§ Mr. Peter BottomleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will rank the new parliamentary constituencies by share of the electorate below normal retirement age. [15836]
§ Mrs. Angela KnightI have been asked to reply.
This information requested falls within the responsibility of the chief executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Peter Bottomley, dated 24 February 1997:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply as the Director of the Office for National Statistics to your recent question on ranking the new parliamentary constituencies by share of the electorate below normal retirement age.5WElectoral Registration Officers are responsible for collecting information for electoral registers. However, apart from the number of attainers, no information on the electorate is collected by age. Therefore the requested information can not be provided.I regret that I cannot be more helpful.