§ Mr. Lawrenceasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the number of deaths in the United Kingdom from cancer in each of the past 10 years broken down into specific sites.
§ Mr. MoyleThe numbers of cancer deaths by site are published regularly by the Registrars General of the United Kingdom.
For England and Wales there are serial figures up to 1975 in OPCS publication Mortality Statistics, series DH1, table 6, and for years 1976 and 1977 in OPCS Monitor DH2 78/8. Finer detail by site and age is to be found annually in table 17 of the Registrar General's statistical reviews up to 1973 and in OPCS Mortality Statistics, series DH2, table 2 for years 1974, 1975 and 1976.
Serial figures up to 1976 are published by the Registrar General for Scotland in his annual report, part 1, table c1.1 and provisional figures for 1977 in his quarterly return for December of that year.
Figures for Northern Ireland are published annually in abstract 12 of the Registrar General's annual report for Northern Ireland.