§ Mr. Frank R. Whiteasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) what is the required standard of psychiatric departments before they are recognised by the Royal College of Psychiatry;
(2) what action she intends to take to ensure that the psychiatric services in Bury and Radcliffe achieve the stan-
(1)Supplementary Benefit Recipients (Thousands) (2)Number per 1,000 Population Great Britain … … 2,793 51 Scotland … … 276 53 Wales … … 172 62 England … … 2,345 50 Northern … … 195 62 Yorkshire and Humberside … … 276 56 East Midlands and East Anglia … … 236 43 South-East … … 746 44 London, North … … 251 London, South … … 289 London, West … … 206 South-West … … 209 49 West Midlands … … 261 50 North-West … … 422 64 North-West (Manchester) … … 208 North-West (Merseyside) … … 213 Note: The population areas on which the column (2) figures are based do not always coincide with social security regional boundaries.
822Wdard recognised by the Royal College of Psychiatry.
§ Dr. OwenThe Royal College of Psychiatrists is responsible for the approval of training programmes and for the criteria for approval of individual posts for the training of doctors for membership of the college. The Joint Committee on Higher Psychiatric Training is concerned with higher specialist training for doctors who have already obtained membership of the college and who for example may later wish to apply for consultant posts in the National Health Service. Visiting teams from the college or from the joint committee examine the services associated with a post and the facilities which are provided for training. They consider whether a post can be approved for training and their reports are normally made available to the appropriate health authority who would no doubt inform me of any matters of which they considered I should be aware.