Number of live births by electoral ward in England and Wales

You asked

Please provide data showing the number of live births each year by electoral ward in England and Wales for each year since 2005.

We said

Thank you for your request.

Live births in England and Wales by ward for 2015 (based on mother's area of usual residence) are available at:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/adhocs/007277livebirthsbywardenglandandwales2015

Live births by ward for 2005 to 2014 and for 2016 (latest data year available) can be obtained from the Vital Statistics Outputs team. 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). We recommend that you contact Vital Statistics Outputs team (email: vsob@ons.gov.uk) directly in order to discuss your data requirements.

As this information is already available to you via this route, we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.