HC Deb 06 August 1975 vol 897 c249W
Mr. Moonman

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many day and residential places for (a) the mentally handicapped and (b) the mentally ill have been approved; and how many provisional approvals have been withdrawn in the revised list of loan sanctions issued by her department.

Dr. Owen

The revised list that I issued last month of local authority social services capital schemes for which I hope to give final approval in 1975–76 would result in the following number of places, with in brackets the difference between this list and the list issued last January:

Day Places Residential Places*
Mentally handicapped 2,749 (−803) 835 (−595)
Mentally ill 360 (−260) 243 (−231)
* Excluding those for the elderly mentally infirm.