Speeches

Margaret Curran – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Scotland Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Margaret Curran on 2014-04-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, how many people of pensionable age there were in each parliamentary constituency in Scotland at the most recent date for which figures are available.

Mr Alistair Carmichael

The information below is arranged by UK Parliamentary constituency.

Constituency

Aged 65+

Aberdeen North

12,983

Aberdeen South

14,123

Airdrie and Shotts

12,923

Angus

17,127

Argyll and Bute

19,487

Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock

19,258

Banff and Buchan

16,356

Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

20,180

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross

12,654

Central Ayrshire

17,069

Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill

13,775

Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East

13,344

Dumfries and Galloway

21,175

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

18,492

Dundee East

16,407

Dundee West

14,357

Dunfermline and West Fife

15,018

East Dunbartonshire

16,838

East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow

17,375

East Lothian

17,911

East Renfrewshire

16,362

Edinburgh East

12,577

Edinburgh North and Leith

12,750

Edinburgh South

13,427

Edinburgh South West

13,364

Edinburgh West

16,712

Falkirk

17,690

Glasgow Central

8,907

Glasgow East

13,738

Glasgow North

7,990

Glasgow North East

13,032

Glasgow North West

13,025

Glasgow South

12,824

Glasgow South West

12,735

Glenrothes

15,450

Gordon

15,582

Inverclyde

14,837

Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey

17,346

Kilmarnock and Loudoun

16,649

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath

17,637

Lanark and Hamilton East

17,516

Linlithgow and East Falkirk

17,744

Livingston

14,189

Midlothian

14,074

Moray

17,370

Motherwell and Wishaw

14,490

Na h-Eileanan an Iar

6,021

North Ayrshire and Arran

18,939

North East Fife

16,492

Ochil and South Perthshire

18,394

Orkney and Shetland

8,065

Paisley and Renfrewshire North

14,930

Paisley and Renfrewshire South

14,708

Perth and North Perthshire

19,760

Ross, Skye and Lochaber

13,424

Rutherglen and Hamilton West

15,782

Stirling

15,656

West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine

14,336

West Dunbartonshire

14,988

Source: General Register Office for Scotland, December 2013

More information can be found on the following link:

http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/theme/population/estimates/special-area/ukpc.html.