To ask the Scottish Executive what is being done to ensure that patients in intensive psychiatric care units (IPCUs) who no longer require the level of care provided by an IPCU are able to progress to more appropriate facilities for their care and treatment. New partnerships, new local services and new accommodation are being advanced across Scotland by all the relevant care, judicial and custody agencies against the framework for change set out in the published national strategy for general mental health services and the 1999 policy for safe forensic care.The first new facility arising from the forensic initiative, based in the grounds of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital opened in November this year.