HC Deb 16 December 1983 vol 50 cc590-1W
Dr. Roger Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of residents in homes for the elderly are (a) over the age of 75 years and (b) ever the age of 85 years; and what was the average occupancy for such places in each of the counties in Wales on the latest date for which figures are available.

Mr. Nicholas Edwards

The information is given in the following table:

population receiving day care in adult training centres, and (c) the expenditure per mentally handicapped person receiving residential or adult training centre care.

Mr. Nicholas Edwards

Information about expenditure on the mentally handicapped by social services department is published annually by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy in "Personal Social Services Statistics", a copy of which is in the Library. Information on the number of adults receiving day care in adult training centres is as follows:

Adults regularly attending adult training centres
Rate per 100,000 population
Local Authority 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983
Clwyd 93.69 94.78 95.21 95.87 102.92
Dyfed 86.77 89.37 92.55 89.38 90.55
Gwent 99.32 113.56 120.58 138.38 141.98
Gwynedd 80.83 81.31 72.34 75.18 77.19
Mid Glamorgan 93.32 91.53 95.98 106.14 109.59
Powys 94.34 114.84 114.31 124.89 126.70
South Glamorgan 66.65 57.09 63.33 73.77 80.81
West Glamorgan 84.22 86.74 81.74 81.69 86.02

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