§ Ms JowellTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people with learning disabilities are resident in long-stay hospitals; and if she will list the long-stay learning disability hospitals still operating.
§ Mr. BowisInformation on residents by type of hospital is not available centrally. The figure for people with a length of stay of one or more years in national health service hospitals under the mental handicap, learning disability specialty, in England, as at 31 March 1993 is 13,500.
A list will be placed in the Library of NHS trusts and directly managed units that have beds designated as being for long-term learning disability patients.