asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the nature of the additional hospital day facilities for children currently being considered by the Lancashire Area Health Authority; when they are likely to be in operation; and where they will be sited.

A child assessment centre in the Blackpool Health District and a child psychiatric unit at Burnley General Hospital, which are being provided by adaptation of existing facilities, are expected to come into use during 1978. A child assessment centre also is provisionally planned at Queen's Park Hospital, Blackburn, and this would come into operation in 1982.