§ Mrs. BrookeTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many deaths due to asthma occurred in each primary care trust in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. [66264]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Ms Brooke, dated 3 July 2002:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your question on how many deaths due to asthma occurred in each Primary Care Trust (PCT) in each of the last three years. (66264)PCTs took over the responsibilities of Health Authorities on 1st April 2002, but the geographical definition of all PCT areas has not yet been completed. Mortality statistics for PCT areas are not available at present. The figures requested are available for Health Authorities, the three most recent years being 1998–2000, and these have been placed in the House of Commons Library.
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Deaths from asthma by health authority, 1998–2000 Number Health authority 1998 1999 2000 Avon 42 52 28 Barking and Havering 16 16 20 Barnet, Enfield and Haringey 30 34 34 Barnsley 30 32 10 Bedfordshire 20 46 28 Berkshire 32 28 36 Bexley. Bromley and Greenwich 40 34 32 Birmingham 66 62 60 Bradford 32 24 32 Brent and Harrow 12 30 20 Buckinghamshire 32 20 30 Bury and Rochdale 20 14 16 Calderdale and Kirklees 50 32 20 Cambridgeshire 20 22 30 Camden and Islington 12 16 14 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 22 20 24 County Durham and Darlington 44 24 54 Coventry 18 18 32 Croydon 20 14 22 Doncaster 30 24 10 Dorset 38 26 40 Dudley 30 14 6 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 34 30 34 East Kent 50 46 18 East Lancashire 18 30 24 East London and The City 34 22 38 East Riding and Hull 46 42 32 East Surrey 20 20 28
Deaths from asthma by health authority, 1998–2000 Number Health authority 1998 1999 2000 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 40 52 36 Gateshead and South Tyneside1 12 20 16 Gloucestershire 26 20 32 Herefordshire 20 14 8 Hertfordshire 42 48 40 Hillingdon 8 12 24 Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and South-East Hampshire 48 48 30 Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster 6 26 10 Kingston and Richmond 30 24 24 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 34 22 32 Leeds 18 24 30 Leicestershire 34 32 16 Lincolnshire 14 34 36 Liverpool 22 38 16 Manchester 18 10 22 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 44 32 38 Morecambe Bay 16 16 20 Newcastle and North Tyneside 16 16 28 Norfolk 50 34 26 North and East Devon 26 20 28 North and Mid Hampshire 30 32 14 North Cheshire 12 6 14 North Cumbria 28 16 12 North Derbyshire 16 12 10 North Essex 50 64 46 North Nottinghamshire 16 36 20 North Staffordshire 16 20 32 North-West Lancashire 30 64 20 North Yorkshire 32 28 38 Northamptonshire 32 26 40 Northumberland 26 22 22 Nottingham 48 26 26 Oxfordshire 30 32 34 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 6 16 26 Rotherham 10 4 14 Salford and Trafford 22 24 30 Sandwell 16 14 24 Sefton 12 20 16 Sheffield 24 18 44 Shropshire 26 14 6 Solihull 4 16 8 Somerset 32 8 24 South and West Devon 46 26 44 South Cheshire 36 22 18 South Essex 30 30 38 South Humber 12 46 16 South Lancashire 12 10 12 South Staffordshire 26 14 30 Southampton and South West Hampshire 32 28 32 Southern Derbyshire 26 52 24 St. Helens and Knowsley 8 24 14 Stockport 14 24 12 Suffolk 30 26 22 Sunderland1 8 20 — Tees 30 26 14 Wakefield 26 52 28 Walsall 26 18 24 Warwickshire 20 36 32 West Kent 34 24 26 West Pennine 36 20 20 West Surrey 42 18 10 West Sussex 22 34 42 Wigan and Bolton 28 24 24 Wiltshire 30 26 38 Wirral 20 12 14 Wolverhampton 24 24 16 Worcestershire 20 36 16 ——— ——— ——— England 2,538 2,524 2,372 1 Figures for Sunderland in 2000 have been combined with Gateshead and South Tyneside because of small numbers. Source:
Department of Health Compendium of Clinical and Health Indicators 1999–2001, based on data provided by the Office for National Statistics.