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Mr. Austin Mitchell
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many deaths from hypothermia there have been in the last five years in Great Grimsby.
Mr. Whitney
There have been two deaths registered between 1 January 1981 and 1 November 1985 with a mention of hypothermia on the death certificate to residents of Great Grimsby, one female in 1982 and one male in 1983.
| Region | 1981–82 | 1982–83 | 1983–84 | 1984–85* | ||||
| Number of cases | Payments £ | Number of cases | Payments £ | Number of cases | Payments £ | Number of cases | Payments £ | |
| Northern | 117 | 119,431 | 115 | 184,381 | 79 | 188,609 | 110 | 141,399 |
| Yorkshire | 171 | 103,893 | 198 | 143,624 | 245 | 184,038 | 262 | 322,560 |
| Trent | 183 | 203,477 | 226 | 204,167 | 254 | 313,289 | 288 | 318,972 |
| East Anglian | 73 | 133,325 | 93 | 105,464 | 119 | 182,596 | 145 | 222,633 |
| North West Thames | 125 | 221,005 | 106 | 216,922 | 97 | 164,216 | 113 | 534,736 |
| North East Thames | 310 | 308,545 | 339 | 621,980 | 294 | 501,903 | 294 | 766,875 |
| South East Thames | 234 | 156,217 | 240 | 277,666 | 245 | 247,652 | 227 | 469,300 |
| South West Thames | 388 | 842,094 | 328 | 216,962 | 463 | 708,190 | 365 | 320,771 |
| Wessex | 118 | 124,796 | 152 | 122,498 | 219 | 692,553 | 216 | 181,534 |
| Oxford | 38 | 50,774 | 80 | 32,353 | 65 | 70,426 | 77 | 133,937 |
| South Western | 132 | 187,423 | 186 | 177,383 | 129 | 328,785 | 115 | 305,779 |
| West Midlands | 293 | 312,521 | 341 | 661,127 | 329 | 242,007 | 367 | 371,489 |
| Mersey | 175 | 128,885 | 198 | 125,638 | 233 | 392,275 | 273 | 266,350 |
| North Western | 424 | 539,395 | 372 | 431,446 | 487 | 563,997 | 518 | 545,479 |
| Total | 2,781 | 3,432,781 | 2,974 | 3,521,611 | 3,258 | 4,780,536 | 3,370 | 4,901,814 |