asked the Minister of Health whether he will break down the figures to show the distribution by counties of the 81 hostels for the mentally sick included in the local authority building programme of 1960–61; and if he will give figures showing the number of patients catered for by these hostels.
The hostels originally included in the local authorities' programmes for 1960–61 were as follows:
| Counties (including County Boroughs) | Number of Hostels |
| Berkshire | 1 |
| Buckinghamshire | 2 |
| Cheshire | — |
| Birkenhead | 1 |
| Wallasey | 1 |
| Cornwall | 1 |
| Derbyshire | 3 |
| Derby | 2 |
| Devon | 2 |
| Dorset | 1 |
| Durham | 1 |
| Darlington | 1 |
| Sunderland | 1 |
| Essex | 2 |
| Gloucestershire | 1 |
| Hampshire | 1 |
| Bournemouth | 1 |
| Southampton | 2 |
| Herefordshire | 1 |
| Hertfordshire | 2 |
| Kent | 3 |
| Lancashire | 3 |
| Blackpool | 2 |
| Bolton | 1 |
| Bury | 1 |
| Liverpool | 1 |
| Manchester | 3 |
| Salford | 2 |
| Southport | 1 |
| Warrington | 1 |
| Leicestershire | 2 |
| Lincolnshire (The parts of Lindsey) | 1 |
| Middlesex | 1 |
Counties (including County Boroughs)
| Number of Hostels
| ||
| Norfolk | … | … | 1 |
| Great Yarmouth | … | … | 1 |
| Northamptonshire | … | … | 1 |
| Nottinghamshire | … | … | 1 |
| Oxfordshire | … | … | 1 |
| Oxford | … | … | 1 |
| Soke of Peterborough | … | … | 1 |
| Staffordshire | … | … | 6 |
| Smethwick | … | … | 1 |
| West Bromwich | … | … | 1 |
| East Suffolk | … | … | 1 |
| Ipswich | … | … | 1 |
| Surrey | … | … | 1 |
| East Sussex | … | … | — |
| Brighton | … | … | 1 |
| Hastings | … | … | 2 |
| Warwickshire | … | … | — |
| Coventry | … | … | 1 |
| Wiltshire | … | … | 2 |
| Yorkshire (East Riding) | … | … | 1 |
| Kingston-upon-Hull | … | … | 2 |
| Yorkshire (West Riding) | … | … | — |
| Bradford | … | … | 1 |
| Huddersfield | … | … | 1 |
| Leeds | … | … | 1 |
| Sheffield | … | … | 1 |
| York | … | … | 1 |
These hostels were intended to provide for a total of about 2,650 mentally disordered persons.