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The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 16 October 2007:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your question regarding Primary Care Trust areas in England with the highest proportion of residents over the age of retirement per head of population for the latest year in which figures are available (157012).
The latest population estimates available by primary care trust are for mid-2005. Table 1 shows the percentage of the population over retirement age by Primary Care Organisation. These estimates will be revised shortly.
Estimates for mid-2006 and revised estimates for mid-2002 to mid-2005 will be published on 23 October 2007. These estimates are being revised to include improved international migration estimates. ONS has made improvements this year to the methods used for distributing international migrants to local areas as part of its “Improving Migration and Population Statistics” work programme. Please note therefore that the mid-2005 estimates provided here are not comparable with the revised 2005 mid-year estimates by Local Authority.
Percentage of the population over state pension age2 England 19 Dorset 27 Hastings and Rother 26 Torbay 26 East Sussex Downs and Weald 26 Isle of Wight National Health Service 26 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 25 Devon 24 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 24 Norfolk 24 North Lancashire 24 North East Essex 23 Herefordshire 23 West Sussex 23 Bournemouth and Poole 23 Somerset 23 North Somerset 23 Lincolnshire 23 East Riding of Yorkshire 23 Sefton 22 Shropshire County 22 Blackpool 22 Cumbria 22 South East Essex 22 Northumberland 21 North Yorkshire and York 21 Eastern and Coastal Kent 21 Wirral 21 Western Cheshire 21 Suffolk 21 North Staffordshire 21 Redcar and Cleveland 21 South Tyneside 21 Gloucestershire 21 North Tyneside 20 North Lincolnshire 20 Solihull 20 Havering 20 Dudley 20 Derbyshire County 20 Gateshead 20 Bath and North East Somerset 20 Worcestershire 20 Central and Eastern Cheshire 20 Bassetlaw 20 Stockport 20 County Durham 20 Wiltshire 20 Nottinghamshire County 20 Hampshire 20 North East Lincolnshire 20 Walsall Teaching 20 Darlington 20 Doncaster 19 South Staffordshire 19 Bromley 19 Wolverhampton City 19 Warwickshire 19 Leicestershire County and Rutland 19 Surrey 19 Barnsley 19 Stoke on Trent 19 Hartlepool 19 West Kent 19 West Essex 19 Rotherham 19 Trafford 19 Sandwell 19 Sunderland Teaching 19 Bexley 19 Sheffield 19 Plymouth Teaching 19 Wakefield District 18 Derby City 18 Central Lancashire 18 Mid Essex 18 South Gloucestershire 18 East Lancashire 18 Salford 18 Calderdale 18 Halton and St. Helens 18 Buckinghamshire 18 East and North Hertfordshire 18 Ashton, Leigh and Wigan 18 Bury 18 West Hertfordshire 18 Knowsley 18 Warrington 18 Cambridgeshire 18 South West Essex 18 Tameside and Glossop 18 Birmingham East and North 18 Bolton 18 Leeds 18 Coventry Teaching 17 Middlesbrough 17 North Tees 17 South Birmingham 17 Newcastle 17 Oxfordshire 17 Kirklees 17 Northamptonshire 17 Oldham 17 Brighton and Hove City 17 Hull 17 Bedfordshire 17 Liverpool 17 Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale 17 Portsmouth City Teaching 17 Peterborough 17 Harrow 17 Swindon 16 Bradford and Airedale 16 Bristol 16 Southampton City 16 Barnet 16 Telford and Wrekin 16 Enfield 16 Medway 16 Hillingdon 16 Berkshire West 15 Sutton and Merton 15 Redbridge 15 Barking and Dagenham 15 Blackburn with Darwen 15 Berkshire East 15 Nottingham City 15 Croydon 15 Leicester City 15 Luton 15 Richmond and Twickenham 14 Kingston 14 Manchester 14 Brent Teaching 14 Greenwich Teaching 14 Ealing 13 Hounslow 13 Kensington and Chelsea 13 Waltham Forest 13 Milton Keynes 13 Westminster 12 Lewisham 12 Heart of Birmingham Teaching 12 Hammersmith and Fulham 11 Southwark 11 Wandsworth 11 Haringey Teaching 11 Islington 11 Camden 11 City and Hackney Teaching 11 Lambeth 10 Newham 10 Tower Hamlets 10 1 These data are on boundaries that were in place on 1 October 2006, and include 148 primary care trusts and four care trusts. 2 State pension age includes males aged 65 and over and females aged 60 and over. Source: Office for National Statistics.