Speeches

Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people with learning disabilities who remained in long-stay hospitals for over 12 months in each of the last five years.

Alistair Burt

The information requested is only available from 2013. The following table shows the number of patients with learning disabilities by length of stay with their current healthcare provider on 30 September 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Date

30 September 2013

30 September 2014

30 September 2015

Length of stay over one year

1,949

1,920

1,810