton: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many seizure information notices were issued by HM Customs and Excise in Scotland in 2005. [53020]
Dawn Primarolo: There were a total of 8,396 seizures made in Scotland in 2005 that involved seizure of information notice.
Settlements Legislation
Mr. Prisk: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many businesses have paid tax under the settlements legislation in each tax year since 2001–02; [53775]
(2) how many investigations HM Revenue and Customs have conducted under the settlements legislation in each year since 2001–02. [53776]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is not available and could only be obtained at a disproportionate cost.
Social Entrepreneurs
Mr. Redwood: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the revenue loss which would result from allowing social entrepreneurs to reinvest without incurring a capital gains tax liability. [52756]
Dawn Primarolo: Estimates of the revenue loss from allowing social entrepreneurs to reinvest without incurring a capital gains liability are not available.
Stamp Duty
Mr. Redwood: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the revenue effects of the abolition of stamp duty on securities. [52755]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The 2005 pre-Budget forecast of revenue from stamp duty on transactions in securities, and hence the direct cost of abolition, is £3.6 billion in 2006–07.
This estimate makes no allowance for the effect on other taxes arising from the wider impact abolition may have on the economy.
Student Loans Company
Mr. Hoyle: To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer how much money is owed to the Student Loans Company? [52599]
Bill Rammell: I have been asked to reply.
Provisional information published by the Student Loans Company shows the amount of UK student loan debt owed at the end of financial year 2004–05 was £15,947.6 million. This includes loans not yet due for repayment and excludes the loans sold to the private sector. Loans are made to students by the Student Loans Company, on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education and Skills.
Suicide Rates
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many children and young people under the age of 18 years have committed suicide in each year since 1990. [54331]
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John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 27 February 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many children and young people under the age of 18 years have committed suicide in each year since 1990.
The most recent available figures are for the calendar year 2004. The figures below show the number of deaths from intentional self harm among those aged 10 to 17 for the calendar years 1990 to 2004.
It is assumed likely that most deaths from injury of undetermined intent at age 15 and over are cases where the harm is self-inflicted but there was insufficient evidence to prove that the deceased deliberately intended to kill themselves. This can not be assumed in deaths at ages under 15 and therefore these deaths are not included when examining intentional self-harm in children. There were no deaths recorded from intentional self-harm at ages under 10 across the period covered.
(87) Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year from 1990 to 1992, and for deaths occurring in each calendar year from 1993 onwards.
(88) The cause of death for suicide was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes E950-E959for the years 1990 to 2000, and, for the years 2001 to 2004, the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes X60-X84.
(89) The cause of death for injury of undetermined intent was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes E980-E989 excluding E988.8 for the years 1990 to 2000, and, for the years 2001 to 2004, the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes Y10-Y34 excluding Y33.9 where the Coroner's verdict was pending.
Sustainable Energy
Alan Simpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many meetings (a) he has, (b) his Ministers have and (c) civil servants in his Department have had with the hon. Member in charge of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill to discuss including a clause in that Bill to require his Department to consider fiscal and economic measures to promote microgeneration and energy efficiency. [52649]
John Healey:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has not had any meetings with the hon. Member in charge of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill to discuss the inclusion of a clause in that Bill to require the
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Treasury to consider fiscal and economic measures to promote microgeneration and energy efficiency. I have had one meeting and other discussions on the hon. Member's Bill. My officials have had two other meetings with the hon. Member.
Tax (Corporate Profits)
Mr. Redwood: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the full year revenue consequences would be of charging all corporate profits at a single 20 per cent. rate. [52750]
Dawn Primarolo: A change of this magnitude would be likely to have a major impact on company behaviour and therefore major indirect as well direct effects on tax revenues. However the direct revenue effect of a single 20 per cent. corporation tax rate can be determined approximately from Table 5 of the 2005 Tax Ready Reckoner located at http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/FA1/96/pbr05_taxreadyreckoner_223.pdf which shows the effect of 1 percentage point changes in the small companies' and main rates of corporation tax.
Tax Credits
David T.C. Davies: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many ex-gratia payments have been made to claimants by the Tax Credits Office due to administrative errors since the system was put in place. [51865]
Dawn Primarolo: The circumstances in which Tax Credit Office will make compensation payments to its customers are explained in the Department's code of practice 1 Putting things right" which is available at www.hmrc.gov.uk.
The Department will pay compensation for reasonable costs incurred as a direct result of their mistakes or delays and to recognise worry and distress caused by those mistakes and delays.
Tax Credit Office do not keep separate details of compensation payments made specifically due to administrative errors.
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many tax credit overpayments have been written off (a) in part and (b) in full in respect of residents of Peterborough since tax credits were introduced. [52519]
Dawn Primarolo: This information requested is not available at constituency level and in the format requested.
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average time taken was between a claimant of tax credits requesting that HM Revenue and Customs reconsider its decision to recover a tax credit overpayment and the suspension of the automatic recovery of that overpayment in the most recent period for which figures are available. [52872]
Dawn Primarolo:
I refer my right hon. Friend to the answer I gave him on 16 February 2006, Official Report, column 2420W.
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Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will suspend the recovery of the tax credit overpayment which is being recovered from the constituent of the right hon. Member for Birkenhead, national insurance number JR493898C. [52947]
Dawn Primarolo: HM Revenue and Customs is statutory debarred from disclosing information relating to the tax affairs of individuals. However, the Tax Credit Office wrote to my right hon. Friend about his constituent on 20 February 2006.
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many cases of forged tax credits resulting in prosecution have been reported to Jobcentre Plus in Tamworth in the last 12 months. [53434]
Dawn Primarolo: There have been no cases of forged (fraudulent) tax credit claims resulting in a prosecution relating to Jobcentre Plus in Tamworth in the last 12 months.
Mr. Randall: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people have been in receipt of the incorrect level of tax credit in (a) Uxbridge and (b) the London borough of Hillingdon in each year since tax credits were introduced; what assessment he has made of the number of these who could not have been reasonably expected to know that a mistake had been made; and if he will make a statement. [53633]
Dawn Primarolo: Further to my answer my colleague, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, gave the hon. Gentleman on 7 February 2006, Official Report, column 1127W, the information requested is not available in the format requested.
Mr. Randall: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many awards for (a) child and (b) working tax credit there were in the constituency of Uxbridge in (i) 2003–04 and (ii) 2004–05; how many awards were (A) underpaid and (B) overpaid at (1) 5 April 2004 and (2) 5 April 2005; and what the total amounts were in each case. [53638]
Dawn Primarolo: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the hon. Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mrs. Dorries) on 10 October 2005, Official Report, column 321W.
Estimates for 2004–05 of the numbers of in-work families with tax credits awards, including information on overpayments and underpayments by constituency, based on final family circumstances and incomes for 2004–05 are due to be published in May 2006.
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in respect of how many tax credit cases in (a) 2003–04, (b) 2004–05 and (c) 2005–06 inquiries have been made to HM Revenue and Customs by the parliamentary and health service ombudsman as part of an investigation into complaints concerning tax credits. [54163]
Dawn Primarolo:
The parliamentary ombudsman, Ann Abraham, is an independent office-holder. She operates under the provisions of the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (as amended). The parliamentary ombudsman publishes information
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about the number of complaints she has received in her annual report to Parliament. Her 2004–05 annual report, HC 348, was published on 20 July.
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