Regional Planning Guidance (Hansard, 30 March 2000)

§ Miss Melanie Johnson

I have been asked to reply.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Tom Brake, dated 30 March 2000As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your recent question on the assumed scale of net regional population migration, underlying the projected level of household formation proposed for the current round of draft regional planning guidance. You requested information for each of the eight English regions and for the spatial development plan for London. The 1996-based household projections are one factor taken into account in arriving at the level of housing and households provision in regional planning guidance and spatial development plans. The latest household projections are consistent with the 1996-based subnational population projections at regional level. The attached table provides the assumed levels of migration in the subnational population projections for each government office region. Projections of migration are shown for five different years in the projection period and those for the intervening years are consistent with these figures.

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Subnational population projections: assumed net annual migration for projected years
Thousand
	Mid year ending
Government office region	2001	2006	2011	2016	2021
North East	-3.2	-2.6	-1.8	-1.1	-0.1
North West	-8.0	-7.8	-6.8	-5.0	-3.6
Yorkshire and the Humber	1.6	1.5	1.3	1.4	2.2
East Midlands	13.1	12.5	12.0	12.0	12.0
West Midlands	-2.9	-2.3	-1.7	-0.9	0.0
East	19.8	19.6	19.4	19.6	19.7
London	-18.2	-17.4	-17.9	-21.8	-26.4
Sough East	34.2	32.7	31.2	30.6	30.5
South West	29.5	29.7	30.1	30.9	31.6