§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people have been admitted to hospitals in Staffordshire in each of the past four years.
§ Mr. John PattenInformation on admissions to hospitals is not held centrally. Numbers; of discharges and deaths from NHS hospitals within the Staffordshire area health authority for the latest available four years are given in the table.
342Wavailable; and if he will divide these into the usual categories and in each case show the number of adult and child dependants for whom they were responsible.
§ Dr. BoysonThe figure for December 1982, the latest date for which information is available, were as follows:
Year Discharges and Death 1978 82,361 1979 81,374 1980 88,321 1981 88,222