§ Mr. Wareingasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what guidelines were issued by the attendance allowance board to delegated doctors concerned with assessing claims following the Court of Appeal decision in the case of Moran v. Secretary of State for Social Services; and whether he will deposit copies of the guidelines in the Library.
§ Mr. ScottGuidance on the approach to continual supervision at night, taking account of the Moran judgment, has been included in the overall revision of the attendance allowance board's guidelines for delegated856W medical practitioners which was already in hand: copies have been placed in the Library. As I stated in my reply to the hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) on 26 October 1987 at columns 199–200, the guidelines will be published as a priced document after Parliament has completed consideration of the current Social Security Bill—including any further amendments which may then be necessary.
§ Mr. Wareingasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many claims for attendance allowance based upon the judgment of the Court of Appeal in the case of Moran v. the Secretary of State for Social Services have now been determined; and how many claims were successful.
§ Mr. ScottFollowing the judgment of the Court of Appeal in the case of Mrs. Dorothy Moran, about 73,000 claims to attendance allowance involving continual supervision at night have been decided. In most of these cases the outcome was the same as it would have been before the judgment, but in some 700 cases the claimant received an allowance, or a higher rate of allowance, which would not have been awarded but for the Moran judgment.