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NATIONAL FINANCE
Business Expansion Scheme
Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what information he has for each of the years of the existence of BES on (a) the regional distribution of BES funds and the regional distribution of small firms, (b) the distribution of BES investments by two digit standard industrial classification, or as detailed as possible and (c) the average size of investment.
Mr. Lilley : Information on the companies receiving investments through the business expansion scheme is published in chapter 7 of "Inland Revenue Statistics 1989". Further information that is readily available is as follows :
Companies receiving BES investments, 1987-88
Industry |Number of |Amount of in-
|companies |vestment
|£ million
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Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry |21 |9
Fishing |20 |6
Manufacture of Metals, Minerals
and Chemicals |28 |3
Mechanical Engineering |26 |2
Electrical and Electronic
Engineering |50 |5
Manufacture of Transport
Equipment |20 |7
Instrument Engineering |20 |2
Food and Drink Industry |30 |2
Textile, Clothing, Footwear
Industry |23 |1
Manufacture of Paper and Paper
Products |38 |3
Other Manufacturing Industries |47 |4
Construction and Real Estate |45 |34
Wholesale Distribution |34 |6
Retail Distribution |87 |27
Distribution and Repair of Motor
Vehicles |24 |3
Hotels and Catering |70 |38
Transport and Storage Services |27 |1
Business, Professional and
Technical Services |68 |6
Medical, Educational and Social
Services |36 |30
Recreational, Hairdressing and
Personal Services |56 |4
Others |12 |2
|-- |--
Total |782 |195
The average size of investment per company is as follows :
|£ thousand
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1983-84 |147
1984-85 |183
1985-86 |224
1986-87 |226
1987-88 |256
<1>1988-89 |180
<1>Provisional.
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Single Parents
Mr. Frank Field : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list for (a) 1960, (b) 1970, (c) 1980 and (d) the latest year, the number of single people with children who work and pay tax ; and if he will estimate the numbers below the tax threshold.
Mr. Lilley : In 1989-90 an estimated quarter of a million working lone parents pay tax and about the same number are in work, but below the tax threshold. Estimates are based on the 1987 family expenditure survey and are provisional. Figures for the earlier years are not available.
Personal Disposable Income
Mr. Thornton : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish a table showing annual consumers' expenditure and personal disposable income from 1979 to 1988 in (a) owner-occupier households and (b) other households.
Mr. Norman Lamont : An analysis of consumers' expenditure and personal disposable income is not available in the form requested. Estimates by tenure of average weekly household expenditure and income are published annually in the report of the family expenditure survey.
Civil Service Pensions
Mr. Andrew Bowden : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what data would be required to enable a reliable assessment to be made of the cost of extending payment of Civil Service widows' pensions to the widows of post-retirement marriages of civil servants who retired before April 1978 ;
(2) if he will estimate the numbers of surviving retired male civil servants who retired before 6 April 1978.
Mr. Ryder : I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave him on 9 January 1990, at column 575. I regret that the information requested could be obtained only at a disproportionate cost.
Coins
Sir John Wheeler : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will undertake a review of the United Kingdom coinage so as to replace the present bronze 1p
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and 2p coins with copper-plated pieces ; and if he will state the excess cost to the Treasury of providing these denominations in the current metal.Mr. Ryder : I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Bury, South (Mr. Sumberg) on 6 February, at column 540. The excess cost to the Treasury of continuing to provide 1p and 2p coins in bronze as compared with copper-plated steel depends on metal prices and on the number of coins issued, but a reasonable estimate is between £2 million and £4 million a year.
Sir John Wheeler : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects the smaller size denomination of 5p and 10p to be issued by United Kingdom banks ; if he has the coinage under review ; if he will issue a £2 coin for circulation ; what other plans he has for a redesign of the reverse of the coinage ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Ryder : The new, smaller 5p coin will be issued by the United Kingdom banks in June 1990 and the new, smaller 10p coins will be issued in June 1992. These changes followed a general review of the coinage in 1987. The Royal Mint issued a pamphlet setting out various options for change and the public were invited to comment. The smaller 5p and 10p coins were the options preferred. Aspects of the coinage are always kept under review. £2 coins are issued for circulation from time to time only as commemorative coins. Two versions of the £2 coin were, however, issued last year to commemorate the Bill of Rights in England and the Claim of Right in Scotland. There are no immediate plans to issue a further £2 coin or to redesign the reverse of the coinage.
Property Sales
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will provide a breakdown on a regional basis for the 1988 freehold and leasehold figures in table 15.1 of "Inland Revenue Statistics 1989".
Mr. Lilley : I regret that reliable information is not available at the level of detail requested. Available information is in the table :
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Property sales in 1988
Region
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North
Yorkshire and
Humberside
East Midlands
East Anglia
South East
Greater London
South West
West Midlands
North West
Wales
England and Wales 240
<1> Thousands.
<2> £ million.
Source: Survey of
Conveyancing 1988.
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Rateable Values
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) whether he will provide for the boroughs of Croydon, Merton and Hounslow the number and rateable value of houses and so on with a rateable value not exceeding £100 and by (a) £50 steps to £400, (b) £100 steps to £800, (c) £800 to £1,000, (d) £1,000 to £1,500 and (e) over £1,500 ;
(2) whether he will provide for the boroughs of Ealing, Waltham Forest, Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham the number and rateable value of houses and so on with a rateable value not exceeding £100 and by (a) £50 steps to £400, (b) £100 steps to £800, (c) £800 to £1,000, (d) £1,000 to £1,500 and (e) over £1,500 ; (3) whether he will provide for the boroughs of Wandsworth, Greenwich and Lewisham the number and rateable value of houses and so on with a rateable value not exceeding £100 and by (a) £50 steps to £400, (b) £100 steps to £800, (c) £800 to £1,000, (d) £1,000 to £1,500 and (e) over £1,500 ;
(4) whether he will provide for the districts of Stafford, Cannock Chase and Staffordshire, South-East, the number and rateable value of houses and so on with a rateable value not exceeding £100 and by (a) £50 steps to £400, (b) £100 steps to £800, (c) £800 to £1,000, (d) £1,000 to £1,500 and (e) over £1,500.
Mr. Lilley : This information could not be produced without a disproportionate expenditure of time and resources.
Corporation Tax
Mr. Nicholas Brown : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the cost in 1990-91 and in a full year of raising the lower limit for the reduced rate for corporation tax from £150,000 to £200,000 ; and how many firms would be affected.
Mr. Lilley [holding answer 9 February 1990] : About 20,000 companies would be affected at a cost of £30 million in a full year and £20 million in 1990-91, assuming company incomes at 1989-90 levels and that the change took effect from 1 April 1989.
Tax Relief
Mr. Chris Smith : To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his estimate of the savings in a full year at 1989-90 rates of restricting all allowances and reliefs to the standard rate of tax ; and if he will provide a breakdown of the category of allowances and reliefs.
Mr. Lilley [holding answer 12 February 1990] : Estimates of the direct revenue yield in a full year at 1989-90 levels of income from restricting the main income tax reliefs and allowances to the basic rate are as follows :
|£ million
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a. Personal allowances |1,350
b. Mortgage interest relief |430
c. Employee's superannuation and personal
pension contributions |200
d. Retirement annuity relief<1> |110
<1> Including relief for retirement annuity payments made by
employees.
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It is not possible to provide reliable estimates for the effects of restricting other smaller reliefs to the basic rate. The direct revenue yield from restricting all reliefs and allowances simultaneously to the basic rate is likely to be in the order of £2 billion, somewhat more than the sum of the yields from restricting the reliefs and allowances separately ; this is due to the cumulative effect of bringing more people into higher rate tax. About two thirds of those who would pay more tax as a result of this change are currently liable only at the basic rate. Estimates are based on a projection of the 1987-88 survey of personal income and are provisional. No account is taken of possible behavioural changes or the effect on receipts of capital gains tax.WALES
Local Government Finance
Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report, now or as soon as the figures are available to him, a table indicating for each county and district authority in Wales, the budgeted spending for 1990-91, the corresponding grant-borne and community charge-borne aggregate sums, and the proposed personal community charge level.
Mr. Peter Walker : I will write to the hon. Gentleman when the figures become available and place a copy of my reply in the Library of the House.
Waste Disposal
Mr. Martyn Jones : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the appeal procedure after the refusal of a grant of a waste disposal licence issued under the Control of Pollution Act 1974 in Wales.
Mr. Grist : Appellants are required to give notice of appeal on the form set out in schedule 7 to the Collection and Disposal of Waste Regulations 1988 and to provide the documentation as required by regulation 10(3).
Schools
Mr. Norris : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table to show such information as he has to hand from the schemes of local management of schools submitted for his approval by local education authorities to show the relative values of the general schools budget, the mandatory exceptions, the discretionary exceptions and the aggregate schools budget, on a comparable basis to that published by his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science, in his reply of 5 February to the hon. Member for Epping Forest, Official Report, column 451.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : The following information has been taken from the local management of schools scheme submissions made by local education authorities to my right hon. Friend. The table gives the percentage figures requested ; it is not possible to provide comparative cash figures because the information has been supplied using different price bases.
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Local Education Authority |Mandatory |Total discretionary |Aggregated schools
|exceptions as |exceptions as |budget as percentage
|percentage of general |percentage of general |of general schools
|schools budget |schools budget |budget
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Clwyd |11.49 |24.35 |64.16
Dyfed |7.82 |23.43 |68.75
Gwent |10.13 |21.91 |67.96
Gwynedd |9.97 |24.87 |65.16
Mid Glamorgan |9.34 |23.37 |67.29
Powys |9.08 |23.50 |67.42
South Glamorgan |7.90 |16.91 |75.19
West Glamorgan |13.34 |18.43 |68.23
Rateable Values
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for Wales and each major administrative division the number of (a) rateable domestic premises, (b) resident adults and (c) resident children together with (i) the
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rateable value of the domestic premises, (ii) the yield from that rate and (iii) the estimated yield from a 1 per cent. levy on the capital value of the housing stock in 1988 and 1989.Mr. Peter Walker : Information for Wales and each district for 1989 is shown in the following table. The estimated yield from a 1 per cent. levy on the capital value of the housing stock in 1988 and 1989 is not available.
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Domestic rateable value at Resident Population<1>
September 1989 (thousands)
Local Authority |Number of |Value £000 |Average |Yield £ million|Aged 0-17 |Aged 18+
|hereditaments |Domestic Rate
|Poundage
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Alyn and Deeside |27,806 |4,440 |270.8 |12.02 |17.8 |54.8
Colwyn |23,584 |3,573 |281.6 |10.06 |11.6 |43.1
Delyn |25,618 |3,970 |269.2 |10.69 |15.6 |49.5
Glyndwr |17,285 |2,206 |276.1 |6.09 |9.3 |32.2
Rhuddlan |22,262 |3,412 |269.5 |9.19 |11.8 |44.3
Wrexham Maelor |45,356 |6,126 |278.5 |17.06 |28.5 |88.5
Carmarthen |21,885 |2,269 |263.6 |5.98 |12.2 |43.6
Ceredigion |26,626 |2,957 |256.0 |7.57 |14.8 |52.2
Dinefwr |15,401 |1,417 |254.9 |3.61 |8.5 |30.3
Llanelli |30,619 |3,176 |282.1 |8.96 |16.0 |58.0
Preseli Pembs |28,825 |3,047 |252.3 |7.69 |16.7 |54.0
South Pembroke |16,854 |2,044 |258.1 |5.28 |9.8 |32.1
Blaenau Gwent |31,415 |2,998 |266.9 |8.00 |17.8 |59.5
Islwyn |25,756 |2,715 |258.5 |7.02 |15.5 |50.9
Monmouth |29,842 |4,482 |262.3 |11.75 |18.6 |62.7
Newport |52,787 |8,038 |257.4 |20.69 |30.9 |97.2
Torfaen |35,975 |4,519 |270.9 |12.24 |22.2 |70.1
Aberconwy |22,623 |3,233 |261.4 |8.45 |11.2 |42.9
Arfon |23,805 |2,410 |258.5 |6.23 |13.3 |41.9
Dwyfor |13,683 |1,519 |259.9 |3.95 |5.6 |21.4
Meirionnydd |16,265 |1,818 |263.0 |4.78 |6.6 |25.0
Ynys Mon |29,151 |3,727 |258.1 |9.62 |17.6 |53.5
Cynon Valley |26,710 |2,181 |273.1 |5.96 |15.0 |49.3
Merthyr Tydfil |23,679 |2,177 |282.6 |6.15 |13.8 |44.3
Ogwr |50,834 |6,213 |292.8 |18.19 |32.4 |105.1
Rhondda |32,123 |2,067 |286.5 |5.92 |18.0 |58.6
Rhymney Valley |39,172 |4,181 |292.0 |12.21 |26.8 |77.7
Taff Ely |36,414 |4,224 |283.9 |11.99 |23.4 |71.5
Brecknock |16,676 |1,929 |248.5 |4.79 |9.0 |32.1
Montgomeryshire |21,521 |2,497 |229.9 |5.74 |11.4 |39.8
Radnorshire |9,967 |1,135 |232.4 |2.64 |4.9 |17.7
Cardiff |111,753 |19,613 |222.1 |43.56 |68.0 |215.9
Vale of Glamorgan |43,548 |7,287 |230.0 |16.76 |28.6 |90.9
Port Talbot |20,457 |2,214 |301.5 |6.77 |11.0 |38.0
Lliw Valley |24,738 |2,481 |305.7 |7.62 |13.9 |47.9
Neath |26,115 |2,832 |307.2 |8.54 |15.0 |50.2
Swansea |73,859 |9,958 |315.0 |31.37 |42.8 |144.2
|------- |------- |------- |------- |------- |-------
Total Wales |1,140,989 |145,085 |265.6 |385.14 |665.9 |2,190.9
<1> Registrar General; 1988 mid-year estimates
Local Government and Housing Act
Mr. Michael : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) if he will make it his policy that the timetable for implementation of the subsidiary legislation giving effect to part V of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 in respect of Wales should allow adequate time for local
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authorities to assess the nature of their relationship with companies and make necessary adjustments in the light of the subsidiary legislation ;(2) whether he will make it his policy to allow a period of six months between the publication of the subordinate
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legislation giving effect to part V of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 in Wales and the date from which such subsidiary legislation takes effect.Mr. Grist : The implementation timetable will provide adequate time for local authorities to assess the implications of the controls on local authority companies. Part V of the 1989 Act defines a company and also specifies the tests which apply in establishing a local authority's relationship with companies for the purposes of the new regulatory system. The provisions are explained in greater detail in a consultation paper issued to local authorities in Wales last October.
Nature Conservancy Council
Mr. Gould : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales which Welsh voluntary wildlife bodies have indicated to him support for the Government's proposals for splitting the Nature Conservancy Council.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : A number of other organisations in Wales have done so, including the National Farmers Union committee for Wales, the chairman and chief officers of the national parks and the committees for Wales of both the Nature Conservancy Council and the Countryside Commission.
Channel Tunnel
Mr. Gareth Wardell : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales when he will respond to the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs report, "The Channel Tunnel : Implications for Wales," published on 21 June 1989.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : The command paper should be published next month.
Ambulance Dispute
Mr. Robert Hughes : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is his estimate of the cost of a settlement for ambulance personnel in Wales of (a) 6.5 per cent. from April 1989 to 1990, backdated to April 1989 with an additional 3 per cent. from April 1990 with an offer of further negotiations in October 1990 and (b) 9 per cent. from April 1989, backdated to April 1989 with an offer of further negotiations in October 1990.
Mr. Grist : The information requested is as follows :
(a) £2.2 million
(b) £2.7 million
Welsh Language
Mr. Win Griffiths : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish for each county education authority the number of teachers needed to (a) deliver Welsh language teaching at the primary and secondary levels as required by the national curriculum and (b) deliver all national curriculum subjects in Welsh secondary schools by teachers with the appropriate subject qualifications.
Mr. Wyn Roberts : The current estimate, based on 1988 pupil numbers, of the number of teachers required to deliver Welsh language teaching when the national curriculum is fully implemented is :
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LEA |Primary |Secondary
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Clwyd |498 |128
Dyfed |933 |119
Gwent |278 |128
Gwynedd |969 |97
Mid Glamorgan |560 |165
Powys |146 |38
South Glamorgan |290 |115
West Glamorgan |338 |105
|--- |---
Wales |4,012 |895
These estimates are being revised and will take account of more recent information on pupil numbers.
Estimates of the number of teachers required to teach subjects within the national curriculum will be available only when the results of the 1989 secondary schools staffing survey are available and have been analysed.
Revenue Support Grant
Sir John Stanley : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether under the community charge system in Wales it is possible to identify the amount of revenue support grant attributable to each county council and to each borough and district council.
Mr. Peter Walker : I calculated the revenue support grant entitlements of all Welsh local authorities, under section 82(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, following the approval of the Welsh revenue support grant report 1990-91 on 24 January. Authorities were notified of their entitlements on 1 February. Those entitlements are listed in the following table :
Welsh revenue support grant settlement
1990-91
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Alyn and Deeside
Colwyn
Delyn
Glyndwr
Rhuddlan
Wrexham Maelor
Carmarthen
Ceredigion
Dinefwr
Llanelli
Preseli Pembrokeshire
South Pembrokeshire
Blaenau Gwent
Islwyn
Monmouth
Newport
Torfaen
Aberconwy
Arfon
Dwyfor
Meirionnydd
Ynys Mon
Cynon Valley
Merthyr Tydfil
Ogwr
Rhondda
Rhymney Valley
Taff Ely
Brecknock
Montgomeryshire
Radnorshire
Cardiff
Vale of Glamorgan
Port Talbot
Lliw Valley
Neath
Swansea
Clwyd
Dyfed
Gwent
Gwynedd
Mid Glamorgan
Powys
South Glamorgan
West Glamorgan
Total districts
Total counties
Total Wales
SCOTLAND
Salmon
Mr. Wilson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what advice has been given to the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Trust regarding the acquisition of salmon netting rights in Scotland.
Mr. Lang : Acquisitions of salmon fishing rights in Scotland are private transactions. The Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland does not advise on either the acquisition or sale of such rights.
Advice is given by DAFS scientists to salmon interests including the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Trust (Scotland) on possible research or monitoring activities which they might fund or take part in. Discussions on this basis took place with the Atlantic Salmon Conservation Trust (Scotland) in March 1988 and in April 1989. Similar discussions are conducted with the Atlantic Salmon Trust, other research trusts concerned with particular river systems, individual district salmon fishery boards and the River Tweed commissioners. General discussions also take place from time to time with bodies representing the collective interests of district boards, anglers and netsmen.
Mr. Summerson : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when he expects to make a decision on the proposed scheme of salmon tagging being drawn up by the River Tweed commissioners.
Mr. Lang : On 26 January the River Tweed commissioners submitted formal proposals for a local scheme of tagging wild salmon in the Tweed area. The proposed scheme would be organised and financed locally but the River Tweed commissioners have sought my right hon. and learned Friend's views about possible new, local powers to support the scheme. These local powers would require primary legislation. I expect there to be further discussions with the River Tweed commissioners on these and other aspects of their proposals in the coming weeks.
Local Government Finance
Mr. Jack : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what evaluation his Department has made in 1990 of alternative methods of raising finance for Scottish local government other than the community charge.
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Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : A number of possible options for financing local government were evaluated before the decision was taken to abolish domestic rates and introduce the community charge. There has been no need since then for any study of alternative methods of finance. The Labour party's proposed roof tax is essentially a return to domestic rates and if introduced would mean a return to the many anomalies and unfairness of that system.
Mr. Canavan : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his estimate of the number of people who have gained financially from the introduction of the poll tax.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : At the outset of the new system it was estimated that around 50 per cent. of households would benefit from the introduction of the community charge. Other changes in the local government finance system, introduced at the same time as the community charge, and the lack of information on what local authority budgets and rate poundages would have been under the previous system make it impossible to provide further information.
Data Protection
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has any plans to introduce regulations that allow voters to opt out or opt in to the sale of their name and address from electoral registers ; whether he has had discussions with the Data Protection Registrar concerning the sale of names and addresses from the electoral register ; and whether he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : We have no plans to introduce such regulations. The operation of the electoral registration system requires that all the information in the register should be freely available to the public. The provisions of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 1986 governing the publication and supply of the register reflect this fact and the conclusion that its use by commercial organisations could not effectively be prevented. The Data Protection Registrar was consulted before the introduction of the provisions in those regulations governing the sale of the electoral register in data form.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has any plans to introduce regulations to alert voters to the fact that their name and address are routinely disclosed from the electoral register for poll tax purposes ; and whether he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : We have no plans to do so.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has any plans to introduce regulations to protect voters who may be vulnerable to attack if their name and address appeared on an electoral register that is available for sale or inspection by the public ; and whether he will make a statement.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : We have no present plans to do so, but we shall continue to keep the position under careful review.
Mr. Cohen : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he has provided guidance to electoral registration
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officers concerning the privacy implications of the inspection or sale of the names and addresses from the electoral register without the knowledge or consent of the voter ; whether his Department has studied the implications of linking copies of the electoral register information to that of the census or to other large databases ; and whether he will make a statement.Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Scottish Home and Health Department has issued guidance to electoral registration officers on the electoral registration process, including the inspection and sale of the register, but not specifically on questions of privacy. Individual census records will not be available for linkage to the electoral register or other large databases.
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Rateable Values
Mr. Austin Mitchell : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each region in Scotland the number of (a) rateable domestic premises before the poll tax came into effect, (b) resident adults and (c) resident children together with (i) the rateable value of the domestic premises, (ii) the yield from that rate and (iii) the estimated yield from a 1 per cent. levy on the capital value of the housing stock in 1988 and 1989.
Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The available information is set out in the table. Gross yield is calculated by applying poundages (net of domestic relief) to total rateable values. Figures on actual yield after allowing for reliefs, non-payment, and so on are not available separately for the domestic sector. Reliable estimates of the capital value of the housing stock are not available.
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Region/Islands Area |Number of domestic |Total rateable value|Gross domestic rate |Adult population |Under 18 population
|subjects at |at 1 April 1988 of |yield 1988-89 |(18 and over) |at June 1988
|1 April 1988 |domestic subjects |at June 1988
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Borders |46,209 |26,621,187 |15,120,834 |80,306 |22,286
Central |107,162 |68,128,907 |47,622,106 |207,278 |64,248
Dumfries and Galloway |61,855 |38,539,073 |22,314,123 |114,364 |33,118
Fife |141,111 |89,981,175 |62,446,935 |263,032 |81,685
Grampian |207,913 |131,750,260 |73,384,895 |383,216 |118,178
Highland |85,953 |45,603,970 |28,730,501 |151,663 |50,203
Lothian |312,045 |230,025,097 |169,988,547 |582,047 |159,132
Strathclyde |926,810 |611,761,080 |474,114,837 |1,766,910 |549,829
Tayside |170,187 |105,941,973 |73,523,729 |304,985 |88,763
Orkney |8,108 |2,621,357 |1,258,251 |14,822 |4,633
Shetland |9,076 |3,277,446 |3,310,220 |16,210 |6,154
Western Isles |13,295 |3,577,367 |2,575,704 |23,214 |7,725
Population Statistics
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many households there are in Scotland with only one adult over the age of 18 years ; how many of those are single-parent families with children ; and how many are single people over pensionable age.
Mr. Rifkind : Information in the form requested is not available. However, it is estimated that at 31 December 1986, there were 564,000 households with one adult over the age of 16 (either living alone or with children under the age of 16) in Scotland ; 70,000 of these are estimated to be lone-parent families, while 325,000 are estimated to consist of one person over pensionable age living alone.
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide the most recent available breakdown of the Scottish adult population by household size in (a) total and (b) percentage terms.
Mr. Rifkind : Information in the form requested is not available. The estimates in the table are of the population in private households aged 16 and over, by the number of persons aged 16 and over in the household, at 31 December 1986 :
Estimated population aged 16 and over in private households
31 December 1986, Scotland
Number of persons aged 16 |Population |Percentage
and over in household
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One |564,000 |14.4
Two |1,921,000 |49.0
Three |832,000 |21.2
Four |438,000 |11.2
Five or more |163,000 |4.2
|------- |-------
Total |3,918,000 |100.0
Incomes
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the most recent household income figures for Scotland.
Mr. Rifkind : The most recent family expenditure survey shows that in 1987-88 the average income per household in Scotland was £234.23 per week.
Rating System (Costs)
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the cost of (a) administering the (i) domestic and (ii) domestic and non- domestic rate rebate system in Scotland in 1987-88, (b) administering the poll tax rebate system in Scotland in 1989-90 and (c) administering the poll tax transitional relief scheme in Scotland in 1989-90 and 1990-91.
Mr. Rifkind : No information is held centrally on the cost of administering non-domestic rate rebates in 1987-88. Neither is it possible to distinguish between the costs for administering domestic rate rebates and those for rent rebates and rent allowances from the information which is submitted by local authorities. The total cost of housing benefit administration in 1987-88 was £15.3
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million. Similarly, it is not possible to separate community charge rebates from the other elements of housing benefit administration in 1989-90, but the local authorities' estimate of the total cost is £21.7 million. The cost of administering the proposed personal community charge transitional relief scheme in 1989-90 and 1990-91 has not yet been established.Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the estimated cost of collecting non-domestic rates in Scotland in 1989-90.
Mr. Rifkind : I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to him on 25 January.
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the Government's most recent estimate of the (a) capital expenditure, (b) revenue costs and (c) extra staff employed by local authorities in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the poll tax register and with the administration and collection of the poll tax and poll tax rebate system in Scotland for 1988-89 and 1989-90.
Mr. Rifkind : Information on actual capital expenditure is not yet available centrally for 1988-89 or 1989-90 in respect of establishment and maintenance of the community charge system in Scotland. However, in order to assist local authorities in preparing for the introduction of the community charge, additional capital allocations were provided in 1987-88 and 1988-89 totalling £26 million. The administrative cost of community charge collection for Scotland in 1989-90 is estimated by local authorities at £23.3 million and the cost of registration work is estimated at £8.5 million. These figures are exclusive of the costs of operating the community charge rebate system. These costs are offset by the savings which local authorities made by no longer having to value domestic properties or collect domestic rates.
It is not possible from the information collected to separate local authority expenditure on the administration of community charge rebates from that incurred on other housing benefits but local authorities have estimated the cost of administering housing benefits as a whole at £15.9 million in 1988-89 and £21.7 million in 1989-90. No information is held centrally on the number of staff employed by authorities on community charge work. The organisational arrangements for community charge collection are entirely a matter for the local authorities themselves.
Health Service (Expenditure)
Mr. Dewar : To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the total expenditure on the Health Service in Scotland in (a) gross terms and (b) net of pay costs in constant prices and indexed (1980=100) for each year since 1980 including estimated expenditure for 1990-91.
Mr. Rifkind : The information in the format requested is not fully available. Details of gross expenditure in both cash terms and adjusted by the gross domestic product deflator, are given in the table :
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Total National Health Service Expenditure in Scotland
|£ million |Adjusted |Index
|cash |by the |(1979-80=100)
|GDP deflator
|to 1989-90
|prices
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1979-80 |1,064 |2,143 |100.0
1980-81 |1,343 |2,386 |106.7
1981-82 |1,531 |2,374 |110.7
1982-83 |1,660 |2,401 |112.0
1983-84 |1,773 |2,450 |114.3
1984-85 |1,901 |2,502 |116.7
1985-86 |2,015 |2,517 |117.4
1986-87 |2,144 |2,591 |120.9
1987-88 |2,328 |2,672 |124.6
1988-89 |2,591 |2,772 |129.3
1989-90<1> |2,851 |2,851 |133.0
1990-91<2> |3,064 |2,918 |136.1
<1> Projected outturn.
<2> Provisional allocation.
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