Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of residents of the (a) Southampton City, (b) NHS West London, (c) NHS North Manchester and (d) West Hampshire clinical commissioning group areas are BME.

The information is not available in the format requested.

Information taken from the 2011 census relating to different ethnic groups by local authority area is available from the Office for National Statistics website and can be accessed using the following link:

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