§ Mr. GrocottTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the health authorities in England in order of population. [8877]
§ Mr. HoramThe information is shown in the table. The table relates to current 1995–1996 district health—authority boundaries and is based upon the resident population estimates for mid-1994, the latest available.
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District Health Authorities in England ranked in order of population District Health Authority Estimated resident population mid-1994 (thousands) West Kent 963 Leicestershire 917 North Essex 873 Bristol and District 848 Wiltshire and Bath 771 Berkshire 768 South-east London 732 North Yorkshire 727 East Sussex 727 Leeds 725 West Sussex 720 South Essex 697 Dorset 672 South Cheshire 665 Buckinghamshire 660 Suffolk 649 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 649 Nottingham 636 Western Surrey 636 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 617 East Norfolk 611 Lincolnshire 606 North and Mid Hampshire 604 East London and the City 595 Northamptonshire 595 Oxfordshire 590 Plymouth and Torbay 586
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District Health Authorities in England ranked in order of population District Health Authority Estimated resident population mid-1994 (thousands) South Staffordshire 583 East Kent 583 North Birmingham 581 West Yorkshire 580 Wigan and Bolton 579 Tees 560 Southern Derbyshire 552 Gloucestershire 549 Bedfordshire 543 Portsmouth and South-east Hampshire 538 Sheffield 530 East Riding 529 East Lancashire 506 Warwickshire 496 East and North Hertfordshire 488 Bradford 482 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 479 Newcastle and North Tyneside 477 Liverpool 474 West Pennine 473 New River 473 North Staffordshire 472 Southampton and South-west Hampshire 467 North-west Lancashire 465 Exeter and North Devon 465 Brent and Harrow 460 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 455 Salford and Trafford 445 Manchester 435 Bexley and Greenwich 434 South Birmingham 428 Somerset 423 Shropshire 416 Eastern Surrey 411 North-west Anglia 408 Bury and Rochdale 396 North Nottinghamshire 396 Barking and Havering 377 North Derbyshire 371 Grimsby and Scunthorpe 361 South Tyne 359 Camden and Islington 358 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 341 St Helens and Knowsley 335 Wirral 333 North Durham 329 Croydon 327 North Cumbria 318 Wakefield 317 Dudley 312 South Lancashire 311 North Cheshire 310 Barnet 308 Northumberland 308 Kingston and Richmond 307 Morecambe Bay 307 Coventry 303 Cambridge 299 Sunderland 296 Sandwell 294 Sefton 293 Doncaster 293 Bromley 292 Stockport 289 South Durham 280 North Worcestershire 278 Walsall 264
District Health Authorities in England ranked in order of population District Health Authority Estimated resident population mid-1994 (thousands) North-west Hertfordshire 263 Worcester and District 257 Rotherham 256 South-west Hertfordshire 250 Wolverhampton 244 Hillingdon 243 Barnsley 226 Solihull 202 Herefordshire 165 Huntingdon 139 Isle of Wight 125 England 48,707 Source: Office of Population Censuses and Surveys.