§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Wales how many recipients of the home help service there are in each local authority social services department in Wales; how many of these are (a) elderly and (b) chronically sick; and how many in each category in each local authority receive a free service.
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§ Mr. John Morris:The number of recipients of the home help service in the year ended 31st March 1974 in each local authority in Wales was as given in the following table. No information is
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Total Recipients Chronically sick and severely physically handicapped Elderly Anglesey … … … … … … 630 31 528 Brecon … … … … … … 588 61 497 Caernarvon … … … … … … 1,027 71 907 Cardigan … … … … … … 587 49 461 Carmarthen … … … … … 1,344 175 1,115 Denbigh … … … … … … 1,882 139 1,597 Flint … … … … … … … 1,341 42 1,226 Glamorgan … … … … … 9,583 746 8,420 Merioneth … … … … … … 413 24 354 Monmouth … … … … … 5,854 304 5,341 Montgomery … … … … … 463 25 413 Pembroke … … … … … … 888 71 729 Radnor … … … … … … 106 6 98 Cardiff … … … … … … 3,523 317 3,146 Merthyr … … … … … … 609 30 562 Newport … … … … … … 1,028 198 755 Swansea … … … … … … 548 38 455 Wales … … … … … … 30,414 2,327 26,604 yet available for the new local authorities, nor is any information available on which recipients receive a free service and I invite the hon. Member to contact these authorities in due course.