§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give for each year from 1979 to 1986 the total number of hospitals and the total number of beds in each health district.
§ Mrs. CurrieFor information on bed availability in 1979 and 1985 and numbers of hospitals from 1979 to 1984, I refer the hon. Member to my reply to him on 24 November 1986 at columns98–106 and my predecessor's reply to him on 16 December 1985 at columns 84–96. The latest centrally available information on the numbers of hospitals in each district health authority is given in the table.
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Number of National Health Service hospitals in England1 Regional. District and Special Health Authority 1985 Northern Regional Health Authority Hartlepool 3 North Tees 2 quarter of 1985, 1986 and 1987, respectively, for placements for young people who had been sentenced under section 53 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933; and how many of these had been sentenced for burglary.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe Department received requests as follows:
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Regional, District and Special Health Authority 1985 South Tees 13 East Cumbria 11 South Cumbria 8 West Cumbria 7 Darlington 5 Durham 6 North West Durham 3 South West Durham 8 Northumberland 17 Gateshead 7 Newcastle 13 North Tyneside 7 South Tyneside 6 Sunderland 8 Yorkshire Regional Health Authority Hull 10 East Yorkshire 12 Grimsby 4 Scunthorpe 10 Northallerton 8 York 12 Scarborough 6 Harrowgate 10 Bradford 20 Airedale 9 Calderdale 4 Huddersfield 6 Dewsbury 6 Leeds Western 10 Leeds Eastern 7 Wakefield 8 Pontefract 5 Trent Regional Health Authority North Derbyshire 16 Southern Derbyshire 27 Leicestershire 35 North Lincolnshire 9 South Lincolnshire 13 Bassetlaw 3 Central Nottinghamshire 12 Nottingham 10 Barnsley 4 Doncaster 7 Rotherham 8 Sheffield 26 East Anglian Regional Health Authority Cambridge 7 Peterborough 12 West Suffolk 5 East Suffolk 17 Norwich 21 Great Yarmouth and Waveney 9 West Norfolk and Wisbech 7 Huntingdon 2
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Regional, District and Special Health Authority 1985 North West Thames Regional Health Authority North Bedfordshire 7 South Bedfordshire 7 North Hertfordshire 5 East Hertfordshire 7 North West Hertfordshire 7 South West Hertfordshire 6 Barnet 12 Harrow 3 Hillingdon 6 Hounslow and Spelthorne 5 Ealing 6 Brent 7 Paddington and North Kensington 10 Riverside 11 North East Thames Regional Health Authority Basildon and Thurrock 8 Mid Essex 8 North East Essex 13 West Essex 7 Southend 5 Barking, Havering and Brentwood 9 Hampstead 4 Bloomsbury 17 Islington 4 City and Hackney 10 Newham 6 Tower Hamlets 4 Enfield 3 Haringey 3 Redbridge 4 Waltham Forest 9 South East Thames Regional Health Authority Brighton 14 Eastbourne 8 Hastings 10 South East Kent 9 Canterbury and Thanet 19 Dartford and Gravesham 8 Maidstone 6 Medway 11 Tunbridge Wells 14 Bexley 3 Greenwich 6 Bromley 8 West Lambeth 4 Camberwell 3 Lewisham and North Southwark 7 South West Thames Regional Health Authority North West Surrey 11 West Surrey and North East Hants 6 South West Surrey 9 Mid Surrey 9 East Surrey 10 Chichester 6 Mid Downs 8 Worthing 5 Croydon 7 Kingston and Esher 6 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton 6 Wandsworth 7 Merton and Sutton 16 Wessex Regional Health Authority East Dorset 20 West Dorset 20 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 29 Southampton and South West Hampshire 27 Winchester 16 Basingstoke and North Hampshire 7 Salisbury 8 Swindon 10 Bath 32
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Regional, District and Special Health Authority 1985 Isle of Wight 9 Oxford Regional Health Authority East Berkshire 12 West Berkshire 15 Aylesbury Vale 6 Wycombe 7 Milton Keynes 3 Kettering 5 Northampton 7 Oxfordshire 29 South Western Regional Health Authority Bristol and Weston 18 Frenchay 12 Southmead 11 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 28 Exeter 30 North Devon 10 Plymouth 26 Torbay 20 Cheltenham 13 Gloucester 23 Somerset 30 West Midlands Regional Health Authority Bromsgrove and Redditch 9 Herefordshire 14 Kidderminster and District 10 Worcester and District 11 Shropshire 22 Mid Staffordshire 9 North Staffordshire 21 South East Staffordshire 8 Rugby 3 North Warwickshire 7 South Warwickshire 12 Central Birmingham 11 East Birmingham 1 North Birmingham 8 South Birmingham 8 West Birmingham 8 Coventry 8 Dudley 9 Sandwell 5 Solihull 7 Walsall 6 Wolverhampton 7 Mersey Regional Health Authority Chester 6 Crewe 8 Halton 6 Macclesfield 7 Warrington 3 Liverpool 17 St. Helens and Knowsley 5 Southport and Formby 6 South Sefton 2 Wirral 5 North Western Regional Health Authority Lancaster 6 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 9 Preston 5 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 12 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 7 West Lancashire 5 Chorley and South Ribble 3 Bolton 6 Bury 7 North Manchester 5 Central Manchester 7 South Manchester 4 Oldham 4 Rochdale 5 Salford 9
Regional, District and Special Health Authority 1985 Stockport 9 Tameside and Glossop 5 Trafford 9 Wigan 6 Special Health Authorities The Hospitals for Sick Children 2 The National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases 4 Moorfields Eye Hospital 1 Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals 1 The National Heart and Chest Hospitals 3 The Royal Marsden Hospital 2 Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's 4 1 Figures are based on a count of hospitals which provide residential facilities during the year. Day hospitals and clinics are therefore not included.