The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated October 2008:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your question asking how many notices of death were received by the Registrar General relating to (a) babies born after 24 weeks gestation and (b) neonatal deaths for each of the last three years, broken down by (i) registration district and (ii) notifying hospital. (224451)""The Registrar General is notified of all babies born after 24 weeks of gestation with no signs of life at birth (known as stillbirths). It is not possible to provide information on all babies born after 24 weeks gestation as gestational age for live births is not collected by the Registrar General. ONS routinely uses local authority of residence rather than registration district to produce birth and death statistics.""(a)(i) Table 1 shows numbers of stillbirths by local authority of residence of the mother in England and Wales for the aggregated years 2005 to 2007 (the latest year for which data are available). It is not possible to provide numbers of stillbirths for each of these years separately in order to protect the confidentiality of individuals.""(a)(ii) Numbers of stillbirths by hospital (where the still birth occurred) in England and Wales for each of the years from 2005 to 2007 are shown in table 2.""(b)(i) Numbers of neonatal deaths by local authority of residence in England and Wales for each of the years from 2005 to 2007 are shown in table 3.""(b)(ii) Numbers of neonatal deaths by hospital (where the death occurred) in England and Wales for each of the years from 2005 to 2007 are shown in table 4. Copies of these tables have been placed in the library."