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Information is available from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) on self reported nationality, but not on citizenship.
Where the household reference persons reported that they were a national of one of the ten countries that acceded to the EU in 2004 or of Bulgaria or Romania (the January 2007 accession countries), the mean household size was 3.0 and the median was 3.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people from Stroud constituency filed income tax returns for annual income (a) between £500,000 and £999,999 and (b) greater than £1 million in each of the last three years. [118242]
Dawn Primarolo: The available estimates of the distribution of income tax liabilities at regional level can be found in table 3.11, Income and tax, by gender, region and country on the HM Revenue and Customs website at
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/income_distribution/menu-by-year.htm#315.
More detailed breakdowns are not available due to small sample sizes at constituency level.
Keith Vaz: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the economic relationship between the UK and India. [119137]
John Healey: The economic relationship between the UK and India is stronger than ever, building on the close cultural and family ties between our two nations:
Trade between our two nations is now worth £8 billiongrowing at over 20 per cent. a yearand has doubled over the last five years;
500 Indian companies operate in Britain, and almost 50 Indian companies are listed or trading actively on the London stock exchange;
The UK is the fifth largest investor in India, and India is the third largest investor in Britain. 60 per cent. of Indian FDI into Europe comes to Britain.
With the Indian economy growing at more than 8 per cent., the links with the UK are proving to be an increasing source of prosperity for both our countries.
Alan Duncan: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what weighting for electrical goods is used by the Office for National Statistics when it calculates (a) the Consumer Prices Index and (b) the Retail Prices Index. [118918]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 5( th) February 2007.
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question: what weighting for electrical
goods is used by the Office of National Statistics when it calculates (a) the Consumer Price Index and (b) the Retail Price Index?(118918)
The table below shows the weighting in 2006 of electrical goods (as a percentage) within three categories of expenditure, in the Retail Prices Index (RPI) and Consumer Prices Index (CPI), alongside their respective price indicators.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people from Stroud constituency filed inheritance tax returns for amounts (a) between £500,000 and £999,999 and (b) greater than £1 million in each of the last three years. [118241]
Dawn Primarolo: Figures for estates assessed for inheritance tax are not available at local levels.
Mary Creagh: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how statistical data on the (a) receipt and (b) enforcement of the national minimum wage is (i) collected and (ii) held. [117720]
Dawn Primarolo: Estimates of the number of people in low-paid jobs, and specifically those paid less than the national minimum wage, are published by the Office for National Statistics annually in October.
From 2004, the estimates have been based on the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE). This survey replaced the New Earnings Survey (NES) and has been designed to provide better information about the low end of the pay distribution. The ASHE includes imputation of missing earnings and hours information in individual questionnaires, and weighting by categories defined by age band, gender, occupation and region. It also introduces additional samples likely to include a higher proportion of low paid employees. These samples are drawn from employees who moved jobs or entered the labour market between February and April, who would not have been identified for the New Earnings Survey because of the timing of the survey procedures.
The ONS publishes tables on the National Statistics website showing the number of UK jobs from 1998 onwards paid below the minimum wage for those aged 18 to 21 and those aged 22 and over, by age, gender, full-time or part-time work, industry sector, Government office region and occupation. From 2005, estimates of the number of 16 to 17-year-olds paid below the national minimum wage have also been published.
The statistical data on enforcement of the minimum wage are collected centrally through information received during inquiries into employers at risk of not paying the national minimum wage. The statistical data are held by reference to the team that is conducting the inquiry or by DTI region.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on what date he expects HM Revenue and Customs to publish the tax credit overpayment figures for the 2005-06; and if he will make a statement. [118708]
Dawn Primarolo: The National Statistics release Child and Working Tax Credit Statistics. Finalised Awards 2005-06. Supplement on Payments in 2005-06, which includes information on overpayment of tax credits in 2005-06, will be available in May 2007, as stated in the HMRC Updating Plan, which is available on the HMRC website at: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/stats/updates/index.htm.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the effects of the recovery of overpaid tax credits on levels of personal debt amongst people in the bottom three deciles of income distribution; and if he will make a statement. [118732]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is not available.
HMRCs policy on recovery of tax credits overpayments is set out in their Code of Practice 26, What happens if we have paid you too much tax credit?
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many people claimed child tax credits in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997; [118226]
(2) how many people claimed working tax credits in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997. [118228]
Dawn Primarolo: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given to the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Lynne Featherstone) on 7 December 2006, Official Report, column 1748W.
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the income tax threshold for a (a) single and (b) married couple pensioner household (i) was in 1997 and (ii) is in 2006-07. [118250]
Dawn Primarolo: The answer is provided in the following table. Tax thresholds are the point at which income exceeds personal allowances. Individual spouses and civil partners are taxed separately and not as a household. The additional tax relief that is available for older pensioner married or civil partner couples reduces the tax liability of the spouse or civil partner who claims it. The amount depends on the age of the older partner and income of the claimant.
Mrs. James: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) if he will make a statement on the charging of VAT on food at motorway service station restaurant outlets; [118387]
(2) what legislation applies to the (a) charging of VAT on food and (b) provision of information on VAT charging on menus and in-house advertisements by food retail outlets. [118504]
Dawn Primarolo: Supplies of food are VAT zero-rated unless otherwise specified in Group 1, Schedule 8 of the VAT Act 1994.
Supplies in the course of catering are excluded from the zero rate. These take place when food is supplied for consumption on the premises on which it is sold, and when food is sold to be eaten hot. Therefore VAT is chargeable on all food sold for consumption in motorway service station restaurants, as well as on all hot take-away food sold in motorway service stations.
The Price Marking (Food and Drink Services) Order 2003 requires restaurants, pubs and similar establishments to provide certain information to customers on menus and price lists. The Order also requires that an indication of the price of food (or of a charge payable in addition to the price of any food) which is subject to VAT shall be inclusive of the tax.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what proportion of tax credit overpayments have involved one or more errors by HM Revenue and Customs; and if he will make a statement; [118910]
(2) how many tax credit overpayments have been caused by (a) an individuals income being incorrectly recorded by HM Revenue and Customs as zero and (b) IT failure; and if he will make a statement. [118911]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is not available.
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many new affordable houses were built in Essex in each of the past five years. [115900]
Yvette Cooper: The numbers of affordable housing units built in Essex in each of the past five years are tabulated. Affordable housing includes both social rent and low-cost home ownership. Some affordable housing units are provided through the acquisition and refurbishment of dwellings purchased on the open market and these figures are also shown.
This includes Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping Forest, Harlow, Maldon, Rochford, Southend-on-Sea (Unitary), Tendring, Thurrock (Unitary) and Uttlesford.
Affordable housing units provided: Essex | |||
New build | Acquisition | Total | |
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