HC Deb 11 February 1976 vol 905 cc226-7W
Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will list the number of persons over the age of 65 years of age in each metropolitan district and non-metropolitan county in 1975.

Mr. Meacher

Estimates of the number of people over 65 years of age in each metropolitan county, metropolitan county district and non-metropolitan county in England and Wales at mid 1975 are as follows:

Metropolitan County and County District
000's
GREATER MANCHESTER 365
Bolton 37
Bury 24
Manchester 72
Oldham 31
Rochdale 27
Salford 36
Stockport 39
Tameside 30
Trafford 30
Wigan 39
MERSEYSIDE 213
Knowsley 17
Liverpool 80
St. Helens 23
Sefton 46
Wirral 48
SOUTH YORKSHIRE 172
Barnsley 28
Doncaster 33
Rotherham 27
Sheffield 84
TYNE AND WEAR 161
Gateshead 30
Newcastle upon Tyne 44
North Tyneside 26
South Tyneside 24
Sunderland 37
Metropolitan County and County District
000's
WEST MIDLANDS 334
Birmingham 142
Coventry 38
Dudley 34
Sandwell 41
Solihull 19
Walsall 28
Wolverhampton 33
WEST YORKSHIRE 294
Bradford 66
Calderdale 31
Kirklees 54
Leeds 106
Wakefield 38
Non-Metropolitan County
Avon 136
Bedfordshire 52
Berkshire 72
Buckinghamshire 57
Cambridgeshire 70
Cheshire 112
Cleveland 62
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 73
Cumbria 72
Derbyshire 124
Devon 183
Dorset 118
Durham 81
East Sussex 162
Essex 191
Gloucestershire 70
Hampshire 195
Hereford and Worcester 80
Hertfordshire 104
Humberside 114
Isle of Wight 24
Kent 222
Lancashire 226
Leicestershire 108
Lincolnshire 76
Norfolk 111
Northamptonshire 68
Northumberland 43
North Yorkshire 105
Nottinghamshire 128
Oxfordshire 64
Salop 47
Somerset 67
Staffordshire 115
Suffolk 87
Surrey 138
Warwickshire 53
West Sussex 128
Wiltshire 66
Clwyd 61
Dyfed 51
Gwent 57
Gwynedd 41
Mid Glamorgan 71
Powys 17
South Glamorgan 53
West Glamorgan 53