HC Deb 04 May 1999 vol 330 c350W
Mrs. Brinton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the number of patients treated by the psychiatric sector of the NHS for the last five years; and if he will give a breakdown by ethnicity. [80661]

Mr. Hutton

Information on ethnicity available centrally is not currently of sufficient quality to publish reliable national figures. We are working with the National Health Service to improve the quality of the data and will publish the results when reliable estimates are available.