You asked
For the most recent calendar year that you have data for could you please provide me with the 50 census wards in England that had the most:
- Live births registered outside of marriage
- Live births registered solely and outside of marriage
- Live births registered jointly and outside of marriage with parents NOT living at the same address
We said
Thank you for your query regarding births data.
Information on births can be obtained from the customer services team of the Vital Statistics Outputs Branch. Special extracts and tabulations of births data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to:
Vital Statistics Outputs Branch Office for National Statistics Segensworth Road Titchfield Fareham Hampshire PO15 5RR Tel: +44 (0)1329 444 110 E-mail: vsob@ons.gov.uk
As this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers that S21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.