§ Mr. McDonnellTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the number of detected cases of sickle cell anaemia by each London health authority. [9184]
§ Mrs. LiddellThe 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 Tim Holt to Mr. John McDonnell, dated 23 July 1997:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply, as Director of the Office for National Statistics, to your recent parliamentary question on the number of detected cases of sickle cell anaemia in each London health authority.I am afraid that no national register of patients having sickle cell anaemia is kept. The information is therefore unavailable centrally.