HC Deb 20 November 2003 vol 413 cc1332-3W
Chris Ruane

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many teenage pregnancies there were in each constituency in each of the past 20 years. [140426]

Ruth Kelly

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from John Pullinger to Mr. Chris Ruane, dated 20 November 2003–11–21:

The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many teenage pregnancies there were in each constituency in each of the past 20 years. I am replying in his absence. (140426)

Figures are not available prior to 1988. Figures since that date would only be available at a disproportionate cost. Figures for ward, local authority and health authority areas are produced annually.

The following link provides teenage conception data by local authority and quarter of occurrence from 1998 to 2001:

http://www. statistics. gov.uk/statbase/Expodata/Spreadsheets/ D4877.xls

Births to girls conceiving under the age of 16, Wales—1987 to 2001
Unitary authority 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 12001
Blaenau Gwent 8 10 7 12 10 8 11 16 14 16 10 17 9 13 13
Bridgend 19 12 16 14 10 18 14 16 22 27 16 21 13 20 11
Caerphilly 14 30 21 36 15 28 28 27 36 36 32 26 24 28 16
Cardiff 30 34 30 14 23 33 30 20 40 39 37 40 34 23 25
Carmarthenshire 12 6 7 13 7 9 10 12 7 11 12 15 12 12 12
Ceredigion 5 – 5 5
Conwy 10 10 11 6 10 9 12 16 11 7 14 7 8
Denbighshire 4 8 10 10 5 5 6 9 2 8 7 9 5 10 6
Flintshire 10 7 8 14 4 8 14 9 10 14 10 13 21 5 7
Gwynedd 5 6 5 11 7 10 9 7 2 12 9 5 10 12
Isle of Anglesey 8 4 5 7 9 5 6 5 5
Merthyr Tydfil 19 11 17 14 7 16 13 14 12 8 9 13 11 11 12
Monmouthshire 9 8 2 4 5 5 7 9 5 4
Neath Port Talbot 18 12 8 17 10 8 12 8 25 9 11 16 9 16 13
Newport 10 17 18 24 21 16 19 25 14 16 19 12 21 10 13
Pembrokeshire 8 7 7 7 6 7 10 5 12 5 10
Powys 11 5 5 7 4 6 6 7 4 8 8 7 4
Rhondda, Cynon, Taff 35 29 32 30 39 25 26 25 40 39 45 32 25 26 32
Swansea 16 17 13 18 22 12 15 20 27 34 30 38 25 23 21
The Vale of Glamorgan 6 10 8 9 8 9 13 10 12 17 9 10 8
Torfaen 9 9 7 14 7 9 9 18 12 17 10 12 6 9 7
Wrexham 6 16 7 15 13 12 11 8 14 13 15 8 15 9
Wales 259 275 240 290 230 253 267 276 330 360 318 322 282 265 235
1 Figures for 2001 are provisional
2 Figure suppressed to prevent disclosure of a count less than 3 or disclosure by differencing