§ Mr. BlairTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many private residential care homes were registered in 1980 and in 1989 by local authority area.
§ Mr. FreemanInformation for 1980 and 1988 is in the table; information is not yet available for 31 March 1989.
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Number of private residential care homes, by local authority, as at 31 March 1980 and 31 March 1988 Local authority Number of homes 1980 1 21988 Bedfordshire 8 51 Berkshire 32 82 Buckinghamshire 21 34 Cambridgeshire 15 71 Essex 56 223 Hertfordshire 16 70 Norfolk 64 219 Oxfordshire 13 25 Suffolk 46 101 Camden 2 3 Greenwich 4 3 Hackney 1 1 Hammersmith 0 1 Islington 1 1 Kensington 0 1 Lambeth 2 12 Lewisham 3 18 Southwark 1 0 Tower Hamlets 0 0 Wandsworth 3 4 Westminster 0 0 City of London 0 0 Barking 0 2 Barnet 18 35 Bexley 2 3 Brent 4 8 Bromley 10 24 Croydon 19 66 Ealing 18 21 Enfield 20 31 Haringey 4 7 Harrow 17 26 Havering 3 22 Hillingdon 2 7 Hounslow 0 1 Kingston upon Thames 13 24 Merton 9 16 Newham 1 2 Redbridge 10 16 Richmond upon Thames 4 5 Sutton 11 22 Waltham Forest 4 18 Dorset 130 364 Hampshire 97 397 Isle of Wight 17 88 Kent 171 172 Surrey 52 126 East Sussex 219 416 West Sussex 147 299 Wiltshire 27 115 Avon 57 209 Cornwall 50 217 Devon 260 697 Cleveland 1 30 Cumbria 17 82 Durham 5 44 Northumberland 6 46 Gateshead 0 19 Newcastle upon Tyne 7 21 North Tyneside 19 56 South Tyneside 2 15
Local authority Number of homes 1980 1 21988 Sunderland 4 25 Humberside 30 181 North Yorkshire 54 261 Barnsley 0 16 Doncaster 1 20 Rotherham 0 6 Sheffield 7 30 Bradford 28 92 Calderdale 9 29 Kirklees 11 41 Leeds 14 58 Wakefield 2 27 Cheshire 5 76 Lancashire 96 538 Bolton 1 29 Bury 1 18 Manchester 8 55 Oldham 9 29 Rochdale 3 19 Salford 0 11 Stockport 22 39 Tameside 2 20 Trafford 10 52 Wigan 0 18 Knowsley 0 8 Liverpool 10 24 Sefton 31 122 St. Helens 3 9 Wirral 22 75 Hereford and Worcester 38 187 Shropshire 14 100 Staffordshire 7 120 Warwickshire 22 62 Birmingham 22 120 Coventry 5 57 Dudley 5 53 Sandwell 2 15 Solihull 1 6 Walsall 0 27 Wolverhampton 8 39 Derbyshire 15 131 Leicestershire 17 120 Licolnshire 23 141 Northamptonshire 18 103 Nottinghamshire 32 134 Gloucestershire 29 82 Somerset 43 107 Isles of Scilly 0 1 England 2,425 8,222 1 All 1988 figures are provisional. 2 1988 figures include nine homes for drug or alcohol abusers.
§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health after what period of time a person living in a particular local authority area in private residential care becomes the financial responsibility of that authority should they wish to enter residential care directly provided by a different local authority.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyLocal authorities have a duty to provide services only for people ordinarily resident in their areas. Ordinary residence is decided on the facts of the case, not on any qualifying period and is normally the place where the person has chosen to make his abode.
However, if someone enters a residential care home under arrangements made between a local authority and the home they remain ordinarily resident in the area of the authority making those arrangements whether the home is in that area or not.