§ Mr. Nicholas BrownTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many mentally ill people having come before a court with an offence punishable by imprisonment have been subject to a section 37 hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983 for each year since 1989. [26644]
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThis information, which is published annually in a Home Office Statistical Bulletin "Statistics of Mentally Disordered Offenders England and Wales", copies of which are in the Library, is given in the table. The figures for 1994 are not yet available.
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Mentally disordered offenders made subject to section 37 Hospital Orders, England and Wales, 1989–1993 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 Persons admitted to hospital under a hospital order (section 37) with a restriction order (section 41) 170 154 156 213 218
Mentally disordered offenders made subject to section 37 Hospital Orders, England and Wales, 1989–1993 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 Persons receiving a hospital order without a restriction order(1) 756 789 730 717 670 Total 926 943 886 930 888 1Source: sentencing statistics.