§ Mr. Barry JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what monitoring his Department has undertaken of public and domiciliary care; and if he will make a statement. [2926]
§ Mr. RichardsThe Welsh Office collects the following information form local authorities:
care arrangements, including those for domiciliary care, made each quarter following assessments of individuals' needs;the number of people receiving different types of care arranged by the local authorities at 31 March each year;local authority annual budgets and expenditure for home care arrangements and annual expenditure on private and voluntary non-residential care.From 1995–96, information will also be collected annually on the volumes of domiciliary care provided directly by local authorities and arranged by them with the independent, private and voluntary, sector.
Figures on privately arranged domiciliary care are not collected centrally.