The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 13 June 2006:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the neonatal mortality rate for all births was in (a) Peterborough constituency, (b) the Peterborough City Council area and (c) England in each of the last five years. I am replying in her absence. (76596)
Information on neonatal mortality is routinely published for local authorities and health authorities. Data cannot be provided for Peterborough constituency because of the risk of disclosing individual's information due to small differences with local authority boundaries.
Neonatal mortality rates for the Peterborough City Council area and England from 2000 to 2004 (the most recent year for which data are available) are given in the table below.
Peterborough rate England rate 2000 2.4 3.9 2001 2.9 3.6 2002 3.7 3.6 2003 6.3 3.7 2004 1.2 3.4 1. Per 1,000 live births