§ Mr. Weetchasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the health districts which have established drug advisory committees; if he will list the areas that have received money after making an application to the recently created Government fund to combat drug abuse; and whether he will list the amounts of money granted.
§ Mr. John PattenInformation is not held centrally about health districts which have established drug advisory committees. Health authorities have been asked — as indicated in my reply to the hon. Member on 6 July at column341—to report by December on their plans for action to improve services for drug misusers. For details of projects approved under my right hon. Friend's centrally funded initiative, I refer the hon. Member to my right hon. Friend's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames) on 9 February at columns 756–760, to my right hon. and learned Friend's reply to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Short) on 30 April at columns 54–56, and to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Sir B. Braine) on 10 July at columns 464–465.