HC Deb 28 March 1983 vol 40 c30W
Mr. Skinner

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many hospital beds are available for long-stay psychiatric patients in the county of Derbyshire.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

Beds for long-stay patients are not identified separately in centrally collected statistics on mental illness hospitals and units. Provisional figures indicate that the total number of available beds in mental illness hospitals and units in what are now the North Derbyshire and Southern Derbyshire health authority areas on 31 December 1981 was 1,562.