§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish a table showing for the most recent available date, the number of health visiting service contracts made with people per 1,000 population aged 65 years and over, in each of the district health authority areas of Wales, and for Wales as a whole, and if he will express the figure for each area as an index against the Welsh average taken as 100.
§ Mr. GristThe latest available information is given in the table:
Number of persons seen by the health visiting service at least once during 1988, aged 65 and over per 1,000 population aged 65 or over Health authority Number Index (Wales = 100 ) Clwyd 48.6 65.6 East Dyfed 63.7 86.0 Gwent 52.1 70.3 Gwynedd 17.3 23.3 Mid Glamorgan 98.3 132.7 Pembrokeshire 44.6 60.2 Powys 136.5 184.2 South Glamorgan1 91.1 122.9 West Glamorgan 114.3 154.3 Wales 74.1 100.0 11987 figures have been used as 1988 data are not available and the available data used to calculate Wales figures.