asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish tables similar to table 2.1 and 2.2 in the Black report "Inequalities in Health", based on 1981 figures.

The statistics published in tables 2.1 and 2.2 of the Black report, "Inequalities in Health", were abstracted from the OPCS decennial supplement on occupational mortality, 1970–72. This used population statistics from the 1971 census and data on deaths in the years 1970–72. The next decennial supplement will use the 1981 census and will cover deaths in the years 1979–83. It will be available in about three years' time.