Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986

11 Reports to Parliament.E+W+S

[F1(1ZA)In this section, F2... subsection (1) extends to Scotland only.

F3(1ZB). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]

(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 be included in the report.

[F4(2)In this section—

  • “health service hospital” has the same meaning as in the 1978 Act, except that it does not include a State hospital;

  • “learning disability” means a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning.]

Textual Amendments

F1S. 11(1ZA)(1ZB) inserted (15.4.2002 for E. and S. and otherwise prosp.) by 2001 c. 15, ss. 62(2), 70(2) (with ss. 64(9), 65(4)); S.I. 2002/1312, art. 2

F2Words in s. 11(1ZA) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7), s. 306(4), Sch. 5 para. 41(a); S.I. 2013/160, art. 2(2) (with arts. 7-9)

F4S. 11(2) substituted (15.4.2002 for E. and S. otherwise prosp.) by 2001 c. 15, ss. 62(3), 70(2) (with ss. 64(9), 65(4)); S.I. 2002/1312, art. 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 11: transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1