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TREASURY
Census
Chris Ruane: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people aged over 18 years there were in each parliamentary constituency in England and Wales according to the 2001 census, broken down by ward. [7764]
John Healey
[holding answer 28 June 2005]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
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Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Chris Ruane, dated 30 June 2005:
As National Statistician and Registrar General for England and Wales, I am replying to your recent parliamentary question asking how many people aged over 18 years there were in each parliamentary constituency in England and Wales according to the 2001 census, broken down by ward. (7764)
We have interpreted the phrase over 18" to mean aged 18 and over. Specially commissioned table COS 19 has been run to identify the number of people aged 18 and over living in each ward within each parliamentary constituency in England and Wales on census day (29 April 2001). The table has been placed in the House of Commons Library [and can also be accessed on the National Statistics website at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/opl5.asp].
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Mr. Hancock: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the legal basis was for the disclosure of personal information, by the Registrar General, from closed decennial censuses for England and Wales, during the period 1972 to 2001, in return for a search fee. [9508]
John Healey: The information requested falls with the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Mike Hancock, dated 4 July 2005:
As National Statistician and Registrar General for England and Wales, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the legal basis was for the disclosure of personal information by the Registrar General, from closed decennial census for England and Wales between 1997 and 2001. (9508)
On 21 November 1972 the then Secretary of State Keith Joseph who had responsibility for the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (now the Office for National Statistics) announced in Parliament a concession which allowed, subject in each instance to the consent of the person concerned or that of one of his direct descendants the release of limited information on age and place of birth only. This concession applied to censuses prior to and including that of 1901.
On 12 April 1989 the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Roger Freeman announced in Parliament an extension to the concession to allow the release in respect of persons who died childless, provided the consent of the next of kin was given. In addition, age and place of birth information would be available to public trustee administrators seeking to trace possible beneficiaries to the estate of a deceased person.
On 21 April 1993 the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Tom Sackville announced in Parliament that the Registrar General would be willing to consider particular applications for information to be extracted from the 1901 Census and the 1911 Censuses if it would enable the applicant to establish a legal entitlement such as an inheritance. Such authority would be given only where the information was not available from any other source and was clearly requisite for establishing the entitlement in question.
Mr Sackville went on to say that the Registrar General would wish to be satisfied from documentary evidence as to the identity of the applicant. Where the desired information from the census form related to a living person other than the applicant, that person's consent would be required before the information would be released.
The census records to which the concessions applied were held by the Public Record Office (now National Archives) and under the legislation existing at the time—the Public Records Act Section 5(4) it was not unlawful for the Keeper of the Public Records to permit a person to inspect any records if he had obtained special authority in that behalf from the Registrar General. The Registrar General gave authority for searches to be made in respect of those applications which satisfied the conditions of the concessions.
Accountancy Secondments
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individuals from (a) KPMG, (b) PricewaterhouseCoopers, (c) Deloitte, (d) Ernst and Young, (e) Grant Thornton and (f) BDO Stoy Hayward are seconded to his Department; what their roles are; and what the cost to his Department is of each such secondment. [8232]
John Healey: The following table provides information requested:
Alcohol/Drug Related Deaths
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in respect of how many deaths, in each Government Office region, alcohol was the primary cause in each of the last five years. [7966]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Lynne Featherstone, dated 30 June 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking in respect of how many deaths, in each Government Office Region, alcohol was the primary cause in each of the last five years. (7966)
The latest year for which figures are available is 2004. The table shows the numbers of deaths among residents of Government Office Regions where the underlying cause of death indicated a condition directly related to alcohol use in the years 2000 to 2004.
(7)For the year 2000 the cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9). The codes used by ONS to define alcohol-related deaths are listed below:
291—Alcoholic psychoses
303—Alcohol dependence syndrome
305.0—Non-dependent abuse of alcohol
425.5—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
571—Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
E860—Accidental poisoning by alcohol.
For the years 2001–2004 the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) was used. To maintain comparability with earlier years the following codes were used:
F10—Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol
142.6—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
K70—Alcoholic liver disease
K73—Chronic hepatitis, not elsewhere classified
K74—Fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver
X45—Accidental poisoning by and exposure to alcohol.
Deaths were selected using the original underlying cause.
The selection of codes to define alcohol-related deaths is described in:
Baker A and Rooney C (2003). Recent trends in alcohol-related mortality, and the impact of ICD-10 on the monitoring of these deaths in England and Wales. Health Statistics Quarterly 17, pp5–14.
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Mr. Drew: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many deaths in which the primary cause was (a) alcohol and (b) illegal drugs there were in (i) Stroud and (ii) Gloucestershire in each of the last five years. [8001]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. David Drew, dated 30 June 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many deaths in which the primary cause was (a) alcohol and (b) illegal drugs there were in (i) Stroud and (ii) Gloucestershire in each of the last five years. (8001)
The most recently available information is for deaths registered in 2004 and deaths occurring in 2003. Relevant figures are only readily available for deaths where the underlying cause was either related to drug poisoning or directly related to alcohol (alcohol abuse, dependence and poisoning, and diseases directly related to alcohol use). It is not possible to identify from death certificates which substance was the primary cause when more than one was involved.
Figures for alcohol-related deaths to usual residents of Stroud and Gloucestershire registered in the years 2000 to 2004 are given in the table below. ONS compiles a special database to analyse mortality from drug-related poisoning adding more detail than is available on routine annual extracts. This database is compiled using the annual occurrences extract of mortality data. Figures showing deaths related to drug poisoning involving controlled drugs occurring in the years 1999 to 2003, to usual residents of Stroud and Gloucestershire, are given in the table below. Information on deaths involving illegal drugs is not available, as how the deceased obtained a particular drug is not recorded at death registration.
It should be noted that the figures on drug-related poisoning are not directly comparable to the figures on alcohol for the following reasons:
The figures on drugs do not include long-term effects of drug taking, whereas the figures on alcohol include cirrhosis of the liver.
Deaths from poisoning which involved both drugs and alcohol are coded as due to drug poisoning, in accordance with international rules for coding cause of death.
The figures on alcohol include only those where the underlying cause was alcohol-related. The figures on specific drugs include any mention of a substance on a death related to drug poisoning.
Notes:
(8)For the year 2000 the cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9). The codes selected to define alcohol-related deaths are listed below:
291—Alcoholic psychoses
303—Alcohol dependence syndrome
305.0—Non-dependent abuse of alcohol
425.5—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
571—Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
E860—Accidental poisoning by alcohol.
For the years 2001–2004 the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) was used. To maintain comparability with earlier years the following codes were selected:
F10—Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol
142.6—Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
K70—Alcoholic liver disease
K73—Chronic hepatitis, not elsewhere classified
K74—Fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver
X45—Accidental poisoning by and exposure to alcohol.
The selection of codes to define alcohol-related deaths is described in: Baker A and Rooney C (2003). Recent trends in alcohol-related mortality, and the impact of ICD-10 on the monitoring of these deaths in England and Wales. Health Statistics Quarterly 17, pp5–14.
(9)Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes 292, 304, 305.2–305.9, E850-E858, E950.0-E950.5, E962.0 and E980.0-E980.5 for 1999 to 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes F11-F16, F18-F19, X40-X44, X60-X64, X85 and Y10-Y14 from 2001 onwards.
(10)Drugs mentioned on the death certificate of a death where the underlying cause was drug poisoning.
(11)Deaths of usual residents of:
(i) Stroud local authority
(ii) County of Gloucestershire.
(12)Data are for deaths registered in each calendar year for alcohol-related deaths and for deaths occurring in each calendar year for deaths related to drug poisoning.
(13)Fewer than 5 deaths.
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