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Life expectancy figures at parliamentary constituency level arc not readily available.
Ministers: Meetings
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what her Department's timetable is for the publication online of information about ministerial meetings with outside interest groups. [312263]
Tessa Jowell: The information for the period 1 October to 31 December 2009 is currently being collated and will be published as soon as it is ready.
National Security
Mr. Soames: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent assessment she has made of energy and climate change-related threats to national security. [310502]
Tessa Jowell: The first annual update to the National Security Strategy, published in June 2009, identified both competition for energy, and climate change, as important factors that contribute to shaping threats to the UK's national security.
In the case of competition for energy, the strategy sets out a number of likely trends in terms of increasing global energy consumption, increasing scarcity of resource, and concentration of those resources in areas that are: (a) harder to find, reach or access, and (b) in areas of environmental sensitivity and/or political instability.
Climate change can act as a driver of insecurity, internationally through exacerbation of existing social, economic and political sources of tension, and domestically through increased frequency of extreme weather events. In this context, the Government have also begun work on the first UK Climate Change Risk Assessment; as the National Security Strategy states, national security risks will be considered as part of this broader work, and will inform the National Risk Register.
Non-departmental Public Bodies: Expenditure
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how much was spent from the public purse on executive non-departmental public bodies in 2008-09; [312359]
(2) how much has been spent from the public purse on advisory non-departmental public bodies in each year since 1996-97. [312360]
Tessa Jowell: Information on total Government funding of executive non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) is published annually in the Cabinet Office publication "Public Bodies". Information for the 2008-09 financial year will be published shortly. Information on total Government funding of advisory NDPBs is included in departmental reports.
Pay
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the (a) mean and (b) median full-time wage for (i) private sector and (ii) public sector employees was in (A) 1997 and (B) the most recent period for which figures are available. [312358]
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 asking what the (a) mean and (b) median full-time wage for (i) private sector and (ii) public sector employees was in (A) 1997 and (B) the most recent period for which figures are available. I am replying in his absence. (312358)
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. Levels of earnings are estimated from the ASHE, and are provided for employees on adult rates of pay, whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence. The public and private sector breakdown is based on the Inter-Departmental Business Register legal status.
I attach a table showing the mean and median gross weekly earnings for all full-time employees in the public and private sectors for 1997 and 2009.
| Mean and median weekly pay-gross for full-time employee jobs( 1) : United Kingdom 1997 and 2009 | ||||
| (£) | ||||
| 1997 | 2009 | |||
| Mean | Median | Mean | Median | |
| (1) Full-time employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence. As at April of each year. Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics. | ||||
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the average percentage rise in salary has been for (a) members of the academic staff in further education colleges, (b) teachers in secondary schools, (c) public sector employees and (d) private sector employees in cash terms in the last three years. [312886]
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 asking what the average percentage rise in salary has been for (a) members of the academic staff in further education colleges, (b) teachers in secondary schools, (c) public sector employees and (d) private sector employees in cash terms in the last three years. I am replying in his absence. (312886)
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. Annual levels of earnings are estimated from the ASHE, and are provided for employees on adult rates of pay, who have been in the same job for more than a year. ASHE estimates by occupation are based on the Standard Occupation Classification 2000. The public and private sector breakdown is based on the Inter-Departmental Business Register legal status.
I attach a table showing the percentage rise in median gross annual earnings for all full-time employees for each of the above occupations and sectors in the last three years.
| Annual percentage rise in median gross annual earnings for full-time employee jobs( 1) , United Kingdom, 2007 to 2009 | |||
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
| (1) Full-time employees on adult rates who have been in the same job for more than a year. (2) Standard Occupation Classification 2000. Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics. | |||
Julia Goldsworthy: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many (a) men and (b) women in each local authority area earn more than £100,000 per annum. [313101]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
A copy of the letter will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
Private Sector: Productivity
Mr. Maude: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what measures the Office for National Statistics uses of private sector productivity; and what estimate has been made of the change in private sector productivity since 1997 or the closest period of time for which figures are available. [312283]
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:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what measures the Office for National Statistics uses of private sector productivity; and what estimate has been made of the change in private sector productivity since 1997 or the closest period of time for which figures are available. I am replying in his absence. (312283)
Quarterly productivity statistics are available from the ONS release on Productivity at: www.statistics.gov.uk. Productivity estimates are not available for the private sector but experimental statistics are produced for the Market Sector. The market sector includes almost all market activity and excludes most non-market activity, in particular that of general government. The measurement includes public corporations. Market Sector estimates are produced on an output per worker basis from 1991 onwards and an output per hour basis from 1999 onwards. Table 1 contains the latest statistics available for market sector productivity.
| Table 1: Market sector productivity quarter on same quarter a year ago growth (experimental) | ||
| Period | Output per worker | Output per hour |
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