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As the Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what methodology will be used to count (a) people in immigration removal centres and (b) asylum seekers in the 2011 Census. (323453)
ONS will count those people in immigration removal centres in the same manner as it will count people in prison. ONS have liaised with the Ministry of Justice to develop procedures for enumerating prisoners, and are currently in discussion with the UK Borders Agency to extend this planning to cover immigration removal centres.
Specially trained field staff will visit such establishments and work with the management to ensure that census returns are made in respect of all inmates. Three prisons were included in the 2009 Census Rehearsal to ensure that plans for the 2011 Census are effective and practical.
Where asylum seekers are living in the community, Census field staff will not know whether or not they are asylum seekers, and the census questionnaire will not seek this information. Such people will be enumerated via a combination of special enumeration and general enumeration procedures dependent on their length of intended residence and their place of residence. Both language support and translation services will be available. In addition, field staff will have received specific training in how to best encourage people to complete a questionnaire and deal with refusals. There will also be a tailored publicity and communications strategy to accompany this.
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office pursuant to the answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 1 March 2010, Official Report, column 987W, on Census, (1) what the quantified discounted benefit is of the additional questions contained in the 2011 Census; [323568]
(2) what the quantified discounted benefit was of the (a) 1991 and (b) 2011 Census exercises in real terms, adjusting for inflation and population growth. [323569]
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 March 2010:
As the Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) I have been asked to reply to your recent questions asking, pursuant to the Answer to the Rt. Hon. Member for Horsham of 1 March 2010, Official Report, column 987W, on Census, what the quantified discounted benefit is of the additional questions contained in the 2011 Census, (323568); and pursuant to the Answer to the Rt. Hon. Member for Horsham of 1 March 2010, Official Report, column 987W on Census, what the quantified discounted benefit was of the (a) 1991 and (b) 2011 Census exercises in real terms, adjusting for inflation and population growth. (323569)
The quantified discounted benefit has only been calculated for the 2011 Census programme as a whole, specific figures for the net increase of 6 individual questions per person (with no increase in household questions), have not been calculated in financial terms. However, the uses of each question have been extensively explored and well documented. Reports into the development and the uses of the questions for the 2011 Census are available to download on the ONS website.
As explained in the previous answer referred to in your question, the quantified discounted benefit for the 2011 Census has been estimated to be circa £750 million, however these benefits only relate to an estimated half of the uses of census data of which ONS is aware and so this figure is considered to be a very significant under-estimate.
This is the first time that quantified, discounted benefits have been calculated for a census therefore no figures exist for the 1991 or 2001 Censuses.
Mr. Stewart Jackson: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office over what geographic area the estimated £482 million expenditure on the 2011 Census is to be incurred. [324022]
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 March 2010:
As the Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking over what geographic area the estimated £482 million expenditure on the 2011 Census is to be incurred. (324022)
This figure is the cost estimated by ONS to cover the undertaking of the 2011 Census in England and Wales.
Deaths: Malnutrition
Justine Greening: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) how many deaths attributed to a malnutrition-related condition there were of people in each age group in each London borough in each year since 2000; [323786]
(2) how many deaths of people resident in (a) private and (b) public care homes who had a malnutrition-related condition there were in each London borough in each year since 2000. [323787]
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 March 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent questions asking:
1. How many deaths attributed to a malnutrition-related condition there were of people in each age group in each London borough in each year since 2000 (323786)
2. How many deaths of people resident in (a) private and (b) public care homes who had a malnutrition-related condition there were in each London borough in each year since 2000 (323787).
Internationally accepted guidance from the World Health Organisation requires only those conditions that contributed directly to death to be recorded on the death certificate. Medical practitioners and coroners are not supposed to record all of the diseases or conditions present at or before death. Whether a condition contributed is a matter for their clinical judgement.
There is no official definition of a 'malnutrition-related condition'. The tables attached provide the number of deaths where:
1. Malnutrition was the underlying cause of death, by broad age group, in each London borough, in the years 2000 to 2008 (the latest year available) combined (Table 1).
2. Malnutrition or effects of hunger were mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, either as the underlying cause or as a contributory factor, by broad age group, in each London borough, in the years 2000 to 2008 combined (Table 2). Figures in Table 2 include those in Table 1.
3. Malnutrition or effects of hunger were mentioned anywhere on the death certificate, either as the underlying cause or as a contributory factor, in (a) private care homes and (b) public care homes in the London government office region, in each year from 2000 to 2008 (Table 3).
There were (a) two deaths in private care homes and (b) one death in a public care home where malnutrition was the underlying cause of death, in the London government office region, in the years 2000 to 2008 combined.(1,2,3,4)
More detailed breakdowns of the figures provided would include extremely small numbers of deaths in each London borough, age group or category, and might allow the identification of individuals. Consequently this level of detail has not been provided, in line with ONS policy on protecting confidentiality within birth and death statistics.(5)
(1) Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes 260-269 (malnutrition) for the year 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes E40-E46 (malnutrition) for 2001 onwards. Deaths were included where one of these causes was the underlying cause of death. The introduction of ICD-10 in 2001 means that the numbers of deaths from malnutrition before 2001 are not completely comparable with later years.
(2) 'Private care home' includes non-NHS private nursing homes and private residential homes; 'Public care home' includes NHS private nursing homes and local authority residential homes.
(3) Figures are based on boundaries as of 2010.
(4) Figures are for deaths registered in the calendar years 2000-08 combined.
(5) The ONS policy on protecting confidentiality within birth and death statistics is available on the National Statistics website at:
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