Occupational Ill Health

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many people in each region have died from occupational ill health in each of the last 10 years. [40419]

Table 1: Deaths due to occupationally related lung disease, 1985–94
	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
Pneumoconiosis other than asbestosis	324	337	279	281	318	328	287	274	281	276
Byssinosis	25	29	25	22	25	19	16	21	11	7
Farmer's lung and other occupational allergic alveolitis	7	15	16	9	8	6	8	4	12	10
Mesothelioma	617	704	814	872	909	885	1,011	1,082	1,139	1,235
Asbestosis, excluding death certificates which mention mesothelioma	140	166	143	151	155	164	163	150	172	174
Total	1,113	1,251	1,277	1,335	1,415	1,402	1,485	1,531	1,615	1,702

Source: ONS/GRO(S).

Table 2: Mesothelioma deaths by region, 1985–94
	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
North	83	76	91	109	85	72	100	92	113	112
Yorkshire and Humberside	44	52	54	69	80	61	94	85	91	120
North West	75	69	94	97	93	91	122	122	111	126
West Midlands	17	32	32	34	48	46	49	55	74	79
East Midlands	26	33	43	43	45	51	44	68	70	58
South West	54	67	73	80	78	90	106	100	103	93
East Anglia	18	21	29	20	27	26	44	33	39	38
South East (excl. G. London)	131	182	171	190	187	204	201	236	228	297
Greater London	98	80	111	105	120	115	108	113	140	133
Wales	18	29	23	14	26	23	34	43	51	51
Scotland	53	63	93	107	119	106	109	133	119	128
Overseas address	—	—	—	4	1	—	—	2	—	—
Total	617	704	814	872	909	885	1,011	1,082	1,139	1,235

Table 3: Asbestosis deaths, excluding death certificates which also mention mesothelioma, by region, 1985–94
	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
North	22	26	33	19	29	33	31	28	35	40
Yorkshire and Humberside	12	18	12	20	19	21	13	10	17	21
North West	20	18	17	14	17	22	20	18	32	28
West Midlands	11	5	4	13	9	10	11	10	5	6
East Midlands	3	5	7	4	5	1	7	5	4	8
South West	7	19	17	8	6	7	11	14	21	16
East Anglia	3	3	3	9	6	1	—	1	1	2
South East (excl. G. London)	19	20	10	13	12	16	8	20	15	14
Greater London	18	27	22	31	24	29	38	24	23	21
Wales	4	10	6	5	9	7	6	7	4	4
Scotland	21	15	12	15	19	17	18	13	14	12
Unknown	21	15	12	15	19	17	18	13	14	12
Total	140	166	143	151	155	164	163	150	172	174

The information is not available in the form requested. Some categories of occupational ill health can be identified from death certificate details and figures for the last 10 years. These are recorded in table 1.The number of death certificates mentioning asbestosis or the asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma, in each of the last 10 years are broken down by region in tables 2 and 3. Figures for other occupationally related lung disease are not readily available by region.

Volume 282: debated on Monday 14 October 1996