§ Lord Aveburyasked Her Majesty's Government:
What was the number of deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in each of the years 1980 to 1997 inclusive recorded on death certificates and collated under the relevant International Classification of Diseases in the statistics published by the Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys. [HL1847]
§ Lord McIntosh of HaringeyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter to Lord Avebury from the Director of Census, Population and Health Group of the Office for National Statistics, Mr. J. Fox, dated 21 May 1998.
In the absence of the Director of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), I have been asked to reply to your parliamentary question on the number of deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The information requested for the years 1980 to 1996 inclusive is published in the ONS (formerly the Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys) annual reference volume Mortality Statistics: cause, England and Wales, series DH2, nos. 7–23, copies of which are available in the House Library. The data are shown in the attached table.
Deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease recorded on death certificates and collated under the relevant International Classification of Diseases Year Number of deaths 1980 25 1981 31 1982 23 1983 23 1984 42 1985 35 1986 29 1987 30 1988 34 1989 30 1990 38 1991 35 1992 51 1993 35 1994 53 1995 39 1996 47 1997 55 Note:
Data for the years 1980–1992 and 1997 are by year of registration, data for the years 1993–1996 are by year of occurrence.