§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the number of mental hospitals and mental handicap hospitals which have closed down in each year since 1979; and if he will give a breakdown region by region of these closures during the same period.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeFrom the information we have centrally, the number of mental illness and mental handicap hospitals approved for complete closure for the period May 1979—March 1985, is as follows:
Year Number of hospitals May—December 1979 1 January—December 1980 3 January—December 1981 5 January—December 1982 2 January—December 1983 6 January—December 1984 14 January— March 1985 — TOTAL May 1979— March 1985 31 Details of the individual hospitals are in the table.
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Region Area/District Hospital Type of Hospital Mental Illness (MI) or Mental Handicap (MH) Date Approved Nottingham Coppice Hospital MI December 1984 Rotherham Aughton Court Hospital MH September 1984 North Lincolnshire Lawn Hospital MI February 1934 East Anglian Norwich The Vale MI May 1984 Norwich Blofield Hall MH September 1984 North East Thames City and Hackney The German MI June 1984 South West Thames Mid-Downs Roffey Park MI October 1984 North West Surrey Murray House, Ottershaw MH April 1984 Wessex Winchester Tichbourne Down House Hospital MH April 1984 Bath Winsley Centre MH November 1984 Oxford Northampton Upton Lawn Day Hospital MI October 1984 West Midlands Worcester & District St. Wulstan's Hospital MI June 1984 Mersey Wirral Priory Day Hospital MI October 1984
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the numbers of patients residing in mental hospitals and units in England in each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeOn the assumption that the hon. Member is referring to mental illness hospitals and units, the available information is given in Table 1 of DHSS Statistical Bulletin 1/85, "Mental illness hospitals and units in England, results from the Mental Health Enquiry 1983," a copy of which is in the Library.