HC Deb 27 January 1984 vol 52 c719W
Mr. Baldry

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what statistical series are kept by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys which relate to divorce.

Mr. John Patten

Regular and detailed statistical series relating to divorce are published annually in the reference volume "Marriage and Divorce Statistics"—the OPCS FM2 series of publications; annually in the OPCS monitor on divorces which provides summary statistics and some comparisons with previous years; and in table 15 of the OPCS quarterly journalPopulation Trends. All these series relate to numbers in England and Wales. The series are too numerous to list individually, but among the tables published are those relating to divorces by age at divorce, age at marriage, duration of marriage, children of divorcing couples, previous marital condition, fact proven at divorce, divorce petitions filed and the interval between petition and divorce.

Major Hospital Schemes under Construction at 26 January 1984
Region Project/Scheme Estimated year of practical completion
Northern Furness (Barrow) DGH scheme 1 phase 1 1984
Northern North Tyneside scheme 1 phase 1 1984
Northern Queen Elizabeth Gateshead scheme 3 phase 3 1985
Northern Royal Victoria infirmary scheme 1 phase 4 1984
Yorkshire Scarborough DGH phase 1 1986
Trent Derby city phase 1 1986
Trent Glenfield DGH phase 1 1984
Trent Lincoln county phase 1 1984
Trent Northern general phase 1C 1985
North West Thames Hemel Hempstead phase 1 1986
North West Thames St. Mary's W2 phase 1B 1987
North West Thames Watford (Shrodells wing) phase 3 1984
North East Thames Broomfield phase 5 1984
North East Thames Colchester DGH phase 2 1984
North East Thames Harold Wood hospital phase 1 1986
North East Thames Homerton (Eastern) phase 1 1985
South East Thames Kent and Sussex—Tunbridge Wells phase 1 1985
South East Thames Lewisham DGH phase 1A 1985
South East Thames Orpington phase 1 1984
South West Thames St. George's block G2 and F phase 2 1985
Wessex Royal Hants county Winchester phase 4 1985
Wessex Royal South Hants. Southampton phase 3 1986
South Western West Somerset (Musgrove park) DGH phase 1 1985
South Western Weston-super-Mare new hospital 1986
West Midlands Bromsgrove Redditch DGH phase 1 contract 2 1986
Mersey Halton DGH phase 2 1984