Birthweights (Hansard, 11 January 1999)

§ Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state the percentage of low birthweight

Percentage of all live births and singleton live births which are low birthweight (less than 2,500g) by health board of residence ^1,2 for years ending 31 March
	1996	1997	1998
	All live births	Single live births	All live births	Single live births	All live births	Single live births
Scotland	6.9	5.6	6.9	5.5	6.8	5.5
Argyll & Clyde	6.8	5.2	6.5	5.6	7.0	5.6
Ayrshire & Arran	6.8	5.1	6.5	5.2	7.0	5.5
Borders	5.7	5.2	6.7	5.3	5.3	4.6
Dumfries & Galloway	6.3	5.1	6.6	4.7	6.1	4.6
Fife	7.3	5.7	6.6	5.4	6.1	5.1
Forth Valley	7.0	5.7	7.2	5.2	7.1	5.3
Grampian	5.6	4.7	6.0	4.9	6.3	5.2
Greater Glasgow	8.3	6.8	8.0	6.7	8.1	6.7
Highland	6.4	5.1	6.0	4.8	5.6	4.0
Lanarkshire	6.5	5.3	7.0	5.6	6.9	5.6
Lothian	6.7	5.4	7.3	5.8	6.5	5.1
Orkney	3.6	3.7	2.8	1.5	3.1	2.1
Shetland	1.8	1.8	4.4	3.3	4.8	3.1
Tayside	7.3	5.9	6.2	4.7	6.6	5.6
Western Isles	4.5	2.9	2.1	1.3	4.0	2.8
¹Excludes cases resident outwith Scotland and those where the health board of residence is not known
²Excludes home births

live births in each Scottish health board area broken down by (a) single and (b) all live births for the last three years. [64425]