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Departments: Energy
Lynne Jones: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what strategy he has put in place for (a) the use of renewable energy and (b) meeting energy targets in his Department’s buildings; and if he will make a statement. [125399]
John Healey: The Department annually publishes its strategy in the Sustainable Development Action Plan, which can be found at the following public website:
Departments: Postal Services
Mr. Fraser: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which postal companies handle mail dispatched by his Office and its agencies. [128251]
Departments: Smith Institute
Mr. Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many seminars held by the Smith Institute have been attended by Ministers in his Department acting in an official capacity in the last 12 months; [123343]
(2) on how many occasions he has spoken in an official capacity at an event organised by (a) the Smith Institute and (b) its subsidiary SI Events Ltd. in the last 12 months. [128367]
John Healey: Treasury Ministers and officials attend many seminars and have meetings with a variety of organisations in the public and private sectors. As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Government’s practice to provide details of all such meetings.
Departments: Surveys
Mr. Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer of 1 March 2007, Official Report, column 1489W, on Departments: Surveys, if he will redact personal information and place a copy of the survey in the Library. [128537]
John Healey: I refer the hon. Gentleman to my answer of 1 March 2007, Official Report, column 1489W.
Red Box Teaching Packs
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what updates to the Red Box teaching pack were made in the last six months; and how many updates to the Red Box teaching pack have been produced. [128826]
John Healey: The Red Box website has been updated and went live in early March. The printed Red Box has not been updated in the last six months. There have been two editions produced to date, in 2002 and 2005, as I said in my written answer of 18 December 2006, Official Report, column 1557W.
Departments: Trade Unions
Mrs. May: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many meetings (a) he and (b) his Department’s Ministers held with trade union representatives in 2006. [128753]
John Healey: Treasury Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Government’s practice to provide details of all such meetings.
Departments: Training
Mr. Francois: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what (a) seminars, (b) workshops and (c) exhibitions were held by the human resources team in his Department in the last six months. [125756]
John Healey: The HR team holds regular meetings in order to fulfil its departmental responsibilities. There is no business requirement to record the details of individual events.
Disciplinary Proceedings
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 28 February 2007, Official Report, column 1430W, on disciplinary procedures, what information his Human Resources Department collects on disciplinary action. [128902]
John Healey: The Treasury collects a range of data related to Human Resources Issues.
Electoral Register: Chorley
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which areas within Chorley borough have low electoral registration rates. [126613]
John Healey [holding answer 9 March 2007]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 21 March 2007:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your question regarding which areas within Chorley borough have low electoral registration rates. (126613)
The attached table provides information, for each electoral ward in Chorley, comparing the number of people who are registered to vote as local electors with the “estimated usually resident population” aged 18 and over. The resulting percentages are labelled as “registration rates” on the table and this term is used in the remainder of this reply. These data provide the closest available approximation to the information you requested. It is not possible to calculate the percentage of the eligible population who are registered to vote: the resident population aged 18 and over is not the same as the number of people eligible to vote.
These “registration rates” are not published as National Statistics: there are a number of issues that mean care needs to be taken when interpreting the data. In particular, care needs to be taken when considering areas where the usually resident population differs radically from the population eligible to vote. An example of such an area might be one containing prisons (as is the case for Lostock ward) or accommodation for a United States Air Force base, as prisoners and American citizens are not eligible to vote. These people are however included in the population estimates as they are usually resident. Therefore, the estimated “registration rate” calculated for such areas is considerably reduced.
Please note that the population estimates have a reference date of 30 June, and electoral data a reference date of 1 December. Attainers have been excluded from the electorate data (as they are under 18) to give the best possible comparison.
There is also inevitably some double counting of the registered electorate (both parliamentary and local/European) as electoral registration officers vary in how quickly they remove people from the registers after they have moved away from an area or after they have died. This is one of the main reasons some areas show rates in excess of 100 per cent.
The population data are estimates and as such are subject to a margin of confidence. The ward level population estimates are derived from estimates for a different geography that have been published with the status of experimental statistics. Therefore, the estimates, and electoral registration rates derived from them, should not be treated as being exact. The latest derived available ward estimates are for mid-2004 and therefore data are shown for this year.
| 2004: Electoral registration rates, wards in Chorley, in ascending order. | |||
| Electorate Ward | December 2004 | Population 18+ Mid-2004 | Registration rate( 1) |
| (1). The registered electorate expressed as a percentage of the usually resident population aged 18 and over. The electoral registration rates have been calculated using unrounded population estimates. Source: Office for National Statistics | |||
Employment Level
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many people of working age were (a) in full- time employment and (b) in part-time employment in each year since 1979-80; [124618]
(2) what the (a) employment rate, (b) full-time employment rate and (c) part-time employment rate for (i) women and (ii) men was in each year since 1979-80. [124619]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 21 March 2007:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions asking how many people of working age have been (a) in full-time employment and (b) in part-time employment in each year since 1979-80 and what the estimate is of the (a) employment rate, (b) full-time employment rate and (c) part-time employment rate for (i) women and (ii) men for each year since 1979-80. (124618 & 124619)
Table 1 shows the number of people in employment (working age) and the full-time and part-time employment for people aged 16 and over by gender for each year from 1992 to 2006. A full-time and part-time split is not available for the working age population on a consistent basis.
Table 2 shows the working age employment rates by gender for each year from 1992 to 2006. It also shows the percentages of people working both full-time and part-time based on those who are aged 16 years and over. A full-time and part-time split is not available for the working age population on a consistent basis.
The two tables provided are for the three months ending December in each year from 1992 to 2006 and are seasonally adjusted.
Each month the ONS publishes employment levels and rates and full-time and part-time employment in the Labour Market Statistics First Release available within the attached link (see tables 2 and 3) http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pdfdir/lmsuk0207.pdf.
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.
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