§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many psychiatric units in the Greater London area have mixed sex wards. [98452]
§ Mr. HuttonThe information is not available in the format requested because data are collected by health authorities.
The results of the latest monitoring report (as at September 1998) on our commitment to working towards the elimination of mixed sex accommodation indicate that the following percentages of health authorities in the London region expect to have achieved our objective of providing safe facilities for the mentally ill by these dates:
- 60 per cent. of health authorities by the end of 1999;
- 73 per cent. of health authorities by the end of 2000;
- 100 per cent. of health authorities by the end of 2002.