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Lyons Enquiry into Local Government
[be careful if you click this link, the report is almost 3Mb as a download]
link | Final report, March 2007, Executive Summary, page 38, paragraph 179: "A supplement of one pence in the pound on the basic rate would ........."
Also chapter 7, Household Taxation and Local Charges, page 48, paragraph 7.213: "The yield from a one pence supplement would be......."
Crown copyright 2007
DCLG: "Responsibility for checking the text of the report of the Lyons Inquiry lay with the Inquiry's support team which has now been disbanded. It certainly would have been more in accordance with standard English to use "penny" rather than "pence" in the cases you quote.
However, interestingly my dictionary (The New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998 edition) does acknowledge the occasional use of "pence" in the singular in the following passage under "pence" on page 1371: "In recent years pence rather than penny has sometimes been used in the singular to refer to sums of money amounting to one penny: the chancellor will put one pence on income tax. This singular use is not widely accepted in standard English, though."
[that's because it's incorrect!] | K |
Stockton on Tees Borough Council
Trading Standards and Licensing July 2007
link | What We Cost The Trading Standards and Licensing Service operates on a gross budget of ..... This means that the service costs each citizen of Stockton on Tees less than one pence per day . | |
The City of Edinburgh Council -
Outlook
link | Direct debit – you know it makes sense ………
It’s also value for money as it costs just one pence to process a direct debit payment compared to 48p for the payment card. | |
Newcastle under Lyne Borough Council Recycle for Newcastle May 2007
link | Carrier Bags: Twelve billion plastic bags ………. Sainsbury's offer one pence per bag to all customers ....... (acknowledged with thanks and amended) | J |
Sheildtech PLC
16 July 2007
link (and other sources) | ShieldTech PLC appoint a new finance director who "....has today subscribed for £75,000 of new ordinary shares of one pence each in Shieldtech......" | |
Land of Leather Holdings PLC
2 July 1007
link | Holding(s) in Company 2 July 2007
"Class/type of shares: ordinary one pence shares"
("The term one pence is widely used in the investment industry but your comment is fair and I will amend my use in the future.") | J |
HM Treasury Select Committee Enquiry SIGOMA
8th June 2007
link | COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE, LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE: SUPPLEMENTARY BUSINESS RATE, EVIDENCE FROM SIGOMA
8.2 It is estimated that a one pence supplement across England would raise something over £400 million each year, assuming no impact from the higher tax rate on rateable values. | |
Southampton City Council web site
June 2007
link | How much housing & council tax benefit can I claim?
The minimum amount of housing benefit that we can pay to you is 50 pence a week.
The minimum for council tax benefit is one pence a week.
(the Council changed this page to read 'one penny' without even sending us an email to acknowledge our contribution!) | K |
BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC
June 2007
link | FINAL RECOMMENDED MANDATORY CASH OFFER BY BABCOCK INTERNATIONAL GROUP PLC
FOR INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS PLC
para 20. General: As at 7.00 a.m. (London time) on 18 June 2007 (the last business day prior to the date
of this Announcement), INS had 62,335,374 shares of one pence in issue (ISIN number GB00B12QZ964). | |
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group PLC
21 June 2007
link |
Compulsory Acqn of Shares, RNS Number:8175Y, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group PLC, 21 June 2007
"Following the exercise of a number of share options the current issued share capital of Pavilion comprises
55,142,630 ordinary shares of one pence each.” | |
Bankervision
link | James Gardner is Head of Innovation and Research in Group IT at Lloyds TSB. He is based in London
Matching expectation to Experience
.......It is possible, with RyanAir, to get ticket prices from 1p (yes, that's one pence)
plus taxes in some cases. Despite that, they are very, very profitable. | |
HM Treasury
3 January 2007
link | Subject: Reduction of income tax by one per cent as announced in the 1999 Budget.
Date: 3 January 2007
Text of request: For information relating to the reduction of income tax by one pence in the pound announced in the Budget in 1999. | |
Trial of the PYX 2007 United Kingdom Coinage - Verdict of the Jury
May 2007
link | for the coins of one pence: ........
[this HM Treasury document is a report from the Jury who are commanded to assay coins and the like of the reigning Monarch, and was signed by 17 people including 1 professor, 4 Knights of the Realm and 1 doctor!] | |
The DiCamillo Companion web site
2007
link | Penny: A circulating coin today. Pre-1992 the Penny was made of bronze; since 1992 it's been made of copper-plated steel. A Penny is worth one Pence (Pence is the plural of Penny)............ (what?)
(acknowledged and now revised) | J |
Smiths Group PLC
(extract as quoted on FT.com)
18 June 2007 | Resolution 1: THAT, conditional on the admission to the Daily Official List of the UK Listing Authority
and to trading on the London Stock Exchange plc's main market for listed securities becoming effective ('Listing')
by 8.00 a.m. on 18 June 2007 (or such later time and/or date as the Directors of the Company may determine) of non-cumulative preference shares of one pence each (the 'B Shares') and ordinary shares of one pence each (the 'New Ordinary Shares')….......and so on, and in other references
("..referred to the lawyers what wrote them [sic]!" in a great email response from the Smiths Group PLC Director of Group Communications) | J |
The Inverness Courier 29 May 2007
link | On Friday, Tesco Extra and Tesco Inshes were charging three pence more for diesel and one pence more for unleaded petrol than their counterparts in Elgin. ......... | |
WimbledonTennis.co.uk web site
link | On its British currency page quite correctly says "....one penny is the lowest unit available" but then further down the page spoils it by showing a picture of the one penny coin with a title "one pence" | |
ASKCAB web site
link | The One pence coin: The one pence coin has the lowest value out of all of the coins that we use in the United Kingdom.
Also known as the penny....... (2007) | |
Fresh Solutions web site
link | International calls: Just dial rate too high? Try One Pence cheap inernational [sic] calls (2007) | |
Learning and Teaching using ICT - practical support pack year 1 - mathematics - Solving money problems
link | Choose a child with a 5p. You have five pence. Mark the 5 on the number line. Point to the + 1p on the flipchart.
One pence more. Who has one pence?
(who indeed? we thought) (2007)
(will be changed) | J |
NRICH - enriching mathematics
Dominant Intelligences Article by NRICH team | Q: A boy is sorting out the coins in his piggy bank. He put the coins into stacks according to their value. 1/3 of the coins went into the first stack. They were five pence coins. 3/4 of the remaining coins were ten pence pieces. The rest were one pence coins. What fraction of the coins were pennies? If he had six pence in one pence coins, can you work out how much money he had saved in his piggy bank?
What was your reaction as you read this problem?”
Ours was “one pence coins!!????” (2007)
(will be changed) | J |
Coindesign
link | One new pence cufflinks (2007)
(previously listed as One Pence Cufflinks; but adding the word 'new' doesn't change the fact that pence is plural; it still says new penny on the coin in their advertisement!) | L
Get a Life! |
| Google™ AdWords | AdWords ads with cost-per-click pricing are uniquely useful because:
Your price is automatically lowered to one pence more than your closest competitor.......... (2007)
(acknowledged but .... any change.....no?) | K |
About.com:
London for visitors
link | One pence coin.
(complete with picture coin, showing 'one penny') | |
| Department for Social Development in Northern Ireland | Jobseekers allowance: (extract) ......When working out benefit entitlement earnings in excess of the disregarded
amount are taken into account on a 1 pence for 1 pence basis. (2007) | |
| The Wine and Spirit Trade Association | WSTA responds to the Chancellor’s duty hike on sparkling wine 21 March 2007 For immediate release .
...... A duty increase of 5 pence per bottle of wine (equivalent to 1 pence per 175 ml glass) | |
| Northern Ireland Prison Service | National Calls (including Eire) to fixed landlines
A minimum fee of 10 pence allowing 55 seconds followed by 1 pence for every further 5.5 seconds (11 pence per minute). (2007) | |
| BBC News Magazine (Joe Campbell 27 April 2007) | As the Royal Mint puts the final touches to a re-designed one pence piece, do we really care any more about
a coin that is so little valued more than six ...
(subsequently amended following another pedant's comments - well done, sir!) | J |
2007 ↑
pre 2007 ↓ | | |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | "....rise of 1 pence on a pint of beer" (March 2005 Budget speech) | |
| Roger Williams MP (6 June 2006) | “It’s staggering that the Government’s botched single payment scheme has resulted in a payment of just one pence."
(staggering indeed, sir!) | |
| Orange | 1 pence per text message with text saver (March 2005) | |
| Inland Revenue | In Budget 2000 the duty was cut by 1 pence from 1 October 2000 | |
| H M Treasury | This will lower fuel duties on petrol and diesel by around 1 pence per litre in real terms.
(Finance Bill 2001) plus numerous others | |
| ADVFN | Elsewhere, Corus Group fell 1 pence to 58-1/4... | |
| London Stock Exchange | London Market Information Link 2003/04 - data charges | |
| Callsure | The caller pays 1 pence per minute | |
| Devro | An interim dividend per share of 1 pence was paid in October 2001 | |
| UK Wire | at March 2005, 6,000,000 new Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each | |
| Education world - Colonial arithmetic | (gets it correct in their intro to this section, but then says) carrots for 1 pence a bunch | |
| Interactive Brokers | options expiring in the current month that are more than 1 pence in the money | |
| BT Electronic Process List | The pre-paid account is debited in 1 pence steps (Operative Date:17.03.2004) | |
| Powergen | EnergySavingPlan: 100 Litres of oil for 1 pence | |
| Business World - Ireland | Corus shares were also in demand, up another 1 pence at 56.50 (Feb 2004) | |
| House of Commons 'Hansard' | In contrast a 1 pence increase in the farmgate price resulted in only a 0.6 pence increase in the retail price of liquid milk
whereas a 1 pence decrease in farmgate price reduced the retail price by 0.7 pence. (February 2004) | |
| Deloitte UK | which effectively means an increase of 1 pence per pint of beer | |
| Yahoo! Finance | post-profit warning decline, down 1 pence at 188 (March 2005) | |
| Freight Transport Association | Rebated gas oil (red diesel): increases by 1 pence per litre (2004) | |
Greenwich Park,
Hyde Park and The Regent's Park (Vehicle Parking) (Amendment) Regulations 2004 | The Greenwich Park (Vehicle Parking) Regulations 2000 are amended so as to increase the parking
charges from 1 pence for every minute or part thereof ...... (May 2004) | |
| Scottish Executive | .... etc. have indicated that a levy in excess of 1% (1 pence in the pound against Rateable Values) would not be acceptable. | |
| GUINNESS PEAT GROUP PLC | Dividend = 1 pence BSP | |
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