Demographic Change (London) (Hansard, 24 June 2002)

§ Ruth Kelly

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.

Letter from John Kidgell to Mr. Iain Coleman, dated 24 June 2002 The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question concerning the projected demographic change in London over the next five and 10 year period for people under the age of 20. I am replying in his absence. (64121) The attached table shows the projected population in each age group for each year from 2002 to 2012 in the london Government Office Region. The figures are derived from the 1996-based projections published by the Office for National Statistics in the volume Subnational Population Projections, series PP3 No. 10.

Letter from John Kidgell to Cheryl Gillan, dated 24 June 2002: The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question concerning how many deaths there were in each of the last 10 years in (a) Buckinghamshire, (b) Chesham and Amersham and (c) the UK from (i) heroin overdose, (ii) other drug overdose and (iii) suicide other than by a drugs overdose. I am replying in his absence. (62792) Figures for deaths related to drug poisoning are currently available for 1993 to 2000 for England and Wales. Information for the United Kingdom as a whole could not be collated on a comparable basis in the time available. The information requested is given for 1993 to 2000 in the attached table.

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Deaths related to drug poisoning¹, and suicides other than by drugs overdose², England and Wales 1993 to 2000³
Number of deaths
	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
(b) Chesham and Amersham⁸
Drugs mentioned on the death certificate
(i)(a) heroin/morphine⁵	⁶—	⁶—	⁶—	⁶—	⁷—	⁶—	⁶—	⁶—
(i)(b) heroin/morphine⁵ with other drugs	⁶—	⁶—	⁶—	⁶—	⁶—	⁶—	⁶—	⁶—
(ii) other drugs (heroin/morphine⁵ not mentioned)	3	3	⁷—	⁷—	5	3	⁶—	3
Suicide other than by drugs overdose	8	8	6	⁷—	7	5	4	4
(c) England and Wales
Drugs mentioned on the death certificate
(i)(a) heroin/morphine⁵ only	126	197	263	353	332	468	575	716
(i)(b) heroin/morphine⁵ with other drugs	61	80	94	113	113	178	179	210
(ii) other drugs (heroin/morphine⁵ not mentioned)	2,065	2,127	2,206	2,255	2,413	2,27⁶—	2,189	2,042
Suicide other than by drugs overdose	3,930	3,818	3,771	3,554	3,526	3,799	3,83⁶—	3,643
¹ Selected using the following codes from the International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision:
292 (drug psychoses);
304 (drug dependence);
305.2–305.9 (nondependent abuse of drugs);
E850—E858 (accidental poisoning by drugs, medicaments and biologicals);
E950.0—E950.5 (suicide and self-inflicted poisoning by solid or liquid substances);
E980.0—E980.5 (poisoning by solid or liquid substances, undetermined whether accidentally or purposely inflicted);
E962.0 (assault by poisoning—drugs and medicaments).
²Selected using the following codes from the International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision: E950.6—E959, E980.6—E989 excluding E988.8.
³ Data are for occurrences of death per calendar year.
⁴ Data are for residents of Buckinghamshire county, based on geographic boundaries as at 2001. The figures therefore exclude data for Milton Keynes, which became a unitary authority in 1997.
⁵As heroin breaks down in the body into morphine, the latter may be detected at post mortem and recorded on the death certificate.
⁶ Zero deaths.
⁷Less than three deaths.
⁸Data are for residents of Chesham and Amersham parliamentary constituency based on geographic boundaries as at 2001.