§ Mr. WillettsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the figures on marriage, divorce and domestic violence will be added to the neighbourhood statistics section of the Office for National Statistics website. [68482]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. David Willetts, dated 10 July 2002:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning when the figures on marriage, divorce and domestic violence will be added to the neighbourhood statistics section of the Office of National Statistics website. (68482)There are no plans to add information on marriage, divorce and domestic violence to the Neighbourhood Statistics section of the ONS website in the near future. The next major update to the site will be the addition of statistics from the 2001 Census in 2003 and these will include information about the marital status of the population in local areas. Further datasets for nine statistical domains will be added to the website from 2003/04 onwards, in line with the need for better information set out in the Report of Policy Action Team 18 Better Information to meet the priorities for the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal.