The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, July 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many cases of brain cancer were diagnosed in each primary care trust area within the Ceremonial County of Hampshire for each of the last six years. [286283]""The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2006. Numbers of newly diagnosed cases of brain cancer in each primary care trust area within the Ceremonial County of Hampshire from 2001 to 2006 are in Table 1."<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Table 1: Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of brain cancer¹, persons: Primary Care Trusts² within the Ceremonial County of Hampshire, 2001 to 2006</th></tr></thead><TR><TD></TD><TD>2001</TD><TD>2002</TD><TD>2003</TD><TD>2004</TD><TD>2005</TD><TD>2006</TD></TR><TR><TD>Portsmouth City Teaching</TD><TD>13</TD><TD>12</TD><TD>7</TD><TD>12</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>16</TD></TR><TR><TD>Southampton City</TD><TD>18</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>18</TD><TD>17</TD><TD>15</TD></TR><TR><TD>Hampshire</TD><TD>97</TD><TD>102</TD><TD>103</TD><TD>88</TD><TD>118</TD><TD>99</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>¹ Brain cancer is coded to C71 in the International Classification of Diseases Tenth Revision (ICD-10)</td></TR><TR><td>² Based on boundaries as of 2008</td></TR><TR><td>Source:</td></TR><TR><td>Office for National Statistics</td></TR></tfoot></Table>