Drug-related Deaths (Hansard, 22 March 2004)

§ Ruth Kelly

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

Letter from Len Cook to Simon Hughes, dated 22 March 2004: As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your question asking how many drug-related deaths there were in people aged under (a) 21, (b) 30, (c) 40 in (i) Greater London and (ii) each London Borough in the latest year for which figures are available. (162409)

The most recent year for which figures are available is 2002. In Greater London in that year there were 7 deaths related to drug poisoning in persons aged under 21, 69 in persons aged 21–29, and 111 in persons aged 30–39. Numbers of deaths certified as due to drug poisoning for each London Borough are given in the attached table for persons aged under 40. With the exception of Lambeth (7 deaths at ages under 30), there were too few deaths at ages under 30 in all other London Boroughs to release figures without risk of disclosure.

Deaths related to drug poisoning,¹at ages under 40²by London Borough,³2002⁴
Under 40
City of London	^*
Barking and Dagenham	^*
Barnet	^*
Bexley	^*
Brent	^*
Bromley	10
Camden	11
Croydon	7
Haling	^*
Enfield	^*
Greenwich	7
Hackney	5
Hammersmith and Fulham	6
Haringey	9
Harrow	^*
Havering	5
Hillingdon	^*
Hounslow	6
Islington	7
Kensington and Chelsea	5
Kingston upon Thames	^*
Lambeth	15
Lewisham	11
Merton	6
Newham	7
Redbridge	^*
Richmond upon Thames	^*
Southwark	9
Sutton	6
Tower Hamlets	9
Waltham Forest	^*
Wandsworth	^*
Westminster City of	6
¹ Defined using the following codes from the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision for 2002: F11-F16, X40-X44, X60-X64, Y10-Y14, X85.
² Data are for persons aged between 0 and 39
³ Usual residence of the deceased by London Borough.
⁴ Data are for deaths occurring per calendar year
^* Fewer than five deaths

Source: Office for National Statistics.