§ Norman LambTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients were provided with orthodontic treatment per 1,000 of the population in each health authority area in the last 12 months. [6359]
§ Ms Blears[holding answer 15 October 2001]: The table shows the number of orthodontic appliance claims per 1,000 of the population by health authority in England for 2000–01.
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General Dental Service: Number of claims for orthodontic appliances per 1,000 population, 2000–01 Health authority Claims per 1,000 population England Avon 6.5 Barking and Havering 7.6 Barnet 15.1 Barnsley 2.1 Bedfordshire 1.9 Berkshire 5.8 Bexley and Greenwich 6.0 Birmingham 5.0 Bradford 1.8 Brent and Harrow 3.3 Bromley 10.1 Buckinghamshire 4.2 Bury and Rochdale 5.9 Calderdale and Kirklees 4.0 Cambridge 4.1 Camden and Islington 2.4 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 3.5 County Durham 2.3 Coventry 3.1 Croydon 6.7 Doncaster 5.7 Dorset 4.0 Dudley 3.7 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 3.8 East and North Hertfordshire 6.4 East Kent 3.6 East Lancashire 3.3 East London and The City 4.8 East Riding 3.1 East Surrey 5.5 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 4.0 Enfield and Haringey 5.5 Gateshead and South Tyneside 1.9 Gloucestershire 6.4 Herefordshire 4.5 Hillingdon 7.5 Isle of Wight 5.6 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 5.6 Kingston and Richmond 7.9 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 3.8 Leeds 6.0 Leicestershire 3.7 Lincolnshire 2.5 Liverpool 6.5 Manchester 2.8 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 3.3 Morecambe Bay 3.4 Newcastle and North Tyneside 3.8 Norfolk 4.7
General Dental Service: Number of claims for orthodontic appliances per 1,000 population, 2000–01 Health authority Claims per 1,000 population North and East Devon 5.1 North and Mid Hampshire 3.1 North Cheshire 7.1 North Cumbria 2.6 North Derbyshire 4.5 North Essex 5.2 North Nottinghamshire 6.0 North Staffordshire 3.1 North West Lancashire 8.9 North Yorkshire 4.2 Northamptonshire 4.3 Northumberland 1.6 Nottingham 5.7 Oxfordshire 4.9 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 1.8 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 7.8 Rotherham 2.8 Salford and Trafford 8.0 Sandwell 2.8 Sefton 1.4 Sheffield 4.8 Shropshire 5.6 Solihull 5.7 Somerset 4.4 South and West Devon 4.3 South Cheshire 11.0 South Derbyshire 3.4 South Essex 3.4 South Humber 2.5 South Lancashire 6.2 South Staffordshire 2.6 Southampton and South West Hampshire 4.2 St. Helens and Knowsley 2.4 Stockport 5.7 Suffolk 5.4 Sunderland 2.9 Tees 3.9 Wakefield 3.0 Walsall 2.7 Warwickshire 3.2 West Hertfordshire 9.2 West Kent 8.5 West Pennine 7.4 West Surrey 8.8 West Sussex 7.9 Wigan and Bolton 5.9 Wiltshire 5.4 Wirral 9.0 Wolverhampton 3.2 Worcestershire 5.7 England 4.9