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Personal Income: Coastal Areas

Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the average weekly income was in each ward in each principal seaside town in (a) England and (b) Wales in the last month for which figures are available, listed in descending order in each case. [265495]

Kevin Brennan: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 24 March 2009:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the average income was in each ward in each principal seaside town in England and Wales in the last month for which figures are available, listed in descending order with Welsh seaside town clusters disaggregated. (265495)

Estimates of average income are not available at ward level. However, it is possible to provide estimates of gross weekly earnings at Local Authority level. These are estimated from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), and are provided for all full-time employees on adult rates of pay whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence.

I attach a table showing the median gross weekly earnings for full-time employees for the Local Authority associated with each principal seaside town in England and Wales in 2008.

The ASHE, carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. It is a sample of employees who are members of pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) schemes.

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Median weekly pay—Gross (£)—For full-time employee jobs( 1) in local authorities containing principal seaside towns in England and Wales for 2008
Principal seaside towns	Local authority	Median full-time
Greater Bournemouth	Bournemouth UA	*479
Greater Brighton	Brighton and Hove UA	*480
Greater Blackpool	Blackpool UA	*358
Greater Worthing	Worthing	*439
Southend-on-Sea	Southend-on-Sea UA	*439
Isle of Wight	Isle of Wight UA	*420
Torbay	Torbay UA	*376
Hastings/Bexhill	Hastings	*386
Thanet	Thanet	**384
Southport	Sefton	*426
Eastbourne	Eastbourne	*475
Weston-super-Mare	North Somerset UA	*480
Whitstable/Herne Bay	Canterbury	*431
Llandudno/Colwyn Bay/Conway	Conwy/Conwy	*417
Folkstone/Hythe	Shepway	**466
Lowestoft	Waveney	*388
Clacton	Tendring	*370
Great Yarmouth	Great Yarmouth	*448
Scarborough	Scarborough	*411
Weymouth	Weymouth and Portland	*340
Morecambe and Heysham	Lancaster	*440
Rhyl/Prestatyn	Denbighshire/Sir Ddinbych	*422
Bognor Regis	Arun	*404
Whitley Bay	North Tyneside	*411
Exmouth	Teignbridge	*405
Bridlington	East Riding of Yorkshire UA	*450
Dawlish/Teignmouth	Teignbridge	*405
Deal	Dover	*450
Barry	The Vale of Glamorgan/Bro Morgannwg	*484
Newquay	Restormel	*378
Penzance	Penwith	**313
Falmouth	Carrick	*436
Burnham-on-Sea	Sedgemoor	*398
Skegness	East Lindsey	**377
Porthcawl	Bridgend/Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr	*430
Sidmouth	East Devon	*380
Whitby	Scarborough	*411
Minehead	West Somerset	X
St. Ives	Penwith	**313
Ilfracombe	North Devon	*352
Swanage	Purbeck	**460
(1) Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence. Guide to quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of a figure, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV - for example, for an average of 200 with a CV of 5 per cent. we would expect the population average to be within the range 180 to 220. Key: CV <= 5 per cent. * CV > 5 per cent. and < = 10 per cent. ** CV > 10 per cent. and< = 20 per cent. x CV > 20 per cent. Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Population

Mr. Soames: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what the net international migration was affecting (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each year since 1991. [265687]

Kevin Brennan [holding answer 23 March 2009]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated March 2009:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to respond to your question concerning what the net international migration was for (a) England, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each year since 1991. (265687)

Official estimates of net international migration for the constituent countries of the UK in each year since 1991 are given in Table 1.

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Net migration to the countries of the UK, 1991-92 to 2006-07
Thousand
Mid-year to mid-year	England	Wales	Scotland( 1)	Northern Ireland( 2)
1991-92	+23	-2	-16	—
1992-93	-6	-1	-3	+1
1993-94	+44	—	-1	+1
1994-95	+78	+1	-3	—
1995-96	+72	+4	-4	+2
1996-97	+58	+2	-6	+1
1997-98	+85	+3	-9	+1
1998-99	+156	+2	+1	-5
1999-2000	+148	+4	+12	-1
2000-01	+179	-1	+8	-2
2001-02	+148	+3	—	-1
2002-03	+152	-1	-4	-1
2003-04	+172	+2	+1	—
2004-05	+251	—	+8	+5
2005-06	+162	+3	+6	+9
2006-07	+180	+5	+17	+8
(1) The estimates for Scotland have been revised. However, international migration estimates for Scotland for the purposes of estimating population change will not be revised and so there may be some differences. (2) The Northern Ireland figures are based on new registrations with a family doctor from outside the UK. Source: International Passenger Survey, Home Office, Irish Central Statistics Office, NISRA Figures for England, Wales and Scotland are published as table 2.11 on: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=15053

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