HC Deb 15 January 1996 vol 269 cc337-9W
Mr. Grocott

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the health authorities in England in order of population. [8877]

Mr. Horam

The 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.

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

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.