§ Lord Dean of Beswickasked Her Majesty's Government:
What were the population figures for (i) Scotland, (ii) Wales, (iii) Northern Ireland, and (iv) the individual regions of England, in the latest census.
§ Lord CheshamResident population figures, extracted from Table 2 of the 1991 Census Report for Great Britain are given below. The Northern Ireland figure was supplied by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) from the 1991 Census Report for Northern Ireland.
Scotland 4,998,567 Wales 2,836,073 Northern Ireland 1,577,836 Regions of England: North 3,026,732 Yorkshire and Humberside 4,836,524 East Midlands 3,953,372 East Anglia 2,027,004 South East 17,208,264 South West 4,609,424 West Midlands 5,150,187 North West 6,243,697