You asked
Under the Freedom of information act please provide below information:
Q1. How Many marriages between non-EEA and EEA nationals (non British) took place between 2004-2017?
Q2. How Many births were registered between 2004-2017 to non-EEA and EEA nationals (non British) parents?
Q3. How many EU national (non british) children born to non-british parents is estimated to live in UK currently?
Q4. How many divorces were registered between non-EEA and EEA nationals (non British) took place between 2004-2017?
Q5. What is the average length of the marriage between non-EEA and EEA nationals (non British) national?
For period 2004-2017 I would like to know following information:
Q6. How many EAA family permits were issued for non EEA nationals based on marriage to EEA national (non british)?
Q7. How many EEA family permits were issued based on child resident in UK to non EEA parents?
Q8. How many reported marriage fraud incidents were reported to home office by EEA nationals?
Q9. How many requests to revoke EEA family permit following marriage breakdown?
Q10. How many EAA family permits were revoked as a result of the marriage breakdown?
Q11. How many deportations following withdrawal of EEA family permit?
We said
Thank you for you enquiry. We are only able to answer some of your questions. We do not hold information on divorces, these questions may best be addressed to the Ministry of Justice. We do not hold information on EEA family permits, these questions may best be addressed to the Home Office.
Q1. Marriage statistics for England and Wales are based on the details collected when marriages are solemnised from information recorded in the marriage register. The marriage register does not contain information on ethnicity, nationality or country of birth. Information on nationality is collected by Registrars on marriage notice forms but we do not have access to this data. Consequently it is not possible for us to provide the figures requested.
Q2. 2016 births is the latest available annual dataset we have available, 2017 birth statistics will be available July 2018. We publish birth statistics based on parents' country of birth, using the groupings of UK-born parents and EU-born parents. Data for 2007 to 2016 can be found here:
See Table 3 for country of birth of mother and of father for live births in England and Wales.
Data for 2004 to 2006 are available in Birth statistics (Series FM1):
See Table 9.3 for country of birth of mother and of father for live births in England and Wales.
If you require different groupings of country of birth of mothers and fathers, 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. Please note that the latest available annual data we have available is for 2016. We recommend that you contact the Vital Statistics team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.
Q3. We do not hold any data on the number of non-UK EU children in the UK. We would be able to provide a partial answer relating to children who reside with at least one of their parents within the household; however, this would be chargeable. Please send this ad-hoc request through the mailbox: families@ons.gov.uk. If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us on pop.info@ons.gov.uk.
As some of this information is already available to you via other routes we 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.
Please refer questions 4 and 5 to the Ministry of Justice who may be able to assist with these.
With reference to questions 6 to 11 these may best be addressed to the Home Office.