§ Mr. ClaphamTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people were diagnosed to be suffering from asbestosis in(a) 1995 and (b) 1996 broken down by (i) parliamentary constituency and (ii) local authority unit. [16480]
§ 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. Michael Clapham, dated 19 November 1997:
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked me to reply, as Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to your recent question on the number of people diagnosed as suffering from asbestosis in 1995 and 1996, by parliamentary constituency and local authority unit.There are no registers kept on cases of asbestosis diagnosed whilst people are still alive. Data from Hospital Episode Statistics (Department of Health) are not suitable because they relate to the number of treatments rather than the number of individuals. The only information centrally available covers deaths from asbestosis in 1995 and 1996. This is in the tables below:232W
Deaths from Asbestosis in England and Wales by local authority of residence, 1995 County/Local authority Number Greater London 9 Barking and Dagenham LB 1 Harrow LB 1 Havering LB 1 Newham LB 3 Redbridge LB 1 Tower Hamlets LB 1 Westminster City of LB 1
Deaths from Asbestosis in England and Wales by local authority of residence, 1995 County/Local authority Number Merseyside 5 Liverpool MD 1 Wirral MD 4 South Yorkshire 2 Rotherham MD 1 Sheffield MD 1 Tyne and Wear 5 Gateshead MD 1 Newcastle upon Tyne MD 1 South Tyneside MD 1 Sunderland MD 2 West Midlands 1 Sandwell 1 West Yorkshire 5 Kirklees MD 3 Leeds MD 2 Cheshire 2 Crewe and Nantwich CD 1 Macclesfield CD 1 Cleveland 5 Hartlepool CD 1 Langbaurgh on Tees CD 1 Stockton on Tees CD 3 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 1 Caradon CD 1 Cumbria 1 Allerdale CD 1 Derbyshire 3 Bolsover CD 1 Chesterfield CD 1 Derbyshire Dales CD 1 Devon 1 Plymouth CD 1 Hampshire 2 Portsmouth CD 1 Southampton CD 1 Staffordshire 1 Stafford CD 1 Warwickshire 1 Warwickshire CD 1 Total 44
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Deaths from Asbestosis in England and Wales by local authority of residence, 1996 County/Local authority Number Greater London 15 Barking and Dagenham LB 5 Havering LB 1 Hillingdon LB 1 Lambeth LB 1 Newham LB 4 Redbridge LB 1 Southwark LB 1 Tower Hamlets LB 1
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Deaths from Asbestosis in England and Wales by local authority of residence, 1996 County/Local authority Number Greater Manchester 2 Rochdale MD 1 Salford MD 1 Merseyside 7 Knowsley MD 1 Wirral MD 6 Tyne and Wear 8 Newcastle upon Tyne MD 1 North Tyneside MD 3 Sunderland MD 4 West Midlands 1 Walsall MD 1 West Yorkshire 1 Wakefield MD 1 Bedfordshire 1 South Bedfordshire CD 1 Cheshire 2 Crewe and Nantwich CD 1 Macclesfield CD 1 Cumbria 1 Barrow in Furness CD 1 Derbyshire 1 Erewash CD 1 Devon 4 Plymount CD 3 Torbay CD 1 East Sussex 1 Hove CD 1 Hampshire 5 Gosport CD 1 Havant CD 1 New Forest CD 1 Southampton CD 2 Kent 2 Canterbury CD 1 Gillingham CD 1 Lancashire 1 Blackburn CD 1 Staffordshire 2 Stafford CD 2 Surrey 1 Woking CD 1 Wiltshire 1 Kennet CD 1 Unitary Authorities Bath and North East Somerset UA 1 Bristol UA 1 Cardiff UA 1 Denbighshire UA 1 Hartlepool UA 1 Isle of Wight UA 3
Deaths from Asbestosis in England and Wales by local authority of residence, 1996 County/Local authority Number Kingston upon Hull UA 1 Newport UA 1 Stockton on Tees UA 2 Total 68 The tables show only those local authorities in which a death occurred. Similar data could only be presented at parliamentary constituency level at disproportionate cost.
Deaths from asbestosis were identified as those certified with an underlying cause coded to ICD9 [International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision] code of 501.