HC Deb 14 December 1988 vol 143 c604W
Mr. Hinchliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will consider the introduction of an arbitration officer to determine a fair level of fees for people in private residential and nursing homes.

Mrs. Currie

The level of fees charged in these homes is a matter between the proprietors and the residents, or whoever pays on the residents' behalf, and not one in which we would wish to intervene.