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Departmental Ministerial Policy Advisers

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the guidance set out in the model contract and code of conduct for special advisers, what (a) notices of external employment and (b) other conflicts of interest were declared by his Department’s former special adviser, the right hon. Member for Normanton (Ed Balls), between 2 May 1997 and 1 July 2004. [164854]

Angela Eagle: Special advisers are employed under terms and conditions set out in the “Code of Conduct” for Special Advisers. The rules for civil servants, including special advisers, who wish to take up other employment in addition to their civil service duties are set out in Section 4.3 of the “Civil Service Management Code”. The principles on conflicts of interest are set out in Section 4.1

Departmental Policy

Justine Greening: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which new policy priorities received strategic reserve allocations in the core Treasury in each year since 2003-04; and if he will make a statement. [165495]

Angela Eagle: The Strategic Reserve has been used by the Treasury since 2005-06 as a means of internally funding non-recurrent costs, including new policy priorities. The main new policy priorities that were funded from the Strategic Reserve in 2005-06 and 2006-07 are set out in the 2006 Departmental Report, paragraph C6 on page 107, and the 2006-07 Annual Report and Accounts, paragraph 7.51 on page 98. Similar information in relation to 2007-08 will be published in the 2007-08 Annual Report and Accounts. The Treasury’s departmental reports are available from:


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Departmental Procurement

Justine Greening: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to page 7 of HM Treasury Efficiency Technical Note (December 2006), what
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value and percentage of directorate purchases were made through central non-pay contracts in each year since 1998; and if he will make a statement. [165497]

Angela Eagle: The information requested is as follows.

Financial year Non pay spend (£ million ) Spend through OGCbuying.solutions c entral c ontracts (£ million ) Percentage

2004-05

43.74

1.660

3.8

2005-06

46.56

2.419

5.2

2006-07

44.92

3.177

7.1


The data for the financial years prior to 2004-05 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Departmental Temporary Employment

Justine Greening: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the (a) contractor and (b) temporary staff headcount was in the (i) core Treasury, (ii) Office of Government Commerce, (iii) Office of Government Commerce Buying Solutions and (iv) Debt Management Office; how much was spent on (A) agency staff and (B) consultants by each body in each year; and if he will make a statement. [165326]

Angela Eagle: Information on staff numbers and costs is published in the Treasury's Annual Report and Accounts, available from

showing data for the core Treasury as well as for the Treasury Group consolidating the Office of Government Commerce and the Debt Management Office. Chapter 7 of the Annual Report and Accounts shows spending on consultants. The Debt Management Office and OGCbuying.solutions separately publish their own accounts, available from

and

EU Budget

Mr. Brady: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in what financial year he expects the European Court of Auditors to be able to approve the European Union’s accounts. [165626]

Kitty Ussher: The Government support the European Commission’s objective to strive for a positive Statement of Assurance by 2009.

Financial Services

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what involvement Ministers had in the scenario testing of the effectiveness of the tripartite arrangements between his Department, the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority. [165569]

Kitty Ussher [holding answer 19 November 2007]: The tripartite arrangements have been tested regularly over recent years. For public policy reasons details of the scenarios are not published where they cover financial stability events. Reports on these exercises can be found on the UK Financial Sector Continuity website

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury participated in financial stability exercises in October 2005, November 2006 and March 2007. There has also been some ministerial participation in business continuity planning exercises. The Chancellor’s and Economic Secretary to the Treasury participated in a joint US-UK ‘exercise’ in February 2007.

Immigrants: Republic of Ireland

Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many citizens of the Republic of Ireland he estimates are resident in the UK; and what estimate he has made of the likely change in this figure over the next 10 years. [164969]

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

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 20 November 2007:

Immigration: Chipping Barnet

Mrs. Villiers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what assessment he has made of the impact of inward migration on economic activity in Chipping Barnet constituency over the last 10 years; [164622]


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(2) what assessment he has made of the impact of inward migration on the labour market in Chipping Barnet constituency over the last 10 years. [164698]

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

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 20 November 2007:

Economic activity status of working age( 1) non-UK born people in the Chipping Barnet constituency
Thousand
12 months ending Employment level Unemployment level Economically active Non-UK born economically actives as percentage of all economically actives

February 2001

10

1

11

21

February 2002

8

8

*

18

February 2003

7

7

*

17

February 2004

10

10

*

22

March 2005

15

3

18

36

March 2006

13

*

14

25

December 2006

11

1

13

27

(1)
Includes males aged 16-64 and females aged 16-59.
* Sample size too small to provide estimate.
Estimates are subject to sampling variability
Notes:
It should also be noted that the country of birth question in the LFS gives an undercount because :-
it excludes certain people 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 which exclude migrants staying for less than 12 months.
microdata are grossed to population estimates consistent with those published in spring 2003 which are significantly lower than the latest population estimates.
Source:
Annual local area Labour Force Survey; Annual Population survey.

Immigration: France

Colin Burgon: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate his Department has made of levels of migration to the UK by individuals from French overseas departments and former French colonies since 2002. [166694]

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

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 20 November 2007:

Leukaemia

Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were (a) diagnosed with and (b) died from leukaemia in (i) Jarrow constituency, (ii) South Tyneside, (iii) the North East and (iv) the UK in each year since 1997. [165402]

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


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Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 20 November 2007:

Table 1. Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of leukaemia( 1) : Jarrow parliamentary constituency, South Tyneside county district, North East government office region and United Kingdom, 1997-2004
Jarrow South Tyneside North East United Kingdom

1997

9

23

316

7,217

1998

15

30

296

7,125

1999

11

22

298

7,442

2000

3

15

299

7,332

2001

6

16

292

7,321

2002

6

13

273

7,210

2003

9

21

272

7,291

2004

3

7

214

7,000

(1) Cancer of the leukaemia is defined as code C91-C95 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10).
Source:
Office for National Statistics
Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit.
Scottish Cancer Registry, National Health Service in Scotland
Northern Ireland Cancer Registry

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