§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, in view of the need to avoid the unnecessary keeping of elderly, young chronic sick, disabled and mentally subnormal persons in institutions, especially those in the lower income groups, if he will take steps to ensure that home helps are so paid that there will be a sufficient supply of competent 13W personnel to enable local authorities to carry out their obligations.
§ Dr. John DunwoodyPay of local authority staff is negotiated between representatives of the local authorities and of the Unions concerned. I understand that as a result of a national agreement affecting all workers within the scope of the National Joint Council for Local Authority Manual Workers, home helps have recently received an increase of 6 per cent. The Council are also carrying out a separate review of the pay of this group.