§ Joan RuddockTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many councillors were elected in 1998 for each London borough, broken down by gender and ethnicity. [92397]
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§ Mr. MealeThe Local Government Management Board's 1997 census of councillors indicated that 230 out of 2,018 London Borough councillors who responded to this question were non-white. We do not have a breakdown for each London Borough for these figures.
The following table gives a breakdown of the gender ratios for the London Boroughs obtained by the Women's Unit last year:
Name of London borough Number of women councillors Percentage Barking and Dagenham 17 33 Barnet 25 42 Bexleyheath 20 32 Brent 15 23 Bromley 16 27 Camden 22 37 City of London 20 15 Croydon 19 27 Ealing 19 27 Enfield 13 20 Greenwich 14 23 Hackney 18 30 Hammersmith and Fulham 14 28 Haringey 23 39 Harrow 20 32 Havering 17 27 Hillingdon 17 25 Hounslow 15 25 Islington 26 50 Kensington and Chelsea 13 24 Kingston 13 31 Lambeth 18 28 Lewisham 21 31 Merton 17 30 Newham 13 22 Redbridge 12 19 Richmond 20 38 Southwark 20 31 Sutton 21 38 Tower Hamlets 12 24 Waltham Forest 13 22 Wandsworth 16 26 Westminster 19 32