The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Peter Fullerton, Director, Collection and Production Operations, Office for National Statistics, to Lord Willis of Knaresborough dated November 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Questions asking:

a) for each of the last three years, how many 18–24 year olds in England on zero-hours contracts are in full-time education. HL3098

b) for the latest year for which figures are available, what were the average gross earnings of 18–24 year olds in England on zero-hours contracts who were (1) in full-time education, and (2) not in full-time education. HL3099

The requested information is not available. Information regarding people working on zero-hours contracts is available from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). However, full estimates of the total number of people in employment on such contracts are not available from this source. This is, in part, due to respondents being unable to identify their type of employment contract correctly. This prevents reliable estimates being produced by age.

From autumn 2013, one of ONS’s large-scale monthly business surveys will include some questions on zero-hours contracts so as to obtain robust data directly from employers. These will be asked on a quarterly basis with the first results expected to be published in early 2014.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Teverson, dated October 2013.

As Director General of the Office for National Statistics I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking Her Majesty’s Government whether in the light of the review of the handling of census data we shall ensure that all census data will continue to be available at the lowest Output Area level (HL2785).

The Office for National Statistics is currently engaged in a major programme of work, the Beyond 2011 Programme, to assess approaches for meeting future requirements for population and small area socio-demographic statistics. We launched a public consultation on 23rd September to ask for comments on the approaches currently being considered:

• a census, once a decade, like that conducted in 2011, but primarily online;

• a census based on administrative data and large annual compulsory surveys.

Our consultation documents can be accessed from the attached link (http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/who-ons-are/programmes-and-projects/beyond-2011/beyond-2011-consultation/index.html) and you will see that special attention has been given to the need for, and importance of, understanding users’ requirements, most notably those relating to detailed statistics at Output Area level. It is too soon to say what the outcome of this consultation will be.

The Office for National Statistics is in the process of arranging a presentation on the issues for Members of Parliament during the consultation. I do hope that you might be able to attend this event and thus contribute to engagement on this important matter. I shall confirm the date with you in due course.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Taylor of Warwick, dated October 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how the proportion of European Union migrants to the United Kingdom who have never worked is calculated. (HL2924)

ONS has not calculated an official estimate of the proportion of European Union migrants to the United Kingdom who have never worked.

If the statistic in question refers to the percentage of EU migrant jobseekers that have never worked in their country of residence, then this estimate was taken from figure 3.10 of the EU Commission report: ‘A fact finding analysis on the impact on the Member States' social security systems of the entitlements of non-active intra-EU migrants to special non-contributory cash benefits and healthcare granted on the basis of residence’. A link to this report is included below:

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=en&catId=89&newsId=1980&further News=yes

The source of the information on EU migrant jobseekers comes from the Labour Force Survey of each Member State, the results for which are made available by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. As cited in the report, the estimate is calculated by the author(s) of the report using an approach that is not based upon any official ONS methodology.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Oakeshott dated October 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary questions To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the ratios of median house prices to median earnings in (1) 1997, (2) 2007, and (3) 2012, for (a) the United Kingdom, (b) England, (c) Wales, (d) Scotland, and (e) Northern Ireland, and for each local authority area for which those figures are available HL2830, and when they expect 2013 figures for the ratio of median house prices to median earnings to be available for (1) the United Kingdom, (2) England, (3) Wales, (4) Scotland, and (5) Northern Ireland. HL2831

Unfortunately, median house price data are not available from ONS at a local authority level and the earliest period for which estimates at a regional level are available is 2002. Table 1 below provides estimates for 2007 and 2012.

Information for 2013 will be available on Tuesday 18 February 2014, when ONS publishes the latest estimate of median house prices for quarter 4 of 2013.

Table 1: Ratio of median house prices to median earnings

1997 – 2012, UK and component countries

Median earnings taken from table 7.7a of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) and relate to the median gross annual earnings for all employee jobs² Median house price taken from table 19 of the ONS monthly and quarterly House Price Index reference table and reflects the annual average of the quarterly, non-mix adjusted median house price³ Median house price data not available in 1997

Source: Office for National Statistics

Median earnings taken from table 7.7a of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) and relate to the median gross annual earnings for all employee jobs² Median house price taken from table 19 of the ONS monthly and quarterly House Price Index reference table and reflects the annual average of the quarterly, non-mix adjusted median house price³ Median house price data not available in 1997

Source: Office for National Statistics

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Oakeshott dated October 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary questions To ask Her Majesty’s Government what were the ratios of median house prices to median earnings in (1) 1997, (2) 2007, and (3) 2012, for (a) the United Kingdom, (b) England, (c) Wales, (d) Scotland, and (e) Northern Ireland, and for each local authority area for which those figures are available HL2830, and when they expect 2013 figures for the ratio of median house prices to median earnings to be available for (1) the United Kingdom, (2) England, (3) Wales, (4) Scotland, and (5) Northern Ireland. HL2831

Unfortunately, median house price data are not available from ONS at a local authority level and the earliest period for which estimates at a regional level are available is 2002. Table 1 below provides estimates for 2007 and 2012.

Information for 2013 will be available on Tuesday 18 February 2014, when ONS publishes the latest estimate of median house prices for quarter 4 of 2013.

Table 1: Ratio of median house prices to median earnings

1997 – 2012, UK and component countries

Median earnings taken from table 7.7a of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) and relate to the median gross annual earnings for all employee jobs² Median house price taken from table 19 of the ONS monthly and quarterly House Price Index reference table and reflects the annual average of the quarterly, non-mix adjusted median house price³ Median house price data not available in 1997

Source: Office for National Statistics

Median earnings taken from table 7.7a of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) and relate to the median gross annual earnings for all employee jobs² Median house price taken from table 19 of the ONS monthly and quarterly House Price Index reference table and reflects the annual average of the quarterly, non-mix adjusted median house price³ Median house price data not available in 1997

Source: Office for National Statistics

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Greaves, dated October 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your question asking how many anonymous electors were registered in each constituency in each year since the provision was introduced (HL2736).

Table 1 shows the number of electors who were registered anonymously in each constituent country of Great Britain, and by region of England, on 1 December of each year from 2007 to 2012. Due to small numbers, we are unable to supply anonymous electors by parliamentary constituency.

The provision for anonymous registration in Great Britain was introduced in 2007. Legislation for anonymous registration has not yet been enacted in Northern Ireland. The latest year for which Electoral Statistics are available is 2012. A copy of the table will be placed in the Library of the House.

Of the administering local authorities, 24 did not provide figures for those registered anonymously on 1 December 2007² Of the^{administering local authorities, 36 did not provide figures for those registered anonymously on 1 December 20083 Of theadministering local authorities, 12 did not provide figures for those registered anonymously on 1 December 20094 Of theadministering local authorities, 4 did not provide figures for those registered anonymously on 1 December 20105 Figures less than 3 have been suppressed and are shown as “-”}

Source: Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Caron Walker, Director, Collection and Production, Office for National Statistics, to Lord Beecham, dated October 2013.

In the absence of the Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many of the increased number of private sector jobs

created in the North East since 2010 are (1) part-time, and (2) due to the transfer of jobs from the public sector. HL2260

Estimates of the number of private sector jobs created are not produced. As an alternative, estimates of the number of people in employment in the private sector are available from the Annual Population Survey (APS) and can be used to show changes between different time periods.

Information regarding the transfer of public sector jobs to the private sector is not available from the APS or any other ONS data source.

The table provided shows private sector employment statistics for the North East, by full- & part-time status, for the 12 month periods July 2009 to June 2010 and April 2012 to March 2013, the latest available period. In the APS the distinction between the public and private sector is based on respondents' views about the organisation for which they work. The estimates do not correspond directly to the official statistics for private sector employment published in the monthly Labour Market Statistical Bulletin. Those statistics which are derived partly from employers and are based on National Accounts definitions, do not provide an estimate of full- & part-time employment.

As with any sample survey, estimates from the APS are subject to a margin of uncertainty. These are indicated in the table.

Source: Annual Population Survey (APS)¹ Individuals in the APS are classified to private sector according to their responses to the survey. In the APS the distinction between public and private sector is based on respondents’ views about the organisation for which they work. The private sector estimates provided do not correspond to official estimates published in the monthly Labour Market Statistical Bulletin. Those are derived directly from employers and are based on a National Accounts’ definition and cannot be broken down into full- & part-time employment.² Includes those that did not state their full- or part-time status.

Guide to Quality:

The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of an estimate, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV - for example, for an estimate of 200 with a CV of 5% we would expect the population total to be within the range 180-220.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Caron Walker, Director, Collection and Production, Office for National Statistics, to Baroness Lister, dated October 2013.

In the absence of the Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 29 August (WA 417), what proportion of jobs in the lowest pay quintile are paid (1) weekly, (2) fortnightly, (3) four weekly, and (4) monthly. (HL2279)

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. Weekly levels of earnings are estimated from ASHE, and are provided for employees on adult rates of pay, whose earnings for the survey pay period were not affected by absence. ASHE also collects information about employees’ pay periods.

I attach tables showing the proportion of jobs with weekly, fortnightly, four weekly and monthly pay periods for jobs in the lowest pay quintile in April 2012, the latest period for which results are available. Figures have been provided separately for all jobs and full-time jobs.

Notes:^a. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.^b. Earnings quintiles are defined on the basis of gross weekly earnings. ASHE data for jobs that do not have weekly pay periods are converted into weekly figures.^c. For all employees, those in the bottom quintile have gross weekly earnings of less than £206.20^d. For full-time employees, those in the bottom quintile have gross weekly earnings of less than £334.60

Source:

Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), Office for National Statistics

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Beecham, dated September 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what proportion of new private sector jobs created since May 2010 are (1) part-time, and (2) replacements for public sector jobs. HL2101

Statistics on the number of private sector jobs created are not produced. As an alternative, estimates of the number of people in employment in the private sector are available from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and can be used to show changes between different time periods.

Information regarding the replacement of public sector jobs with private sector jobs is not available from the LFS or any other ONS data source.

The table provided contains private sector employment statistics, by full- and part-time status, for the three-month periods April to June 2010 to April to June 2013. In the LFS the distinction between the public and private sector is based on respondents’ views about the organisation for which they work. The estimates do not correspond directly to the official statistics for private sector employment published in the monthly Labour Market Statistical Bulletin. Those statistics, which are derived partly from employers and are based on National Accounts definitions, do not provide an estimate of full- and part-time employment.

As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty. These are indicated in the table.

Source: Labour Force Survey (LFS)¹ Individuals in the LFS are classified to private sector according to their responses to the survey. In the LFS the distinction between public and private sector is based on respondents’ views about the organisation for which they work. The private sector estimates provided do not correspond to official estimates published in the monthly Labour Market Statistical Bulletin. Those are derived directly from employers and are based on a National Accounts definition and cannot be broken down into full- and part-time employment.² Includes those that did not state their full- or part-time status.³ Includes those that did not state their sector status.

Guide to Quality:

The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of an estimate, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV - for example, for an estimate of 200 with a CV of 5% we would expect the population total to be within the range 180-220.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Whitty, dated September 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions concerning the breakdown of ownership by country of the major electricity supply companies [HL2126], major gas supply companies [HL21271, major water companies [HL2128], major

railway operators [HL2129], major companies in the ports sector [HL2130], major airlines [HL2131] and major telecommunication companies [HL2201] in the United Kingdom, as of the most recent figures available.

The attached spreadsheet shows a breakdown of ownership by country of the following Standard Industrial Classifications (SICs):

SIC Code SIC Description

35.1 Electric power generation, transmission and distribution

35.2 Manufacture of gas: distribution of gaseous fuels through mains

36 Water collection, treatment and supply

49.1 & 49.2 Passenger rail transport and freight rail transport

52.22 Service activities incidental to water transportation

51.1 Passenger air transport

61 Telecommunications

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken at March 2012.

For the purposes of this response, “major” has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more. Also, in order to protect the confidentiality of businesses, the geographic breakdown has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Count of major enterprises in specified industries broken down by country of ownership

Footnotes:

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDI3R) taken at March 2012.

In order to protect confidentiality the count of enterprises has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Major has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more.

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

Source: Office for National Statistics

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Whitty, dated September 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions concerning the breakdown of ownership by country of the major electricity supply companies [HL2126], major gas supply companies [HL21271, major water companies [HL2128], major

railway operators [HL2129], major companies in the ports sector [HL2130], major airlines [HL2131] and major telecommunication companies [HL2201] in the United Kingdom, as of the most recent figures available.

The attached spreadsheet shows a breakdown of ownership by country of the following Standard Industrial Classifications (SICs):

SIC Code SIC Description

35.1 Electric power generation, transmission and distribution

35.2 Manufacture of gas: distribution of gaseous fuels through mains

36 Water collection, treatment and supply

49.1 & 49.2 Passenger rail transport and freight rail transport

52.22 Service activities incidental to water transportation

51.1 Passenger air transport

61 Telecommunications

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken at March 2012.

For the purposes of this response, “major” has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more. Also, in order to protect the confidentiality of businesses, the geographic breakdown has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Count of major enterprises in specified industries broken down by country of ownership

Footnotes:

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDI3R) taken at March 2012.

In order to protect confidentiality the count of enterprises has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Major has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more.

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

Source: Office for National Statistics

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Whitty, dated September 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions concerning the breakdown of ownership by country of the major electricity supply companies [HL2126], major gas supply companies [HL21271, major water companies [HL2128], major

railway operators [HL2129], major companies in the ports sector [HL2130], major airlines [HL2131] and major telecommunication companies [HL2201] in the United Kingdom, as of the most recent figures available.

The attached spreadsheet shows a breakdown of ownership by country of the following Standard Industrial Classifications (SICs):

SIC Code SIC Description

35.1 Electric power generation, transmission and distribution

35.2 Manufacture of gas: distribution of gaseous fuels through mains

36 Water collection, treatment and supply

49.1 & 49.2 Passenger rail transport and freight rail transport

52.22 Service activities incidental to water transportation

51.1 Passenger air transport

61 Telecommunications

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken at March 2012.

For the purposes of this response, “major” has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more. Also, in order to protect the confidentiality of businesses, the geographic breakdown has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Count of major enterprises in specified industries broken down by country of ownership

Footnotes:

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDI3R) taken at March 2012.

In order to protect confidentiality the count of enterprises has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Major has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more.

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

Source: Office for National Statistics

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Whitty, dated September 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions concerning the breakdown of ownership by country of the major electricity supply companies [HL2126], major gas supply companies [HL21271, major water companies [HL2128], major

railway operators [HL2129], major companies in the ports sector [HL2130], major airlines [HL2131] and major telecommunication companies [HL2201] in the United Kingdom, as of the most recent figures available.

The attached spreadsheet shows a breakdown of ownership by country of the following Standard Industrial Classifications (SICs):

SIC Code SIC Description

35.1 Electric power generation, transmission and distribution

35.2 Manufacture of gas: distribution of gaseous fuels through mains

36 Water collection, treatment and supply

49.1 & 49.2 Passenger rail transport and freight rail transport

52.22 Service activities incidental to water transportation

51.1 Passenger air transport

61 Telecommunications

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken at March 2012.

For the purposes of this response, “major” has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more. Also, in order to protect the confidentiality of businesses, the geographic breakdown has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Count of major enterprises in specified industries broken down by country of ownership

Footnotes:

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDI3R) taken at March 2012.

In order to protect confidentiality the count of enterprises has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Major has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more.

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

Source: Office for National Statistics

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Whitty, dated September 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions concerning the breakdown of ownership by country of the major electricity supply companies [HL2126], major gas supply companies [HL21271, major water companies [HL2128], major

railway operators [HL2129], major companies in the ports sector [HL2130], major airlines [HL2131] and major telecommunication companies [HL2201] in the United Kingdom, as of the most recent figures available.

The attached spreadsheet shows a breakdown of ownership by country of the following Standard Industrial Classifications (SICs):

SIC Code SIC Description

35.1 Electric power generation, transmission and distribution

35.2 Manufacture of gas: distribution of gaseous fuels through mains

36 Water collection, treatment and supply

49.1 & 49.2 Passenger rail transport and freight rail transport

52.22 Service activities incidental to water transportation

51.1 Passenger air transport

61 Telecommunications

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken at March 2012.

For the purposes of this response, “major” has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more. Also, in order to protect the confidentiality of businesses, the geographic breakdown has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Count of major enterprises in specified industries broken down by country of ownership

Footnotes:

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDI3R) taken at March 2012.

In order to protect confidentiality the count of enterprises has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Major has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more.

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

Source: Office for National Statistics

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Whitty, dated September 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions concerning the breakdown of ownership by country of the major electricity supply companies [HL2126], major gas supply companies [HL21271, major water companies [HL2128], major

railway operators [HL2129], major companies in the ports sector [HL2130], major airlines [HL2131] and major telecommunication companies [HL2201] in the United Kingdom, as of the most recent figures available.

The attached spreadsheet shows a breakdown of ownership by country of the following Standard Industrial Classifications (SICs):

SIC Code SIC Description

35.1 Electric power generation, transmission and distribution

35.2 Manufacture of gas: distribution of gaseous fuels through mains

36 Water collection, treatment and supply

49.1 & 49.2 Passenger rail transport and freight rail transport

52.22 Service activities incidental to water transportation

51.1 Passenger air transport

61 Telecommunications

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken at March 2012.

For the purposes of this response, “major” has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more. Also, in order to protect the confidentiality of businesses, the geographic breakdown has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Count of major enterprises in specified industries broken down by country of ownership

Footnotes:

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDI3R) taken at March 2012.

In order to protect confidentiality the count of enterprises has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Major has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more.

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

Source: Office for National Statistics

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Lord Whitty, dated September 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions concerning the breakdown of ownership by country of the major electricity supply companies [HL2126], major gas supply companies [HL21271, major water companies [HL2128], major

railway operators [HL2129], major companies in the ports sector [HL2130], major airlines [HL2131] and major telecommunication companies [HL2201] in the United Kingdom, as of the most recent figures available.

The attached spreadsheet shows a breakdown of ownership by country of the following Standard Industrial Classifications (SICs):

SIC Code SIC Description

35.1 Electric power generation, transmission and distribution

35.2 Manufacture of gas: distribution of gaseous fuels through mains

36 Water collection, treatment and supply

49.1 & 49.2 Passenger rail transport and freight rail transport

52.22 Service activities incidental to water transportation

51.1 Passenger air transport

61 Telecommunications

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) taken at March 2012.

For the purposes of this response, “major” has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more. Also, in order to protect the confidentiality of businesses, the geographic breakdown has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Count of major enterprises in specified industries broken down by country of ownership

Footnotes:

These data have been produced using an extract from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDI3R) taken at March 2012.

In order to protect confidentiality the count of enterprises has been grouped into three categories: United Kingdom, Europe and Rest of the World.

Major has been defined as enterprises with an employment figure of 250 or more.

The link below provides further information on the UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/standard-industrial-classification/index.html

Source: Office for National Statistics

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for Office for National Statistics, to Lord Laird, dated August 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question, To ask Her Majesty’s Government, how many immigrants were recorded as arriving in the United Kingdom in 2012; how many foreign nationals registered for national insurance numbers in 2012; and of those, in both instances, how many were Romanians.

The Office for National Statistics produces estimates of long-term international migration, primarily based on the International Passenger Survey (IPS).

The latest available figures, based on the IPS, are for the period January 2011 to December 2011. The estimate of the number of immigrants arriving in the UK was 531,000, with a confidence interval of +/- 28,000. The estimate of the number of Romanian citizens arriving in the UK in this period was 8,000 with a confidence interval of +/- 3,000.

Immigration figures for 2012 will be available on 28^th November 2013.

The information requested for the number of foreign nationals registered for national insurance numbers is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-insurance-number-allocations-to-adult-overseas-nationals-entering-the-uk

I understand that the support staff in the House of Lords library are able to assist in extracting the information he requested.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for Office for National Statistics, to Lord Laird, dated August 2013

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question, to ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the accuracy of the Annual Population Survey compared to the International Passenger Survey in recording the number of immigrants entering the United Kingdom year on year. [HL2116]

ONS uses the International Passenger Survey (IPS) data to estimate Long-Term International Migration (LTIM), with adjustments made for asylum seekers, people whose intentions change with regards to their length of stay. and migration to and from Northern Ireland. LTIM estimates adhere to the UN definition of a long-term international migrant. which states that a long-term migrant is a person who changes his or her country of usual residence for a period of at least a year.

ONS uses the Annual Population Survey (APS) data to estimate the number of people currently residing in the UK. It is a stock estimate of UK residents that includes both short- and long-term migrants, and does not differentiate between them. By contrast the IPS data separately identifies the net flows of long-term migrants.

ONS have made an assessment of the different sources of data on international migration and published a report, available at the following link:

http://www. ons gov. uk/ons/rel/migration1/ population-by-country-of-birth-and-nationality/sources-of¬international-migration-data/differences-between-sources-of-international-migration-data. pdf

This research focused on the Labour Force Survey, Annual Population Survey. International Passenger Survey and Long Term International Migration, and highlighted that there were key definitional and coverage differences between the sources, which meant that data derived from these different sources are not directly comparable. ONS concluded that the IPS is currently the most appropriate source for the calculation of long-term international migration based on the UN definition of a long-term migrant.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to Baroness Lister, dated August 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Wallace of Saltaire on 22 July (WA 165), what proportion of jobs in (1) the lowest pay decile, and (2) the highest pay quintile. are paid (a) weekly, (b) fortnightly, (c) four weekly, and (d) monthly. (HL2052)

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. Weekly levels of earnings are estimated from ASHE, and are provided for employees on adult rates of pay, whose earnings for the survey pay period were not affected by absence ASHE also collects information about employees' pay periods.

I attach a table showing the proportion of jobs with weekly, fortnightly, four weekly and monthly pay periods for jobs in the lowest pay decile and the highest pay quintile in April 2012, the latest period for which results are available.

Figures for all employees include full-time jobs and part-time jobs. The bottom decile contains a much higher proportion of part-time jobs than the highest quintile, meaning that comparisons between these sectors of the earnings distribution need careful interpretation. For this reason, figures have also been provided separately for full-time jobs.

Notes:

a. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.

b. Earnings deciles are defined on the basis of gross weekly earnings. ASHE data for jobs that do not have weekly pay periods are converted into weekly figures.

c. Employees in the bottom decile have gross weekly earnings of less than £120.30.

d. Employees in the top quintile have gross weekly earnings of at least £692.10.

e. Employees in the bottom decile have gross weekly earnings of less than £281.90.

f. Employees in the top quintile have gross weekly earnings of at least £778.0.

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), Office for National Statistics

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Glen Watson, Director General for ONS, to the Earl of Courtown, dated July 2013.

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning the sectors of the United Kingdom economy that have seen the most job creation since May 2010 (HL1855).

The ONS does not directly provide estimates for the number of jobs created, only the net change in total jobs. These figures are produced from the ONS’ Workforce jobs series.

The attached table contains seasonally adjusted estimates for the number of Workforce Jobs by sector at June 2010 and March 2013 (the latest available period) and the net change between these two periods. The sectors are displayed in descending order of the net change in jobs over this period. Workforce Jobs is a composite measure that includes employee jobs, self-employed jobs, HM Forces and government-supported trainees.

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Source: Labour Market Division, ONS