Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986

11 Reports to Parliament

(1) The Secretary of State shall annually lay before Parliament a report containing the following information, namely—

(a) such information as the Secretary of State considers appropriate with respect to the development of health and social services in the community for persons suffering from mental illness or mental handicap who are not resident in hospitals ;

(b) information with respect to—

(i) the number of persons receiving treatment for mental illness as in-patients in health service hospitals, and

(ii) the number of persons receiving treatment for mental handicap as in-patients in such hospitals,

in each case analysed by reference to age and length of stay; and

(c) such other information (if any) as the Secretary of State considers appropriate to be included in the report.

(2) In this section—

• " health service hospital "—

  (a)

  in relation to England and Wales, has the same meaning as in the 1977 Act, except that it does not include a special hospital, and

  (b)

  in relation to Scotland, has the same meaning as in the 1978 Act, except that it does not include a State hospital; and

• " mental handicap " has, in relation to England and Wales, the same meaning as in Group D in Schedule 1 to the [1974 c. 23.] Juries Act 1974.