HC Deb 23 July 1999 vol 335 cc717-8W
Joan Ruddock

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many councillors were elected in 1998 for each London borough, broken down by gender and ethnicity. [92397]

Mr. Meale

The Local Government Management Board's 1997 census of councillors indicated that 230 out of 2,018 London Borough councillors who responded to this question were non-white. We do not have a breakdown for each London Borough for these figures.

The following table gives a breakdown of the gender ratios for the London Boroughs obtained by the Women's Unit last year:

Name of London borough Number of women councillors Percentage
Barking and Dagenham 17 33
Barnet 25 42
Bexleyheath 20 32
Brent 15 23
Bromley 16 27
Camden 22 37
City of London 20 15
Croydon 19 27
Ealing 19 27
Enfield 13 20
Greenwich 14 23
Hackney 18 30
Hammersmith and Fulham 14 28
Haringey 23 39
Harrow 20 32
Havering 17 27
Hillingdon 17 25
Hounslow 15 25
Islington 26 50
Kensington and Chelsea 13 24
Kingston 13 31
Lambeth 18 28
Lewisham 21 31
Merton 17 30
Newham 13 22
Redbridge 12 19
Richmond 20 38
Southwark 20 31
Sutton 21 38
Tower Hamlets 12 24
Waltham Forest 13 22
Wandsworth 16 26
Westminster 19 32