§ Mr. John Fraserasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give the ranking of Lambeth for each of the key indicators of deprivation referred to in his reply to the hon. Member for Norwood on 23 March, Official Report, column 601, in comparison to other London boroughs.
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§ Sir George YoungThe information requested, based on percentages derived from the 1981 census, is as follows:
Rank i. Unemployed people 4 ii. Overcrowded households 7 iii. Single Parent households 2 iv. Households lacking exclusive use of basic amenities 11 v. Pensioners living alone 15 vi. Population change 5 vii. Standardised mortality rate ie. the ratio of the locally adjusted death rate to the national rate 22 viii. Low-skilled economically active persons 7 ix. Residents living in households of which the head was born in the New Commonwealth or Pakistan 6