§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what steps he expects to take consequent on the shortfall shown between resources available for residential and nursing care and its costs for charitable and proprietorial homes as shown in the commissioned report of Price Waterhouse, summarised in the reply of 24 October 1990,Official Report, columns 228–29.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardMy right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced on 24 October,Official Report columns 351–52, the proposed increases to the income support limits for residential care and nursing homes from April 1991. These increases, which will cost 109W £225 million in a full year, were arrived at in the light of the Price Waterhouse survey together with other available evidence.