To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action his Department is taking in respect of its Leukaemia Research Fund's report entitled "Leukaemia and Lymphoma: an Atlas of Distribution in parts of England and Wales", a copy of which has been sent to him; and if he will make a statement.
We have received from the independent Leukaemia Research Fund its report entitled "Leukaemia and Lymphoma: an Atlas of Distribution in parts of England and Wales", and we have given copies to members of the expert independent Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment for information. COMARE will no doubt wish to take account of this
| Age distribution of reported HIV infections Cumulative to 31 March 1900 | ||||||
| Age group is as at when first tested positive | ||||||
| Regional health authority | Age group | |||||
| 0–14 | 15–24 | 25–34 | 35–44 | 45+ | Not Known | |
| Northern | 12 | 42 | 113 | 43 | 22 | 101 |
| Yorkshire | 17 | 78 | 137 | 83 | 28 | 13 |
| Trent | 1— | 91 | 150 | 65 | 37 | 10 |
| East Anglia | 1— | 25 | 66 | 37 | 30 | 24 |
| North West Thames | 29 | 504 | 1,378 | 872 | 358 | 932 |
| North East Thames | 32 | 329 | 795 | 485 | 238 | 384 |
| South East Thames | 37 | 263 | 547 | 276 | 142 | 169 |
| South West Thames | 11 | 55 | 130 | 67 | 53 | 21 |
| Wessex | 1— | 63 | 96 | 53 | 36 | 36 |
| Oxford | 1— | 79 | 136 | 55 | 32 | 56 |
| South Western | 1— | 67 | 108 | 52 | 30 | 12 |
| West Midlands | 33 | 93 | 100 | 79 | 40 | 69 |
| Mersey | 17 | 29 | 56 | 36 | 17 | 22 |
| North Western | 31 | 165 | 314 | 155 | 70 | 12 |
| Channel Islands | 1— | 1— | 10 | 1— | 1— | 1— |
database, together with other relevant epidemiological studies, in pursuing the programme of work outlined by my hon. Friend the then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in a reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, South (Mr. Yeo) on 10 January at columns 662–63.