HC Deb 23 March 1994 vol 240 cc237-8W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will give the infant mortality rates by region for the last available year and by sex.

Mr. Sackville

The information is shown in the table.

Infant mortality rates1 by regional health authority for 1992
Regional Health Authority of usual residence Males Females
Northern 8.1 6.2
Yorkshire 7.5 5.9
Trent 8.2 5.4
East Anglian 5.6 3.6
North West Thames 6.0 4.9
North East Thames 8.3 5.8
South East Thames 7.3 5.4
South West Thames 6.0 5.5
Wessex 6.1 4.9
Oxford 6.3 5.7
South Western 7.0 4.0
West Midlands 8.9 7.4
Mersey 6.4 5.0
Regional Health Authority of usual residence Males Females
North Western 8.1 7.3
Wales 6.3 5.7
1 Infant mortality deaths under one year per 1,000 livebirths.