§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list for(a) each health authority in Wales and (b) Wales as a whole the total number of asthma cases treated in the last three years for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [20547]
§ Mr. RichardsInformation on the number of individuals treated for asthma in Wales is not available centrally. However, for those treated as in-patients or day cases, the number of completed consultant episodes where asthma was recorded as the principal diagnosis in each of the last three years is given in the following table:
Completed consultant episodes—asthma ICD 9 (493) Health authority area of treatment 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 Clwyd 895 796 872 East Dyfed 397 496 542 Gwent 967 1,099 1,003 Gwynedd 446 316 516 Mid Glamorgan 982 1,138 1,154 Pembrokeshire 265 258 277 Powys 135 139 117 South Glamorgan 1,442 1,213 1,421 West Glamorgan 762 718 296 Wales 6,291 6,173 6,198