§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Social Services when he intends to introduce regulations to change the assessment of income and capital for the purposes of charges for local authority residential accommodation; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. NewtonAs the right hon. Member will know, we issued a consultation document on a possible revised scheme in January 1984. We are now giving further consideration to the matter within the wider context of the supplementary benefit review, which will of course take account of the comments we received.