HC Deb 16 January 1989 vol 145 cc41-2W
Mr. Rooker

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what were the criteria used for selecting the parliamentary constituencies referred to in his answer of 10 January,Official Report, column 603, in respect of the test census in 1989.

Mr. Freeman

The main criteria in selecting areas for the 1989 census test were to ensure that they would cover varying circumstances that would be encountered in a full census in 1991 and provide a thorough test of the response of the public to a question on ethnic group.

In order to make sure that the procedures for delivering and collecting census forms will be effective a test covering

Health authorities are required to ensure that receipts from the sale of land at mental illness and mental handicap hospitals are specifically used to develop services for the mentally ill and mentally handicapped.