§ Mr. Ron Daviesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide figures to show the total funding 861W through his Department of private residential establishments and nursing homes by local authorities in Wales for each of the last five years and the estimates for 1987.
§ Mr. PortilloThe Department does not directly fund private residential care or nursing homes but people in these homes can claim supplementary benefit to help meet their fees if they have insufficient resources of their own. Information on the amount of benefit paid to people in homes in Wales is not available.