HC Deb 16 October 1995 vol 264 cc138-9W
Mr. Elletson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many elderly, over 65 years of age, people died last year in their homes in(a) Lancashire and (b) each other county in England. [36453]

Mr. Sackville

The information is shown in the table.

Deaths at home for over 65s in 1994 for each country in England
65 and over
Greater London 9,785
Greater Manchester 4,449
Merseyside 2,564
South Yorkshire 2,309
Tyne and Wear 2,270
West Midlands 4,705
West Yorkshire 3,343
Avon 1,786
Bedfordshire 674
Berkshire 971
Buckinghamshire 957
Cambridgeshire 1,282
Cheshire 1,587
Cleveland 1,082
Cornwall 1,186
Cumbria 1,108
Derbyshire 1,825
Devon 2,268
Dorset 1,531
Durham 1,273
East Sussex 1,703
Essex 2,988
Gloucestershire 1,125
Hampshire 2,720
Hereford and Worcester 1,407
Herefordshire 1,454
Humberside 1,562
Isle of Wight 329
Kent 2,816
Lancashire 2,715
Leicestershire 1,523
Lincolnshire 1,173
Norfolk 1,674
Northamptonshire 834
Northumberland 644
Deaths at home for over 65s in J 994 for each country in England
65 and over
North Yorkshire 1,361
Nottinghamshire 1,472
Oxfordshire 948
Shropshire 805
Somerset 979
Staffordshire 1,919
Suffolk 1,375
Surrey 1,605
Warwickshire 932
West Sussex 1,315
Wiltshire 992
Total 85,325