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Lone Parents: Worsley

Answer

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 recent Parliamentary Question asking how many lone parents there are in Worsley and Eccles South constituency. (6139)""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 table below shows the latest available figures which are for 2008 on the 2008 parliamentary constituency boundaries. Data are provided for the two separate parliamentary constituencies ('Worsley' and 'Eccles') as constituted in 2008. These two combined are substantially larger than the current parliamentary constituency ('Worsley and Eccles South'). The breakdown of the data available is not sufficiently detailed to determine whether the newly constituted parliamentary constituency contains the lone parent families."

Geographical area	Number of lone parent families-with at least one child under 16 (thousand)
Worsley and Eccles South constituency (current)	n/a
Worsley constituency (2008)	3
Eccles constituency (2008)	4
n/a = not available
Source:
APS January to December 2008

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

6139; 513 c360-1W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Lone parents Worsley

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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