§ Mrs. Curtis-ThomasTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the mean household income was in Sefton in(a) 2000 and (b) 2003 as a percentage of UK mean household income; and if he will make a statement. [177916]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
635WLetter from Len Cook to Mrs. Claire Curtis-Thomas, dated 14 June 2004:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on the mean household income in Sefton. (177916)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) does not compile statistics on mean household income.
ONS has published gross disposable household income (GDHI) at current prices at the NUTS1,2 and 3 sub-national geographies. These estimates were last published on 26 March 2002. The data for the period 1995 to 1999 are consistent with the 2001 National Accounts. Sefton is a NUTS3 area and forms part of the NUTS2 region of Merseyside, for which GDHI per head figures are available on an annual basis and are given in Table A attached.
For the smaller areas, survey sample sizes are only large enough for ONS to publish estimates of household income on a 3 year average basis. These are presented as indices for Sefton, Merseyside, and the North West relative to the UK average in Table B attached.
Table A: Gross disposable household income per year £ per head Area 1997 1998 1999 Merseyside 8,710 8,844 9,342 United Kingdom 9,513 9,696 10,142
Table B: Index1 of gross disposable household income (GDHI) per head
Average over period 1997–99 Area GDHI index North West 93 Merseyside 92 Sefton 110 1Index value is 100 for the UK as a whole.