HC Deb 26 July 1993 vol 229 cc538-9W
Ms Primarolo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) woman, (b) men and (c) people from an ethnic minority were sectioned by section, under the mental Health Acts; and how many admissions there have been in each of the last five years.

Mr. Bowis

This information is not available centrally. Information on the number of admissions by gender and sections of the 1983 Mental Health Acts and other Acts is shown in the table.

Legal status Numbers (a)
1985 1986 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90
Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females Males Females
37 (convicted person sent to hospital for treatment without S.41 restrictions) 646 127 640 131 403 106 404 72 516 101
38 (interim hospital order) 33 12 34 6 43 11 55 8 59 12
44 (patient committed to hospital pending Crown Court hearing for restriction order) .. .. .. .. 1 1 2 — — —
46 (detained during Her Majesty's pleasure) 2 — 1 — 1 — — — 3 —
47 and 48 (prisoner transferred to hospital with S.49 restrictions) 20 5 27 4 47 11 76 8 99 6
47 and 48 (prisoner transferred to hospital without S.49 restrictions) 46 13 71 11 44 8 56 10 41 7
Place of safety orders
135 (warrant to remove to a place of safety) 80 56 58 57 22 36 33 50 35 47
136 (removal by police from a public place to a place of safety) 1,070 763 867 656 742 533 670 492 562 473
Previous legislation (Fifth Schedule) 34 19 30 22 5 3 — 1 1 —
Other Acts (c) 23 11 10 6 148 160 30 39 48 47

Notes:

(a) Figures for 1985–86 were collected by the mental health inquiry from all mental illness. mental handicap hospitals and units and were based on calendar years. Figures from 1987–88 refer to the financial year and were collected on form KH15 from NHS facilities. Data for special hospitals are also on a calendar year basis for 1985–89.

(b) These figures for 1985–1986 include section 37(4)

(c) "Other Acts" includes Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964, section 47 of the National Assistance Act 1948, sections 1, 2 or 12 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 and section 3 of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973.

(d) Data for special hospitals by sex are only included in the total number of formal admissions.

—nil or negligible.

..not collected.

. not available.

Mr. Denham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she now expects to publish the Reed committee report on high security psychiatric care.

Mr. Bowis

Later in the year.

Mrs. Gillan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when she expects to complete the review of funding for those people needing psychiatric care; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Bowis

Conclusions following our review of legal powers on the care of mentally ill people in the community will be announced shortly.