HC Deb 07 February 1997 vol 289 c746W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will estimate how many people in Northern Ireland were registered sufferers of(a) Alzheimer's disease, (b) schizophrenia and (c) other psychotic diseases in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [14664]

Sir John Wheeler

Sufferers of mental illness are not required to be registered. Information on the total numbers of people suffering from different types of mental illness is not available.