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Gross weekly pay for Employee jobs( a) by Place of Work (council area)
	York Unitary Authority
	Median				Mean
	Full-time		Part-time		Full-time		Part-time
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
2006	*491	*391	x	*146	*578	444	**148	*174
2005	*454	*356	x	*133	508	399	**140	*156
2004(b)	*460	*342	x	*126	505	*398	x	*147
2004	*472	*342	x	*130	526	*399	**158	*150
2003	*446	*335	x	**124	*490	*372	**139	*144
2002	*448	*306	x	*125	*475	*349	x	*138
2001	*402	*303	x	**116	447	331	x	*132
2000	*403	*286	x	**117	462	320	**93	*126
1999	*382	*267	x	*101	432	303	x	*111
1998	*372	*250	x	*95	420	284	x	*106
1997	*363	*235	x	*89	397	260	x	*103
(a) Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence. (b) In 2004 additional supplementary surveys were introduced to improve the coverage of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. Figures are presented both excluding and including the additional surveys for comparison purposes. Guide to quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of a figure, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV - for example, for an average of 200 with a CV of 5%, we would expect the population average to be within the range 180 to 220. Key: CV <= 5% * CV > 5% and <= 10% ** CV > 10% and <=20% x CV > 20% The median replaces the mean as the headline statistic. The weighted mean is the sum of the weighted values divided by the sum of the weights. The median is the value below which 50 per cent of employees fall. It is preferred over the mean for earnings data as it is influenced less by extreme values and because of the skewed distribution of earnings data. Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Furniture Manufacturing Businesses

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many furniture manufacturing businesses were (a) registered and (b) de-registered for VAT in each year since 1997. [107406]

Margaret Hodge: I have been asked to reply.

The following table shows the number of furniture manufacturers that have (a) registered and (b) de-registered for VAT in each year since 1997. The start of year stock of VAT registered businesses is also shown.

Number of VAT registrations, de-registrations and start of year VAT registered stock 1997-2005
	Registrations	De-registrations	Start of year stock
1997	655	610	7,615
1998	655	590	7,660
1999	640	635	7,725
2000	620	595	7,730
2001	540	605	7,755
2002	490	640	7,695
2003	575	605	7,545
2004	495	590	7,515
2005	485	595	7,420
Note: Figures are for SIC code 361, manufacturer of furniture. Source: Small Business Service Analytical Unit, available from www.sbs.gov.uk/vat

VAT registration and de-registration data do not capture all business activity. Businesses are unlikely to be registered if their turnover falls below the compulsory VAT threshold, which has risen in each year since 1997. Similarly, businesses that de-register will not necessarily have closed. Only 1.8 million out of 4.3 million businesses (42 per cent.) were registered for VAT at the start of 2005.

Insurance: Travel

Mr. Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what effect on the income generated to the Exchequer has resulted from the extension of the higher rate of insurance premium tax to all travel insurance since 1998. [104642]

John Healey: Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs does not collect data on insurance premium tax from individual types of insurance.

Lyons Review

John Cummings: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many jobs have been relocated to (a) the north-east and (b) elsewhere following the Lyons Review; and if he will make a statement. [105120]

Mr. Timms: Strong progress has been made towards our target of relocating 20,000 civil service posts out of London and the south-east by 2010 and by the end of September 2006 more than 10,500 posts had already been moved to every nation and region in the UK. Of these, more than 640 went to the north-east.

Mortality Rates

Mr. Waterson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the mortality rate was of (a) men and (b) women in Eastbourne in each year since 1996. [105112]

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 question asking what the mortality rate was of (a) men and (b) women in Eastbourne in each year since 1996. (105112)

The attached table provides the age-standardised mortality rate for (a) men and (b) women in Eastbourne local authority for the years 1996 to 2005 (the latest available).

Table 1: Age-standardised mortality rates( 1) , Eastbourne local authority, 1996 to 2005( 2)
Deaths per 100,000
	Males	Females
1996	845	546
1997	805	541
1998	805	536
1999	820	518
2000	786	517
2001	877	494
2002	796	488
2003	730	496
2004	754	512
2005	726	522
(1) Age-standardised mortality rates per 100,000 population, standardised to the European Standard Population. Age-standardised rates are used to allow comparison between populations which may contain different proportions of people of different ages. (2) Using local authority boundaries as of 2005 for deaths for all years shown.

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Mr. Waterson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the (a) diagnosis and (b) mortality rate was for (i) chronic lung disease, (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cancer in each ward in Eastbourne constituency in each of the last 10 years. [105113]

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 question asking what the (a) diagnosis and (b) mortality rate was for (i) chronic lung disease, (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cancer in each ward in Eastbourne constituency in each of the last 10 years. (105113)

Figures on the incidence of chronic lung disease and coronary heart disease are not readily available. Mortality and incidence rates are not available for parliamentary constituencies which do not share boundaries exactly with a local authority, or with any combination of whole wards; consequently, figures are given for Eastbourne local authority. The numbers of deaths and cancer registrations per year in each ward in Eastbourne local authority are too small for the reliable calculation of rates.

The attached tables provide (a) the age-standardised cancer incidence rate in Eastbourne local authority for the years 1995 to 2004 (the latest available), and (b) the age-standardised mortality rates for (i) chronic lung disease, (ii) coronary heart disease and (iii) cancer in Eastbourne local authority for the years 1996 to 2005 (the latest available).

Table 1: Age-standardised cancer incidence rates( 1, 2) , Eastbourne local authority( 3) , 1995 to 2004
	Cases per 100,000
1995	343
1996	343
1997	343
1998	386
1999	402
2000	344
2001	353
2002	375
2003	294
2004	360
(1) Age-standardised cancer registration rates per 100,000 population, standardised to the European Standard Population. Age-standardised rates are used to allow comparison between populations which may contain different proportions of people of different ages. (2) International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes C00-C97 excluding non-melanoma skin cancer code C44. (3) Using local authority boundaries as of 2005 for cancer registrations for all years shown.

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