Health and Social Care Bill

Baroness Chapman of Darlington Excerpts

Monday 31st January 2011 Commons Chamber

[Joan Walley]

I am coming on to public health, as it is the main issue on which I wish to concentrate.

[Mrs Jenny Chapman (Darlington) (Lab)]

In response to the intervention on the recorded death rates from coronary heart disease in France, I want to observe that France makes much more frequent use of the “unknown” category in the recording of deaths. I have been led to understand that this goes some way towards explaining the apparent difference in death rates between the two countries.