§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the total cost to his Department was for accountancy services in each of the last four years. [34169]
§ Ruth KellyIt has not been possible to establish the cost of accountancy services in HM Treasury, Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise.
The information is not held in the format required and any further examination would be of a disproportional cost.
Information required for (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales, (d) Northern Ireland, (e) each English region and (f) each local authority in the United Kingdom Information Source (i) GDP per head of population Regional Accounts articles in (a) Economic Trends March 2001 and (b) Economic Trends May 2001 www.statistics.ons.gov.uk/regional accounts: (a) GDP per capita for the countries and regions up to 1999 and (b) GDP per capita for sub-regions and local areas up to 1998 (ii) Average gross weekly full-time earnings New Earnings Survey data are available from the NOMIS labour market data system. Countries and Regions of the United Kingdom and Local Authority District level information is available (iii) Average gross weekly household incomes Family Spending (2002), provides average gross weekly household incomes for Countries and Regions of the United Kingdom (iv) VAT registrations as a percentage of stock business and (v) VAT registered business per 10,000 population aged 16 and over VAT registration statistics are available from the Small Business Service of Department of Trade and Industry at www.sbs.gov.uk/statistics. Countries and Regions of the United Kingdom and Local Authority District level information is available.