§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimates his Department has about the distribution898W of the work of home helps between their various client groups; and if he will indicate whether this has changed over the last 10 years.
§ Mr. MellorThis information is no longer collected centrally. However, information collected by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and published in "Personal Social Services Statistics, 1986–87 Actuals" contains details of the home help service for the week beginning 10 November 1986. Information for the year ending 31 March 1977 was published in "Health and Personal Social Services Statistics for England, 1978". Copies are available in the Library.
The available information indicates that in both 1977 and 1986 the large majority of people receiving home help were aged 65 years and over, but it is not possible to deduce detailed trends.
§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the number of home helps in England in each local authority; and what this figure represents per 1,000 persons aged 65 plus years and per 1,000 persons aged 75 plus years, in the latest available year.
§ Mr. MellorThe latest available information for each local authority in England is given in the table. The figures do not indicate the volume of service actually provided to people in these age groups. The exact proportion of the service which goes to particular age groups is not known.
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Number of home helps (expressed as whole time equivalents) and rate per thousand population aged 65 years and over and per thousand population aged 75 years and over, by local authority, England, 1986 Number (wte) Rate per thousand population Aged 65 years and over Aged 75 years and over Cleveland 620 8.8 22.8 Cumbria 553 6.9 16.4 Durham 752 8.3 20.8 Northumberland 450 9.5 23.0 Gateshead 358 11.1 27.6 Newcastle upon Tyne 682 14.7 34.0 North Tyneside 304 9.6 24.0 South Tyneside 242 9.5 23.9 Sunderland 622 15.7 39.7 Humberside 1,191 9.2 22.3 North Yorkshire 728 6.2 13.9 Barnsley 382 11.6 29.6 Doncaster 451 11.4 28.8 Rotherham 422 12.5 32.1 Sheffield 1,147 12.5 29.3 Bradford 716 10.7 24.7 Calderdale 316 10.0 23.1 Kirklees 524 9.5 22.3 Leeds 1,148 10.3 23.9 Wakefield 367 8.5 21.6 Cheshire 863 6.6 16.3 Lancashire 1,614 7.0 16.3 Bolton 353 9.3 22.3 Bury 235 9.1 21.4 Manchester 926 13.4 31.9 Oldham 352 10.9 26.2 Rochdale 354 12.5 29.9 Salford 357 92 21.9 Stockport 360 8.4 19.8 Tameside 407 12.4 30.4 Trafford 291 8.8 20.7 Wigan 514 12.3 30.9 Knowsley 199 10.6 28.2 Liverpool 685 8.8 20.6 Sefton 319 6.5 15.0
Number (wte) Rate per thousand population Aged 65 years and over Aged 75 years and over St. Helens 405 15.8 39.7 Wirral 331 6.0 14.0 Hereford and Worcester 617 6.4 15.5 Shropshire 253 4.4 10.7 Staffordshire 958 6.9 17.6 Warwickshire 520 7.7 19.1 Birmingham 1,459 9.8 23.9 Coventry 3S0 8.4 21.6 Dudley 307 7.3 18.4 Sandwell 327 7.0 17.3 Solihull 127 4.9 12.7 Walsall 252 7.2 19.3 Wolverhampton 343 9.1 22.8 Derbyshire 1,639 11.6 28.2 Leicestershire 730 5.9 14.0 Lincolnshire 518 5.6 13.7 Northamptonshire 331 4.2 10.0 Nottinghamshire 1,279 8.7 21.2 Bedfordshire 430 6.9 16.9 Berkshire 609 7.0 17.0 Buckinghamshire 530 7.3 17.7 Cambridgeshire 627 7.3 17.3 Essex 1,377 6.0 14.3 Hertfordshire 664 4.9 12.0 Norfolk 724 5.5 12.8 Oxfordshire 250 3.3 7.8 Suffolk 499 4.8 11.1 Camden 410 14.9 32.5 Greenwich 459 14.2 33.7 Hackney 414 16.2 36.9 Hammersmith and Fulham 269 11.6 25.5 Islington 282 11.9 27.0 Kensington and Chelsea 121 6.5 13.8 Lambeth 493 14.4 32.3 Lewisham 560 15.1 34.8 Southwark 396 11.5 27.1 Tower Hamlets 215 10.0 23.0 Wandsworth 434 11.0 24.6 Westminster 332 11.1 24.3 City of London 11 20.2 48.3 Barking and Dagenham 210 8.1 19.6 Barnet 220 4.5 10.1 Bexley 260 8.2 19.3 Brent 454 13.4 31.3 Bromley 252 5.2 12.3 Croydon 257 5.9 13.4 Ealing 229 5.7 13.1 Enfield 274 6.5 14.3 Haringey 425 16.1 35.3 Harrow 233 7.3 15.7 Havering 223 6.4 16.9 900W
Number of places in local authority, voluntary and private residential homes for elderly and younger physically handicapped people in England, by local authority, 1979 and 1986, and rates per 1,000 population aged 65 and over 1979 19861 Places in homes Rates per 1,000 population aged 65+ Places in homes Rates per 1,000 population aged 65+ England 179,502 26.1 244,214 34.0 Northern Region Cleveland 1,499 22.8 1,904 27.8 Cumbria 1,822 24.2 2,786 35.3 Durham 1,867 21.8 2,382 26.8 Northumberland 1,164 25.9 1,518 32.2 Gateshead 671 21.8 769 24.2 Newcastle upon Tyne 1,295 28.0 1,576 34.2 North Tyneside 804 27.3 1,221 39.3 South Tyneside 488 20.5 674 27.2 Sunderland 969 25.5 1,222 31.5 Regional Total 10,579 24.0 14,052 30.8
Number (wte) Rate per thousand population Aged 65 years and over Aged 75 years and over Hillingdon 272 7.8 18.4 Hounslow 156 5.5 12.4 Kingston upon Thames 73 3.2 7.0 Merton 199 7.0 15.1 Newham 357 12.8 30.1 Redbridge 159 4.2 9.5 Richmond upon Thames 162 5.6 12.1 Sutton 110 4.0 8.6 Waltham Forest 399 11.5 24.8 Dorset 568 4.1 8.9 Hampshire 994 4.5 10.5 Isle of Wight 133 4.8 10.6 Kent 994 4.1 9.5 Surrey 454 2.8 6.5 East Sussex 678 4.2 8.6 West Sussex 593 4.1 8.9 Wiltshire 400 5.0 11.8 Avon 1,141 7.5 17.1 Cornwall 385 4.6 10.6 Devon 888 4.5 9.9 Gloucestershire 438 5.2 12.2 Somerset 429 5.4 12.3 England 53,706 7.4 17.3 Notes:
1 Figures exclude home help organisers and assistant and trainee home help organisers.
2 Figures for Isles of Scilly are included with Cornwall.
3 Figures are provisional.