§ Mr. CunliffeTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the mortality rates for(a) heart disease, 87W (b) lung cancer and (c) renal failure in (i) the National Health Service North-West Region and (ii) Wigan and Bolton health area. [43308]
§ 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. Lawrence Cunliffe, dated 1 June 1998:
As Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your parliamentary question on the mortality rates for (a) lung cancer, (b) other forms of cancer and (c) kidney disease in (i) the National Health Service North-West Region and (ii) Wigan and Bolton health area.The data requested are shown in the table.
Death rates1 by cause in the North Western Regional Office and Wigan and Bolton Health Authority, 1996 North Western RO Wigan and Bolton HA Lung cancer 71 64 Other forms of cancer 211 193 Kidney disease 9 11 1 Deaths per hundred thousand population
The deaths data were identified as those certified with an underlying cause assigned to the following International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision (ICD9) codes:
Cause Lung cancer 162 Other cancers 140–208 (malignant neoplasms) minus 162 Kidney disease 580–593 (renal failure and infections of the kidney) 250.3 (diabetes with renal manifestations) 403–404 (hypertensive renal disease)