HC Deb 21 January 1980 vol 977 c76W
Mr. Carter-Jones

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish the provisional perinatal and infant mortality rates for the first nine months of 1979.

Mr. Fairgrieve

The provisional perinatal and infant mortality rates for the first nine months of 1979 in Scotland are, respectively, 14.4 per thousand births, live and still, and 12.7 per thousand live births.