Ethnic Minority Employees

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what information he has on the numbers of ethnic minority people employed in the (a) family practitioner committees and (b) community health service;(2) what information he has on

(a) the number and (b) the grades of ethnic minority people employed in management in the national health service.

We do not hold this information centrally.

The number of places in residential care homes for mentally handicapped people as at 31 March
	1979					1988
	Staffed			Unstaffed	Total	Staffed			Unstaffed	Total
Regional health authority	Local authority	Voluntary	Private	Local authority		Local authority	Voluntary	Private	Local authority
Northern	675	90	0	51	816	1,021	157	120	224	1,522
Yorkshire	839	13	4	33	889	1,265	199	383	326	2,173
Trent	932	134	42	96	1,204	1,195	310	568	410	2,483
East Anglia	308	127	227	66	728	351	164	678	242	1,435
North West Thames	760	121	0	64	945	1,162	452	35	197	1,846
North East Thames	750	95	66	29	940	1,009	349	180	158	1,696
South East Thames	764	321	931	53	2,069	745	473	1,047	141	2,406
South West Thames	465	283	84	26	858	757	504	259	60	1,580
Wessex	634	226	86	49	995	708	281	371	72	1,432
Oxford	513	32	0	128	673	785	303	226	179	1,493
South Western	540	242	46	74	902	789	973	1,213	186	3,161
West Midlands	1,189	177	80	93	1,539	1,791	638	631	235	3,295
Mersey	774	132	75	78	1,059	913	311	207	176	1,607
North Western	1,310	127	12	88	1,537	1,487	391	217	234	2,329
Total	10,453	2,120	1,653	928	15,154	13,978	5,505	6,135	2,840	28,458

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the number of places in homes for mentally ill people in 1979 and for the latest year for which figures are available in each of the 14 health regions.

The number of places in residential care homes for mentally ill people as at 31 March
	1979					1988
	Staffed			Unstaffed	Total	Staffed			Unstaffed	Total
Regional Health Authority	Local authority	Voluntary	Private	Local authority		Local authority	Voluntary	Private	Local authority
Northern	218	0	0	81	299	189	75	152	128	544
Yorkshire	225	7	0	45	277	289	42	370	168	869
Trent	211	14	60	47	332	231	33	374	175	813
East Anglia	40	53	23	79	195	32	69	233	91	425
North West Thames	288	196	0	131	615	321	236	31	184	772
North East Thames	193	121	0	112	426	169	243	142	130	684
South East Thames	182	396	391	126	1,095	230	364	447	223	1,264
South West Thames	122	240	5	101	468	170	183	238	89	680
Wessex	65	174	0	100	339	63	188	133	101	485
Oxford	63	31	42	44	180	118	121	82	85	406
South Western	79	32	12	115	238	54	52	319	142	567
West Midlands	260	49	19	167	495	308	255	286	183	1,032
Mersey	182	47	33	47	309	188	116	87	75	466
North Western	182	0	70	87	339	299	89	229	121	738
TOTAL	2,310	1,360	655	1,282	5,607	2,661	2,066	3,123	1,895	9,745

Volume 175: debated on Tuesday 3 July 1990