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TREASURY
Breast Cancer
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when he expects the figures for the number of women who (a) were diagnosed and (b) died from breast cancer in 2004 to become available; and if he will make a statement. [42947]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the national statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 18 January 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question concerning when the figures for the number of women who (a) were diagnosed and (b) died from breast cancer in 2004 are expected to become available. (42947)
The most recent available information on registration of newly diagnosed cases of breast cancer are for the year 2003. Figures for 2004 are due to be published in September 2006.
Figures on the number of women who died from breast cancer in 2004 were published in December 2005 in the volume Mortality Statistics Series DH2 no.31, which is available on the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/Dh2_31/DH2No31.pdf
Child Trust Fund
Mr. Davey: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 1 December 2005, Official Report, column 658W on the child trust fund, what estimate he has made of the cost of providing this information. [42280]
Dawn Primarolo: The cost of providing the information would have greatly exceeded the disproportionate cost threshold of £600.
Bob Spink: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many Child Trust fund vouchers have been issued to families in Castle Point to date. [42802]
Dawn Primarolo: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire, North (Jim Sheridan) on 1 December 2005, Official Report, column 658W.
Economic Inactivity
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were classed as economically inactive in each of the last 10 years in (a) Great Grimsby, (b) Cleethorpes, (c) Brigg and Goole and (d) Scunthorpe. [42673]
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John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 18 January 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question concerning economic inactivity. (42673)
The Office for National Statistics compiles statistics of inactivity for local areas from the Annual Population Survey (APS) and the annual local area Labour Force Survey (LFS)
- following International Labour Organisation definitions. The attached table shows the numbers of inactive people of working age, resident in Great Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Brigg and Goole and Scunthorpe constituencies, for the 12 month periods ending February 1997 to February 2004 from the annual local area LFS and for the 12 months ending March 2005 from the APS. The table also shows the number of inactive people as a percentage of the total working age population resident in each constituency.
These estimates, as with any from sample surveys, are subject to a margin of uncertainty. Changes in the estimates from year to year should be treated with particular caution.
(7) Rate as a percentage of the resident population of working age (men aged 16 to 64, women aged 16 to 59).
Source:
Annual local are labour force survey; annual population survey
Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many working-age people not in full-time education were economically inactive in each year since 1997. [42762]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 18 January 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about economic inactivity.
The attached table gives the estimated numbers of economically inactive people of working age, who were not in full-time education, for the three month periods ending in August from 1991 to 2005.
Estimates are taken from the Office for National Statistics's Labour Force Survey (LFS). As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
(8) Includes men aged 16–64 and women aged 16–59.
Source:
ONS, labour force survey
Employment (Castle Point)
Bob Spink: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what proportion of those in employment in Castle Point were employed in (a) the public sector and (b) the private sector in each year since 1996. [42829]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 18 January 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Questions about private and public sector employment. (42829)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles statistics for the United Kingdom of public sector employment from a quarterly survey of public sector organizations. However, estimates at local area level are not available.
Information at local area level is available from the Annual Population Survey (APS)/annual local area Labour Force Survey (LFS) of individual people in households. However, in this source, the categorization of employment in the public or private sector depends upon the responses from the individuals interviewed. As reported by ONS in October 2005 in the publication Public Sector Employment Trends", some individuals tend to misreport private sector employment as being in the public sector hence leading to overestimates of the share of public sector employment.
With this reservation about the data quality, the attached table shows the proportions of public and private sector employment in the Castle Point constituency shown by the annual local area LFS for the 12 month periods ending February 1997 to February 2004 and by the APS for the 12 month period to March 2005.
These estimates, as with any from sample surveys, are subject to a margin of uncertainty. Changes in the estimates from year to year should be treated with particular caution.
(9) Public/private sector split based on responses from individuals responding to the annual local area Labour Force Survey and the Annual Population survey—generally overestimate public sector employment.
Note:
Percentages are based on exact levels for each year and then rounded
n/a—not available.
Source:
Annual local area Labour Force Survey; Annual Population Survey.
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