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Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the performance against budget of (a) private finance initiative projects and (b) conventionally procured capital projects for (i) IT projects and (ii) buildings approved by the Office of Government Commerce. 
Mr. Cameron: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what assessment he has made of the market effects of the progressive beer duty on stimulating and encouraging growth for the brewery businesses of cask-conditioned beer; 
(2) what response he has made to the representation made to him by a number of breweries enclosed in the letter to him from the right hon. Member for Witney dated 20 February on the impact of the progressive beer duty on their business. 
Mr. Gordon Brown: I have replied to the right hon. Member's letter. Figures from the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) show that around 130 new breweries have opened since the introduction of small breweries relief, bringing with them over 1,000 new jobs, many in economically deprived rural communities.
A public consultation on the performance of the scheme was launched in July 2003, and led to the extension of relief to breweries producing between 30,000 and 60,000 per annum. The small breweries relief scheme, like all reliefs, is kept under constant review.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cash equivalent transfer value is of the public sector pensions of the 10 highest paid members of staff in his Department and its executive agencies; and if he will make a statement. 
HM Treasury and Office of Government Commerce HC 1344
Debt Management Office HC 1504
Royal Mint HC 1432
Office for National Statistics HC 1240
National Savings and Investments HC 1233
Government Actuary's Department HC 1209
HM Revenue and Customs HC 1159
(2) who the members are of his Department's Third Sector Advisory Panel; what the date of appointment
was of each; and what (a) remuneration and (b) expenses each has claimed. 
John Healey: Members of the independent Third Sector Advisory panel are from the sector representing young volunteers, third sector umbrella bodies and different faith communities. Annex C of the interim report on the Review of the Future Role of the Third Sector in Social and Economic Regeneration published in December 2006 lists the panel members. The panel chaired by Maeve Sherlock (who does not hold any position in the Treasury) has been constituted for 12 months as an ad hoc Government advisory panel. All current members were invited to join the group on a voluntary basis in September 2006. Members are not paid remuneration for attending meetings but all reasonable travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses are paid in line with Government guidance. To date, a total of £305 for travel has been claimed.
Mr. Ian Austin: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what documents his Department and its agencies translate for people in the UK who do not speak English; into which languages such documents are translated; and what the cost was of producing such translations in each of the last five years, broken down by language of translation. 
John Healey: The following is a breakdown of the documents translated by the Treasury and its agencies over the last five years with costs shown where these are available without incurring disproportionate cost:
|Literature Translated and Languages||Costs where available (£)|
PRINCE2 documentation into Dutch, Danish, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Chinese; IT Infrastructure Library Best Practice documentation into French, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Korean, Simplified Chinese
Documents are translated into Welsh including: the Census of Population questionnaire, other Census documentation, Registration information leaflets, business survey questionnaires and responses to Welsh correspondence
The social survey generic information leaflet and generic advance letter are translated into: Welsh, Gujariti, Hindi, Greek, Bengali, Punjabi, Portuguese, Polish, Chinese, Turkish, Urdu, Somali, and Serbian (advance letter only)
The International Passenger Survey short self completion questionnaire is translated into: Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Japanese, Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, German, French and Polish
The 2001 Census of Population information leaflets and Census questions documents were translated: Albanian/Kosovan, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi/Persian, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu and Vietnamese
The internal customers determine which language versions are required in accordance with their individual external customer requirements. Languages handled by the HM Revenue and Customs Translation Service have included: Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujerati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Ibo, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Lugandan, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Moldovan, Mongolian, Norwegian, Papiamento, Philipino, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pushtu, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Yoruba
Self Assessment, PAYE, End of Year, Employers, Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Sick Pay, Student Loans, Corporation Tax, Tax Credits, Child Benefit, Child Trust Fund, Construction Industry Scheme, National Insurance Contributions, on-line services for PAYE and Self Assessment
John Healey: The Treasury and its related agencies provide translation services on request for the services it provides. Welsh language versions of literature are provided under the Welsh Language Act 1993. Specific services providing translation are:
Criminal Investigation material;
Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office material relating to HMRC and SOCA investigations;
Tax Office company reports, pay statements, accounts, contracts;
HMRC Solicitors Office documentation relating to European Court of Justice cases;
Centre for Exchange Intelligence;
Mutual Assurance in Recovery of Debt;
VAT Information Exchange.
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to paragraph A.34 of the pre-Budget report, what factors were taken into account in determining that the trend growth assumption remained at 2.75 per cent. of GDP. 
John Healey: Analysis underpinning the revision made to the trend growth assumption in the 2006 pre-Budget report is set out in the paper Trend growth: new evidence and prospects, published alongside the pre-Budget report. This paper is available on HM Treasurys website:
David Cairns: The Scotland Office has no in-house catering facilities and the provision of food is generally limited to catering associated with official hospitality and supplied by external contractors. Information on the source of the food supplied is not held.
Jo Swinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland pursuant to the answer of 24 January 2007, Official Report, columns 1768-69W, on freedom of information, where the information that was released by his Department between March to December 2006 and not published on his Departments website is available elsewhere in the public domain. 
David Cairns: Between March and December 2006 there were eight FoI releases published on the Scotland Office website. We publish all responses to requests where information is actually released but we do not publish our response to requests where we either do not hold the information, where it is available elsewhere in the public domain, or where the information is withheld because exemptions apply. The location of any relevant information held in the public domain will depend on the nature of the request.
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