Short asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will list in the Official Report which mental hospitals have been sold during the last five years; and what was the total amount received by his Department;(2) how much of the hospital land sold by regional health authorities during the last five years was in the green belt.

The information requested is not held centrally.

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what guidance he has issued to regional health authorities concerning the use of money received by them from the sale of buildings or land formerly used for the care of mentally ill or handicapped patients who have been discharged into the community.

I refer the hon. Member to my right hon. and learned Friend's reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Staffordshire, Moorlands (Mr. Knox) on 12 July, at columns 566–67.