HC Deb 09 March 1990 vol 168 cc894-5W
Mr. Blair

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many private nursing homes were registered in 1980 and in 1989, by district health authority area and by region.

Mr. Freeman

In 1982, the first year for which the information was collected centrally, there were 1,214 private nursing homes registered in England. At 31 March 1988, the latest date for which this information is held, the number is 2,821. Summarised booklets giving information including the number of registered homes in each region and district health authority for each year from 1982 to 1987–88 have been routinely placed in the Library.