§ Mr. David NicholsonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list in theOfficial Report the total deaths reported in the decades 1959 to 1968, 1969 to 1978 and 1979 to 1988, inclusive, resulting from crowd pressures or public disorder in the following circumstances (a) political demonstrations, (b) queueing for places of entertainment, other than sports meetings, (c) queueing for or occurring at sports meetings, other than football matches and (d) queueing for public transport.
§ Mr. FreemanI have been asked to reply.
The exact information requested is not available.
Prior to 1979, the international classification of diseases (ICD) did not allow for sufficiently detailed information of this nature; the current (ninth) revision includes the code E917.1:
Striking against or struck accidentally by objects or persons, caused by a crowd, by collective fear or panic.In the period 1979–87 inclusive there were three deaths where this code was assigned as the underlying cause of death, but there is insufficient information on the death certificate to allocate them to any of the categories requested.