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Commencement of Legislation
Brian White: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what pieces of legislation passed in the last 30 years that the Department is responsible for remain to be brought into force, broken down by year of enactment. [195615]
Mr. Timms: The available information is as follows:
Sections 59 (Restrictions on putting export goods alongside for loading) and 62(2) (Information, documentation etc as to export goods) Customs and Excise Management Act
Section 104 (Control of business transfers) Financial Services and Markets Act insofar as it relates to banks
There are likely to be other legislative provisions passed in the last 30 years that the Chancellor's Departments are responsible for and which remain to be brought into force. However, comprehensive information could be provided only at disproportionate cost. In the case of the Inland Revenue, legislative provisions dealing with revenue matters are normally only included in Finance Acts where it is necessary. But, rarely, provisions may be included in anticipation that particular events will happen and until they do the legislation may not yet have come into force.
Consultants
Mr. Weir: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much his Department spent in each year since 2002 on employing (a) external management consultants and (b) external human resources consultants; and if he will make a statement. [195759]
Mr. Timms: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 25 October 2004, Official Report, columns 1055–56W to the Member for New Forest, East (Dr. Lewis).
Earnings
Denzil Davies: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his estimate is of the number of (a) full-time and (b) part-time employees in the United Kingdom in each of the last five available years. [198170]
Mr. Timms:
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
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Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Denzil Davies, dated 17 November 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about employment. (198170)
The attached table gives estimates of the number of full-time and part-time employees resident in the United Kingdom for the three months ending in August each year from 2000 to 2004.
These estimates from the Labour Force Survey are, as with any sample survey, subject to sampling variability.
(14) Full-time and part-time is based on self-classification by survey respondents.
Source:
ONS Labour Force Survey.
Mr. Moore: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many and what proportion of full-time workers in (a) Scotland, (b) each of the unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (c) the United Kingdom have gross hourly earnings (i) including and (ii) excluding overtime below (A) £7.44, (B) £5.59 and (C) £4.50, broken down by (1) male, (2) female and (3) all workers. [198284]
Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Michael Moore, dated 17 November 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many and what proportion of full-time workers in (a) Scotland, (b) each of the unitary authority areas in Scotland and (c) the United Kingdom, have gross hourly earnings (i) including and (ii) excluding overtime below (A) 7.44, (B) 5.59 and (C) 4.50, broken down by (1) male, (2) female and (3) all workers . (198284)
Average earnings are estimated from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings and are provided for full-time employees on adult rates of pay whose pay was unaffected by absence during the pay period, by their place of work. This is the standard definition used for Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings tables. The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings does not collect data on the self employed and people who do unpaid work.
I am placing in the House of Commons Library, tables showing the counts and proportion of full-time workers for the United Kingdom, Scotland and Scottish local authorities earning below the stated hourly pay bands.
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, carried out in April of each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. It is a one per cent. sample of all employees who are members of pay-as-you-earn schemes, but because of its sampling frame, it has difficulty capturing data on people with very low pay. It is therefore likely to under-represent relatively low paid staff earning below the tax threshold.
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings publication criteria ensures that all estimates are undisclosive. A number of estimates have been removed from the published tables for these reasons.
Electoral Register
Mr. Evans: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many people living abroad at the last General Election were eligible to vote in the Election; and how many of these voted; [198641]
(2) how many people between the ages of 18 and 24 years in the United Kingdom are expected to be eligible to vote at the next General Election. [198642]
Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter Len Cook to Mr. Nigel Evans, dated 17 November 2004:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your questions concerning how many people living abroad at the last General Election were eligible to vote in the British General Election and how many of those voted; and how many people between the ages of 18 and 24 years in the United Kingdom are eligible to vote at the next General Election. (198641, 198642)
There were 11,506 registered overseas electors as at 10 October 2000, the last date that figures were collated before the most recent General Election on 7 June 2001. Details of who voted are not available, consequently we are not able to say what proportion of the overseas electorate voted.
Data are not available on how many people aged between 18 to 24 will be eligible to vote in the next General Election. Age information for those registered to vote is not recorded, other than information on the number of "attainers", that is those that will reach the voting age of 18 within two years. The estimated population aged between 18 and 24 in the United Kingdom as at 30 June 2003 was 5,245,300. However this does not represent the number of people aged 18 to 24 that are eligible to vote for various reasons, including non-registration.
Employment (Rhondda)
Chris Bryant: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people in each ward of the Rhondda are (a) employed and (b) unemployed. [198299]
Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Chris Bryant, dated 17 November 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about employment and unemployment in each ward of the Rhondda Parliamentary Constituency. (198299)
The data, from the 2001 Population Census for people aged 16 to 74, are shown in the attached table.
As the ward level information requested is not available from the Labour Force Survey, information from the Census has been given in the reply.
The figures have been extracted from table KS09a on the 2001 Census Key Statistics for Output Areas in England and Wales CD, which is available in the House of Commons library.
Source:
2001 Census of Population: April 2001.
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