HC Deb 14 June 1988 vol 135 cc151-2W
26. Mr. Ray Powell

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when he intends responding to the recently published report of the Public Accounts Committee on community care developments.

27. Mr. Blair

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when he intends responding to the recently published report of the Public Accounts Committee on community care developments.

30. Mr. Terry Davis

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when he intends responding to the recently published report of the Public Accounts Committee on community care developments.

32. Mr. Norman Hogg

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when he intends responding to the recently published report of the Public Accounts Committee on community care developments.

Mr. Newton

I refer the hon. Members to my reply to the hon. Member for Monklands, West (Mr. Clarke) on 23 May at column89.

36. Dr. Godman

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when he now expects to be in a position to make a statement on his policy towards the report by Sir Roy Griffiths on community care.

39. Dr. Moonie

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when he now expects to be in a position to make a statement on his policy towards the report by Sir Roy Griffiths on community care.

46. Mr. Allen McKay

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when he now expects to be in a position to make a statement on his policy towards the report by Sir Roy Griffiths on community care.

53. Mr. Eastham

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services when he now expects to be in a position to make a statement on his policy towards the report by Sir Roy Griffiths on community care.

Mr. Newton

I refer the hon. Members to my reply to the hon. Member for Caernarfon (Mr. Wigley) on 29 March at columns439–40.

54. Mr. Tom Clarke

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the responses to date from(a) voluntary organisations and (b) other groups to the Griffiths report on community care.

Mr. Newton

We have received responses from two voluntary organisation and from 25 other interested groups. We will take them into account in framing our own proposals.

55. Ms. Armstrong

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the response to date to the report by Sir Roy Griffiths on community care.

Mr. Newton

We have received 48 responses from interested individuals and organisations and will take account of them in framing our own proposals.

56. Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the total public expenditure in the latest available year on the support of individuals in community care, broken down by the category of benefit.

Mr. Scott

The proportion of the money spent on retirement pensions, disability benefits and income support which can be said to contribute directly to the support of people in the community who might otherwise have to go into institutional care cannot be accurately estimated but is likely to be significant.

Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what measures he intends to take to ensure that satisfactory arrangements are made for dowry payments by district health authorities to local authority social services departments and voluntary organisations to meet the cost of care in the community.

Mr. Newton

We look to health authorities and local authorities to identify jointly an individual's need for community care and to negotiate locally the funding of a cost-effective way of meeting these needs. The Department monitors progress in pursuing community care and other service aims through the region's long-term strategic plans and annual short-term programmes.