HC Deb 11 July 2000 vol 353 cc506-7W
Mr. Willetts

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many new National Insurance numbers were awarded to(a) children and (b) adults in each year since 1990, broken down into geographical regions. [128936]

Dawn Primarolo

[holding answer 4 July 2000]: New NI numbers were no allocated to children until May 1992. The numbers allocated since that date are as follows:

Calendar year Numbers allocated
1992 (from May) 8,424,054
1993 2,909,215
1994 797,372
1995 759,368
1996 732,072
1997 720,541
1998 712,643
1999 702,221
2000 (to June) 347,497

As numbers are allocated centrally, it is not possible to break the number down geographically.