The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.
Mr. Austin Mitchell
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many hospital beds in the Grimsby health district currently are filled by patients awaiting admission to old persons' homes, but who are unable to transfer because of the residential social workers' dispute.
Sir George Young
Twenty-five. It is estimated that 15 of these patients would by now have been transferred from hospitals to old persons' homes had it not been for the dispute.