§ Mr. WigleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what proportion of National Health Service funding, by region, is dedicated to services for(a) premature senile dementia, (b) youth mental illness services and (c) forensic services;
121W(2) if he will list the estimated cost by region of maintaining hospitals for the mentally ill, mentally handicapped and elderly.
§ Mr. FreemanInformation on health authorities' expenditure specifically on premature senile dementia, youth mental illness services and forensic services is not collected centrally.
For information on regions' total revenue expenditure on hospital services analysed to types of hospital (including "Geriatric", "Mental Illness" and "Mental Handicap") I refer the hon. Member to tables in the Department's annual publication "Health Services Costing Returns" (the latest being for 1986–87), copies of which are held in the Library.