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Hull: Ethnic and Religious Breakdown
Lord Laird asked Her Majesty's Government:
- What is the ethnic and religious breakdown of the population of Hull. [HL2275]
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from the National Statistician, Len Cook, dated 31 March 2003.
As National Statistician and Registrar General for England and Wales I have been asked to reply to your recent Question asking what is the ethnic and religious breakdown of the population of Hull. (HL2275)
The percentage distribution of ethnic group and religion for the population of Kingston upon Hull is shown in Tables KS06 and KS07 of the 2001 Census Key Statistics for Local Authorities in England and Wales, which was published on 13 February. A copy of this report was placed in the House of Lords Library and is freely available on the National Statistics website at:http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Expodata/Spreadsheets/D6561.xls (Table KS06 Ethnic Group) and http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Expodata/Spreadsheets/D6563.xls (Table KS07 Religion).
Ninety-six per cent of the population of Kingston upon Hull are White British, and a further 1 per cent are classified as Other White. The remaining three per cent of the population comprise a mix of different ethnic groups.
There are 174,758 (almost 72 per cent) people in Kingston upon Hull who are Christians with just under 20 per cent of the population with no religion. The proportion of people with religions other than Christianity is very small with only 0.9 per cent of the population who are Muslims and even fewer who are Buddhist (0.2 per cent), Hindus (0.1 per cent), Jews (0.1 per cent), Sikhs (0.1 per cent) and who have other religions (0.2 per cent). Approximately 8 per cent of the population of Kingston upon Hull did not state a religion.
I have attached copies of the relevant tables.
| Number/percentage of people in ethnic groups | ||||||||
| White | Mixed | |||||||
| Area | All people | British | Irish | Other White | White and Black Caribbean | White and Black African | White and Asian | Other Mixed |
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i |
| Kingston upon Hull, City of UA | 243,589 | 234,716 | 761 | 2,462 | 340 | 338 | 453 | 488 |
| 96.36 | 0.31 | 1.01 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.19 | 0.20 | ||
| Number/percentage of people in ethnic groups | |||||||||
| Asian or Asian Black | Black or Black British | Chinese or other ethnic group | |||||||
| Area | Indian | Pakistani | Bangladeshi | Other Asian | Caribbean | African | Other Black | Chinese | Other ethnic group |
| a | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r |
| Kingston upon Hull, City of UA | 613 | 509 | 387 | 398 | 155 | 640 | 77 | 749 | 503 |
| 0.25 | 0.21 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.06 | 0.26 | 0.03 | 0.31 | 0.21 | |
Data obtained from Census 2001 Key Statistics for local authorities for England and Wales
Lord Stoddart of Swindon asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: The Government have consistently made clear that an assessment of the five economic tests will be made within two years of the start of this Parliament. If, on the basis of the assessment, the Government take a decision to join EMU it will be put to a vote in Parliament and then to a referendum of the British people.
Lord Vivian asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Bach): The length of time between formal acceptance of the offer of employment in the Armed Forces and the start of training varies between the services and also depends upon the specific trade that the new recruit is entering. In the Naval Service an applicant who has passed the selection process will wait an average of up to 12 weeks before joining to commence training; in the Army, individuals do not normally have to wait more than six weeks; and the average waiting time for RAF recruits to commence training is three months for officers and six/eight weeks for airmen/airwomen.
However, applicants for branches and trades which are either very popular or where only small numbers are required will wait longer before being able to enlist. At its most extreme example, the waiting list to join as a Royal Navy diver is currently three years and for some flying-related branches in the RN the period is 18
Applicants can join an alternative specialisation and apply to transfer at a later date. However, there are applicants who are prepared to wait to join in their preferred specialisation.
Of the 1,310 attested applicants currently awaiting entry to the Naval Service, 860 have been waiting for more than three months. Comparative figures for the Army and the RAF are not held centrally, but even the 408 Army recruits whose initial training was temporarily deferred recently will not have to wait more than the normal six weeks.
Lord Hylton asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Bach: The head of the Defence Export Services Organisation is Mr Alan Garwood. The net operating cost budget of the Defence Export Services Organisation for the current financial year is £13.715 million. Information for subsequent years is withheld under the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information, Exemption 2c, information that would harm the frankness and candour of internal discussion, projections and assumptions relating to internal policy analysis. I shall write to the noble Lord concerning priority markets and a copy of my letter will be placed in the Library of the House.
Lord Burlison asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord Bach: In line with the recommendation of the Medical Quinquennial Review (MQR) which we announced on 11 April 2002, the Defence Medical Education and Training Agency (DMETA) will be established on 1 April 2003. We will arrange for copies
On formation, the new agency will subsume the existing Defence Medical Training Organisation (DMTO). The Defence Secondary Care Agency (DSCA) will be disestablished on 31 March 2003, with its responsibilty for training and placement of service medical personnel transferring to DMETA. Responsibility for commissioning secondary care for service personnel will transfer to a new healthcare directorate within the Defence Medical Services Department (DMSD), formerly the Surgeon General's Department. The overseas hospitals in Cyprus and Gibraltar will transfer to the Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ) by 1 April 2005, but during the interim period DMSD will have responsibility.
DMETA will make available nominated secondary care personnel for deployments and exercises and deliver appropriate medical, dental and military training and education to specified standards to meet the operational requirement. It will bring together defence medical education and training, including the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM), the Defence Deanery, the five Ministry of Defence Hospital Units and the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) at Headley Court.
Key targets have been set for 2003–04 to provide a balanced, challenging but achievable package covering the full range of DMETA's areas of business. These are:
Defence Medical Education and Training Agency—Key Targets for Financial Year 2003–04
Key Target 1—Deployable Personnel
To meet 100 per cent of the Commander in Chiefs' requirement for secondary care personnel for operational deployments, major exercises and collective training.
Key Target 2—Training Success (Quality and Quantity)
To maintain the index of average time taken for trainees to pass through to the end of Phase II training at less than 1.05.
Key Target 4—Defence Systems Approach to Training
Ensure the application of Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT) to a minimum of 65 per cent of DMETA course within financial year 2003–04 and thereafter achieve a year on year improvement of 15 per cent until a steady state of at least 95 per cent is achieved.
Ensure the efficient rationalisation and usage of the current DMETA estate, reducing the agreed balance sheet value of the estate as at 1 April 2003 by at least 50 per cent by 2010, thereby reducing the cost of training.
In respect of the Defence Dental Agency, the MQR recommended that it should continue in its present form except that it would lose some training functions to the new DMETA. It also recommended that the DDA should develop more challenging targets, including a new system of dental risk (DR) categorisation. This has now been achieved and the key targets for the DDA for 2003–04 are as follows:
Defence Dental Agency—Key Targets for Financial Year 2003–04
Key Target 1—The Operational Requirement
To meet 100 per cent of the Commander in Chiefs' requirements for DDA personnel for operational deployments, major exercises and collective training.
To achieve 90 per cent of all service personnel in dental risk categories A and B by 31 March 2004.
To reduce the treatment need index for each service to the following: RN at or below 400; Army at or below 600; RAF at or below 330 by 31 March 2004.
Key Target 4—Military Training
To ensure that 80 per cent of all DDA personnel, whose medical category permits, achieve their service's annual individual, mandatory, military training.
Number/percentage of people stating religion as:
Area All people Christian Buddhist Hindu Jewish Muslim Sikh Other religions No religion Religion not stated
a b c d e f g h i j k
Kingston upon Hull, City of UA 243,589 174,758 374 257 265 2,116 227 389 44,627 20,576
71.74 0.15 0.11 0.11 0.87 0.09 0.16 18.32 8.45
Data obtained from Census 2001 Key Statistics for local authorities for England and Wales
Whether the statement made by M. Giscard d'Estaing, President of the Convention on the Future of Europe, in an interview with Le Monde on 14 March that, "last year Tony Blair's Government decided to organise a referendum on the euro in spring 2003 which would have created a new situation if it had been successful. Unfortunately, this option was destroyed by the Iraqi crisis", was based on information from Her Majesty's Government, which has not been made available to Parliament.[HL2308]
How long after the recruitment to the services of Her Majesty's Armed Forces a new recruit begins training; and how many recruits currently have been waiting longer than three months to begin their training.[HL2160]
What is the budgeted expenditure of the Defence Export Services Organisation for the current and coming financial years; who heads the organisation; and whether they will list its priority markets.[HL2197]
When the Defence Medical Education and Training Agency (DMETA) will be established.[HL2340]
(a) Academic. To achieve an overall academic success rate of 95 per cent across all training in the customer-approved annual agreed training requirement, based upon those students that successfully complete the required pre-course assessment where appropriate.
(b) Military. Ensure that 80 per cent of all DMETA personnel, whose medical category permits, achieve their service's annual mandatory individual military training.
Key Target 3—Academic Success (Timeliness)
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