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Health Statistics (Yeovil)
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the most recent rate is of (a) cancers and (b) stroke in (i) Yeovil constituency, (ii) Somerset county and (iii) the South West. [83388]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 11 July 2006:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the most recent rate is of (a) cancers and (b) stroke in (i) Yeovil constituency, (ii) Somerset county and (iii) the South West. I am replying in her absence. [83388]
A: Cancers—incidence
The latest available rates for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2003. Incidence rates are not available centrally for parliamentary constituencies. Cancer incidence rates for all malignant cancers excluding non-melanoma skin cancer for 2003 are given in Table 1 for (i) Somerset South local authority, (ii) Somerset county and (iii) the South West government office region.
B: Stroke—incidence
There is no complete register of stroke cases. Information is available centrally on emergency admission to hospital from the NHS Hospital Episode System (HES), and on death registrations.
Figures on emergency admissions to hospital for strokes can be found on the Clinical and Health Outcomes Knowledge Base website: http://www.nchod.nhs.uk/. (Table reference numbers: 10C_5281SR7CM_04-V2 (males) 10C_5281SR7CF_04-V2 (females)). Figures are available for England, Government Office Regions, Strategic Health Authorities, Local Authorities and Primary Care Organisations. The latest year for which data are available is for the financial year 2003/04.
C: Cancers and stroke-mortality
Mortality rates for parliamentary constituencies cannot be provided because population estimates are not available for these areas. Figures in Table 2 are provided for the local authorities making up the requested constituency.
The introduction of ICD-10 for coding cause of death in England and Wales in 2001 means that data for cancer are not completely comparable with data for years before this date. The effect of the change in classification in 2001 on deaths from these causes 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.
| Table 1: Incidence rates( 1) per million population for all malignant cancers( 2) registered in Somerset South local authority, the county of Somerset and South West government office region, 2003 | |
| All cancers excluding nmsc | |
| (1) Rates per million population standardised to the European Standard Population. (2) “All malignant cancers” are defined by codes C00-C97 excluding non-melanoma skin cancer (nmsc) code C44 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD 10). Source: Office for National Statistics | |
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the most recent death rate from heart disease was in (a) Yeovil constituency, (b) Somerset county and (c) the South West. [83393]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 11 July 2006:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the most recent death rate from heart disease was in (a) Yeovil constituency (b) Somerset county and (c) the South West. I am replying in her absence. (83393)
Mortality rates for parliamentary constituencies cannot be provided as requested because population estimates are not available for these areas. The latest year for which figures are available is 2004 and these are given in the following table.
| Death rates( 1) from coronary heart disease( 2) for South Somerset local authority, Somerset County and South West Government Office Region( 3) , 2004( 4) | |
| Coronary heart disease | |
| (1) Rates per 1,000,000 population standardised to the European Standard Population. (2 )The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). The codes used are listed: Coronary heart disease—ICD-10 120-125 Deaths were selected using the original underlying cause. (3) Usual residents of these areas. The local authority of South Somerset comprises the whole of Yeovil constituency plus part of Somerton and Frome constituency. Data for the county of Somerset excludes figures for the unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset, created in 1996. (4)Deaths registered in 2004. | |
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the most recent (a) teenage pregnancy rate and (b) life expectancy was in (i) Yeovil constituency, (ii) Somerset county and (iii) the South West. [83394]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 11 July 2006:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the most recent (a) teenage pregnancy rate and (b) life expectancy was in (i) Yeovil constituency, (ii) Somerset County and (iii) the South West. (83394)
(a) Information on teenage conceptions is routinely published for local authorities and strategic health authorities. Figures cannot be provided by Parliamentary Constituency because of the risk of disclosing individual's information, due to small differences in boundaries between the Parliamentary Constituency and the local authority.
The most recent year for which figures are available is 2004 and these are shown in the table below. Figures for 2004 are provisional.
(b) Figures for life expectancy at birth for English regions and local authorities are published annually by ONS based on three-year rolling averages. The most recent figures, for 2002-2004, are shown in the table below.
| (a) Teenage conception rates for South Somerset LA( 1) , Somerset county and the South West, 2004( 2) | |
| Area | Rate |
| (b) Life expectancy at birth (years) by sex, for South Somerset LA( 1) , Somerset county and the South West, 2002-04( 3) | ||
| Males | Females | |
| (1) The local authority of South Somerset comprises the whole of Yeovil constituency plus part of Somerton and Frome constituency. (2) Conceptions for 2004 are provisional. (3) Results are based on deaths registered in 2002-04 and mid-year population estimates for these years. | ||
HM Revenue and Customs Offices
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment has been made of the effects on compliance of (a) closing and (b) reducing staff at local HM Revenue and Customs offices; and if he will make a statement. [83446]
Dawn Primarolo: In the 2004 Spending Review, the Government set HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) challenging performance targets for the years 2005 to 2008. They have also been set stretching targets to achieve resource efficiencies following the merger of the two former tax departments in April 2005. HMRC is making good progress against all these objectives, as outlined in their Spring Departmental Report 2006 (Cm 6832).
Master Netting Agreement
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 31 January 2006, Official Report, column 403W, on the Master Netting Agreement, whether the European Central Bank Guidelines preclude the Government from changing its own practices as the baseline upon which its own guidelines have been set. [84203]
Ed Balls: No, as ECB guidelines are applicable to members of the Eurosystem and are not binding on the UK while it is not a member of the system.
Ministerial Group on Youth Volunteering
Mr. Francois:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his announcement in the pre-Budget report on the Ministerial Group on youth volunteering, how
many times the group has met; who (a) attends and (b) chairs this group; and how many meetings have been attended by Rod Aldridge. [83509]
Dawn Primarolo: The ministerial group on youth volunteering has met twice. The Chancellor chairs this group and the Departments represented at these meetings have been the Department for Education and Skills, Home Office, the Cabinet Office, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Rod Aldridge has not attended any of these meetings.
National Insurance Contributions
Mr. Carmichael: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many complaints were received about the National Insurance Contribution system in each of the last nine years. [84345]
Dawn Primarolo: Correspondence about complaints is dealt with across HMRC and the information requested is not available, except at disproportionate cost.
Official Visits
David Simpson: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on how many occasions he has visited each region in an official capacity in the last 12 months. [83909]
John Healey: The Chancellor has made a number of visits to the regions and nations of the United Kingdom and will be continuing to do so over the coming months.
Parliamentary Questions
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many written answers to parliamentary questions to the Department have taken longer than 10 days to answer in each year since 1997. [83395]
John Healey: 10 days has no particular significance in relation to the answering of parliamentary questions. Indeed, as any period of 10 days will include at least one weekend and may also include other days on which the House of Commons is not sitting and questions cannot be answered, it is a meaningless yardstick against which to measure performance in answering questions. With that important caveat, the information sought by the hon. Member for each session since 1997-98 is given as follows:
| Session | Answers given after more than 10 days | Percentage of all answers |
The proportion of written answers given by the Treasury within the timescales set by the House (that is to say, on the nominated day in the case of named day questions and within a working week of tabling for ordinary questions) in each of the last three sessions is as follows:
| Percentage | ||
| Session | Named day questions | Ordinary questions |
| (1) Up to 30 June 2006 | ||
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