§ Mr. Juddasked the Minister of Health whether he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the recorded illegitimacy rate as a proportion of total births in each of the 20 largest cities of England and Wales in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. K. Robinson
ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS (LIVE AND STILL) AS A RATE PER 1,000 TOTAL BIRTHS (LIVE AND STILL) 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 Birmingham … 112 110 110 113 117 Bradford … 112 116 121 123 128 Bristol … 92 89 97 97 106 Cardiff … 77 86 89 108 108 Coventry … 78 77 77 87 92 Kingston-upon-Hull … 77 86 96 96 102 Leeds … 92 103 108 115 116 Leicester … 112 109 123 122 127 Liverpool … 69 77 85 92 103 Manchester … 126 134 143 150 164 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 85 97 95 116 119 Nottingham … 132 137 144 147 159 Plymouth … 76 74 91 89 87 Portsmouth … 98 108 129 123 145 Sheffield … 68 75 82 79 85 Southampton … 93 101 112 109 116 Stoke-on-Trent 50 58 62 69 81 Sunderland … 52 55 63 61 77 Walsall … 63 64 66 59 60 Wolverhampton 113 104 97 87 82 Greater London 105 107 108 110 114