§ Mr. BoyesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the current infant mortality rate in each regional health authority in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe information is shown in the table.
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Infant mortality rate for the United Kingdom by Regional Health Authority and Standard Area for 1992 and District Council Area for 1991 (latest year for available data in Northern Ireland is 1991) Infant mortality1 United Kingdom 26.6 England and Wales 36.6 England 6.5 Northern RHA 7.1 Yorkshire RHA 6.6 Trent RHA 6.9 East Anglian RHA 4.6 North West Thames RHA 5.5 North East Thames RHA 7.1 South East Thames RHA 6.4
Infant mortality1 South West Thames RHA 5.7 Wessex RHA 5.5 Oxford RHA 6.0 South Western RHA 5.5 West Midlands RHA 8.2 Mersey RHA 7.7 North Western RHA 7.7 Wales 6.0 Scotland 6.8 Standard Areas 5.9 Borders 5.9 Central 6.1 Dumfries and Galloway 7.4 Fife 6.7 Grampian 6.0 Highland 6.7 Lothian 7.3 Strathclyde 7.3 Tayside 5.3 Orkney Islands 8.4 Shetland Islands 3.1 Western Isles Islands 6.0 Northern Ireland (1991) 7.4 District Council Areas Ards 3.2 Belfast 7.1 Castlereagh 6.8 Down 9.2 Lisburn 5.3 North Down 8.1 Antrim 5.3 Ballymena 8.9 Ballymoney 2.9 Carrickfergus 17.4 Coleraine 8.4 Cookstown 8.1 Larne 4.6 Magherafelt 4.8 Moyle 49.1 Newtownabbey 8.5 Armagh 7.8 Banbridge 3.9 Craigavon 9.1 Dungannon 8.5 Newry and Mourne 5.9 Fermanagh 3.5 Limavady 9.2 Deny 9.3 Omagh 7.7 Strabane 14.9 1 Rate per 1,000 live births. 2 United Kingdom 1992 figure based on provisional numbers and estimates for Northern Ireland 1992. 3 Data for the rates have been assigned to the area of usual residence as stated at the registration of each event. If the address of usual residence is outside England and Wales, these events have been included in the England and Wales aggregate but excluded from the figures for individual RHAs. 4 1990 latest year available.