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Police Informers: Pay
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the total value was of rewards paid to informers by HM Revenue and Customs in each year since 1997. [148916]
Jane Kennedy: Rewards have been paid to informers by the two former departments, HM Customs and Excise and the Inland Revenue, as follows:
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In line with an undertaking given during the debate on the Commissioners Revenue and Customs Bill, the amount of reward payments made by HMRC is published in our annual report. This was done in the 2004-05 HMRC Annual Report (page 69), the 2005-06 HMRC Annual Report (page 75) and Spring 2007 Departmental Report (the new format for our Annual Report, on page 45).
Private Finance Initiative
Chris Grayling: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how much his Department has spent on legal advice for the private finance initiative credit guarantee finance pilots; [152428]
(2) what assessment he has made of the lessons of the private finance initiative credit guarantee finance pilots; [152430]
(3) whether the private finance initiative credit guarantee finance scheme will be rolled out nationally. [152431]
Angela Eagle: The Government continue to monitor and assess the Credit Guarantee Finance (CGF) scheme. The Government have previously announced that they do not intend to use CGF for more than a limited proportion of their PFI programme.
The total amount HM Treasury has spent on legal advice for CGF pilots is £361,000.
Public Expenditure
Alistair Burt: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the reasons are for the timing of the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007; and if he will make a statement. [150673]
Andy Burnham:
In July 2005, the Government announced its decision that, with the start of the next spending review period coming a decade after the first Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), the time was right for a second CSR. In the context of a rapidly changing world, the CSR would undertake a fundamental examination of the balance and pattern of public expenditure, and identify the investment and reforms necessary to equip the UK for the decade ahead. The Government announced that Departments budgets for 2007-08 would be unaltered from those previously announced and that the next CSR would conclude in 2007, setting departments budgets for the years 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11. As announced at Budget 2007,
the CSR will conclude by autumn 2007, at which point the Government will set out the final conclusions of the CSR.
Taxation: Disclosure of Information
Mr. Heald: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when his Department first exchanged tax information in bulk about a class of taxpayers with another country; what sort of information has been exchanged in this way; whether such information is exchanged electronically; and if he will make a statement. [152042]
Jane Kennedy: HM Revenue and Customs’ records indicate that such exchanges have taken place on a reciprocal basis since at least the mid 1970s. Most exchanges relate to payments of interest, royalties, pensions and commissions made from a source in one country to persons resident in the other country. Information is exchanged in secure electronic form.
Taxation: Domicil
Dr. Cable: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what the cost to date has been of the review into non-domicile taxation, broken down into (a) staff costs, (b) administration costs, (c) office costs, (d) stationery costs, (e) entertainment costs and (f) other costs; and if he will make a statement; [150884]
(2) how many staff have worked on the review of non-domicile taxation carried out by his Department since 2002; and if he will make a statement. [150899]
Jane Kennedy: A number of HMRC and HMT staff have contributed directly or indirectly to the review since 2002, it is not possible to provide an exact number. The review is currently being managed by two HMT officials, supported by a number of other officials in HMT and HMRC who contribute to the review alongside other duties.
Information on costs of individual stands of policy work is not held centrally.
Dr. Cable: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many investigations were undertaken into the income and assets held overseas by non-domiciled UK taxpayers in each of the last five years for which information is available; and if he will make a statement. [150898]
Jane Kennedy: The information is not held centrally and could be collected only at disproportionate cost.
Teenage Pregnancy
Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many teenage pregnancies there were in each of the last 10 years, broken down by (a) age and (b) local authority. [151359]
Angela Eagle: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply. A copy of his reply has been placed in the Library.
Terrorism: Finance
Dr. Cable: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many organisations found to have terrorist links have had their assets frozen; how much funding was frozen in total; how much such funding was returned to legitimate authorities in each of the last 10 years for which information is available; and if he will make a statement. [150519]
Kitty Ussher: Since 2001, a total of approximately £570,000 of suspected terrorist funds have been frozen in the UK including funds belonging to six designated organisations. All assets frozen remain the property of the designated individuals or organisations and are not disposed of by the Treasury. The Treasury reports to Parliament quarterly on the operation of its asset-freezing regime, including detail on the total amount of funds frozen. The latest such report was laid before Parliament on 12 July 2007.
Unemployment
Mr. Clappison: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what estimate he has made of the number of economically inactive people who want a job; [151491]
(2) what estimate he has made of the number of non-UK citizens who were economically active in the UK labour supply in each year since 1997; and what proportion of the labour force this represented in each year; [151490]
(3) what estimate he has made of the number of individuals registered as inactive in the UK due to sickness and disability; and what benchmarking he has conducted of this number against numbers in other EU member states; [151489]
(4) how many and what proportion of people in the working age population were non-UK citizens in each year since 1997. [151470]
Angela Eagle: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 24 July2007:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your four parliamentary questions about economic activity and economic inactivity. The replies to these four questions have been combined. I am replying in her absence. (151470, 151489, .151490, 151491)
Table 1 gives estimates of the numbers of UK and foreign nationals of working age and the numbers and rates of economic activity for the three months ending December in each year for 1997, 1999 and 2001 to 2006. Comparable estimates are not available for 1998 and 2000. These estimates are not seasonally adjusted. The data shown are based on labour force survey (LFS) household population and not the total UK population to enable consistent economic activity data to be shown. It should be noted the LFS data shown by nationality:
excludes those who have not been resident in the UK for six months
excludes students in halls who do not have a UK resident parent
excludes people in most other types of communal establishments (e.g. hotels, boarding houses, hostels, mobile home sites, etc.)
is consistent with population estimates that only includes migrants staying for 12 months or more
is consistent with population estimates published in spring 2003 which are significantly lower than the latest population estimates and also the headline labour market statistics published each month by the Office for National Statistics; LFS estimates by nationality for the period requested are not yet available consistent with latest population estimates.
Table 2 gives estimates of the economically inactive people split by those who want a job and those who do not want a job. A further disaggregation for those who are long term sick or
disabled is also shown. These data are for the three months ending December 2006, and are not seasonally adjusted.
Estimates for economic inactivity for EU member states are available from the Eurostat website which is accessible via the House of Commons Library.
The LFS estimates at the detailed level required for this answer are only available consistent with the UK population estimates published in February and March 2003 and do not yet incorporate the more recent population estimates that are used in the headline labour market series.
Estimates are taken from the LFS. As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
| All persons of working age( 1, 2) and economic activity for UK and foreign nationals, United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted | |||||||
| All persons of working age ( 1, 2) | Economically active | ||||||
| Total | Non-UK nationals | UK nationals | Non-UK nationals | ||||
| Three months ending December each year | Numbers (thousand) | Numbers (thousand) | % of total | Numbers (thousand) | Rates (%)( 3) | Numbers (thousand) | Rates (%)( 3) |
| (1) LFS microdata for working age household population that excludes communal establishments, is consistent with population estimates first published in spring 2003. (2) Men aged 16 to 64 and women age 16 to 59. (3) Economically active people of working age as a percentage of all persons. Notes: 1 Comparable data are not available for 1998 and 2000. 2 It should also be noted that the nationality question in the LFS is an undercount because: - it excludes those who have not been resident in the UK for six months. - it excludes students in halls who do not have a UK resident parent. - it excludes people in most other types of communal establishments (e.g. hotels, boarding houses, hostels, mobile home sites, etc). - it is grossed to population estimates that only include migrants staying for 12 months or more. - microdata is only grossed to population estimates consistent with those published in spring 2003 which are significantly lower than the latest population estimates. Source: ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS) | |||||||
| Table 2: Economically inactive people of working age 1, 2 want a job, and do not want a job, United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted | |||
| Thousand | |||
| All persons | Wants a job | Does not want a job | |
| (1) LFS microdata for working age household population that excludes communal establishments, is consistent with population estimates first published in spring 2003. (2) Men aged 16 to 64 and women aged 16 to 59. Source: ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS) | |||
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