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Leukaemia

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009

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Dr. Kumar

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 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)

Kevin Brennan

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.

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.

Table 1. Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of leukaemia1, persons: England, North-east government office region, Tees Valley District2, and Middlesbrough, South and East Cleveland parliamentary constituency3, 2006

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.