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Table 2 : Number of p arliamentary electors registered to vote in each ward in Bristol South, 1988 to 2008( 1)
	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Bristol South	67,872	65,981	65,026	65,387	64,810	63,790	63,517	63,017	63,028	72,834	72,812
Bedminster	9,036	8,941	8,841	8,782	8,670	8,530	8,529	8,481	8,481	8,517	8,584
Bishopsworth	7,937	7,700	7,578	7,519	7,474	7,439	7,325	7,186	7,138	7,108	7,072
Filwood	7,505	7,078	6,958	7,134	7,076	6,829	6,884	6,787	6,756	6,593	6,568
Hartcliffe	8,697	8,473	8,350	8,282	8,277	8,236	8,125	7,929	7,756	7,608	7,544
Hengrove(3)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9,909	9,969
Knowle	7,899	7,671	7,565	7,667	7,541	7,495	7,362	7,281	7,291	7,301	7,347
Southville	8,135	7,951	7,745	7,896	7,720	7,445	7,600	7,719	7,920	8,170	8,094
Whitchurch Park	8,573	8,317	8,224	8,237	8,266	8,196	7,967	7,945	7,870	7,771	7,760
Windmill Hill	10,090	9,850	9,765	9,870	9,786	9,620	9,725	9,689	9,816	9,857	9,874

	1999	2000	2001( 2)	2001( 2)	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Bristol South	73,189	72,934	72,960	72,992	71,048	71,055	71,458	71,885	73,548	74,127	74,725
Bedminster	8,641	8,581	8,608	8,632	8,479	8,442	8,530	8,520	8,703	9,038	9,390
Bishopsworth	8,574	8,473	8,500	8,431	8,372	8,398	8,418	8,437	8,621	8,583	8,693
Filwood	7,984	8,013	7,950	7,931	7,657	7,660	7,663	7,627	7,992	7,990	7,978
Hartcliffe	8,169	8,164	8,219	8,243	8,020	7,993	8,027	8,150	8,255	8,371	8,379
Hengrove(3)	8,830	8,840	8,794	8,852	8,750	8,763	8,837	8,821	8,837	8,805	8,841
Knowle	5,777	5,783	5,757	5,744	5,717	5,681	5,694	5,652	5,721	5,693	5,644
Southville	8,181	8,031	8,074	8,076	7,790	7,837	7,858	8,123	8,509	8,591	8,720
Whitchurch Park	8,201	8,138	8,151	8,110	7,781	7,797	7,911	7,891	8,086	8,119	8,114
Windmill Hill	8,832	8,911	8,907	8,973	8,482	8,484	8,520	8,664	8,824	8,937	8,966
(1) Figures from 1988 to 2001 refer to the number of parliamentary electors registered to vote on 16 February and from 2001 onwards, those registered to vote on 1 December. (2) Two sets of figures were produced in 2001, the first refer to 16 February, and the second to 1 December. (3) Hengrove ward forms part of Bristol South constituency from 1996 onwards. Sources: Office for National Statistics Boundary Commission for England

Equal Pay

Mrs. May: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what recent estimate she has made of the gender pay gap in each (a) local authority area, (b) Government Office region and (c) parliamentary constituency. [313266]

Angela E. Smith: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated 27 January 2010:

As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question requesting the gender pay gap in each (a) local authority area, (b) Government Office region and (c) parliamentary constituency for which information is available. (313266)

Levels of earnings are estimated from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), and are provided for all employees on adult rates of pay, whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence. The ASHE, carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom. Estimates of the gender pay gap below Government Office Region are not reliable because of small sample sizes and are not provided. Estimates of the gender pay gap for part-time employees at Government Office Region are also not provided for this reason.

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