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Mr. Harvey
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of the population in each English and Welsh county is over pensionable age; and what is the English and Scottish average. [36715]
Mr. Sackville
The information is in the table.
| Mid-1994 population estimates Persons of pensionable age(1)as a percentage of all residents | |
| Percentage | |
| Great Britain | 18.3 |
| England | 18.3 |
| Wales | 19.9 |
| Scotland | 17.8 |
| Counties.- | |
| Greater London | 15.7 |
| Greater Manchester | 17.3 |
| Merseyside | 18.7 |
| South Yorkshire | 18.5 |
| Tyne and Wear | 18.9 |
| West Midlands | 17.8 |
| West Yorkshire | 17.4 |
| Avon | 18.7 |
| Bedfordshire | 14.8 |
| Berkshire | 14.5 |
| Buckinghamshire | 14.6 |
| Cambridgeshire | 16.4 |
| Cheshire | 17.6 |
| Cleveland | 16.8 |
| Cornwall and Isle of Scilly | 22.8 |
| Cumbria | 20.3 |
| Derbyshire | 18.7 |
| Devon | 22.8 |
| Dorset | 25.2 |
| Durham | 18.6 |
| East Sussex | 24.8 |
| Essex | 18.7 |
| Gloucestershire | 19.7 |
| Hampshire | 17.8 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 19.0 |
| Hertfordshire | 17.1 |
| Humberside | 18.7 |
| Isle of Wight | 26.4 |
| Kent | 19.0 |
| Lancashire | 19.2 |
| Leicestershire | 17.0 |
| Lincolnshire | 21.3 |
| Norfolk | 22.1 |
| Northamptonshire | 16.6 |
| Northumberland | 19.6 |
| North Yorkshire | 20.4 |
| Nottinghamshire | 18.0 |
| Oxfordshire | 16.1 |
| Shropshire | 18.3 |
| Somerset | 21.9 |
| Staffordshire | 17.3 |
| Suffolk | 20.3 |
| Surrey | 18.6 |
| Warwickshire | 18.1 |
| West Sussex | 23.5 |
| Wiltshire | 17.7 |
| Clwyd | 20.5 |
| Dyfed | 22.0 |
| Gwent | 18.9 |
| Gwynedd | 22.8 |
| Mid-Glamorgan | 18.1 |
| Powys | 22.0 |
| South Glamorgan | 18.1 |
| West Glamorgan | 20.6 |
Source:
Population Estimates Unit, OPCS.
1 65 and over for Unit, OPCS.