Community Budget (Hansard, 30 June 1999)

§ Ms Hewitt

I have today laid before Parliament the Statement on the 1999 Community Budget, entitled "European Community Finances". This White Paper is the nineteenth in the series. As in the past, it covers annual budgetary matters and includes details of recent developments in European Community financial management and in countering fraud against the Community Budget. It also describes the Community Budget for 1999 as adopted by the European Parliament, and the United Kingdom's gross and net contributions to the Community Budget between 1996 and 1999.

I have placed copies of the White Paper in both Libraries of the House.

Individuals holding a current bank account by regional development agency and age
Thousand
Regional Development Agency
Age of individual	North East	North West and Merseyside	Yorkshire and aHumber	East Midlands	West Midlands	Eastern Region	London	South East	South West
18–24	190	420	270	300	320	370	410	530	260
25–49	840	1,970	1,410	1,270	1,490	1,760	2,330	2,400	1,470
50–64	420	1,030	700	710	770	920	860	1,300	850
65+	260	690	490	370	430	620	650	850	670

Notes:

1. Data are not provided for the under 18 age group as information on children holding current bank accounts is not available. Samples sizes for the highest age group are also too small to support reliable estimates of the statistics in question. Other age ranges provided in the tables do not exactly match those requested as these had missing ranges and overlapping boundaries. Therefore, age ranges which are as close as possible to those requested have been used.

2. The estimates are based on sample counts that have been adjusted for non-response using multi-purpose grossing factors that control for region, Council Tax Band and a number of demographic variables. Estimates are subject to sampling error and to variability in non-response.

3. All figures are provided in thousands and have been rounded to the nearest ten thousand.

Source:

1997–98 Family Resources Survey (Great Britain)