§ Mr. Jannerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment how many serious injuries and how many deaths were suffered by participants in marathon races in the United Kingdom during the last 10 years for which records are available; how many of such sufferers were male and how many female; what were their ages; and what were the causes of such injuries and deaths.
§ Mr. MacfarlaneThere are no official statistics available. However, my officials are making inquiries264W standard, and wheelchair standard housing for disabled people in the year to April 1983; what percentages they form of local authority housing starts for that year; and how both actual and percentage figures compared with those of the previous three years.
§ Sir George YoungThe available information is as follows:
with the various organisations responsible for staging marathon races and I shall write to the hon. and learned Member in the near future.