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Prisons
Mr. Spring: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the escape of Mark Ryder from Highpoint HMP. [103711]
Mr. Sutcliffe: I wrote to the hon. Member on7 December.
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the Integrated Drug Treatment System funding for drug treatment has been allocated to HMP Peterborough in 2006-07; and if he will make a statement. [105290]
Mr. Sutcliffe [holding answer 7 December 2006]: The Home Office and the Department of Health are funding £12 million in 2006-07 for improved clinical drug treatment for prisoners. A first wave of 17 prisons was selected to implement the full IDTS programme; and a further 28 prisons selected to utilise the funds to improve drug services. HMP Peterborough was not included in these first 45 prisons.
The first-wave prisons were selected to ensure a spread between geographical areas, male and female prisons and public and contracted prisons; to involve all Government Office and Prison Service regions; and thereby provide a broad base for evaluation. These prisons were also chosen because evidence showed an overriding need to improve the quality of their clinical drug services.
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide the figures on released foreign prisoners in Peterborough referred to in the Prime Minister’s oral answer of 11 October 2006, Official Report, column 298. [106781]
Mr. Byrne: I wrote to the hon. Member about this matter on 29 November.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many released prisoners who were not assessed for deportation at the end of their term remain at large. [107203]
Mr. Byrne: My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary explained on 9 October to the House that the director general of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate had written to the Home Affairs Committee on that date. In that letter, the director general provided the latest breakdown of the most accurate and robust information that the Department holds on the 1,013 prisoners released without consideration of deportation.
A copy of the letter is available from the Library of the House and a further update will be provided to the Home Affairs Committee early next year.
TV Advertising
Mr. Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much was spent by his Department on television advertisements in the last year for which figures are available. [104440]
Mr. Byrne: During the financial year 2005-06 the Home Office media spend for television advertising was £4,008,170. This figure excludes production costs.
Treasury
Average Earnings
Mr. Moore: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many and what percentage of (a) male and (b) female (i) full-time and (ii) part-time employees in (A) Scotland, (B) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (C) the UK had weekly gross earnings, including overtime, below (1) £295.88, (2) £222.00 and (3) £189.38 in each of the last five years; [104788]
(2) what the (a) average and (b) median (i) hourly and (ii) weekly gross earnings including and excluding overtime were for (A) male and (B) female (1) full-time employees and (2) part-time employees aged (u) 16-17, (v) 18-21, (w) 22-29, (x) 30-39, (y) 40-49 and (z) over50 years in (yy) Scotland and (zz) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland in each of the last five years; [104789]
(3) what the (a) average and (b) median (i) hourly and (ii) weekly gross earnings including and excluding overtime were for (A) male and (B) female employees working in the (1) private, (2) public and (3) not classified sectors in (xx) Scotland and (yy) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland in each of the last five years. [104790]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 11 December 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions about earnings in Scotland. (104788, 104789 & 104790).
Information in the form requested is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Pay Award
Mr. Fallon: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the effective pay award date is for staff in (a) his Department and (b) Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs; and what the actual implementation date was in each case in each of the last five years. [108293]
John Healey: The effective pay award date for staff in the Treasury, together with the actual implementation date in each case in the last five years is shown in the following table.
| Effective pay award date | Implementation date | |
The effective pay award date for staff in HMRC and the former Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise, together with the actual implementation date in each case in the last five years, is shown in the following table.
| Effective pay award date | Implementation date | |
Economic Statistics: City of York
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what the average household income was in City of York (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) council area in each year since 1992 for (i) working, (ii) retired and (iii) unemployed households; [106679]
(2) what the average income was of (a) males and (b) females working (i) full-time and (ii) part-time in City of York (A) parliamentary constituency and (B) council area in each year since 1992. [106680]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 11 December2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions asking:
(1) what the average household income was in the City of York (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) council area in each year since 1992 for (i) working, (ii) retired and (iii) unemployed households (106679) and;
(2) what the average income was of (a) males and (b) females working (i) full-time and (ii) part-time in City of York (A) parliamentary constituency and (B) council area in each year since 1992. (106680)
(1) Estimates of household income which include income from earnings, benefits, pensions, investment income and other sources, are generally based on household surveys. The largest of these is the Family Resources Survey which has an annual sample in the UK of around 28,000 households. This is sufficient to produce estimates of household income at national and regional level, but not for smaller areas.
However, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has recently published estimates of household income for wards for 2001/02 only. These estimates are based on a statistical model and are
experimental statistics—this means they have been developed in accordance with the principles set out in the National Statistics Code of Practice but have yet to be fully accredited as National Statistics. These ward level estimates can be used to provide estimates of average household income for areas made up of wards.
The estimates are mean net equivalised incomes. Equivalised household incomes are standardized to take into account different sizes and compositions of households. The standard household is deemed to be a two adult household with no children, and so these equivalised incomes can be interpreted as indicating a standard of living that would be achieved by a standard household with that income. The estimates are net of income tax, national insurance contributions, contributions to occupational pension schemes, and council tax
Using these model-based estimates of household income, it is estimated that for the City of York parliamentary constituency in 2001/02, mean net income before housing costs was £360 per week, while after housing costs it was £320. For the City of York council area, the mean net income before housing costs was £374 per week, while after housing costs it was £339.
(2) ONS does not produce statistics on the average income of individuals, however, average earnings are estimated from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), and are provided for employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence. This is the standard definition used for ASHE. The ASHE does not collect data on the self employed and people who do unpaid work. ASHE is only available from 1997. The attached tables show Average Gross Weekly Earnings for the parliamentary constituency of City of York, and for the Unitary Authority council area of York, for the years 1997 to 2006.
| Gross weekly pay for Employee jobs( a) by Place of Work (parliamentary constituency) | ||||||||
| City of York | ||||||||
| Median | Mean | |||||||
| Full-time | Part-time | Full-time | Part-time | |||||
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
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