§ Ms PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many home helps are employed by each local authority responsible for community care; and what is the ratio of home helps to population in each authority.
§ Mr. BowisThe centrally available data on whole-time equivalent directly employed home helps, excluding home help organisers and assistant organisers, as at September 1992, the latest date for which this information is available, are shown in the table:
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Home helps directly employed1 at 30 September 1992 1992 Local Authority Social Services Department Home Helps (WTE) Per 1,000 Total population2 Avon 1272.9 1.32 Barking and Dagenham 243.4 1.68 Barnet 231.4 0.77 Barnsley 421.0 1.88 Bedfordshire 489.0 0.91 Berkshire 590.2 0.78 Bexley 268.5 1.23 Birmingham 1,320.0 1.33 Bolton 338 1.28
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1992 Local Authority Social Services Department Home Helps (WTE) Per 1,000 Total population2 Bradford 696.4 1.48 Brent 108.4 0.4A Bromley 243.2 0.82 Buckinghamshire 532.0 0.82 Bury 208.3 1.16 Calderdale 388.6 2.00 Cambridgeshire 467.5 0.69 Camden 273.3 1.53 Cheshire 865.1 0.89 City of London 13.9 3.40 Cleveland 731.3 1.31 Cornwall and Scilly Isles 478.9 1.00 Coventry 361.0 1.19 Croydon 246.1 0.77 Cumbria 497.5 1.01 Derbyshire 1406.0 1.49 Devon 921.4 0.88 Doncaster 466.6 1.59 Dorset 535.6 0.80 Dudley 309.4 1.00 Durham 943.2 1.56 Ealing 224.0 0.80 East Sussex 631.0 0.88 Enfield 308.0 1.17 Essex 1404.1 0.90 Gateshead 341.0 1.68 Gloucestershire 493.0 0.91 Greenwich 288.0 1.35 Hackney 381.0 2.08 Hammersmith 261.4 1.72 Hampshire 955.9 0.60 Haringey 255.5 1.27 Harrow 239.1 11.8 Havering 256.4 1.12 Hereford and Worcester 654.6 0.95 Hertfordshire 818.6 0.82 Hillingdon 283.6 1.20 Hounslow 226.1 1.09 Humberside 1,199.6 1.37 Isle of Wight 149.0 1.18 Islington 248.0 1.46 Kensington and Chelsea 142.9 0.98 Kent 658.9 0.43 Kingston upon Thames 95.9 0.69 Kirklees 546.3 1.44 Knowsley 92.0 0.60 Lambeth 452.1 1.82 Lancashire 1,637.0 1.16 Leeds 1,600.0 2.26 Leicestershire 691.7 0.77 Lewisham 368.6 1.57 Lincolnshire 525.0 0.88 Liverpool 847.0 1.81 Manchester 699.4 1.63 Merton 216.1 1.26 Newcastle 512.7 1.89 Newham 385.9 1.77 Norfolk 986.8 1.29 North Tyneside 360.0 1.85 North Yorkshire 797.4 1.10 Northamptonshire 375.0 0.63 Northumberland 484.0 1.57 Nottinghamshire 1,201.5 1.18 Oldham 356.0 1.62 Oxfordshire 525.2 0.90 Redbridge 226.5 0.98 Richmond upon Thames 185.2 1.12 Rochdale 438.5 2.13 Rotherham 374.6 1.47 Salford 374.0 1.66 Sandwell 421.2 1.43 Sefton 337.8 1.14 Sheffield 1,503.1 2.90 Shropshire 264.7 0.64 Solihull 183.4 0.91 Somerset 0.00 0.00
1992 Local Authority Social Services Department Home Helps (WTE) Per 1,000 Total population2 South Tyneside 228.0 1.45 Southwark 282.7 1.26 Staffordshire 1,400.5 1.33 Stockport 371.1 1.28 St. Helens 340.9 1.89 Suffolk 556.1 0.83 Sunderland 478.8 1.62 Surrey 457.4 0.44 Sutton 208.0 1.22 Tameside 388.4 1.76 Tower Hamlets 165.5 0.98 Trafford 307.2 1.43 Wakefield 444.3 1.40 Walsall 244.8 0.93 Waltham Forest 442.9 2.06 Wandsworth 439.6 1.73 Warwickshire 464.5 0.95 West Sussex 750.3 1.04 Westminster 304.0 1.67 Wigan 406.9 1.31 Wiltshire 329.4 0.57 Wirral 498.7 1.48 Wolverhampton 391.2 1.58 1 Excludes staff employed in contracted out arrangements. 2 Related to OPCS 1991-based population projection for 1992.