§ Mr. MacShaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list, by age, the number of deaths occurring at Rotherham district general hospital in 1995 and 1996 on(a) Monday, (b) Tuesday, (c) Wednesday, (d) Thursday, (e) Friday, (f) Saturday and (g) Sunday. [14278]
§ Mrs. Angela KnightI have been asked to reply.
The information requested falls within the responsibility of the chief executive of the Office for National Statistics. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from John Fox to Mr. Denis MacShane, dated 10 February 1997:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked the Director of the Office for National Statistics to reply to your recent question on deaths at Rotherham District General Hospital. The Director has asked me to reply in his absence.The data are shown in the attached tables. Figures for 1996 are provisional and relate only to the first two quarters of 1996.