§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if the assumption that 9 per cent. of expenditure on domiciliary care is recovered from charges excludes domiciliary and day care services provided under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983.
§ Mr. BowisSection 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 has no bearing on the level of an individual authority's personal social services standard spending assessment. In the calculation of PSS SSAs for day and domiciliary services for people aged 65 and over and for services to people aged 18 to 64, no explicit account is taken of actual income from charges. The formulae for both elements implicitly assume that all local authorities recover costs at the same rate.