You asked:

We refer to the Families and Households in the UK; 2016 statistical bulletin and the section in relation to the percentages of young adults living with their parents from age 15 to 34. Figure 4 shows that there has been an increase but we need to know how many young men aged 30 to 34 continue to live with their parents.

Do you have any data showing the number of men from age 30 to 34 who live with a partner or have a child but continue to live with their parents’ family home?

We said:

Thank you for your enquiry regarding the ‘Families and Households in the UK: 2016 statistical bulletin’.

The data used for figure 4 can be found here. You will need to open the xls spreadsheet using the green button on the webpage. The data show approximately 220,000 men between the ages of 30 and 34 living with their parents in 2015.

Regarding your request for ‘data showing the number of men from age 30 to 34 who continue to live with a partner or have a child but continue to live in their parents family home’: special extracts and tabulations of family and household data are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to: families@ons.gov.uk. We recommend that you contact the Demographic Analysis Unit team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.

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.