Residential and Nursing Care

HC Deb 29 November 1990 vol 181 cc472-3W

Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to the statement made by the Lord President of the Council concerning expenditure on residential and nursing care,Official Report, 22 November, column 510, if he will tabulate the total expenditure in this field for the years 1979 and 1989, respectively, together with the breakdown into principal categories of cost, separating capital and revenue expenditure, and distinguishing moneys actually received by sponsoring bodies and other Government expenditure.

Mrs. Gillian Shephard

The available information is shown in the table:

Numbers and Expenditure—All income support claimants in Residential Care and Nursing Homes
Date	Numbers of claimants (thousands)	Annual equivalent expenditure1 (nearest £ million)
December 1979	12	10
December 1980	13	18
December 1981	13	23

Date	Numbers of claimants (thousands)	Annual equivalent expenditure1 (nearest £ million)
December 1982	16	39
December 1983	26	104
December 1984	42	200
December 1985	70	348
February 1986	90	459
May 1987	117	671
May 1988	147	878
May 1989	176	1,105
May 1990	189	1,270
1 Total weekly expenditure of supplementary benefit/income support expressed as an annual figure.