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In April, there will be a permanent real-terms increase in the headline rate of out-of-work benefits for the first time, I think, since the 1970s. We are taking £150 on average off household energy bills, expanding the £150 warm home discount to 6 million lower-income households, and freezing NHS prescription charges for a year.

Answered by

Stephen Timms (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

8 December 2025

Reference

777 c21

House

House of Commons

Land: Prices

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate the Valuation Office Agency made of the average value of a hectare of land in each of the last 20 quarters.

Asked by

Grant Shapps (Conservative)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 March 2009

Reference

490 c336W; 265087

House

House of Commons

Oil: Prices

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what forward projections he has made of the price of a barrel of oil in the next 12 months.

Asked by

Mike Penning (Conservative)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

3 November 2008

Reference

482 c99-100W; 231894

House

House of Commons

Gas Distribution Price Control Review

(2) what factors Ofgem took into account in compiling its initial proposals for the Gas Distribution Price Control Review for 2008 to 2013, with particular reference to the allowances granted to allow gas distribution network operators to recruit new employees to carry out emergency, repair and maintenance activities;

Asked by

Jon Cruddas (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 October 2007

Reference

154292; 464 c346-7W;464 c347W

House

House of Commons

Gas Distribution Price Control Review

(2) what factors Ofgem took into account in assessing the safety implications of its proposals prior to developing its initial proposals for the Gas Distribution Price Control Review for 2008 to 2013;

Asked by

Jon Cruddas (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 October 2007

Reference

464 c346W;464 c346-7W; 154296

House

House of Commons

Gas Distribution Price Control Review

(5) what steps Ofgem took to assess the safety implications of its proposals for (a) the consumer and (b) employees of the gas distribution networks prior to publishing Document 125/07, containing its initial proposals for the Gas Distribution Price Control Review for 2008 to 2013.

Asked by

Jon Cruddas (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 October 2007

Reference

154295; 464 c346-7W;464 c347W

House

House of Commons

Gas Distribution Price Control Review

(3) what factors Ofgem took into account on the safety performance indicators for the gas distribution networks in compiling its initial proposals for the Gas Distribution Price Control Review for 2008 to 2013.

Asked by

Jon Cruddas (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 October 2007

Reference

154294; 464 c346W;464 c346-7W

House

House of Commons

Gas Distribution Price Control Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (1) what Ofgem considers to be the implications to the consumer of the gas distribution networks being unable to replace their ageing and highly-skilled workforces by recruiting and training a sufficient number of new employees to carry out...

Asked by

Jon Cruddas (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 October 2007

Reference

154293; 464 c346-7W;464 c347W

House

House of Commons

Gas Distribution Price Control Review

(3) how many gas distribution networks made representations to Ofgem prior to it publishing Document 125/07, initial proposals for the Gas Distribution Price Control Review for 2008 to 2013; and how many sought an additional allowance to allow them to recruit new employees to carry out emergency, repair and maintenance...

Asked by

Jon Cruddas (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 October 2007

Reference

154291; 464 c346-7W;464 c347W

House

House of Commons

Gas Distribution Price Control Review

(4) what additional allowance Ofgem made in its initial proposals for the Gas Distribution Price Control Review for 2008 to 2013 to allow the gas distribution network operators to recruit and train new employees to carry out emergency, repair and maintenance activities;

Asked by

Jon Cruddas (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 October 2007

Reference

154290; 464 c346-7W;464 c347W

House

House of Commons

Gas Distribution Price Control Review

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (1) what information Ofgem took into account on the customer satisfaction performance indicators for the gas distribution networks in compiling its initial proposals for the Gas Distribution Price Control Review for 2008 to 2013; what steps Ofgem took...

Asked by

Jon Cruddas (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 October 2007

Reference

154289; 464 c346W;464 c346-7W

House

House of Commons

Inheritance Tax

This year’s Budget announced above-inflation increases in the inheritance tax threshold, with the threshold rising to £325,000 by the end of the current Parliament. Even given rising house prices, most homes are below the threshold. A link to house prices in each area would be very difficult and complex to administer, and I think that it would also be unfair.

Answered by

Stephen Timms (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

13 July 2006

Reference

448 c1464

House

House of Commons

Inheritance Tax

I know my hon. Friend will agree that it is right for the estates of better-off people to contribute to wider welfare—and only 6 per cent. of estates paid inheritance tax last year. I think that he will also accept my point about the complexity that would arise if the threshold varied constantly, depending on what had happened to house prices, and if it were different in every area. In cases such as the one that he has described, equity release might help. I think that there would be a real problem if estates with no residential properties but otherwise identical paid different amounts of tax in different parts of the country.

Answered by

Stephen Timms (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

13 July 2006

Reference

448 c1464

House

House of Commons

Inheritance Tax

I can reassure my hon. Friend that the situation is reviewed annually, and we have committed to above-inflation indexing up to £325,000 by 2009-10. Where there are loopholes, we will continue to take steps to close them, and further progress was made on that front in the Finance Bill this year.

Answered by

Stephen Timms (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

13 July 2006

Reference

448 c1465

House

House of Commons

Inheritance Tax

The hon. Gentleman is one of those who would agree that it is right that the estates of wealthy people should contribute to the wider wealth; I know of his interest in addressing poverty. In the situation that he describes, perhaps equity release could help. It is right that larger estates should contribute to the wider welfare, and that is what inheritance tax allows to happen.

Answered by

Stephen Timms (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

13 July 2006

Reference

448 c1464

House

House of Commons

Inheritance Tax

If he will assess the merits of linking inheritance tax thresholds to median house prices in each council area.

Asked by

Martin Linton (Labour)

Answering body

Treasury

Oral questions - Lead

Status

Answered

Date

13 July 2006

Reference

448 c1464; 84769

House

House of Commons

Gas Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if the Government will increase (a) state pensions and (b) the winter fuel allowance to take account of increases in gas prices.

Asked by

John Leech (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

14 February 2006

Reference

50372; 442 c1952-3W;442 c1952-3W

House

House of Commons

Winter Fuel Payments

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what discussions he has had with representatives of people of pensionable age on increasing the winter fuel payment in line with fuel prices.

Asked by

Andrew Rosindell (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

16 January 2006

Reference

441 c1048W; 40524

House

House of Commons

Treasury

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many properties in England and Wales on which stamp duty was levied at a rate of one per cent. were sold at between £60,000 and £120,000 in each year since 2000; and how many of these properties were sold to first time...

Asked by

Sue Doughty (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Treasury

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 March 2005

Reference

432 c949W; 223802

House

House of Commons

Treasury;Office for National Statistics

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the calculations of the (a) RPI and (b) CPI made by the Office of National Statistics take into account changes in the standard quantities of the representative commodities contained in the indices. - Inc text of letter from Len Cook of the...

Asked by

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom (Conservative)

Answering body

Office for National Statistics

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

26 November 2004

For answer on

30 November 2004

Answered on

30 November 2004

Mr. Arbuthnot: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how the calculations of the (a) RPI and (b) CPI made by the Office for National Statistics take into account changes in the standard quantities of the representative commodities contained in the indices. [200591] Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply. Letter from Len Cook to Mr. James Arbuthnot, dated 30 November 2004: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your parliamentary question asking how the calculations of the RPI and CPI made by the Office for National Statistics take into account changes in the standard quantities of the representative commodities contained in the indices. (200591) Within each year, the RPI and CPI are fixed quantity consumer price indices. That is, changes in prices as measured by both indices are calculated as the change in the total cost to the average consumer of a basket of goods and services of fixed composition, quantity and quality. In practice, this is achieved by (a) holding constant each year the sample of representative goods and services for which prices are collected each month in estimating price changes more generally; and (b) applying a fixed set of weights to price changes for each of the items such that their influence on the overall index reflects their importance in the typical household budget. In this way, changes in the RPI and CPI indices from month to month reflect only changes in prices, and not ongoing variations in consumer purchasing patterns. However, the contents of the RPI and CPI baskets of goods and services and associated expenditure weights are updated annually so that the indices remain representative of consumer spending patterns over time. This is important in helping to avoid potential biases in consumer price indices that might otherwise arise, for example, due to the development of entirely new goods and services, or the tendency for consumers to substitute purchases away from those particular goods and services for which prices have risen relatively rapidly. For the RPI, changes to the items and weights are introduced in February each year, but with an overlapping collection of prices in January. This means that the figures for each year can be `chain linked' together to form a long-run price index spanning many years. This procedure ensures that the annual changes to the basket and weights have no impact on estimated changes in prices as measured by the RPI. The same basic approach is likewise adopted in the CPI although, for technical reasons, it is necessary to chain link the published index twice each year rather than only once as in the RPI. These issues are described in greater detail in a range of articles published by ONS, which are available on the National Statistics website. The basic principles underlying the construction of the RPI and CPI are described in: David Roe and David Fenwick (2004) `The New Inflation Target: the Statistical Perspective', Economic Trends No 602, http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/article.asp?id=688 The basket of goods and services employed in the calculation of ONS consumer price indices and the associated weights are described respectively in: David Roe (2004), `Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index: the 2004 Basket of Goods and Services', http://www. statistics.gov.uk/CCI/article.asp?ID=864 David Baran (2004), `Consumer Prices Index and Retail Prices Index: Updating weights for 2004', http://www.statistics.gov. uk/cci/article.asp?id=891

Date

30 November 2004

Reference

428 c96-7W;428 c96-8W; 200591

House

House of Commons

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