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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.
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]
Mr Hurd: 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 question asking what estimate has been 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).
The table shows (a) the mid-2009 estimated resident population aged 18 and over for the Metropolitan Boroughs of Tameside and Stockport, and (b) the number of people registered to vote in local government elections as at 1 December 2009, resident in Tameside and Stockport. These figures are the latest available.
The resident population includes people resident in an area who arc not eligible to vote and the period of eligibility for residency used for the mid-year estimated population is different to that used for the registered local electorate. These factors affect the comparability of figures between data sources.
| 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 |
| (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:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many and what proportion of people in the area covered by 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)
The table shows the number of employees within the size-band 0-10 employees and the number of employees within the size-band 11-200 employees for 1998 to 2008. Figures for 1997 are not available and for Witham figures are only available from 2003 onwards. Figures are only available based on the size of the individual site as opposed to the size of the enterprise.
| 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 |
| (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 | ||||||||
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:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question
concerning 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)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes estimates of migrants entering and leaving the UK. The attached table provides estimates of long-term migration by non-EU citizens, for all reasons and where the main reason is work related, for each year since 2003. These estimates are based on the International Passenger Survey (IPS).
These migration estimates cover those entering or leaving the UK with the intention of living in the destination country for periods of twelve months or more. They will therefore exclude those entering or leaving the UK for less than twelve months. They cover all reasons and will include all those who state they are travelling for work related reasons although not everyone will find work. 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.
| 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 (%) | |
| 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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