HC Deb 27 November 1970 vol 807 c239W
Mr. Thomas Cox

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the average weekly cost of keeping an elderly person who is in the care of a local authority.

Mr. Alison

About £13 a week gross.

Mr. Thomas Cox

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the average weekly cost of keeping an elderly person in a geriatric ward of a hospital.

Mr. Alison

Separate costs for geriatric wards are not available. In 1969–70 the approximate average cost per in-patient week in hospitals where the beds were wholly or predominantly allocated to geriatric patients was £24 5s. 0d.