§ Mr. TippingTo ask the Secretary of State for Health when small area statistics of the 1991 census will be available to the public; when they were originally intended for publication; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. SackvilleIn my reply to the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard) on 2 June,Official Report, column 454, I stated that every effort will be made to publish 1991 census county monitors by the end of September 1992. Eight were published by 16 June. These monitors contain summary statistics for all local authority districts on all the census topics for which answers were fully processed. The corresponding small area statistics for enumeration districts and wards in England and Wales and for output areas and postcode sectors in Scotland follow the publication of the monitors, and will be released county by county between June and October 1992. The original timetable for the release of these statistics was October 1991 to August 1992. For the reason for the processing problem which caused the delay I refer the hon. Member to the reply my hon. Friend the then Under-Secretary of State gave the then Member for Nottingham. South. Mr. Brandon-Bravo, on 5 March at columns 272-73.
Further details of the census output timetable will be published in "Census Newsletters", copies of which are placed in the Library. The next issue, No. 22, will contain a revised timetable for the publication of individual county monitors.