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Departmental Advertising
Jenny Willott: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much the Prime Minister's Office has spent on advertising in each of the last three years; and if she will make a statement. [302321]
Angela E. Smith: The Prime Minister's Office has not spent any money on advertising.
Employment: Wales
Chris Ruane: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many people were (a) unemployed and (b) employed in North Wales in each of the last three years. [311720]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Dennis Roberts, dated January 2010:
The Director General for the Office for National Statistics has been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people were (a) unemployed and (b) employed in North Wales in each of the last three years. I am replying in his absence. (311720)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles unemployment statistics for local areas from the Annual Population Survey (APS) following International Labour Organisation (ILO) definitions.
For the purpose of this question North Wales has been defined as the local authorities of Ynys Mon, Conwy, Gwynedd, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham. Table 1 shows the number of people who were (a) unemployed and (b) employed in North Wales in the 12 months ending June 2009, the latest period for which data is available and the 12 months ending in the June of the previous two years.
As with any sample survey, estimates from the APS are subject to a margin of uncertainty. A guide to the quality of the estimates is given in the table.
National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:
| Table 1: Number of people unemployed and employed in North Wales( 1) in each of the last three years | ||
| Thousand | ||
| 12 months ending | Employed | Unemployed |
| (1) North Wales is defined as the local authorities Ynys Mon, Conwy. Gwynedd, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham. Guide to Quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of an estimate, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV-for example, for an estimate of 200 with a CV of 5 per cent. we would expect the population total to be within the range 180-220 Key Coefficient of Variation (CV) (%) Statistical Robustness * 0 = CV<5 Estimates are considered precise ** 5 = CV <10 Estimates are considered reasonably precise *** 10 = CV <20 Estimates are considered acceptable **** CV 20 Estimates are considered too unreliable for practical purposes Source: Annual Population Survey | ||
Government Departments: ICT
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how much the Heavy Hitter Programme Delivery Director Service has cost; which IT projects each consultant worked on; and what payments have been made to each consultant for Work Undertaken in Connection with the programme. [312370]
Angela E. Smith:
The Cabinet Office has not deployed a heavy hitter service within the Department. Other than the senior appointments overseen by the Government's
chief information officer, the decision as to the deployment of the service within individual departments is up to individual chief information officers or senior responsible owners of projects.
Government Departments: Internet
Mr. Pelling: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many Government services are available exclusively via the internet. [311759]
Angela E. Smith: The Cabinet Office does not currently hold a list of all Government services available exclusively via the internet.
However, all Government Departments have committed to producing channel strategies for service delivery by March 2010. These strategies will include plans for shifting each of their major public facing services to online channels.
The Cabinet Office is also working with departments to explore how the exploitation of digital technologies in delivery can be accelerated as set out in the recent Smarter Government paper.
Iraq Committee of Inquiry
Jenny Willott: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how many (a) documents and (b) other types of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification the Iraq Inquiry has requested from her Department; and if she will make a statement; [309368]
(2) how many (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format by her Department of each security classification have been submitted to the Iraq Inquiry; and if she will make a statement; [309370]
(3) whether any (a) documents and (b) other items of information in electronic format sought from her Department by the Iraq Inquiry have not been disclosed owing to the Government's obligations to foreign governments or international bodies; and if she will make a statement; [310185]
(4) how many and what proportion of the (a) documents and (b) other items of information held in electronic format at each level of security classification requested by the Iraq Inquiry have been provided to it by her Department; and if she will make a statement. [310193]
Tessa Jowell: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 14 December 2009, Official Report, columns 840-41W, by the Minister of State, Cabinet Office my right hon. Friend the Member for Basildon (Angela E. Smith).
Personation: Financial Services
Jenny Willott: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how many and what proportion of cases of identity theft took place following a payment initially made by (a) debit card, (b) credit card, (c) online transaction other than bank transfer, (d) bank transfers, (e) cash payment and (f) another form of payment in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement; [310477]
(2) how many and what proportion of payments made in the UK that were made by (a) debit card, (b) credit card, (c) online transaction other than bank transfer, (d) bank transfer, (e) cash payment and (f) another form of payment resulted in identity theft in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement. [310478]
Sarah McCarthy-Fry: I have been asked to reply.
Post Offices
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many post office branches have (a) opened and (b) closed since 1997 according to the Office of National Statistics' records of enterprise deaths and births. [311710]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Dennis Roberts, dated January 2010:
The Director General for the Office for National Statistics has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many post office branches have (a) opened and (b) closed since 1997 according to the Office of National Statistics' records of enterprise deaths and births. I am replying in his absence. (311710)
Business Demography provides information at the enterprise level. The enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. It carries out one or more activities at one or more locations, and may be a sole legal unit.
Information on individual post offices (local units at geographically identified sites) are not available from this data source, since post offices are local units belonging to an enterprise. Although in some instances a post office combined with a shop can be classified to retail, it is impossible to identify these cases from the data.
Private Life: Statistics
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what statistics the Office for National Statistics collates on relationship breakdown; and at what geographic level such data is maintained. [312049]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Dennis Roberts, dated January 2010:
The Director General for the Office for National Statistics has been asked to reply to your request asking what statistics the Office for National Statistics collates on relationship breakdown; and at what geographic level such data is maintained. I am replying in his absence. (312049)
Relationship breakdown may either occur through divorce or separation, where the latter can apply to either married or cohabiting partnerships. Although statistics are available for divorces in the UK, figures on separation are not. This is because nationally representative statistical information on separations would be difficult to collect routinely in any administrative or survey source.
Divorce statistics are published annually by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) based upon information supplied to ONS by the courts in England and Wales. The fact that a divorce has taken place in a court in a particular region does not mean
that either one or both parties are resident there. Therefore, divorce statistics have been historically presented at a national level only for England and Wales.
Divorce statistics for Scotland are published by the General Register Office for Scotland, and divorce statistics for Northern Ireland are published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. A summary of divorce statistics for the constituent countries of the UK is available in the latest edition of Population Trends (Population Trends 138 - Winter 2009, Table 2.1: Vital statistics summary, pp.67-68), available at:
Public Houses
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many public houses have (a) opened and (b) closed since 1997 according to Office of National Statistics' records of enterprise deaths and births. [312047]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Dennis Roberts, dated January 2010:
The Director General for the Office for National Statistics has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many public houses have (a) opened and (b) closed since 1997 according to the Office of National Statistics' records of enterprise deaths and births. I am replying in his absence. (312047)
Figures provided are at the enterprise level. The enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. It carries out one or more activities at one or more locations, and may be a sole legal unit.
Annual statistics on business births, deaths and survival are available for 2002 onwards from the ONS release on Business Demography at www.statistics.gov.uk. The table below contains the latest statistics available on business births and deaths for public houses in the UK. Local units which are part of an enterprise (e.g. individual public houses which are part of a chain) are not available from Business Demography, and therefore are not included in the figures.
| Public houses | ||
| Births | Deaths | |
Public Sector: Advertising
Grant Shapps: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 12 January 2010, Official Report, columns 867-8W, on the Central Office of Information: publications, what the purpose is of the publication How Public Sector Advertising Works; how many copies have been (a) distributed and (b) sold; and what income the Exchequer has received from sales. [311428]
Angela E. Smith: I have asked the chief executive of the Central Office of Information to reply to the hon. Member.
Letter from Mark Lund, dated 15 January 2010:
As Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information (COI), I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on COI sales of the COI book, How Public Sector Advertising Works (311428).
The purpose of the book is to provide an overview of how Public Service Advertising works.
The book also explains what effectiveness means in terms of saving money, saving lives or changing behaviour.
To date 90 per cent. of the copies produced have been sold or distributed.
The project had a breakeven target and was not intended to generate an income above this from sales.
Sir Christopher Kelly
Sir Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what remunerated positions Sir Christopher Kelly holds apart from his chairmanship of the Committee on Standards in Public Life; and whether Sir Christopher is required to declare to her Department the amount of remuneration he receives from such positions. [311739]
Tessa Jowell: The chairman and members of the Committee on Standards in Public Life are required to register any private interest which might influence their judgment or which could be perceived to do so.
The register published by the Committee provides details of all remunerated positions currently held by Sir Christopher Kelly.
A copy is available in the Library of the House and can also be accessed at:
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