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Childbirth
Andrew George: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on which dates the number of (a) live births and (b) stillbirths that took place in the previous year was published in each of the last five years. [202391]
Mr. Watson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 9 May 2008:
As the National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your question about the dates on which the number of (a) live births and (b) stillbirths that took place in the previous year were published in each of the last five years. (202391)
The Office for National Statistics is responsible for publishing statistics on the numbers of births registered in England and Wales. The latest year for which figures are available is 2006.
The table below gives the dates on which the numbers of live births and still births in England and Wales for the years 2002 to 2006 were first published. Live births are first published as part of the first release of births and deaths data. Stillbirths are first published in Health Statistics Quarterly (within the infant and perinatal mortality report).
| Date of publication (England and Wales) | ||
| Year of birth | Live births | Stillbirths |
| (1) Revisions are sometimes necessary if further information becomes available at a later date. In the instances indicated in the table these were made in August following the first release. | ||
Children
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many and what proportion of (a) individuals and (b) couples had at least one child below the age of five in (i) Basingstoke constituency, (ii) Hampshire and (iii) England in each year for which figures are available. [202989]
Mr. Watson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 9 May 2008:
As National Statistician for England and Wales, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many and what proportion of (a) individuals and (b) couples had at least one child below the age of five years in (i) Basingstoke, (ii) Hampshire and (iii) England in each year for which figures are available. (202989)
The requested counts for Local Authorities/Parliamentary Constituencies are only available from the Census. Figures from earlier Censuses would only be available at disproportionate cost. The figures from the 2001 Census are provided below:
| Area | Lone parent families with at least one dependent child aged 0 to 4 | Percentage of all families with dependent children, who are lone parent families with at least one dependent child aged 0 to 4 | Couple families with at least one dependent child aged 0 to 4 | Percentage of all families with dependent children who, are couple families with at least one dependent child aged 0 to 4 |
| Notes: 1. A dependent child is a person in a household aged 0 to 15 (whether or not in a family) or a person aged 16 to 18 who is a full-time student in a family with parent(s). 2. A family comprises a group of people consisting of a married or cohabiting couple with or without child(ren), or a lone parent with child(ren). It also includes a married or cohabiting couple with their grandchild(ren) or a lone grandparent with his or her grandchild(ren) where there are no children in the intervening generation in the household. Cohabiting couples include same sex couples. Children in a couple family need not belong to both members of the couple. 3. The counts for Hampshire exclude the Unitary Authorities of Portsmouth and Southampton. Source: 2001 Census Tables S007 and CAS007 | ||||
Children: Bereavement
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many and what proportion of those under the age of (a) three, (b) five and (c) 16 had been bereaved by the death of their (i) mother, (ii) father and (iii) sibling at the latest date for which figures are available. [202856]
Mr. Watson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 9 May 2008:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many and what proportion of those under the age of (a) three, (b) five and (c) 16 years had been
bereaved by the death of their (i) mother, (ii) father and (iii) sibling at the latest date for which figures are available. (202856)
Although information on the relationship of the informant to the deceased is collected at death registration, information on whether the deceased had living children or siblings when death occurred is not, and therefore the information requested is not available.
Children: Death
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many and what proportion of children under the age of (a) three, (b) five and (c) 16 died in each year since 1997. [202849]
Mr. Watson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 9 May 2008:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many and what proportion of children under the age of (a) three, (b) five and (c) 16 died in each year since 1997. (202849)
The total number of deaths and rate per 100,000 for children under the age of (a) three, (b) five and (c) 16 in each year from 1997 to 2006 for England and Wales are shown in the attached table.
| Deaths in children by age, England and Wales, 1997-2006( 1) | ||||||
| Number of deaths | Rate per 100,000 population of the same age | |||||
| Under 3 | Under 5 | Under 16 | Under 3 | Under 5 | Under 16 | |
| (1) Data are for registrations of death in each calendar year. | ||||||
Citizen Information Project
Mr. Pickles: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what recommendations of the Citizen Information Project the Office for National Statistics has implemented; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report. [203127]
Mr. Watson: The information falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 9 May 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what recommendations of the Citizen Information Project the Office for National Statistics has implemented. (203133)
On 18 April 2006 ( Official Report, column 1WS) the then Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the Government had accepted the recommendations by the CIP team based in the Office for National Statistics. The CIP project was subsequently closed by ONS: the relevant government departments will have been responsible for implementing the recommendations. A copy of the report can be found at:
Construction: Manpower
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster how many people were employed in the construction industry in (a) the Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997. [198839]
Mr. Watson: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Katen Dunnell, dated 9 May 2008:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your parliamentary question asking how many people have been employed in the construction industry in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997. (198839).
The definitive source for the number of people employed is normally the Labour Force Survey (LFS). However, because of the interest in the construction sector, estimates of the number of jobs have been compiled from the Annual Business Inquiry (ABI/1).
Table 1 attached provides an estimate of jobs in Construction (Standard Industrial Classification (1992) section F) for Great Britain, the North East, South Tyneside and Jarrow for each year from 1997 to 2006, the most recent available. Estimates using the ABI/1 are not available for the United Kingdom.
Figures from the ABI/1 do not include self-employed jobs and therefore these estimates will understate the actual total number of jobs.
As with any survey, results from the ABI/1 are subject to a margin of uncertainty.
| Table 1: Number of jobs in Construction Industries( 1, 2) | ||||
| Thousand (not seasonally adjusted) | ||||
| Great Britain | North East | South Tyneside | Jarrow( 3) | |
| (1) Standard Industrial Classification (1992) section F. (2) The Annual Business Inquiry does not include estimates of self-employment jobs. Therefore the estimates provided will be lower than the actual total. (3) 1995 Parliamentary Constituency Revision Boundary. (4) Figures for 1997 are based on estimates from the rescaled Annual Employment Survey and therefore there is a discontinuity between 1997 and 1998. Notes: 1. Annual Business Inquiry figures are a measure of jobs rather than people. For example, if a person holds two jobs, each job will be counted in the total. 2. Estimates for the United Kingdom using the Annual Business Inquiry are not available. 3. There are significant discontinuities which affect comparisons of the 2006 ABI/1 estimates with earlier years and additionally with respect to changes to Standard Industrial Classifications and Geographies in 2003. More information is available from http://www.statistics.gov.uk/abi/backgroundjnfo.asp. Source: Annual Business Inquiry (ABI/1) | ||||
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