§ Mr. Tom ClarkeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table in theOfficial Report showing for each local authority in the United Kingdom the number of home helps employed on a per capita basis, for each year since 1979.
§ Mr. NewtonThe full information requested for each local authority is not readily available and could be supplied only at disproportionate cost. The table gives the information requested for the provision of home helps per capita (expressed per thousand population, all ages) for England only.
Information collected centrally on home helps employed by social services departments for each local authority in England is published on an annual basis in "Staff of Local Authority Social Services Departments" (S/F 1). Mid-year population estimates for shire counties, metropolitan districts and London boroughs are given in the annual OPCS vital statistics publications (Series VS). Copies are available in the Library.
Information for the rest of the United Kingdom is a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Wales and Northern Ireland.
274Wradiologists; and what were the percentage changes in each year since 1975 in the retail prices index and in average earnings.
§ Mr. NewtonThe available information is given in the table. The settlement levels recorded in the table are not directly comparable with changes in the average earnings index for the same period because the index includes not only the effect of pay settlements but earnings arising from changes in overtime working, increments" and payments-by-results.
Home helps (expressed as whole.time equivalent) per thousand population (all ages), England, 1979–86 As at 30 September Home helps (wte) per thousand population (all ages) 1979 0.96 1980 1.00 1981 0.99 1982 1.01 1983 1.05 1984 1.08 1985 1.10 19861 1.14 1 Provisional. Note: Figures exclude home help organisers and assistant and trainee home help organisers.