§ Dr. Godmanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how much money is spent each year in Scotland on the care of mentally ill patients; and what percentage of total National Health Service expenditure in Scotland this represents.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe information requested is set out in the following table:
Hospital running costs for 1982–83 (£000) Psychiatric hospitals 145,086 Mental deficiency hospitals 48,940 Total mental hospitals 194,026 Total All Scottish Hospitals 927,973 1. Mental hospital expenditure as percentage of total hospital expenditure 20.91 per cent. Total NHS expenditure in Scotland 1,625,000 2. Mental hospital expenditure as percentage of total NHS expenditure 11.94 per (1) Running costs for all hospitals excludes administration and ancillary services. (2) The second percentage does not reflect expenditure on community-based mental health services, which is not separately identified.
§ Dr. Godmanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table giving details of the amount of money per head spent on food for patients in mental hospitals and those in hospitals for the physically ill.
§ Mr. John MacKayThe amount of money per head spent on food for patients in hospitals in Scotland in 1982–83 was as follows:
§ Mr. Allan StewartThere is no explicit statutory right of the individual, whether handicapped or not, to further education; the duty of education authorities is to secure for their areas adequate and efficient provision of further education. The level of provision for the handicapped, including the mentally handicapped, varies among 551W education authorities according to the way in which different authorities have decided to allocate their resources; it is not recorded centrally.