Mental Illness (Hansard, 5 March 1979)

§ Mr. Kilroy-Silk

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide as detailed a breakdown as possible of the £295,000 spent in 1977–78 by the area health authority in the North-West Thames regional health authority on

USE OF NON-RECURRING ELEMENT ALLOCATED TO AREA HEALTH AUTHORITIES IN 1977–78
Area health authority	Amount allocated (at outturn levels)	Reported usage
	£		£	£
Bedfordshire	32,000	Mentally handicapped
		Bromham hospital—for improvements to the environment	—	32,000
Hertfordshire	102,000	Allocated within a larger sum for improvements in the psychiatric field	—	102,000
		Directly identifiable items are as follows:
		Mental illness
		Hill End hospital—non-recurring items of furniture and equipment	11,000
		High Wick hospital—patients' comforts	600
		Mentally handicapped
		Leavesden hospital—building and engineering maintenance	27,000
		Harperbury hospital—extension of Occupational Therapy facilities	19,000
		Cell Barnes hospital—non-recurring items of furniture and equipment	17,500
Barnet	31,000	Mental illness
		Harperbury hospital—for items of a non recurring nature (e.g. furniture, maintenance of buildings)	—	31,000
Brent and Harrow	36,000	Included in a general allocation to Districts and Shenley for items of a non-recurring nature	—	36,000
		Identifiable items specifically allocated to Shenley and Northwick Park hospitals for the improvement of facilities for the mentally ill are as follows:
		Shenley hospital—Ward improvements and upgradings	18,000
		Shenley hospital—Works	10,000
		Northwick Park hospital—building work on Farrington Ward	8,000
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow.	38,000	Mental illness
		Allocated within a larger sum (£250,000) to St. Bernard's hospital for items of a non-recurring nature	—	38,000
Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster.	56,000	Mental illness
		Allocated for general improvements of a non-recurring nature to Horton and Banstead hospitals	—	56,000
	£295,000	Total allocated for non-recurring purposes 1977–78.

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items for the mentally-ill and mentally-handicapped and the £319,000 spent in 1978–79 for other purposes.