The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Jil Matheson, dated 31 March 2008:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question with reference to the Answer of 20th December 2005, Official Report, column 2799W, on infant mortality, what the infant mortality rate was in each year since 2004 in each primary care trust area in England. I am replying in her absence. (196383)
The most recent year for which figures are available is 2006; figures requested for the years 2004 - 2006 are given in the attached table.
Infant deaths Numbers Rate per 1,000 live births2 Area of residence 2004 2005 2006 2004 2005 2006 England 3,068 3,078 3,192 5.1 5.0 5.0 North East GOR County Durham 24 31 33 4.5 6.0 6.1 Darlington 6 7 13 4.8 5.7 10.1 Gateshead 7 13 16 3.3 6.1 7.1 Hartlepool 6 2 10 5.6 1.8 8.4 Middlesbrough 8 15 7 4.3 7.8 3.7 Newcastle 18 14 11 6.2 4.7 3.4 North Tees 15 7 14 7.1 3.1 5.9 North Tyneside 8 7 8 3.7 3.1 3.5 Northumberland 6 10 8 2.0 3.3 2.7 Redcar and Cleveland 11 7 12 7.3 4.4 7.9 South Tyneside 5 7 11 3.2 4.6 7.1 Sunderland Teaching 21 6 15 7.1 2.0 4.6 North West GOR Ashton, Leigh and Wigan 13 16 25 3.6 4.3 6.9 Blackburn with Darwen 9 19 13 4.1 8.3 5.6 Blackpool 7 9 18 4.2 5.5 10.9 Bolton 20 24 27 5.9 6.7 7.4 Bury 13 9 11 5.6 3.9 4.8 Central and Eastern Cheshire 23 20 16 4.7 4.1 3.2 Central Lancashire 30 28 31 5.6 5.3 5.7 Cumbria 23 21 23 4.7 4.4 4.7 East Lancashire 31 34 28 6.5 7.1 5.8 Halton and St. Helens 23 26 30 6.5 7.3 8.0 Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale 14 15 17 5.0 5.3 6.0 Knowsley 10 10 5 5.3 5.2 2.6 Liverpool 28 44 32 5.6 8.5 5.8 Manchester 54 48 36 8.2 7.2 5.0 North Lancashire 13 18 20 4.4 6.0 6.7 Oldham 26 17 23 8.1 5.3 6.9 Salford 15 15 17 5.5 5.1 5.6 Sefton 7 19 14 2.6 7.4 5.2 Stockport 18 18 8 5.7 5.7 2.4 Tameside and Glossop 10 9 20 3.4 3.1 6.3 Trafford 6 9 13 2.3 3.4 4.7 Warrington 11 12 11 4.8 5.4 4.9 Western Cheshire 15 13 20 6.2 5.3 8.2 Wirral 16 21 15 4.5 5.8 4.2 Yorkshire and the Humber GOR Barnsley 16 10 16 6.3 4.0 5.8 Bradford and Airedale 41 69 62 5.3 8.6 7.6 Calderdale 17 16 12 6.9 6.4 4.8 Doncaster 18 27 26 5.3 7.6 7.2 East Riding of Yorkshire 15 11 8 4.9 3.8 2.6 Hull 15 14 24 4.7 4.4 6.9 Kirklees 40 37 39 7.4 7.0 7.1 Leeds 45 59 53 5.3 6.8 5.8 North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus 4 10 10 2.1 5.1 5.1 North Lincolnshire 11 13 10 6.6 7.4 5.5 North Yorkshire and York 30 39 31 3.9 5.1 4.0 Rotherham 25 16 14 8.5 5.5 4.7 Sheffield 34 30 39 5.5 4.9 6.2 Wakefield District 23 21 16 6.2 5.8 4.2 East Midlands GOR Bassetlaw 10 5 7 8.8 4.5 6.1 Derby City 15 14 10 5.0 4.7 3.1 Derbyshire County 45 29 32 6.1 3.9 4.2 Leicester City 27 24 36 5.9 5.2 7.6 Leicestershire County and Rutland 16 38 40 2.3 5.4 5.7 Lincolnshire 39 31 36 6.0 4.6 5.3 Northamptonshire 47 32 46 5.9 3.9 5.4 Nottingham City 21 28 34 6.0 7.5 8.7 Nottinghamshire County 28 28 32 4.0 4.1 4.5 West Midlands GOR Birmingham East and North 52 49 59 8.3 8.0 9.0 Coventry Teaching 35 17 17 8.8 4.4 4.0 Dudley 12 24 23 3.4 6.8 6.5 Heart of Birmingham Teaching 56 48 52 10.4 8.8 9.6 Herefordshire 9 12 7 5.3 7.3 4.1 North Staffordshire 11 8 5 5.3 3.9 2.6 Sandwell 28 32 37 6.8 7.7 8.9 Shropshire County 10 11 13 3.6 4.0 4.7 Solihull 8 9 12 4.0 4.4 5.7 South Birmingham 26 27 42 6.4 6.3 9.8 South Staffordshire 31 37 40 4.8 5.8 6.1 Stoke on Trent 31 30 23 9.4 8.9 6.8 Telford and Wrekin 11 9 13 5.2 4.4 6.1 Walsall Teaching 31 35 23 9.1 10.2 6.4 Warwickshire 35 23 19 6.1 4.1 3.1 Wolverhampton City 26 20 22 8.5 6.4 6.9 Worcestershire 33 34 25 5.5 5.6 4.1 East of England GOR Bedfordshire 21 22 18 4.4 4.5 3.6 Cambridgeshire 26 25 28 4.2 3.8 4.2 East and North Hertfordshire 21 26 23 3.3 4.1 3.5 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 8 6 5 3.7 2.8 2.3 Luton 20 18 22 6.3 5.6 6.6 Mid Essex 15 13 15 3.8 3.2 3.7 Norfolk 31 35 41 4.3 4.9 5.5 North East Essex 15 15 14 4.9 4.9 4.3 Peterborough 7 17 17 2.9 7.0 6.5 South East Essex 14 12 16 3.9 3.4 4.2 South West Essex 20 15 25 4.0 2.9 4.9 Suffolk 38 20 20 5.9 3.2 3.1 West Essex 10 11 12 3.1 3.3 3.5 West Hertfordshire 25 25 17 3.8 3.8 2.4 London GOR Barking and Dagenham 18 11 15 6.5 3.7 4.7 Barnet 15 32 14 3.3 6.8 2.9 Bexley 14 13 12 5.2 4.8 4.3 Brent Teaching 20 22 31 4.6 4.9 6.6 Bromley 18 10 13 5.0 2.7 3.5 Camden 20 14 11 6.6 4.7 3.7 City and Hackney Teaching 15 24 20 3.4 5.4 4.3 Croydon 20 37 30 4.1 7.9 6.0 Ealing 17 21 23 3.6 4.3 4.5 Enfield 23 30 33 5.4 6.7 7.3 Greenwich Teaching 25 15 20 6.7 3.8 4.7 Hammersmith and Fulham 9 10 12 3.4 3.7 4.3 Haringey Teaching 30 31 26 7.5 7.7 6.4 Harrow 17 28 14 5.9 9.7 4.8 Havering 10 5 14 3.9 2.0 5.8 Hillingdon 12 14 15 3.5 4.0 4.1 Hounslow 20 23 12 5.5 6.3 3.1 Islington 19 16 13 7.1 5.9 4.6 Kensington and Chelsea 4 8 3 1.8 3.6 1.3 Kingston 11 6 7 5.4 3.0 3.4 Lambeth 27 29 28 5.7 6.1 5.7 Lewisham 17 22 22 4.2 5.1 4.8 Newham 45 24 40 8.7 4.5 7.2 Redbridge 20 15 22 5.7 4.2 5.5 Richmond and Twickenham 5 8 5 1.9 3.1 1.8 Southwark 33 19 32 7.4 4.0 6.7 Sutton and Merton 27 23 27 5.3 4.4 4.9 Tower Hamlets 16 17 17 3.9 4.3 4.1 Waltham Forest 31 18 29 7.8 4.5 6.9 Wandsworth 14 27 18 3.2 5.9 3.6 Westminster 16 15 15 5.9 5.2 5.2 South East GOR Berkshire East 14 22 29 2.7 4.1 5.2 Berkshire West 24 28 28 4.3 5.0 4.8 Brighton and Hove City 21 19 20 7.2 6.2 6.5 Buckinghamshire 23 22 21 3.9 3.9 3.5 East Sussex Downs and Weald 13 6 18 4.1 1.9 5.7 Eastern and Coastal Kent 32 43 39 4.2 5.5 4.8 Hampshire 44 40 45 3.2 3.0 3.2 Hastings and Rother 10 7 11 6.0 4.2 6.0 Isle of Wight National Health Service 5 0 3 4.2 0.0 2.3 Medway 23 10 13 7.3 3.2 4.0 Milton Keynes 15 17 20 4.6 5.2 5.8 Oxfordshire 32 32 33 4.4 4.4 4.3 Portsmouth City Teaching 12 10 8 5.2 4.3 3.2 Southampton City 5 14 14 1.9 5.0 4.8 Surrey 34 40 40 2.8 3.3 3.1 West Kent 25 31 27 3.3 4.0 3.3 West Sussex 32 26 39 3.9 3.2 4.6 South West GOR Bath and North East Somerset 9 3 10 5.5 1.8 5.6 Bournemouth and Poole 14 17 16 4.4 5.5 4.7 Bristol 28 27 25 5.3 5.0 4.4 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 29 22 22 6.1 4.6 4.3 Devon 34 34 28 5.1 5.1 4.1 Dorset 14 18 14 4.1 5.2 4.0 Gloucestershire 28 29 25 4.7 4.9 4.0 North Somerset 7 5 8 3.4 2.5 3.8 Plymouth Teaching 14 15 12 5.0 5.3 4.0 Somerset 23 22 21 4.5 4.3 4.0 South Gloucestershire 13 8 10 4.5 2.7 3.4 Swindon 17 11 10 6.8 4.3 3.8 Torbay 5 9 5 3.9 6.8 3.9 Wiltshire 13 18 16 2.7 3.7 3.2 1 Primary care organisation boundaries as of 2008 2 Based on numbers of live births and deaths registered in each year to residents of each primary care organisation