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Population bases and statistical provision: towards a more flexible future? (To appear in Population Trends on 29 June 2006).
Issues of Population Trends can be accessed at:
http://statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=6303
This article will present an analysis of the research and consultation into alternative population bases and discusses the options for moving towards more flexible output bases.
An article is due to appear in a forthcoming issue of Population Trends presenting the research into administrative data on housing and the insights that affords into the relationship between housing and population change.
A further article, which reviews international experience of the Cohort Component method, is due to appear in a forthcoming issue of Population Trends. This method is the main one used by Census taking countries to produce population estimates during the intercensal period.
IMPS Research Plan and Progress Report, 2006. Due to be published in August 2006.
Inheritance Tax
Mr. Hollobone: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent representations he hasreceived regarding the inheritance tax treatment of accumulation and maintenance trusts and interest in possession trusts. [72934]
Dawn Primarolo: I refer the hon. Gentleman tothe answer I gave on 16 May 2006, Official Report,column 831W.
Migrants
Adam Afriyie: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the breakdown by (a) local authority area and (b) nationality of migrants was allocated by the Office for National Statistics to mid-year estimates in each year from 1991 to 2004. [72951]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Jil Matheson, dated 24 May 2006:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about what breakdown by (a) local authority area and (b) nationality of migrants was allocated by the Office for National Statistics to mid-year estimates in each year from 1991 to 2004.1 am replying in her absence. (72951)
I am placing a table in the House of Commons Library, which gives a breakdown of the migration component of the mid-year estimates by local authority for mid-2000 to mid-2004. Figures for the migration component are not available separately for the earlier years requested. Published tables for earlier years showing 'Natural Change' and 'Migration and other changes' are available on the National Statistics website:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/ssdataset.asp?vlnk=8615 &More=Y
The migration estimates used in the mid-year estimates are not disaggregated by nationality.
The components of the mid-year estimates are estimated in as robust a manner as possible given available data sources. The total international migration figures shown in this table are produced for the express purpose of producing the mid-year estimates. Figures for the internal migration in the table may also differ slightly from those published elsewhere due to rounding and constraining effects.
Ministerial Activities
Sarah Teather: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) public speeches and (b) official visits (i) he and (ii) the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has made on departmental business since5 May 2005. [55714]
John Healey: Speeches by Treasury Ministers are available on the Treasury’s website. Since 5 May 2005 both the Chancellor and successive Chief Secretaries have made a number of visits to the regions and nations of the United Kingdom and will be continuing to do so over the coming months.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many letters (a) he and (b) the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has sent on departmental business since 5 May 2005. [55715]
John Healey: The Chancellor and the Chief Secretary both send many hundreds of letters each year in the course of their official duties.
Ministerial Travel
Mr. Newmark: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the use by Ministers of aircraft from 32 (The Royal) Squadron of the RAF to travel on (a) private and (b) party business is treated as a benefit in kind for tax purposes. [66621]
John Healey: The tax treatment of travel and subsistence for the Speaker, Ministers and Opposition office-holders is covered by specific provisions in s295 of ITEPA, introduced in 1996.
Ministerial Visits (Accommodation)
David Simpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) on how many occasions (a) civil servants and (b) special advisers in his Department have stayed overnight in (i) five star, (ii) four star and (iii) three star hotels in each of the last three years; [69059]
(2) what the total cost was of overnight accommodation for (a) civil servants and (b) special advisers in his Department staying overnight in (i) mainland Great Britain, (ii) Northern Ireland, (iii) the Republic of Ireland and (iv) other countries in each of the last three years; [69060]
(3) what the total cost was of overnight accommodation for Treasury Ministers on foreign visits in each of the last three years; [69061]
(4) on how many occasions Treasury Ministers stayed overnight in (a) five star, (b) four star and (c) three star hotels on foreign visits in each of the last three years; [69062]
(5) what discounts are available in relation to hotel accommodation used by (a) civil servants and (b) special advisers in his private office. [69063]
John Healey: In relation to the total costsof Ministers’ and special advisers’ overnight accommodation costs, I refer to the answer given to my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) on 16 March 2006, Official Report, column 2411W. The total cost of subsistence for the Treasury in the last three financial years was as follows. The figures include Ministers, special advisers and civil servants, and meals as well as overnight accommodation costs.
| £000 | |||
| 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | |
Further details, including analysis of costs by destination and by class of hotel, could be provided only at disproportionate cost. All travel is undertaken in accordance with the rules set out in the “Ministerial Code”, the “Civil Service Management Code” and the “Code of Conduct for Special Advisers”, which include requirements for travel arrangements to be efficient and cost-effective.
Our hotel providers use their purchasing power to negotiate better rates and room allocations for their Government clients. These arrangements are available to all staff, both civil servants and special advisers.
Parliamentary Questions
Anne Main: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 15 February 2006, Official
Report, column 2163W, on written parliamentary questions, how many written questions have been submitted to his Department in each year since 1997; and how many questions each Minister in his Department has answered. [54244]
John Healey: As the former Economic Secretary said in his earlier reply, written answers are usually given by the Minister with named responsibility for the issue concerned.
The information requested in respect of each complete parliamentary Session since 1997-98 is given in the table:
| Minister | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 |
Pensions
Mr. Bone: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the change in levels of taxation required to meet the cost of implementing the recommendations set out in the Ombudsman’s report Trusting in the Pensions Promise. [69891]
James Purnell: I have been asked to reply.
No such estimate has been made.
David Simpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what percentage of staff in his Department are making additional voluntary contributions to their pension. [73040]
John Healey: On 1 April 2006, 20 Treasury staff were paying into additional voluntary contributions and 43 were paying into added years. The 63 people concerned represented 5.7 per cent. of the staff of the Treasury.
Population Statistics (Hartlepool)
Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many single parent households with children under the age of 16 years there were in the Hartlepool constituency in each of the last 15 years; [72598]
(2) how many single-person households there were in the Hartlepool constituency in each of the last 15 years; [72599]
(3) what estimate he has made of the number of cohabiting couples living in Hartlepool constituency in each of the past 15 years. [72603]
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 May 2006:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your requests for the following figures for the Hartlepool constituency: the number of single parent households with children under 16 years of age in the past 15 years; the number of single person households since 1990; and, the number of cohabiting couples in the past 15 years. (72598, 72599 and 72603)
Estimates of these figures are not produced on an annual basis for local areas. Available figures are from the censuses of 1991 and 2001. These are shown in the table below.
Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many marriages took place in the Hartlepool constituency in each year since 1990. [72600]
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 May 2006:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking for the number of marriages that have taken place in the Hartlepool constituency since 1990. (72600)
The table below shows the number of marriages that took place in the Hartlepool Registration District from 1990 to 2003, the latest year available. It should be noted that place of marriage does not necessarily denote place of last, current or future residence.
| Marriages in Hartlepool( 1) Registration District 1990-2003 | |
| Marriages | |
| (1 )Known as North Cleveland Registration District until 1995 |
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