§ Mr. Andrew BowdenTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will give a further breakdown of the figures given in the answer of 7 June,Official Report, column 350, to differentiate between claimants in residential and in nursing homes.
§ Miss WiddecombeThe latest estimate of the number of people in receipt of income support in residential care and nursing homes is for August 1990, when the figure was 128,000 and 71,000 respectively. Information on how many of these were over pension age is not available, but, as of May 1989, about 73 per cent. of income support recipients in residential care and 88 per cent. in nursing homes were over pension age.