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These estimates have been obtained from the Survey of Personal Incomes 2003-04 and are the latest available.
Confidence intervals have been provided due to small sample sizes. A 95 per cent. confidence interval means that if we were to take repeated samples, then 95 per cent. of the time the number of taxpayers with total income less than £7,185 per annum, would be between the lower and upper confidence interval ranges indicated in the table.
Pensioner Deaths
Chris Huhne: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of pensioners in whose death (a) subnormal body temperature or hypothermia and (b) malnutrition or deprivation of food was a primary cause in each year since 1997, broken down by (i) rural and (ii) non-rural areas; and if he will make a statement. [84621]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 13 July 2006:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking what estimate has been made of the number of pensioners in whose death (a) subnormal body temperature or hypothermia and (b) malnutrition or deprivation of food was a primary cause in each year since 1997, broken down by (i) rural and (ii) non-rural areas. I am replying in her absence. (84621)
The latest year for which figures are available is 2004.
Most routine mortality statistics are based on a single cause for each death, the underlying cause of death which is defined by the World Health Organisation as:
(a) the disease which initiated the train of events directly leading to death; or
(b) the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury.
Hypothermia and deprivation of food can never be the underlying cause of death according to this definition. However, figures are available for deaths where hypothermia or ‘effects of hunger’ were mentioned on the death certificate.
Information is available on deaths where malnutrition was the underlying cause of death.
Table 1 below shows the number of deaths where the underlying cause was malnutrition, and Table 2 shows the number of deaths where hypothermia or ‘effects of hunger’ were mentioned on the death certificate, excluding those deaths mentioning ‘effects of hunger’ where malnutrition was the underlying cause. Figures are for deaths occurring in each year from 1997 to 2004. As retirement age differs for males and females, tables are provided separately for deaths of women aged 60 and over and men aged 65 and over.
A breakdown of the figures requested by rural and non-rural areas is not available.
| Table 2: Number of deaths where hypothermia( 1) or ‘effects of hunger’( 2) was mentioned on the death certificate, men and women of pensionable age, England and Wales, 1997 to 2004( 3) | ||||
| Hypothermia | ‘Effects of hunger’ | |||
| Men aged 65 and over | Women aged 60 and over | Men aged 65 and over | Women aged 60 and over | |
| (1) Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes N991.6 for the years 1997 to 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes T68 from 2001 onwards. (2) Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes N994.2 for the years 1997 to 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes T73.0 from 2001 onwards, excluding deaths where the underlying cause was malnutrition. (3) Figures are for deaths occurring in each calendar year. | ||||
Personal Debt
Jenny Willott: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what the total amount of personal debt in the UK was in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement; [82901]
(2) what the total amount of personal debt was for people aged between 16 and 24 in each year since 1997 in the UK; and if he will make a statement; [82902]
(3) how many and what proportion of personal debt is due to student loans for those aged between 18 and 29 years in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement; [82911]
(4) what the average amount of credit card debt per person aged between 16 and 24 years was in (a) 2005-06 and (b) each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement; [82913]
(5) what the average amount of unsecured debt has been for people aged between 16 and 24 years in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [82915]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 13 July 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions on personal debt in the UK. (82901, 82902, 82911, 82913 & 82915)
We are unable to provide levels of personal debt by age group and do not currently publish data on personal debt split by student loans or by credit card debt.
The available information is shown in the table below.
| Total personal debt( 1) (end-year) (£ million) | Secured personal debt( 2) (end-year) (£ million) | Unsecured personal debt( 3 ) (end-year) (£ million) | Other debt( 4) (end-year) (£ million) | Average unsecured personal debt( 5) (end-year) (£ million) | |
| When using Table 64 of United Kingdom Economic Accounts (web link given below) the database identifiers are (1) NNPP, (2) NNRP, (3) NNRG and NNRK, (4) NNPP-NNRP-NNRG-NNRK (5) NNRG plus NNRK/MGSL Note: For the denominator in the calculation for the average unsecured personal debt the series used is population aged 16 plus (database identifier MGSL). | |||||
The balance sheet for the household sector provides estimates of the total assets and liabilities held by households. These measures are produced and published only in cash terms. These are the only measures of household sector debt that the ONS publishes.
There is no standard approach to the presentation of debt information beyond the National Accounts. Some external users
construct measures of debt as a share of income, as a guide to affordability. For example the Bank of England sometimes look at household debt as a share of gross households’ disposable income. A time series of these figures is shown in the table below.
| Total personal debt( 1) (end-year) as a percentage of gross disposable income | Secured personal debt( 2) (end-year) as a percentage of gross disposable income | Unsecured personal debt( 3) (end-year) as a percentage of gross disposable income | |
| When using Table 64 of United Kingdom Economic Accounts (web link given below) the database identifiers are (1) NNPP (2) NNRP (3) NNRG plus NNRK Note: For the denominator in the three calculations for debt as a proportion of gross household disposable income the database identifier is QWND. Table A38 of United Kingdom Economic Accounts (web link given below). | |||
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