§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will give the latest estimated amount of benefit being paid out to patients in private care/rest homes for(a) each of his Department's benefit centres, (b) each region and (c) the nation as a whole.
§ Mr. ScottInformation is not available in the form requested at(a) and (b). However, the annual income support expenditure on people in independent residential care and nursing homes in Great Britain as a whole was estimated to be £878 million in May 1988.