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Written Answers — Duchy of Lancaster: Employment (23 Feb 2009)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what estimate he has made of the number of (a) people born in the UK and (b) migrant workers who were in employment in each month of 2008.

Written Answers — Transport: Public Transport: Complaints ( 2 Feb 2009)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will introduce an ombudsman system to deal with complaints concerning the transport system.

Written Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands (26 Nov 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the level to which the higher threshold for income tax would need to be raised for the same number of people to be paying the higher rate now as in 1997.

Written Answers — Energy and Climate Change: Miners: Pensions ( 5 Nov 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change if he will reform the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme to ensure that the entire surplus is used for the benefit of former mineworkers.

Written Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands (23 Oct 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the annual revenue which would be forgone by raising the higher rate of income tax threshold to (a) £45,000 and (b) £50,000.

Written Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Tax Rates and Bands (23 Oct 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were paying the higher rate of income tax in (a) 1997 and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available.

Written Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Tax Yields (13 Oct 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of the income received from income tax revenues came from (a) the top 1 per cent. of earners, (b) the top 5 per cent. of earners, (c) the top 10 per cent. of earners, (d) the top 25 per cent. of earners, (e) the lowest 50 per cent. of earners, (f) the lowest 25 per cent. of earners and (g) the lowest 10 per cent. of earners in (i)...

Written Answers — Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform: Minimum Wage: Service Industries (22 Jul 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform if he will bring forward legislative proposals to ensure that all waiting staff are guaranteed the national minimum wage, excluding gratuities, and that any gratuities given by customers are received in full by waiting staff with no deductions by employers; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Innovation, Universities and Skills: Higher Education: Admissions (14 Jul 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what percentage of 18 year olds from the 20 (a) most and (b) least deprived local authority areas entered higher education in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2007.

Written Answers — Health: Autism: Drugs (14 Jul 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he plans to take to ensure that there is no gap in the provision of prescribed drugs to a person suffering from autism on reaching the age of 18 years; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Health: Heart Attacks (24 Jun 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many admissions for suspected or actual heart attacks there were in each hospital accident and emergency unit in (a) the latest month for which figures are available and (b) the same month in the preceding year.

Written Answers — Duchy of Lancaster: Continuing Care (18 Jun 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people receive NHS continuing care services in each primary care trust; and how many people per 50,000 of each trust area's population this represents.

Written Answers — Health: Patients: Attendance (13 Jun 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital appointments were missed in each primary care trust in the last year for which information is available; what the average cost of a missed hospital appointment was in that year; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Departmental Publications (20 May 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions when he expects to publish the latest Households Below Average Income statistics; what the reasons are for the time taken to publish them; and if he will make a statement.

Written Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Tax Allowances (24 Apr 2008)

Stephen Byers: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) by how much the personal allowance would need to be increased in order to remove an additional (a) 500,000, (b) 1,000,000 and (c) 1,500,000 people from income tax liability; and what the cost would be; (2) what increase in the personal allowance would be created by an increase in funding of £8 billion; and how many people would be removed from...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (13 Mar 2008)

Stephen Byers: rose—

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (13 Mar 2008)

Stephen Byers: I do not want to question Rachel Sylvester's normally accurate reporting, but I understand that it was a 50-minute intervention. [ Laughter. ]

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (13 Mar 2008)

Stephen Byers: Somewhere up north!

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (13 Mar 2008)

Stephen Byers: It is happening at the moment, and my hon. Friend is right to say that the divisions are intensifying, but that is because we have an unreformed system. My argument is that we need to reform the system radically, and then we will see the sorts of improvements that have been seen in Sweden, which we often hold up as a good example of public service provision. Sweden has the educational...

Amendment of the Law: Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (13 Mar 2008)

Stephen Byers: There is a problem that all political parties share. I have looked very carefully at the Conservative party's proposals, and under them the power would go to another group of vested interests: the school head teachers. The Conservatives' education policies would not empower parents. The situation is the same in respect of patients. The challenge for hon. Members from all parties is to have...

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