HC Deb 07 February 1997 vol 289 cc762-3W
Mr. Flynn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate how many people were registered sufferers of(a) Alzheimer's disease, (b) schizophrenia and (c) other psychotic diseases in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [14661]

Mr. Burns

Information on the number of mentally ill people with a particular diagnosis is not collected centrally. We estimate that there were around 600,000 people in the United Kingdom with a diagnosis of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, in 1994.