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Departmental Redundancy Pay

Mr Anderson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what his most recent estimate is of the annual cost to his Department of redundancy payments for (a) front line and (b) other staff employed by (i) his Department and (ii) its agency. [629]

Mr Maude: No front line or other staff have been made redundant and consequently there are no redundancy costs at this time.


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Departmental Statistics

Mr Watson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what steps his Department takes to ensure that the statistics it publishes comply with the provisions of the code of practice for official statistics; and if he will make a statement. [4094]

Mr Maude: The Cabinet Office does not currently produce any official statistics.

Electoral Register: Greater Manchester

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of (a) the size of the adult population and (b) the number of persons registered to vote resident in the (i) metropolitan borough of Tameside and (ii) metropolitan borough of Stockport. [4659]


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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:

Estimated mid-year population and persons registered to vote, 2009
Metropolitan boroughs Number of people registered to vote 1 December 2009 Resident( 1 ) population aged 18+ mid-2009

Stockport

220,112

224,000

Tameside

166,529

167,000

(1) Population estimates are rounded to the nearest thousand. Source: Office for National Statistics.

Employment: Witham

Priti Patel: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many and what proportion of people in Witham constituency were employed by small and medium-sized enterprises in each year since 1997; and what the equivalent figures were nationally in each such year. [3754]

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:

Witham Great Britain
Small businesses (1-10 employees) Medium businesses (11-200 employees) Small businesses (1-10 employees) Medium businesses (11-200 employees)
Period Number of employees (thousand) Proportion of employees for small sized businesses Number of employees (thousand) Proportion of employees for medium sized businesses Number of employees (thousand) Proportion of employees for small sized businesses Number of employees (thousand) Proportion of employees for medium sized businesses

1998

-

-

-

-

5,198

21.5

11.654

48.3

1999

-

-

-

-

5,345

21.7

11,577

47.0

2000

-

-

-

-

5,435

21.7

12,040

48.1

2001

-

-

-

-

5,288

20.9

12,397

49.0

2002

-

-

-

-

5,279

20 8

12,472

49.1

2003

8.6

28.9

16.3

54.7

5,246

20.5

12,548

49.1

2004

8.6

29.3

15.8

53.7

5,271

20.3

12,711

49.1

2005(1)

8.7

29.3

16.9

56.9

5,428

20.6

12,859

48.8

2006(1)

8.8

29.5

16.6

55.7

5,459

20.9

12,536

47.9

2007

9.2

30.4

15.9

52.5

5,518

20.9

12,616

47.7

2008

9.3

30.6

15.8

52.0

5,574

21.0

12.557

47.4

(1) Estimates for 2005 and earlier periods are on a different basis to those from 2006 onwards. An assessment of changes in survey methodology suggests that the estimated total number of employees (for GB at the whole economy level) was reduced by around 417 thousand. Direct comparisons of employee estimates over these different periods should therefore be treated with caution.
Source:
Annual Business Inquiry

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Food: Procurement

Dr Pugh: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what plans he has to increase the efficiency of public sector food procurement. [4344]

Mr Maude: Work to increase the efficiency of food procurement will be taken forward by the Efficiency and Reform Group as part of this Government's commitment to centralise the procurement of commodity goods and services across Government.

Government Departments: Manpower

Mr Watson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of his Department's information-gathering exercise on non-payroll staff; what the timescale was for organisations to respond to requests for information; how many organisations (a) responded and (b) failed to respond to such requests; and whether he plans to publish further such figures on his Department's website. [4096]

Mr Maude: The information gathering exercise on non-payroll staff was a scoping exercise to collate key management information that already exists without additional costs to the public purse. No additional costs were incurred by the Cabinet Office as existing resources were used to co-ordinate the collection.

The initial request for information was issued on Friday 4 June with a return date of close of business on Friday 11 June. A further nine organisations were contacted on Monday 14 June and given a deadline of close of business on Tuesday 15 June.

The number of separate organisations responding to the exercise in time to be included for publication on Friday 18 June was 320. Details are available on the Cabinet Office website at:

These are not official statistics.

All Government Departments, their agencies and non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) were within scope for this exercise. Returns published on the Cabinet Office website were those received in time for publication on 18 June. Returns that were not received in time for publication are still being collated and will be published in due course.

This is basic management information that all organizations ought to have available at all times.

Immigration

Dr Huppert: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate he has made of the number of non-EU (a) migrants and (b) economic migrants who (i) have arrived to live in the UK and (ii) have emigrated from the UK in each year since 2003. [4609]

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:

Long-term international migration, estimates from International Passenger Survey: annual data, 2003-08
Non-EU citizenship by main reason for migration (all reasons and work related reasons only)
United Kingdom (thousand)
All reasons All work related

Estimate Relative standard error (%) Estimate Relative standard error (%)

Inflow

2003(1)

266

4

85

7

2004(2)

329

5

113

9

2005(2)

287

4

93

8

2006(2)

315

4

100

7

2007(3)

283

4

73

7

2008(3)

278

4

66

8

Outflow

2003(1)

102

7

63

9

2004(2)

92

7

65

8

2005(2)

107

8

74

10

2006(2)

115

7

79

8

2007(3)

93

5

63

5

2008(3)

110

5

74

6

Migration between the UK and the Republic of Ireland is included in IPS estimates for 2008 but excluded for previous years.
(1 )For 2003, non-European Union estimates exclude EU15 (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden).
(2 )For 2004 to 2006, non-European Union estimates exclude EU25 (EU15 and A8 groupings-the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia-plus Malta and Cyprus).
(3) From 2007, non-European Union estimates exclude EU27 (EU25 plus Bulgaria and Romania).
standard error
relative standard error (%) = ------ x 100
estimate

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