§ Miss Wrightasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what information he has as to the respective cost to public funds of maintaining mentally handicapped persons in (a) a long-stay hospital, (b) a local authority home or hostel or (c) in their own homes with appropriate support.
§ Mr. RossiIn the period April 1981 to March 1982, the latest year for which, provisional, figures are available, the average daily cost per patient to the NHS in a mental handicap hospital was £25. The daily local authority accommodation cost of maintaining a mentally handicapped resident in local authority accommodation was £12. These figures relate to England only.
No comparable information is available centrally about the cost of maintaining mentally handicapped people in their own homes.