§ Mr. AmessTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) 16-year-old, (b) 17-year-old and (c) 18-year-old people got married in each of the last three years.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe available information is shown in the table.
The numbers of men and women who married at ages 16, 17 and 18 during the last three years for which the information is available are:
England and Wales Year of marriage Age 1989 1990 1991 Men 16 46 50 35 17 357 259 203 18 1,974 1,598 1,258 Women 16 814 647 516 17 2,549 2,028 1,723 18 8,657 6,934 5,724 Source: Marriage and divorce statistics, England and Wales, Series, FM2, Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, HMSO.