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Taxation: Domicile
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people gave up non-domiciled tax status in the last tax year; and what mechanism exists for removing such status. [304672]
Mr. Timms [holding answer 7 December 2009]: Information on the number of individuals who declared a non-UK domicile status to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in 2007/08, but declared themselves to be UK domiciled in 2008-09 is obtainable only at disproportionate cost, as manual checks of free text boxes on self-assessment tax returns for those years would be needed to establish this.
Individuals generally acquire their father's domicile at birth. This can be changed after the age of 16 by showing that they have chosen to live permanently in
another country to the one they are domiciled in. It is a matter of fact and degree whether this choice is sufficient to alter domicile status.
The individual will need to show that they live in the other country and intend to remain there permanently or indefinitely. It is for the person asserting the change of domicile to prove this. Each case depends upon its facts, and is a matter of general law rather than tax law.
Taxation: Holiday Accommodation
Mr. Weir: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what representations his Department and HM Revenue and Customs have received from operators of long-term residential lets (a) on the equity of the system of furnished holiday lettings relief extended to operators of self-catering holiday properties and (b) seeking the abolition of such relief. [307292]
Mr. Timms: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave on 20 October 2009, Official Report, column 1413W, to the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik).
Mr. Weir: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps HM Revenue and Customs took to determine the range of services characteristically offered by providers of self-contained accommodation prior to reaching the conclusion that the services and facilities provided by self-catering operators in receipt of furnished holiday lettings relief are not appropriate to secure classification as a trade. [307294]
Mr. Timms: HM Revenue and Customs' guidance explains the difference between trade and property business, based on the legislation and the courts1 interpretation of it. In the past the courts have decided that income from furnished holiday letting is not normally a trade.
VAT: Gaming Machines
Mr. Ian Taylor: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will waive the back payments of value added tax and gaming machine duty on category B3A gaming machines owed by not-for-profit sports and social clubs. [306355]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: There is no legal basis for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to waive tax that is properly due.
Some not-for-profit sports and social clubs are disputing HMRC's tax treatment of electronic lottery (category B3A) gaming machines, and tribunal cases are pending about that. It would not be appropriate to comment further until the outcome of those cases is known.
Welfare Tax Credits: Leeds
John Battle: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his most recent estimate is of the number of families in each ward of Leeds West constituency who are in receipt of (a) working tax credit and (b) child tax credit. [307083]
Mr. Timms: The following table shows, for each ward within the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, as at 1 April 2009, estimates for the number of households benefiting from tax credits.
Due to small sample sizes, separate information on the number of households receiving working tax credits and child tax credits in each ward is not available. However, estimates of the number of families benefiting, by award type; for each local authority and parliamentary constituency are provided in the HM Revenue and Customs snapshot publication "Child and Working Tax Credits. Geographical Analysis, April 2009". This is available at:
| Ward | Number of households i n receipt of tax credits |
Welfare Tax Credits: York
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in City of York have had their tax credits increased in the last 12 months as a result of their earned income falling; and by what average weekly amount such tax credits rose. [307403]
Mr. Timms: HM Revenue and Customs estimate that, as of 1 November 2009, 1.000 families in the City of York have benefited from an increased Tax Credits award, worth an average of £37 per week, as a consequence of their total income having fallen since the beginning of the 2009-10 tax year.
Home Department
Animal Experiments: Licensing
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the project licences granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in force in Wales at the end of 2008 were in the (a) mild, (b) moderate, (c) substantial and (d) unclassified severity banding. [306297]
Meg Hillier: During 2008, in Wales, 61 per cent. of the project licences granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 were in the mild severity banding, 39 per cent. in moderate, there were none in substantial or unclassified.
Animal Experiments: Wales
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the regulated procedures under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 which were conducted in Wales in 2008 were conducted for (a) fundamental and applied studies other than toxicology and (b) toxicity tests or other safety and efficacy evaluation. [306293]
Meg Hillier: All the scientific procedures on living animals started in 2008 in Wales under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 related to fundamental and applied studies other than toxicology.
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the regulated procedures under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 which were conducted in Wales in 2008 involved (a) cats, (b) dogs, (c) rabbits, (d) horses and other equids, (e) New World primates and (f) Old World primates which (i) were genetically modified and (ii) had a harmful genetic defect. [306294]
Meg Hillier: In 2008 there were no such procedures in Wales nor in Great Britain as a whole (Table three, Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals Great Britain 2008, available from the Library of the House-HC800).
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) mice, (b) rats, (c) guinea pigs, (d) hamsters, (e) rabbits, (f) horses and other equids, (g) sheep, (h) pigs, (i) birds, (j) amphibians, (k) reptiles, (l) fish, (m) cats, (n) dogs, (o) New World primates and (p) Old World primates were used in procedures conducted in Wales and regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in 2008. [306295]
Meg Hillier: In line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (implementing the Statistics and Registration Act 2007), and the National Statistician's guidance "Confidentiality of Official Statistics", the information requested is not available. Providing the information requested would breach statistical confidentiality relating to individual establishments.
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many individual animals were used in procedures regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in Wales in 2008. [306296]
Meg Hillier: During 2008, in Wales, there were 48,507 animals used in scientific procedures on living animals started under the 1986 Act.
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of procedures regulated under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 carried out in Wales in 2008 were conducted without anaesthesia. [306298]
Meg Hillier: During 2008, in Wales, 52 per cent. of the scientific procedures on living animals started under the 1986 Act used no form of anaesthesia.
Mr. Roger Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many project licences in respect of work to be carried out in Wales were granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in 2008; and how many such project licences were in force at the end of 2008. [306300]
Meg Hillier: During 2008 23 project licences were granted under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in Wales. On 31 December 2008 there were 77 project licences in force in Wales.
Assaults On Police
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what records are kept of the number of cautions issued for assault on a police officer. [306362]
Maria Eagle: I have been asked to reply.
The Ministry of Justice Cautions Database holds records of each caution, reprimand and warning issued, and reported by police forces, in England and Wales. In each case the offender's gender and age are recorded along with some limited information on ethnicity. The database holds a record of the police force area in which the caution was issued and the offence for which the caution was given. Information is reported centrally on this basis (including records on the number of cautions issued for assault on a constable) irrespective of the nature of the offence.
The number of cautions issued in England and Wales in 2007 (latest available) for "assault on a constable" under section 89(1) of the Police Act 1996 is 2,183.
Court proceedings data for 2008 are planned for publication on 28 January 2010.
Asylum
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many Southern Sudanese people with refugee status or awaiting a decision on their status there are in the UK. [307093]
Mr. Woolas: The requested information relating to Southern Sudanese nationals is not collated separately. Further, information on asylum applicants awaiting an initial decision, by nationality or sub-region, is unavailable and could only be obtained by examination of individual case records at disproportionate cost.
Information on asylum is published annually and quarterly. Annual statistics for 2008 and statistics for Q3 2009 are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:
Asylum: Yorkshire and the Humber
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers living in (a) the City of York and (b) Yorkshire and the Humber received support from public funds in each year since 2002. [304506]
Mr. Woolas: The following table shows the number of asylum seekers in receipt of support in City of York and Yorkshire and the Humber at the end of each year between 2002 and 2008.
Information on immigration and asylum, including asylum seekers in receipt of support, are published annually and quarterly. Annual statistics and the latest statistics for Q3 2009 are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:
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