§ Mr. Barry JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list for each travel-to-work area and for each district the estimated population as a percentage of the enumerated population according to the 1981 census.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe Registrar-General does not make annual population estimates for travel-to-work areas. A comparison between the resident population enumerated in the 1981 census and the mid-year population estimates for 1981 for each local authority district is available in the Library. The population estimates include an allowance for under-enumeration. They also include students at their term-time address and armed forces where they were stationed, rather than where they were living on census day.
§ Mr. Barry JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the travel-to-work areas and districts in rank order according to the 1991 census population as a percentage of the 1981 census population.
§ Mr. SackvilleCensus figures from the 1991 census are not yet available for the resident populations of all local authority districts, nor have travel-to-work areas based on the 1991 census yet been calculated. The 1991 census preliminary report for England and Wales, a copy of which is in the Library, contains provisional figures for the population present on census day in 1981 and 1991 in each local authority district. Table 5 of the report ranks counties in order of percentage change.