HC Deb 11 December 1991 vol 200 cc443-4W
Mr. Rooney

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding was available from his Department to the Martin House hospice in Boston Spa in the years 1989–90, 1990–911 and 1991–92; and what the sum will be for 1992–93.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

The rates of perinatal mortality per 1,000 total live and still births in England and Wales from 1981 to 1990 are as follows:

Year Rate
1981 11.8
1982 11.3
1983 10.4
1984 10.1
1985 9.8
1986 9.6
1987 8.9
1988 8.7
1989 8.3
1990 8.1

We welcome the steady decline in the perinatal mortality rate over this period.

Information on the number of babies surviving with a significant handicap is not collected centrally.