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Ms Harman
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the mortality rate from diabetes by county of birth in the last year. [40129]
Mr. Horam
The following table shows mortality rates for diabetes per county of residence in 1994, the latest figures available. Data by county of birth is not available centrally.
| Area | Number of deaths | Rate (per 100,000 of population) |
| Greater London | 717 | 10 |
| Greater Manchester | 313 | 12 |
| Mersey | 144 | 10 |
| South Yorkshire | 137 | 10 |
| Tyne and Wear | 118 | 10 |
| West Midlands | 379 | 0.14 |
| West Yorkshire | 246 | 12 |
| Avon | 126 | 13 |
| Bedfordshire | 53 | 10 |
| Berkshire | 75 | 10 |
| Buckinghamshire | 55 | 8 |
| Cambridgeshire | 77 | 11 |
| Cheshire | 97 | 10 |
| Cleveland | 55 | 10 |
| Cornwall and Scilly Isles | 91 | 19 |
| Cumbria | 53 | 11 |
| Derbyshire | 140 | 15 |
| Devon | 126 | 12 |
| Dorset | 82 | 12 |
| Durham | 70 | 12 |
| East Sussex | 87 | 12 |
| Essex | 200 | 13 |
| Gloucestershire | 60 | 11 |
| Hampshire | 146 | 9 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 65 | 9 |
| Hertfordshire | 71 | 7 |
| Humberside | 100 | 11 |
| Isle of Wight | 16 | 13 |
| Area | Number of deaths | Rate (per 100,000 of population) |
| Kent | 197 | 13 |
| Lancashire | 181 | 13 |
| Leicestershire | 93 | 10 |
| Lincolnshire | 99 | 16 |
| Norfolk | 109 | 14 |
| Northamptonshire | 42 | 7 |
| Northumberland | 33 | 11 |
| North Yorkshire | 78 | 11 |
| Nottinghamshire | 159 | 15 |
| Oxfordshire | 53 | 9 |
| Shropshire | 39 | 9 |
| Somerset | 74 | 15 |
| Staffordshire | 103 | 10 |
| Suffolk | 89 | 14 |
| Surrey | 110 | 11 |
| Warwickshire | 60 | 12 |
| West Sussex | 89 | 12 |
| Wiltshire | 66 | 11 |
| Clwyd | 44 | 11 |
| Dyfed | 43 | 12 |
| Gwent | 65 | 14 |
| Gwynedd | 35 | 15 |
| Mid-Glamorgan | 69 | 13 |
| Powys | 18 | 15 |
| South Glamorgan | 33 | 8 |
| West Glamorgan | 34 | 9 |
Source:
Office of National Statics.