AIDS

HC Deb 21 October 1991 vol 196 c424W

Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what have been the number of deaths due to AIDS in each year since 1985.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

Reports received by the Public Health Laboratory Service's communicable disease surveillance centre and the communicable disease (Scotland) unit show that the number of deaths due to AIDS in each year from 1985 to 1991 is as follows:

	Number
1985	119
1986	266
1987	345
1988	405
1989	651
1990	750
11991	524
1 First nine months only.

Seventy one deaths occurred earlier than 1985 and 25 deaths have been reported where the year of death is not known.