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Marriage Applications

Answer

I have been asked to reply.The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Registrar General, who has been asked to reply.Letter from Len Cook to Mr. David Davis, dated 24 May 2005:"As Registrar General for England and Wales I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary Questions on marriage applications. (299 and 300)""I am placing in the House of Commons Library a table showing the available information. It gives the numbers of intended marriages taken in each local authority in England and Wales for 1998–1999 to 2003–2004. Comparable data for Scotland and Northern Ireland are not held centrally, and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.""From 1 January 2001, both the bride and groom had to give notice. Prior to then, couples who lived in the same registration district gave one notice. Figures exclude marriages in an Anglican Church where notice of marriage is given after banns."

Number of intended marriages taken in each local authority in England and Wales 1998–99 to 2003–04
Local authority	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04
Barking and Dagenham	720	737	872	1568	2,004	2,171
Barnet	1,578	1,560	1,820	3,580	3,809	4,055
Barnsley	858	852	1,097	1,678	1,721	1,752
Bath and North East Somerset	654	657	812	1,266	1,347	1,380
Bedfordshire	1,571	1,481	1,983	3,170	3,394	3,535
Bexley	920	933	1,156	1,814	1,938	2,007
Birmingham	3,721	3,615	4,291	7,201	8,098	7,861
Blackburn-with-Darwen	650	601	664	1,102	1,130	1,259
Blackpool	689	655	766	1,226	1,249	1,436
Blaenau	260	262	263	384	431	513
Bolton	1,094	1,109	1,266	2,108	2,287	2,390
Bournemouth	799	796	951	1,589	1,720	1,746
Bracknell Forest	505	431	597	911	1,024	1,078
Bradford	1,712	1,662	2,045	3,397	3,494	3,575
Brent	1,328	1,286	2,014	4,104	4,474	4,460
Bridgend	499	505	605	960	1,093	1,141
Brighton and Hove	1,134	1,054	1,630	2,687	2,611	2,865
Bristol	1,755	1,767	2,152	3,497	3,878	3,967
Bromley	1,255	1,320	1,422	2,383	2,621	2,607
Buckinghamshire	1,750	1,660	1,980	3,319	3,473	3,788
Bury	778	821	865	1,413	1,485	1,673
Caerphilly	675	702	803	1,281	1,391	1,451
Calderdale	765	758	858	1,399	1,497	1,605
Cambridgeshire	2,059	2,067	2,583	4,309	4,603	4,731
Camden	1,036	1,049	1,297	2,587	2,850	3,075
Cardiff	1,279	1,317	1,486	2,216	2,496	2,662
Carmarthenshire	607	616	630	1,064	1,190	1,138
Ceredigion	218	177	220	361	444	446
Cheshire	2,773	2,725	3,071	5,205	5,406	5,466
City of Westminster	883	975	1450	3,111	3,047	3,259
Conwy	416	388	470	111	755	8,22
Cornwall	1,837	1,907	2,376	3,802	4,071	4,307
Coventry	1,211	1,264	1,629	2,524	2,386	2,647
Croydon	1,469	1,408	1,766	3,194	3,328	3,522
Cumbria	1,602	1,626	1,966	3,245	3,341	3,570
Darlington	451	441	510	796	812	868
Denbighshire	287	307	332	560	605	626
Derby	1,097	1,063	1,203	2,008	1,896	2,037
Derbyshire	2,35	2,848	3,262	5,296	5,697	5,986
Devon	2,558	2,551	3,087	4,971	5,437	5,818
Doncaster	1,183	1,225	1,487	2,236	2,263	2,644
Dorset	1,345	1,360	1,631	2,625	2,749	3,101
Dudley	1,142	1,167	1,323	2,028	2,327	2,225
Durham	1,901	1,893	2,090	3,576	3,576	3,931
Ealing	1,601	1,540	2,098	3,878	3,923	4,155
East Riding of Yorkshire	1,007	1,012	1,290	2,030	2,160	2,422
East Sussex	1,925	1,987	2,411	4,061	4,24	4,257
Enfield	254	1,322	1,565	3,033	3,116	3,333
Essex	4,844	4,19	5,938	10,044	10,888	11,218
Flintshire	624	517	732	1,161	1,193	1,241
Gateshead	797	834	943	1,476	1,473	1,578
Gloucestershire	2,072	2,132	2,524	4,204	4,433	4,686
Greenwich	1,074	987	1,215	2,218	2,419	2,855
Gwynedd	388	360	427	673	716	748
Hackney	1,188	1,119	1,442	2,923	3,479	3,437
Halton	561	492	579	979	928	1,011
Hammersmith and Fulham	881	851	1,147	2,207	2,417	2,472
Hampshire	4,937	4,937	5,923	10,094	10,433	10,560
Haringey	1,422	1,408	2001	3,857	4,544	4,932
Harrow	871	907	1,040	1,873	2,072	2,005
Hartlepool	381	354	416	688	696	675
Havering	858	844	936	1,578	1,666	1,792
Herefordshire	600	552	678	1,084	1,130	1,221
Hertfordshire	4406	4,386	5,169	8,717	9,241	9,577
Hillingdon	1,043	1,075	1,272	2,190	2,079	2,233
Hounslow	1,062	1,102	1,528	2,550	2,803	2,878
Isle of Anglesey	200	226	254	367	461	385
Isle of Wight	501	498	591	924	1,086	1,051
Isles of Scilly	6	7	6	18	20	13
Islington	916	947	1,217	2,308	2,559	2,541
Kensington and Chelsea	731	674	970	1,887	1,931	1,933
Kent	4,934	4,874	6,017	9,98	10,516	11,206
Kingston Upon Hull	1,109	1,106	1,231	2,105	2,281	,377
Kingston Upon Thames	710	680	859	1,327	1,380	1,546
Kirklees	1,556	1,576	1,937	3,097	3,195	3,343
Knowsley	531	546	605	881	886	1,009
Lambeth	1,611	1,606	2,232	4,299	4,883	1,836
Lancashire	4,404	4,583	5,185	8,329	8,922	9,527
Leeds	2,781	2,802	3,361	5,436	5,741	6,191
Leicester	1,245	1,169	1,604	2,791	2,808	2,864
Leicestershire	2,194	2,171	2,543	4,150	4,596	4,591
Lewisham	1,232	1,258	1,623	3,465	3,523	3,957
Lincolnshire	2,074	2,124	2,633	4,301	5,017	5,116
Liverpool	1,517	1,472	1,651	2,651	2,889	2,899
London Corporation	45	35	33	64	71	70
Luton	732	726	874	1,650	1,664	1,983
Manchester	1,679	1,608	2,15	3,73	3,616	4,001
Medway	1,197	1,108	1,512	2,032	2,508	2,508
Merthyr Tydfil	210	198	275	464	442	387
Merton	918	881	1,209	1,991	2,059	2,387
Middlesbrough	571	544	622	1,14	966	1,037
Milton Keynes	981	1,008	1,179	2,194	2,275	2,509
Monmouthshire	289	271	302	560	581	646
Neath Port Talbot	487	473	530	816	1,079	1,072
Newcastle Upon Tyne	1,056	1,011	1,207	1,852	1,970	2,025
Newham	1,297	1,262	1,569	3,139	3,98	3,401
Newport	530	529	576	945	1,124	1,129
Norfolk	2,988	3,058	3,637	6,284	6,476	6,750
North East Lincolnshire	637	614	707	1,148	1,281	1,296
North Lincolnshire	506	606	628	1,027	1,061	1,251
North Somerset	688	676	775	1,332	1,567	1,533
North Tyneside	843	852	1,084	1,445	1,704	1,837
North Yorkshire	2,033	2,179	2,443	4,047	4,429	4,329
Northamptonshire	2,738	2,184	3,318	5,340	5,941	6,273
Northumberland	1,177	1,152	1,347	1,997	2,170	2,368
Nottingham	1,117	1,146	1,355	2,255	2,447	2,593
Nottinghamshire	2,637	2,660	3,274	5,123	5,680	5,846
Oldham	8,22	790	1,479	1,641	1,618	5,733
Oxfordshire	2,403	2,259	3,094	5,114	5,407	5,733
Pembrokeshire	3,66	3,28	398	693	738	756
Peterborough	689	792	960	1,571	1,706	1,730
Plymouth	1,106	1,148	1,366	2,312	2,495	2,399
Poole	669	589	785	1,239	1,277	1,355
Portsmouth	960	984	1,142	1,974	2,153	2,201
Powys	363	345	377	634	710	7,94
Reading	739	756	936	1,607	1,769	1,819
Redbridge	1,148	1,132	1,294	2,417	2,327	2,497
Redcar and Cleveland	526	531	628	974	880	1,029
Rhonddacynontaf	837	791	940	1,539	1,562	1,751
Richmond upon Thames	806	822	1,028	1,783	1,881	1,894
Rochdale	864	845	993	1,488	1,570	1,763
Rotherham	892	857	1,033	1,589	1,781	1,947
Rutland	133	102	128	226	264	260
Salford	992	898	1,138	1,747	1,693	1,901
Sandwell	1,216	1,234	1,330	2,284	2,565	2,493
Sefton	1,071	987	1,133	1,725	1,837	1,952
Sheffield	1,753	1,833	2,247	3,566	3,718	3,778
Shropshire	917	908	1,069	1,712	2,082	2,018
Slough	609	575	778	103	1,443	1,526
Solihull	679	700	728	1,100	1,182	1,344
Somerset	1,780	1,784	2,219	3,494	3,815	3,784
South Gloucestershire	1,032	974	1,223	1,957	2,020	2,239
South Tyneside	560	568	668	954	1,133	1,109
Southampton	997	983	1,321	2,023	2,213	2,190
Southend-on-Sea	801	792	864	1,537	1,621	1,702
Southwark	1,140	1,368	1,825	3,098	4,170	4,283
St. Helens	682	668	798	1,184	1,148	1,462
Staffordshire	2,910	2,943	3,451	5,577	6,063	6,419
Stockport	1,179	1,135	1,388	2037	2249	2337
Stockton-on-Tees	770	743	862	1,331	1,385	1,523
Stoke on Trent	1,091	1,021	1,154	1,820	2,097	2,155
Suffolk	2,748	2,587	3,035	5,060	5,365	5,851
Sunderland	995	1,101	1,248	1,880	2,054	2,199
Surrey	4,282	4,245	5,201	8,395	8,677	8,894
Sutton	883	786	1,098	1,599	1,707	1,715
Swansea	792	740	887	1,521	1,569	1,627
Swindon	896	890	1,146	1,670	1,893	1,988
Tameside	1,002	896	1,051	1,595	1,754	1,746
Telford and Wrekin	670	637	814	1,252	1,383	1,667
The Vale of Glamorgan	501	480	559	860	926	973
Thurrock	648	609	765	1,238	1,313	1,435
Torbay	536	591	768	1,058	1,221	1,271
Torfaen	371	341	390	726	648	658
Tower Hamlets	759	744	1,121	2,348	2,652	2,848
Trafford	951	904	1,070	1,729	1,760	1,897
Wakefield	1,260	1,285	1,625	2,444	2,721	2,904
Walsall	984	999	1,046	1,763	1,678	1,836
Waltham Forest	999	1,046	1,429	2,807	3,081	3,122
Wandsworth	1,502	1,513	2,151	3,813	4,145	4,553
Warrington	788	764	897	1,433	1,565	1,593
Warwickshire	1,944	2,007	2341	3807	3898	4148
West Berkshire	572	561	683	1,122	1,303	1,296
West Sussex	3,044	3,134	3,703	6,16	6,328	6,593
Wigan	1,245	1,297	1,437	2,314	2,365	2,637
Wiltshire	1,679	1,394	2026	3,361	3,593	3,597
Windsor and Maidenhead	565	543	713	1,131	1,174	1,196
Wirral	1,221	1,205	1,480	2,361	2,383	2,538
Wokingham	579	574	701	1,204	1,138	1,237
Wolverhampton	937	1,066	1,118	1,771	1,994	2,045
Worcestershire	2,049	2,011	1,987	3,701	4,277	4,193
Wrexham	437	468	505	896	805	908
York	856	766	956	1,590	1,649	1,697
Total	210,633	209,803	255,190	424,325	456,444	474,721

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

299; 434 c71-5W;434 c75-80W

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Marriage Registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships

Contains statistics

Yes