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The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated June 2009:"As the National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your question about the dates on which the five most recent annual reports on the numbers of (a) live births and (b) stillbirths in England were published. (281119)""The Office for National Statistics is responsible for publishing statistics on the numbers of births registered in England and Wales. The reference volume, Birth Statistics, Series FM1 is published annually and includes the number of live births and stillbirths in England. The five most recent publication dates for Birth Statistics, Series FM1 are shown in the table below."<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><TR><TD>Year of birth</TD><TD>Date of publication of Annual Reference Volume: Birth Statistics, Series FM1</TD></TR><TR><TD>2003</TD><TD>16 December 2004</TD></TR><TR><TD>2004</TD><TD>15 December 2005</TD></TR><TR><TD>2005</TD><TD>12 December 2006</TD></TR><TR><TD>2006</TD><TD>13 December 2007</TD></TR><TR><TD>2007</TD><TD>15 December 2008</TD></TR></Table>"Figures for live births and stillbirths in England are usually published several months before the annual reference volume. The latest year for which figures are available is 2008 for live births (provisional data were released on 21 May 2009) and 2007 for stillbirths." |