HC Deb 09 February 1983 vol 36 c406W
Mr. Peter Lloyd

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many fewer mentally handicapped children are in National Health Service hospitals compared with 1978.

Mr. Rossi

On 31 December 1981, the latest date for which provisional figures are available, there were about 1,300 fewer children in mental handicap hospitals and units in England than on the same date in 1978.