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ONS do not have information on the number of people eligible to vote. The closest approximation to the figures you have requested is the number of people who were registered to vote in Local Government elections as a percentage of the estimated resident population aged 18 and over. The table shows this for each Local Authority in the UK in 2007. This is the latest year for which estimates of the usually resident population are available by Local Authority. A copy of the table has been placed in the Library of the House.
Care should be taken when interpreting these percentages. There maybe an underestimation in some areas, as not everyone who is usually resident is entitled to vote. For example foreign citizens from outside of the EU and Commonwealth are not eligible to vote.
Conversely, for other areas the percentages may be over estimates and, in some cases, exceed one hundred per cent as figures for the registered electorate may be inflated. People who have more than one address may register in more than one place (e.g. students may register at parental and term-time addresses) and electoral registration officers vary in how quickly they remove people from the registers after they have moved away from an area or died.
Internet
Keith Vaz: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many homes in the UK have an internet connection installed. [260347]
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 March 2009:
As National Statistician 1 have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many homes in the UK have an internet connection installed. (260347)
In 2008, an estimated 16.5 million UK households had Internet access. This represented 65 per cent of UK households and an increase of 1.2 million households since 2007. These are the latest estimates available. This information is taken from the annual First Release on Internet Access 2008, published in August 2008. The Interviews to compile this information took place over January to March 2008.
The First Release is available via this link:
The 2009 First Release will be published later this summer.
National Income
Miss McIntosh:
To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster pursuant to the answer of 14 January 2009, Official Report, column 748W, on national income,
what proportion of growth in UK gross domestic product came from growth in the financial services and banking sectors in each year from 1997 to 2007. [260101]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the proportion of growth to which Financial Services contributes to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) between 1997 and 2007. (260101)
When assessing industry percentages to total production it is more appropriate to assess against Total Gross Value Added (GVA) than GDP. This is because GDP equals GVA plus unallocated taxes and subsidies such as VAT which are not able to be allocated to industry production.
In chained volume GVA basic price terms (see footnote for definitions) for the calendar years 1997 to 2007 Total Financial Intermediation (which includes banking, insurance, pension funding and financial auxiliaries) contribution to Total GVA is provided in Table 1. A further breakdown is also provided which gives the contributions of the three components of Total Financial Intermediation.
| Table 1 | |||||
| Percentage | |||||
| Contributions to GVA Total all industries | GVA at basic prices: chain volume index movements | ||||
| Name | Financial intermediation except insurance and pension funding | Insurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security | Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation | Financial intermediation (total) | Total all industries |
Public Houses
Mr. Evans: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many people were employed in the (a) brewing and (b) public house sectors in each year since 1998. [260494]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people were employed in the (a) brewing and (b) public house sectors in each year since 1998. (260494)
The available information for people aged 16 and over is provided in the attached table.
The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). These estimates are based on the respondents' views about the organisation for which they work.
As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
The figures have been derived from the LFS microdata which are weighted using the official population estimates published in autumn 2007. Consequently the 2008 estimate is not entirely consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistics First Release, which are weighted using more up-to-date population estimates.
Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what estimate he has made of the number of public houses which have closed in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [261070]
Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the remit of the UK National Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated March 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what estimate has been made of the number of public houses which have closed in each of the last 10 years for which figures arc available; and to make a statement. (261070)
Annual statistics on business births, deaths and survival are available from the ONS release on Business Demography. Data on business deaths is only available back as far as 2002 in this series. The table below contains the count of enterprise deaths of public houses for 2002-2007.
| Table showing counts of Enterprise ‘deaths’ within Public Houses SICs for the years 2002-07 | ||||||
| Standard Industrial Classification | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
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