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Mesothelioma: Death

Answer

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

Dear Baroness Kennedy,

As National Statistician and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority, I am replying to your Parliamentary Question asking how many people have died from mesothelioma in each year from 2010 to the last year for which figures are available (HL16256).

The Office for National Statistics is responsible for publishing statistics on deaths registered in England and Wales. The most recent figures published are for deaths registered in 2017[1].

Cause of death is defined using the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10 edition (ICD-10). The underlying cause of death is defined by the World Health Organisation as (a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, (b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury.

Deaths due to an underlying cause of mesothelioma would be assigned the ICD-10 code C45.

Table 1 below provides the numbers of deaths from mesothelioma registered in England and Wales between 2010 and 2017.

Yours sincerely,

John Pullinger

Table 1: Number of deaths with an underlying cause of mesothelioma, persons, England and Wales, 2010 to 2017[2]^,[3],[4],[5]

Year	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Deaths	2,079	2,101	2,214	2,261	2,356	2,308	2,313	2,279

Source: Office for National Statistics

[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/deathsregisteredinenglandandwalesseriesdrreferencetables

[2]Underlying cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th edition (ICD-10) code C45.

[3]Deaths under 28 days are excluded.

[4]Figures for England and Wales include deaths of non-residents.

[5]Figures are for deaths registered, rather than deaths occurring in each calendar year.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

HL16256

Session

2017-19

Related items

Mesothelioma: Death
Monday, 17 June 2019
Written questions
House of Lords

Subjects

Death Mesothelioma

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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