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Electoral Register: Greater Manchester

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate has been made of the number of people eligible to vote not registered to vote in (a) the County of Greater Manchester, (b) the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport and (c) the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside. [2313]

Mr Hurd: 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 estimate has been made of the number of people eligible to vote not registered to vote in (a) the County of Greater Manchester, (b) the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport and (c) the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside. (2313)

ONS does not have the data required to answer your question. Data are collected on the number of UK citizens resident in local authorities who are registered to vote, but no data are collected on the number of people who are eligible to vote but who choose not to register.

The ONS population estimates are of the resident population and will include some people who are not eligible to vote.

Foreign Workers: EU Nationals

Mr MacShane: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many EU nationals working in the UK (a) entered and (b) left the country in each month since May 2004. [1888]

Mr Hurd: 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 recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many EU nationals working in the UK (a) entered and (b) left the country in each month since May 2004. (1888)

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes annual estimates of migrants entering and leaving the UK. The attached table provides estimates of migration by KU citizens, where the main reason is for work related reasons, for each year since 2004. These estimates are based on the International Passenger Survey (IPS). The IPS is a sample survey and cannot provide monthly estimates of migration.

Please note that the migration estimates provided only cover those visiting or leaving the UK for periods of twelve months or more. They will therefore exclude those entering or leaving the UK for less than twelve months. Also note that not all those travelling for work related reasons will find work in the UK. Similarly, those who travel for other purposes may subsequently work.

These estimates are of numbers of moves each year rather than numbers of people. For instance, an individual could enter in one year, leave just over a year later and then enter again a year after that. They would appear three times in this table.

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Long-Term International Migration, estimates from International Passenger Survey: annual data, 2004-08
Citizenship by main reason for migration (work related reasons only)
United Kingdom (thousand)
		All work related( 1)		Definite job( 1)		Looking for work( 1)
Year	Citizenship	Estimate	%	Estimate	%	Estimate	%
Inflow
2004	British	37	11	15	19	22	13
	Other EU25	65	14	51	16	14	29
2005	British	48	13	23	21	25	15
	Other EU25	86	12	62	14	24	22
2006	British	31	14	16	18	15	21
	Other EU25	83	12	55	15	28	20
2007	British	32	12	14	19	18	17
	Other EU27	125	11	93	13	32	19
2008	British	42	12	23	17	18	17
	Other EU27	99	11	70	13	29	19
Outflow
2004	British	63	9	40	11	22	16
	Other EU25	17	19	8	28	9	27
2005	British	71	9	52	10	20	15
	Other EU25	21	21	13	28	7	30
2006	British	81	9	57	11	24	14
	Other EU25	25	21	9	28	16	28
2007	British	74	8	53	10	21	17
	Other EU27	35	16	14	22	21	23
2008	British	90	10	72	13	19	12
	Other EU27	53	16	26	17	27	27
Note s: 1. Migration between the UK and the Republic of Ireland is included in IPS estimates for 2008 but excluded for previous years. 2. Conditional formatting has been applied to the standard error percentages. A migration figure with a standard error of >25% is not considered to be reliable and is in italics. standard error % = ------ x 100 estimate

Ministers: Codes of Practice

Mr Watson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 3 June 2010, Official Report, column 51W, on Ministers: codes of practice, how many Ministers have (a) returned and (b) not returned letters to his Department confirming that (i) they have read the code of conduct and (ii) that their personal circumstances are not such that they breach the code. [1947]

Mr Maude: As usual, a list of Ministers' relevant interests will be published. This will be done in due course.

Non-departmental Public Bodies

Mr Watson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer of 3 June 2010, Official Report, column 52W, on non-departmental public bodies, if he will publish the names and addresses of all non-departmental public bodies and agencies in a single location. [2267]

Mr Maude: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 14 June 2010, Official Report, column 332W.

Office for National Statistics: Publications

Mr Watson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if he will make it his policy to ensure that all national statistics are published in a machine-readable open format. [1934]

Mr Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Jil Matheson, dated 11 June 2010:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your question asking if the Minister for the Cabinet Office will make it his policy to ensure that all National Statistics are published in a machine readable open format.

Current policy on the release of National Statistics, as outlined in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, states that statistics should be disseminated in a form that enables and encourages analysis and re-use. Also, that datasets and reference databases should be released in formats that are convenient to users.

Recently, the Office for National Statistics opened up access for web developers to over two billion data items right down to local neighbourhood level, incorporating data from across the Government Statistical Service.

The official statistics Publication Hub provides a single point of access to all published National Statistics and, in support of the drive to improve public accessibility to data, we continue to work closely with the Cabinet Office to feed National and Official
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Statistics directly to data.gov.uk via the Publication Hub. Indeed, a significant proportion of entries on data.gov.uk are Official Statistics.

We are continuing to invest in improving the accessibility of official statistics and consider this an important part of the official statistics agenda.

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