§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance is issued by his Department to local authorities with regard to charging for domiciliary care service.
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Patient transport services: Table 1 1990–91 Quality of service Emergency calls: Response times: Non-Metropolitan authorities England Ambulance authority Total number of emergency calls Number where response within 8 minutes Percentage of calls where response where response within 8 minutes Time at 50th percentile (minutes) Cleveland 23,784 15,323 64.4 7.0 Cumbria 14,365 7,983 55.6 7.2 Durham 29,510 15,718 53.3 7.4 Humberside 42,384 31,381 74.0 5.6 North Yorkshire (1988–89 data) 19,241 12,652 65.8 6.1 Derbyshire 36,569 17,992 49.2 8.0 Leicestershire 31,498 16,693 53.0 8.0 Lincolnshire 15,552 9,967 64.1 7.0 Nottinghamshire 53,649 31,306 58.4 8.0 Cambridgeshire 18,090 7,628 42.2 8.5 Norfolk 24,856 13,545 54.5 6.9 Suffolk 11,510 5,972 51.9 7.3 Bedfordshire 20,641 11,807 57.2 8.0 Hertfordshire 36,873 21,386 58.0 8.0 Essex 62,301 31,335 50.3 7.8 East Sussex 36,268 24,122 66.5 7.0 Kent 56,701 33,526 59.1 8.0 Surrey 46,772 23,853 51.0 7.8 West Sussex 25,957 15,547 59.9 7.0 Dorset 26,264 15,096 57.5 7.0 Hampshire 44,148 23,444 53.1 7.5 Wiltshire 14,904 9,589 64.3 6.3 Isle of Wight 4,271 2,021 47.3 7.5 Berkshire 27,482 12,914 47.0 9.0 Buckinghamshire 18,776 10,347 55.1 7.0 Northamptonshire 16,608 9,978 60.1 7.1 Oxfordshire 17,891 9,107 50.9 8.0 Avon 33,098 19,693 59.5 7.4 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 16,371 6,662 40.7 10.0 Devon 32,681 17,648 54.0 — Gloucestershire 15,400 9,227 59.9 8.0 Somerset 11,014 6,077 55.2 6.8
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyExisting guidance is contained in the Department's circular LAC(84)7, a copy of which is available in the Library. We intend to produce new guidance about the discretionary powers available to local authorities to make charges for domiciliary and day care services.