Census Statistics (Hansard, 21 April 2004)

§ Mr. Boateng

[holding answer 22 March 2004]The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Andrew Turner, dated 21 April 2004: As National Statistician and Registrar General for England and Wales I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking which 10 constituencies had the highest proportion of non-white population according to the 2001 Census return; what those proportions were; what proportion of the population indicated English or similar in the ethnicity question in (a) England and (b) each constituency; what proportion of the population lives in a mobile home in (a) England and (b) each constituency; and what proportion of the population travel to work by other means in (a) England and (b) each constituency. (162763) The following ten Parliamentary Constituencies have the highest percentage of non-white ethnic groups in England and Wales. The percentages have been extracted from Table KS06 on the CD supplement to the Census 2001 Report for Parliamentary Constituencies, which is available in the House of Commons Library.

Parliamentary constituencies with the highest percentage of population in non-white ethnic groups, England and Wales, 2001
	Percentage of population in non-white ethnic groups
East Ham	66.26
Birmingham, Ladywood	64.89
Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath	64.84
Brent, South	64.58
West Ham	60.20
Brent, North	58.18
Ilford, South	54.85
Ealing, Southall	52.69
Camberwell and Peckham	50.24
Bethnal Green and Bow	49.83
Source:
2001 Census Report for Parliamentary Constituencies.

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People could identify themselves as English in the 2001 Census by writing in such a response under one of the "other" categories on the ethnic group question. The number of people who identified themselves as English in this way in England was 1,064,922.

People were asked to identify their accommodation type in the 2001 Census. The Census did not identify 'mobile homes' separately but the number of people who identified themselves as living in a 'caravan or other mobile or temporary structure' in England was 142,857. This count has been taken from Table T07 on the CD supplement to the Census 2001 National Report for England and Wales, which is available in the House of Commons Library.

People were asked to identify the means of travel that they used for the longest part, by distance, of their usual journey to work. The particular means identified were:

1. work mainly from home
2. use the underground, metro, light rail or tram
3. use trains
4. use a bus, minibus or coach
5. ride a motorcycle, scooter or moped
6. drive a car or van
7. are a passenger in a car or van
8. use a taxi or minicab
9. cycle
10. walk.

The number of people using a means of transport other than these 10 categories in England was 104,205. This count has been taken from Table SI21 on the CD supplement to the Census 2001 National Report for England and Wales part 2, which is available in the House of Commons Library.

I have placed in the House of Commons Library three specially commissioned tables (CO168, CO169 and CO170), respectively showing: the number of people recording themselves as living in a 'caravan' or other mobile or temporary structure for each Parliamentary Constituency in England and Wales; the number of people who use a means of transport other than those listed above for the longest part of their journey to work, for each Parliamentary Constituency in England and Wales; the number of people who identified themselves as 'English' by writing in this response for each Parliamentary Constituency in England and Wales. Further customised output may be commissioned from ONS, where requirements are not met by the standard results, via the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/op15.asp