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TREASURY
Cancer Deaths
Mr. Hepburn: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people have died due to cancer in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997. [222144]
Mr. Timms:
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 Mr. Stephen Hepburn, dated 16 March 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many people have died due to cancer in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) the UK in each year since 1997. (222144)
The latest year for which data are available is 2003. Figures for Jarrow constituency, which is made up of parts of Gateshead and South Tyneside local authorities, are not available. For this reason, the figures for 1997 to 2003, provided in the attached table, are for Gateshead and South Tyneside, the North East Government Office Region and the United Kingdom.
(14) The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for England and Wales, and Northern Ireland, from 1997 to 2000, and for deaths in Scotland from 1997 to 1999. The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) was used to define deaths in England and Wales, and Northern Ireland from 2001 to 2003, and in Scotland from 2000 to 2003. The codes used are listed below:
Cancer (Malignant neoplasms)—ICD-9 140–208; ICD-10 C00-C97.
(15) Usual residents of these areas.
(16) UK figures include non-residents.
(17) The introduction of ICD-10 for coding cause of death means that data for cancer are not completely comparable with data coded using ICD-9. The data should therefore be interpreted with caution. The effect of the change in classification in 2001 on cancer deaths in England and Wales is described in a report published in May 2002.*
*Office for National Statistics. Results of the ICD-10 bridge coding study, England and Wales, 1999. Health Statistics Quarterly 14 (2002), 75–83.
EU Committees
Angus Robertson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many times during the (a) Italian, (b) Irish and (c) Dutch presidency of the EU the Committee for the Implementation of the Regulation establishing an Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-accession met; when and where these meetings took place; what UK Government expert was present; and if he will make a statement. [217895]
Mr. Gareth Thomas: I have been asked to reply.
The Committee for the implementation of the Regulation establishing an Instrument for Structural Policies for Pre-accession (ISPA) met once under the Italian presidency of the EU, on 12 and 13 November 2003. The Committee did not meet under the Irish presidency but met once under the Dutch presidency, on 28 October 2004. The meetings took place in Brussels and were attended by an official from the Department for International Development.
The ISPA Committee is convened and chaired by the Commission and is constituted for member states to assist the Commission with implementation of Council Regulation No. 1267/1999 of 21 June 1999.
The ISPA programme consists of support to the environmental and transport infrastructure priorities of the applicant countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Council Decision 1999/468/EC sets out to "simplify the requirements for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission". As an obligation to this Decision, the Commission undertakes to publish an annual report on the working of committees. The reports are deposited in the Libraries of both Houses.
I refer the hon. Gentleman to the series of Command Papers that sets out the main elements of government business in the EU under the respective presidencies: Cm6174, laid in April 2004 and Cm6310, laid in September 2004 refer.
Identity Cards
Mr. Oaten: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what traffic light status was awarded to the identity cards scheme by the Office of Government Commerce at the Gateway Review 1 stage. [217772]
Mr. Boateng [holding answer 25 February 2005]: The ID Cards programme has not yet undergone a Gate 1 Review. It has, however, undergone two OGC Gate 0 Reviews, in June 2003 and January 2004 respectively. The traffic light status awarded by these reviews is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as disclosure would be likely to prejudice both the ability of OGC to examine the effectiveness, efficiency and economy with which other Government Departments exercise their functions and also the formulation and development of Government policy. I believe the public interest in disclosure of such information is outweighed by the public interest in non-disclosure.
Job Creation
Mr. Salmond: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many new jobs have been created in (a) Aberdeenshire Unitary Authority Area, (b) Gordon constituency and (c) Banff and Buchan constituency in each year since 1999. [222061]
Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Alex Salmond, dated 16 March 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about jobs created in Aberdeenshire Unitary Authority, and Banff and Buchan and Gordon Parliamentary Constituencies. (222061)
While statistics of new jobs created are not available explicitly, statistics from surveys enable comparisons to be made of net changes, in numbers of jobs, from year to year.
The attached table shows the information requested, relating to jobs in these areas, from 1999 to 2003 for Aberdeenshire, and from
- 1999 to 2002 for Parliamentary Constituencies. These are the latest period for which information is available.
(18) Excludes self-employed jobs.
(19) These figures are aggregates from which agriculture class 0100 (1992 SIC) have been excluded.
(20) 2003 Annual Business Inquiry estimates are currently not available by parliamentary constituency.
Note:
Each table entry is independently rounded to the nearest thousand.
Source:
Annual Business Inquiry, 1999–2003
MRSA Deaths
Mr. Evans: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many deaths from MRSA there have been in (a) Lancashire, (b) the Ribble Valley and (c) each hospital in Lancashire in each of the last five years. [221988]
Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician. I have asked him to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Nigel Evans, dated 16 March 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many deaths from MRSA there have been in (a) Lancashire, (b) Ribble Valley and (c) each hospital in Lancashire in each of the past five years. (221988)
The latest year for which figures are available is 2003. Numbers of deaths where MRSA was a contributory factor are given in the table below.
| Lancashire | Ribble Valley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | (24)— | (24)— |
| 2000 | 12 | (24)— |
| 2001 | 7 | (24)— |
| 2002 | 10 | (24)— |
| 2003 | 16 | (24)— |
(21) Identified using the methodology described in Griffiths C, Lamagni TL, Crowcroft NS, Duckworth G and Rooney C (2004) Trends in MRSA in England and Wales: analysis of morbidity and mortality data for 1993–2002. "Health Statistics Quarterly" 21, 15–22.
(22) Deaths to residents of these areas.
(23) Figures are for deaths occurring in the years 1999 to 2003.
(24) Fewer than 5 deaths.
Source:
Office for National Statistics
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