HC Deb 06 July 1992 vol 211 c82W
15. Mr. Willetts

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security how many people have benefited from increases in spending on income support for those in residential care and nursing homes since 1979.

Mr. Burt

In 1979 some 12,000 people were receiving supplementary benefit in residential care and nursing homes. By November 1991 some 253,000 people were benefiting from Government support.