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Divorce: Stroud

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what estimate she has made of the number of divorces granted in courts in Stroud district in the last 12 months. (309136)

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.

Letter from Jil Matheson, dated December 2009:

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question requesting what estimate has made of the number of divorces granted in courts in Stroud district in the last 12 months. (309136)

Divorce statistics are based upon information supplied to ONS by the courts in England and Wales. The fact that a divorce has taken place in a court in a particular region does not mean that either one or both parties are resident there. Therefore, divorce statistics have been historically presented at a national level only.