HC Deb 18 April 1978 vol 948 c89W
Mr. Arthur Latham

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he intends to keep statistics on the use of electro-convulsive therapy similar to those kept on psychosurgery.

Mr. Moyle

I would refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Price), on 22nd November. My right hon. Friend has decided to collect statistics of electro-convulsive therapy treatments carried out in mental illness hospitals and units, and of the number of courses of treatment which these represent.—[Vol. 939, c.667.]