§ Ms CoffeyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each health authority has spent on purchasing acute psychiatric beds from the private sector in each of the last five years and in the current year to date. [6671].
§ Ms CoffeyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the occupancy rate of acute hospital beds in the psychiatric sector in each region in each year since 1989. [6673]
§ Mr. BurnsInformation on bed occupancy has been collected centrally only for periods from April 1996. We expect the first such information to be available from October 1997.