You asked
Would it be possible to provide me with demographic information about mothers who gave birth in Birmingham in 2013. I would like to know ethnicity, age, parity, single/married/co-habiting, ( by % breakdown if possible). and any other demographical information that you may hold about mothers giving birth in Birmingham in 2013.
We said
Thank you for your recent query regarding births data.
Some of the information you have requested is already available on our website.
Further 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.