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Secure Psychiatric Units: Finance

Volume 474: debated on Wednesday 26 March 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent on (a) NHS and (b) independent sector secure mental healthcare places for offenders in each of the last 10 years, broken down by (i) primary care trust and (ii) local health board; and if he will make a statement. (196069)

The information is not available in the form requested. Information on spending on low and medium secure services is not collected in this format, and is not broken down by establishment.

Information is available on the total spend on high secure services for the last five years, based on service level agreements between the high security hospitals and commissioners1. This is set out in the following table. The spending figures include offenders and non-offenders.

1 The figures exclude Dangerous and Serious Personality Disorder programme patients.

Total spend on high secure services in £000

2002-03

178,967

2003-04

190,854

2004-05

201,574

2005-06

212,489

2006-07

218,817