§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the number of residential care and nursing home places in each London borough.
§ Mr. YeoStatistics on private nursing homes are not collected by borough. Details of nursing home places are held by district health authorities and the latest available information is contained in "Private hospitals, homes and clinics registered under section 23 of the Registered Homes Act 1984", copies of which are available in the Library.
The reported number of places in residential care homes in London boroughs as at March 1991 was:
846W
Number Barking 582 Barnet 2,262 Bexley 583 Brent 594 Bromley 1,489 Camden 939 City of London 0 Croydon 2,106 Ealing 1,379 Enfield 1,175 Greenwich 714 Hackney 809 Hammersmith and Fulham 651 Haringey 1,174 Harrow 1,008 Havering 1,387 Hillingdon 1,010
Number Hounslow 790 Islington 937 Kensington and Chelsea 635 Kingston upon Thames 658 Lambeth 1,681 Lewisham 1,334 Merton 719 Newham 774 Redbridge 1,112 Richmond upon Thames 1,109 Southwark 895 Sutton 889 Tower Hamlets 549 Waltham Forest 1,058 Wandsworth 1,611 Westminster 874 These figures include places in independent and local authority homes (both staffed and unstaffed). They do not, however, include places in most independent homes for fewer than four residents and some other independent homes which are not subject to registration under the Registered Homes Act 1984.