§ Mr. SteenTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list the forms his Department issues annually to businesses to gather statistics, indicating the number of each distributed. [37809]
§ Sir Paul BeresfordThe forms the Department of the Environment issues on a regular basis1 to businesses to gather statistics and the number of each distributed are shown in the table.
1The table excludes ad hoc surveys not repeated on a regular basis. The number of ad hoc surveys varies from year to year: 39 were undertaken in 1995.
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Survey title Number of forms distributed in a year Merseyside Development Corporation Employment and Investment Survey1 (Annual) 2,000 Plymouth Urban Development Corporation: Survey of Economic Activities1 (Annual) 32 Teeside Urban Development Area: Survey of Economic Activities1 (Annual) 800 Minerals Raised Inquiry (Annual) 2,400 Building and Civil Engineering Work Overseas (Annual) 40 Small Firms Enquiry—Construction Activity (Annual) 150,000 Making a Corporate Commitment: Top Management Campaign Evaluation (Annual) 500 Making a Corporate Commitment: Signatories Research (Annual) 1,600 ECO Management and Audit: Pre-Promotion Research (Annual) 800 Tyne and Wear Development Corporation Business Survey1 (Bi-Annual) 2not available Building Materials Inquiries (Quarterly/Monthly) 3,300 Firm Based Enquiry: Construction Activity (Quarterly) 66,000
Survey title Number of forms distributed in a year Quality of Service of the Rural Development Commission1 (Quarterly) 1,440 Project Based Enquiry: Construction Activity (Quarterly) 9,200 New Orders Enquiry: Construction Activity (Monthly) 66,000 Survey of Mortgage Lenders (Monthly) 2,220 1 Surveys undertaken by the department's agencies and non-department public bodies. 2 In 1996 this survey will be undertaken as a sample rather than a census. Size of sample not yet determined.