§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give a breakdown by region of the total numbers of people employed in centres providing day-care facilities for the mentally ill.
§ Mr. John PattenI regret this information is not available centrally.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give a breakdown by region of the numbers of day-care facilities for the mentally handicapped.
§ Mr. John PattenThe available information is given in the tables. In addition, some mentally handicapped day patients use facilities at main mental handicap hospitals.
Day hospitals for the mentally handicapped in England, 1982 (Provisional figures) Regional Health Authority Number of day hospitals Number of places Northern 1 20 Yorkshire — — Trent 8 439 East Anglian — — North West Thames 2 81 North East Thames 3 104 South East Thames 3 41 South West Thames 3 81 Wessex 4 136 Oxford 2 63 South Western 1 15 West Midlands 1 * Mersey — — North Western 8 133 Totals 36 1,113 *Figure not available.
Local Authority Adult Training Centres for the mentally handicapped in England at 31 March 1983 Social Work* Region Number of premises Number of places Northern 42 3,565 Yorks/Humberside 53 4,982 North Western 75 7,027 West Midlands 60 5,689 East Midlands 37 4,898 London North 60 5,779 Inner London 22 1,835 Outer London 40 3,902 Southern 60 5,713 South Western 35 3,168 Totals 484 46,558 *DHSS Social Work Service Regions are not coterminous with Regional Health Authorities.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will give a breakdown by region of the numbers of patients attending day-care centres offering facilities for the care of the mentally handicapped in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available;
142W(2) if he will give a breakdown by region of the numbers of patients receiving short-term non-residential care for mental illness in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available;
(3) if he will give a breakdown by region of the numbers of patients receiving short-term residential care for mental illness in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available;
(4) if he will give a breakdown by region of the numbers of patients receiving long-term non-residential care for permanent mental handicap in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available;
(5) if he will give a breakdown by region of the numbers of patients receiving long-term residential care for permanent mental handicap in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available;
§ Mr. John PattenI shall let my hon. Friend have replies as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will give a breakdown by region of the total costs of sheltered accommodation schemes catering for the mentally ill in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available;
(2) if he will give a breakdown by region of the numbers of patients living in sheltered accommodation catering for the mentally ill in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. John PattenInformation about the total costs of, and the numbers of patients living in, sheltered accommodation catering for mentally ill people is not centrally available. A profile of the costs and funding of housing schemes for mentally ill people can be found in the Department of the Environment's report "Housing for mentally ill and mentally handicapped people", a copy of which is in the Library.
Information about people living in residential accommodation—as distinct from sheltered housing accommodation—can be found in a series of reports produced by this Department entitled "Homes and Hostels for the Mentally Ill and Mentally Handicapped" (A/F82/11), also in the Library.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he has any plans to increase the funding for the provision of sheltered accommodation schemes catering for the mentally handicapped.
§ Mr. John PattenMost funding centrally available for sheltered housing derives from capital expenditure allocations made by the Department of the Environment either to local authorities or, for housing association schemes, to the Housing Corporation. Individual authorities determine for themselves how their allocation is spent, but they have been asked to concentrate their resources on those in special need, including mentally handicapped people.
In addition, our own Department recently announced an improvement in the joint finance arrangements, which allows health authorities to give help to local housing authorities, housing associations and other bodies, where meeting the care needs of mentally handicapped and other vulnerable people in the most appropriate way involves the provision of ordinary or sheltered housing.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give a breakdown by region 143W of the costs of running the day-care facilities catering for the mentally handicapped in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. John PattenThe only information about expenditure on day-care facilities for mentally handicapped people which is identified separately in local authority returns received by the Department relates to adult training centres. This information is not summarised on a regional basis. Gross current local authority expenditure on adult training centres in England over the 10 years to 1982–83 was as follows:
£ million 1973–74 16 1974–75 21 1975–76 28 1976–77 34 1977–78 39 1978–79 45 1979–80 53 1980–81 64 1981–82 74 1982–83 84 Further details, including some figures relating to other day-care services for mentally handicapped people, are shown in the annual publication "Personal Social Services Statistics Actuals", published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy—columns 105–109 and 114–115 of the 1982–83 volume—and available from the Library.
It is not possible to identify separately comparable information about NHS day-care facilities from returns made to the Department.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give a breakdown by region and occupation of the total number of employees involved in the provision of long-term residential treatment for the mentally handicapped.
§ Mr. John PattenI shall write to my hon. Friend with this information as soon as possible.