Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish data on the number of patients in inappropriate out of area placements as a result of no appropriate mental health services being available locally, broken down by primary diagnosis, for each year between 2010 and the most recent period for which figures are available.

The information is not held in the format requested. While data on out of area placements is collected, this does not record a primary diagnosis. This data is available at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/out-of-area-placements-in-mental-health-services/april-2022