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| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |
| Note: The 2006-07 value is the provisional published figure and the regional breakdown will be available in autumn 2008. | |||||
The aforementioned table includes enforcement notices issued by health and safety inspectors against the rail industry. Notices up to and including 2005-06 were issued by HSE inspectors. However from 1 April 2006, responsibility for health and safety enforcement in the rail industry passed to the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR). As a result, the 2006-07 figure includes Notices issued by ORR inspectors.
The combined totals of enforcement notices issued by HSE, LA and most recently ORR health and safety inspectors are as follows:
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |
(b) The total number of prosecutions initiated (i.e. individual charges laid) by health and safety inspectors, since 2002-03, by Government office region are as follows:
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | |
The aforementioned figures include both Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and local authority (LA) initiated prosecutions. Prosecutions initiated against the rail industry are included in the HSE component of these figures.
The prosecution figures are for Great Britain only. The 2006-07 values include provisional published figures for the HSE. Finalised figures for the HSE will be available in autumn 2008.
These prosecution figures relate to the year when the offence was last heard in the courts.
Local Employment Partnerships: Oxfordshire
Tony Baldry: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what the target is for the number of local employers to be involved in the local employment partnership in the (a) Banbury and (b) Oxford travel-to-work area; [177885]
(2) what the target is for the number of unemployed people to be found jobs in the (a) Banbury and (b) Oxford travel-to-work area via local employment partnerships. [177886]
Mrs. McGuire: There are no target number for employers to recruit through local employment partnerships (LEPs) in individual Jobcentre Plus regions and districts.
Local employment partnerships are open to all employers willing to make the commitment to open up more job opportunities to people at a disadvantage in the labour market. Jobcentre Plus is now working to engage both major national companies and local employers who would like to work through LEPs.
Motability Vehicle Scheme
Martin Horwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether his Department is taking steps to extend eligibility for the Motability vehicle scheme to those people in need of mobility assistance who are over 65 years. [183421]
Mrs. McGuire: The Motability scheme is open to anyone who has qualified for the higher rate mobility component of disability living allowance, or War Pensioners’ Mobility Supplement and has an award length of sufficient duration. These awards can continue in payment beyond the age of 65 and in such circumstances a person would continue to have access to the Motability scheme.
There are no plans to change eligibility to the Motability scheme.
National Insurance
Mr. Rooney: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what the rate of national insurance contributions was for (a) employers and (b) employees in each of the last 30 years. [185381]
Angela Eagle: I have been asked to reply.
The rate of national insurance contributions for employers and employees in each of the last 30 years is shown as follows.
| Rates of national insurance contributions | ||
| Percentage | ||
| Employee | Employer | |
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