HC Deb 01 March 1989 vol 148 cc246-8W
Mr. Pendry

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will provide details of placements of elderly persons in(a) private residential homes per county in England and (b) private nursing homes in England.

Mr. Mellor

Provisional information on the number of elderly people supported by local authorities in private residential accommodation for elderly and younger physically handicapped people as at 31 March 1987 is given in the table. The numbers of elderly people receiving treatment in private nursing homes under contractual arrangements is given in "Patients Receiving Treatment Under Contractual Arrangements with Institutions Outside the NHS in England, National and Regional Summaries" (form SH9). The latest available data relates to 31 December 1986. A copy is available in the Library.

Number of residents aged 65 and over supported by local authorities in private homes for elderly people and younger physically handicapped people, as at 31 March 1987 (provisional).
Local Authority Supported residents aged 65 and over in private homes
Cleveland 4
Cumbria 1
Durham 0
Northumberland 0
Gateshead 0
Newcastle upon Tyne 2
North Tyneside 1
South Tyneside 0
Sunderland 4
Humberside 0
North Yorkshire 1
Barnsley 0
Doncaster 0
Rotherham 0
Sheffield 0
Bradford 4
Calderdale 0
Kirklees 15
Leeds 0
Wakefield 0
Cheshire 0
Lancashire 1
Bolton 0
Bury 0
Manchester 0
Oldham 2
Rochdale 6
Salford 0
Stockport 0
Tameside 0
Trafford 0
Wigan 0
Knowsley 5
Liverpool 4
Sefton 19
St. Helens 0
Wirral 1
Hereford & Worcester 1
Shropshire 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 4
Birmingham 8
Coventry 0
Dudley 0
Sandwell 1
Solihull 0
Walsall 2
Wolverhampton 7
Derbyshire 0
Leicestershire 4
Lincolnshire 4
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Bedfordshire 0
Berkshire 6
Buckinghamshire 10
Cambridgeshire 1
Essex 0

Local Authority Supported residents aged 65 and over in private homes
Hertfordshire 0
Norfolk 10
Oxfordshire 6
Suffolk 3
Camden 27
Greenwich 0
Hackney 34
Hammersmith 3
Islington 23
Kensington 6
Lambeth 0
Lewisham 22
Southwark 16
Tower Hamlets 34
Wandsworth 27
Westminster 15
City of London 6
Barking 0
Barnet 24
Bexley 0
Brent 9
Bromley 1
Croydon 0
Ealing 39
Enfield 1
Haringey 20
Harrow 0
Havering 1
Hillingdon 4
Hounslow 0
Kingston upon Thames 30
Merton 12
Newham 0
Redbridge 1
Richmond upon Thames 0
Sutton 1
Waltham Forest 21
Dorset 0
Hampshire 22
Isle of Wight 0
Kent 0
Surrey 1
East Sussex 0
West Sussex 16
Wiltshire 5
Avon 0
Cornwall 0
Devon 0
Gloucestershire 0
Isles of Scilly 0
Somerset 0
England 558