§ Mr. LuffTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what estimate he has made of(a) population and (b) household changes in (i) Birmingham and (ii) Worcestershire over the next 10 years; and if he will make a statement. [12194]
§ Mr. RaynsfordPopulation estimates and projections are the responsibility of the Office for National Statistics—formerly the Office for Population Censuses and Surveys. The projections of the numbers of the households, which uses this information are the responsibility of my Department.
Populations and household projections for Worcestershire alone are not available as it was not a separate county at the time the most recent projections were made. The population and household projections over the next 10 years for both the metropolitan district of Birmingham and the county of Hereford and Worcester are as follows:
1996 2001 2006 Population1(thousands) Birmingham 1,008 1,006 1,002 Hereford and Worcester 708 731 751 Households2(thousands) Birmingham 402 408 416 Hereford and Worcester 285 301 317 Source:
1 "1993-based Subnational population projections", OPCS Series PP3 number 9,1994.
2 "Projections of Households in England to 2016", DoE 1995.