§ Mr. Stallardasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many adults are living in long-stay hospitals in England and Wales.
§ Mr. RossiOn the assumption that the hon. Member is referring to mental handicap hospital residents, the latest date for which provisional figures are available is 31 December 1980, when there were 42,023 adults in mental handicap hospitals and units in England. The corresponding figure for Wales was 2,123.
Mental handicap hospitals are not classified by length of stay of patients and so the information provided relates to all mental handicap hospitals.
§ Mr. Stallardasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many adults have left long-stay sub-normality hospitals for community provision and have then been readmitted to hospital within the last five years.
§ Mr. Stallardasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if local authorities are required to keep a register of children and adults for whom they are legally responsible who are living in long-stay sub-normality hospitals.
§ Mr. RossiThe only persons in long-stay mental handicap hospitals for whom local authorities are legally responsible are mentally handicapped children in care and in order to discharge their statutory duties local authorities maintain records of all such children in care.