§ Mr. Newtonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will express the public health figures given to the honourable Member for Braintree, Official Report, 15th May 1978, Written Answer, columns 38–39 in £ sterling at the exchange rates then prevaling; and whether he will express these sterling figures per head of population.
§ Mr. MoyleThe information required is shown below, using the average exchange rates for the year in question and the most appropriate population figures that are available:
the availability in the most recent year for which figures are available of domestic help services per thousand of the elderly population and on any other relevant basis.
709W
§ Mr. DeakinsAt 30th September 1976 the number of home help staff—wholetime equivalent—per 1,000 population aged 65 or over were as follows:
710W
LOCAL AUTHORITY AND RATE PER 1,000 England 6.3 Northern Region Cleveland 6.3 Cumbria 6.1 Durham 9.9 Northumberland 9.0 Gateshead 11.1 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 13.3 North Tyneside 8.8 South Tyneside 8.6 Sunderland 13.9 N. Yorks Region Humberside 6.9 N. Yorkshire 4.7 Barnsley 11.9 Doncaster 8.8 Rotherham 12.4 Sheffield 9.0 Bradford 9.0 Calderdale 5.7 Kirklees 7.1 Leeds 6.9 Wakefield 10.5 N. Western Region Cheshire 6.3 Lancashire 6.1 Bolton 8.3 Bury 6.3 Manchester 8.7 Oldham 12.9 Rochdale 8.3 Salford 10.2 Stockport 6.5 Tameside 11.1 Trafford 8.1 Wigan 9.6 Knowsley 11.9 Liverpool 6.9 Sefton 7.8 St. Helens 12.2 Wirral 5.3 West Midlands Region Hereford and Worcester 5.9 Salop 4.7 Staffordshire 6.7 Warwickshire 7.8 Birmingham 6.1 Coventry 9.3 Dudley 5.5 Sandwell 5.8 Solihull 5.3 Walsall 5.9 Wolverhampton 5.8 East Midlands Region Derbyshire 6.2 Leicestershire 6.4 Lincolnshire 5.7 Northamptonshire 4.3 Nottinghamshire 7.4
London North Region Bedfordshire 6.0 Berkshire 6.7 Buckinghamshire 4.1 Cambridgeshire 6.0 Essex 5.4 Hertfordshire 5.1 Norfolk 5.0 Oxfordshire 6.8 Suffolk 5.5 London Region (Inner) Camden 13.3 Greenwich 12.1 Hackney 14.6 Hammersmith 9.0 Islington 7.9 Kensington 6.6 Lambeth 9.8 Lewisham 11.6 Southwark 11.9 Tower Hamlets 8.4 Wandsworth 9.2 Westminster 6.4 City of London 12.5 London Region (Outer) Barking 7.3 Barnet 3.8 Bexley 7.7 Brent 4.9 Bromley 4.9 Croydon 3.2 Ealing 5.7 Enfield 4.7 Haringey 11.0 Harrow 3.6 Havering 7.6 Hillingdon 6.3 Hounslow 5.0 Kingston upon Thames 2.9 Merton 7.2 Newham 8.9 Redbridge 4.2 Richmond upon Thames 3.3 Sutton 3.4 Waltham Forest 7.0 Southern Region Dorset 3.9 Hampshire 4.6 Isle of Wight 2.3 Kent 3.6 Surrey 3.2 East Sussex 3.3 West Sussex 2.8 Wiltshire 5.5 South Western Region Avon 6.3 Cornwall 3.6 Devon 3.6 Gloucestershire 6.1 Somerset 4.8 Information on the number of households provided with home help service during the year ending 31st March 1976 is given in the DHSS Personal Social Services Local Authority Statistics booklet A/F76/1, copies of which are in the House of Commons Library.