Asked by: Baroness Curran (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many women over the age of 50 in Scotland have been classed as economically inactive in each of the last four years.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Baroness Curran (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many women over the age of 50 in Scotland had been unemployed for six months or more in September (a) 2014, (b) 2013, (c) 2012, (d) 2011 and (e) 2010.
Answered by Rob Wilson
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Asked by: Baroness Curran (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Pensions Technical Group and Income Tax Technical Group established to examine issues arising from the introduction of a Scottish rate of income tax have completed their work.
Answered by David Gauke
The advisory groups set up by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to examine issues from the introduction of the Scottish rate of income tax have completed their work. The Government’s proposals for the detailed consequential changes needed to implement the Scottish Rate of Income Tax were set out in the Technical Note published by HMRC in May 2012. In December 2013 HMRC announced arrangements to ensure that from 2016 Scottish taxpayers will receive the appropriate tax relief on their pension contributions to relief at source schemes.
Asked by: Baroness Curran (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many requests the Scottish Government has made using the powers of Part 3 of the Scotland Act 2012 for the addition of new devolved taxes.
Answered by David Gauke
The Scottish Government has not made any requests to create new devolved taxes under this power.
Asked by: Baroness Curran (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many officials in his Department are working on the Scottish rate of income tax project.
Answered by David Gauke
I refer the hon member to the answer that I gave her on 13 June 2013 (OR,WA, COL: 390W).
Asked by: Baroness Curran (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Scotland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many people of pensionable age there were in each parliamentary constituency in Scotland at the most recent date for which figures are available.
Answered by Alistair Carmichael
The information below is arranged by UK Parliamentary constituency.
Constituency | Aged 65+ |
Aberdeen North | 12,983 |
Aberdeen South | 14,123 |
Airdrie and Shotts | 12,923 |
Angus | 17,127 |
Argyll and Bute | 19,487 |
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | 19,258 |
Banff and Buchan | 16,356 |
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | 20,180 |
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross | 12,654 |
Central Ayrshire | 17,069 |
Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | 13,775 |
Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | 13,344 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 21,175 |
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | 18,492 |
Dundee East | 16,407 |
Dundee West | 14,357 |
Dunfermline and West Fife | 15,018 |
East Dunbartonshire | 16,838 |
East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | 17,375 |
East Lothian | 17,911 |
East Renfrewshire | 16,362 |
Edinburgh East | 12,577 |
Edinburgh North and Leith | 12,750 |
Edinburgh South | 13,427 |
Edinburgh South West | 13,364 |
Edinburgh West | 16,712 |
Falkirk | 17,690 |
Glasgow Central | 8,907 |
Glasgow East | 13,738 |
Glasgow North | 7,990 |
Glasgow North East | 13,032 |
Glasgow North West | 13,025 |
Glasgow South | 12,824 |
Glasgow South West | 12,735 |
Glenrothes | 15,450 |
Gordon | 15,582 |
Inverclyde | 14,837 |
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | 17,346 |
Kilmarnock and Loudoun | 16,649 |
Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath | 17,637 |
Lanark and Hamilton East | 17,516 |
Linlithgow and East Falkirk | 17,744 |
Livingston | 14,189 |
Midlothian | 14,074 |
Moray | 17,370 |
Motherwell and Wishaw | 14,490 |
Na h-Eileanan an Iar | 6,021 |
North Ayrshire and Arran | 18,939 |
North East Fife | 16,492 |
Ochil and South Perthshire | 18,394 |
Orkney and Shetland | 8,065 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire North | 14,930 |
Paisley and Renfrewshire South | 14,708 |
Perth and North Perthshire | 19,760 |
Ross, Skye and Lochaber | 13,424 |
Rutherglen and Hamilton West | 15,782 |
Stirling | 15,656 |
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine | 14,336 |
West Dunbartonshire | 14,988 |
Source: General Register Office for Scotland, December 2013
More information can be found on the following link:
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/theme/population/estimates/special-area/ukpc.html.
Asked by: Baroness Curran (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the last Finance Ministers Quadrilateral met; and if he will place in the Library the minutes of that meeting.
Answered by Danny Alexander
The last Finance Quadrilateral was held on 18 November 2013.
No formal minutes of the meeting were taken, but Ministers present discussed the general economic outlook for the UK and for each of the devolved administrations, as well as looking forward to the forthcoming Autumn Statement. Agreement was reached at the meeting regarding the framework under which the devolved administrations could carry forward Financial Transactions capital into future years.
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Finance Ministers from the devolved administrations aim to meet regularly in Quadrilateral format, complimenting bi-lateral meetings and conversations throughout the year. It is anticipated the next Quadrilateral will take place over the coming months. No date or agenda has yet been set.
Asked by: Baroness Curran (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, when the next meeting of the Finance Ministers Quadrilateral will take place; and what will be discussed at this meeting.
Answered by Danny Alexander
The last Finance Quadrilateral was held on 18 November 2013.
No formal minutes of the meeting were taken, but Ministers present discussed the general economic outlook for the UK and for each of the devolved administrations, as well as looking forward to the forthcoming Autumn Statement. Agreement was reached at the meeting regarding the framework under which the devolved administrations could carry forward Financial Transactions capital into future years.
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Finance Ministers from the devolved administrations aim to meet regularly in Quadrilateral format, complimenting bi-lateral meetings and conversations throughout the year. It is anticipated the next Quadrilateral will take place over the coming months. No date or agenda has yet been set.
Asked by: Baroness Curran (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the annual cost to her Department is of providing UK border control services at (a) Paris Gare Du Nord station, (b) Bruxelles Midi station and (c) Calais port and Eurotunnel terminus.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The annual costs of providing UK border control services are as follow:
Paris Gare Du Nord station - £4.6 million
Bruxelles Midi station - £3.3 million
Calais port - £21.8 million
Eurotunnel terminus (Coquelles) – £21.2 million
The above resource costs are based on the last financial year's data(2013/14)
and are taken from the Home office accounting system Adelphi. These have not
yet been audited. Publication of the annual set of accounts will not present
these costs in this level of detail.
Asked by: Baroness Curran (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, how many people aged under 25 years in each parliamentary constituency in Scotland have claimed jobseeker's allowance for more than (a) one and (b) two years in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nick Hurd
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.