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Departments: Legislation
Dr. Cable: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which Bills introduced by his Department in the last five years did not contain sunset clauses; and if he will make a statement. [152483]
Angela Eagle:
There were no sunset clauses in the Child Trust Funds Act 2004, the National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Act 2004, the Regulation of Financial Services (Land Transactions)
Act 2005, the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005, the National Insurance Contributions Act 2006, the Investment Exchanges and Clearing Houses Act 2006, the Planning Gain Supplement (Preparations) Act 2007 or the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.
The remaining Acts that received Royal Assent during this period were Appropriation, Consolidated Fund Acts, Finance Acts and other tax legislation. These do not contain sunset provisions but may be time limited or temporary in effect in whole or in part.
The appropriateness of a sunset clause for the whole or part of any proposed legislation is considered on a case-by-case basis. It is also addressed when a regulatory impact assessment relating to legislation is being prepared.
Departments: Public Expenditure
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how the Department for Education and Skills' settlement for the years covered by the comprehensive spending review period announced in the 2007 Budget will be divided between its two successor Departments. [153364]
Andy Burnham: Full details of the settlements for all Departments, including those involved in Machinery of Government changes, will be announced in the comprehensive spending review.
Departments: Railways
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was spent by his Department on first class train tickets in the last 12 months. [153171]
Angela Eagle: For details of the Department's expenditure on travel and subsistence in 2006-07 I refer to the answer to the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) given on 25 July 2007. Of this expenditure, £285,219 was on first class rail travel.
All travel and subsistence is conducted in accordance with the requirements of the Ministerial Code, Travel by Ministers and the Civil Service Management Code.
This figure includes most, but not all, first-class train travel by HMT staff. We do not hold central records of train tickets bought with corporate credit cards or for which paper claims are submitted. This information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Emigration
Mr. Hands: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many British emigrants there were from the United Kingdom aged between (a) 0 to 16, (b) 16 to 25, (c) 26 to 35, (d) 36 to 45, (e) 46 to 55, (f) 56 to 65 and (g) over 65 years in each of the last five years; [155119]
(2) how many non-British European Union emigrants there were from the United Kingdom in each of the last five years, broken down by country of origin; [155120]
(3) how many British emigrants there were from the United Kingdom in each of the last five years, broken down by country of destination; [155121]
(4) how many non-European Union emigrants there were from the United Kingdom in each of the last five years, broken down by country of origin. [155122]
Angela Eagle: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 10 September 2007:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to respond on behalf of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to your questions concerning:
i) How many British emigrants there were from the UK aged between (a) 0 to 16, (b) 16 to 25, (c) 26 to 35, (d) 36 to 45, (e) 46 to 55, (f) 56 to 65 and (g) over 65 years in each of the last five years;
ii) How many non-British European emigrants there were from the UK in each of the last five years, broken down by country of origin;
iii) How many British emigrants there were from the UK in each of the last five years broken down by country of destination;
iv) How many non-European emigrants there were from the UK in each of the last five years, broken down by country of origin.
The data are presented in the attached tables 1 to 4.
The Office for National Statistics uses the UN definition of an international migrant as someone who changes their country of usual residence for at least a year so that the country of destination effectively becomes the country of usual residence.
The specific details requested mean that estimates are only available based on International Passenger Survey (IPS) data. This means that these estimates exclude most asylum seekers, migration between the UK and the Irish Republic, and adjustments for those who change their intention about their length of stay in the UK, and hence their migrant status.
| Table 1: International migration: estimates from the International Passenger Survey, time series 2001 to 2005, British emigration by age, United Kingdom | |||||
| Thousand | |||||
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |
| Note: The 65+ age group has been combined with 56 to 65 as none of the 65+ values are statistically robust. | |||||
| Table 2: International migration: estimates from the International Passenger Survey, time series 2001 to 2005, non-British European Union emigration by country of birth, United Kingdom | |||||
| Thousand | |||||
| Citizenship | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
| (1) The ‘European Union’ grouping used in standard outputs exclude the UK because international migration must involve changes of residence between the UK and the rest of the world. However, the UK is included in this table because it contains data based on both citizenship and country of birth and there are a small number of British born emigrants who are non British-EU citizens. Notes: 1. Estimates are provided by main country groupings as data for individual countries of birth are not sufficiently robust. 2. Full details of country groupings are available in the notes to tables section of International Migration Series MN no. 32 (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=507) 2. Italicised estimates are not statistically robust (defined as standard error >30 per cent.) but have been included for completeness. | |||||
| Table 3: International migration: estimates from the International Passenger Survey, time series 2001 to 2005, British emigration by top five countries of destination and broad country groupings, United Kingdom | |
| Number (Thousand) | |
| Notes: 1. Italicised estimates are not statistically robust (defined as standard error >30 per cent.) but have been included for completeness. 2. Full details of country groupings are available in the notes to tables section of International Migration Series MN no. 32 (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=507) | |
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