§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many(a) registered nursing homes and (b) inspectors of registered nursing homes there are in (i) Wales, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Northern Ireland, (iv) England and (v) the United Kingdom as a whole; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. BowisOn 31 March 1993 there were
380 registered nursing homes in Wales;
- 437 in Scotland
- 245 in Northern Ireland; and
- 5,190 in England; This gives a total of
303 - 6,252 in the United Kingdom as a whole.
The figures for Scotland and England include all institutions registered under the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Act 1938 and the Registered Homes Act 1984 respectively. This includes private hospitals as well as nursing homes.There are no centrally available figures for the numbers of nursing home inspectors for England and Scotland but there were 17 in Wales and 21.5—whole-time equivalents—in Northern Ireland on 31 March 1993.