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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 Jil Matheson, dated October 2009:"As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Questions on the number of births in (a) England and (b) each strategic health authority in 2008-09 (295700), and the estimate of the number of likely births in each strategic health authority in (a) 2009-10 and (b) 2010-11. (295617)""The latest figures available for Strategic Health Authorities are for 2008 calendar year and were published on the ONS website in May 2009:""www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/Table_5.xls""Part of this table is reproduced below and shows the number of live births in 2008 to mothers who were usually resident in England and in each Strategic Health Authority within England.""The table below also includes the projected number of live births in each strategic health authority in the year to mid-2009 and mid-2010. These data are taken from the 2006-based Subnational Population Projections published on 12 June 2008, and are the most recent subnational projections available. These are demographic trend-based projections that indicate what the number of births is likely to be if recently observed trends in fertility, mortality and migration were to continue."<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Live births, England and strategic health authorities</th></tr></thead><TR><TD>Number</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD>Live births¹ in 2008</TD><TD>Live births Year to mid-2009</TD><TD>Live births Year to mid-2010</TD></TR><TR><TD>England</TD><TD>672,809</TD><TD>672,880</TD><TD>678,914</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Strategic health authorities</TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>North East</TD><TD>30,217</TD><TD>30,215</TD><TD>30,421</TD></TR><TR><TD>North West</TD><TD>88,167</TD><TD>87,398</TD><TD>87,984</TD></TR><TR><TD>Yorkshire and The Humber</TD><TD>66,353</TD><TD>67,361</TD><TD>68,335</TD></TR><TR><TD>East Midlands</TD><TD>54,192</TD><TD>54,182</TD><TD>54,929</TD></TR><TR><TD>West Midlands</TD><TD>71,726</TD><TD>71,530</TD><TD>72,107</TD></TR><TR><TD>East of England</TD><TD>71,738</TD><TD>71,470</TD><TD>72,257</TD></TR><TR><TD>London</TD><TD>127,651</TD><TD>129,236</TD><TD>130,049</TD></TR><TR><TD>South East Coast</TD><TD>51,565</TD><TD>51,493</TD><TD>51,826</TD></TR><TR><TD>South Central</TD><TD>52,458</TD><TD>51,835</TD><TD>52,234</TD></TR><TR><TD>South West</TD><TD>58,742</TD><TD>58,160</TD><TD>58,772</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>¹ Live births by area of usual residence of mother.</td></TR></tfoot></Table> |