§ Simon HughesTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the average(a) household debt per annum and (b) household monthly income in each year since 1997 in Greater London, broken down by borough. [170494]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Simon Hughes, dated 5 May 2004:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question on average household debt per annum, and average household monthly income for the boroughs of Greater London. (170494)
The Office for National Statistics does not compile estimates of household debt below the UK level. Similarly estimates of quarterly household income are only available at the UK level. No estimates of monthly income are compiled.
ONS has published gross disposable household income (GDHI) at current prices at the NUTS1,2 and 3 sub-national geographies. An explanation of how boroughs fit into these geographies is provided in the attached annex. These estimates were last published on 26 March 2002 and are presented in the table below. This data set runs from 1995 to 1999 and is consistent with the 2001 National Accounts. The estimates are available at. http:// www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/article.asp?ID=128&Pos=2&Col Rank=l&Rank=224
Gross disposable household income per year NUTS1 and NUTS2 areas in London, 1997–99 £ per head Area 1997 1998 1999 London 11,485 11,811 12,207 Inner London 12,089 12,363 12,935 Outer London 11,110 11,467 11,748 At the NUTS3 geographic level, data was only of sufficient quality for ONS to publish estimates of household income on a three year average basis. These are presented as indices relative to the UK average.
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Index1of gross disposable household income (GDHI) per year NUTS 1, NUTS2 and NUTS3 areas in London, 1997–99
£ per capita (average over whole period) Area GDHI Index London 121 Inner London 127 Inner London—East 106 Inner London—West 164 Outer London 117 Outer London—East and North East 112 Outer London—South 120 Outer London—West and North West 119 1Index value is 100 for the UK as a whole.
Annex NUTS-3 LAU 1 level/Boroughs Inner London—West Camden, City of London, Hammersmith and Fulham,
Kensington and Chelsea,
Wandsworth, Westminster.
Inner London—East Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Lambeth, Newham,
Southwark, Lewisham, Tower
Hamlets.
Outer London—East and North East Barking and Dagenham, Bexley, Enfield, Greenwich,
Havering, Redbridge, Waltham
Forest.
Outer London—South Bromley, Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Sutton.
Outer London—West and North West Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow,
Richmond upon Thames.