Cabinet Office written question – answered at on 7 January 2013.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
Letter from Glen Watson, dated December 2012
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent question on how many live births there were in the UK in (a) 2002 and (b) 2011, by local authority. 134599
Figures for live births have been compiled from birth registration data. The table links below show the number of live births by local authority for 2002 and 2011.
For 2002 data see table 4-1a at:
For 2011 data see table 1a at:
The 2011 figures for Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom are provisional. Figures for England, Wales and Scotland are final.
Figures for 2002 and 2011 are not directly comparable for some areas due to the changes in local authority boundaries over the period. Data are produced on boundaries in place during the reference year.
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