§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what criteria will be used to determine the allocation of community care funding to local authorities which have not reached agreement by 31 December with health authorities concerning discharge arrangements;
(2) what arrangements have been made to protect the well-being of individuals who will be affected by the withholding of funding for community care when local authorities have not reached agreement by 31 December with health authorities concerning discharge arrangements;
(3) what plans she has to exclude from the receipt of community care funding any local authority which does not by 31 December have agreements with health authorities concerning discharge arrangements;
(4) what is her current estimate of the number of local authorities unlikely to have concluded the required discharge arrangements with health authorities by 31 December.
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§ Mr. YeoAll authorities should he able to reach the required agreements. Consideration will be given in due course to the action which may be necessary if any authorities fail to do so by 31 December 1992.
§ Mr. RaynsfordTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimates the Government have prepared of the cost of housing provision necessary to meet the requirements of the Government's community care plans; and whether she will publish these in a form which identifies the scale and timetable of such provision for the respective groups of people in need.
§ Mr. BaldryI have been asked to reply. The new community care arrangements will be fully implemented from April 1993. Their impact on housing demand is expected to be gradual and progressive. It will be some time before a full picture of new housing requirements emerges.
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