HC Deb 10 July 1989 vol 156 c385W
Mr. Allen McKay

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will outline the mechanism for ensuring that social security resources currently spent on private residential care and nursing homes are directed towards community care.

Mr. Peter Lloyd

Income support remains available both to those in need of the high levels of personal care provided by independent homes and to those in need of care who remain in their own homes.