§ Dr. Broughtonasked the Minister of Health, in view of there being a number of parents in the West Riding of Yorkshire who are having to care for mentally defective children at home, thus seriously affecting family life and the upbringing of those parents' normal children, what facilities already exist, and what are to be made in the future, for the institutional accommodation of such incurable mental cases.
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§ Mr. Vosper:Seven National Health Service hospitals cater for mentally defective children in this area. They accommodate just over 500. Twenty-five further -places for children are being provided, and the Regional Hospital Board has plans for the expansion of mental deficiency accommodation generally in the area which should make it possible for more children to be admitted.