§ Mr. Gareth Wardellasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report, for each of the past seven years, up to 1985, the perinatal mortality rate for (i) Wales and (ii) each area health authority in Wales.
§ Mr. Mark RobinsonPerinatal mortality rates for 1985 are given in the following table:
Perinatal mortality rate*—1985 Number Clwyd 10.9 East Dyfed 8.0 Pembrokeshire †8.7 Gwent 10.2 Gwynedd 10.3 Mid Glamorgan 8.0 Powys †9.3 South Glamorgan 13.8 West Glamorgan 10.7 Wales 10.2 *Deaths per thousand total births. †Rate calculated from less than 20 events. Comparable figures for previous years have been published in "Health and Personal Social Services Statistics for Wales", Vols. 8–12, copies of which are in the Library.