§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what information he has on the numbers of people who have moved(a) into and (b) out of each district authority area in the county of South Yorkshire in each year since 1979.
§ Mr. FreemanI have been asked to reply.
The table gives the numbers moving (a) into and (b) out of each district of the county of South Yorkshire from/to the rest of the United Kingdom, for the years 1979 to 1987. These figures have been derived from the National Health Service central register recording of patient re-registration with doctors involving a change of family practitioner committee.
In preparing population estimates of the district, account is also taken of migration from countries outide the United Kingdom and of the effect of movement of United Kingdom and foreign armed forces. Such flows in each direction are small and only the net effect is estimated using data from various sources.
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Moves into and out of family practitioner committees (districts) in South Yorkshire Barnsley Doncaster Rotherham Sheffield Year In Out In Out In Out In Out 1979 3,880 3,880 6,290 6,640 5,770 5,100 12,710 14,670 1980 4,110 4,010 6,710 6,590 5,570 5,110 13,390 14,560 1981 3,840 4,040 5,620 6,140 5,100 5,170 13,040 13,190 1982 2,350 3,600 5,570 6,630 4,640 5,410 13,310 13,340 1983 3,390 4,480 5,630 7,180 4,700 5,790 12,170 14,360 1984 3,575 4,346 6,265 7,054 4,941 5,790 13,057 14,649 1985 3,321 4,548 5,868 7,033 4,666 5,894 12,598 15,288 1986 3,882 5,219 6,973 7,852 5,713 6,878 13,896 17,327 1987 4,222 5,166 7,349 7,898 5,782 6,596 14,518 16,864 Note: Numbers in the table are National Health Service central register records of moves into and out of family practitioner committee areas (conterminous with districts in the county of South Yorkshire) from rest of the United Kingdom. Data are based on a 10 per cent sample for the years 1979 to 1983 and a 100 per cent. count thereafter.