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Charities: Bexley
Mr Evennett: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many organisations based in the London Borough of Bexley have been granted charitable status. [459]
Mr Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Charity Commission. I have asked the Commission to reply.
Letter from Andrew Hind dated 27 May 2010:
As the Chief Executive of the Charity Commission, I have been asked to respond to your written Parliamentary Question (459) how many organisations based in the London Borough of Bexley have been granted charitable status.
Organisations are automatically considered to be charities if their activities benefit the public in a way the law agrees is charitable. Most charities with an annual income of over £5,000 have to register with the Charity Commission.
I can confirm that there are 373 registered charities in Bexley.
I hope this is a helpful response to your question.
Departmental Billing
Stewart Hosie: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what percentage of invoices from suppliers to the Prime Minister's Office were paid within 10 days of receipt in (a) March and (b) April 2010. [1248]
Mr Maude: The Prime Minister's Office is an integral part of the Cabinet Office, and the answer provided is therefore for the whole of the Cabinet Office.
In March and April 2010 respectively, 97.9% and 91.6% of compliant invoices were paid by the Cabinet Office within 10 days of receipt.
Departmental Mobile Phones
Mr Watson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) whether mobile telephones issued to staff in (a) 10 Downing Street and (b) the Cabinet Office are issued with factory setting security codes; [545]
(2) what measures are in place to ensure that voicemail accounts associated with mobile telephones issued to (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 10 Downing Street and (ii) the Cabinet Office cannot be accessed without appropriate authorisation. [546]
Mr Maude: Cabinet Office does not currently issue mobile telephones with the factory loaded security setting to staff in (a) 10 Downing street and (b) the Cabinet Office. When issuing mobile devices they are reset manually by our telecoms specialists before they are given to staff.
Cabinet Office currently provides default security for voicemail retrieval on mobile telephones for (a) Ministers and (b) officials in (i) 10 Downing street and (ii) the Cabinet Office. Only the registered handset can retrieve access to the associated voice mailbox and in the event of a lost/stolen handset the mobile telephone is cancelled. The registered user has the option to upgrade the security settings for voicemail retrieval by adding a personal PIN number to enhance the security. This is encouraged.
EcovertFM
Mr Watson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office which Minister in his Department has lead responsibility for monitoring his Department's contract with EcovertFM. [21]
Mr Maude: As Minister for the Cabinet Office I am responsible for monitoring the EcovertFM contract.
Electoral Register
Chris Ruane: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimated percentage of electors are registered in each parliamentary constituency in the UK. [165]
Mr Maude: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated May 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, 1 have been asked to reply to your question asking what estimated percentage of electors are registered in each parliamentary constituency in the UK (165).
The table shows the number of people who were registered to vote in parliamentary elections as a percentage of the estimated resident population aged 18 and over for each parliamentary constituency in the UK for 2007. This is the latest year for which estimates of the usually resident population are available by parliamentary constituency for the UK. A copy of the table has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
This percentage is the nearest approximation to the percentage registered to vote that can be provided but is not an electoral registration rate. This is because the estimated resident population is not the same as the population who are eligible to vote. The population eligible to vote in parliamentary elections includes British Citizens or qualifying Commonwealth citizens resident overseas (who are not included in the UK resident population) and excludes foreign citizens from outside the British Commonwealth and Republic of Ireland resident within the UK (who are included in the estimated resident population).
In addition, figures for the registered electorate may be inflated because people who have more than one address may register in more than one place (e.g. students may register at parental and term-time addresses) and electoral registration officers vary in how quickly they remove people from the registers after they have moved away from an area or died. This may lead to percentages of over one hundred per cent and can affect the comparability of figures across parliamentary constituencies.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the electorate was in each year since 1997 in the 100 parliamentary seats which have had the largest decrease in the number of electors on the register since that date. [179]
Mr Maude: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated June 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your question asking what the electorate was in each year since 1997 in the 100 parliamentary seats which have had the largest decrease in the number of electors on the register since that date (179).
The following table shows the number of people registered to vote in parliamentary elections from 1997 to 2008, for the 100 parliamentary constituencies with the largest decrease in the number of people registered to vote over that time period. This is the latest year for which comparable data are available. A copy of the table has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
The table covers only parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales. There are no Northern Ireland constituencies which fit the criteria. Figures have not been provided for Scotland as boundary changes which came into effect in 2004 mean that electoral registration figures will not be comparable across this time period.
Chris Ruane: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the electoral registration rate is for each region of the UK. [245]
Mr Maude: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated May 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your question asking what the electoral registration rate is for each region of the UK (245).
The attached table shows the number of people who were registered to vote in parliamentary elections as a percentage of the estimated resident population aged 18 and over for each region in England, and UK constituent country, for 2008. This is the latest year for which electoral estimates by parliamentary constituency are available for the UK.
This percentage is the nearest approximation to the percentage registered to vote that can be provided but is not an electoral registration rate. This is because the estimated resident population is not the same as the population who are eligible to vote. The population eligible to vote in parliamentary elections includes British Citizens or qualifying Commonwealth citizens resident overseas (who are not included in the UK resident population) and excludes foreign citizens from outside the British Commonwealth and Republic of Ireland resident within the UK (who are included in the estimated resident population).
In addition, figures for the registered electorate may be inflated because people who have more than one address may register in more than one place (e.g. students may register at parental and term-time addresses) and electoral registration officers vary in how quickly they remove people from the registers after they have moved away from an area or died. This can affect the comparability of figures across parliamentary constituencies and potentially regions.
Lobbying
Mr Watson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will review the Government's response to the First Report of the Public Administration Select Committee, Session 2008-09, on lobbying: Access and Influence in Whitehall, HC 36, for the purposes of implementing in full the Committee's recommendations. [647]
Mr Harper: Many of the proposals in the Committee's report have been implemented. This Government will introduce a statutory register of lobbyists. We see no compelling reason to review the Government's response to the report.
Manufacturing Industries
Andrew Stephenson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many people were employed in the manufacturing sector in (a) Lancashire, (b) the North West and (c) England (i) in 1997 and (ii) at the latest date for which figures are available. [1032]
Mr Maude: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated June 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people were employed in the manufacturing sector in (a) Lancashire, (b) the North West and (c) England (i) in 1997 and (ii) at the latest date for which figures arc available. (1032)
Table 1, attached, shows the number of people employed in the manufacturing sector resident in (a) Lancashire, (b) the North West and (c) England for the 12 month periods ending February 1998, and September 2009 which is the latest period for which figures are available. These estimates are derived from the Annual Population Survey which collects employment data by residence rather than by workplace.
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 employed in the manufacturing sector resident in Lancashire, north west and England. | ||
| Thousands | ||
| For the 12 month period ending | ||
| February 2008 | September 2009( 1) | |
| (1) Coefficients of Variation have been calculated as an indication of the quality of the estimates. See Guide to Quality below. 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 and Annual Labour Force Survey | ||
Ministerial Policy Advisers
Mr Watson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how many (a) political appointments and (b) other personal appointments he has made since his appointment; and at what estimated annual cost to the public purse; [379]
(2) how many special advisers are based in (a) 10 Downing Street, (b) the Cabinet Office and (c) the Deputy Prime Minister's office. [25]
Mr Anderson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the name is of each special adviser assigned to work with each Minister. [420]
Mr Maude: I refer the hon. Members to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 3 June 2010, Official Report, column 99W.
Nuclear Power Stations: Decommissioning
Mr Cash: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office on what occasions the Office for National Statistics received representations on the cost to the public purse of nuclear decommissioning as a proportion of net public sector (a) borrowing and (b) debt in each of the last two years; from whom each such representation was received; and if he will place in the Library a copy of that Office's response in each case. [1195]
Mr Maude: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking on what occasions the Office for National Statistics received representations on the cost to the public purse of nuclear decommissioning as a proportion of net public sector (a) borrowing and (b) debt in each of the last two years; from whom each such representation was received. (1195)
ONS produces the United Kingdom's National Accounts. The National Accounts are an internationally comparable accounting framework that describes the activities in a national economy, including the transactions that take place between sectors of that economy. The relevant international manuals are the System of National Accounts 1993(SNA93) and the European System of Accounts 1995 (ESA95) in particular.
As part of the process of producing the National Accounts, ONS decides on the classification of institutions and transactions within the economy. This well-established process is published on the ONS website at:
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