Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Supreme Court judgment of 19 March 2014 in the case of P v Cheshire West and Chester Council and another, how many requests for a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Assessment under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 there have been in each local authority area in (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 to date.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre collects official statistics on the number of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards applications.

The figures can be found:

(a) For 2012/13 at:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB11379

(b) For 2013/14 at:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB14825

(c) For 2014/15 to date at:

Quarter One

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB15475

Quarter Two

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB15856

Quarter Three

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/catalogue/PUB16793