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Water Order 2001
Mark Simmonds:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what mechanisms are in place to ensure that money collected under the 2001 Water Order for maintenance of water
and sewerage systems on park home sites is used for that purpose; and whether such funds are protected in the event of the bankruptcy of the park home site owner. [109862]
Ian Pearson: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 18 December 2006, Official Report, column 1438W.
Trade and Industry
Alcohol Sales
Lynda Waltho: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what discussions he has had with (a) Ministerial colleagues in (i) the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, (ii) the Home Office and (iii) the Department of Health and (b) supermarket chains on (A) the pricing of bulk buys of alcohol and (B) the effect of the sale of cheap alcohol. [112736]
Mr. McCartney: In recent years, DTI Ministers and officials responsible for competition issues have given advice to the Home Office on the broader issue of the implications of competition law for any proposed measures designed to promote responsible drinking.
Association of South East Asian Nations
Mr. Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the Association of South East Asian Nations' proposals for the creation of a single market for goods, services, capital and labour. [109087]
Mr. McCartney: ASEAN's project to create a free trade area (AFTA) is a long-term goal. The 10 member countries of ASEAN(1) aim to achieve a single market by 2020. A key milestone is the achievement of a zero-tariff regime for all members by 2015. This would create a single market of 550 million people with a combined gross domestic product of US $1 trillion.
The countries of the region have made progress to this goal. There has been strong growth in intra-region exports and imports and intra-ASEAN total trade as a percentage of ASEAN total trade is approximately 23 per cent.
(1) Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam.
BAE Systems
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry which BAE Systems arms export contracts worth over £1 million for which export licences have been approved since 1997; and what the (a) country of destination, (b) product approved and (c) value of the contract was in each case. [112884]
Malcolm Wicks: Information on the Government's individual export licensing decisions is commercially confidential and I am therefore able neither to confirm nor deny that BAE Systems has been granted any export licences since 1997.
The Government publish information on export licences granted by destination, including total value of Standard Individual Export Licences granted, in their Annual Report on Strategic Export Controls, available from the Libraries of the House. The Government also publish Quarterly Reports covering licensing and performance information on the Export Control Organisation website:
www.dti.gov.uk/europeandtrade/strategic-export-control/
British Household Panel Survey
Matthew Taylor:
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many and what proportion of (a) working age adults and (b) pensioners were recorded by the British Household Panel Survey as having (i) zero disadvantages, (ii) one disadvantage, (iii) two disadvantages, (iv) three disadvantages, (v) four disadvantages, (vi) five disadvantages, (vii) six disadvantages, (viii) seven disadvantages, (ix) eight
disadvantages, (x) nine disadvantages and (xi) 10 disadvantages in each year since 1991. [112813]
Malcolm Wicks: Estimates from the British Household Panel Survey (see Table 1) suggest that the proportion of working age adults that have none of the listed disadvantages has increased since 1991, from 29.2 per cent. to 45.3 per cent. in 2003. The proportion suffering from three, four, five or six or more of these disadvantages has been continuously falling. In 1991, 23.9 per cent. of the working age population suffered from three or more of the listed disadvantages, compared with 11.7 per cent. in 2003.
Grossing these proportions up to population estimates, this suggests that the number of working age adults with none of the listed disadvantages has increased from 10.1 million in 1991 to 16.2 million in 2003. (Note however that these are estimates derived from a survey sample.) The number suffering three or more of these disadvantages has approximately halved from 8.3 million in 1991 to 4.1 million in 2003.
| Table 1: Working age adults | ||||||
| Number of disadvantages | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 2001 | 2003 |
| Note: Estimates obtained by grossing weighted BHPS figures. Indicators of disadvantage are unemployment, living in workless household, having no educational qualifications, living in social housing, living in overcrowded conditions, having poor health, having poor mental health, living alone, consumer durable disadvantage, financial stress. Population estimates derived from Population Trends (various issues). | ||||||
Estimates from the British Household Panel Survey (see Table 2) suggest that the proportion of pensioners who have none of the listed disadvantages has increased since 1991, from 5.2 per cent. to 16 per cent. in 2003. The proportion suffering from three, four, five or six or more of these disadvantages has been falling over the period. In 1991, 58.2 per cent. of the pension age population suffered from three or more of the listed disadvantages, compared with 38.8 per cent. in 2003.
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