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 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 strategic health authority area in each of the last six years. [286379]""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 strategic health authority area 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: strategic health authorities² in England, 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>North East</TD><TD>216</TD><TD>198</TD><TD>197</TD><TD>212</TD><TD>225</TD><TD>226</TD></TR><TR><TD>North West</TD><TD>512</TD><TD>489</TD><TD>508</TD><TD>517</TD><TD>496</TD><TD>502</TD></TR><TR><TD>Yorkshire and the Humber</TD><TD>406</TD><TD>408</TD><TD>366</TD><TD>395</TD><TD>384</TD><TD>393</TD></TR><TR><TD>East Midlands</TD><TD>303</TD><TD>306</TD><TD>308</TD><TD>335</TD><TD>342</TD><TD>327</TD></TR><TR><TD>West Midlands</TD><TD>321</TD><TD>375</TD><TD>356</TD><TD>339</TD><TD>373</TD><TD>356</TD></TR><TR><TD>East of England</TD><TD>397</TD><TD>376</TD><TD>395</TD><TD>370</TD><TD>407</TD><TD>382</TD></TR><TR><TD>London</TD><TD>436</TD><TD>431</TD><TD>411</TD><TD>399</TD><TD>434</TD><TD>387</TD></TR><TR><TD>South East Coast</TD><TD>331</TD><TD>343</TD><TD>340</TD><TD>320</TD><TD>303</TD><TD>316</TD></TR><TR><TD>South Central</TD><TD>288</TD><TD>263</TD><TD>226</TD><TD>279</TD><TD>297</TD><TD>270</TD></TR><TR><TD>South West</TD><TD>411</TD><TD>463</TD><TD>425</TD><TD>419</TD><TD>468</TD><TD>444</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 2006.</td></TR><TR><td>Source:</td></TR><TR><td>Office for National Statistics</td></TR></tfoot></Table>