HL Deb 27 April 2004 vol 660 c83WA
Earl Russell

asked Her Majesty's Government:

In the case of a child born in the London Borough of Lambeth, what is the average time elapsing between the birth and its registration. [HL2458]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Lord McIntosh of Haringey)

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

Letter from the National Statistician, Len Cook, to the Earl Russell, dated 27 April 2004.

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your request for the average time elapsed between birth and registration for a child born in the London Borough of Lambeth. (HL2458)

The table below shows both the mean and median time elapsed from birth to registration for children born in Lambeth in the years 2000, 2001 and 2002.

Number, days
Year1 Number of live-births Mean2 time elapsed (days) Median3 time elapsed (days)
2000 4,344 26.9 24.6
2001 4,397 25.3 23.0
2002 4.374 28.2 27.2

Source

Office for National Statistics.

1 Annual figures cover births occurring in each calendar year. However, a very small number of births are registered too late to be included in the counts for the appropriate year and are instead included in those for the following year.

2 Mean is the arithmetical average time elapsed.

3 Median represents the time within which exactly half of the children were registered.