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Departmental Accountancy
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform pursuant to the answer of 24 January 2008, Official Report, column 2187W, on departmental accountancy, what measure of inflation is used in uprating concessionary fuel payments. [185260]
Mr. Thomas: Concessionary fuel payments are linked to different RPIs: cash in lieu increases are linked to the fuel and light RPI index (the increase is applied from October onwards). Coal prices are linked to the solid fuel index.
However, RPI increases are not included ‘in the forecast’ of concessionary fuel provisions.
Departmental ICT
Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the (a) start date, (b) original planned completion date, (c) current expected completion date, (d) planned cost and (e) current estimated cost is for each information technology project being undertaken by his Department and its agencies; and if he will make a statement. [180563]
Mr. Thomas: The information is as follows:
| Project | Start date | Original completion | Expected completion | Planned cost (£) | Expected cost (£) |
| (1 )Per annum Notes: 1. The draft answer refers to the core BERR Department only. The agencies will provide their own responses. 2. The increased costs of e-HR relate to: (a) Increases in scope; (b) Implementation delays through MOG changes and gaining agreement on configuration and customisation. The system will be used by core BERR, INSS, UKIPO and NWML. | |||||
Letter from Gareth Jones, dated 27 February 2008:
I am responding on behalf of Companies House to your recently tabled Parliamentary Question to the Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
Please find in the attached appendix the details you requested regarding IT projects currently being undertaken within Companies House.
The CHIPS programme is a highly complex bespoke development, which has been custom designed and built, to replace the existing bespoke application that supports the Companies Register.
The project, initially contracted out, was brought in house in February 2004. The original planned completion date for the in-house development was August 2006, but this date changed subsequently and I have detailed revised plans for your information.
Impairment reviews in the last two financial years have led to a write down in value of £12.1m. This represents the value of all contractual work undertaken on behalf of Companies House on the project prior to February 2005.
| Project | Start Date | Original planned completion date | Current expected completion date | Original planned cost | Current estimated cost |
| (1 )Completion on hold until CHIPS live | |||||
Letter from Stephen Speed, dated 27 February 2008:
The Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform has asked me to reply to your question (2007/1098) asking what the (a) start date, (b) original planned completion date, (c) current expected completion date, (d) planned cost and (e) current estimated cost is for each information technology project being undertaken by his Department and its agencies; and if he will make a statement.
Employment
Mr. Allen: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform which 10 job classifications have shown the greatest (a) growth and (b) decline in employment in (i) the United Kingdom and (ii) Nottingham North constituency since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [188513]
Angela Eagle: I have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 27 February 2008:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question on the ten job classifications which have shown the greatest (a) growth (b) decline in employment in (i) the United Kingdom and (ii) Nottingham North constituency since 1997. I am replying in her absence. (188513)
The Office for National Statistics compiles employment statistics for local areas from the Annual Population Survey (APS) following International Labour Organisation definitions.
Table 1 attached provides estimates of total employment for people resident in the. UK and in the Nottingham North Parliamentary constituency, by occupation. The figures provided are for the twelve months ending February 2002 and for the latest period, the twelve months ending March 2007. The source data used is the APS, using Standard Occupational Classification 2000 (SOC2000), The twenty-five occupational classifications are ranked according to the largest positive change in Nottingham North. Data prior to 2002 are classified using Standard Occupational Classification 1990 (SOC90). Consequently it is not possible to provide a consistent time series for the period requested.
Since these estimates are for a subset of the population in a small geographical area, they are based on small sample sizes, and are therefore subject to large margins of uncertainty. In this case, for the Nottingham North, the sample sizes are not sufficient to give accurate estimates in all instances.
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