HC Deb 16 February 1988 vol 127 c553W
Mr. Kirkwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many patients are currently residing in each special hospital who no longer require a secure environment, due to an inability to relocate them in National Health Service or local authority accommodation.

Mr. Newton

The table shows the number of patients in the special hospitals who at 4 January(a) had been recommended for a move to another hospital on trial leave or transfer and were awaiting a vacancy in an identified hospital; and (b) had been conditionally discharged or