I remember a former Member of one of these Houses – I will be no more specific than that – telling me how, in his 50s, he discovered he had an uncle living in a long-stay psychiatric hospital for almost 30 years. The family had simply written him out of their family history. During a conversation at a funeral the former Member discovered a gap and when he inquired about the gap there was silence. After a while he visited his uncle, who had been in a psychiatric ward for 30 years. The tragedy was that the man was not so seriously ill that it necessitated continual institutional care. He was no threat either to himself or society.