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Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated March 2009:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many people diagnosed with leukaemia there are in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency [264407]
We do not have an estimate of how many people there are at any one time, but the numbers of new cases in the latest year for which figures are available for are for the year 2006. Numbers of newly diagnosed cases of leukaemia in 2006 in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley district and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency are in Table 1.
Number England 6,025 North-east 200 Tees Valley 63 Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland 10 1 Leukaemia is coded to C91 to C95 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). 2 Tees Valley is defined as the Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees and Darlington local authorities. 3 Based on boundaries as of 2007. Source: Office for National Statistics.