HC Deb 01 July 1998 vol 315 cc198-200W
Mr. Barnes

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the latest available estimates of those aged 17 years and over, plus 63 per cent. of those aged 16 years, for each parliamentary constituency in Scotland together, in each case, with the equivalent electoral registration figures expressed as a percentage of these figures. [47709]

Mr. McLeish

The information requested is given in the table. The population figures have been prepared by a method that involves a certain degree of approximation and therefore should be treated with some caution.

Parliamentary constituency (a) Estimate of population aged 17 and over plus 63 per cent. of 16 year olds (as at 30 June 1997) (b) Parliamentary electors on the 1997 electoral registers (qualifying date 10 October 1997) (b) as a percentage of (a)
Ayr 57,700 57,000 98.8
Banff & Buchan 60,200 58,949 97.9
Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross 41,400 41,902 101.2
Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley 67,200 66,588 99.1
Central Fife 58,900 59,123 100.4
Clydebank & Milngavie 54,300 52,963 97.5
Clydesdale 66,100 64,548 97.7
Coatbridge & Chryston 54,300 52,501 96.7
Cumbernauld & Kilsyth 50,700 49,201 97.0
Cunninghame North 57,700 56,374 97.7
Cunninghame South 52,000 50,727 97.6
Dumbarton 60,200 57,013 94.7
Dumfries 64,500 63,513 98.5
Dundee East 60,200 58,629 97.4
Dundee West 58,500 56,937 97.3
Dunfermline East 51,900 52,200 100.6
Dunfermline West 53,000 53,361 100.7
East Kilbride 67,000 66,479 99.2
East Lothian 58,800 58,577 99.6
Eastwood 69,100 68,021 98.4
Edinburgh Central 65,800 64,051 97.3
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh 61,700 60,364 97.8
Edinburgh North and Leith 63,400 61,786 97.5
Edinburgh Pentlands 62,400 60,729 97.3
Edinburgh South 65,500 63,775 97.4
Edinburgh West 63,600 61,988 97.5
Falkirk East 59,300 57,629 97.2
Falkirk West 54,900 53,427 97.3
Galloway & Upper Nithsdale 53,300 53,406 100.2
Glasgow Anniesland 55,200 53,397 96.7
Glasgow Baillieston 50,800 49,062 96.6
Glasgow Cathcart 52,200 50,429 96.6
Glasgow Govan 52,600 50,870 96.7
Glasgow Kelvin 59,000 57,058 96.7
Glasgow Maryhill 55,400 53,506 96.6
Glasgow Pollok 50,000 48,303 96.6
Glasgow Rutherglen 52,800 51,059 96.7
Glasgow Shettleston 49,900 48,209 96.6
Glasgow Springburn 55,300 53,427 96.6
Gordon 60,800 59,621 98.1
Greenock & Inverclyde 49,900 49,400 99.0
Hamilton North & Bellshill 56,500 54,403 96.3
Hamilton South 48,800 47,145 96.6
Inverness East, Nairn & Lochaber 66,000 66,531 100.8
Kilmarnock & Loudoun 63,700 62,171 97.6
Kirkcaldy 51,900 52,079 100.3
Linlithgow 55,600 54,728 98.4
Livingston 62,800 61,800 98.4
Midlothian 50,100 48,772 97.3
Moray 60,900 58,845 96.6
Motherwell & Wishaw 55,100 53,004 96.2
North East Fife 60,400 59,820 99.0
North Tayside 63,200 62,230 98.5
Ochil 53,600 57,715 107.7
Orkney and Shetland 33,100 32,761 99.0
Paisley North 50,800 49,915 98.3
Paisley South 55,400 54,436 98.3
Perth 62,300 61,457 98.6
Ross, Skye & Inverness West 56,900 56,448 99.2
Roxburgh & Berwickshire 47,400 47,907 101.1
Stirling 54,400 53,452 98.3
Strathkelvin & Bearsden 66,400 64,016 96.4
Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale 51,900 51,811 99.8
West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine 61,800 60,270 97.5
West Renfrewshire 54,000 53,223 98.6
Western Isles 22,400 22,539 100.6