§ Mr. CryerTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will introduce legislation to enable residents of local authority residential homes for the elderly to receive the same amount of benefit as those in private and voluntary sector homes; and if he will make a statement.
§ Miss WiddecombeWe have no plans to do so.
The care in the Community proposals from April 1993 will encourage local authorities to consider making use of the independent sector when placing people in residential homes.