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TREASURY
Alcohol/Tobacco Deaths
Mike Wood: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in how many deaths in (a) England, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) Batley and Spen (i) consumption of alcohol and (ii) smoking was the main cause in the last year for which figures are available. [19659]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the national statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell to Mr. Mike Wood, dated 21 October 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking in how many deaths in (a) England, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) Batley and Spen (i) consumption of alcohol and (ii) smoking was the main cause in the last year for which figures are available. (19659)
The most recently available information for mortality is deaths registered in 2004. Table 1 below shows numbers of deaths among residents of England, West Yorkshire, and Batley and Spen Parliamentary Constituency, where the underlying cause of death indicated a condition directly related to alcohol use in 2004.
Smoking history is rarely recorded on death certificates. Estimates can however be made of the number of deaths attributable to smoking, by using information on the contribution that smoking makes to specific conditions recorded at death. The most recent estimates for England were published by the Health Development Agency in 2004. 1 This report estimated that over the period 1998–2002 an average of 86,500 deaths were caused by smoking each year in England. The equivalent figure for West Yorkshire was 3,900 deaths. Estimates were not published at parliamentary constituency level. However the percentage of all deaths from causes attributable to smoking, at ages 35 and over, were published for Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs). These figures for West Yorkshire and its constituent PCTs are provided in Table 2 below. Batley and Spen Parliamentary Constituency is part of North Kirklees PCT.
(18) The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10).
The codes used by ONS to define alcohol-related deaths are listed as follows:
F10—Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol
I42.6—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
Notes:
1. Deaths were selected using the original underlying cause.
2. 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, pp 5–14.
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Mr. Wallace: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in how many deaths alcohol was the primary cause in the last five years in Lancaster and Wyre constituency. [20480]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell to Mr. Ben Wallace, dated 21 October 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many deaths where alcohol was the primary cause there were in the last five years in Lancaster and Wyre constituency. (20480)
The latest year for which figures are available is 2004. The attached table shows the numbers of deaths among residents of Lancaster and Wyre Parliamentary Constituency where the underlying cause of death indicated a condition directly related to alcohol use in the years 2000 to 2004.
| Number | |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 15 |
| 2001 | 2 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 13 |
(19) 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 as listed:
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 2001–04 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
Notes:
1. Deaths were selected using the original underlying cause.
2. 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, pp 5–14.
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Cancer Survival Rates
Mr. Paterson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the survival rates of cancer patients one year after diagnosis were in England in each of the last five years. [19908]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell to Mr. Owen Paterson, dated 21 October 2005:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning what were the survival rates of cancer patients one year after diagnosis in England in each of the last five years. (19908)
Cancer survival rates are only produced for specific cancers and are calculated by combining several years of diagnosis.
The latest available one-year and five-year survival rates for 21 common cancers (about 90 per cent. of all cancer cases) in England are for adult patients (aged 15–99 years) diagnosed during 1998–2001 and followed up to the end of 2003. These figures were published on the National Statistics website on 9 May 2005, and are available at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=14007
The latest available one-year and five-year survival rates for 23 less common cancers in England and Wales are for adult patients diagnosed during 1996–99 and followed up to the end of 2001. These figures were published on the National Statistics website on 2 March 2005, and are available at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=136134&More=n
In addition, one-year and five-year survival rates by government office region and strategic health authority, for eight common cancers, for adult patients diagnosed during 1995–97 and followed up to the end of 2002, were published on the National Statistics website on 21 April 2005, and are available at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/ssdatasetasp?vlnk=8974
Climate Change Levy
Mike Penning: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment he has made of the impact of the Climate Change Levy; and if he will make a statement. [20429]
John Healey: The Government published an independent evaluation of the Climate Change levy (CCL), "Modelling the Initial Effects of the Climate Change Levy", by Cambridge Econometrics at Budget 2005, which is available at:
The evaluation concluded that CCL is expected to deliver carbon dioxide savings of over 3.5 million tonnes of carbon by 2010, well above the estimates made at the time of the levy's introduction.
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