HC Deb 18 November 1991 vol 199 cc78-9W
24. Mr. Stevens

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people are expected to benefit from the increased funding from residential care and nursing home income support limits announced in October 1991.

Miss Widdecombe

I refer my hon. Friend to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Medway (Dame P. Fenner) earlier today.

Mr. Ralph Howell

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what is the total full-year cost of increases in income support limits for people in residential care and nursing homes announced in the last two years.

Miss Widdecombe

The estimated full-year cost of the April 1991 increase in residential care and nursing home limits is £225 million and for the April 1992 increase £190 million.