§ Miss LestorTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of child patients discharged from a stay in hospital had been nursed in an adult ward for each year from 1979 to 1989.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe information requested is not available centrally. Guidance on the welfare of 399W children and young people in hospital, on which the Department is currently consulting interested parties, re-emphasises our policy that children should be treated in discrete children's departments, separate from adult wards.