HC Deb 21 January 1976 vol 903 cc509-10W
Mr. Christopher Price

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether she has studied the article in the British Journal of Psychiatry (1973, 123, 441–3) which concludes that ECT can cause cumulative and irreversible brain dam-

the general classes register in the year ending 31st March 1975. This compares with an increase of 119,892 names in 1973–74. The percentage increase was, therefore, one of 13 per cent. and not 30 per cent. as stated in my reply to my hon. Friend on 21st October 1975.—[Vol. 898, c. 116–17.] I regret the error in the calculation of the percentage increase.