asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the number of patients resident in mental hospitals in Scotland in each year since 1970; and what has been the corresponding percentage change.
The average number of psychiatric beds occupied in mental hospitals in Scotland in each year since 1970 and the corresponding percentage change have been as follows:
| Year ending 30 September | Number | Index |
| 1970 | 18,102 | 100·0 |
| 1971 | 17,861 | 98·7 |
| 1972 | 17,564 | 97·0 |
| 1973 | 17,242 | 95·2 |
| 1974 | 17,065 | 94·3 |
| 1975 | 16,412 | 90·7 |
| 1976 | 16,371 | 90·4 |
| 1977 | 16,101 | 88·9 |
| 1978 | 15,819 | 87·4 |
| 1979 | 15,407 | 85·1 |
| 1980 | 15,108 | 83·5 |
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of beds in mental hospitals are occupied by each of the following groups suffering from (a) schizophrenia, (b) manic-depressive psychoses and (c) senile dementia.
The number of hospital in- patients with these diagnoses and the percentages of the available psychiatric beds they occupied at 31 December 1979, the latest date for which figures are available, was as follows:
| No. of Patients | Percentage Available beds* | |
| All diagnoses | 15,705 | 91·5 |
| Schizophrenia | 4,681 | 27·3 |
| Manic depressive psychosis | 1,345 | 7·8 |
| Senile psychoses† | 3,251 | 18·9 |
| *Available staffed beds—average—year to 31 March 1980 in mental illness specialties—mental illness, psycho-geriatric, child psychisitric and adolescent psychiatric. Total beds= 17,168. | ||
| † Senile psychoses includes senile dementia, pre-senile dementia and arteriosclerotic dememntia. | ||