§ Ms HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will estimate the number of patients who died in hospital in each of the last five years as a result of cancer. [12717]
§ Mr. HoramThe number of deaths from cancer in hospitals and communal establishments for the care of the sick are published, for 1990–92, in "Mortality statistics—general", OPCS series DH1 Nos. 24, 26 and 27 (table 7), copies of which are available in the Library. Figures for 1993 onwards are not yet available.