§ Mr. Alfred MorrisTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by health authority(a) the number of long-stay discharges from mental institutions in the past two years, (b) the number of re-settlements and (c) the decades in which these people were admitted and the age at discharge.
§ Mr. Freeman[holding answer 12 July 1989]: The information in the form requested is not available centrally. We have placed in the Library tables showing discharges, excluding transfers and deaths, from National Health Service mental handicap and mental illness hospitals and units in England, during 1985 and 1986, after a stay of one year or more. The discharges are shown by district health authority, decade of admission and age on discharge.