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Mr. Rooker
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what use the registrar general is making of information collected for the community charge in respect of improving the accuracy of population statistics.
Mr. Freeman
None, at present. The registrar general will he examining aggregated community charge data with
| Prescriptions investigated under regulation 201 August 1988 to December 1989 | |||
| Region | Cases considered by LMCs | LMC decisions against the GP | All decisions to recover the cost from the GP2 |
| East Anglia | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| Mersey | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| North East Thames | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Northern | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| North Western | 15 | 3 | 5 |
| North West Thames | 4 | 3 | 3 |
a view to their use in making population estimates. If it becomes clear that use of community charge data would improve the accuracy of population estimates, this will begin as quickly as practicable.