§ Mr. Gareth Wardellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report for each of the past five years and for each local authority in England (a) the proportion of the social services' Department expenditure that is spent on the mentally handicapped, (b) the number of mentally-handicapped adults per 100,000 population receiving day care in adult training centres and (c) the expenditure per mentally-handicapped person receiving residential or adult training centre care.
§ Mr. John PattenThe information available on(a) and (c) could be provided only at disproportionate cost. The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy annual publications "Personal Social Services Statistics: Estimates" and "Personal Social Services Statistics: Actuals", copies of which are in the Library of the House, provide information on spending by each local authority in England and Wales on certain services for mentally handicapped people. Information on the number of mentally handicapped adults receiving day care in adult training centres is not collected centrally, but the Department's booklets "Adult Training Centres for the Mentally Handicapped and Day Centres for the Mentally Ill, the Elderly and the Younger Physically Handicapped", copies of which are also in the Library, show the number of places available in adult training centres on 31 March each year.