asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list by district health authority and by local authority (a) the number of people placed by them in privately run drug/alcohol abuse assessment and care units on a day care basis, (b) the number of people placed by them in drug/alcohol abuse assessment and care centres as a residential patient and (c) the average length of stay for patients placed in residential care in drug/alcohol abuse assessment and care units for each year since 1979.

This information is not available centrally.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list by district health authority and by local health authority (a) the number of people placed by them in private psychiatric units on a day care basis, (b) the number of people placed by them in private psychiatric units on a residential basis and (c) the average length of stay for each patient placed in private psychiatric units for each year since 1979.

Information on the number of people placed in private psychiatric units on a day care basis and lengths of stay in any category is not available centrally.Since 1979, health authorities in Wales have placed two patients in private psychiatric units on a residential basis.

asked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list by district health authority the amount spent on placing people in (a) private psychiatric units and (b) private drug/alcohol abuse and assessment units for each year since 1979.

The annual accounts of health authorities show their expenditure on all contractual arrangements for patient care in total only. The detailed information requested is not collected centrally.