§ Rev. Martin SmythTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will publish tables, broken down by area health and social service board showing, for each of the last three years where figures are available, (i) social security expenditure on income support for residents of private and voluntary residential care and nursing homes, broken down by age and client group, and (ii) expenditure on board residential care and other services for elderly people.
§ Mr. Hanley[holding answer 28 February 1991]: The only readily available information about expenditure on income support relates to the position at 1 October 1990 and is as follows:
Weekly expenditure on income support at 1 October 1990 Up to 59 years 60 years or over £ £ Homes for persons in need Age and infirmity 3,059 104,824 Elderly and blind or elderly and entitled to the higher rate of attendance allowance — 26,060 Mental disorder 5,313 10,210 Drug or alcohol dependence 950 918 Mental handicap 19,541 4,198 Physical disablement under pensionable age 6,372 5,095 Physical disablement over pensionable age — 4,891 Nursing homes Mental disorder 1,180 13,165 Mental handicap 6,967 4,419 Drug or alcohol dependence 776 959 Physical disablement under pensionable age 29,654 49,988 Physical disablement over pensionable age — 29,401 Terminal illness 8,374 338,671 Others 693 71,064 Totals 82,919 663,863 Grand totals 746,782 Expenditure by each health and social services board for the last three years available on residential accommodation for the elderly was:
Year ended 31 March 1988 1989 1990 Board £ million £ million £ million Northern 7.0 7.2 7.3 Southern 4.2 4.5 4.6 Eastern 11.4 11.8 12.6 Western 4.1 4.2 4.6 Total 26.7 27.7 29.1 However, for facilities such as day centres and services such as home help and meals it is not possible to separate expenditure on a specific client group such as the elderly and this expenditure has not been included in the above figures.