Winter Mortality Rates

HC Deb 22 July 1996 vol 282 cc117-8W

Sir Robert Hicks

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the excess winter mortality rates over average annual mortality rates, have been for each of the last 10 years expressed(a) in numbers and (b) as percentages. [37997]

Mr. Bowis

The available information is shown on the table.

Excess Winter Mortality, England and Wales
Period	Excess winter deaths	Excess winter death index1
1985–86	49,446	27.7
1986–87	26,449	14.9
1987–88	33,089	18.4
1988–89	21,235	11.8
1989–90	47,083	26.3
1990–91	37,845	21.5
1991–92	24,845	19.9
1992–93	25,656	14.5
1993–94	25,890	14.2
1994–95	27,512	15.6

Source:

Office for National Statistics.

Note:

¹ The excess winter death Index is the number of excess winter deaths expressed as a percentage of the average of the number of deaths in the autumn and summer periods.