To ask Her Majesty's Government how many residents in the United Kingdom are from families of Pakistani Christian origin; and in which local authority areas they are mainly resident. [HL3326]

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

Letter from Karen Dunnell, National Statistician, to Lord Greaves, dated May 2009.

As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your question asking how many residents in the United Kingdom are from families of Pakistani Christian origin, and in which local authority areas they are mainly resident (HL3326).

According to the 2001 censuses of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, 8,370 people were counted as both Pakistani and Christian.

Thirteen local authorities contained more than 100 people counted as Pakistani and Christian: Slough (250 people), Pendle (245), Ealing (230), Glasgow City (195), Croydon (190), Newham (180), City of Bristol (165),^-Waltham Forest (160), Birmingham (160), Redbridge (150), Kirklees (130), Bradford (110) and Manchester (105).

More recent data on ethnic group and religion are available from the Annual Population Survey. However, that survey is not large enough to provide robust estimates at a local authority level for the Pakistani Christian sub-group of the population.

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Created on 06 May 2009 by Office for National Statistics.

Cells in this table have been randomly adjusted to avoid the release of confidential data.

Source: 2001 Census