HC Deb 17 December 1997 vol 303 cc219-20W
Mr. Etherington

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list, by NHS Executive region, the total number of children who have died under general anaesthetic for dental treatment for each year since 1979. [20371]

Mr. Milburn

The data held centrally are not broken down by region. The table covers children under 15 to 1982 and under 16 thereafter.

Deaths of children associated with general anaesthesia for dental treatment
Number
1979 0
1980 2
1981 1
1982 1
1983 1
1984 1
1985 4
1986 2
1987 2
1988 0
1989 3
1990 0
1991 0
1992 4
1993 1
1994 0
1995 0
1996 1
1997 1