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Written question asked by Ian Lucas (Labour) on Thursday, 25 October 2018, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 31 October 2018 (named day). It was answered by Sarah Newton (Conservative) on Wednesday, 31 October 2018 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Disability: Wrexham

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many disabled people aged 16 to 64 by category of disability there are in the Wrexham constituency.

Answer

Table 1 below shows the estimated number of people aged 16 to 64 who have a disability in Wrexham. It also shows the disability prevalence, as well as the equivalent figures for the UK.

Estimates for constituencies are based on small sample sizes and are therefore subject to a margin of uncertainty. Therefore, these estimates should be treated with caution. The “confidence interval” of 4 percentage points means that we can be 95% confident that the true value lies between 13% and 20% (calculated using unrounded figures).

Sample sizes are too small to provide reliable estimates of categories of disability by constituency.

Table 1: the number and percentage of disabled people, aged 16 to 64, in Wrexham, and the UK, July 2016 to June 2017

Number of disabled people

Total population

Disability Prevalence (%)

Confidence Interval (percentage points)

Wrexham

7,000

44,000

17

4

United Kingdom

7,386,000

41,081,000

18

Source: Annual Population Survey, available at: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/

Notes:

  1. The Annual Population Survey was used to provide a larger sample size to provide constituency breakdowns. Therefore, estimates for the UK will not exactly match estimates from the Labour Force Survey published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in their UK Labour Market statistics bulletin.
  2. Estimates are provided for the period July 2016 to June 2017 which is the latest period published by ONS without health warnings. More recent estimates remain subject to health warnings while ONS complete their investigations into an unexpected increase in reporting of disability in July to September 2017.
  3. In summary, the disability definition covers people who report:
  • (current) physical or mental health condition(s) or illnesses lasting or expected to last 12 months or more
  • the condition(s) or illness(es) reduce their ability to carry out day-to-day activities.
  1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 1000. Percentages are rounded to one percentage point.
  2. Estimates are subject to sampling variation and are therefore subject to a margin of uncertainty. The ‘confidence interval’ measures this uncertainty, such that we can be 95% confident that the true disability prevalence falls within that distance of the estimate.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
183889
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Disability Wrexham
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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