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Table 2: Number of claimants of jobseeker’s allowance and proportions of working age populations for residents of Sandwell local authority and Warley parliamentary constituency
	Sandwell		Warley parliamentary constituency
Period	Number of claimants	Proportion( 1 ) (%)	Number of claimants	Proportion( 1) (%)
Average count for:
March 1997 to February 1998	10,505	6.2	3,095	6.7
March 1998 to February 1999	9,489	5.6	2,733	5.9
March 1999 to February 2000	9,576	5.7	2,741	6.0
March 2000 to February 2001	8,843	5.2	2,598	5.7
March 2001 to February 2002	8,052	4.7	2,260	4.9
March 2002 to February 2003	7,773	4.6	2,197	4.8
March 2003 to February 2004	7,768	4.5	2,281	5.0
April 2004 to March 2005	7,011	4.1	2,040	4.4
April 2005 to March 2006	8,078	4.7	2,230	4.9
April 2006 to March 2007	8,820	5.1	2,456	5.3
Count for:
September 2007	7,740	4.4	2,210	4.8
(1) Number of claimants expressed as a percentage of the resident working-age population. Source: Jobcentre Plus administrative data

Financial Services: National Income

Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of UK gross domestic product came from (a) UK financial services and (b) institutions in the City of London/Square Mile in the latest period for which figures are available. [160666]

Angela Eagle: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Colin Mow, dated 25 October 2007:

The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question requesting the percentage of UK gross domestic product that came from a) UK financial services and (b) institutions in the City of London/Square Mile. I am replying in her absence. (160666)

Financial intermediation contributes 7.9% of Gross Value Added (GVA), which is a proxy for GDP. This consists of banking (5.2%), insurance (1.6%) and acts auxiliary to financial intermediation (1.0%).

These figures use weights derived in 2003, which are the latest available.

The Office for National Statistics publishes regional GVA using official statistical geographies known as Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics (NUTS). The NUTS classification does not fully correspond to the institutions in the City of London/Square Mile.

The City of London/Square Mile is in the NUTS3 region of Inner London West but it is not possible to isolate the GVA of the City of London institutions. The latest published NUTS3 data can be found at:

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=14650

Income Tax

Mr. Allen: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much would be raised in a year by an additional 1 penny on the income tax rate. [159978]

Jane Kennedy: The information requested was recently published in HM Treasury’s tax ready reckoner—“2007 tax ready reckoner and tax reliefs” and is available in the House of Commons Library or the HMT website.

Infant Mortality

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the rate of infant mortality was in (a) the five most deprived areas in England and (b) England in each year since 1979. [159809]

Angela Eagle: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 25 October 2007:

The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the rate of infant mortality was in (a) the five most deprived areas in England and (b) England in each year since 1979. I am replying in her absence. (159809)

The five most deprived areas in England were identified as the local authority districts (LAD) with highest deprivation according to the English Indices of Deprivation 2004. Hackney had the highest level of deprivation, Tower Hamlets was ranked second, Manchester third, Islington fourth and Liverpool fifth. Infant mortality rates are provided for these same LADs for all the years.

The attached table shows infant mortality rates for the five most deprived areas (Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Manchester, Islington and Liverpool) and England from 1979 to 2005 (the latest year available).

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Infant mortality rates for England and the five most deprived areas in England, 1979-2005
	Hackney	Tower Hamlets	Manchester	Islington	Liverpool	England
1979	11.7	19.1	18.5	17.6	11.4	12.8
1980	16.0	12.3	16.8	14.0	14.5	12.0
1981	12.9	13.7	11.0	11.5	10.7	10.9
1982	11.0	14.9	15.4	12.8	8.7	10.8
1983	11.8	10.7	11.2	10.6	9.7	10.0
1984	10.5	10.8	9.8	11.6	7.1	9.4
1985	11.5	7.3	9.6	7.3	8.1	9.2
1986	11.6	8.7	11.1	8.8	11.5	9.5
1987	12.9	11.5	8.1	7.9	7.8	9.1
1988	9.3	11.6	10.0	8.9	7.0	9.1
1989	9.6	9.2	11.5	8.5	7.6	8.4
1990	8.8	7.7	8.9	11.0	6.7	7.9
1991	8.7	8.4	9.0	6.9	7.0	7.3
1992	8.3	7.9	8.4	9.1	5.2	6.5
1993	8.4	4.9	8.3	5.7	4.3	6.3
1994	11.4	6.6	6.8	5.0	4.8	6.1
1995	9.1	8.7	9.6	6.8	7.1	6.1
1996	7.4	6.4	7.2	4.8	6.5	6.0
1997	10.5	5.6	8.9	3.1	7.2	5.9
1998	6.1	7.6	6.7	4.3	6.9	5.6
1999	9.1	6.0	9.5	8.8	6.8	5.7
2000	6.2	5.9	8.7	5.5	7.0	5.6
2001	7.8	5.2	9.6	6.0	6.7	5.4
2002	9.3	6.0	9.0	4.4	6.1	5.2
2003	6.9	4.8	6.5	7.9	4.7	5.3
2004	3.4	4.2	8.2	7.5	5.7	5.0
2005	5.6	4.3	7.2	5.5	8.1	5.0
Notes: 1 Infant mortality rates per 1,000 live births. 2 Rates based on fewer than 20 deaths are shown in italics. 3 From 2002 onwards City of London LB is included in the rates for Hackney LB. 4 2006 figures on a comparable basis are not yet available.

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