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(b) The percentage return rate in each of the rehearsal local authority areas is:
| Percentage | |
(i) and (ii) All wards in Lancaster and Anglesey were included in the rehearsal.
Areas in Newham were selected by lower super output areas, a statistical geography, which do not always align with ward boundaries. All or part of the wards and postcode sectors shown at Annex A were part of the Newham rehearsal.
The particular criteria for choosing sub-areas in Newham were that they should contain around 40,000 households, a number of communal establishments and a traveller site; that they should have high concentrations of multiple occupancy and students; that they should be contiguous. The areas were chosen in order to reflect some of the particular challenges representative of hard to enumerate areas.
(i) Wards in which the rehearsal was held
All wards in Lancaster and Anglesey and the following in Newham:
| Ward reference | Ward name | LA name | Level of ward inclusion |
E1
E12
E13
E15
E16
E3
E6
E7
CH3
LA1
LA2
LA3
LA4
LA5
LA6
LA7
PR3
LL00
LL58
LL59
LL60
LL61
LL62
LL63
LL64
LL65
LL66
LL67
LL68
LL69
LL70
LL71
LL72
LL73
LL74
LL75
LL76
LL77
LL78
Mr. Hurd: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, columns 953-6W, on the Census, (1) what estimate she has made of the cost of printing the Census forms; how many Census forms of each type will be printed; and what estimate has been made of average cost of printing a form of each type; [322892]
(2) what estimate has been made of the cost of storing the Census forms; [322893]
(3) for what reasons the forms for the Census are being printed in March 2010; [322894]
(4) how many Census forms of each type will be printed in March 2010. [322908]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated March 2010:
As the Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) I have been asked to reply to your recent questions asking:
pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, columns 953-6W, on the Census, what estimate she has made of the cost of printing the Census forms; how many Census forms of each type will be printed; and what estimate has been made of average cost of printing a form of each type. (322892)
pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, columns 953-6W, on the Census, what estimate has been made of the cost of storing the Census forms. (322893)
pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, column 953W, on the Census, for what reasons the forms for the Census are being printed in March 2010. (322894)
pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2009, Official Report, columns 953-6W, on the Census, how many Census forms of each type will be printed in March 2010. (322908)
The contract for census processing was awarded to Lockheed Martin UK in August 2008. This is the largest of the census contracts with a value of around f 150m.
It is estimated that the cost for the printing of the 2011 Census questionnaires is in the region of £20 million; which would equate to an average cost of around £0.53 per questionnaire.
Lockheed Martin UK acts as the prime contractor with several sub contractors undertaking aspects of the work.
There are a number of types of census questionnaires. England, Wales and Northern Ireland each have a different question set, and in Wales everything needs to be printed twice, once in English and once in Welsh.
Due to the differences in questions and language used across these areas, there will be 17 separate types of questionnaires printed in total. These can be broadly grouped into four categories, and will be printed in the corresponding quantities:
Household questionnaires: around 34 million
Individual questionnaires: around 3 million
Communal Establishment questionnaires: around 144,000
Census Coverage Survey questionnaires: around 600,000
ONS docs not have the costs of printing each specific form type.
Storage costs are factored into the fixed price service contract so it is not possible to extract specific costs for the storage of any questionnaires printed in the period up to census day.
In addition to the questionnaires there are information guides, translations of the questions into various languages, leaflets, envelopes and other necessary material to accompany the questionnaires; as well as the various administrative forms used by census staff to undertake the census. This amounts to around 50 separate types of document to be printed; and is estimated to total approximately 107 million items, on top of the roughly 1 billion pages of questionnaires.
Initial printing of the questionnaires is running from March 2010 to July 2010; once this is complete a second process of overprinting will begin in July 2010, during which individual barcodes, unique identifiers and internet access codes will be printed onto each questionnaire.
For this process to be a success the scanning and processing software needs to be developed and rigorously tested. This is a large and involved project and must start in April 2010 for the systems to be ready in time for census day on 27 March 2011.
In addition to being needed for the printing timetable, a finalised print-tested questionnaire is needed for the programming of the scanning and printing software and for creating test data for the various stages of testing necessary to ensure that the final processes meet the high standard demanded by the census.
Civil Servants: Redundancy Pay
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate she has made of the cash savings arising from changes to redundancy payments under the Civil Service Compensation Scheme in each of the next three years. [323446]
Tessa Jowell: I refer the hon. Member to my written statement of 3 February 2010, Official Report, columns 11-13WS. Savings on redundancy payments in each of the next three years will depend on the number of redundancies that occur in those years.
Deaths: Arthritis
Mr. Amess: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many deaths of (a) males and (b) females aged (i) 10 to 16, (ii) 17 to 24, (iii) 25 to 30, (iv) 31 to 35, (v) 36 to 40 and (vi) over 40 years in each local authority area were attributed to rheumatoid arthritis in each year since 1997. [323127]
Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated March 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, 1 have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many deaths of (a) males and (b) females aged (i) 10 to 16, (ii) 17 to 24, (iii) 25 to 30, (iv) 31 to 35, (v) 36 to 40 and (vi) over 40 years in each local authority area were attributed to rheumatoid arthritis in each year since 1997. (323127)
The tables provide the number of deaths where rheumatoid arthritis was the underlying cause of death for (a) males and (b) females aged (i) 10 to 16, (ii) 17 to 24, (iii) 25 to 30, (iv) 31 to 35, (v) 36 to 40 and (vi) 41 years and over, in England and Wales (Table 1); and where rheumatoid arthritis was the underlying cause of death for each local authority (Table 2), for the years 1997 to 2008 (the latest year available). A copy of the latter table has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
The number of deaths with an underlying cause of rheumatoid arthritis in each local authority, broken down by sex and age group, is extremely small. Consequently this level of detail has not been provided, in line with ONS policy on protecting confidentiality within birth and death statistics(1).
(1 )The ONS policy on protecting confidentiality within birth and death statistics is available on the National Statistics website at:
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