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Madagascar
Mr. Keetch: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many British tourists have visited Madagascar in the last 12 months. [62359]
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 April 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many British tourists have visited Madagascar in the last 12 months.
Visits made abroad by UK residents are estimated from data collected on the International Passenger Survey (IPS). The survey is conducted at all major airports, and on major sea and tunnel routes. The data collected are weighted up to national estimates provided by CAA and BAA, Department for Transport, Eurotunnel and Eurostar.
Because of the small number of interviews carried out with UK residents visiting Madagascar, the IPS is unable to provide reliable information for UK residents visits to Madagascar.
Manufacturing Industry
David Simpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of the work force was employed in manufacturing in each region in each of the last five years. [63523]
John Healey:
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the national statistician who has been asked to reply.
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Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 18 April 2006:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about employment in manufacturing. (63523)
The attached table shows the percentage of employee jobs in manufacturing in each region, for December of each year from 2001 to 2005.
These estimates are from the Employee Jobs series, which is mainly based on surveys of employers. As with any sample survey, the results are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
(244) Employee jobs in manufacturing as a percentage of all employee jobs.
(245) Employee jobs are a measure of jobs rather than people. If a person holds two or more jobs, each job will be counted in the employee jobs figures. The employee jobs figures are derived from surveys of employers, and from administrative sources.
Source:
Employee Jobs series.
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what steps his Department has taken to increase the competitiveness of the UK manufacturing industry within Europe. [63970]
John Healey: The Government wants a successful, dynamic manufacturing sector producing value-added products and highly-skilled jobs. Raising productivity across the UK economy—including in the manufacturing sector—is a key driver of long-term performance, and the Government are putting in place a series of interlinked policies designed to strengthen productivity. Within Europe, the UK is pursuing a programme of structural reform to strengthen growth, productivity and employment.
Medical Research Council Merger
Mr. Willis: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the expected cost is of merging the Medical Research Council and the NHS Health and Research Delivery Group. [62955]
Mr. Des Browne: The Chancellor announced in the Budget a review, led by Sir David Cocksey, to consider the best model and institutional arrangements for publicly-funded health research in the UK, based on a single, ring-fenced fund.
Minimum Hourly Pay
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the hourly rate of pay needed to lift a full-time employee over the poverty line if he or she is in a (a) single adult household, (b) dual adult household with no other worker and (c) dual adult household with two children and no other worker. [59336]
Dawn Primarolo: Latest estimates of the poverty line for a range of family types in Great Britain are published in Table 2.3 of 'Households Below Average Income', available on the DWP website at:
Assessments of hourly rates of pay for a household with one full-time employee required to meet these thresholds depend on a number of assumptions including hours of employment, housing tenure, key outlays such as council tax, and access to other sources of income.
For example, for single full-time (35 hours per week) earner LA tenant households in 2004–05 facing average council tax bills, with no sources of income other than their employment income, benefits and tax credits, the required wage rates would have been around:
The figures take account only of earnings, child benefit, tax credits, income support, housing and council tax benefits, less income tax, employee national insurance contributions and gross council tax liabilities; other components of net income before housing costs underpinning the DWP poverty line estimates have been omitted.
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Mortality Rates
Shona McIsaac: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the mortality rates for (a) chronic lung disease, (b) cancer and (c) coronary heart disease were in (i) Cleethorpes constituency, (ii) Grimsby constituency, (iii) Scunthorpe constituency and (iv) Brigg and Goole constituency in (A) 1997 and (B) 2004. [62655]
John Healey:
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
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Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 18 April 2006:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question concerning what the mortality rates for (a) chronic lung disease, (b) cancer and (c) coronary heart disease were in (i) Cleethorpes constituency, (ii) Grimsby constituency, (iii) Scunthorpe constituency and (iv) Brigg and Goole constituency in (A) 1997 and (B) 2004. (62655)
Mortality rates for parliamentary constituencies cannot be provided for the years requested because population estimates are not available for these areas. Figures in the table below are provided for the local authorities which make up the requested constituencies. The figures for 1997 have been adjusted to take account of revisions to the International Classification of Diseases where appropriate.
(246) Rates per 100,000 population standardised to the European Standard Population.
(247) The causes of death for 2004 were defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10):
Chronic lung disease (Chronic lower respiratory disease)—ICD-10 J40-J47
Cancer (malignant neoplasms)—ICD-10 COO-C97
Coronary heart disease—ICD-10120–125
Deaths were selected using the original underlying cause.
The causes of death for 1997 were defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9).
The following codes were used:
Chronic lung disease (Chronic lower respiratory disease)—ICD-9 490–494, 496
Cancer (malignant neoplasms)—ICD-9 140–208
Coronary heart disease—ICD-9 410–414
The introduction of ICD-10 for coding cause of death in England and Wales in 2001 means that data for chronic lung disease and cancer are not completely comparable with data for years before this date. The effect of the change in classification in 2001 on deaths from these causes is described in a report published in May 2002:
Office for National Statistics. Results of the ICD-10 bridge coding study, England and Wales, 1999. Health Statistics Quarterly 14 (2002), 75–83.
For chronic lung disease (chronic lower respiratory disease) and cancer (malignant neoplasms) the introduction of ICD-10 caused an increase of 3.2 per cent. and 2.3 per cent. respectively in the number of deaths coded to these conditions in England and Wales. Deaths in 1997 from these causes have been adjusted to provide rates which are comparable with those for 2004.
(248) Usual residents of these areas.
The local authority of the East Riding of Yorkshire comprises part of the Brigg and Goole constituency as well as parts of the constituencies of Beverley and Holderness, East Yorkshire, Haltemprice and Howden, and Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle.
The local authority of North East Lincolnshire comprises part of the constituency of Cleethorpes and the whole of Great Grimsby constituency.
The local authority of North Lincolnshire comprises the whole of Scunthorpe constituency and parts of the constituencies of Brigg and Goole and Cleethorpes.
Deaths were assigned to these areas using the November 2005 All Fields Postcode Directory.
(249) Deaths registered in each calendar year.
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