§ Mr. John Fraserasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what indices of deprivation are taken into account in the allocation of the inner city partnership funds to Lambeth.
§ Sir George YoungThe key indicators of deprivation which are taken into account with other factors in determining allocations to the inner city partnerships are as follows:
- i. Unemployed people
- ii. Overcrowded households
- iii. Single parent households
- iv. Households lacking exclusive use of basic amenities
- v. Pensioners living alone
- vi. Population change
- vii. Standardised mortality rate, ie the ratio of the locally adjusted death rate to the national rate
- viii. Low-skilled economically active persons
- ix. Residents living in households of which the head of the household was born in the New Commonwealth or Pakistan.