§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report, for each of the statistical bulletins published by his Department, the title, date, number of copies printed and number of copies distributed free of charge to (a) Government and National Health Service users and (b) press and the numbers sold so far.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe information is as follows. The sales figures are the numbers sold up to 30 April 1987.
Statistical Bulletin No. 1/84 Title: NHS hospital activity statistics for England 1972–82 Date published: April 1984 Number of copies printed: 500 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 300 (approx.) (b) The Press: 50 (approx.) Numbers sold: 142
Statistical Bulletin No. 2/84 Title: NHS hospital activity statistics for England 1973–83 Date published: November 1984 Number of copies printed: 500 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 250 (approx.) (b) The Press: 50 (approx.) Numbers sold: 171
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Statistical Bulletin No. 1/85 Title: Mental illness hospitals and units in England: Results from the Mental Health Enquiry 1983. Date published: March 1985 Number of copies printed: 505
Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 140 (approx.) (b) The Press: 60 (approx.) Numbers sold: 176
Statistical Bulletin No. 2/85 Title: Mental handicap hospitals and units in England: Results from the Mental Health Enquiry 1983 Date published: March 1985 Number of copies printed: 425 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 240 (approx.) (b) The Press: 60 (approx.) Numbers sold: 162
Statistical Bulletin No. 3/85 Title: New cases of sexually transmitted diseases seen at NHS clinics in England 1973–1983. Date published: May 1985 Number of copies printed: 610 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 200 (approx.) (b) The Press: 50 (approx.) Numbers sold: 166
Statistical Bulletin No. 4/85 Title: Mental illness hospitals and units in England: Drug misuse statistics 1979–83. Date published: Aug 1985 Number of copies printed: 500 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 150 (approx.) (b) The Press: 150 (approx.) Numbers sold: 131
Statistical Bulletin No. 5/85 Title: NHS hospital activity statistic:; for England 1974–1984 Date published: September 1985 Number of copies printed: 500 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 300 (approx.) (b) The Press: 50 (approx.) Numbers sold: 142
Statistical Bulletin No. 6/85 Title: Mental illness hospitals and units in England: Results from the Mental Health Enquiry 1984. Date published: December 1985 Number of copies printed: 550 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 150 (approx.) (b) The Press: 150 (approx.) Numbers sold: 79
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Statistical Bulletin No. 7/85 Title: Mental handicap hospitals and units in England: Results from the Mental Health Enquiry 1984
Date published: December 1985 Number of copies printed: 500 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 200 (approx.) (b) The Press: 150 (approx.) Numbers sold: 63
Statistical Bulletin No. 1/86 Title: Mental illness hospitals and units in England: Schizophrenia statistics 1981–84 Date published: June 1986 Number of copies printed: 450 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 140 (approx.) (b) The Press: 100 (approx.) Numbers sold: 140
Statistical Bulletin No. 2/86 Title: NHS hospital activity statistics for England 1974–85 Date published: July 1986 Number of copies printed: 500 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 300 (approx.) (b) The Press: 50 (approx.) Numbers sold: 131
Statistical Bulletin No. 3/86 (not issued)
Statistical Bulletin No. 4/86 Title: Mental illness hospitals and units in England: Results from the mental Health Enquiry 1985 Date published: December 1986 Number of copies printed: 600 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 150 (approx.) (b) The Press: 150 (approx.) Numbers sold: 42
Statistical bulletin No. 5/86 Title Causes of blindness and partial sight among children aged under 16, newly registered as blind and partially sighted between 1976 and 1985. Date published: December 1986 Number of copies printed: 1,000 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 175 (includes some which were distributed to Local Authorities) (b) The Press: 200 (approx.) Numbers sold: 103
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Statistical bulletin No. 6/86 Title: Mental handicap hospitals and units in England: Results from the Mental Health Enquiry 1985. Date published: December 1986 Number of copies printed: 600 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 150 (approx.)
(b) The Press: 150 (approx.) Numbers sold: 50
Statistical bulletin No. 7/86 Title: Mental illness hospitals and units in England: Drug misuse statistics 1981–85. Date published: December 1986 Number of copies printed: 600 Number of distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 140 (approx.) (b) The Press: 200 (approx.) Numbers sold: 40
Statistical bulletin No. 1/87 Tile: NHS hospital acute in-patient statistics—England 1974–84. Date published: March 1987 Number of copies printed: 600 Number of distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 150 (approx.) (b) The Press: 150 (approx.) Numbers sold: 9
Statistical bulletin No. 2/87 Title: Mental illness and mental handicap hospitals and units in England: Legal status statistics 1982–85. Date published: April 1987 Number of copies printed: 600 Number distributed free of charge to (a) Government and NHS users: 180 (approx.) (b) The Press: 200 (approx.) Numbers sold: 15