HC Deb 25 July 1990 vol 177 c338W
Mr. Atkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects that mental health statistics will be available for the number of hospital beds, the number of patients, their admission and discharge, length of stay and detention under various sections of the Mental Health Act 1983 for a later year than 1986.

Mr. Dorrell

We expect to issue a statistical bulletin covering the period to 1990 by early next year.