§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will detail the average number of beds in private residential homes for the elderly and handicapped for each year for which the figures are available since 1979;
(2) if he will detail the average number of beds in local authority residential homes for the elderly and handicapped for each year for which the figures are available since 1979;
(3) how many private residential homes registered under the Registered Homes Act have rooms containing three or more beds;
(4) what is the latest estimate for the numbers of elderly and handicapped persons living in private residential establishments with fewer than four beds.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe average numbers of places, that is beds, per local authority and private residential care homes for elderly or handicapped people in England at 31 March in the years 1979 to 1986 are contained in the table. Information is not available centrally on residential establishments with fewer than four beds or on the numbers of beds in bedrooms within establishments.
Year Local authority homes Private homes 1979 43.3 15.6 1980 43.3 15.7 1981 43.2 15.6 1982 43.4 15.7 1983 43.4 15.3 1984 43.6 15.4 1985 43.4 15.4 1986 43.3 15.2 1 Private homes registered under the Registered Homes Act 1984; that is homes with four or more beds.
Mr. HinchcliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will detail the average number of beds in local authority residential establishments for children and young persons for each year for which the figures are available since 1979.
§ Mrs. CurrieInformation on the average size of residential homes is not available centrally.
Details of the number of children and young persons in care accommodated in community homes are given in the table.
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Table Children and young persons in care of local authorities and accommodated in community homes1 at 31 March, 1979–86, England. England As at 31 March Number 1979 29,300 1980 28,800
England As at 31 March Number 1981 26,500 1982 23,800 1983 20,100 1984 16,500 1985 14,700 21986 13,700 1 Maintained, controlled and assisted community homes. 2 Provisional.
§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services how many private nursing homes registered under the Registered Homes Act have rooms containing three or more beds.
§ Mrs. CurrieInformation about the number of beds in individual rooms in nursing homes is not collected centrally.
§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what representations he has received regarding his policy towards medical practitioners with pecuniary interests in particular private, residential or nursing homes treating residents or patients in those homes; and what response he made.
§ Mr. NewtonNone.