§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the life expectancy of new baby(a) boys and (b) girls, broken down by health authority area of England. [102229]
§ Miss Melanie Johnson[holding answer 15 December 1999]: I have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the Director of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Tim Holt to Mr. Jim Cousins, dated 20 December 1999:
As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your parliamentary question on life expectancy of new baby boys and girls.The information requested is shown in the tables.
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Life expectancy at birth (in years) by Health Authority, England 1995–97 Females Males Avon 81.1 75.7 Barking and Havering 79.6 74.3 Barnet 80.4 76.7 Barnsley 78.3 73.4 Bedfordshire 80.0 75.0 Berkshire 80.3 75.9 Bexley and Greenwich 79.6 74.7 Birmingham 78.8 73.2 Bradford 78.8 73.4 Brent and Harrow 80.5 75.1 Bromley 81.4 76.4 Buckinghamshire 80.4 76.3 Bury and Rochdale 78.0 73.0 Calderdale and Kirklees 79.0 73.9 Cambridgeshire 80.5 76.0 Camden and Islington 80.1 73.0 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 80.4 75.3 County Durham 78.5 73.2 Coventry 78.9 73.1 Croydon 79.9 75.2 Doncaster 78.4 73.4 Dorset 81.4 76.0
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Life expectancy at birth (in years) by Health Authority, England 1995–97 Females Males Dudley 79.6 74.6 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 79.7 74.0 East and North Hertfordshire 80.6 76.3 East Kent 80.2 74.9 East Lancashire 78.0 72.8 East London and The City 78.5 71.9 East Riding 79.4 74.3 East Surrey 81.2 76.7 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 80.8 75.0 Enfield and Haringey 80.1 74.6 Gateshead and South Tyneside 78.4 72.9 Gloucestershire 80.5 75.7 Herefordshire 80.7 75.7 Hillingdon 80.2 75.6 Isle of Wight 80.7 75.1 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 81.7 75.0 Kingston and Richmond 81.5 76.3 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 78.7 72.2 Leeds 79.7 74.4 Leicestershire 80.1 75.5 Lincolnshire 80.0 74.9 Liverpool 77.0 71.2 Manchester 76.9 70.1 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 80.1 74.7 Morecambe Bay 79.9 74.6 Newcastle and North Tyneside 78.5 73.3 Norfolk 80.9 76.2 North and East Devon 81.2 76.3 North and Mid Hampshire 80.7 76.1 North Cheshire 78.1 73.0 North Cumbria 79.0 74.3 North Derbyshire 79.4 74.4 North Essex 80.7 76.0 North Nottinghamshire 79.3 74.3 North Staffordshire 79.1 73.4 North West Lancashire 78.8 73.2 North Yorkshire 80.6 75.8 Northamptonshire 79.9 74.8 Northumberland 78.8 73.9 Nottingham 79.9 74.6 Oxfordshire 81.1 76.8 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 79.7 75.2 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 80.2 75.1 Rotherham 78.7 74.0 Salford and Trafford 78.5 73.2 Sandwell 78.5 72.5 Sefton 79.2 73.9 Sheffield 79.3 74.2 Shropshire 80.4 75.1 Solihull 80.8 76.4 Somerset 81.0 76.1 South and West Devon 80.7 75.4 South Cheshire 80.2 75.1 South Essex 80.1 75.3 South Humber 79.8 73.7 South Lancashire 79.4 74.6 South Staffordshire 79.9 75.0 Southampton and South West Hampshire 80.7 75.6 Southern Derbyshire 79.7 74.8 St. Helens and Knowsley 77.8 72.4 Stockport 80.3 75.2 Suffolk 80.8 76.0 Sunderland 78.2 73.0 Tees 78.5 72.9 Wakefield 78.6 73.5 Walsall 79.4 73.6 Warwickshire 79.8 75.1 West Hertfordshire 80.9 76.6 West Kent 80.0 75.3 West Pennine 78.2 72.3 West Surrey 81.1 76.7 West Sussex 81.1 76.2
Life expectancy at birth (in years) by Health Authority, England 1995–97 Females Males Wigan and Bolton 78.4 73.6 Wiltshire 80.4 75.9 Wirral 79.1 73.3 Wolverhampton 78.6 73.2 Worcestershire 80.0 75.5