§ Mr. Peter Robinsonasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many people are being provided with a home help by each of the health and social services boards in Northern Ireland; and how this compares with each of the last four years.
Home Help Hours Paid in: Year ending 31 December. Health and social services board 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 Eastern 2,860,228 2,854,244 2,960,545 3,017,107 2,836,134 Northern 1,210,633 1,457,295 1,333,842 1,363,328 1,391,094 Southern 1,422,514 1,554,328 1,559,803 1,605,338 1,641,920 Western 1,054,856 1,148,486 1,179,950 1,176,932 1,150,653
§ Mr. Peter Robinsonasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many home helps are employed by each of the health and social services boards in Northern Ireland; and how this compares with five years ago.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe figures are:
372Wwith non-scheduled offences. Of the 868 persons who were remanded in custody at the time of trial during 1984, 411 were charged with scheduled offences and 457 with non-scheduled offences.
§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, for 1984, what percentage of prisoners on custodial remand for scheduled and non-scheduled offences, respectively, were (a) given a non-custodial sentence, (b) given a custodial sentence and (c) found not guilty or not proceeded against.
§ Mr. ScottThe information is not available in the exact form requested. However, the following details are available for those persons on custodial remand at the time of trial in 1984:
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe information is as follows:
Year ending 31 December. Health and social services board 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 Eastern 10,712 11,163 13,299 14,619 13,388 Northern 3,870 3,742 4,560 4,778 4,949 Southern 5,247 4,409 4,909 5,032 5,730 Western 3,479 3,162 3,416 3,805 3,956
§ Mr. Peter Robinsonasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many home help hours have been provided in each of the last five years by each of the health and social services boards in Northern Ireland.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe information is not available in the form requested. The following table shows the recorded number of hours for which home helps were paid in each of the last five years by each of the health and social services boards in Northern Ireland. Paid hours do not necessarily represent hours of service to clients as they may include hours credited for "double" time, statutory holidays, annual leave and sick leave.
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Health and social services board Home helps receiving pay at 31 December 1979 31 December 1984 Eastern 5,168 4,743 Northern 2,430 2,626 Southern 2,474 2,814 Western 1,787 2,016
§ Mr. Peter Robinsonasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of the total spent on the home help service by each of the health and social services boards in each of the last five years has been paid in salaries to those actually working as home helps.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe information requested is not available.
Expenditure in the Financial Year ended Health and Social Services Board 31 March 1980 31 March 1981 31 March 1982 31 March 1983 31 March 1984 £ £ £ £ £ Eastern 4,771,576 5,693,287 6,637,044 7,200,508 7,349,699 Northern 1,893,389 2,232,907 2,938,992 2,843,703 3,083,577 Southern 2,187,959 2,586,826 3,003,696 3,390,658 3,689,195 Western 1,686,338 1,874,056 2,337,646 2,554,349 2,584,367
§ Mr. Peter Robinsonasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what progress has been made by the joint working group set up by the Department of Health and Social Services to review home help provision in Northern Ireland; and when the publication of its report is expected.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe joint board/Department working group has completed its report which should be published by the end of February 1985.