§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many children aged 15 years or under live in(a) the Birkenhead constituency and (b) at Merseyside constituencies in total. [109350]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from John Pullinger, on behalf of Dr. Holt, to Mr. Frank Field, dated 10 February 2000:
282WThe Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been asked to reply to your parliamentary question asking for the number of children aged 15 years or under who live in a) the Birkenhead constituency and b) Merseyside constituencies in total. I am replying in Dr Holt's absence.Mid-year population estimates are not compiled for areas such as parliamentary constituencies. The lowest level at which these are available is the local authority level. Each local authority in Merseyside Metropolitan County is made up of at least two parliamentary constituencies. Data is therefore unavailable for the parliamentary constituencies within the county, one of which is Birkenhead. The table provided shows the numbers of children aged 15 years or under resident in each local authority in Merseyside as well as Merseyside as a whole. Also shown is how the local authorities are made up of parliamentary constituencies. These estimates are the mid-1998 population estimates which are the most recent available.
Mid-1998 population estimates for the number of children aged 15 or under in Merseyside and its constituent local authorities County/local authority Number of children aged 15 and under Parliamentary constituencies contained in each local authority Merseyside 294,400 Knowsley 37,000 Knowsley, North and Sefton, East1 Knowsley, South Liverpool 98,600 Liverpool, Garston Liverpool, Riverside Liverpool, Walton Liverpool, Wavertree Liverpool, West Derby St. Helens 35,700 St. Helens, North St. Helens, South Sefton 56,400 Bootle Crosby Knowsley, North and Sefton, East2 Southport Wirral 66,800 Birkenhead Wallasey Wirral, South Wirral, West 1 Part in Knowsley and part in Sefton 2 Part in Sefton and part in Knowsley Note:
Figures may not add exactly in this table because they have been rounded to the nearest hundred
Source:
ONS, Population Estimates Unit