Migration (Hansard, 13 July 2000)

§ Miss Melanie Johnson

[holding answer 10 July 2000]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Mr. David Drew, dated 13 July 2000: As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question about the annual level of migration of people and households from London to the South East, and from the rest of England to the South East. (129750). The attached table (i) presents the information for the movement of people that you require for each of the last three years. The latest year for which estimates are available is 1998. Data are presented for moves from London and the rest of England, to the South East Planning Region. The data show a net gain of people from London but a net loss of people to the rest of England. The estimates of internal migration within the United Kingdom are based on the movement of NHS doctors' patients between the former Family Health Service Authorities. They should not be regarded as a perfect measure of migration as there is variation in the delay between a person moving and registering with a new doctor. Moves between the individual Government Office Regions (GORs) and the rest of the United Kingdom are published in Key Population and Vital Statistics, which is available in the House of Commons Library. There are no annual data on household migration. The only data that are available come from the 1991 Census. The estimates of wholly moving households, between 1990 and 1991, are shown in the attached table (ii). For comparison the estimates of people moving are also shown for 1991.

(i) Number of people moving into the South East Planning Region ¹
Thousand
	1991	1996	1997	1998
From London	108.3	125.8	132.0	129.7
To London	67.2	77.1	76.8	80.1
Net gain from London	41.1	48.8	55.2	49.6
From the rest of England	251.0	288.3	293.6	299.6
To the rest of England	275.2	301.5	315.0	323.0
Net loss to the rest of England	-24.2	-13.2	-21.4	-23.4
¹South East Planning Region is made up of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.

Source:

National Health Service Contact Register

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(ii) Number of wholly moving households into the South East Planning Region (1991)
Thousand
	Number
From London	25.4
To London	10.8
Net gain from London	14.6
From the rest of England	20.7
To the rest of England	30.0
Net loss to the rest of England	-9.3

Source:

1991 Census