Barts Health Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment Report

www.brap.org.ukProviding data relating to Barts Health’s specific catchment area is difficult. Unfortunately, attime of writing (March 2011) the results of the 2011 Census are still a few months away frombeing published. This means the only reliable survey of ethnicity data at a ward level is the2001 Census. Given the importance of this data to Barts Health’s future equalities planning itseems inappropriate to relay decade-old information. As such, readers are directed to the listof useful websites in section 17 which will no doubt relay up-to-date and accurateinformation as soon as it is available.3.2 Population projectionsThe four charts below provide high-level population projections for ‘Black and MinorityEthnic’ (BME) groups 17 compared to ‘White’ ethnic groups. They show that there will be ahigher rate of population growth for BAME people in Newham and Waltham Forest. Since2002 there have been more BAME people in the three boroughs combined compared topeople from White ethnicities. This is due to the larger number of BAME people in Newham(both Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest are projected to have slightly higher levels ofpeople from White ethnicities up to 2027).Figures 3.2a-d: Projected population change by ethnicity, 2002-2027a: Newhamwere made to the ethnicity questions asked in the APS. These changes have caused problems with producinga consistent time series of estimates for a number of the variables published on Nomis.17 Note that there are differences in the way that different agencies describe ‘Black and Minority Ethnic’ people.Sometimes they are described as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME). For example, the GLA describes thiscategory as BAME. There is currently no accepted definition. For this report, we have referred to this category as‘BME’ – except where an agency (and associated data) refers to ‘BAME’ people. This has been done to ensureour analysis is consistent with the data provided by those agencies.96