§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 21 July 1998,Official Report, columns 530–31, concerning backdating financial assistance for residential and nursing home placements, with which organisation his Department has consulted in drawing up the guidance to accompany the Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Act 1998. [52276]
§ Mr. BoatengWe consulted the Local Government Association, the Association of London Government, the National Association of Finance Officers, and these voluntary organisations: Age Concern, Help the Aged, Anchor Housing Trust, Abbeyfield, the Community Care Trust, Hanover Housing, the Alzheimers Disease Society, Mencap, the National Association of Citizen Advice Bureaux, Carer's National Association, the Relative's Association, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, and MIND.
§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 21 July 1998,Official Report, columns 530–31, concerning his Department's guidance, LAC (98)B, if he will make it his policy to amend the National Assistance Act 1948 to allow a resident placed by a local authority to fund the difference between what the authority is able to pay and more expensive placement. [52277]
§ Mr. BoatengThe terms of reference of the Royal Commission on long-term care of elderly people ask them to look at how the cost of long term care should be apportioned between public funds and individuals. The commission is due to report by the end of the year.