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Hearing Impaired: Copeland

Volume 461: debated on Wednesday 20 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people living in Copeland aged (a) under 18 and (b) over 18 years are registered as having impaired hearing. (143024)

The information is not available in the format requested. The number of people registered deaf or hard of hearing in Cumbria as at March 2001, the most recent available data, is set out in the following table.

Number

People registered as deaf by age

All ages

301

0 to 17

31

18 to 64

172

65 to 74

47

75 or over

51

People registered as hard of hearing

2,456

Source:

People Registered as Deaf or Hard of Hearing year ending 31 March 2001, England. This is available at: www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics/StatiscialWorkAreas/Statisticalsocialcare/DH_4098132