§ Mr. GibbTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the expected life span of a child born in(a) 1979 and (b) 1997. [10906]
§ Mrs. Liddell[holding answer 28 July 1997]: 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 Tim Holt to Mr. Nick Gibb, dated 29 July 1997:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply, as Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), to your recent parliamentary question on the expectation of life at birth in the United Kingdom.The data you requested, according to the mortality rates experienced in the year in question, are as follows:
Males Females 1979 70.0 76.2 19951 74.0 79.3 1 Latest year for which data are available. Figures supplied by the Government Actuary's Department.