Live births by month and place of residence

You asked

I would like to request the following information.

Live births by month, from September 2011 to September 2014 for the following two areas of the mothers permanent place of residence.

1. CH60 postcode area.

2. Raby and Thornton Hough (wirral) combined.

We said

We publish annual birth statistics by area of usual residence down to local authority: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/birthsbyareaofusualresidenceofmotheruk

We have also produced an adhoc on births by postcode sector: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/adhocs/007110birthsanddeathsbypostcodesectorenglandandwales2001to2015

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: vsob@ons.gov.uk.

We recommend that you contact the Vital Statistics team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail. As this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers 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.