The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated July 2008:"As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer in (a) Tamworth and (b) the West Midlands in each of the last five years. [215770]""The most recent available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer registered in England are for the year 2005. Figures for male patients diagnosed with prostate cancer for the years 2001 to 2005 for a) Tamworth local authority and b) West Midlands government office region are given in the table below." Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of prostate cancer¹, males, Tamworth local authority and West Midlands government office region, 2001-2005 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Tamworth 34 45 42 53 52 West Midlands 3,083 3,241 3,274 3,502 3,350 ¹ Prostate cancer is defined by code C61 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). Source: Office for National Statistics