§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) in calculating the territorial distribution of the social security transfer element of the community care funding available from April 1993 what assumptions were made concerning the numbers, in percentage terms, of future residents of private or voluntary care or nursing homes who would be placed in establishments outside their own local authority boundaries;
(2) what correcting mechanisms to take account of migration have been included in the distribution arrangements for community care funding with effect from April 1993.
§ Mr. YeoThe overall level of cross-boundary flows was taken into account in deciding the respective weighting to be given to the two parts of the distribution formula—whether according to standard spending assessment or according to the current pattern of income support expenditure. A standard spending assessment distribution would tend to favour those authorities most likely to place residents in homes outside their boundaries, and so the less weight that is placed on the income support element of the formula, the less need there is to adjust it for migration.
§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what allowance has been made for support costs after 1993–94 in the arrangements for community care funding with effect from April 1993.
§ Mr. YeoIn each successive year after 1993–94, the amount of the previous year's special transitional grant for148W community care, including the additional amount of £140 million which has been made available in 1993–94 in respect of authorities' new responsibilities, will be included in the personal social services standard spending assessment control total and distributed through the revenue support grant.