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Teen Pregnancy

Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many conceptions by girls under the age of 16 there were by region (a) expressed as a percentage of under-16s and (b) the total number, in descending order according to percentage figures for the latest year in which figures are available. [30599]

Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Chris Ruane, dated 30 January 2002:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many conceptions to girls under the age of 16 there were by region (a) expressed as a percentage of under 16s and (b) the total number, in descending order according to percentage for the latest year in which figures are available. (30599)

The figures requested are given in the table below:

Conceptions to girls aged under 16 by Government Office Region (GOR), England, 1999

GOR	Number of conceptions to girls under 16	Girls conceiving under 16(28) as percentage of population
North East	499	1.00
Yorkshire and the Humber	919	0.98
London	1,058	0.89
North West	1,178	0.88
West Midlands	890	0.88
East Midlands	616	0.80
South West	658	0.75
South East	963	0.67
Eastern	627	0.65

⁽²⁸⁾ The population at risk of conceiving under 16 is conventionally taken to be girls aged 13–15

Source:

Office for National Statistics

Children (Accidental Deaths)

Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many accidental deaths of children there were broken

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down by region, expressed by (a) the percentage of population and (b) the total number, in descending order for the latest year for which figures are available. [30603]

Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Chris Ruane, dated 30 January 2002:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your question concerning the number of accidental deaths which occurred to children by region by (a) the percentage of the population and (b) the total number, in descending order for the latest year when figures were available. (30603)

The figures requested are given in the table below:

Deaths from accidents⁽²⁹⁾, persons aged 0–15⁽³⁰⁾ by Government Office Region, England⁽³¹⁾, 2000⁽³²⁾Number and rate per 100,000 population⁽³³⁾

Government office region	Number of deaths	Rate per 100,000 population aged 0–15 years
Yorkshire and the Humber	45	4.4
West Midlands	41	3.7
East Midlands	30	3.6
North West	51	3.6
South West	30	3.2
North East	15	2.9
London	42	2.8
South East	43	2.6
East	27	2.5

⁽²⁹⁾ International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes E800-E949

⁽³⁰⁾ Excludes deaths under 28 days

⁽³¹⁾ Residents only

⁽³²⁾ Data are for occurrences of death per calendar year

⁽³³⁾ To facilitate comparison between areas the figures are presented as a rate per 100,000 population resident in the area, rather than as a percentage, because of small numbers of events

Source:

Office for National Statistics

Low Pay

Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) how many adults aged over 25 years were on low rates of pay by region, expressed as (a) a percentage and (b) the total number, ranked in descending order according to percentages for the latest date for which figures are available; [30580]

(2) how many low paid adults aged 16 to 21 years there are, broken down by region, expressed as (a) a percentage and (b) total numbers, ranked in descending order according to percentage figures for the latest date available. [30614]

Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Chris Ruane, dated 30 January 2002:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent questions about the number of adults aged 16 to 21 and over 25 on low rates of pay. (30614, 30580).

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The estimated number of jobs in the United Kingdom with pay below National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates in April 2001 was 320,000. Of these, 50,000 relate to 18–21 year olds and 270,000 relate to 22 year olds and over.

The National Statistics website contains estimates for the numbers and proportions of jobs paid at below NMW rates for Government Office Regions for all persons, however, numbers are suppressed for some regions because of the small size of the estimates. Figures are posted at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/themes/labour_market/ pay_and_earn ings/measuring_low_pay.asp

No estimates at regional level are available for the age groups requested.

Divorce

Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many children there were whose parents are divorced by region expressed (a) as a percentage of all children and (b) the total number, in descending order according to percentage for the latest year in which figures are available. [30600]

Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from Len Cook to Chris Ruane, dated 30 January 2002:

As Director of the Office of National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question on the number of children there were whose parents are divorced by region (a) expressed as a percentage and (b) the total number, in descending order according to percentage for the latest year in which figures are available. (30600).

Estimated numbers for the United Kingdom for 2000, derived from the Labour Force Survey ¹ , are as follows.

Dependent children⁽³³⁾ living in divorced lone parent families⁽³⁴⁾Thousand

Government office region/country	Number of children	Percentage of UK total
United Kingdom, 2000
North West	118.1	13.7
London	111.4	12.9
South East	105.6	12.2
West Midlands	82.4	9.5
Yorkshire and the Humber	80.5	9.3
East of England	69.9	8.1
South West	63.4	7.3
Wales	61.7	7.1
Scotland	55.6	6.4
East Midland	54.3	6.3
North East	44.0	5.1
Northern Ireland	16.6	1.9
United Kingdom	863.5	100

Source:

Labour Force Survey 2000

Illness

Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people had a limiting long standing illness or disability by region expressed as (a) a percentage and (b) the total number, ranked in descending order according to percentage figures for the latest year in which figures are available. [30581]

Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

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Letter from Len Cook to Chris Ruane, dated 30 January 2002:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question on the number of people with a limiting long standing illness or disability by region expressed as (a) a percentage and (b) the total number, ranked in descending order according to percentage figures for the latest year for which figures are available. (30581)

The information requested is shown in the attached table.

Persons who reported limiting long standing illness by Government Office Region (a) percentages (b) numbers ranked in descending orderGreat Britain: 2000

Government office Region/County	(a) Percentage reporting limiting long standing illness	(b) Number reporting limiting long standing illness (000s)	Weighted base (000s) = 100% (total number of people in each region)
North East	23	652	2,783
Merseyside	23	314	1,342
Yorkshire and the Humber	21	1,072	5,113
South West	21	1,022	4,925
Wales	20	584	2,908
North West	20	1,119	5,688
Scotland	19	971	4,999
East Midlands	18	664	3,754
West Midlands	17	891	5,161
East of England	17	858	5,129
London	16	1,143	7,121
South East	16	1,253	7,943
All England	18	8,987	48,960
Great Britain	19	10,542	56,866

Notes:

Published data from the General Household Survey (Table 7.10 Living in Britain 2000).

Weighted bases shown here differ slightly from the published table because the published table includes two other measures of self-reported sickness. Bases for each measure differ because of the varying number of "no answers" to each measure. In these instances, the smallest base only is shown.

Percentages are based on data weighted to compensate for differential non response. The weighted figures give a grossed up population estimate.

Figures for Scotland and Wales are included in the ranked list, an overall figure for England is given separately.

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