§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what the take-up rates for flu vaccine were at(a) 1 November and (b) 1 December 2001 for each health authority. [58035]
§ Yvette Cooper[holding answer 21 May 2002]: Information received from flu co-ordinators show the uptake rates in those aged 65 years and over at 1 November and 1 December for each health authority as follows:
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November 2001 December 2001 Eastern Bedfordshire 45.6 59.3 Cambridgeshire 55.5 70.5 Hertfordshire 47.9 61.3 Norfolk 51.7 65.6 North Essex 55.7 65.5 South Essex 50.9 63.4 Suffolk 55.1 65.7 Northern and Yorkshire Bradford 53.3 64.3 Calderdale and Kirklees 55.3 64.2 County Durham and Darlington 52.8 63.9 East Riding and Hull 42.5 67.3 Gateshead and South Tyneside 55.1 67.7 Leeds 56.3 69.7 Newcastle and North Tyneside 57.0 66.7 North Cumbria 54.9 67.6 North Yorkshire 58.5 70.6 Northumberland 58.6 68.9 Sunderland 55.4 65.5 Tees 51.4 64.8 Wakefield 56.6 66.4 South east Berkshire 53.9 67.3 Buckinghamshire 51.7 65.2 East Kent 57.0 65.0 East Surrey 45.6 62.3 East Sussex, Brighton/Hove 54.9 68.5 North and Mid-Hants 37.9 69.5 Northamptonshire 58.2 66.3 Oxfordshire 54.3 69.4 597W
November 2001 December 2001 Portsmouth and South-east Hants 51.8 65.7 Southampton and South-west Hants 57.8 68.1 West Kent 55.0 64.0 West Surrey 47.0 41.9 West Sussex 57.2 63.5 North west Bury and Rochdale 42.9 59.4 East Lancashire 49.1 63.3 Liverpool 48.6 61.1 Manchester 46.8 55.4 Morecambe Bay 47.2 65.2 North Cheshire 54.1 62.8 North-west Lancashire 38.6 56.7 Salford and Trafford 51.2 64.5 Sefton 54.4 66.7 South Cheshire 57.0 68.4 South Lancashire 55.5 67.1 St. Helen's and Knowsley 54.3 65.0 Stockport 52.4 67.9 West Pennine 49.2 63.3 Wigan and Bolton 53.4 63.9 Wirral 48.1 62.8 London Barking and Havering 50.2 64.1 Bexley and Greenwich (Bromley) 49.2 60.0 Brent and Harrow 47.5 61.9 Camden and Islington 43.4 50.1 Croydon 44.1 59.5 Ealing, Hammersmith, Hounslow 42.7 56.4 East London and City 47.0 56.5 Enfield and Haringey (Barnet) 50.1 65.6 Hillingdon 68.6 63.4 Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster 35.7 46.9 Kingston and Richmond 50.3 61.5 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 38.4 47.5 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 46.7 60.6 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 50.7 63.3 South and West Avon 49.0 67.5 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 49.4 60.6 Dorset 53.5 65.2 Gloucestershire 53.4 67.8 North and East Devon 55.6 66.5 Somerset 50.9 63.1 South and West Devon 51.1 65.7 Wiltshire 52.8 63.9 Trent Barnsley 49.4 63.8 Doncaster 55.9 68.3 Leicestershire 49.7 61.9 Lincolnshire 54.9 66.3 North Derbyshire 61.5 72.1 North Nottinghamshire 54.0 65.4 Nottingham 57.3 66.5 Rotherham 57.8 74.9 Sheffield 54.2 70.7 Southern Derbyshire 58.2 68.3 South Humber 55.7 68.3 West Midlands Birmingham 51.1 60.4 Coventry 48.9 61.1 Dudley 50.8 63.2 Herefordshire 63.1 68.7 North Staffordshire 57.9 68.2
November 2001 December 2001 Sandwell 48.8 57.4 Shropshire 55.6 67.2 Solihull 56.9 67.4 South Staffordshire 53.8 65.3 Walsall 53.2 61.7 Warwickshire 57.6 69.6 Wolverhampton 50.2 64.2 Worcester 54.6 67.5