§ Mr. Tebbitasked the Lord President of the Council what research he has commissioned into factors affecting the rate of growth of population of the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. PriorThe report of the Population Panel gives a wide-ranging assessment of the factors affecting population growth. The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys and the General Register Offices in Scotland and Northern Ireland, for which my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Social Services, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are responsible as part of their work on population carry out studies on demographic factors influencing the size of the population, including the level of births, changes in the age of marriage, spacing of children and actual or expected completed family sizes.