§ Simon HughesTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many deaths from asthma there were in(a) Greater London and (b) each London borough during the last five years. [158444]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Simon Hughes, dated 5 March 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how many deaths from asthma there were in (a) Greater London and (b) each London borough during the last five years. (158444)
The latest year for which the figures requested are available is 2002. Figures for the five year period 1998 to 2002 are given in the attached table.
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Deaths from asthma1 in Greater London,2 and London boroughs,2,3 1998 to 2002, aggregated4
Number of deaths Greater London 850 London Boroughs Barking and Dagenham 17 Barnet 31 Bexley 21 Brent 38 Bromley 35
Deaths from asthma1 in Greater London,2 and London boroughs,2,3 1998 to 2002, aggregated4
Number of deaths Camden 17 Croydon 52 Baling 40 Enfield 33 Greenwich 27 Hackney and City of London3 24 Hammersmith and Fulham 10 Haringey 25 Harrow 23 Havering 20 Hillingdon 32 Hounslow 32 Islington 19 Kensington and Chelsea 14 Kingston upon Thames 19 Lambeth 32 Lewisham 32 Merton 35 Newham 34 Redbridge 26 Richmond upon Thames 27 Southwark 20 Sutton 37 Tower Hamlets 20 Waltham Forest 16 Wandsworth 22 City of Westminster 20 1The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for 1998–2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) for 2001—2002. The codes used are listed below: Asthma-ICD-9 493; ICD-10 J45-46. Details of the effect of the change in classification in 2001 are described in a report published in May 2002: Office for National Statistics. Results of the ICD-10 bridge coding study, England and Wales, 1999. Health Statistics Quarterly 14 (2002), 75–83. 2Usual residents of these areas. 3City of London is included with the figure for Hackney to avoid disclosure of small numbers. 4Deaths occurring in each calendar year.