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Carers
Simon Hughes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the number of carers aged 65 years and over in Greater London. [162340]
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Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Simon Hughes, dated 22 March 2004:
- As National Statistician and Registrar General for England and Wales I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what estimate has been made of the number of carers aged 65 years and over in Greater London.
- Figures from the Census 2001 National Report for England and Wales indicate that there were 96,132 people aged 65 and over in the London Government Office Region (GOR) providing unpaid care. The London GOR is equivalent to the administrative area of the Greater London Authority covering the 32 London Boroughs and the City of London.
- The information below has been extracted from the CD supplement to the 2001 Census National Report for England and Wales, which is available in the House of Commons Library. The table shows the distribution of these carers according to the number of hours of care provided per week.
| All people | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provides care: | ||||
| 1–19 hours | 20–49 hours | 50 or more hours | Total | |
| 65 to 74 | 36,917 | 6,921 | 18,625 | 62,463 |
| 75 to 84 | 14,050 | 3,082 | 11,622 | 28,754 |
| 85 to 89 | 1,573 | 451 | 1,920 | 3,944 |
| 90 and over | 382 | 141 | 448 | 971 |
| Total | 52,922 | 10,595 | 32,615 | 96,132 |
Source:
Table S025 Census 2001 National Report for England and Wales
Computer Misuse
Mr. Webb: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many cases of computer misuse there were in his Department in (a) 1997 and (b) 2003, broken down by each category of misuse; and how many of those cases resulted in disciplinary action. [162394]
Ruth Kelly [holding answer 18 March 2004]: The information is as follows:
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Death Certification
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how the new proposals on death certification will affect the recording of deaths involving MRSA. [162217]
Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell to Mr. Paul Burstow, dated 22 March 2004:
- The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning how the new proposals on death certification will affect the recording of deaths involving MRSA. I am replying in his absence.
- The proposal to reform the coroner and death certification service is likely to improve information about MRSA infection at or shortly before death in a number of ways:
- The emphasis on improved training for doctors in how to complete death certificates and the scrutiny of all certificates by specially trained medical examiners will improve the quality and completeness of information collected.
- The ability to link fact and cause of death to laboratory or patient records of infection will make it possible to determine how many people die following a diagnosis of invasive MRSA infection.
- Specific research studies would still be needed to determine how much MRSA, or other health care associated infections, contribute to the likelihood of dying amongst patients with the same underlying illness and treatment.
Deaths (Greater London)
Simon Hughes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many deaths in people over 60 in each year since 1997 in Greater London were due to (a) cancer, (b) coronary heart disease and (c) falls. [163072]
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 recent question asking how many deaths in people aged over 60 in each year since 1997 in Greater London were due to (a) cancer, (b) coronary heart disease and (c) falls. (163072)
- The latest year for which data are available is 2002. Figures for cancer, ischemic (otherwise known as coronary) heart disease and falls in persons aged 60 and over are shown in the attached table for each year from 1997 to 2002.
- The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for the years 1997 to 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) for 2001 and 2002. The introduction of
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- ICD-10 has meant that the numbers of deaths from cancer in 2001 and 2002 are not completely comparable with those from previous years (see footnotes to table).
| Calendar year | (a) Cancer(69) | (b) Ischemic heart disease | (c) Falls(70) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 12,947 | 11,536 | 150 |
| 1998 | 12,889 | 11,398 | 167 |
| 1999 | 12,328 | 10,955 | 163 |
| 2000 | 12,031 | 10,207 | 176 |
| 2001(69) | 12,257 | 9,641 | 139 |
| 2002(69) | 12,165 | 9,316 | 121 |
(66) The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for the years 1997 to 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) for 2001 and 2002. The codes used are listed below:
Cancer—ICD-9 140–208;/CD-70 C00-C97;
Ischemic heart disease—ICD-9 410–414; ICD-10120–125;
Falls—ICD-9 E880-E888 excluding E887; ICD-10 W00-W19.
(67) Usual residents of London Government Office Region
(68) Figures are based on deaths occurring in each calendar year.
(69) The introduction of ICD-10 for coding cause of death in 2001 resulted in the number of deaths coded as cancer at all ages increasing by 2.5 per cent. for males and 2.2 per cent. for females. For this reason numbers are not completely comparable with those for years before this date. The effect of the introduction of ICD-10 is also known to vary by age and figures at age 60 and over should therefore be interpreted with caution. The effect of the change in classification in 2001 on deaths from cancer is described in a report published in May 2002.*
(70) The data for falls for 1997 to 2000 exclude fractures of unspecified cause (ICD-9 E887), so data for these years are comparable to those for 2001 onwards. The effect of the change in classification in 2001 on deaths from falls is described in an article published in August 2003.**
* Office for National Statistics. Results of the ICD-10 bridge coding study, England and Wales, 1999. Health Statistics Quarterly 14 (2002), 75–83.
** Griffiths C and Rooney C. The effect of the introduction of ICD-10 on mortality from injury and poisoning in England and Wales. Health Statistics Quarterly 19 (2003), 10–21.
Departmental Advertising
Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the total cost is of the advertising campaign for tax credits. [157966]
Dawn Primarolo: The total cost to date of advertising for tax credits in 2003/04 is £10.6 million.
Drug-related Deaths
Simon Hughes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many drug-related deaths there were in people aged under (a) 21, (b) 30 and (c) 40 years in (i) Greater London and (ii) each London borough in the last year for which figures are available. [162409]
Ruth Kelly: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
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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.
| 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 |
(71) Defined using the following codes from the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision for 2002: F11-F16, X40-X44, X60-X64, Y10-Y14, X85.
(72) Data are for persons aged between 0 and 39
(73) Usual residence of the deceased by London Borough.
(74) Data are for deaths occurring per calendar year
* Fewer than five deaths
Source:
Office for National Statistics.
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