asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to the answer of 17 November, Official Report, c. 199, if he will list the special steps he is taking to encourage good practice in services for elderly people with psychiatric disorders.

I set out the special steps being taken to encourage the setting up of comprehensive psychiatric services for elderly people with mental illness in my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Newbury (Mr. McNair-Wilson) on 20 January 1983.—[Official Report, Vol. 35, c. 206.] Preliminary indications of local interest in making good use of the special £6 million allocation are encouraging.