§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make it his policy to include all former carers in his Department's regulations defining circumstances when the value of a property can be ignored in assessment for income support when an elderly person has entered residential care where such former carers will be rendered homeless by the sale of the property.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardCarers may benefit from the existing disregards for property in the circumstances described in the reply to the hon. Member on 4 July 1989 at columns139–40. We have no plans, at present, to change that policy.