Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) adults and (b) children and young people within the Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group were sent out of area to receive mental health treatment in 2016-17.
The information requested is not collected for children and young people.
For adults, data of out of area placements has been collected since October 2016, therefore information for 2016/17 is not available.