HC Deb 14 November 1977 vol 939 cc67-8W
Mr. Powell

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services where, and when, the projections and other data put forward by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys on 20th February 1970, but disallowed at that time, have since been published.

Mr. Ennals

The meeting on 20th February 1970 between the then Registrar General and the then Secretary of State for Social Services discussed the release of statistics on births, analysed by the birth places of the parents as reported at birth registration. These figures were released in the Registrar General's Quarterly Return in March 1970. Subsequent figures have been published at regular intervals since then in later versions of the Quarterly Return and, more recently, in OPCS Monitors (FM Series).

Projections of the population of New Commonwealth ethnic origin were also discussed. Though the detail of the projections were not published, a projection for 1986 was given in reply to a Question on 23rd March 1970.—[Vol. 798, c. 285–6.]

Mr. MacGregor

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services when he expects the second report by the Central Policy Review Staff on the geographical distribution of population within the United Kingdom and its implications for the social services to be published.

Mr. William Price

I have been asked to reply.

Work is proceeding on the second report by the CPRS. No decisions on whether it will be published will be taken until the report has been completed.