HC Deb 23 January 1990 vol 165 c653W
12. Mr. Norman Hogg

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement about cold-related deaths.

48. Mr. McAllion

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement about cold-related deaths.

68. Mr. McAvoy

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement about cold-related deaths.

96. Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement about cold-related deaths.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The five-year trends from 1955 to 1985 have seen the excess winter mortality—that is, the number of deaths that occur in the winter quarter in excess of the numbers that occur in the summer—decrease, from about 47 per cent. from 1951 to 1955, to 26 per cent. between 1981 and 1985 in Scotland, and from 68.2 to 29.3 per cent. in England and Wales.