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(b) HMRC estimates of the number of full-time equivalent staff employed on tax credit helplines, in
each month from September 2005 to March 2006 are detailed in the following table. In addition HMRC can use up to another 1,350 staff (FTEs) to answer tax credit calls at peak times.
| Staff number (FTEs) | |
| Month | Number |
Tax Investigations
Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many tax investigations were carried out in Northern Ireland in each year since 1998. [78779]
Dawn Primarolo: Since 1998 the number of tax investigations concerning income tax and corporation tax carried out in Northern Ireland each year are respectively:
| Number | |
Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much tax was recovered in Northern Ireland by HM Revenue and Customs as a result of tax investigations in each year since 1998. [78780]
Dawn Primarolo: The amounts brought to charge in relation to income tax and corporation tax as a result of tax investigations carried out in Northern Ireland each year is respectively:
| £ million | |
Data in respect of earlier years are not available.
Tax Revenue
Anne Milton: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the tax revenue from (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last three years. [78106]
Mr. Timms: As taxes are often collected centrally and cannot usually be directly attributed to countries within the UK, only a limited amount of estimates are available.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) publishes regional and country information for stamp duties and estimates for income tax, which are available on their websites:
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/stamp_duty/table15_2_ october04.pdf
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/income_distribution/menu-by-year.htm#311
The Scottish Executive produce estimates of tax revenues attributable to Scotland in their publication ‘Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland’. These are published at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/47121/0020630.pdf
Unclaimed Assets
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether further legislation will be required for the use of unclaimed assets for charitable and other purposes. [77703]
Ed Balls: The Government reported in the Budget that the banking industry has set in train work to develop a scheme to enable unclaimed assets to be reinvested in society. The industry’s steering group is currently considering issues of definition, reuniting and operation and distribution. The Government are clear that such a scheme needs to be consistent with retaining the rights of owners to reclaim assets at any time and, with this in mind, is assessing the legal and accounting issues involved. This work is ongoing.
Valuation Office Agency
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Valuation Office Agency has purchased (a) software and (b) consultancy services from the company CDC Ltd. in the last five years. [78317]
Dawn Primarolo: The Valuation Office Agency has not purchased (a) software or (b) consultancy services from the company CDC Ltd. in the last five years.
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will place in the Library a copy of the documents produced by the Valuation Office Agency Director of Modernisation for the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation conferences in (a) Spain in February 2005 and (b) Blackpool in May 2006. [78319]
Dawn Primarolo:
No documents were produced by the Valuation Office Agency's Director of Modernisation
for the IRRV conference Spain in February 2005. However, some slides were used at this presentation and a copy of these has been placed in the Library. He did not attend the IRRV conference in Blackpool in May 2006.
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many full-time equivalent communications, public relations and marketing staff were employed by the Valuation Office Agency at each grade in each year since 2001. [78341]
Dawn Primarolo: The number of full-time equivalent staff employed by the Valuation Office Agency, by grade, since 2001 in the categories described are shown in the following tables:
Staff responsible for internal communications channels and content (including maintenance of the Agency's intranet site) and for external publications and communications (including maintenance of the Agency's website)
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
Within the District Valuer Services business stream of the Agency, a number of staff are employed, on a full or part-time basis, as client account or client development managers. Their numbers are shown in the following table. “Marketing” is part of their much wider roles, and no separate attribution of time to this particular aspect is available.
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
Education and Skills
Degree Subjects
Jim Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many higher education institutions in the North East region offered (a) mathematics, (b) physics, (c) biology, (d) chemistry, (e) computing and electronics and (f) engineering-related degrees in each year since 1994-95; and how many enrolments there were in each year. [75207]
Bill Rammell: There are five HE institutions in the North East: Durham University, Newcastle University, The University of Northumbria at Newcastle, The University of Sunderland and the University of Teesside. The available information is shown in the following tables:
| Number of HE institutions in the North East with first degree students studying Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Computing or Engineering as their principal subject | |||||||
| Mathematical sciences | Of which: Maths | Physical Sciences | Of which: Physics | Of which: Chemistry | Biological Sciences | Of which: Biology | |
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