§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were unemployed in the Sutton and Cheam constituency in each year since 1979 according to the International Labour Organisation definition. [134983]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Paul Burstow, dated 6 November 2000:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question on the number of people unemployed in the Sutton and Cheam constituency in each year since 1979 according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) definition. (134983)The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the main source of labour market data on individuals used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). However, estimates for the number of people ILO unemployed are not available for small areas such as the constituency of Sutton and Cheam.The measure of unemployment derived from the LFS is defined on a consistent and Internationally recognised basis set out by the ILO. It counts as unemployed people who are (a) without a paid job (b) available to start work within the next two weeks and (c) have either looked for work in the last four weeks or are waiting to start a job already obtained. This measure has been used in the LFS since 1984.ONS also publishes the monthly numbers of people who are claiming unemployment-related benefits, also known as the Claimant Count. Comparable figures (based on the 1995 boundaries) are available since 1996. The attached table gives the annual average levels of claimants in the Sutton and Cheam parliamentary constituency since 1996.86WInformation on the unadjusted claimant level by parliamentary constituency ward based on the 1981 wards are available monthly from June 1983 to January 1996 and can be obtained from the Nomis database in the House of Commons Library.
The annual average levels of claimants in the Sutton and Cheam parliamentary constituency Year Number Rate 1996 2,053 5.2 1997 1,315 3.5 1998 990 2.8 1999 881 2.4 Note:
Average for the nine months January to September 2000 is 701 (1.9 per cent.).
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the infant mortality rates were in each of the last 10 years for(a) Sutton and Cheam constituency and (b) Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority. [134989]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from John Pullinger to Mr. Paul Burstow, dated 6 November 2000:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question asking for the infant mortality rates in the last 10 years for Sutton and Cheam constituency and Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth Health Authority. I am replying in his absence. (134989)The figures are shown in the attached table. The rates for Sutton and Cheam constituency (which are calculated from fewer than 20 deaths) may be unreliable due to the small number of events and should be treated cautiously. Any variation they show over time, or difference from National or health authority rates are likely to be due to chance.87W
Infant mortality numbers and rates for Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth HA and Sutton and Cheam parliamentary
constituency, 1990–99
Registration year Number Rate1 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth HA 1990 78 9.3 1991 49 5.4 1992 57 6.2 1993 67 7.3 1994 33 3.6 1995 59 6.5 1996 51 5.5 1997 40 4.4 1998 39 4.3 1999 42 4.6 Sutton and Cheam constituency 1990 9 8.3 1991 2 1.7 1992 6 5.2 1993 3 2.6 1994 1 0.9 1995 8 7.0 1996 5 4.4 1997 3 2.8 1998 3 2.9 1999 4 3.6 1 per 1,000 live births
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many suicides there have been in(a) Greater London and (b) the Sutton and Cheam constituency in each year since 1980, broken down by age; and if he will make a statement. [134891]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Suicides and undetermined deaths1, registered in years 1980–99, for usual residents of Greater London All ages 10–14 15–19 20–24 25–29 30–34 35–39 40–44 45–49 1980 888 1 34 76 72 70 63 83 73 1981 986 2 35 65 89 98 79 69 64 1982 882 7 21 73 77 87 78 62 75 1983 890 1 27 61 70 79 67 74 77 1984 864 2 30 59 70 63 80 66 66 1985 836 0 31 69 73 71 72 67 74 1986 786 1 28 68 79 66 63 62 54 1987 801 3 24 88 79 80 86 64 61 1988 855 4 31 84 84 78 87 62 56 1989 774 1 31 77 89 88 64 64 62 1990 756 0 25 74 91 84 71 56 74 1991 737 3 14 75 88 87 67 78 65 1992 723 3 16 75 94 89 70 64 55 1993 726 3 15 68 97 93 69 68 68 1994 706 3 17 63 104 88 68 63 51 1995 674 4 17 67 89 86 83 66 57 1996 631 2 17 49 75 93 69 69 63 1997 667 2 26 55 89 81 72 44 70 1998 782 3 22 65 103 123 97 68 65 1999 682 0 14 55 81 104 78 69 55
50–54 55–59 60–64 65–69 70–74 75–79 80–84 85+ 1980 64 100 66 64 47 41 25 9 1981 87 89 89 81 61 41 25 12 1982 75 69 63 64 51 42 24 14 1983 74 78 64 74 62 53 19 10 1984 84 80 70 46 51 58 27 12 1985 62 71 76 53 52 36 18 11 1986 67 59 49 46 50 56 26 12 1987 47 58 63 51 50 21 13 13 1988 55 66 52 48 48 54 24 22 1989 49 50 46 27 36 42 29 19 1990 52 42 35 50 25 30 30 17 1991 54 41 40 26 31 27 25 16 1992 49 40 39 33 37 24 22 13 1993 43 38 29 34 28 25 28 20 1994 46 45 36 24 29 17 19 33 1995 47 38 26 20 15 24 16 19 1996 39 32 25 16 28 16 19 19 1997 55 39 35 19 25 19 15 21 1998 57 45 29 30 21 19 13 22 1999 50 37 31 21 24 25 20 18 1 International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes E950–959 and E980–E989 excluding E988.8. 88W
Suicides and undetermined deaths1, registered in years 1988–99, for usual residents of Sutton and Cheam constituency All ages 10–14 15–19 20–24 25–29 30–34 35–39 40–44 45–49 1988 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1989 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1990 13 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 3 1991 6 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 1992 6 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1993 5 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 Letter from John Pullinger to Mr. Paul Burstow, dated 6 November 2000:
89WThe National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question on the numbers of suicides in Greater London and the Sutton and Cheam constituency in each year since 1980 broken down by age. I am replying in his absence.Figures for Greater London are presented in the attached table for years up to 1999, the latest available. Boundary changes to the Sutton and Cheam constituency mean that figures are not available for years prior to 1988. Figures for Sutton and Cheam are therefore presented in the attached table only for years 1988 to 1998, based on the 1999 constituency boundary.
Suicides and undetermined deaths1, registered in years 1988–99, for usual residents of Sutton and Cheam constituency All ages 10–14 15–19 20–24 25–29 30–34 35–39 40–44 45–49 1994 7 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1995 8 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 1996 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1997 8 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 1998 7 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 1999 6 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1
50–54 55–59 60–64 65–69 70–74 75–79 80–84 85+ 1988 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1989 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1990 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1991 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1992 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1993 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1994 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1995 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 1996 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1997 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1998 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1999 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes E950-E959 and E980-E989 excluding E988.8