Written Answers
Income Tax: Percentage Rates
asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will list in the
Official Report the proportion of total income
| Year(1) | Percentage of total tax paid by quantile groups of taxpayers(2) | Total | |||||||||||
| Top 1% | Top 5% | Top 10% | 10–20% | 20–30% | 30–40% | 40–50% | 50–60% | 60–70% | 70–80% | 80–90% | Bottom 10% | tax (£m) | |
| 1949–50 | 46 | 62 | 72 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1,101 |
| 1959–60 | 30 | 49 | 57 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1,735 |
| 1969–70 | 18 | 33 | 43 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5,146 |
| 1970–71 | 16 | 31 | 41 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6,158 |
| 1971–72 | 15 | 29 | 39 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6,356 |
| 1972–73 | 16 | 30 | 40 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6,572 |
| 1973–74 | 16 | 29 | 38 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8,045 |
| 1974–75 | 14 | 27 | 37 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11,864 |
| 1975–76 | 12 | 25 | 35 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 15,987 |
| 1976–77 | 11 | 25 | 35 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 18,306 |
| Notes:— | |||||||||||||
| (1) Years up to and including 1972–73 take income tax and surtax together. Subsequent years relate to income tax (including higher rates and the additional rate on investment income). | |||||||||||||
| (2) Married couples are counted as one taxpayer. Only tax paid by individuals (i.e. excluding trusts, etc.) is included. | |||||||||||||
Farmhouse Cider: Registered Producers
asked Her Majesty's Government:How many farmhouse cider producers making under (1) 15,000 gallons, (2) 10,000 gallons, (3) 7,500 gallons, (4) 5,000 gallons annually are registered and still in production in each county.
There is no central record of the quantity of cider produced by individual makers, but on the information available, which does not differentiate between farmhouse and other cider producers, the figures for the year ended 31st March 1978 are:—
| Cider makers producing under 15,000 gallons (but not less than 10,000 gallons) | 1 in Avon |
| 1 in Devon | |
| 1 in Herefordshire and Worcestershire | |
| 1 in Suffolk |
tax and surtax/higher rate of tax raised from the top 1 per cent., 5 per cent., 10 per cent., and each subsequent decile group of income taxpayers in 1945, 1950, 1955, 1959 and each year since 1964.
The figures in the following table are for the fiscal years 1949–50, 1959–60, and for each year from 1969–70 to 1976–77 inclusive. Data for 1945 are not obtainable, and those for 1955 and 1964 to 1968 inclusive could not be obtained without a disproportionate expenditure of resources.
| Cider makers producing under 10,000 gallons (but not less than 7,500 gallons) | 2 in Devon |
| 2 in Somerset | |
| 1 in Avon | |
| Cider makers producing under 7,500 gallons (but not less than 5,000 gallons) | 3 in Somerset |
| 1 in Devon | |
| Cider makers producing under 5,000 gallons | 6 in Somerset |
| 2 in Avon | |
| 2 in Devon | |
| 2 in Herefordshire and Worcestershire | |
| 1 in Dorset | |
| 1 in Gloucestershire |
Scottish Prisons: Diets
asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will withdraw from Scottish Prison Regulations the provision permitting disciplinary diets, thus bringing the practice in Scotland into accord with the Regulations for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
It is the intention to do so at a convenient opportunity for the revision of the rules. Special diets have not been used as a punishment in the Scottish penal system since 1971.
Seal Cull: Communications
asked Her Majesty's Government:How many letters, telegrams and other messages were received at the Prime Minister's Office relating to the proposed cull of seals in the Orkneys.
18,200 such communications have been received to date.
| For the year ending | No. of in-patient discharges and deaths | New out-patient attendances (excluding accident and emergency cases) | New accident and emergency attendances | ||||
| 31st December 1970 | … | … | … | … | 6,028,000 | 9,279,000 | 8,877,000 |
| 31st December 1971 | … | … | … | … | 6,207,000 | 9,319,000 | 9,131,000 |
| 31st December 1972 | … | … | … | … | 6,278,000 | 9,366,000 | 9,283,000 |
| 31st December 1973 | … | … | … | … | 6,158,000 | 9,353,000 | 9,717,000 |
| 31st December 1974 | … | … | … | … | 6,219,000 | 9,246,000 | 9,567,000 |
| 31st December 1975 | … | … | … | … | 5,994,000 | 9,119,000 | 9,669,000 |
| 31st December 1976 | … | … | … | … | 6,294,000 | 8,909,000 | 10,135,000 |
| 31st December 1977* | … | … | … | … | 6,391,000 | 9,053,000 | 10,323,000 |
Nhs: Hospital In-Patient Waiting Lists
asked Her Majesty's Government:How many patients were awaiting admission to National Health Service hospitals in Great Britain in December 1970 and in December of each subsequent year.
The number of patients on hospital in-patient waiting lists for all specialties in Great Britain on
Nhs: In-Patients And Out-Patients
asked Her Majesty's Government:What were the numbers of in-patient discharges and deaths and new out-patient attendances, including accident and emergency attendances at National Health Service hospitals in Great Britain in the 12 months to December 1970 and in December of each subsequent year.
The following figures show for National Health Service hospitals in Great Britain the totals of in-patient discharges and deaths, new out-patient attendances and new accident and emergency attendances for the years in question:31st December in each year since 1970 was as follows:
| 1970 | .. | 607,000 |
| 1971 | .. | 578,000 |
| 1972 | .. | 563,000 |
| 1973 | .. | 606,000 |
| 1974 | .. | 610,000 |
| 1975 | .. | 681,000 |
| 1976 | .. | 699,000 |
| 1977 | .. | 692,000 (Provisional) |