§ Mr. AllenTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what account he took of the increase in the number of residents of residential and nursing homes claiming housing benefit in deciding to reduce the scope of the entitlement of such residents to housing benefit.
§ Miss WiddecombeI refer the hon. Member to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead and Highgate (Sir G. Finsberg) on 29 October 1990 at columns368–70.