§ Mr. Lambieasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will give for the last five years, including the most up-to-date figures for 1981, the maternal mortality rates in Ayrshire and Arran, together with the figures for comparable health authority areas in Scotland.
§ Mr. Allan StewartMaternal deaths by health board area are given in the table below. The numbers relating to individual health boards are too small to produce any meaningful death rates.
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Maternal deaths by health board area, Scotland, 1976–81. Health board area Year 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1st and 2nd Qtrs. Argyll and Clyde — 2 1 1 1 — Ayrshire and Arran 1 — — 1 2 — Borders — — — — — — Dumfries and Galloway — — — — — — Fife 2 — — — — — Forth Valley 1 1 — — — 1 Grampian — — 1 — 2 1 Greater Glasgow 1 2 1 3 2 1 Highland — 1 — — — — Lanarkshire 4 3 1 1 1 1 Lothian 1 2 — — 2 1 Orkney — 1 — — — — Shetland — — — — — — Tayside — 1 — 1 — 1 Western Isles — — — — — — Scotland 10 13 4 7 10 6