Assertive Outreach Teams Mr. Swire To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many assertive outreach teams there were in (a) England, (b) the South West, (c) Devon and (d) East Devon in each of the last 10 years. Phil Hope The total number of assertive outreach (AO) teams in England from September 2000 to March 2008 is provided in the following table. We do not hold data requested for the South West Strategic Health Authority (SHA) or the Devon and East Devon areas centrally. However, what data the Department holds about AO teams in the South West and the Devon Partnership Trust are also represented in the table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Assertive outreach teams| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |England |South West|Devon Partnership Trust| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |September 2000 |130 |n/a|n/a| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |September 2001 |180 |n/a|n/a| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |September 2002 |197 |1—|1| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |September 2003 |251 |1—|7| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |September 2004 |255 |1—|4| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |March 2005 |262 |1—|4| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |January 2006 |252 |29|4| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |March 2007 |251 |27|4| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |March 2008 |249 |28|4| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |n/a = Data not available1 Data are in old SHA format, data not comparableSource:Durham mapping 2000 to 2006From March 2006: Mental Health Strategies| | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------