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Nuclear Industry
Mr. Duncan: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what recent assessment he has made of the skills capability in the UK nuclear industry; and if he will make a statement. [78996]
Malcolm Wicks: The Government are advised on skills capability in the nuclear industry by Cogent, the sector skills council covering nuclear. The most recent assessment on skills in the nuclear industry has been completed through the Sector Skills Agreement Process. “The Skills Needs Assessment of the Nuclear Industry”, is available on the Cogent website at www.cogent-ssc.com/ as is the “Assessment of Current Education and Training Provision for the Nuclear Industry”.
Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what estimate he has made of the number of nuclear (a) scientists and (b) engineers available in the United Kingdom. [77722]
Malcolm Wicks [holding answer 15 June 2006]: The nuclear industry employs good general science and engineering graduates. The nuclear specific competences are added by in-service training and experience and, increasingly, by Masters Courses at the 15 or so universities and institutions teaching postgraduates in nuclear related topics.
Survey and scenario planning work undertaken by Cogent sector skills council with nuclear employers in 2005-06 provides estimates for the current workforce of:
(a) approximately 3,150 professional scientists working within the nuclear industry and;
(b) approximately 17,400 professional engineers working within the nuclear industry.
This reported workforce is not necessarily nuclear specialists.
The Institution of Nuclear Engineers has about 1,000 members of all categories.
In addition, there is a broader engineering design and project management resource, at least 20,000 strong, that could support energy sector projects, including nuclear.
Zimbabwe
Kate Hoey: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry which UK companies have licences to export military equipment to Zimbabwe. [78594]
Malcolm Wicks: Export licence applications are made to the Government in confidence and the information they contain is therefore exempt from disclosure. The Government publishes detailed information on its export licensing decisions, by destination, in its annual and quarterly reports on strategic export controls. The Government's annual reports are available from the Library of the House, and our quarterly reports, from the DTI Export Control Organisation website at:
http://www.dti.gov.uk/europeandtrade/strategic-export-control/index.html
Treasury
Cancer/Leukaemia
Mr. Amess: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people under the age of 18 years in (a) Southend on Sea, (b) Essex and (c) England and Wales were diagnosed with leukaemia in each year between 2002 and 2005. [78596]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 21 June 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many people under the age of 18 years in (a) Southend on Sea, (b) Essex and (c) England and Wales were diagnosed with leukaemia in each year between 2002 and 2005. (78596)
The most recent available figures for newly diagnosed cases of leukaemia registered in England and Wales are the year 2003. Figures for people under the age of 18 years at diagnosis for the years 2002 and 2003 are given in the following table.
| Numbers of newly diagnosed cases of leukaemia,( 1) for people under the age of 18 years at diagnosis, registered in Southend unitary authority, Essex county and England and Wales, 2002-03 | ||
| 2002 | 2003 | |
| (1 )Figures selected using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD10), all leukaemias coded as C91-C95. | ||
Mr. Amess: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in (a) Southend on Sea, (b) Essex and (c) England and Wales were diagnosed with (i) leukaemia, (ii) breast cancer, (iii) prostate cancer and (iv) lung cancer in each year between 2002 and 2005. [78597]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 21 June 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many people in (a) Southend on Sea, (b) Essex and (c) England and Wales were diagnosed with (i) leukaemia, (ii) breast cancer and (iii) prostate cancer and (iv) lung cancer in each year between 2002 and 2005. (78597)
The most recent available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer registered in England and Wales are the year 2003. Figures by selected cancers for the years 2002 and 2003 are given in the following table.
| Numbers of newly diagnosed cases of selected cancers,( 1) registered in Southend unitary authority, Essex county and England and Wales, 2002-03 | ||||||
| Southend unitary authority | Essex county | England and Wales | ||||
| 2002 | 2003 | 2002 | 2003 | 2002 | 2003 | |
| (1) Figures selected using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD10), all leukaemias coded as C91-C95, breast cancer as C50, prostate cancer as C61 and lung cancer as C34. (2) Figures provided here are for female breast cancer. However, there are around 300 cases of male breast cancer diagnosed each year in England and Wales. | ||||||
Drug Deaths
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in Scotland died as a result of (a) heroin and (b) cocaine misuse in the last 12 months. [78866]
John Healey: This is a matter for the Scottish Executive (Registrar General) and the hon. Member may wish to write to them about this issue.
Electoral Registration
Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what percentage of the electorate in each (a) constituency and (b) ward of each constituency were registered to vote in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2006. [79080]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 21 June 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your question concerning how many and what percentage of the electorate in each (a) constituency and (b) ward of each constituency were registered to vote in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2006. (79080)
Whilst ward electorate counts for England and Wales by parliamentary constituency can be provided for February 1997 and most recently for December 2005, the necessary ward population estimates to calculate the percentage of the electorate who were registered to vote are not available.
In the nine-year period from 1997, ward population estimates for England and Wales are available only for 2001 and 2002. Information for 2001 and 2002 has been provided previously in response to earlier Parliamentary Questions (No. 38272, 20 Dec 2005, Column 2809w, No. 41187, 19th January 2006, Column 1491w).
In addition there have been a significant number of ward name changes and ward boundary changes over this nine-year period which may cause significant difficulties when comparing figures for wards over time.
Electors (Southend)
Mr. Amess: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many electors there were in each ward in Southend, West in each of the last 10 years. [78595]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 21 June 2006:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question regarding the number of electors in each ward in Southend West in each of the last 10 years. I am replying in her absence. (78595)
The most recent ward electorate counts are for December 2005. The ward electorate counts for Southend West for the last 10 years are included in the attached table. The ward electorate counts are for parliamentary electors, including attainers. Local government electorate counts are not available at ward level.
It should be noted that the number of people eligible to vote is not the same as the resident population aged 18 and over. There are numerous reasons for this. For example not everyone who is usually resident is entitled to vote (foreign citizens from outside of the EU and Commonwealth, prisoners, etc. are not eligible), some people do not register to vote and people who have more than one address may register in more than one place. Further, there is inevitably some double counting of the registered electorate as electoral registration officers vary in how quickly they remove people from the registers after they have moved away from an area or after they have died. These factors have a differential impact from area to area.
| Parliamentary electors for wards in Southend, West parliamentary constituency, 1996 to 2005 | |||||
| Ward name | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
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