§ Mr. Woodasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will make a statement on the current position of the Government's drug misuse education and information campaign.
§ Mr. FowlerThe campaign of information and education about the misuse of drugs has been running since February. It features a set of leaflets for parents, two television commercials and a series of poster and press advertisements. In December last year a video training package entitled "Working with Drug Users" was launched.
As the next stage, the Government have launched "Double Take", a video package for young people, especially 12 to 15-year-olds. The package will be issued free for retention to any secondary school in England and Wales that applies for it. All secondary school headteachers in England and Wales are being mailed with details of the package.
The 1985 campaign as a whole has been evaluated by two independent market research companies and the initial
Number of cases on acute surgical in-patient waiting lists in National Health Service hospitals in district health authorities wholly or partly within the Greater London council area District health authority 30 September 31 March 30 September 31 March 30 September 31 March 1982∗ 1983∗ 1983∗ 1984∗ 1984 1985 Barnet 3,521 3,614 3,708 3,356 3,689 3,766 Harrow 1,271 1,383 1,257 1,521 1,132 1,104 Hillingdon 5,809 5,900 5,799 5,954 6,162 6,665 Hounslow and Spelthorne 3,100 3,211 3,707 3,610 4,104 3,839 Ealing 1,367 1,268 1,610 1,689 1,341 1,659 Brent 1,620 1,908 2,243 2,169 2,097 1,840 Paddington and North Kensington 2,628 2,416 2,282 2,757 2,881 2,380 Hammersmith and Fulham 2,972 2,930 2,632 2,679 2,294 2,830 Victoria 2,713 2,731 2,602 2,657 2,637 2,327 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 4,312 4,497 4,234 5,199 5,665 6,103 Hampstead 1,948 1,675 1,705 1,879 1,776 2,133 Bloomsbury 8,904 10,342 9,842 11,694 11,921 12,853 Islington 1,072 1,123 1,312 1,571 1,476 1,748 City and Hackney 4,131 4,436 4,985 5,434 5,834 6,399 Newham 2,222 2,000 2,412 1,504 1,550 1,162 Tower Hamlets 5,563 5,505 5,495 5,476 5,508 5,823 Enfield 2,952 2,676 2,755 2,829 2,792 3,069 Haringey 1,708 1,456 1,350 1,108 1,211 1,208 Redbridge 1,688 1,658 1,465 1,623 1,577 1,375 Waltham Forest 3,245 3,712 3,566 3,963 3,670 3,945 Bexley 1,049 1,148 1,026 920 1,268 1,348 Greenwich 2,138 2,579 2,463 2,435 2,241 2,026 Bromley 1,906 2,122 2,103 1,910 1,806 1,919 West Lambeth 5,602 4,616 4,215 5,006 5,158 4,732 Camberwell 3,128 2,927 2,949 2,842 2,954 2,748 Lewisham and North Southwark 4,800 4,726 4,347 5,207 5,496 5,840 Croydon 3,006 2,922 2,709 2,390 1,942 2,142 Kingston and Esher 3,168 3,038 2,948 3,118 2,934 3,070 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 2,266 2,333 2,571 2,740 2,899 2,770 Wandsworth 2,939 3,139 2,863 3,048 2,987 3,044 Merton and Sutton 3,530 3,374 3,285 2,622 2,411 2,424 ∗Figures before 30 September 1984 exclude a small number of surgical specialist units which were not separately identifiable.