§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the 20 local authority districts with the highest proportion of births to (a) mothers of non-United Kingdom ethnic origin and (b) mothers of Commonwealth origin, excluding the United Kingdom, setting out the percentages and numbers for each of the last two years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergThe only information collected at the registration of births relates to parental birthplace, not to ethnic origin. The following are the 20 local authority districts which in 1980 had the highest percentage of live-births(a) accounted for by mothers born outside the United Kingdom; and (b) accounted for by mothers born in the New Commonwealth and Pakistan.
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(a) Number and percentage of all live-births accounted for by mothers born outside the United Kingdom. Local Authority 1979 7980 per cent. No. per cent. No. Brent 65 2,560 64 2,549 City of Westminster* 57 1,274 55 1,196 Kensington and Chelsea 60 1,102 55 969 Haringey 53 1,665 53 1,679 Ealing 55 2,375 53 2,351 Hackney 50 1,586 50 1,668 Camden 47 957 47 1,020 Newham 44 1,611 45 1,741 Tower Hamlets 42 946 44 1,120 Slough 41 648 44 739 Hammersmith and Fulham 45 925 43 896 Lambeth 42 1,512 41 1,558
Local Authority 1979 1980 per cent.No. per cent.No. Islington 43 921 41 969 Wandsworth 41 1,507 40 1,457 Barnet 38 1,400 39 1,459 Waltham Forest 38 1,213 38 1,259 Hounslow 37 1,054 37 1,116 Leicester 35 1,494 37 1,704 Harrow 36 928 36 937 Forest Heath 31 228 34 288 * Includes City of London.
(b) Number and percentage of all live-births accounted for by mothers born in the New Commonwealth and Pakistan. Local Authority 1979 1980 per cent. No. per cent. No. Brent 45 1,771 45 1,777 Newham 40 1,433 41 1,590 Ealing 41 1,789 40 1,789 Tower Hamlets 36 801 40 1,001 Slough 36 564 39 661 Haringey 37 1,155 37 1,172 Hackney 35 1,119 36 1,185 Leicester 32 1,357 33 1,535 Waltham Forest 32 1,026 32 1,055 Blackburn 32 722 31 738 Lambeth 29 1,046 29 1,083 Wandsworth 28 1,032 28 1,017 Birmingham 27 4,006 28 4,316 Bradford 27 1,996 28 2,150 Hounslow 27 787 26 792 Harrow 23 609 25 654 Wolverhampton 27 960 25 938 Luton 23 671 25 712 Pendle 25 309 25 320 Southwark 24 730 22 723
Year Estimated number of officers employed Estimated salary cost Estimated total Savings per head £ million £ million £ 1980–81 2,300 33 67 29,130 1981–82 2,250 33.4 — * * Savings figures for 1981–82 are not yet available but are expected to be well in excess of those for 1980–81.