§ Mr. William Rossasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list for the past three years and the current year the number of beds for geriatric patients in the Coleraine, Port Stewart and Portrush areas; what was the ratio of beds per 1,000 of the population for those 672W towns and for each health and personal social services board area in Northern Ireland in those years; and how many persons aged 75 years and over there were in those towns and areas and in Northern Ireland as a whole.
§ Mr. John PattenI am currently looking into the provision for the medical care of the elderly in the Coleraine, Ballymoney and Moyle district of the northern board and I shall write to the hon. Member when I have completed my inquiries.