The information requested falls within the responsibility of the national statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 12 July 2006:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many patients were diagnosed with melanoma in each of the last 10 years. I am replying in her absence. [84095]
The latest available figures for the incidence of melanoma skin cancer are for the year 2003. Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of cancer for 1994 for England and Wales, and from 1995 to 2003 for England, are available in Table 1 of the annual reference volumes, Cancer statistics: Registrations, Series MB1. These are available on the National Statistics website:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=8843&Pos=&ColRank=1&Rank=224