Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many inpatients for mental health services had to be moved outside of the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust area in the last (a) 6 months, (b) 12 months and (c) 5 years.

The information requested is shown in the following table.

Those who require inpatient care are treated as close to home as possible. The NHS Long Term Plan committed to eliminate all inappropriate acute out of area placements for people aged 18 years old and over. We continue to work with NHS England to monitor the implementation of this commitment. All systems which have inappropriate out of area placements are required to refresh local plans to ensure these placements are eliminated as soon as reasonably possible.