Asked by: Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many income tax payers were registered with HM Revenue and Customs as self employed in (a) 2010-11 and (b) each succeeding year.
Answered by David Gauke
Estimates of the numbers of individuals with self employment sources are published in HMRC's National Statistics table 3.6 which is available at the following internet address:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/earned-income-2010-to-2011
These tables provide information up to 2011-12 and are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI) for the years concerned. The SPI for 2012-13 will be available later in the year.
Asked by: Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which members of his Department's assessment panel which interviewed representatives of the Institute of Education of London University in January 2014 about the proposals to establish a University Training School in Holborn and St Pancras had served in the previous three years as head teacher, deputy or assistant head of a secondary school.
Answered by Edward Timpson
The panel that considered the Holborn University Training School proposal and conducted the interview with the Institute of Education possessed a collective experience in school headship of over 32 years, covering secondary and primary phases. No member of the panel has served in such a role within the last three years.
Free school interview panels consist of a range of education and independent experts.
Asked by: Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the contribution to economic growth of payment protection insurance repayments.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is responsible for producing independent economic and fiscal forecasts. The effects of payment protection insurance repayments were taken into account in their latest forecast of the economy, published in the March 2014 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
Asked by: Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if, in the light of the High Court decision of 11 February 2014, she will now set up a public inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko.
Answered by James Brokenshire
The Home Secretary has decided not to seek permission to appeal the judgment and is giving fresh consideration to the exercise of her discretion to establish an inquiry. The Government continues to co-operate fully with the Inquest into Mr Litvinenko's death.
Asked by: Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2014, Official Report, column 469W on the Profumo Inquiry, who holds the requested information; and how does the fact that requested data is not held centrally affect the comment by Lord Wallace of Saltaire that papers relating to the interviews by Lord Denning should not be published while those interviewed are still alive.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
Lord Wallace set out the Government's approach on 18 July 2013 (Official Report, column 873).
Asked by: Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, pursuant to the Answer to Lord Lexden of 18 July 2013, Official Report, House of Lords, column 872, on the Profumo Inquiry, how many of the people interviewed by Lord Denning in his inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the resignation of Mr Profumo are still alive.
Answered by Lord Maude of Horsham
The information requested is not held centrally.