HC Deb 15 March 2001 vol 364 cc688-9W
Mr. Swinney

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the annual yield to the Treasury of increasing the top rate of income tax to(a) 95p and (b) 50p for those earning over (i) £60,000, (ii) £75,000 and (iii) £100,000 per annum in (A) the UK and (B) Scotland, indicating the number of people who will be affected in each case. [152779]

Dawn Primarolo

[holding answer 9 March 2001]: The full-year effects in 2001–02 of making the changes are set out in the table.

and (b) Wales in each of the past 15 years; and what the percentage change was in each year. [152697]

Miss Melanie Johnson

[holding answer 12 March 2001]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell to Mr. Paul Flynn, dated 15 March 2001: The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question about the number of people employed in England and Wales in the last 15 years (152697). I am replying in his absence. The attached table shows information from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) on those in employment in both countries and the percentage change year in each year. People aged 16 or over are classed as in employment by the LFS if they have done at least one hour of paid work (as an employee or self-employed) in the week prior to their LFS interview or if they have a job that they are temporarily away from. People who do unpaid work in a family business and people on Government-supported training and employment programmes are also included according to the International Labour Organisation guidelines.

All in employment in England and Wales; spring 1986 to spring 2000
Thousand and per cent. (not seasonally adjusted)
England Wales
Number of Number of people in employment Percentage change Number of people in employment Percentage change
Spring
1986 20,806 — 1.085 —
1987 21,199 1.9 1–080 -0.5
1988 21,974 3.7 1,135 5.1
1989 22,624 3.0 1,212 6.8
1990 22,812 0.8 1,232 1.6
1991 22,327 -2.1 1,202 -2.4
1992 21,713 -2.7 1.192 -0.9
1993 21,523 -0.9 1,155 -3.1
1994 21,664 0.7 1.175 1.8
1995 21,916 1.2 1,193 1.4
1996 22,212 1.3 1,198 0.5
1997 22,628 1.9 1,220 1.8
1998 22,911 1.2 1,208 -1.0
1999 23,224 1.4 1,229 1.7
2000 23,536 1.3 1.246 1.4

Source:

ONS Labour Force Survey