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Cabinet Office
Lone Parents: Durham
Roberta Blackman-Woods: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many lone parents there are in City of Durham constituency. [8462]
Mr Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated July 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your request to ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many lone parents there are in City of Durham constituency. (8462)
The number and type of families in the UK can be estimated using the Annual Population Survey (APS). Estimates are provided for lone parent families which include at least one child aged under 16.
The latest available figure is for 2008 and is shown in the table below. This is based on the 2008 parliamentary constituency
boundary. City of Durham constituency, as constituted in 2008, consisted of 20 electoral wards, nine more than the current constituency. The breakdown of the data available is not sufficiently detailed to determine whether the newly constituted parliamentary constituency contains the same estimated number of lone parents as the 2008 constituency.
| Geographical area | Number of lone parent families with at least one child under 16 (thousand)( 1) |
| (1) As with any sample survey, estimates from the APS are subject to a margin of uncertainty and are therefore presented rounded to the nearest thousand. Source: APS January to December 2008. | |
Lone Parents: Newport
Jessica Morden: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many lone parents there are in Newport East constituency. [8479]
Mr Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated July 2010:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your request to ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many lone parents there are in Newport East constituency. (8479)
The number and type of families in the UK can be estimated using the Annual Population Survey (APS). Estimates are provided for lone parent families which include at least one child aged under 16.
The latest available figure is for 2008 and is shown in the table below. This is based on the 2008 parliamentary constituency boundary and there have been no boundary changes since 2008 in the area requested.
| Geographical area | Number of lone parent families with at least one child under 16 (thousand)( 1) |
| (1) As with any sample survey, estimates from the APS are subject to a margin of uncertainty and are therefore presented rounded to the nearest thousand. Source: APS January to December 2008. | |
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