HC Deb 31 January 1992 vol 202 cc696-7W
Ms. Harman

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each of the past five years(a) the number of qualified nurses that left the national health service, (b) the number of qualified nurses recruited to the national health service and (c) the total number of qualified nurses employed in the national health service.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

[holding answer 30 January 1992]Information in the detail requested is not available. The available information is given in the table.

Income tax, NICs, indirect tax and local tax payments. Married couple with two children.
April 1979 April 1991
Assumed gross weekly earnings, £ per week 99.20 300.30
Amounts, £ per week
Income tax 10.57 34.83
NICs 6.45 23.39
Total income tax and NICs 17.02 58.22
VAT 4.20 15.64
Other indirect taxes 8.83 22.52
Total excluding local taxes 30.05 96.38
Domestic rates 3.18 —
TOTAL 33.23 —
Percentage of earnings
Income tax 10.6 11.6
NICs 6.5 7.8
Total income tax and NICs 17.1 19.4
VAT 4.2 5.2
Other indirect taxes 8.9 7.5
Total excluding local taxes 30.3 32.1
Domestic rates 3.2 —
TOTAL 33.5 —

Notes: 1. Income tax payments are calculated on the assumption that the households receive no tax reliefs other than the standard allowances and only have income from employment. All earners are assumed to pay class 1 NI contributions at the contracted-in rate.

2. Child benefit is treated as a negative income tax. For 1991–92, the figure used reflects the revised child benefit rates introduced in April 1991.

3. The estimates of indirect taxes are based on equations derived from the 1985 family expenditure survey, uprated to later years using forecasts of aggregate tax receipts. They are based on average expenditure patterns for the United Kingdom as a whole and use the illustrative assumption that 10 per cent. of disposable income is saved. There are wide variations in spending patterns between households with the same composition and similar incomes. Estimated payments of VAT and other indirect taxes are therefore approximate. Due to sampling variation, there can be substantial differences between estimates obtained from family expenditure surveys for different years.