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St. Edmundsbury
Stafford
Staffordshire Moorlands
Stratford-on-Avon
Stroud
Suffolk Coastal
Swale
Tandridge
Taunton Deane
Teesdale
Teignbridge
Tendring
Test Valley
Tewkesbury
Tonbridge and Malling
Torridge
Tunbridge Wells
Tynedale
Uttlesford
Vale of White Horse
Vale Royal
Warwick
Waveney
Waverley
Wealden
Wear Valley
Wellingborough
West Berkshire
West Devon
West Dorset
West Lancashire
West Lindsey
West Oxfordshire
West Somerset
West Wiltshire
Winchester
Wychavon
Wycombe
Wyre Forest
Data are as reported on audited national non-domestic rates (NNDR) 3 forms completed by all billing authorities in England.
Rural authorities were defined as those authorities that fell into the Significant Rural, Rural-50 or Rural-80 categories of the DEFRA "Classification of Local Authorities in England 2007-08".
North West Development Agency: Public Appointments
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills when the Secretary of State expects to appoint a new Chair of the North West Development Agency. [280994]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Before long.
Office of Fair Trading: Freedom of Information
Dan Rogerson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills which requests for information received by the Office of Fair Trading under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in 2008 were (a) classified as not resolvable and (b) refused in full. [286133]
Kevin Brennan:
In 2008, of the requests for information received by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, (a) three were appealed to the Information Commissioner after an Internal Review and (b) 152 were refused in full. The OFT receives a significant number of requests relating to complaints received by the OFT; the disclosure of this information is prohibited under the Enterprise Act 2002 and as a consequence is subject to the absolute exemption from disclosure under section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act. Where the OFT is unable
to provide the information requested, it seeks to provide any advice or information that would be helpful to the requester.
Prisoners: Higher Education
Mr. Galloway: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many of those who were released from prison in each year from 2000 to 2006 (a) did and (b) did not achieve a degree while in prison. [282235]
Kevin Brennan [holding answer 29 June 2009]: The National Offender Management Service, or any other agency, does not collect educational attainment data of prisoners on release. The following table records details of those discharged from prison (excluding those deported without sentence):
The following table details the number of OU degrees achieved by prisoners while serving their sentence. Information on degrees awarded by other higher education institutions is not collected centrally.
| Number of prisoners achieving OU degrees | |
It is not possible to say whether prisoners achieving a degree were released in the same year of achieving it.
Mr. Galloway: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many prisoners gained a degree while in prison in (a) 2000, (b) 2001, (c) 2002, (d) 2003, (e) 2004, (f) 2005, (g) 2006 and (h) 2007. [282237]
Kevin Brennan [holding answer 29 June 2009]: The number of offenders gaining Open University degrees while in prison, broken down by year, is as follows:
| Number | |
Information on degree qualifications awarded by other higher education institutions is not collected centrally.
Public Houses: Closures
Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many public houses have closed in each region in each of the last three years; and how many of these were (a) managed houses, (b) tenanted or leased houses and (c) freehouses. [288776]
Angela E. Smith: I have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated July 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what estimate has been made of how many public houses have closed in each region in each of the last three years; and how many of these were (a) managed houses, (b) tenanted or leased houses and (c) freehouses. (288776).
Annual statistics on business births, deaths and survival are available from the ONS release on Business Demography. The attached table contains the count of enterprise deaths for each of these categories, for the latest three years available.
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