HC Deb 04 December 1974 vol 882 cc509-13W
Mr. D. E. Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many hostel places there are for the mentally handicapped in England, in each region and in each local authority, expressing the totals per 1,000 population.

Dr. Owen

The numbers of such places provided by or available to local authorities at 30th June 1974 were as follows:

which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965;

(12) If she will express the proposed increased level of the ordinary weekly rate of supplementary benefit for a single person living alone which she announced on 13th November in terms of the value of the £ sterling in 1965.

Mr. O'Malley

On the basis of the movement in the General Index of Retail Prices—all-items index, less housing in the case of supplementary benefit—between March 1965 and October 1974, the latest available date, the proposed rates of benefit expressed in terms of constant March 1965 prices are as follows:

NORTHERN REGION
Authority Places Number per 1,000 population
Cleveland … 63 0.11
Cumbria … 85 0.17
Durham … 115 0.18
Northumberland … 58 0.20
Gateshead … 16 0.07
Newcastle upon Tyne … 45 0.15
North Tyneside … 37 0.17
South Tyneside … Nil Nil
Sunderland … Nil Nil
Total … 419 0.13
YORKSHIRE REGION
Authority Places Number per 1,000 population
Humberside … 148 0.17
North Yorkshire … 81 0.12
Barnsley … Nil Nil
Bradford … 98 0.21
Calderdale … 23 0.11
Doncaster … 40 0.14
Kirklees … 63 0.16
Leeds … 157 0.20
Rotherham … 39 0.15
Sheffield … 86 0.13
Wakefield … 29 0.09
Total … 764 0.15

NORTH WESTERN REGION
Authority Places Number per 1,000 population
Cheshire … … 230 0.25
Lancashire … … 466 0.34
Bolton … … 31 0.11
Bury … … 47 0.26
Knowsley … … 15 0.07
Liverpool … … 248 0.43
Manchester … … 115 0.21
Oldham … … 86 0.38
Rochdale … … 28 0.13
St. Helens … … 65 0.33
Salford … … 78 0.28
Sefton … … 91 0.29
Stockport … … 34 0.11
Tameside … … 84 0.37
Trafford … … 25 0.10
Wigan … … 130 0.42
Wirral … … 106 0.30
Total … … 1,879 0.28

WEST MIDLANDS REGION
Authority Places Number per 1,000 population
Hereford and Worcester 76 0.13
Salop 57 0.16
Staffordshire 223 0.22
Warwickshire 33 0.07
Birmingham 90 0.08
Coventry 76 0.22
Dudley 19 0.06
Sandwell 12 0.04
Solihull 51 0.25
Walsall 28 0.10
Wolverhampton 97 0.36
Total 762 0.14

EAST MIDLAND REGION
Authority Places Number per 1,000 population
Derbyshire … 111 0.12
Leicestershire … 104 0.13
Lincolnshire … 183 0.35
Northamptonshire … 81 0.16
Nottinghamshire … 80 0.08
Total … 559 0.15

LONDON NORTH REGION
Authority Places Number per 1,000 population
Bedfordshire … 93 0.19
Berkshire … 159 0.24
Buckinghamshire … 152 0.30
Cambridgeshire … 46 0.08
Essex … 269 0.19
Hertfordshire … 235 0.25
Norfolk … 166 0.25
Oxfordshire … 79 0.15
Suffolk … 94 0.16
Total … 1,293 0.20

LONDON CENTRAL REGION
Authority Places Number per 1,000 population
Barking 65 0.41
Barnet 34 0.11
Bexley 13 0.05
Brent 11 0.03
Bromley68 0.22
Camden 12 0.06
Croydon 59 0.17
Ealing 45 0.15
Enfield 43 0.16
Greenwich 45 0.20
Hackney 40 0.18
Hammersmith 44 0.24
Haringey 48 0.20
Harrow 54 0.26
Havering 48 0.19
Hillingdon 45 0.19
Hounslow 90 0.43
Islington 19 0.10
Kensington-Chelsea 47 0.26
Kingston upon Thames 45 0.32
Lambeth 71 0.23
Lewisham 116 0.44
Merton 18 0.10
Newham 30 0.12
Redbridge 29 0.12
Richmond upon Thames 38 0.22
Southwark 24 0.09
Sutton 57 0.33
Tower Hamlets 46 0.30
Waltham Forest 173 0.74
Wandsworth 46 0.15
Westminster 22 0.09
City of London — —
Total 1,545 0.21
LONDON SOUTH REGION
Authority Places Number per 1,000 population
Dorset … … 149 0.26
East Sussex … … 256 0.38
Hampshire … … 276 0.19
Isle of Wight … … 58 0.52
Kent … … 242 0.16
Surrey … … 176 0.17
West Sussex … … 190 0.31
Wiltshire … … 165 0.33
Total … … 1,512 0.23

SOUTH WESTERN REGION
Authority Places Number per 1,000 population
Avon … 104 0.11
Cornwall … 95 0.24
Devon … 253 0.27
Gloucestershire … 79 0.16
Somerset … 46 0.11
Total … 577 0.18
Total Places (England)—9,310.
Number per 1,000 population—0-20.

ESTIMATED NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH INCOMES AT OR NOT MORE THAN 20 PER CENT. ABOVE THE SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFIT LEVEL IN DECEMBER 1972 (EXCLUDING THOSE NORMALLY RECEIVING SUPPLEMENTARY BENEFIT)
Thousands
Families Persons
1. OVER PENSIONABLE AGE (60 for woman, 65 for man) … 830 1,130
2. UNDER PENSIONABLE AGE
Family head or single person
(a) Normally in full-time work … 230 900
(b) Sick or disabled for more than three months … 50 110
(c) Unemployed for more than three months … 50 150
(d)Others … 80 160
TOTAL UNDER PENSIONABLE AGE … 410 1,320
Of which in large families (3 children or more) … 120 650
And of which single parent families … [30] [90]
3. TOTAL of 1 and 2 … 1,240 2,450

Notes on the Table:
1. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10,000.
2. The estimates are based on the Family Expenditure Survey (FES) for 1972. Some of the data taken from the FES are subject to sampling error; those figures in square brackets are subject to very large sampling errors.
3. The supplementary benefit level is taken as being the supplementary benefit scale rate(s) appropriate to the family. Those defined as being within 20 per cent. of the supplementary benefit level are those whose net income less housing costs is between 100 per cent. and 120 per cent. of their appropriate supplementary benefit scale rate(s).
4. This table shows the normal employment situation of the heads of families. Those persons who have been sick, disabled or unemployed for less than three months and who may be currently claiming supplementary benefit and/or national insurance benefits are classified according to their employment situation and usual earnings before the current period of sickness or unemployment.
5. A figure produced in the answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, West (Mr. Sedgemore) on 20th May—[Vol. 874 c. 45–8]—was printed incorrectly. In table 1, referring to persons with incomes below supplementary benefit level—excluding supplementary benefit recipients—the number of persons under pensionable age in group (d)—"Others"—should have been 250 and not 125, as printed. No other numbers are affected.