People's Panel (Hansard, 23 March 1999)

§ Mr. Kilfoyle

Members of the People's Panel have been used as a source of membership for focus groups on two occasions earlier this year. Details are as followsThe Women's Unit commissioned 24 focus groups as part of a wider programme of consultation with women—Listening to Women. The focus groups explored a broad range of priorities women felt important to their lives, and probed in-depth their opinion on specific topics, such as women's incomes. The Women's Unit has particular interest in teenage girls and this research included 6 focus groups with this age-group in order to inform the Unit's policy area with the views of girls themselves. The Department for Education and Employment commissioned six focus groups to investigate parents' attitudes towards value added information in school performance tables. The research will be used to inform the development of value added measures for publication in the performance tables.

	Gross class 1 contributions as a percentage of all employed earnings, by earnings decile
Income decile		1997–98	2002–03	2007–08	2017–18	2027–28	2037–38	2047–48
1st	Employee	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Employer	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
	Total	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2nd	Employee	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
	Employer	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.1
	Total	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2
3rd	Employee	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3
	Employer	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3
	Total	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6
4th	Employee	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5
	Employer	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.6
	Total	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.9	1.0	1.0
5th	Employee	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
	Employer	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8
	Total	1.3	1.1	1.1	1.2	1.3	1.3	1.4
6th	Employee	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.7
	Employer	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9
	Total	1.7	1.5	1.5	1.6	1.6	1.7	1.6
7th	Employee	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.7
	Employer	1.1	1.0	1.0	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.2
	Total	2.1	1.9	1.9	2.0	2.0	1.9	1.9
8th	Employee	1.2	1.1	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.8	0.7
	Employer	1.4	1.3	1.3	1.4	1.4	1.4	1.4
	Total	2.5	2.4	2.4	2.4	2.3	2.2	2.1
9th	Employee	1.4	1.3	1.2	1.1	0.9	0.8	0.7
	Employer	1.6	1.6	1.7	1.7	1.8	1.8	1.8
	Total	3.0	2.9	2.9	2.8	2.7	2.6	2.5
10th	Employee	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.1	0.9	0.8	0.7
	Employer	2.7	2.9	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.1	3.1
	Total	4.2	4.3	4.3	4.1	4.0	3.9	3.8
Total	Employee	7.1	6.4	6.3	6.1	5.8	5.4	5.0
	Employer	9.2	8.9	9.1	9.4	9.7	10.0	10.2
	Total	16.3	15.3	15.4	15.5	15.5	15.4	15.2

Notes:

1. Class 1 Contributions, including the National Health Service Allowance, gross of contracted out rebates and permitted employers' recoveries on account of their Statutory Sick Pay and Statutory Maternity pay payments to employees, and expressed in terms of accruals rather than receipts.

2. The 1st earnings decile covers the one tenth of the employed population with the lowest earnings. The other deciles are defined similarly.

Source:

Government Actuary's Department (GAD).

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