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Child Support
Ms Osborne: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) how many parents with care who are eligible for maintenance payments through the Child Support Agency receive the Working Families Tax Credit; [149850]
- (2) how many parents with care in receipt of maintenance payments through the Child Support Agency are non-resident parents who are liable to pay maintenance for children of previous relationships. [149851]
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Angela Eagle: The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is as follows.
There are 234,000 parents with care with a current full maintenance assessment who are receiving the Working Families Tax Credit. This represents around 24 per cent. of all such parents with care on the Child Support Agency's books.
- Notes:
- 1. Information on the number of parents with care who are also non-resident parents is not available since there is no facility on the existing child support computer system for linking data in this way.
- 2. Figures are taken from 5 per cent. scan of the Child Support Computer System and are rounded to the nearest hundred.
- Source:
- Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics--August 2000, Department of Social Security Information Centre, Analytical Services Division.
Appeal Tribunals
Mr. Healey: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many social security appeal tribunal hearings concerning cohabitation or living together as man and wife cases there were in each of the last five years; and in what percentage the tribunal found in favour of the client. [149450]
Angela Eagle: The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the table.
| Appeals cleared at hearing | Appeals decided in favour of the appellant | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 October 1997 to 30 September 1998 | n/a | |
| 1 October 1998 to 30 September 1999 | 874 | 354 (40.5 per cent.) |
| 1 October 1999 to 30 September 2000 | 1,311 | 681 (51.9 per cent.) |
Notes:
1. Issue codes were only added to the GAPS system in November 1999, although some earlier cases have been coded.
2. Figures are provisional and are subject to change.
Source:
100 per cent. download from the Appeals Service GAPS computer system.
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TREASURYEarnings Statistics
Mr. Alasdair Morgan: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list for Scotland and each local authority area in Scotland (a) the weekly median earnings and (b) the amount of median earnings for those in the first and ninth deciles for (i) all manual, (ii) all non-manual and (iii) all workers. [146247]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Alasdair Morgan, dated 15 February 2001:
- As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question on weekly earnings for workers in Scotland and the local authorities in Scotland (146247).
- The New Earnings Survey (NES) can provide earnings data for small geographical areas. However, the NES has incomplete coverage of those on low pay because the sample is limited to people earning above the income tax threshold. The release of NES data is restricted to figures that are derived from a sufficiently large sample of employees, and have an acceptable level of accuracy. I have provided the available data for Scotland and the unitary authorities in Scotland in the attached tables, only where the samples are large enough and have an acceptable level of accuracy. These are based on the 2000 NES, the latest survey for which data are available.
| £ | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Median(47) | Lowest decile(48) | Highest decile(49) | |
| Full-time | |||
| Non-manual | 363.2 | 202.8 | 673.3 |
| Manual | 289.3 | 171.5 | 479.0 |
| All Employees | 330.0 | 190.0 | 608.3 |
| Part-time | |||
| Non-manual | 123.9 | 51.9 | 270.1 |
| Manual | 91.0 | 39.2 | 159.7 |
| All Employees | 108.8 | 45.2 | 233.4 |
| All | |||
| Non-manual | 301.6 | 112.5 | 619.5 |
| Manual | 250.0 | 77.6 | 447.7 |
| All Employees | 280.8 | 99.1 | 564.9 |
(47) 50th percentile
(48) 10th percentile
(49) 90th percentile
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(50) 50th percentile
(51) 10th percentile
(52) 90th percentile
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Mr. Grieve: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average weekly earnings are (a) including and (b) excluding overtime, for part-time workers in (i) Scotland, (ii) each of the local unitary local authority areas in Scotland and (iii) the UK, broken down by (A) men and (B) women in (1) manual employment, (2) non-manual employment and (3) all employment. [145664]
Mr. Andrew Smith: This information falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Dominic Grieve, dated 15 February 2001:
- As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your question on weekly earnings for workers in Scotland, the unitary authorities in Scotland and the United Kingdom (145664).
- The New Earnings Survey (NES) can provide earnings data for small geographical areas. However, the NES has incomplete coverage of those on low pay, because the sample is largely limited to people earning above the income tax threshold. This under-coverage will particularly affect results for part-time workers. The release of NES data is restricted to figures that are derived from a sufficiently large sample of employees, and have an acceptable
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- level of accuracy. The data for the United Kingdom is not yet available. I have provided the available data for Scotland, the unitary authorities in Scotland and Great Britain in the attached tables, where the sample sizes are large enough and have an acceptable level of accuracy. These are based on the 2000 NES, the latest survey for which data are available.
| £ | |
|---|---|
| Male: | |
| Non-manual | 163.6 |
| Manual | 114.3 |
| All | 142.3 |
| Female: | |
| Non-manual | 144.5 |
| Manual | 94.2 |
| All | 129.7 |
| All employees: | |
| Non-manual | 147.2 |
| Manual | 98.8 |
| All | 131.8 |
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| £ | |
|---|---|
| Male: | |
| Manual | 106.5 |
| All | 123.7 |
| Female: | |
| Non-manual | 146.4 |
| Manual | 94.8 |
| All | 129.0 |
| All employees: | |
| Non-manual | 145.6 |
| Manual | 97.1 |
| All | 128.2 |
| £ | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh, City of | Glasgow City | South Lanarkshire | |
| Female: | |||
| Non-manual | 142.3 | 136.4 | -- |
| All | 126.8 | 124.6 | 118.6 |
| All employees: | |||
| Non-manual | 143.4 | 134.9 | -- |
| Manual | -- | 98.7 | -- |
| All | 128.5 | 122.7 | 118.3 |
| £ | |
|---|---|
| Male: | |
| Non-manual | 155.8 |
| Manual | 104.8 |
| All | 133.7 |
| Female: | |
| Non-manual | 137.7 |
| Manual | 89.2 |
| All | 123.5 |
| All employees: | |
| Non-manual | 140.2 |
| Manual | 92.7 |
| All | 125.2 |
| £ | |
|---|---|
| Male: | |
| Manual | 97.1 |
| All | 113.9 |
| Female: | |
| Non-manual | 140.4 |
| Manual | 88.9 |
| All | 123.0 |
| All employees: | |
| Non-manual | 139.1 |
| Manual | 90.5 |
| All | 121.7 |
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| £ | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh, City of | Glasgow City | South Lanarkshire | |
| Female: | |||
| Non-manual | 136.5 | 132.0 | -- |
| Manual | -- | 92.9 | -- |
| All | 121.4 | 120.2 | 113.1 |
| All employees: | |||
| Non-manual | 136.7 | 130.2 | -- |
| Manual | 91.8 | 92.3 | -- |
| All | 122.4 | 117.4 | 111.4 |
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