Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many former residents of Winterbourne View are in in-patient units.

From 2013, the NHS Improving Lives programme carried out a review, with consent, for 45 of the 48 people who had been a patient in Winterbourne View. The reviews found that many of the people had left hospital and were living in or close to their home communities. Eleven people were still in an inpatient setting at the time, but over the course of the review, this reduced to five people with imminent dates for leaving hospital.

The Improving Lives programme concluded in March 2015. Responsibility for ongoing oversight of the care of those people was agreed with local teams working with individuals. The national team did not have a mandate for continued collection of information about individuals or tracking of their care. Current available information indicates that the number of former patients of Winterbourne View who are currently in in-patient units is very small but we are unable to provide further information as individuals could be identified.