§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what information she has about the number of people suffering from an allergy to nuts and the number of deaths that have resulted in recent years.
§ Mr. Sackville[pursuant to his reply, 17 January 1994, c. 391]: I regret that my previous reply could give rise to a misunderstanding on the extent of information held centrally on cause of death. While there is no information centrally available on the number of people suffering from an allergy to nuts, the information held centrally on number of deaths is that for the latest 10 years, 1983–1992, for which data are available, there were no deaths registered where allergy to nuts was the assigned underlying cause.