§ Mr. ConnartyTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what is his estimate of the number of insulin-dependent diabetics in Scotland; and how many of them live alone.
§ Mr. Stewart[holding answer 4 February 1994]: The number of insulin-dependent diabetics in Scotland is not recorded. However, in 1986 a working group of the National Medical Consultative Committee estimated that there were some 50,000 diabetics in Scotland, and that some 35 per cent. of them were insulin-dependent. On that basis the number of insulin-dependent diabetics in Scotland would be about 17,500, of whom perhaps 25 per cent. live alone.