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Death: Weather
Mr. Randall: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many excess deaths from cold weather there were in (a) the London borough of Hillingdon and (b) Uxbridge constituency in each year since 1996-97. [231806]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated October 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many excess deaths from cold weather there were in the (a) London Borough of Hillingdon and (b) constituency of Uxbridge in each year since 1996-97. (231806)
Estimates of excess winter deaths are based on the difference between the number of deaths during the four winter months (December to March) and the average number of deaths during the preceding four months (August to November) and the following four months (April to July). It is not possible to say whether these deaths were related to cold weather. The table attached provides the number of excess winter deaths in (a) the London Borough of Hillingdon and (b) Uxbridge parliamentary constituency in 1996/97 to 2005/06 (the latest available).
Departmental Air Travel
James Duddridge: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer to my right hon. Friend for Horsham (Mr. Maude) of 14 July 2008, Official Report, column 27W, on carbon emissions: Government Departments, how much air mileage incurred through departmental travel was used to calculate the departmental payment to the Government Carbon Offsetting Fund in each year that his Department has participated in the fund, broken down by (a) domestic, (b) short haul and (c) long haul flights. [221972]
Mr. Watson: Information will be available in the Cabinet Office Mid-Year report, expected to be published shortly.
Departmental Buildings
Mr. Heald: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the cost to his Department of provision of office facilities to (a) special advisers and (b) press officers (i) was in the last 12 months and (ii) has been since 1997-98. [231499]
Kevin Brennan: Details of the cost of provision of office facilities to special advisers and press officers are not held centrally and are therefore only available at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Consultants
Mr. Heald: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many external consultants were under contract to provide work for his Department as at 1 October 2008. [231497]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested is not held centrally and is therefore available only at disproportionate cost.
Departmental Liability
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on what dates in each of the last five years his Department informed the House of the creation of contingent liabilities relating to his Department or its non-departmental public bodies. [232727]
Kevin Brennan: The Cabinet Office informs the House of contingent liabilities relating to the Department and its non-departmental public bodies by disclosing them in a note to its published Annual Report and Accounts.
Contingent liabilities were reported at note 29 in the Annual Report and Resource Accounts 2004-05 [HC 372].
No contingent liabilities have been reported in subsequent years.
Departmental NDPBs
Mr. Jeremy Browne: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what funding has been agreed with each of his Department's non-departmental public bodies for the period 2008-11. [228665]
Kevin Brennan: The published details of the funding for the Cabinet Office's non-departmental public bodies for 2008-11 can be found in the Central Government Supply Estimates 2008-09 Supplementary Budgetary Information, published April 2008 (Cm7359), pages 261 and 263, (Resource Budget DEL and AME-voted and non voted) and page 264, (Capital Budget DEL and AME—voted and non voted).The Estimates are available via the following website:
A small number only of the Department's NDPB funding and subsequent expenditures are broken down in the Central Government Supply Estimates 2008-09. The disclosure of the Independent Office and the Committee on Standards in Public Life is a new addition to the reporting for the Cabinet Office, where the details have been shown separately from the Cabinet Office Annual Report and Accounts 2007-08 onwards.
Details of the funding for the Department's Executive NDPBs can also be found in the following publications:
Capacitybuilders and The Commission for the Compact: 2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review, published on 9 October 2007 (Cm7227), page 108, box 6.5, copies of which are available via the following website:
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/pbr_csr07_complete report_1546.pdf
Capacitybuilders: The Future Role of the Third Sector in Social and Economic Regeneration: Final Report, published in July 2007 (Cm7189), page 15.
Departmental Official Hospitality
Mr. Heald: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how much was spent on entertainment by his Department in 2007-08; and how much was spent on (a) food, (b) alcohol, (c) staff and (d) accommodation. [231450]
Kevin Brennan: Details of how much was spent on entertainment by the Cabinet Office in 2007-08 and how much was spent on (a) food, (b) alcohol, (c) staff and (d) accommodation is not held centrally and is therefore available only at disproportionate cost.
All Cabinet Office expenditure on entertainment is made in accordance with published departmental guidance on financial procedures and propriety, based on principles set out in “Managing Public Money” and the Treasury handbook on “Regularity and Propriety”.
For details of receptions hosted by Cabinet Office Ministers in 2007-08 I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) on 22 July 2008, Official Report, column 1257W.
Departmental Older Workers
David Simpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many people aged over (a) 55 and (b) 60 years of age were recruited by his Department in 2007-08; and what percentage in each case this was of the number of new recruits. [228759]
Mr. Watson: During 2007-08, 363 people joined the Cabinet Office. Of these, nine people were aged over 55 (3 per cent.). In order to protect the privacy of the small numbers of people involved, it would not be appropriate to provide a further breakdown.
Departmental Training
Mr. Hands: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what personal training courses at public expense he has undertaken since his appointment. [230966]
Mr. Byrne: I have not undertaken any such courses.
Employment Agencies
Mr. Hands: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster which recruitment agencies (a) his Department and (b) its agencies have used in the last three years; and how much was paid to each of these recruitment agencies in each year. [230944]
Kevin Brennan: The Department does not collate this information centrally and therefore it can be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Employment: Agriculture
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many people in Essex are employed in agriculture. [231921]
Jane Kennedy: I have been asked to reply.
The total agricultural labour force on registered holdings in Essex (comprising Essex CC, Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea unitary authorities) at June 2007 is shown as follows.
Futurebuilders: Finance
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the budget for 2008-09 is of (a) Futurebuilders and (b) the Office of the Third Sector. [231334]
Kevin Brennan: The programme and administration budgets for the Office of the Third Sector (OTS) are published within the parliamentary estimates for the Cabinet Office—firstly in the main estimates and then updated in the winter and spring supplementary estimates. The budget for Futurebuilders is included with this figure.
Income Tax
Julia Goldsworthy: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the liability for income tax for households in each income decile group in England and Wales was in (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08; and what it will be for 2008-09. [230825]
Kevin Brennan [holding answer 27 October 2008]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated October 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the liability for income tax for households in each income decile group in England and Wales was in (a) 2006/07 and (b) 2007/08; and what it will be for 2008/09. (230825).
The table provided shows estimates of the average income tax. after deduction of tax credits, paid by households in England and Wales by income decile group. Of the years requested, data are only available for the year 2006/07 - figures for 2007/08 will be available in June 2009. Income tax estimates are shown both in the form of annual payments and as percentages of gross household income.
These figures are based on the same dataset which is used to produce the ONS’s annual analysis ‘The effects of taxes and benefits on household income’ which can be found at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/taxesbenefits. This publication presents results for all UK households and therefore the estimates shown here for England and Wales differ slightly to those appearing in the annual analysis.
| Average income tax( 1) paid by households by income decile group, 2006-07 | |||||||||||
| England and Wales | |||||||||||
| Decile groups of households ranked by equivalised disposable income | |||||||||||
| Bottom | 2( nd) | 3( rd) | 4( th) | 5( th) | 6( th) | 7( th) | 8( th) | 9( th) | Top | All households | |
| (1) After deduction of tax credits. Source: Office for National Statistics | |||||||||||
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