§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people over the statutory retirement age are currently residing in private nursing homes in Cheshire the charges for which are borne wholly or partly by his Department.
§ Mr. WhitneySeparate figures for supplementary pensioners in private nursing homes in Cheshire are not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the total cost to the Government of subsidising the maintenance charges for elderly people in private nursing homes in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. WhitneyExpenditure on supplementary pensioners in private and voluntary residential care and nursing homes, based on December figures for each year, is as follows:
£ million 1981 23 1982 34 *1983 90 * Provisional. Source: Annual Statistical Inquiries.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people over the statutory retirement age are currently resident in private nursing homes in England and Wales and for whom maintenance costs are borne wholly or partly by the Department of Health and Social Security.
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§ Mr. WhitneyInformation is not available in the form requested. At December 1983 it is provisionally estimated that some 23,000 pensioners were resident in private and voluntary residential care and nursing homes in Great Britain and were in receipt of supplementary benefit.
Source: Annual Statistical Inquiry