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| Table 2—Work permit holders and dependants given leave to enter, excluding EEA and Swiss nationals, 1991-2006 | ||||
| All nationalities ( 1,2,3,4) | ||||
| Year of admission | Total | Employment for 12 months or more | Employment for less than 12 months( 5) | Dependants of work permit holders |
| (1 )Includes nationals of Austria, Finland and Sweden before 1 January 1994, but excludes them from this date. (2) Includes nationals of Liechtenstein before 1 May 1995, but excludes them from this date. (3 )Includes nationals of Switzerland before 1 June 2002, but excludes them from this date. (4 )Includes nationals of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia before 1 May 2004, but excludes them from this date. (5) Includes the majority of work permit trainees. (6 )A change in procedures may have resulted in some under-recording for the fourth quarter of 2000 and the first quarter of 2001. Data rounded to the nearest 5, as such the figures may not sum to the totals shown. Source: Home Office | ||||
General Practitioners: Conditions of Employment
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 5 July 2007, Official Report, column 1183W, on general practitioners: conditions of employment, what his Department’s (a) highest and (b) lowest estimate was of the impact a new contract for general practitioners would have on (i) average salaries for general practitioners and (ii) annual additional costs to the public purse as part of the discussions prior to the 2002 Budget. [153457]
Andy Burnham: Government Departments make their assessment of the cost of pay contracts and these are scrutinised by HM Treasury. Estimates of the cost of the contract are available from the Department of Health.
Income Tax: Pensioners
Danny Alexander: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what percentage of (a) all pensioners and (b) pensioner households pay income tax. [155283]
Jane Kennedy: The information is as follows.
Individual pensioners 2007-08( 1)
The following figures are the latest available estimates and are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes 2004-05 and projected forward to 2007-08 in line with Budget 2007 assumptions.
(1 )State pension age; males aged 65 and over, females aged 60 and over.
| Pensioners paying income tax | |
| (1) Projection for the United Kingdom based on the 2004-05 Survey of Personal Incomes and thus subject to sampling and non-sampling error. (2) Average of Government Actuary's Departments mid-year pensioner populations projections for 2007 and 2008. Note: Figures have been rounded to the nearest 0.1 million. | |
Pensioner households, 2005-06( 1)
Projections of pensioner households are not available. The following figures provided are estimates based on the latest available Family Resources Survey (2005-06).
(1 )Households in the United Kingdom with at least one person of state pension age; males aged 65 and over, females aged 60 and over.
| Pensioner households paying income tax | |
| (1 )Modelled liability to income tax based on the Family Resources Survey for the 2005-06 financial year, and subject to sampling and non-sampling error. (2 )All pensioner households from the Family Resources Survey. Note: Figures have been rounded to the nearest 0.1 million. | |
Lone Parents
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many lone parents there were in each local authority in each year for which figures are available, broken down by five year age band. [155349]
Andy Burnham: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 12 September 2007:
As National Statistician and Registrar General for England and Wales I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many lone parents there were in each local authority in each year for which figures are available, broken down by five year age band. (155349)
Figures are provided for the 1991 and 2001 decennial censuses. As no published tables exist that provide the requested figures, the tables have been specially run and deposited in the House of Commons library.
Manufacturing Industries: Manpower
Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were employed in the manufacturing industries in each local authority in each year for which figures are available, broken down by five year age band. [155348]
Angela Eagle: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 12 September 2007:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about the numbers of people employed in manufacturing in local authority areas. (155348)
Tables giving the information requested have been placed in the House of Commons Library. The figures in the tables are estimates from the Annual Local Area Labour Force Survey, for the twelve months ending in March of each year from 1996 to 2006.
As with any sample survey, estimates from the Labour Force Survey are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
Office of Government Commerce: Pay
John McDonnell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many bonuses were awarded to senior civil servants working at the Office of Government Commerce in each year between 1997 and 2006; and what the total cost was of those bonuses. [155339]
Andy Burnham: 14 such bonuses were awarded in 2005-06 at a cost of £147,618. The figures for 2006-07 were 22 and £235,208, respectively.
Information relating to earlier years is not available except at disproportionate cost.
Stamp Duties: South East Region
Mr. Fallon: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations he has received on the level of stamp duty for first-time home-buyers in the south east; and what steps he is taking in response to such representations. [155152]
Andy Burnham: The Government regularly receive representations on various aspects of the stamp duty land tax system. All taxes are kept under review as part of the Budget process, and all such representations are noted as part of this process.
Taxation: Self-assessment
Danny Alexander: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many (a) women aged 60 to 64, (b) women aged 65 and over and (c) men aged 65 and over complete a self assessment tax return; and what proportion of each group has a gross income of (i) under £8,000, (ii) £8,000 to £15,000 and (iii) above £15,000. [155280]
Jane Kennedy: The latest figures available are based on a survey of personal incomes undertaken by HM Revenue and Customs on the 2004-05 tax year.
| Women aged 60-64 | Women aged 65 and over | Men aged 65 and over | |
Tobacco: Counterfeit Manufacturing
Mr. Breed: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) pursuant to the answer of 17 July 2007, Official Report, column 259W, on tobacco: counterfeit manufacturing, which tobacco companies already use the technology that is being introduced across the tobacco industry on their tobacco products, as of July 2007; and which tobacco companies will be introducing this as a new level of security on their tobacco products by October 2007 as part of the voluntary agreement; [153449]
(2) if he will publish the terms of the voluntary agreement made between HM Revenue and Customs and the tobacco industry in respect of introducing an anti-counterfeit solution to UK duty paid tobacco from October 2007. [153450]
Angela Eagle: Information about the companies currently using the anti-counterfeiting technology cannot be released as this could prejudice law enforcement efforts, and the commercial interests of manufacturers and would breach HM Revenue and Customs’ duty of confidentiality towards those companies.
The agreement reached with the tobacco industry is that all cigarette packs intended for the UK duty paid market manufactured from October 2007 will incorporate a covert security mark, and packs of hand-rolling tobacco manufactured from October 2008 at the latest, will also incorporate a covert security mark. The agreement includes providing HMRC with the specialist equipment needed to test the authenticity of cigarette and hand-rolling tobacco packs.
For security reasons, the nature of the technology the industry have agreed to introduce will not be published.
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