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Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were in employment in each (a) county and (b) constituency in (i) 1986, (ii) 1996 and (iii) 2006. [93512]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 October 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about employment. (93512)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles statistics of employment and for local areas from the annual local area Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Annual Population Survey (APS) following International Labour Organisation definitions.
Table 1, attached, shows the number of people in employment, resident in each English administrative county for the 12 months ending February 1997 from the annual local area LFS and for the 12 months ending March 2006 from the APS. Table 2 shows corresponding information for each Parliamentary Constituency in Great Britain. Data for 1986 are not available.
These estimates, as with any from sample surveys, are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
Since the information is extensive, copies of these tables have been placed in the House of Commons Library.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the employment rate has been in each of the last 30 years. [93745]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 October 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about employment rates over the last thirty years. (93745)
The attached table gives the employment rates by gender from 1976 to 2006. These are based on an annual average ending in December for each year.
Estimates are taken from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
| Employment rates( 1) for people of working age( 2) by gender, 1976 to 2006, United Kingdom, seasonally adjusted | |||
| Percentage | |||
| 12 months ending December each year | All persons | Men | Women |
| (1 )People in employment as a percentage of all persons. (2) Men aged 16 to 64 and women age 16 to 59. (3 )Seven months ending July 2006. Source: ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS) | |||
Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many redundancies there were (a) in total and (b) as a percentage of the workforce in each (i) local authority area and (ii) region in each of the last 30 years. [93756]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 October 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about redundancies. (93756)
Information in the form requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many jobs there were in each of the 250 most rural constituencies in each of the last 20 years. [93807]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 October 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about numbers of jobs in the most rural constituencies. (93807)
Information in the form requested is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the unemployment rate was in the 250 most rural constituencies in each of the last 20 years; and what the total percentage change was during each year. [93808]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 October 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about unemployment. (93808)
Information in the form requested is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Fuel (VAT)
Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what level of VAT was applied to fuel in each of the last 30 years. [93859]
John Healey: The information requested is published in the “Tax Benefit Reference Manual 2006-07 Edition” which is available from the House of Commons Library.
Inheritance Tax
Hugh Robertson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what factors were taken into account when deciding that the costs of selling a property should not be deducted from the value of the estate when calculating inheritance tax; and if he will make a statement. [94232]
Dawn Primarolo: The value of an estate for inheritance tax purposes is the open market value of the deceased’s assets, less that person’s own liabilities, at the date of their death. The costs of selling a property during the administration of an estate fall under the general rule that expenses which are not those of the deceased are not taken into account in the inheritance tax calculation.
Iran
Mr. Keith Simpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what discussions were held at the most recent Group of Seven Finance Ministers meeting on measures to limit Iran’s access to international financial systems. [93705]
Ed Balls: At their September meeting, G7 Ministers discussed a number of global economic issues. Among these, they discussed abuse of the international financial system and agreed to intensify their efforts to combat monetary laundering, proliferation networks as well as terrorist and illicit financing by addressing global financial vulnerabilities particularly those associated with jurisdictions that have failed to recognize international standards. They urged the FATF to focus on identifying and adopting appropriate measures within its mandate and asked the IMF and the World Bank to work closely with the FATF to foster implementation of the relevant international standards. They also encouraged all countries to publish their full evaluations.
Job Vacancies
Jim Cousins: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many job vacancies there were in each (a) region and (b) country in each quarter since 2005. [92781]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 October 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about regional and national job vacancies. (92781)
A comprehensive estimate of vacancies is only available from the Office for National Statistics Vacancy Survey, which provides information at a United Kingdom level only. The seasonally adjusted estimates for the UK for each quarter from 2005 can be found in the attached table.
| Numbers of vacancies, United Kingdom, seasonally adjusted | |
| Thousand | |
| Three months ending: | Total |
| Note: Figures exclude Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing. Source: ONS Vacancy Survey. | |
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