CHILDBIRTH: GREATER LONDON
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what the (a) number and (b) proportion of births where one or both parents were foreign-born was in (i) London and (ii) each Greater London borough in the most recent year for which figures are available. [178839]
Mr Hurd, Minister for Civil Society: 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 2013:
As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking the Secretary of State for the Home Department on what the (a) number and (b) proportion of births was where one-or both parents were foreign-born in (i) London and (ii) each Greater London borough in the most recent year for which figures are available [178839],
Figures for live births where one or both parents are non-UK born have been compiled from birth registration data. The following table shows the number and proportion of live births in 2012 by area of usual residence. Information on country of birth of parents is provided by the informant at registration.
The number of live births to non-UK born parents includes sole registered live births (births registered by the mother alone, where information on the father was not recorded) where the mother is non-UK born. Some births sole registered by UK born mothers may have non-UK born fathers but it is not possibly to quantify these as no information is available on the father.
| Number and proportion of live births in London, where one or both parents are non-UK born, 2012 | |||||
| Live births where one parent is foreign born | Live births where both parents are foreign born | ||||
| Area of usual residence of mother | Number of live births | Number | Percentage of all live births | Number | Percentage of all live births |
| London | 134,186 | 27,722 | 20.7 | 60,364 | 45.0 |
| Inner London | 53,957 | 12,916 | 23.9 | 25,060 | 46.4 |
| Camden | 2,944 | 672 | 22.8 | 1,433 | 48.7 |
| Hackney and City of London | 4,585 | 1,467 | 32.0 | 1,711 | 37.3 |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 2,646 | 639 | 24.1 | 1,124 | 42.5 |
| Haringey | 4,209 | 1,024 | 24.3 | 2,031 | 48.3 |
| Islington | 2,988 | 723 | 24.2 | 1,090 | 36.5 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 2,024 | 475 | 23.5 | 1,156 | 57.1 |
| Lambeth | 4,825 | 1,197 | 24.8 | 1,895 | 39.3 |
| Lewisham | 5,095 | 1,136 | 22.3 | 2,064 | 40.5 |
| Newham | 6,426 | 1,319 | 20.5 | 4,145 | 64.5 |
| Southwark | 5,030 | 1,193 | 23.7 | 2,206 | 43.9 |
| Tower Hamlets | 4,784 | 1,092 | 22.8 | 2,611 | 54.6 |
| Wandsworth | 5,451 | 1,285 | 23.6 | 1,923 | 35.3 |
| Westminster | 2,950 | 694 | 23.5 | 1,671 | 56.6 |
| Outer London | 80,229 | 14,806 | 18.5 | 35,304 | 44.0 |
| Barking and Dagenham | 3,957 | 653 | 16.5 | 1,997 | 50.5 |
| Barnet | 5,585 | 1,216 | 21.8 | 2,457 | 44.0 |
| Bexley | 3,076 | 396 | 12.9 | 666 | 21.7 |
| Brent | 5,340 | 989 | 18.5 | 3,398 | 63.6 |
| Bromley | 4,140 | 659 | 15.9 | 780 | 18.8 |
| Croydon | 5,884 | 1,173 | 19.9 | 2,321 | 39.4 |
| Ealing | 5,847 | 1,104 | 18.9 | 3,397 | 58.1 |
| Enfield | 5,094 | 1,005 | 19.7 | 2,414 | 47.4 |
| Greenwich | 4,624 | 820 | 17.7 | 2,092 | 45.2 |
| Harrow | 3,585 | 617 | 17.2 | 2,110 | 58.9 |
| Havering | 2,888 | 306 | 10.6 | 494 | 17.1 |
| Hillingdon | 4,536 | 723 | 15.9 | 2,072 | 45.7 |
| Hounslow | 4,621 | 757 | 16.4 | 2,558 | 55.4 |
| Kingston upon Thames | 2,328 | 475 | 20.4 | 680 | 29.2 |
| Merton | 3,476 | 666 | 19.2 | 1,643 | 47.3 |
| Redbridge | 4,792 | 1,071 | 22.3 | 2,386 | 49.8 |
| Richmond upon Thames | 2,916 | 688 | 23.6 | 649 | 22.3 |
| Sutton | 2,708 | 414 | 15.3 | 761 | 28.1 |
| Waltham Forest | 4,832 | 1,074 | 22.2 | 2,429 | 50.3 |